V Impressive - Safe Fingers at last

[marshmat]

PAR - yes, you can disable the blade-stop feature on the Sawstop. There's a manual override to use if you're cutting aluminum or other conductive material.

The saw can be returned to service after it trips; this involves replacing the blade, the brake block and the fusible link that holds the brake block in place. (And re-compressing the friggin' big spring that drives the block into the blade.) Not sure how much this costs, but probably a couple hundred bucks or so to put it back in service.

My main concern with it would be that the system does involve a DSP (digital signal processing) chip to decide when the electric charge on the blade has dropped quickly enough to trip the stop mechanism. I have a hard time trusting computerized stuff, and I would certainly not ease up on normal safety precautions as a result. (Indeed, I would probably not even tell anyone using the saw that it had the self-stop feature.)

[alan white]

Wow. What some people will do to make a sale! Things do malfunction once in a while. I wouldn't hjave done it for love or money!