Hello David, the same for you happy new year, that I can tell you in your case, that you do not know, for all the ideal you already know, it would be to replace the compressor with a new one of similar technical characteristics, but obviously everything depends on the economic possibility of each one and the difficulty to acquire spare parts in your country. The idea in principle I do not see it crazy from the point of view of not having resources for a better solution and what is ultimately defined, is to try to solve the problem using what little is available. Power is equal to (P = I x V) and I do not think that for a few millimeters that remains from the stator, something affects this formula. The same now, neither of the two compressors serves the way they are, so nothing is lost in them with risk, as long as you take care to manipulate the winding stator itself, than with the handling when making the sales to the iron, it can affect with its own hands the varnish of the wire of the winding itself, which must be roasted or crystallized, for the previous operating time and must be careful in addition to not damaging, the plastic wrapping it insulates, to the stator's own iron wire , so that the fibers do not split and ground or cut into the electric winding itself. Good luck with the first company 2020. S @ lu2 friovega63.