Kirby 514 armature and field windings problems

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That burning smell is never a good sign. Without the armature in front of me to do some testing I can only speculate as to what's wrong with it, but it sounds like something is shorted, and shorts in either an armature or stator winding have a way of growing. The easiest way to test for that is to use a growler. Any well equiped alternater/starter motor rebuild shop should have one, and the test is so simple they may not even charge you for it. Pheonix is a large enough city that you should have no trouble finding one. If it turns out that your armature is shorted, there are outfits all over the country that can rewind and rebuild them, so there's still hope.

Here's a link to one such place.

http://www.whitearmature.com/
 
I've read that the only true way to check for faults is to run 110v down the armature because it needs extra power that a multimeter can't do, here is my armature

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