**** this Govt.
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Good steady pace toward enslavement.
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I sure hope I have enough social credits to get my cup of lard, quart of bug butter and sea weed bread.
If yer a good boy you might get a gopher for Thanksgiving. Better mind yer Ps & Qs though.
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) moved closer towards introducing a rule requiring table saw makers to limit the depth of a potentially injurious cut to no more than 3.5mm.
This is accomplished with an electronic device that recognizes your finger from a piece of wood and instantly stops the blade. Now, far be it from me to tell an individual what to buy, and body parts are a good thing to keep attached, but forcing everyone purchasing a new table saw to comply with this, not so much. This will easily double the price of a saw, to protect the idiots that have no business touching a saw in the first place.
This is accomplished with an electronic device that recognizes your finger from a piece of wood and instantly stops the blade. Now, far be it from me to tell an individual what to buy, and body parts are a good thing to keep attached, but forcing everyone purchasing a new table saw to comply with this, not so much. This will easily double the price of a saw, to protect the idiots that have no business touching a saw in the first place.
You wouldn't be able to see it but a guy who suffered a major middle finger injury due to one of those insurrectiony table saws is now flipping you off.
I believe in natural selection.
Read somewhere a while back that airbags have saved 60,000 lives at a cost of billions of dollars invested, which translates to millions of dollars per life saved. Now, I'm not saying we should abandon airbags or that those lives saved should be dismissed, just pointing out the cost per life saved.
And I'm only in the ballpark with the numbers, but I remember being taken back by them..
As far as the saw goes, if your Dad or the woodshop teacher in high school didn't teach you that spinning saw blades can bite, well that's on you and natural selection applies.
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This is our leadership, and that is why we are screwed.
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Our kids and their kids are screwed.
"The government is the ultimate corporation"
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"And has a monopoly on violence." So, gun confiscation?
As an owner of a SawStop table saw, the technology is amazing...I don't know why any wood worker or construction worker would be opposed to the technology. Once implemented across the board by every manufacturer the price increase will be minimal.
They won't be dishing out lard. And PETA wants Punxsutawney Phil to be replaced with a coin flip.
Just say no to a coin flip. I say DIC takes Punxsutawney Phil on a joyride in the LS10 on groundhog day. TV worth watching!
Just say no to a coin flip. I say DIC takes Punxsutawney Phil on a joyride in the LS10 on groundhog day. TV worth watching!
The SawStop is a good saw and I'm not opposed to the technology, just don't think it should be imposed on everyone. And while the price of a finger can't be measured, I'm not sure the price would be minimal for every manufacturer to redesign their saws. I'll stick with paying attention and using a push.
The only reason it is a big increase in price currently is because it is patented technology by SawStop. The actual way it works is fairly simple...might it add another $50 on a standard saw, probably, but right now it is an average of $400-500. When they made the riving knife mandatory to try to prevent kick back injuries, I think most people thought it was a good idea. I know plenty of guys in construction and wood working that are safety conscious, but accidents still happen. I always use push sticks, have a nice cross cut sled, and I still invested in the saw just in case.
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So anyone wanting more safety can access it.
Why does this need mandated?
It's readily available as you point out.
A replacement brake cartridge is $120 all by itself, so I'm not sure your $50 estimate would be accurate, especially when the other manufacturers would have to redesign their saws to accommodate them. This isn't like seatbelts or airbags where you are subjected to the idiocy of other drivers being at fault, this is entirely on the operator of the saw.
Just my take, if you want it, buy it, and like I previously stated, the SawStop saw is a good saw in and of itself, even without the safety feature.
Ahh. Here is fine
