Normaly when you see a blue flash from a motor, it's the armature. But in this case it was flashing from the top of the tool. Meaning it was a faulty field.
How the field shorted out like this, I'm not sure. But I'm amazed it was also still running at all, with the amount of damaged it had done.
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