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Registered Member #1083
Joined: Mon Oct 29 2007, 06:16PM
Location: Upland, California
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If your claims are correct, then the saw stop wouldn't have done anything. According to the site, the saw stops withing 5 milliseconds. If your hand was moving at 100 mph, thats the equivalent of 1.75 inches per millisecond. (I was bored so I did the math). In 5 milliseconds thats more than 8 inches!
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Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 02:40PM
Location: Zadar, Croatia
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Woah Peter, only glad to see you smiling in that pic (hope that's not the way you cry?)
Ugly thumb wound, I really hope you won't have permanent effects, get better fast
Yep, had the top of my finger cut of just above the joint…. There are 300 nerves per square centimeter in your finger, so going to hurt for a looooooooooong time. There are only 75 nerves in your lower intestines for scale. The finger next to it was also in bad shape but they could save it. Still hurts ten years later on cold mornings
Glad you did not lose the entire thumb! Bummer….ensure you get lots of pain pills!
Heal fast!
Cool pics below.
Wtf Chris, never noticed that, you guys are making me scared of saws, hot wire is safest indeed (next to giving someone else to cut the plexi for you).
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Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 04:31AM
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 638
This is why I'm a fan of low speed band saws, metal saws and drills. Less likely to kick back at you but the drills have A LOT of torque, try not to get all caught up in them
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Joined: Sun Aug 05 2007, 10:09AM
Location: in a swedish junk pile
Posts: 497
Speaking of injuries, i almost got a fingertip hacked off by one of those old all steel 230v computer fans, i guess my luck was that it was turned off and coating down, i heard the fan slowing in speed while looking at something and then *SCHONK* and felt a pain similar to get pinched in a door, had the fan been at full speed, a finger could very well have been 4-5mm shorter today, i´ve also gotten bit by a manual hacksaw, a small wood chipper, knives (common for kids) and beeing thrown onto the ground and slid several meters while biking, scraping up a 1x1dm square on my left arm.
I´ve always had respect for table saws, never ever in my life used one, not even back when i built speaker cabinets.
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Joined: Fri Apr 20 2007, 09:14AM
Location: SW Hertfordshire, UK
Posts: 75
Andyman wrote ... If your hand was moving at 100 mph, thats the equivalent of 1.75 inches per millisecond.
If his hand was moving at 100 mph, I'll eat my hat. The piece, regardless of the maths, was likely not doing those speeds either, and the hand is unlikely to have achieving the same speed as the piece. 10 mph at most... and a shallow cut 0.8" long is better than totally mangled finger.
Two pics from me. My new(ish) 0.177" Air Arms TX200 Hunter Carbine, which I've now had about 7 weeks. Great fun, and damned accurate!
And a moderately large icosahedron made from Geomag:
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