oh I know, it was super clean to, at least on the outside and i never cleaned it. Usually my parts that are super clean i have are actually in great working order, so to learn that the inside was fried, leads me to a couple of theories. One theory is i used it on the red car, but fried it after the first rebuild from over cranking and another one was then installed for me and i just hung onto the part.
The other theory is i had gotten it with a bunch of other parts and never checked it out and assumed it was good from the outside condition. I do have that other starter too. Maybe we can crack it open and rebuild a single good starter.