On 3/25/14, 11:05 PM, Morgans wrote:


"Doug Winterburn" wrote I really don't
understand this. I've had a RAS for 43 years, well I'm
on my second one. The first was the only major power tool I had for
about 25 years. I made plenty of furniture and a lot involved ripping
with the RAS. As long as your RAS is properly tuned and you adjust the
hold down on the blade guard and the anti-kickback pawls and most
important feed against the blade rotation, the RAS has never given me
any problems. It is also wise to have infeed and outfeed support and/or
a helper with larger panels. Yet I hear all this hand ringing about the
RAS and especially ripping with a RAS.


That'd be "hand wringing"

All you need is a board with some wild grain, that releases the strain
as the cut is almost complete, and have it spring into the blade and
have it try to pull your hand into the blade.


Why is your hand in the path of the blade?
Same thing could be said of the table saw.


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