[SML] Saw stop

[Kristi R-C]

You all rock!  Riving knife it is. Never had a table saw with that before. And I found a manual. Under a few inches of sawdust n crap. 

Thanks 

Kristi R-C

> On Aug 16, 2016, at 2:40 PM, Paul Schreiner via Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Richard Niederberg via Stagecraft <stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:
>> Why can't someone invent a way to lower the blade in 1/100 sec or less, without the costly breaking the blade, which encourages operators to defeat the safety feature? There are both solenoids and hydraulic rams that are fast enough.
> 
> Maybe because SawStop felt that the possibility of a single-point failure in the safety mechanism necessitated having a bit of redundancy?  This way, if the arbor-drop mechanism malfunctions you still don't lose body parts.
> 
> Also, there's something about dropping a saw arbor while it's still spinning and producing torque that would probably concern the engineers who designed it in the first place.
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