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Unread 12-03-2007, 04:14
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Re: Drill presses and bandsaws back in the pits

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Originally Posted by squirrel View Post
If you get bumped while using a bandsaw, your fingers can get cut off. If you get bumped while using a jigsaw, you might break the jigsaw blade. Jigsaw blades are expendable...fingers are not.

You could probably find a different example for comparing the safety of the two ways of sawing that would be more favorable to your argument (the problem of finding a way to safely clamp a piece for cutting with a jigsaw comes to mind)




I would be VERY impressed with a student who could make a drawing and present it to a machinist, and have the finished part be made such that it could be attatched to the robot with no additional work. That's what engineering is all about.

But one of these days our team will have some neat machinery, and my attitude will change.
Did it last year. Thank you Project Lead The Way for making us draw all that stuff out by hand before on autodesk!

-John
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