That's purdy.
I'll give you $1000 for it, you could double your money!!
I'll take my chances Tell you what, I'll throw in a Sawstop w/a Jessem sliding table. Do we have a deal?
Erik, Isn't it kind of crazy to pay for the safety system and then not use it? I would think that the owners either bought the saw for insurance reasons or they thought they wanted the safety systems. In the former case, wouldn't the insurance company find out the first time there was an injury? In the latter, wouldn't they realize that the safety system wouldn't work with wet wood? They might as well take advantage of all those Unisaws and PM66s out there.
I think I will stay with my JessEm.
Roger, I agree with you 100% in principle but in the real world, you see it all. Folks who leave the guards off their jointers, shops that take out the riving knife (and guard that is attached to it...), guys working without eye or ear protection, empty beer cans sitting around the machines.
At the IWF show last week, we had a 10' slider set up in the booth and a Latin American dealer apparently wanted to "demo it" for some of his customers by showing how it could be used to cut stacked panels. We had no dust collection set up on the machine; it was just there for static demo, not actual cutting. My colleague and I had were chatting with our backs turned to the machine when we hear the saw fire up and start cutting. We turn around just in time to get covered in sawdust and see this gentleman cutting a stack of three or four 1'x1' melamine squares by using using both the rip and crosscut fence to put pressure on this stack as it went through the blade. That is an EXTREMELY dangerous cut and though (thankfully) nothing happened, it could have sent melamine squares flying everywhere. Point being that you can make this or that machine as safe as possible but in the real world, "foolish" often transcends better wisdom.
Erik Loza
Minimax USA
Jesus that makes me wince. Why exactly was there power pulled to that saw in the first place? I'm amazed that show management even allows machines to be live during show hours...
There is so much power consumed there it is staggering. Just the dust collection alone at many booths would astound. Miles of pipes and hundreds of bags if you counted them all. Must have been 50 cnc machines running. Dave