Windlass motor arm scorched

[Olly75]

Hi all

I had a problem with my windlass pulling very slowly, so long and short i pulled the motor off to check the brushes. There was significant debris inside (although about half the brush material was left) and 2 brushes were cracked. So following the oem maintenance advise I cleaned, epoxied the brushed back together and reassembled.

When I connected tje motor up to the batteries it still ran very slowly and got too hot to touch within about 30 seconds and a puff of the black smoke of doom came out of it.

So called in a professional who took it away and dissasembled. He messaged to say that the rotor arm is scorched1but it can be rerolled although its a very tricky job. Ive attached a photo, but does anyone have any experiemce of this issue, and how likely is a repair to be successful?

Edit! The indonesian sparky has explained that rerolling meams rewinding.. google translate failure!
The sparky also says the he will use a larger diameter wire as the original was too small. Does that seem like a good idea?