Fair enough.
You asked about the weight of the disconnected rod?
I posted"with the control rod attached it will almost certainly ramp down under weight alone"
The rod in question had disconnected at the bottom. I,m presuming(!) that the AIB had disconnected it from the servo at the top for photo purposes - hence the "weight alone" - the remaining rod would be hanging off the servo input.
If your servo,s were moving WITHOUT an input (from the controls)then they would be continuously "running away" the whole time and the pilot would continuously fighting them the whole time!!
Does this make sense?