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I took motorhead apart to find out why it would just hum without turning. After not looking at it for a couple of weeks, I checked the starting relay. I had thought it had failed. It looked good electrically and visually. Next was the starting capacitor, it also looked good electrically and visually. Put it back together and bench tested. Starts and runs good with no load. I can not tell you was fixed.
Now I have to reassemble the headstock.

I can't even begin to tell you how many times over the years I have "fixed" something simply by taking it apart and putting it back together. Sometimes I think the machines just want to know that we care enough to bother.

You reestablished a connection that had become loose.

It will/may likely become loose again.

BTW 'it' is a Mark VII (ya I know it has labels both ways!!!).