On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:14:10 -0600, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet
wrote:

On 1/22/2012 8:26 PM, Morgans wrote:
Much better, in my opinion, to train them to be extremely careful and
to use the already mandated and supplied safety devices. - and to
SUPPLY the devices. (like push sticks, finger boards, splitters and
guards)

Good points.

If I was a high school shop teacher (and I am) and I had a saw stop, I
would tell the guys that they did not work as good as it shows on
you-tube and even worse, that they sometimes did not work at all. That
way, they could not depend on the saw stopping to keep them safe, and
they would have to work on developing safe work habits.

-- Jim in NC


And as all kids do they would look to prove you wrong and think you were
a liar or incompetent since you could not prove that they did not work.

Kids'll do that every day, anyway, Leon. It's our idiotic human nature
to do so.


Tell the truth, teach them the correct way to use a TS because they may
not always have the luxury of working on a TS with this technology.

BINGO! Odds are 99:1 (or higher) right now that their dads won't have
a SS at home.

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I have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during
my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.
-- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Count Diodati, 1807