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Bingo. See also, "the drill story": When I was in seventh grade, I took an Industrial Arts class ("woodshop"). The first few weeks of the course were spent goi
by packetslave 11y ago
Bingo. See also, "the drill story":
When I was in seventh grade, I took an Industrial Arts class ("woodshop"). The first few weeks of the course were spent going over safety of the machinery. In particular, I remember a heavy-handed message that Mr. Hopfer gave at the drill press:
This is a piece of industrial machinery. It is not a toy. If you put your hand on the stage and lower the bit, the machine will not jam up and make funny noises because it is too difficult. Instead, it will drill a hole through your hand. That is what makes it useful. If it didn't do that, you wouldn't be able to cut through wood.
- Scriptor 11y agoLuckily for us, computers are slightly more sophisticated than drills and we can incorporate sane safety checks with relative ease. In this case people are just asking for an explicit flag in the rare situation when they do want to delete everything.
- entee 11y agoThere are actually ways to make it so it will in fact stop when contact with one's hand (for saws but you could see an analogous system for a drill press): http://www.sawstop.com/why-sawstop/the-technology http://www.sawstop.com/why-sawstop/the-technology Just because people should use something responsibly doesn't mean one shouldn't try to improve its inherent safety.
- AlgorithmicTime 11y agoThat will also stop for wet wood, which is annoying.
- makomk 11y agoThat will also apparently stop when in contact with wood that's recently been cut down or is damp, destroying the (expensive) brake and blade in the process. It even has a bypass mode for that reason.
- kabr 11y agoSawStop cartridges are ~$70 USD. Not very expensive -- your hands are worth far more! http://www.amazon.com/SawStop-TSBC-10R2-Cartridge-10-Inch-Blades/dp/B001G9MGZQ http://www.amazon.com/SawStop-TSBC-10R2-Cartridge-10-Inch-Bl...
- nickpsecurity 11y agoWay more with tens of thousands of accidents annually: http://www.fairwarning.org/2013/05/after-more-than-a-decade-and-thousands-disfiguring-injuries-power-tool-industry-resisting-safety-solution/ http://www.fairwarning.org/2013/05/after-more-than-a-decade-...