On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 10:03:38 -0600, "Leon"
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"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 22:17:48 -0600, "Leon"
wrote:


"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:09:38 -0600, "Leon"
wrote:
What about 80ips????

May I spell it out for you? I'm using a SWAG to estimate an 80ips
speed. Perhaps someone can actually -time- the speed of a flailing
hand as a person slips and tries to catch himself. Then have Sawstop
test a wiener at that speed instead of in slow-mo, as they do now.


What happens is one hell of a lot less damage than if the saw was other
than
a SawStop. I'd still be much happier that I got a bad cut than loose a
whole finger, hand, arm, or internal body part.

Very likely true, but we won't know until we see the experiment
performed. What I'm saying is that the demo is deficient, showing
only the best-case scenarios. Let's see worst-case!

Ok, that sounds reasonable but only if you yourself start the experiment
with the saw of your choice including the SawStop. which one are you
going
to choose......?

Mean cuss, ain't ya? Telling a consumer advocate to go maim himself.
You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Leon.

I'd choose the saw which didn't have the asshole attorney attached to
it, the Whirlwind licensed machine, of course.

OK, I'll go with the SawStop. Now we are going to shove our hands up under
the guard as fast as we can like we are playing hand ball. We'll see who
has the bigger cut. Better yet, you can do yours with your saw turned off,
I'll let the SawStop run to give you an advantage, maybe.

IIRC the Whirlwind blade simply stops, the speed of your hand will probably
produce a pretty good cut when it hits that stationary blade. The SawStop
blade of course instantly stops spinning AND drops below the table.

A- hole attorney or not, I am going with what offers ME the most protection.

The Whirlwind will make all of this type technology become more reasonably
priced but so far it's a "me too" that does not offer the same amount of
protection.

I'd like to see the engineering figures on just what that extra 114
milliseconds of time means in the travel of the blade.

What we still don't know, however, is the result of a high-speed hand
into a Sawstop machine. That should have been one of his selling
points...unless it renders the mechanism somewhat useless. That's my
guess, anyway.

But even if I had the money for a new Sawstop, I don't think I'd buy
one because of the principle. I don't want to knowingly feed greed and
arrogance, wherever they exist, if I can possibly help it.

--
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air...
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson