Oct 29 2008Circular Saw Won't Cut Fingers, Hot Dogs

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p.s. this is what the alphabet would look like if q and r were eliminated

p.s.s. daisy - f*** you f*** you f*** you f*** you f*** you f*** you f*** you

p.s.s.s. Jecka [Mrs.Dr.Horrible] - myspace is blocked at work so if you would like to chat it up some time [email protected]

p.s.s.s.s. i wonder how long i can keep this up?

p.s.s.s.s.s. ok im done...

i have one its freaking awesome FIRST

I'm sure that can't be good for the blades. Perhaps wearing steel gloves would be a better idea. Or, I don't know, maybe being careful enough to assure you don't run your hand over a table saw blade might be the cheapest option, but that's just me.

The college i went to got rid of the old "dangerous" table saws and replaced them with these POS table saws. Long story short, they don't work well at all. They are also expensive to re setup after some dumbass jambs his hand into the blade. I say let Darwinism do its job.

Photoshopped! I can see the shadows.

This is old, old, OLD news...like 5 years at least. When the safety is activated, it results in a total destruction of the blade and assembly requiring the entire saw to be rebuilt by the factory.

These are fantastically expensive saws that really only have utility in industrial use where the blade is mechanically fed, preventing the individual from exercising the "don't put your hand in it" option. These are not useful at all for saving fingers, they're only good for saving arms and heads from being removed.

So this is what a saw for idiots looks like...neat. Now for the rest of us who actually know what the hell we're doing, we can continue to 'do our thing'

on another note...it'll be really sad if this never back down bullshit catches on and eventually someone creates a plugin called "NBD" or something. This is old crap and people should stop saying it...like the adage of beating a dead horse...cut it out.

Oh and frist.

damn it, now I can't cut my hot dogs with my table saw anymore.

*Shing* *Shing* *Shing*
SHANG
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SH- SH- SHANG!!!

@7 thats fine, you can be frist all you want... thank you for taking the side of sane person in regards to this nbd bull shit

hey C-basstian why not take yourself over to www.datingdirect.com if your so interested in chatting it up.

@8 I respect that comment.

I should not be here... BYE

omg. You're now giving nbd a TLA ????? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-letter_abbreviation) that is taking the piss.

In the Real World, real men use really crazy saws with no guards that run on Tesla CD Turbine power to cut a pumpkin on Halloween.

That would be my Steampunk PumpkinCutter Tesla CD Turbine found hacking at a pumpkin here…

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aoRh8T_VX-Y

PEW PEW PEW,

I think all these comments posted are fake. Especially #1 and #7, they appear photoshopped. The shadows are all wrong. It looks like the scene where Jake blogs to Baja in the movie Never Back Down.

@11,13, im sorry that im mature enough to be able to talk to people with no sexual or emotional connotations

Fake!!!

This is an obvious photoshop job. Its so fake part of the movie looked like animations, and the shadows are all wrong.

This looks like the safety warning at the beginning of the new blu-ray saw blade edition of the movie Never Back Down.

i work at a theatrical scene shop and we just bought this thing. for those who say that this is the table saw for idiots, lemme tell you that its not the idiots and noobs who get their fingers cut off, but the veterans who are so comfortable with using it that sometimes they dont even pay attention.

this thing is BEAST. it has a current running through the blade and whenver something that can conduct electricity (aka wet wood or ur flesh) the current changes and at 1000'ths of a second the brake grabs it and its done.

it really does save lives AND money, as its costs MORE to go to a hospital and pay the medical bills of getting a finger replaced and repaired than it does to replace the blade and brake.

the only thing that sucks about it is that a lot of different things set off the brake. but other than that if you work in a woodshop, this thing is beast.

its not a saw for idiots, its a saw for smarter carpteners.

and btw, it doesnt really f*** up the blade, it only messes up like one or two teeth of the blade. its still usuable after the brake sets off if you know how to take the blade out.

@14 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBD

Actually, the blade is fine but the whole brake mechanism has to be replaced every time it's activated. The inventor shopped it around to every single saw manufacturer in the country all of whom declined after doing some market research and determining that there was little interest in it at the price (add an average of $1000 to the saw, which is anywhere from a 50-100% increase depending on the saw). When that didn't work he tried to lobby congress to pass a law requiring all saws sold in the U.S. to use his safety system.

