[quote=“JayS,post:7,topic:30391"”]
I read about this about 6 months ago. Amazing to see it in action though. I’m not sure if it will ever take off though, at least in the sue happy US, because of the huge legal liability. Picture the lawsuit the first time some moron chops his finger off because the brake fails and he wasn’t paying attention because he thought the saw was “safe”.
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“My client, the paraplegic Mr. Jones, who is both blind and deaf and suffers from Parkinson’s disease was using your saw in the dark on a small raft during hurricane Katrina. Shortly after his adopted 500lb father-in-law resumed sodomizing him with a baseball bat my client, who has a remarkably comprehensive health insurance policy, received an injury that took no less than zero stitches to close as a result of a faulty braking mechanism on your so called ‘SafeSaw’. As a result, we feel that Mr. Jones is entitled to no less than 50 Million Dollars”
[quote=“JayS,post:7,topic:30391"”]
That, and it looks like a one time use failsafe, since that light aluminum block got destroyed by the blade. Unless they can guarantee the only thing that would cause the emergency stop to engage is human skin (not wet wood, metal etc), that could become a huge PITA on a job site. Tearing the saw apart to replace that aluminum brake because it just saved your finger is no problem, but doing it a couple times a day because you were trying to cut some legit material that just happened to pass the electrical current would suck.
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this is exactly my issue with it.