"HeyBub" wrote

Lobby Dosser wrote:

None of these saws have blade guards?

Sure. All new saws come with blade guards and the guards receive about as
much attention as the sixteen-page safety manuals that also accompany a
new saw.

Like the safety manuals, the blade guards are included with a new saw for
the company's benefit, not the consumers'.

It seem so me that one reason why people discard the crown guard (hood,
Murricans) is the following ( http://tinyurl.com/382fe4c )

1910.213(c)(1)

'The hood and mounting shall be arranged so that the hood will automatically
adjust itself to the thickness of and remain in contact with the material
being cut but it shall not offer any considerable resistance to insertion of
material to saw or to passage of the material being sawed.'

Of the few I've tried, this is darned near impossible to get the hood to
automatically be elevated by the leading edge of the job if one is sawing
material of varying thicknesses, so it is not surprising that people get fed
up with them.

There's a pic of an ideal(?) but darned expensive and difficult-to-fit guard
at the foot of http://tinyurl.com/pywalm

Jeff

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