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Thank you. The cord was a pain, especially in my complicated and too-large yard.

Thank you for looking it up. Yes, as I wrote above, I've given up on restoring it, sadly.

In case anyone wants to know how this turned out, I felt pretty stupid once I saw the bottom of the housing in a better light. As StarTech noticed just from my photo, it had failed, but it had looked to me as if nothing recent had happened to it (no fresh breaks, etc.) until I got a better look...

Thank you, bertsmobile1. From what you wrote, the melted things I've been calling "tabs" are "bosses" that protruded from a ring that goes around the top of the armature (or should I call it a rotor?). What did those bosses attach to in order to hold the armature/rotor up? I expect they...

Thank you, sgkent. It's a Homelite UT13120, for which I've searched pretty thoroughly for parts, all of which are discontinued and out of stock. If I can just find some way to hold the armature up, it should work well. First, I have to figure out exactly how it was held up originally.

Thank you, StarTech. What did those two tabs that melted on my mower attach to in order to hold the armature up? I'm thinking I might be able to fabricate something, as parts for this mower are no longer available. A new motor, if I could find one, would cost almost as much as a whole new...

I'm guessing my questions were too specific. Much more generally, what holds the armature up in an electric mower motor?

Thank you, sgkent. i definitely won't invest much in trying to fix this, but the two little metal tabs that melted seem as if they might be replaced or replicated at minimal expense with a bit of luck--if they're the problem. Other than its low position, the motor seems to run just fine.

My Homelite corded electric mower overheated and shorted out the bridge rectifier, which I replaced to get the motor working again, but the armature (if I'm using that term correctly) is free to drop at least an inch lower than where it should be, causing the bottom to rub against the mower body...