Better buy that new table saw now

[Dave W]

If this ruling stands, you'll be forced to buy a Saw Stop. The initial price is bad enough, the cost of resetting them if a false positive sets them off is ridiculous.

The rent-seeking owner of Saw Stop has been pushing for several years for legislation to make it mandatory, now the lawyers and imbecile judges may have done it for him.

All because we have to be protected from ourselves. 

First Circuit upholds $1.5M table-saw verdict

Table Saw without `saw stop' technology defective: First Circuit

[drbassman]

If this ruling stands, you'll be forced to buy a Saw Stop. The initial price is bad enough, the cost of resetting them if a false positive sets them off is ridiculous.

The rent-seeking owner of Saw Stop has been pushing for several years for legislation to make it mandatory, now the lawyers and imbecile judges may have done it for him.

All because we have to be protected from ourselves. 

First Circuit upholds $1.5M table-saw verdict

Table Saw without `saw stop' technology defective: First Circuit

Just please leave me alone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

[Denis]

Table Saw without `saw stop' technology defective: First Circuit

It's not defective at all. It does exactly what it was intended to do, which is saw through stuff; mahogany, plywood, your arm...

[dadagoboi]

Ignorant users are unaware of the proper height to set a saw blade and deserve what they get...or lose.

http://www.woodweb.com/knowledge_base/Table_Saw_Blade_Height_Above_Material.html

[drbassman]

Just another sign that personal responsibility and common sense have been replaced by government regulation and congressional cretins.  We just can't think for ourselves any more.  Very sad.

[Barklessdog]

Entertaining video though- Is that George demonstrating this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FquL0GG9RGI&feature=youtu.be

[drbassman]

Entertaining video though- Is that George demonstrating this?

Darn, why didn't you say it was to protect our wieners, Dave?!?  I ALWAYS use mine to push the wood through my table saw!    Guess I'll have to get one of those guards after all!  Do they make them for routers and band saws too?  Wouldn't want to lose my wiener just trying to cut some wood!

[Highlander]

I like alternate technology...

[Dave W]

I like alternate technology...
...

Gert Fröbe is the evil mastermind behind SawStop!

[OldManC]

Hey man, my wood pusher is more impressive than that! Well, at least when there's a chromey Thunderbird around...

[drbassman]

Ah.....chrome induced wood!  One less thing for Uwe to worry about!

[gearHed289]

That is sickening. I remember seeing that device a few years a go. Very cool, but to make it mandatory is criminal.

[Dave W]

Let's just hope that this is appealed and overturned. I don't know if the defendants have the money to do that. If not, the best hope is that this would apply only in that federal circuit -- for now, at least. That's assuming that the FTC and OSHA don't get into the act.

When all table saws are outlawed...

[Pilgrim]

I think I'll just stay with the 1954 Shopsmith I inherited from dad.  No guards, no saw stop.  I've added a bandsaw to it (left side) which is also an old but very functional model.

Due care and thoughtful use of feather boards and push sticks are required.

I do want to fab up a sawdust collection device that I can run to my shop vac.

[drbassman]

Let's just hope that this is appealed and overturned. I don't know if the defendants have the money to do that. If not, the best hope is that this would apply only in that federal circuit -- for now, at least. That's assuming that the FTC and OSHA don't get into the act.

When all table saws are outlawed...

Amen Dave.