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That is quite remarkable! As someone who doesn't work with table saws, what was the narrator saying about something costing $60, as opposed to someone losing a finger? Is the blade ruined, or another component of the saw? Or was the invention ruined after it engages? I was watching it on my phone, and couldn't hear it clearly.

Very cool though!

Kathy
 
The component that stops the blade is ruined at a cost of $60. But odds are really good that the blade is ruined as well.
 
Boy wish my high school had that ! A board jumped while I was running it through a table saw and mangled the end of my middle finger. Who says people can't regenerate body parts LOL. Over about 10-15 years the end of my finger grew back including the finger nail. Cant even tell now that it ever happened.
 
daddio207 said:
Boy wish my high school had that ! A board jumped while I was running it through a table saw and mangled the end of my middle finger. Who says people can't regenerate body parts LOL. Over about 10-15 years the end of my finger grew back including the finger nail. Cant even tell now that it ever happened.
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I think you got lucky! My husband had a crush injury to his right hand shortly after we met. Even with a very skilled reconstruction surgeon, it's still obvious that he had a bad injury. Hopefully, lots of fingers will be saved with that invention!

Kathy
 
insomniac101 said:
And what are you doing up at 4:00 a.m.?! I'm the insomniac, and even I'm not awake at that hour, lol! :)

Kathy
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I'm usually up late. I go to bed when I'm tired, and get up when I've had enough sleep. Benefits of being retired. :)

People get injured or even killed with machinery fairly frequently. I think this has potential to be installed in a lot of equipment and possibly save a lot of people from injury or death. Hell, anyone suffering the loss of a finger, hand, or arm would gladly pay whatever it would take to be able to roll back time and not have such an injury.

One thing I have tried to practice religiously when working with work working and metal working equipment is to NEVER put any part of your body in the path of the moving blade or cutting tool. Act like it is alive and WANTS to bite you, so treat it that way. I have been playing around with keyboards again, and it sure would mess up this interest to lose a few fingers because of a mishap.
 
daddio207 said:
Boy wish my high school had that ! A board jumped while I was running it through a table saw and mangled the end of my middle finger. Who says people can't regenerate body parts LOL. Over about 10-15 years the end of my finger grew back including the finger nail. Cant even tell now that it ever happened.
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I've never much cared for table saws, but have a radial saw that I've had for a very long time. Hasn't really ever given me any safety concerns except one time I was trying to cut a shallow groove with a dado blade and it wound up walking over the board. Luckily I just never put my hands in the path of where it COULD go if things went wrong.

Working with this sort of stuff you need to never be in a rush or distracted in any way.
 
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