Everything was swimming along wonderfully when this happened.
There was a 18uf capacitor in there but, it was burnt beyond recognition. It also burnt the 120v wires and some of the cap wires. This all happened last weekend and we have a great group of guys that I ended up calling a friend and he gave me a Hammerhead pump. I plugged it in and guess what, it too needed a capacitor. I remembered that a pump went down at a LFS that I do some work for and they had replaced it. I went down there and the pump was also mine for nothing. I only needed the cap, trying to find one of those during the weekend is impossible; I live in the tech black hole. So off to home I went and a couple of minutes I had a working pump.
I could not stand to keep looking at the broken motor on my work table so I went to work. I took the pump motor apart and inspected the rotor and field all looked great. The only damage was to the 120v wires and the capacitor wires. The original capacitor box was burnt to no return and I had a J-Box lying around from my swirler stein builds, it fit the top of the motor nicely. All I had to do was drill mounting and cord holes, how easy is that? I had to call Baldor to get the spec for the capacitor and was able to pick one up locally. This new cap is better built than the cheep plastic unit that burnt up, its outer housing is metal. I soldered it together and plugged it in and she hums along like a champ.
Here she is now in service. The bright spots under the cap box is dust from the box, it came with mounting tabs that were not needed, so I ground them off.
I just tried a red based magnific, but I believe it was a recent split. It hung in there for a few weeks, but never really perked up like it should have. Yours are simply beautiful! You must be taking very good care of them.
Vince aka VINNIE 
