Charlie Self wrote:

Todd Fatheree responds:


Well you can *order* one, or at least get on a list. It seems as though
it's been a couple of years now that you could *order* one. To my
knowledge, none have been delivered to the public. Per the definition you
cite, it certainly appears to be vaporware. It's been discussed in this
newsgroup now since 2000. It makes one wonder why it hasn't gone to
market
yet. If you want to say it isn't ready, then fine, but why take preorders
for two years? Doesn't seem to be the way to make people happy by putting
them on a 2 or 3 or forever year waiting list.


Yes. They're still taking only pre-orders. I first saw this thing at the
2000 IWWF. They started taking pre-orders at the next IWWF, if memory
serves. That was almost two years ago, now. It seems just a little bit
like the boy who cried wolf, doesn't it?

And I would very much like to know where they get the figure of 30,000
injuries on table saws.

If you go to http://www.cpsc.gov/library/neiss.html you can query the
Consumer Product Safety Commission database. The database has actual
results from a sample set of hospitals, which is used to estimate the
national statistics, if they get enough reports to allow an estimate to be
calculated. It also has case histories online and will show up to 30 of
them for each query.

It shows an estimate of 33,000 table-saw related injuries requiring a
hospital visit in 2002. They estimate 3503 amputations, all of which were
of one or more fingers. They estimate 22,105 lacerations and 3595
fractures. An estimated 28,271 of the injuries of any kind were to
fingers. 24,498 occurred in a home, 7612 occurred in an "unknown locale",
they have no estimate for the number that occured in an "industrial
place"--they had _one_ reported--a 77 year old man lost his left thumb.
They had no estimate for the number that occured in a school--they had 13
reported, only two of which were amputations, one "partial" of two fingers
and the other the tip of the left ring finger, the rest were lacerations or
fractures except for one kid who got something in his eye.



Charlie Self
"It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended
from man."
H. L. Mencken

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