According to Walt Conner :
Yah, could be starting switch if just hums when turned on, could also be
capacitor. If motor is truly dead, it will likely stink.

Not necessarily. Mine smoked only a bit at first. From then on it didn't,
yet, it still turned. Just no power.

Needed to be rewound.
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Chris Lewis, Una confibula non set est
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