Working with government to make a thing mandatory or risk some sort of official punishment, not as much.Well, the thing with sawstop is that it’s a pretty shit system for $2,000. For that reason a lot of woodworkers and manufacturers are refusing to ever purchase a Sawstop tablesaw.It seems logical that anyone that is injured using a Bosch saw, because they can’t get the gas cartridge, should then be suing SawStop for their interference in the matter.Both sides are jerks. I couldn't turn the saw off because I was in shock. They invented a particular way of doing so. This isn’t some sort of monthly occurrence where you would worry about the cost of the cartridge (~$80) and the blade (anywhere from $30 to $350 depending on how fancy you go).Neither of those are false positives. I calculate that a 10 inch blade (5 inch tooth radius) will stop before the second tooth makes contact (depending on the number of teeth on the blade). They are not developing their own products at all. Ryobi kept stalling, and the agreement was never signed. Hi all, I plan to buy a Sawstop any day now, but I seem to remember them running the free mobile base/dust collector promotion in the fall. A slow motion video showing the amazing finger sensing technology.
Lawsuits from idiots who didn’t properly maintain their small airplanes and crashed them. The next speaker was Dan Lanier, a lawyer for Black and Decker. Get a real management team!! It’s a large sum, just like the BOM for manufacturers.The Wrights showed everyone how to build an airplane and others, like Bell and Langley, wanted to use that for free.
Only in the US can you get this sort of nonsense.And – I suspect that SawStop can’t sell there product outside the US, as it will be too expensive to run. Peed off a lot of customers with their pricing plans back then.And when other copiers came out, if they caught you saying “make me a Xerox”, they’d sue your business. SawStop saws start at $1300, and sawstop sells extremely well. The 200-kHz signal will have up to 10 pulses during that time, and should be able to detect contact with just one tooth.When the brake activates, a spring pushes an aluminum block into the blade. Idea is free to use but sending me a Thank You card would be appreciated.This attitude to safety is what makes sawstop a troll.Aha! They also left their day jobs. Who cares if it’s actually better or not.To my way of thinking, “patent troll” is not quite the title they deserve. But using the law to force them to license it, at whatever price Sawstop decide, is not fair. "Citing statistics showing accidents in the US with table and bench saws resulted in 3000 amputations annually of one or more fingers, SawStop's technology inspired Representative In June 2006, the CPSC recommended that the US government begin the rulemaking process that could result in mandatory safety standards for table saws. The hypocricy behind the outcry over the Pinto was that the opposition didn’t have any better answer. He sent a simple sketch where he had drawn the outline of his hand missing fingers and he described the lifelong consequences.
This is the SawStop company profile. Use the right tool for the job. Every invention can’t be open source, just think about it.
lawyers and lawsuits will be played for a while….not wrong to suggest everyone should use a thing you’ve invented. You can find an explanation of the safety system’s operation as well as watch a brief video of the safety system in action here. If the capacitive touch sensor detects anything, an aluminum brake is fired into the saw blade.