Thread: SawStop Comes To Australia!

Hi Jeff

Well, if "time is money" for you, I agree with you that my method is slower.
I'm using a sled and "feather rollers" that I reset after each cut like this one
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Or you can make a "feather roller" like this one that you don't have to reset after every cut...
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Or as I made lately, a wooden one
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Best regards
niki

Niki, very impressive!

Food for thought. A nice set up for when I get my new saw. I do like the infeed and outfeed table supports as well.

thanks Jeff

Originally Posted by Ruddigar

Hi Lig,

Gimmick, eh?

The same way that airbags in vehicles are gimmicks?

This technology is the final safety net in a table saw accident. Yes - it is unique and provides and excellent selling point for people like me. BUT! There are many people (businesses included) that would appreciate this sort of "insurance" in their workshop.

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OK - it has the safety feature. Over 9000 SawStops have been sold so far, and the SawStop company have documented evidence of over 300 'finger saves'. This is a fair percentage, but it still means that most users haven't had the need to utilise the brake system.

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As soon as the panel saw becomes available, I will let you know.

According to this 300 finger saves with 9000 SawStops = 1 finger save per 30 SawStops. Given that this is a relatively new product, this says that on average 1 in 30 operators of saws equipped with SawStop would have injured or lost all or part of a finger. I think these figures seem a tad high. Just imagine, in that same time period how many injuries there must have been around the world as probably 99.9% of all saws do not have SawStops.

Does anybody have statistics on table saw injuries that we can compare this with?

Personaly, I don't like one in 30 odds, I'll stick to my old Beaver saw.

Cheers

Don

Originally Posted by dsquire

I think these figures seem a tad high. Just imagine, in that same time period how many injuries there must have been around the world as probably 99.9% of all saws do not have SawStops.

Fully concur with your reasoning.

If you add up all the TS without this alledged wonderful feature (including contractor saws, cabinet saws, and Triton workcentre like saws) and divide that by 30 to get the number of finger injuries than these kind of saws would be banned by all governments as there would not be enough Emergemcy departments in the hospitals to cope.

These claims sound pure advertising drivel to me.

Peter.

You do have to look for the confounding factors with any statistics though. The people who buy sawstops are probably at higher risk to start with such as schools tafe equivalents etc.

Quite interesting to see that SawStop is such a hot topic everywhere.
I just received mine Monday.
Feel free to ask any questions. So far it's confirmed to me that I made the right decision in buying it.

Originally Posted by Bri

Quite interesting to see that SawStop is such a hot topic everywhere.
I just received mine Monday.
Feel free to ask any questions. So far it's confirmed to me that I made the right decision in buying it.

Why, did you stick your finger in it already?

Originally Posted by Toolin Around

Why, did you stick your finger in it already?

See any blood?

Good on you Bri, hopefully you won't lose a finger in the BS, jointer or thicknesser

Nah, seriously, nice one.

Be interested in hearing what you think after using it for a while.

Originally Posted by Bri

Quite interesting to see that SawStop is such a hot topic everywhere.
I just received mine Monday.
Feel free to ask any questions. So far it's confirmed to me that I made the right decision in buying it.

Lucky bugger


I hate you





(Envy is one of the 7 sins isn't it?)

Originally Posted by Groggy

Good on you Bri, hopefully you won't lose a finger in the BS, jointer or thicknesser

Nah, seriously, nice one.

Be interested in hearing what you think after using it for a while.

Actually, I believe they are working on a brake for the bandsaw. I can't see myself getting one though. Chances of getting injured from a bandsaw compared to TS I'd guess must be quite lower.

Originally Posted by Bri

Actually, I believe they are working on a brake for the bandsaw. I can't see myself getting one though. Chances of getting injured from a bandsaw compared to TS I'd guess must be quite lower.

Somebody should have told our butcher that

Originally Posted by Big Shed

Somebody should have told our butcher that

Yeah, but a SawStop brake is never going to work on a butcher's bandsaw is it! (Think about it)

In any event, if you've watched a butcher operate a bandsaw you would have to say that it would only be a matter of time. In their defense, they are usually operating the machine with the customer waiting and are therefore under time pressure. That's how most accidents with power tools occur.

A tablesaw is a far more dangerous tool than any bandsaw that you and I are likely to use. Full stop.

As for jointers, they don't need to be dangerous either. I cannot see how you could injure yourself with a properly adjusted Euro style guard installed. The old style "guard" is not really a guard. It's a self-replacing temporary cover, at best!

Bri,
welcome, what's all the white stuff ouside your window? Did you spray paint your lawn white?

Mick