Interesting safety feature

[DiscoStu]

Apologies for the Facebook link but I can't seem to find the video elsewhere.

The video is of an intelligent saw that can detect contact with flesh and immediately stop and retract. I think you'd still get a bit of a cut but not so much damage.

I like the idea but not sure if it really works or if it can be retrofitted etc.

Anyone seen or used it?

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_ ... 05%2F&_rdr


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[Phil Pascoe]

A video was doing the rounds quite a while ago with a guy using a sausage to stop the blade.

 

[bugbear]

A video was doing the rounds quite a while ago with a guy using a sausage to stop the blade.

I found a reference in 2006, so yeah, not new.

BugBear

 

[Roughcut]

A video was doing the rounds quite a while ago with a guy using a sausage to stop the blade.

Wouldn't be putting my sausage anywhere near a spinning blade. :shock:

 

[Monkey Mark]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiYoBbEZwlk

 

[Alexam]

A video was doing the rounds quite a while ago with a guy using a sausage to stop the blade.

Wouldn't be putting my sausage anywhere near a spinning blade. :shock:

... A bit too short then? :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[MusicMan]

It's SawStop, a US make of saws fitted with sensors to detect skin/blood and a device like an airbag that very rapidly pivots the saw spindle and blade downwards so that the blade jams into a brake, which I think is essentially a solid bar of aluminium. It does retract and stop the blade incredibly quickly. And then they sell you a new blade and brake . But you keep your fingers, most of them anyway.

I do not think that it is retrofittable; it's intrinsic to the saw design and I don't think they sell the bits.

Keith

 

[RogerP]

.... and as you can imagine, being a US company, there's lots in it for the lawyers too.

http://www.toolsofthetrade.net/tabl...osch-over-reaxx-table-saw_o.aspx?dfpzone=news

 

[Dusty]

I can see it as a good damage limitation tool , but as in the video , he gently introduces the sausage to the saw , but in reality you are more than likey to slip or fall and you hand or as RoughCut says "sausage" would be making contact at a good momentum . The human reaction speed is far less than that of a jackie chan going full ninja , just makes you wonder when the EU will end up making it compulsory as they have tried to in America !

cheers sam

 

[Roughcut]

A video was doing the rounds quite a while ago with a guy using a sausage to stop the blade.

Wouldn't be putting my sausage anywhere near a spinning blade. :shock:

... A bit too short then? :lol: :lol: :lol:

Have you been talking to my Mrs?

 

[Shrubby]

I doubt you'll ever see that mandated in Europe. Trained staff using properly set up machines make it redundant.
There are two grey imports in Europe that I know of - one for Gadget-man on telly, and the other in Germany in a research project between BG-Holz and a Uni in Stuttgart that is collaborating with big machinery manufacturers on near infra red sensing safety systems for machines in education (intended to retrofit cheaply onto the SUVA guard on existing machines)
Sawstop is a solution to a problem I don 't have
Matt

 

[Droogs]

There is a huge saga of a back story about Sawstop in the US. Originaly the inventor offered it to all the tool manufacturers for an exorbitant fee and when they told him politely to go away and think again (not), he then tried to make it compulsary by trying to get legislation passed in the US making it compulsary. when that failled, he started to make his own saw. They are of very high quality from what I have read. The sawsystem is designed to bring the blade to a complete stop in less than 2000th of a second if I recall correctlly. Bosch have just launced their own system for the US and for the last 18 months there has been a bit of a flame war on some of the US woodworking sites