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Sawstop erroneous brake incident report

As some of you may recall, I had the brake on my Sawstop PCS fire back in January, shortly after I bought it. I assumed that it was a result of the wood I was cutting (Ipe) or some small piece of metal on my crosscut sled or table (I'd been doing some metal work and had bits and pieces...
- merrill77
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- Mar 23, 2011
- brake erroneous incident report sawstop
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- Forum: Power Tools and Their Use
Sawstop incident report

Blade brake triggered today. Injury was not prevented -- as I was never in any danger of injury. I'm quite puzzled as to the cause. I had just made the 3rd cut using my crosscut sled. Cut was finished and I had pulled the sled back to the front of the blade. The sled was likely still partially...
- merrill77
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- Feb 12, 2011
- incident report sawstop
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- Forum: Power Tools and Their Use
Ouch!!! First Tablesaw Incident

Yep, I finally paid for not using a blade guard. :wmad: I was ripping Red Oak Monday afternoon with the fence set to 3 1/2" from the blade and blade set 1" high. I finished a rip and the narrow cutoff started hitting the blade, so I hit the Stop button to remove it from the left side of the...
- Ken Massingale
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- Dec 29, 2010
- incident ouch tablesaw
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- Forum: Power Tools and Their Use