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Re: Article on Skin sensing table saw
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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson
I know first-hand that a simple capacitive detector is discriminating enough by itself to tell the difference between flesh and damp plywood, ...
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First-hand? I hope you still have both hands intact!
This reminds me of a classic lampoon book titled Fixit And Be Damned by Lawrence Lariar (Prentice-Hall, 1955). It contains numerous how-not-to cartoons, including one showing a guy who has just severed his hands while using a table saw. Above the saw there is a sign reading "Hands Off!"
I found the SawStop claim of "52 saves" interesting. Apparently, SawStop customers report incidents in which they were saved from injury. Other table saw users just report the injuries.
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I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
Last edited by Richard Wallace : 08-09-2006 at 16:03.
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