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Before ditching vitamix for blendtec, check out these teardown videos with my favorite potty-mouthed Canadian machinist:
My money's on the Vitamix motor.
Edited to add: he shows where there's a fuse in the VM motor ... it's possible that's all that needs to be fixed in the blender that went up in smoke.
