<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>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. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Thanks </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br>Kristi R-C</div><div><br>On Aug 16, 2016, at 2:40 PM, Paul Schreiner via Stagecraft <<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Richard Niederberg via Stagecraft <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stagecraft@theatrical.net" target="_blank">stagecraft@theatrical.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div></div></div></div>
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