Originally Posted by
Van Huskey
You can't disable the brake long term, you have to disable it each time you turn the saw on, if you plan to do that a SS isn't for you, you will pour gas on it and light it on fire pretty quickly. The issues of false triggers seems magnified by the internet most of the people I know who have had them for 5-10 years haven't fired the brake at all, some have once and a couple 2 times. Trips due to wood are a small part of the total number, the vast majority of them seem to be as a result of touching metal like the edge of a Incra miter gauge.