Question to SawStop Owners
Hello All,
Seems these days its hard to have a discussion to anyone about table saws without the SawStop being mentioned. I don't own a SawStop, but probably like many wood workers have considered purchasing one purely for safety reasons. I'm sure everyone that is reading this have seen the ads showing someone sticking a sausage and their finger into the Sawstop and the end result is nothing dramatic other than a chewed up blade and a replacement brake.
My question is how good is the braking mechanism? say in a hypothetical scenario where you're working on the saw and somehow you slammed your hand/face/arm onto the blade what the outcome would be? Obviously on a non-Sawstop it'll be game over but am curious to what will happen on the Sawstop?
As all the testing videos i've seen all have people moving the test objects towards the blade very slowly, but in reality ie kickback, slips, bumps, carelessness things move into harms way with much more force and speed.
Thanks!