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Originally Posted by Richard
Careful with that hammer, caveman! That planetary gearcase is made of powdered metal, and it just might crack or chip instead of deforming.
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I would also accept attaching a large cantilevered load to the output shaft and running it for an extended period as a viable method for rendering a new smooth running backdriveable globe into and old , grindy, non-backdriveable globe. In light of squirrel's post, I suspect that opening the gearbox and applying a precise amount of high quality granulated silicon dioxide (sand) would also work.
The point being, globes are backdriveable, and you'll need to really ruin one to make it not so.