On 17 Dec, 00:59, "Phil L" wrote:

someone told me that if you wire a motor in the opposite way, IE connect
live to neutral and netral to live, it spins in the opposite direction,

Wrong, although if it has brushes with a commutator it's a
"universal" (AC/DC) motor and swapping some simple internal
connections will do this. Too difficult to explain in ASCII, but I'm
sure web searching will turn it up. Purely AC motors won't reverse
(for simple levels of fiddling).