On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 05:56:22 -0400, "Robert Green"
wrote:
"RicodJour" wrote in message
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On Aug 11, 12:55 pm, DerbyDad03 wrote:
On Aug 11, 12:28 pm, RicodJour wrote:
Trot on over to rec.woodworking and ask how many people over there
have been bitten by a saw.
Then ask them if they have replaced the saw that bit them with a SawStop.
You're missing my point, DD. The price premium is high - now. It'll
come down. The price is immaterial to the fact that it is a user-
selectable safety system that actually works, doesn't get in the way
of cuts, and is invisible in use. It's better technology.
A better question to ask over at the wreck would be, if you had a
choice of paying $2000 now and getting the tip of your finger back,
would you?
False choice. Hindsight isn't a logical argument.
Tip of your finger if you're incredibly lucky! Anyone unlucky enough to see
how fast a radial arm saw can "walk" across a piece of lumber (usually from
starting the motor with the blade already jammed against the stock) knows
how fast it could drag your whole arm into the blade with devastating
results. A modern power saw cuts human flesh and bone like butter since
it's designed to tear through tough oak.
Umm, SawStop doesn't have a radial arm saw. I haven't used my RAS in years
and really bought a table saw because I don't like the RAS. It has done some
things that weren't expected.
I often wonder why people have such a "stuck in the craw" attitude about
improvements in safety engineering? You see it all the time here. Is it a
macho thing? Is it oldsters railing at the changes in the modern world that
they feel they have no control over? Is it the massive ego of believing
they are so smart and so lucky that they are immune from accidents? Well,
no one is immune. You can only hope to reduce accidents but you can't
control when you have a stroke or a heart attack and when that safety
interlock is the only thing standing between a bad event and probably a
lethal one.
Why can't people understand cost-benefit trade-offs? Why does everything have
to be an absolute? Why can't people just spend twice as much on everything
because it's "safer"? Do you have a fire truck and ambulance standing by in
your garage?
Anyone who thinks it can't happen to them should read:
http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/21/mos...ols_slide.html
Safety engineers have saved the lives and limbs of countless people. It
wasn't too long ago that a poor little girl name Peggy Swan two
neighborhoods over from me gored herself to death riding her bicycle into
the back of a 60's era Cadillac with huge (senseless, decorative only) tail
fins that got the whole ball rolling on modern safety issues. There are
stupid people and there are stupid designers. Both need education.
Yes, accidents happen. So what? Not everyone will do something that dumb.
snipped the rest of the clueless rant