On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 20:37:17 -0700, Mark & Juanita
wrote:

There is no European or UK ban on the use of or sale of tablesaws with
long arbors to take dado sets.

My comment is based upon discussions in the newsgroup,

Well in that case DCs also suffer regular static explosions.

There is _no_ UK law against dado sets. There is a law (part of PUWER
98) that requires a rapid stop. As this is awkward to achieve with a
heavy dado set (you'd need to fit electric braking, which is
expensive), the cheapest fix for new retail machines is to shorten the
arbor.

If you have a long arbor you can still use it.
If you have a long arbor you can still sell it.

If you want to use a machine in a commercial workshop - any age of
machine - it now needs to comply to this spin-down regulation, even if
that requires retrofitting a brake. OTOH, we did get 5 years warning
of this ruling coming into effect.

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