Here is an account of bad practices with a tablesaw causing a guy to loose a
good portion of a finger. Read his description of the pain involved in the
healing process and the next time you decide to try a risky cut, think of
this. Pictures included of course!
http://www.showmeyourwound.com/wounds/wound.php?serid=1005
Just by looking at the name of the sight, you can guess what else is to be
found there. Enjoy!
David Binkowski wrote:
> carbide disc spinning at 4000 RPMs. Some men thrust their hand
> near the jaws of the dragon time and again, to retrieve chicklet sized
> scraps of pine... Ah the treasured wood, pine.
I whack at'em with a pushstick, or better, just wait for the blade to stop
spinning, and hope they don't get sucked in and shot across the room before
it does. (Or better, try to avoid a situation where there will be a small
little cut-off bit sitting there ready to vibrate into the blade and get
shot across the room...)
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"Leon" <[email protected]> wrote:
>I can tell you first hand that the pain killer pills come in handy for 2
>weeks and you dont hold the steering wheel with the wounded hand because the
>vibration hurts for about 6 weeks.
I'll second that. When I was 18, I ran my ring finger tip between the
flywheel and starter gear of a boat motor because some dipshit friend of
mine turned the key while I was looking at it. Hamburgered the end of it
but 12 stiches later, the entire circumference and it was back on. Ever
seen a doc yank your shattered nail out of the bed with a pair of pliers?
Wild stuff. Luckily, it was numbed at that time :)
Yes, it hurts like a bitch for weeks. I didn't think a finger could swell
that big either. You'd think the skin would split.
"Frank Ketchum" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> Here is an account of bad practices with a tablesaw causing a guy to loose
a
> good portion of a finger. Read his description of the pain involved in
the
> healing process and the next time you decide to try a risky cut, think of
> this. Pictures included of course!
>
> http://www.showmeyourwound.com/wounds/wound.php?serid=1005
Eeeeeeeeewwwwwwwww ! ! ! ! One glance of the picture is enough to make me
stop and pause before the next cut. Some think this type of thing is a
gloat, but it truly serves as a reminder as to what a power tool can do.
Yes, we can learn from other's mistakes.
Ed
"Edwin Pawlowski" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Eeeeeeeeewwwwwwwww ! ! ! ! One glance of the picture is enough to make me
>stop and pause before the next cut. Some think this type of thing is a
>gloat, but it truly serves as a reminder as to what a power tool can do.
>Yes, we can learn from other's mistakes.
>Ed
I've learned from mine.
Wes
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Thats it, I'm never buying a table saw. My ex-girlfriend's dad also
had his thumb pulled down into a spinning blade once and it was a
fiasco just to get half a thumb re-built and partially useful... Granted,
the table saw didn't jump up and bite him, he was gingerly trying to
fetch an small scrap of wood that was sitting near the front of the
blade, and thats when it bit him. His finger got hooked by the blade,
and was forever changed.
Who among us HASN'T been seduced by a small, lovely piece of
scrap wood that is vibrating 1 millimeter away from a chisel-studded
carbide disc spinning at 4000 RPMs. Some men thrust their hand
near the jaws of the dragon time and again, to retrieve chicklet sized
scraps of pine... Ah the treasured wood, pine.
My bandsaw will eat whatever I push into its path, but it still doesn't
scare me as much as tablesaws. I'll think about it some more, but I
really am starting to appreciate the safety aspects of my bandsaw.
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The software said it ran under Windows 98/NT/2000, or better.
So I installed it on Linux...
"Frank Ketchum" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> Here is an account of bad practices with a tablesaw causing a guy to loose
a
> good portion of a finger. Read his description of the pain involved in
the
> healing process and the next time you decide to try a risky cut, think of
> this. Pictures included of course!
>
> http://www.showmeyourwound.com/wounds/wound.php?serid=1005
>
> Just by looking at the name of the sight, you can guess what else is to be
> found there. Enjoy!
>
>