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No shooting for me for a while. Table saws and trigger fingers don't mix. Oh well. Get to be a Dad at the matches for a while I guess.
 
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i'd be suing the store that sold the saw, get the blade manufacturer also. And for good measure, get the power company too for helping it run.
Then call your congress person (didn't want to assume gender) and get some stuff banned.
 
i'd be suing the store that sold the saw, get the blade manufacturer also. And for good measure, get the power company too for helping it run.
Then call your congress person (didn't want to assume gender) and get some stuff banned.

Just common sense saw control. I mean who really needs 15 amp to cut through a 2x4??!?

#SawsOfTheFuture
#NoPlaceInTheWorkshop
 
Hoping for a quick recovery brother!
 
I have a short trigger insert if you need it, will tade it for your long insert
 
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I kinda know the feeling. 10" craftsman. I had a piece kickback and not sure if the wood or the blade did the damage but I was missing the tissue of the soft part of my left thumb. I keep the blood spatter on the wall as a reminder. I'm pretty safe I think. It happened so fast. I got a call out before my bp dropped and she arrived in time to get me figured out. nothing there to sew back on. Took 2 months to heal with some scaring. Since then, I rebuilt a 1948 14" band saw and do what I can on it before going to the table saw.
 
Hope it's not serious and that you heal up quickly!

Know what you needed?

Saw Stop. THAT'S what you needed.

Brother of mine, who taught shop class after he retired from the Air Force, actually got his school to buy new Saw Stop table saws to replace the ones in his shop. All he had to do to get them to give up the money for them was talk about the cost of a single law suit for a student losing a finger and compare that to the cost of the new table saws.

http://www.sawstop.com/



 
Not a saw story, but 3rd shift electricians removed a servo motor from one of my machines. It was locked up and in trying to determine the root cause, decided the motor should be replaced. They had it removed it from the bracket, but it was still wired.

When I got there, I asked them to stop and let me check it out. The reason it was locked up was because the brake was on. The brake was on because the hand wheel wasn't engaging the switch. We were all relieved. Time to mount the motor.

So I'm moving the motor back in place using the frame of the machine as support. I didn't realize an eye bolt was on the frame instead of the motor itself. As I slid the motor further, the eye bolt slipped off the frame, clamping the ends of my right index and middle fingers.

Long story short. Two nice fractures on the tips of both fingers. Trigger finger too sore to even scratch my rear.
 
Never seen one of those saw stops. That's amazing!
 
You should see some of the saws still in use in third world countries. E.g., a handheld circular saw with no guard and a switch instead of a trigger (meaning you have to switch it off instead of just releasing a trigger). I know someone who cut into his thigh nearly to the femoral artery. He was saved by clothes binding the blade. Still needed a bunch of stitches and a long time for the muscles to heal and recover.

Lots of amputees from spinning blades in the third world.
 
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