In article ,
Steve Turner wrote:

If a professional
quality RAS is as useless as a lot of people here would have us believe, I'd
like to see
what every home center and lumber yard would do if you tried to take theirs
away.

The RAS at Home Despot has so many safety devices attached to it that
you can hardly tell it is a RAS. Trap doors, sliding things.... I guess
somehow, the industrial safety crowd thought it was dangerous 'as is'.
They then felt compelled to deal with the morons and 'safety-ise' the
bejeezus out of that RAS.