Alan Bienlein
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Lets see if this works.http://leelaw.us/Osorio_v_Ryobi_complaint.pdf Here is the link.
My wife watches a lot of those home improvement shows on DIY. They show a newbie how to cut with a saw be it chop or table or circular then hand it over. Saw one once where they let the lady of the home split a sheet of plywood on a little table saw, it shot half of it back against a wall or something. Everyone laughed, I cringed. Accidents waiting to happen. I would bet this was the first stage and when it gets appealed I would almost bet it gets overturned (one could always wish can't they??!!!).
Jonathan how long before the school makes you get the SS?
Here as they replace they are getting the SS. But as far as I know no one is being made to replace with them yet.
According to SS, excessively wet wood, wet pressure treated wood, or anything metallic will cause the brake to trip. For the wood, you can put the saw into bypass mode and make a test cut, and the saw will tell you if it would have tripped.
Mike
And while making a test cut in bypass mode you cut your finger off??????
It would seem to me that for Sawstop market it as a safe system, it should be safe 100% all of the time. Seems the other manufacturers should be looking at it from that point of view at the trials.
I would think this would be more a issue for Sawstop eventually. If you do alot of wet wood cutting and you are constantly turning the system on/off and "you forget to take responsibility and remember that it is in bypass mode and you really think it is in active mode" and you cut your finger off, then what. Can you now sue Sawstop for giving you the impression that by buying thier product you will be safe.
With the Sawstop in bypass mode it is not any safer than the PM2000 it have now.
Rob
You can only put the SS in bypass mode for one cut at a time (and it's a pain to do). As soon as you turn the saw off, it reverts back to safe mode. There's a key that is used to put the saw in bypass mode so you can remove the key if you don't want people to put it in bypass mode (like at school).And while making a test cut in bypass mode you cut your finger off??????
It would seem to me that for Sawstop market it as a safe system, it should be safe 100% all of the time. Seems the other manufacturers should be looking at it from that point of view at the trials.
I would think this would be more a issue for Sawstop eventually. If you do alot of wet wood cutting and you are constantly turning the system on/off and "you forget to take responsibility and remember that it is in bypass mode and you really think it is in active mode" and you cut your finger off, then what. Can you now sue Sawstop for giving you the impression that by buying thier product you will be safe.
With the Sawstop in bypass mode it is not any safer than the PM2000 it have now.
Rob
My wife watches a lot of those home improvement shows on DIY. They show a newbie how to cut with a saw be it chop or table or circular then hand it over. Saw one once where they let the lady of the home split a sheet of plywood on a little table saw, it shot half of it back against a wall or something. Everyone laughed, I cringed. Accidents waiting to happen.
[Dan - thinking about why he didn't sue his boss: Workman's Comp limits the recovery and prevents him from suing his boss, I think, so he had to go after someone else.]