New table saw that won't cut your finger off if you accidentally get your finger in there
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I slid my finger into the sawblade of one of these suckers. Barely even noticed it.
Also, the lock is REALLY FUCKING EXPENSIVE TO REPLACE.
My shop class has had the SawStop in our classroom for over 2 years.
I'm really glad this guy decided to sit down and find a way to save our fingers though, it's an amazing concept.
[QUOTE=lorden;28756392]Couldn't it just quickly drop the saw and let it spin out safely underneath the table? It'll still be spinning at dangerous speeds as it descends, but if it descends as fast as it does in the clip then it would be out of the way incredibly fast.
I guess this way is a bit safer though, at the cost of ruining your saw.[/QUOTE]
Well if all it did would lower into the table, it would lower through your flesh into the table.
[QUOTE=TAU!;28759138]I'd rather spend $60 to replace the saw and stopping mechanism than spend hundreds or even thousands of dollars on a hospital bill to have my finger put back on, or lose the finger(s) altogether.[/QUOTE]
Yeah dude but 60 dollars
:20bux::20bux::20bux:
We had one go off in my school once, some retard tried put a soggy piece of lumber through it and it locked off. Our shop teacher framed the brake plate with the sawdisc still wedged in it haha.
My school's had this for 3 years, no fingers have gone in because it's never broken
[QUOTE=lorden;28756392]Couldn't it just quickly drop the saw and let it spin out safely underneath the table? It'll still be spinning at dangerous speeds as it descends, but if it descends as fast as it does in the clip then it would be out of the way incredibly fast.
I guess this way is a bit safer though, at the cost of ruining your saw.[/QUOTE]
there is a reason you didn't invent it
Table Saws used to scare the shit out of me when I first started woodworking.
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I dare someone to put their ball sack near the blade to stop it.
All this makes me think about is having it cut halfway through your finger before it stops.
[QUOTE=high;28777919]All this makes me think about is having it cut halfway through your finger before it stops.[/QUOTE]
You'd have to move your finger pretty quick for that to happen I think
[QUOTE=lorden;28756392]Couldn't it just quickly drop the saw and let it spin out safely underneath the table? It'll still be spinning at dangerous speeds as it descends, but if it descends as fast as it does in the clip then it would be out of the way incredibly fast.
I guess this way is a bit safer though, at the cost of ruining your saw.[/QUOTE]
This is what I believe without reading anything about it:
When the mechanism is triggered, the lock thing at the bottom shoots into the saw, and the sawblade is loosened.
The mechanism is shaped so that the rotary momentum of the sawblade is converted to downward momentum.
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