This YouTube video showcases an ingenious safety device. Table saws make it easy to cut materials to exacting specifications. Unfortunately, they can be incredibly dangerous. Nearly 3,000 people lose a finger every year.
There has to be a way to save those poor digits. Inventor Steve Gass has the answer. He’s invented SawStop. This tool could completely eliminate table saw related injuries. And it can do it without hindering the user.
The Discovery Channel show Time Warp showcases SawStop in unmatched detail. The mechanisms are simple and extremely effective. It’s amazing to see in action. You’ll see it save a man’s finger in real time.
(The audio crackles a bit toward the end. Don’t worry. It’s the video, not your speakers.)
Dec-31-2008 00:10
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Dec-31-2008 00:14
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Amazing.
Dec-31-2008 01:51
urban_legend
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This is a great invention.
I have a friend who lost three fingers and almost his life in a table saw, to bad it wasn't invented about seven years ago.
This is his hand after the accident....
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Dec-31-2008 01:55
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Originally posted by urban_legend
This is a great invention.
I have a friend who lost three fingers and almost his life in a table saw, to bad it wasn't invented about seven years ago.
This is his hand after the accident....
WTF did he do to get his hand in that condition? I'm the general manager in a store fixture company and I'm curious as to what he done!
This invention is amazing. I'm wondering what the feed rate has to be for it to be successful? When your running soft materials like particleboard you can feed the wood fairly quick. I think you finger will get cut, but probably not severely though. The inventors finger moved extremely slow (of course as I would do for this test) that it never cut it.
Originally posted by Prometheus Xex
WTF did he do to get his hand in that condition? I'm the general manager in a store fixture company and I'm curious as to what he done!
This invention is amazing. I'm wondering what the feed rate has to be for it to be successful? When your running soft materials like particleboard you can feed the wood fairly quick. I think you finger will get cut, but probably not severely though. The inventors finger moved extremely slow (of course as I would do for this test) that it never cut it.
Well he was working at a furniture factory cutting wood as a coop student was stacking wood behind him. The stack fell over onto him as he was completing a cut, his face went in first but only his forehead, that ricco'ed out like a piece of wood with a knot in it. However, the wood was still on his back so he put his hand down to push up and put his hand right in the saw. Saw him right after the accident, not pretty, but it changed his life.
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Dec-31-2008 02:25
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Originally posted by urban_legend
This is a great invention.
I have a friend who lost three fingers and almost his life in a table saw, to bad it wasn't invented about seven years ago.
This is his hand after the accident....
Bwahhaha. Your friend has no business touching a table saw...Bwahhhaa
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Dec-31-2008 02:31
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Originally posted by El K Dee
dont have a need for a tablesaw so i never really looked around...which brands implemented it?
i meant the companies are cheap and won't replace their working table saws with expensive safe replacemnts
Dec-31-2008 02:33
urban_legend
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Originally posted by SkyHigh
Bwahhaha. Your friend has no business touching a table saw...Bwahhhaa
Like I said it was an accident. Could not be helped.
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Last edited by urban_legend on Dec-31-2008 at 02:57
Very Cool Invention - Saw Stop
