On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:54:28 -0400, "J. Clarke"
wrote:

wrote:
Howard,

I am getting ready to make a table saw purchase. I have pretty much
decided on getting the SawStophttp://www.sawstop.com/. It looks like
a high quality saw and the safety features can't be beat. It is
about double what I had
..... Thoughts, comments, advice?


Just heard from a local HS shop teacher - he's getting two of them. He
gets a kickback accident ever so often (more rarely, due to his
teaching
skills and the many eyes in the back of his head, I'm sure), but
he simply can not afford a possibility of an amputation accident.

In a high school shop I can imagine the "bad boy" touching the edge of
the blade, thereby triggering the Sawstop and using up a cartridge and a
blade just to disrupt the class.

--
More likely he will "accidently" touch it with a piece of metal or
wet wood. A couple of those a week and the entire shop program will
again learn the use of a hand saw as the shop budgets won't buy many
cartidges and blades.

Dave Hall