"Joe Bemier" wrote in message
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Thanks, Mort - very useful.
Also, very interesting that you should mention feed rate because those
guys touched on that point and I did not recall it until I read your
message.
Considering the cost of replacement of the mechanism I would need to
feel confident that the thing is not going to trigger due to say
*imperfections* of some kind.
Unfortunately, I was not able to get more info but it sounded like one
of the guys owned the machine and was not happy with it.

Good luck with your research. My concern with having these machies in
a school would be that kids might develop a sense of security working
on one and then go out into the real world and use a conventional saw
and have an accident.

You know, I think I could watch that thing fire on 10 hot dogs and not
develop a sense of security to putting my hand into the blade.

todd