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Default High Speed Film of Steve Gass's finger and the SawStop

On 10/3/2012 8:23 PM, Richard wrote:
A local wood working supply store had a demo of this a couple of weeks
ago. I wan't interested enough to drive across town to wee it.

But the lady who invited me said the were going to "break some blades".

Stopping a blade revolving at 3600 RPM - in less that 1 tooth probably
does break some blades.

And throw saw teeth all over the place...

I'm all for safety. But this is a bit over the top.



You do realize that this has probably been done thousands of times with
out incident? It all goes on under the cast iron table top.