Obviously this is a one-sided story, but corporate opposition is as predictable as flowers in May....just not as welcome.
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Gerry,
In your quest to save us, I hate to tell you that I removed all the "safety" guards on my table saw because I am so unskilled that I couldn't figure out how to use them. I sold it when we moved to a guy who was a professional, and I forgot the guards. He didn't even ask because he doesn't use them, either.
I also notice that the video on table saw safety from Colbert was viewed about 10,000 times (when I saw it) and the one on Linsanity was viewed 30,000 times. I liked them both, but the stuff on Jeremy Lin is really cool.
Anyway, I would pay more for a saw that stopped like that. Wonder how much it adds? I have used table saws for years and have yet to saw off a finger, but it is probably only a matter of time.
I removed the safety guard from mine as well. I think almost everybody does.
They are manufactured in Tualatin, OR. Is that close to Portland?
Tualatin (and I think it is pronounced two wall' uh tun) is a southern suburb of Portland. It is along I-5 and in the Willamette valley, I think.
I visited the city website and discovered that on Feb 24, they are having the Snow Ball Daddy Daughter Dance:
Dads, take your little sweetie to her first dance on Friday, February 24, 2012 at 6:30pm at the Heritage Center!
Those things always give me a twinge of "not appropriate."
PS Did you see that Lin hit a three to win with half a second remaining? On the road in Toronto.
The royalty that the Sawstop company would exact from saw manufacturers for use of their technology is apparently 8% of the wholesale price of the saws. According to the inventor (the guy in the Colbert video), Ryobi and Emerson had already agreed to this before the Power Tool association decided as a bloc to oppose the incorporation of the technology.
I don't believe the Consumer Product Safety Commission has made its ruling yet. They quit taking comments on the issue last Dec. 11th
One interesting fact. Power tool manufacturers haven't faced any legal liability for years because of the safety things they put on their saws, which everyone removes, but which serve their purpose of protecting the manufacturers...more so than protecting the users. That changed recently when Ryobi was hit with a $1.5 million judgment.
If there is a technology out there that serves to mitigate the risk, it would seem to me that continuing use of a technology that spurns the safer way is simply an invitation to the closest attorney.
I'm not going to cut off my finger to prove it, but JMHO.
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