For a retirement community shop, IMHO, it makes even more sense than a
one-person garage/shop. You're distributing the cost among a bunch more
people (say it's $1500 more than a Unisaw, and you've got 25 people using
the shop = $60/person). As someone else said, how much are your fingers
worth to you? More than $60, I'd wager. Heck, even my friend's fingers are
worth more to me than $60, although I'd probably want to watch when he tried
to test the saw (if I was shelling out the bucks for it, that is).
Also for a community shop, reducing the liability for an "incident" may be
an advantage. Not sure if your insurance company would think so (yet), but
perhaps worth checking.
And finally, old farts don't heal as quickly as young pups *duck and run*
I'm not sure what you mean by "it will stop the saw but will it cure the
problem of why it stopped the saw". It's supposed to stop the saw when
someone sticks their fingers in the sharp spin-y section. You're not
supposed to do that (
AFAIK) whether you have a SawStop or not; it's just how
much of an impact it has on you that changes. One will cost you $100 for a
new cartridge, the other may cost you a trip to the emergency room. To be
fair, yes, you're probably less likely to do the whole thing again if you
don't have the SawStop (negative reinforcement and all that, and 10% fewer
fingers than you started with), but I don't really think that's a reason not
to get it.
AFAIK, you don't need any special blades for it. The only "special" part
about it is a cartridge that stops the blade which gets destroyed when
activated (i.e. it kicks in). There are some additional setup steps when
you want to use a dado blade (different cartridge, I think), as well as
needing to deactivate the system when you want to cut something conductive,
like aluminum. The reading I've done on it suggests that it's a well-made
saw, with a solid safety feature. So even if you never use the SawStop
functionality, you've still got a good (albeit more expensive) saw. I've
never seen anything that says it's a cheap piece of garbage that they stuck
a gimmick on.
Clint
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Can some of you people that work with this kind of tools for a living ,
please tell me the advantage of this saw stop saw for about $3,000.? I
know it is only a 10" cabinet saw also. Right now we have a 12" delta
and 2 ea 10" unisaws. All three are 10-15 yrs old but work fine. Except
they will eat fingers if inserted. Our shop
(retirement community in fl) has the money to buy, but I am having a
hard time trying to convince myself to buy this. I have read all the
other stories on here about this saw , but nothing to make me say hey
"we need this, can't live with out it". Think someone said yes it will
stop the saw but will it cure the problem of why it stopped the saw.
Also do you have to buy the saw stop blades? How about the sharpening of
them? And there are questions that I am sure I don't know to ask yet.
Pig in a poke? All this and asking myself what we could get with the $3
Gs.
Some people see all the sales brochures and say they want it, but you
never see the mfg tell you the cons. So What are the cons. I know the
answers are here, just have to find them. Thanks all.