Bah! This is useless. I can't use this to cut up my murder victims.

@1: You failed. P.S. is short for post script. So you would say post post script, not post script script. P.P.S.

Doctors have been using saws like this for at least a decade. After I broke my arm, the cast was removed using a saw that stops in contact with human flesh, my doctor even test ran it on his hand before he used it so I wouldn't freak out (as much).

My school has two of those in our shop. They're actually really good saws. Perfect for cutting even teak. And they're cheap too. Only $4000 CDN was how much one of them cost. That's even with all the extras like the fence and table add-ons. And to those saying it doesn't wreck the blade, it does. Blades are made of tempered metal. And all that friction created while forcing the blade to stop generates a lot of heat. So much that it can warp the teeth and even the blade. As well as damaging the strength of the steel, it also creates heat spots on the blade. Not to mention it dulls the blade to hell.

@23 ah dumb mistake on my part, you are correct sir... wasnt thinking as normal

@6

These saws are old, but they do save fingers.

One of the demonstrations is a wet, floppy hotdog going through the active saw. It barely leaves a scratch on it. As soon as your body finishes the "circuit", the saw stops. The resulting cut is lighter than a papercut.

On top of that, the people who own the businesses (the ones who buy the saws) get big savings on insurance rates when noone looses fingers.

My uncle lost all his fingers when someone jumped up behind him while he was using a saw like this. I guarantee you that while he would have scoffed at the price 10 years ago he'd much rather have all his fingers today.

@26: It's all good. This is the Internet. You're not expected to think. In fact, that would be a bad thing. Especially on this site!

This is over two years old.

@8, Nice.

Now where is the fun in using power tools if they're SAFE!?
"Hey dad, can I go play with the table saw?"
"Sure son, it's totally safe!"

I don't want to say that. I want to tell him all the horrible things a table saw can do to his fragile little bones.

Fake!!!!

Actualy
This is an obvious Paintshop job. You can tell because the shadows are all wrong.

@32

Stop riding Daisy's dick. And start riding mine. Mort man, are you sure you're batting for the right team?

@LDiesel LOL @ Mort comment.

And wtf is up with this Daisy chick? It's been what, a month or so now of her trolling every single post made here saying "Fake. Total photoshop. Blah blah blah blah blah blah".

Jesus...get a life chick or come up with something more original.

GW...BAN HER!

@24 Aliyah366891

Yeah you're right. Docs have been using such a saw for ages. When my friend went to get his cast removed the pretty hot Doc tried to demonstrate it first on herself and cut a deep gash into her forearm, then ran shrieking to the E.R herself.

So sometimes the saw can play too. It's the saw's way of showing whose daddy.

These safety devices are taking all of the fun out of power tools... If/When all sharp objects are required to have this level of safety we will have no one left to call "lucky" "stumpy" "9 fingered larry" etc.
PFFBBBT

@34

Or may I recommend a boyfriend? Or a girlfriend if Daisy swings that way.

@36, they call him "the eunuch"...

there actually making a sawstop bansaw and chopsaw. look them up on teh sawstop site.

this thing is like two years old... cmon geekologie writer I want new stuffffff!

welcome to the intarwebs

Basically my theatrical shop had one of these beacuse our old saw was dangerous well after about a year it stared firing the stop sequence while cutting luan, it once just turned on then droped so we said f*** that well take out chances that doesnt cost us to stop work for 3 hours

Considering I cut off 3 fingers (that were later put back on) using a table saw I would have loved for my school to have had this at the time of the accident. All schools should be required to have these saws. They've been around for some time now.

To the lame posters here (oh it's photoshop)... I just saw the inventor put his finger into the saw on a show called TimeWarp (Discovery Channel)... they shot it on high speed camera... amazing technology and it works. This is perfect for schools - and IMO, insurance companies should pay for the new blade as it's far cheaper than paying for an ER visit + any resulting lawsuit for the lost digit.

If it can really address the safety and if you can afford a SawStop feature in a table saw, why not? However, whether you are using a SawStop or a ryobi band saw, one should really be carerful in handling power tools like that.

http://bandsawsonsale.info/

Holy comments! I will attest that this is not fake ... SawStop saws are actually used quite extensively these days.

P.S. The title of the post is incorrect ... this is a table saw not a circular saw.

P.S. http://circularsawbuyingguide.com/