Comment on How Much Would You Pay to Make Sure You Never Sawed Off a Finger?
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 7 months ago3% royalties is not “giving away”. Now they’re trying to force it by law while also patent trolling to stop manufacturers from making similar systems on their own. They’re not concerned with safety, they’re after profit.
Today@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s not, but it’s pretty cheap for potentially life saving technology that you didn’t have to put your own time and money into upfront.
ForgotAboutDre@lemmy.world 7 months ago
A stick solves this problem. You shouldn’t need a saw stop, everyone should be using push sticks for table saws. Legislation forcing saw stop technology is insane.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Okay, not even a true or correct take here.
Sticks, while they help mitigate some of the risk, it’s not the end all, be all of safety here, infact, I don’t particularly like the stick. I’ve had more than a few instances where things bind, stick slips, non-hilarity ensued and honestly a solution like saw stop or Bosch’s reaxx, which btw fuck saw stop for that one, solution is a better, safer solution. Hell I don’t even use sticks anymore, I much prefer the microjigs now but they aren’t perfect either.
Now you can argue about saw stop’s pettition to have their technology mandated on all new saws. That’s valid, but honestly I lean toward viewing this like air bags on cars, it’s the right direction to go but without mandating stop saw’s expensive patented technology unless they make it open or they have a reasonable agreement that isn’t going to jack up the price to hundreds of dollars.
DScratch@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Push sticks are good in some instances, but the lack of control can lead to kickback events. I don’t think there is one gold standard way to perform all cuts.
ashok36@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I got kick back on an 1/8" sheet of Luan once. Got me right in the gut. Never made that mistake again.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 7 months ago
It’s not cheap for the customers.