[FourPenguins]

Originally Posted by Ben Piecuch

Would I recommend a product like this in every school system that has a woodshop? You better believe it! A trained woodworker should have the experience and the know-how to protect himself. Unfortunately, I can't say that about most students, or even myself.

BEN

I agree.
However, I think that pushing for legislation in order to sell your product compromises the free market economy. The best solution for this product would probably be to change it so that it can be used as a "retrofit" instead of a factory-installed-only product.
A salesman going to a school wood shop teacher with the hot dog video and a low enough price to retrofit the school saws would probably have enormous success.

It'd also be nice if the stopping solution was a bit more...innovative for lack of a better word. Destroying the blade and destroying the brake mechanism in the course of a normal deployment isn't a very good design IMO. I'm not saying that I'm prepared to present something better, I'm just saying that it shouldn't be mandatory for a table saw to eat itself. Sandrag brought up GFCI devices, which are an excellent model of an easy to reset and non self-destructive safety device. What we have now is a fuse, but we need a breaker. (To continue the electrical analogy.)