Power tool manufacturer SawStop has pledged to make its U.S. Patent 9,724,840 publicly available upon the effective date of a new rule mandating safety technology on all table saws. According to a ...
Apparently ending decades of efforts to require SawStop-style flesh-sensing safety devices on table saws, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission quietly dropped a proposed rule that had ...
A carpenter using a table saw recently without numerous safety and hazard abatement features, such as a blade guard, a splitter or a riving knife. The CSPC rules would have required blade-sensing ...
One day about 20 years ago, Tom Noffsinger experienced every woodworker's worst nightmare: One final cut on his table saw before knocking off for the day turned into a trip to the emergency room. It ...
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