I have the Beseler Motorized 45V-XL enlarger and although the motor driven focusing works fine, I would occasionally like to focus manually (either with coarse focus knobs or fine focus extension).
However, I can only rotate the large focus knobs (or the fine focus knob) by a very smaller amount prior to encountering significant resistance which I had assumed was due to the motor gears being engaged. Is this normal for the motorized version of this enlarger?
Perhaps there is a way to temporarily disengage the motor gears to allow full manual focusing control but if so I can't figure that out.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Chris Tucker