Originally Posted by
Erik Loza
Not to jack this thread too much but I just remembered an interesting remark from one of our territory reps at the IWF show. He told me that almost every shop he goes into that has one of these, they have deactivated the cartridge-device and just run it like a regular cabinet saw. A lot of shops store their lumber outside, it gets wet, they go to cut it and "pow!". In a shop, time is money and they don't want to be fiddling with changing the cartridges or having it go off all the time. I thought that was interesting.
Erik Loza
Minimax USA
I'm not surprised by this Eric. I'd heard there was an insurance discount for an employer to use a sawstop. Once the insurance industry finds out that in the real world many are deactivated the discount may disappear. I'm sure a lot of pro shops don't use guards either. None of the ones I worked in did.
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t - you’re right."
- Henry Ford