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I had not thought about that but I can fully agree. I will have to be sure that I have some form of protection in place.
I would mechanically decouple the motors for hand use, even with them electrically disconnected, there is still an annoying amount of turning resistance and cogging. Some time ago I built a zero backlash 5 pin flex coupler that worked great for the application. A bit of modification to the design would make a great coupler for a surface grinder drive. Just mount the motor on a sliding mount and slide it out of engagement when not in use. I'm going to use this method on my surface grinder when I get around to CNCing it.