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alexy
 
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Default This is so cool! A 'safety' table saw that detects your finger.

Joe Gorman wrote:

Upscale wrote:
wrote in message
shop someone trips and falls on the machine. I will then post this
thread so you can remember that you don't need additional protection,
and if you or yours did something to yourself by accident, you may have
deserved it.


I was thinking of an accident happening through no fault of your own. The
dog comes in and brushes against your leg distracting you. Something falls
off a shelf startling you. A power failure plunges you into darkness and you
slip against the still spinning blade in the dark.

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I don't recall anything about Sawstop still working for any length of
time after the power goes out to prevent this.


Good point. That might be a feature of "SawStop II", to be introduced
about the time the patent on SawStop I runs out.

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