On 5/24/2017 4:23 PM, Leon wrote:
On 5/24/2017 3:12 PM, dpb wrote:
On 05/23/2017 11:32 AM, Leon wrote:
...

Understood but the author right off the bat indicated that the proposal
was for how high the blade must be when using a stand in, a hot dog, in
place of a human finger.


Another case of never letting the facts get in they way for a fantastic
story. And or not proofing before publishing.

From the CPSC document directly one finds:

"Specifically, the proposed rule would establish a performance
standard such that table saws, when powered on, must limit the depth
of cut to 3.5 mm when a test probe, acting as a surrogate for a human
body/finger, contacts a spinning blade at a radial approach of 1.0 m/s."


The FHB blurb is

"The proposal requires that table saws limit the depth of cut to 3.5
millimeters when a stand-in for a human finger ... contacts the
spinning blade while approaching at 1 meter per second."

Can't really blame the FHB person here; the verbiage on cut depth is
identically quoted; just removed "surrogate" as probably being
out-of-depth for the audience... and threw in the hotdog; it
doesn't show up anywhere in the CPSC convoluted description of a "test
probe".



Jeez! You have to wonder why there needs to be a regulation on blade
depth height for demonstration purposes, The brake works at any depth.

Maybe some blades are flying apart during the demonstration and keeping
the blade low in the cabinet lessens the chance of shrapnel flying out
and hitting some one.



There have been 32 post to this thread.

Have any of you expressed your concern where it would count?

As posted earlier in the thread:

Instead of talking about these stupid proposals, use the time that you
take to write to this newsgroup and send the message where it will do
some good.

www.regulations.gov

In the case of this proposal enter into the search window and complete
number in the search window. CPSC-2011-0074 to get the comment form for
this proposal.

There are enough people reading this newsgroups and their friends that
if every one of you sent a comment through the above link it would make
a difference.


I just submitted my comments, will you?


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