[hypoxia]

It happened!  A bay handle stuck when I pulled on it and it burned the latch motor out, probably both of them.  This is one of the handles I just lubricated.  I think the microswitch arm slipped to the side and jammed the mechanism, I was able to stick a finger in there and push the microswitch arm off of the mechanism which released it.  I wondered about that possibility when I took the handles off to lubricate them.  The microswitch arm is narrow and the handle arm that contacts the microswitch is also narrow.  I had given some thought about adding a wide plate to keep that from happening but never addressed it.

Oddly enough I had been noticing an odor from that bay recently which I couldn't identify.  The latch motor smells like it.


As luck would have it I just acquired 8 of those latches from another Guru two months ago.