On 7/19/2013 2:39 PM, Keith Nuttle wrote:
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I am confused.

--Unfortunately, the motor is gone. It hasn't been turned on in 30 years.
--It's possible that I may be able to have the one on it rebuilt,

From the original poster's original message on first read there is no
motor, but it is possible that he actually meant that the motor while
present appears to be dead.

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It does appear that OP used "gone" in the sense of "isn't working" as
opposed to "left the scene"...one has to go on to the end of the
following sentence to infer that if he didn't actually have it at all it
wouldn't seem that would be talking of having it rebuilt so by
elimination...

And, it doesn't appear is non-native English speaker to boot....

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