Unless you have a low ohms meter and you're measuring strictly the stator's windings, you're looking more or less for an open circuit or a short to the iron core more than anything else, would be tough otherwise to really know if some windings were shorted to each other........
BUT even enameled copper wire (magnet wire) still has the normal resistance in ohms/ft of regular copper wire....LOL, because it is normal copper wire! Just painted....
Say the stators coil is 1000' total in length or 10AWG solid core copper wire @ 0.6282 ohms/1000ft @ 20C, with no shorted windings to themselfs, you'd measure .6282 ohms.
And if the stator was shorted in half? It'd be 0.3141 ohms and almost impossible to tell with even a good STANDARD Fluke DMM.
You can try to use the "REL" setting if you have one and you have a decent meter, short the leads out to one another firmly, hit the REL button to zero out any lead/meter inherent resistance and re-try the stator again...If you see 0.2 or 0.3 ohms and the wire is 10AWG, I'd bet the statos windings are good(see example above, you have approx 400/500' of good still insulated wire which is more than reasonable for a coil)
Thinking though and again for example with a 10/20A stator, it will be more like 100' of 10AWG...........something like 0.06282 ohms, though read even with a REL setting.
