"Leon" wrote in
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"Puckdropper" puckdropper(at)yahoo(dot)com wrote in message
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Well, that's why I asked about that a few days ago. Imagine, if you
will, though the unlikely event of getting a glove or some string
caught in the blade. If your hand gets pulled in to the blade
because of that, stopping the blade is the only way to keep someone
safer. (If the blade disappears, your hand is going to slam on the
cast iron top. If you get cut and then stuck, you could conceivably
die. A regular saw might do the same thing, though.)


Yeah, think about what your are saying here. Unless your glove is
made out of a substance that will not cut a glove is not going to be
pulled into a spinning blade. Wood being harder to cut than a cloth
material or leather does not get pulled into the spinning blade, a
glove will not either.

I had some sort of string in mind while typing the post, just added glove
as a source of the string. Chances are excellent that the glove or
string would be simply cut or snapped, but having both mechanisms ensures
safety if the unusual happens.

This was discussed several years ago and I decided to do the
experiment and sacrifice a leather/canvas glove. I pushed both the
leather and cloth sections of the glove into the spinning blade. The
blade simply cut the glove, actually left a kerf but did not in any
way pull or change the direction of the glove.

I remember that post. The glove pulled in to saw thing might be a
specific pair of gloves (like chain saw) under specific sawing
conditions. IOW, impossible to disprove.

That said I still would not recommend using a glove around any shop
machinery. The glove could be pulled into a drill bit on a drill
press or pulled in to the work on a lathe to name a few. Around a TS
the loose parts could touch the blade and if you were not expecting
that to happen you may be startled and react with a movement towards
the blade.

I agree with that, definately. A glove usually reduces the "feel" of
something, so you don't get as early of warning that something's going
bad.

It'd be difficult data to collect, but I'm still wondering if the
disappearing blade would be effective enough to prevent most injuries.
Rather than damaging blade and having a one-time-use-only cartridge,
maybe a reloadable charge could be set and the cartridge reused.

Puckdropper