eclipsme wrote:

| Would a splitter necessarily help? I think when this happened to me
| (it happens *very* fast!) I was just completing about a 5" cut,
| perhaps 16" or 18" long off of a piece of 1/2" plywood perhaps 12"
| wide. At the very end of the cut the piece came away from the fence
| and caught the blade. I am not sure that a splitter would have been
| able to stop it. I'm certainly not say don't use one - just that
| things can still happen.

The splitter is a /preventitive/. If the splitter also has
anti-kickback pawls, then /they/ would have held the piece (while the
blade shredded it, if that were the situation).

I went out and bought a pair of Board Buddies to use in conjunction
with my saw's splitter/anti-kickback pawls - like wearing both belt
_and_ suspenders.

Even with those double safeguards, I stay out of the "line of file".

--
Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/