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Question:

what type of motor is this and can it be reversed?

its an ac motor, but it spins the wrong way, i need to reverse it.

Answer:

It is a shaded pole motor and it is not electrically reversible, but, it may be possible to remove the rotor (loosen the two screws holding the bearings in place) and reassemble it with the output shaft on the other side of the frame which will result in the shaft rotating the opposite direction
As far as I can remember, to reverse a shaded pole motor, you have to install a new rotor in which the spiral in the laminations is in the reverse direction.

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