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On 09/09/2020 12:39, fred wrote:
On Wednesday, September 9, 2020 at 12:24:18 PM UTC+1, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:
On 09/09/2020 12:12, John Rumm wrote:
On 09/09/2020 09:24, Chris J Dixon wrote:
On "Ambulance Code Red" (Channel 5) this week, one of the
incidents was a guy who had apparently been trimming guttering
with what appeared to be a circular saw blade mounted on an angle
grinder.

Could it have been a segmented diamond cutting disc rather than a
circular saw blade?

There appeared to be no blade guard of any kind, and he had

Lots of people take them off!



yes bloody health and safety


Im alway amazed when watching youtube videos of USA woodworkers. No splitter and no guard in evidence


If its like my table saw, such things were not standard fit when it was
made in 1948!

(One can retrofit a splitter into the inset plate, but doing a proper
riving knife would be difficult)


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John.

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