Just hitting a staple should not have triggered the brake unless you were touching the staple with your hands at the same time as the blade. I've hit metal with my SS before and it just cut right through it.
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Just hitting a staple should not have triggered the brake unless you were touching the staple with your hands at the same time as the blade. I've hit metal with my SS before and it just cut right through it.
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As I read, I remind myself that this is about a staple......right?
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Haha, yeah, part of it must have been touching the table. I really wish that metal staples weren't so commonly used. I keep pliers and a knife at the first contact point for beginning lumber break-down, but still manage to have some inevitably make it past and end up nicking knives and cutters.
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I'm an orthopedic hand surgeon and have sadly amputated lots of non-viable fingers as a result of contact with a TS blade.Originally Posted by Thomas L. Miller
Quick rundown on trauma cost:
Ambulance ride to ER
ER evaluation
Possible transfer to different ER if that facility does not have a hand surgeon on call
Trip to the OR
Potential overnight hospital stay because by the time I get involved it's always late at night
My professional fee
Anesthesiologist's professional fee
Hospital fee
2 months of followup and relearning to use your hand with one or more shortened fingers.
That doesn't take into account what the patient's vocation is and how this injury potentially impacts their ability to continue with it.
You can burn through 10 dado stacks and cartridges and probably afford 5 brand new saws before you get into the neighborhood of that bill
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If I have to do any more editing the thread will be closed.
I don't understand why these topics can't be discussed with civility.
Normally I'd just close it and forget it but I'll give it a chance.
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I am always paranoid about things such as staples are damp wood (where did I put that over-ride key again?).
If SawStop gets back to you about what the cartridges show, post back. May want to open a new thread for it since this one seems to be generating significant traffic.
When you sent in the cartridges, did they provide a mailing label, or did you cover shipping yourself?
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Sawstop doesn't pay shipping and you aren't going to get a free replacement cartridge unless the blade tasted flesh. They will tell you what caused the brake to fire if you send it in, though.
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If I was unsure, it would be worth the postage to find out. I wonder how completely they are able to analyze the cause. I mean, if they can tell that it was NOT flesh, then you would think that they could avoid firing. Then again, that might require processing not available on the brake without some processing power that would inflate the price and reduce reliability (because the processing thing broke). Besides, they are not likely to provide you insight into what it says anyway.
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I tripped one last year, the saw wasn't even running, but the master switch was on. I grazed the blade and it tripped, scared the far out of me. They sent me a replacement brake, said it was unknown why it tripped. The blade was fine, it just pushed into it. It was obvious that it wasn't rotating.
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