On Saturday, 6 January 2018 12:01:08 UTC, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 06/01/18 11:21, wrote:
I prised out the connector, unwound some coil and pushed the wire and
connector back into the plastic body of the stator. The Dremel now
works (for how long?)

Indefinitely probably.



I very much hope you are right but given the wire fractured for no apparent reason I'm not holding out hope that I will get a year's light use out of the Dremel. I'll put a reminder in my diary to report back New Year's Day 2019.