DIYbanter - View Single Post - Can you think of a safer way to cut a tiny piece of wood on a tablesaw?

Doug Miller

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FYI All radial saws are designed to rip that way.

That's not a rip cut.

Look at the factory installed splitter and anti-kick.

Neither of which have any effect on this cut.

Apparently, you have little or no experience with ripping using a RAS.

Apparently, neither do you, or you'd recognize that that's *not* what you're
doing here.

Again, this is NOT a RAS as configured.

Quite true -- it's much less safe.

Thanks for the suggestion about another screw.

The fact is that the single screw holds the workpiece down with a
quite a lot of force.

It's not a symmetric force, though, which leaves the piece subject to
twisting.

I cant wiggle a piece free.

And you think therefore the saw can't???

Hint: that saw has at least a 1hp motor. You can't generate that much force
with your fingers. Tell me you can't pry the piece out with a crowbar, and
then I'll begin to consider that maybe the saw can't pull it out either.

Any uplift/kickback would have to be on the left side of the hold down
and the force would have to be larger than the shear force of the
partially sawed plywood piece.

Cutting wood on this saw is like slicing meat on a deli saw.

Sure it is. Uh-huh. Keep telling yourself that.

The saw dust is deflected away from me by the piece of plastic mounted
on the blade guard.

How well do you suppose that piece of plastic will do at deflecting a
kickback?

BTW I can still count to 21 if I pull my pants down.

BoyntonStu

P.S. I was considering the idea of reversing the motor.

However, the thought of a spinning blade pulling the slide table with
me along for the ride, is bothersome.

Would it be beneficial to do so?

That's about the only think I can think of that you could do to this setup to
make it less safe.