can't be sure if it is real but it looks genuine enough and the technology is 'do-able'
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12th Jan 2010 3:27 pm
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looks genuine enough...one wife.......livid
12th Jan 2010 3:36 pm
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I think he should work on the old engineering term of "never stick your finger where your wouldn't stick your winky"
12th Jan 2010 3:49 pm
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12th Jan 2010 6:26 pm
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I'm with you on this one DaveC, there's no way I'd test it - just in case it has an EPB moment.
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12th Jan 2010 9:05 pm
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I think it's really a well thought out and impressive use of technology, and despite the obvious cringe factor, it really was well demonstrated by its inventor.
But is it not the fact that we all cringed so much that highlights it's applicability and need.
We all know you have an airbag, how it works and what safety element it should provide in given circumstances, but few of us would want to steer into an on coming juggernaut to test it.
People need to cut wood etc on a circular or band saw and that has a risk associated with it, to make the kind of stuff we use every day, and i for one know people who have lost fingers doing just that.
I really hope the guy gets to make his invention as commonplace on saws as Airbags or ABS has become on cars.
12th Jan 2010 9:43 pm
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i think it only works for bald people....Some people get by
With a little understanding
Some people get by
With a whole lot more
I don�t know
Why you gotta be so undemanding
12th Jan 2010 9:51 pm
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A friend of mine who works for Gulfstream in the us had a similar saw in there wood workshop, and some brightspark decieded to cut a piece of ali with it even though it was marked wood only, as you could imagine he trashed the machine and almost lost his job so it is out there.
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seen these a few times on a woodworking forum i'm a member of
it is as it looks, and no i wouldn't have the nerve to try to see if it worked...
trouble is the yanks don't seem to have the same fear of the table saw as most people...so they need gadgets like these to keep their fingers TLO has left the building.......
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Amazing technology.
It will probably going to cost that much that no normal person is going to buy it only businesses will probably forced to buy it. So the fear off cutting fingers by professional people goes away and by that getting hurt at home.
I worked in a woodshop during my study and I have seen some fingers cut. What me amazed it wasn't the unexperienced persons that got hurt but the experienced people. People who knew the risks and knew how to work with the machine put the fingers wrong or thought they could take that small loose piece off wood away close to the saw without shutting it down.
The same guy who told me the risks and the do's and don'ts was brought to the hospital by me when he cut 3 fingers off about half a year later.Roel
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Sorry it's in Dutch and with google translator it gets funny.
Is that really his finger?
He "holds" his hand very strangely -( he says, not being sure how you are supposed to hold your fingers when feeding them into a table saw) "To finish first, one first has to finish ...."
13th Jan 2010 12:17 am
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