On Mon, 8 Aug 2011 10:32:26 -0400, "J. Clarke" wrote:

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"Lee Michaels" leemichaels*nadaspam* at comcast dot net wrote:

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I AM a safety freak.



There you have it. You HAVE to be 110% awake, NO routine cuts, perfect
set-up and materials...

For a super careful, vigilant user, RAS's offer only a small set of
advantages that simple aren't worth the danger.

What's "the danger"?

On a table saw you move your fingers into the blade.

On an RAS you move the blade into your fingers.

Either way you have no fingers.

How is one "more dangerous" than the other?

The RAS wants to move the blade toward your fingers. The TS wants to throw
everything away from the blade (assuming, of course, that your fingers are
never behind the blade).