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Re: Router Injury Sparks Reflection on Safety

Cannot beat just stopping at the first sign of weariness, no matter how rushed the job... If we tried making every tool in our shops fail safe we'd price them out of existence for one and like make them useless for another... I've had a couple close calls, visualized a pink haze when that 3 HP router is cranked up with a raised panel bit.... But, do everything to avoid hand holding any workpiece, I'm not comfy with the rubber mats, don't use 'em...

Walk away, stay sober, be safe!

weco

posted: 11:44 am on May 28th  

Re: Is the Radial Arm Saw on its Last Legs?

I had a Craftsman 10" RA, bought new in '63 or so... Used it until I found my current table saw, a 1940s Walker-Turner 10" that I could not pass up... Had some use for the radial, but then along came a Delta, then a DeWalt Miter saw... Craftsman RA gathered dust, but I had the cabinet base, so kept it but it really became a storage rack for stuff..

Finally, I decided it had to go, since I saw them at the flea, going unsold for even $25, I didn't bother trying to sell it..

Took it apart, broke it down to it's components, and recycled it.. It served it's purpose, I think I tore it down in 2006 or so, 43 years, not bad for a consumer product of any kind...

weco

posted: 2:41 am on July 13th