On 10/12/2010 11:04 AM, -MIKE- wrote:
Have you seen the videos and live demonstration? It does no harm.
They wouldn't be selling like hotcakes if their marketing strategy
centered around "losing only a pint of blood, instead of a whole finger."
Have you seen the video demonstrations? They've been done with lunch
meat and human fingers.

17 teeth?

How fast can you push your finger?

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That may be true, but they still don't do any harm.

Sawstop stops the blade in 1/200 of a second, according to their Web
site. At 3450 RPM that means the blade stops in .29 revolution, which
with a 60 tooth blade means that 17 teeth have had a shot at your
finger.

And with a 60-tooth blade spinning at 3450 RPM, that's 3450 teeth spinning past
every *second*. At that speed, coming to a dead stop after only 17 teeth have
had a chance to cut anything is pretty damn good. Unless you're just flat-out
careless or stupid (or both) and are wildly advancing your fingers towards the
blade, 17 teeth are not going to do much damage. I could do much worse in the
blink of an eye with a careless swipe of my pocketknife.

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