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Talking Table Saws & The SawStop Controversy
🕑 Added 2019-09-17 02:02:31 +0000 UTCI am joined by Scott Kip of the Wanamaker Organ Shop to talk about table saws, accidents, amputations, and the seemingly amazing SawStop that can stop a flying blade in a microsecond.... and the controversy surrounding that. Dot also hangs out and I even get a little mini teardown in for good measure. Enjoy!
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Jamie Magin
Haha, wow, I did not know the part about the founders being patent lawyers :)
lol - just imagine getting hurt trying to get that thing open...
Nice format
Scott was confusing contractor's saws with job-site saws. Job-site saws are the flimsy, cheap, direct-drive portable ones at construction sites and in the back yard. Contractor's saws generally are belt driven and mounted on a separate stand, and usually has wheels to move it around the shop (as opposed to a cabinet saw, which is designed to stay in place. (A little over-simplified, but there you go.)
FYI - Most of the injuries are from the construction industry.
And we wonder why some people hate capitalism. Our modern society is enriched with technologies that innovators could have guarded selfishly but have gifted them to us all, Tim Berners-Lee springs to mind.
I like your use of the "Big Clive Vise of Knowledge" method of opening the device.
veritanuda
Interesting video and yes kinda disturbing as well. Litigating against alternative safety systems is what eventually caused airbags to be unencumbered patents. Lobbyists in the US are powerful entities and so it is no wonder other countries decide to go their own way. As for table saw safety, respect is everything as is a controlled working environment. Thanks for saying that.
Fred Patton
Great video! That does seem like the sort of technology that you should, if not give away for free, at least license at reasonable cost to anyone who wants to use it. Volvo and Mercedes both decided not to enforce safety patents (seatbelts as you mentioned and crumple zones), and Tesla said it wouldn't enforce any of its initial patents either, allowing anyone to proceed with building electric cars. Imagine deciding that saving lives or otherwise doing good is more important that squeezing every last dollar out of your idea.
