DaveC wrote:
Any chance that the angle between the brushes and the field got
changed on reassembly?
[John Larkin]

Is there only one correct orientation? Or 2?

Two--one for each direction! :-) Whenever I disassemble a motor, I
scratch a mark across the "parting line(s)". Then I know how to
re-assemble it.

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Virg Wall