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Thread ID: 95027	2008-11-21 07:53:00	Finger v sawbench blade	Scouse (83)	PC World Chat

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721802	2008-11-23 18:46:00	Lol you have no idea how this thing works do you? Good answer without actually showing whether you know either :D The SawStop feature has to be by-passed to cut conductive materials and some pressure treated timber so it won't make things idiot proof.	PaulD (232)
721803	2008-11-23 21:32:00	Very good idea, amazing to watch in action. Little bit more work/tweaking and that guy could make millions. Good on him.	wratterus (105)
721804	2008-11-23 22:29:00	He could make millions as it is. Did you see? Not even a scratch. Unless I'm missing something, which could definitely be the case. Although I wonder with these things, the more you protect people, the bigger idiots they become. Will this increase other accidents around the place after people get complacent with different tools? Or am I just a pessimist? I like the look of the smashed up guard thing though, that's definitely cool.	Thebananamonkey (7741)
721805	2008-11-24 23:06:00	Lol you have no idea how this thing works do you? It was explained in the video - it relies on the conductivity of the human hand being less than the conductivity of a piece of wood. That is why (in the video) he played safe and wet his hand and made sure it was solidly in contact with the metal top of the saw bench. If he had had dry skin, been holding ONLY the piece of wood, had no other bodily contact with any part of the saw bench, had been wearing thick rubber-soled shoes and then the blade came into contact with his finger - it MIGHT have been a different story.	decibel (11645)
721806	2008-11-24 23:13:00	Although I wonder with these things, the more you protect people, the bigger idiots they become. Will this increase other accidents around the place after people get complacent with different tools? Or am I just a pessimist? You're right here - has seatbelts eliminated car deaths? Some Aussie reasearcher a few years ago suggested the best way to improve road safety was to REMOVE all airbags and seatbelts and put a large steel spike coming out of the dashboard with the point stopping just in front of the drivers face. Any sudden stop would immediately impale the driver and result in a horrible death. His reasoning was that everyone would be so terrified that they would all drive slowly, carefully and leave long following distances etc.	decibel (11645)
721807	2008-11-25 00:02:00	Some Aussie reasearcher a few years ago suggested the best way to improve road safety was to REMOVE all airbags and seatbelts and put a large steel spike coming out of the dashboard with the point stopping just in front of the drivers face. Any sudden stop would immediately impale the driver and result in a horrible death. His reasoning was that everyone would be so terrified that they would all drive slowly, carefully and leave long following distances etc. There was something like that until the late 60's called a steering column, people got used to it :D	PaulD (232)
721808	2008-11-25 09:31:00	If he had had dry skin, been holding ONLY the piece of wood, had no other bodily contact with any part of the saw bench, had been wearing thick rubber-soled shoes and then the blade came into contact with his finger - it MIGHT have been a different story. Like I said, you have no idea how this works. The hot dog that they put through it first wasn't touching the bench yet it still stopped it. It's the conductance of the material itself that it measures, not the conductance through to the bench or whatever you think it is.	roddy_boy (4115)
721809	2008-11-27 09:01:00	Like I said, you have no idea how this works. The hot dog that they put through it first wasn't touching the bench yet it still stopped it. It's the conductance of the material itself that it measures, not the conductance through to the bench or whatever you think it is. A clever system based on the same principle that a touch switch operates by: wiki.answers.com I do wonder how effective the sawstop would be if he had put his hand in quicker - actually just to see that happen with the hotdog would satisfy my curiousity - not worth the risk!	Johnnz (7246)
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