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J. Clarke[_2_]

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On 1/20/2012 8:09 PM, Digger wrote:
On 1/20/2012 5:54 PM, Steve Barker wrote:
Just once i'd like to see a demonstration of that damn hot dog being run
into that $aw $top blade at the same rate that your finger or hand might
if you were to slip. I'll bet it'll still cause significant damage.
Those things are a joke.

Saw the hot dog live demo once. It worked as advertised and barely broke
the skin of the dog. Amazing demo and when that blade stopped, even
though I was expecting some noise it still scared the crap right out of me.

You ought be in the same room or near the saw when it happens when you
WEREN'T expecting it.

We've set ours off about 8 times in several years. Usually because of
failure to note embedded metal, wet wood, aluminized vapor backer, etc.
Only once when a man was pushing it - he thought he had completed a
cut he was pushing along the fence (probably way too close and should
have been using a push stick) and set it off with no visible cut, looked
more like a splinter.

Yes, it is expensive to set it off. Cartridge and blade.

I'm wondering how long it will be before a Sawstop going off startles
somebody enough to put his hand in the jointer. Won't that be a fun
lawsuit.