At 09:59 PM 10/21/2014, Neil N wrote:
>How bad could it be?
>
>Image stolen from the samba
>
>http://images.thesamba.com/vw/gallery/pix/544964.jpg

Ah ha!  Once is an accident but this is looking like enemy
action.  By which I mean that the trimmer cooked as a result of one
or more other parts failing and shoving too much current through it,
and there's a systematic reason why the initial failure happened.

Yrs,
d