I have consulted several winding companies and that is my frustration! It is a normal procedure for electric motors, but our motor is definitely special. Recently, I have been working with the OEM and they say that it must be retooled to rather tight specifications . . . from that engineering team:
Here are the barriers:
1) We do not salvage housings because it is too time-consuming and expensive. The stators are shrunk-fit into the housing. They cannot be pressed out. However, if the stator is removed from the housing and the housing is not damaged, we have a chance that we can re-install the stator in your housing. Re-iterating: the stator cannot be pressed out, do so will definitely damage the precious housing