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I did reposition the brush holder end cap 90 degrees. It was that simple. Thank you all once again for your help!

I love it when the collective intelligence and experience of group of people can come together and help out a guy they've never met, and has far less intelligence in the matters of electricity and motors, and truthfully shouldn't have tackled this project.

But a victory has been achieved! My ...

The motor was shot when I got it. The magnets had broken loose from the housing, the wiring on the armature was busted up and burned pretty badly. I was careful to re-attach the magnets as they originally were - there were markings that helped with that. I'm also in contact with the company that did ...

The off-set motor shaft coming out of the gearbox? That I checked and witnessed a CLOCKWISE rotation of the shaft - looking directly at the shaft.

I'm ok with squirrels, greater chance of discovering what exactly is the problem. Thank you everyone for you inputs - I hope they keep coming!

Reversed wires on brushes in motor, it still runs the same direction. Since reversing the wires in the motor is done and I really don't want to go through that again, would reversing the wiring in the switch do any good? The knives run the correct direction, the feed motor does not.

My fear now is ...

The possibility as I see it now, is that I had the feed motor repaired, actually the whole armature was re-wound. The magnets on in the motor had to be re-attached as well. Could the armature have been re-wound backwards, or the magnets not placed correctly?

The feed motor moves the stock through ...

Wow, so either my machine is running backwards, or someone placed the anti-kickback pawls on the wrong side of the planer!

So then, which is the correct infeed side?

I purchased a used Pro Planer M5990 for $200. It came with other Shopsmith parts, that I didn't need and subsequently sold off. After repairing the feed motor and giving a general check-over, I fired the machine up. The sound of wood on the cutters was beautiful! But then my stock stopped on the ...