sorry gulliver,
Once the platters are moved without a restraining tool you can consider any data contained on them "encrypted" possibly the strongest form of encryption known to disk engineers.
This is why I personally feel any sort of platter removal tool is "suspect". I know recovery engineers have had good results with them but the platters have to be kept in exactly the same alignment at a level measurable at a couple of micron or more accurate, even with a good tool set, success is highly dependent on the skill of the engineer,because the data is recorded in columns across multiple heads at the same time, so any sort of lateral shift = "game over" since the magnetic domains are no longer exactly aligned column wise.
I had actually considered a recovery method for such a problem, but the needed computer power to "descramble" the stack was too much.
Interestingly if you "dig" about in a couple of research programs targeting mil/government (pre 2005), there is actually a "low" cost system that was under development to attempt a recovery from any disk stack, without the original controller board and secondary amps being needed, people with experience can see what an undertaking this is.
I don't think the system got as far as being able to remove the original heads used to record the platters , but it had an excellent success rate without the original controller board.