Clever Safety Device-Amazing!

[orangelion03]

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=E3mzhvMgrLE&NR=1#

[Oldfisti]

That's a lot of faith in your invention to be willing to test it like that!


Dunno if I would have the beans to do it.

[Grampa]

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[Oldfisti]

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I'm John Wayne Bobbit and I do!

[Monster Dave]

1) Super cool safety feature
2) You guys are hysterical! 

[SacDuc]

This has been on the market for well over 10 years. About 7 years ago a shop I worked for installed one. Right after a guy shoved his hand wrist deep into an 18" table saw blade.

sac

[orangelion03]

Right after a guy shoved his hand wrist deep into an 18" table saw blade.

sac

Oh sorry...I fainted...

[He Man]

How often do people accidently slice of their fingers on this thing? Ive used a table saw, chop saw, miter saw, for atleast 6 years never have i ever come close to slicing my finger off.

[SacDuc]

How often do people accidently slice of their fingers on this thing? Ive used a table saw, chop saw, miter saw, for atleast 6 years never have i ever come close to slicing my finger off.

Home use or professionally?

sac


/what's the difference between a chop saw and a miter saw anyway?

[acalles]

How often do people accidently slice of their fingers on this thing? Ive used a table saw, chop saw, miter saw, for atleast 6 years never have i ever come close to slicing my finger off.

In 2003 the Consumer Product Safety Commission estimated that  “93,880 saw-related injuries were treated in U.S. hospital emergency rooms”. Of these 52,000 (55%) involved stationary saws (table saw 38,000 (73%), miter saw 7,640 (15%), band saw 4060 (8%), and radial arm saw 2,300 (4%). (Data summarized from: Injuries Associated with Stationary Power Saws, May 2003, Propit Adler, Directorate for Epidemiology, Division of Hazard Analysis, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission)

often enough for a brilliant inventor to created a product to satisfy a need.

I think that thing is pretty damn cool. 

[He Man]

Home use or professionally?

sac


/what's the difference between a chop saw and a miter saw anyway?

Does it matter? If your choping your finger off, your choping your finger off. If your a pro and you do it, you shouldda known better. If your a homeuser and you know what your doing, you shouldda known better. If you have no buisness around a screwdriver, well. YOU STILL SHOULD OF KNOWN BETTER!!! i just dont see how it could happen if you use the proper technique but freak accidents do happen. THing looks way to sensitive. What if my wood is a bit moist? or if by accident, your cutting an old piece of wood, and it has some iron filings on it from the drill head that skipped a few times when you were nailing it to another piece.etc. Your going to blow up your table saw over that?

Awesome, but needs some more thought to it.

Chop saw only goes up and down and has a clamp and is built to resist sparks n shit.
Mitersaw has a swivel head is usually not shielded for sparks...n shit.
Sawzall is what you use when you dont give a shit and it needs to cut right hte make the beast with two backs now.. 

edit: read the faq on their website.

apprently a nail has to be big enough to cause it to trip. it may or may not activate the system.
the system has a bypass switch
if the wood is wet enough to cause a mist spray durring cut it will activate.

pretty cool. If the saw isnt that much more than a regular table saw. it would be a nice feature to have. but id be pretty pissed of it the damn thing went off for no reason. and it would take one freaky accident for me to cut my finger off on a table saw.....its not like the saw is moving, your moving your hand into the blade... Id have to carry a spare device on the job....hopefully it wont ever activiate for no reason when your using an expensive cutting disc!

[DoubleEagle]

Pretty amazing .......but I would like to see which one of those guys would lay his dick on the line to prove it's efficiency 

Dolph     

[rgramjet]

Its a great concept!  Expensive!

Wet wood and my $15k Altendorf dont play together.  Moisture meter and metal detector are your friends.

[hihhs]

I'm in construction and saw a very smart, very talented carpenter with about 20 years experience take three fingers off at the second knuckle with a table saw. He was doing something very repetitive and became distracted. Freakin' horrible. Obviously his fault but these things do happen, even to the pros.
Many people in the industry expect OSHA to require saws with auto-stop features like this one on job-sites by 2012. 
If OSHA does push this through the guys that made that thing are gonna get seriously rich.

Side note- according to an article I read recently the two most dangerous tools statistically are the razor knife and the ladder. Go figure.

[mitt]

That is pretty awesome.  I wonder how it can tell the resistance change when you are wearing good rubber shoes?  You need a path to ground somehow.  Is there a ground tether you wear while using the saw?


mitt