Despite Proven Technology, Attempts to Make Table Saws Safer Drag On

Re:Despite Proven Technology, Attempts to Make Table Saws Sa... by foobarchu on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @11:05AM (#15028010)

Lots of additional spending? We're talking about one saw per district, a saw meant to last years. If they can't shift the budget to work in a one time purchase of a single tablesaw, in exchange for the safety of hundreds of woodshop students, that's on them. Most equipment in a school woodshop lasts multiple decades.

That said, many school districts already have made the switch. My high school already had a Sawstop by the time I first took a woodshop class in 2006, and it had already stopped multiple students from losing fingers.

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Re:Despite Proven Technology, Attempts to Make Table Saws Sa... by jessaustin on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @11:14AM (#15028098)

Everything is relative, of course. It's likely that not all public schools have the same enrollment or tax base that yours had. At some point the number of public school shops without this technology will be low enough that an ethical company like Bosch could just give all the poor schools a new table saw. That seems less involved than the lobbying efforts described in TFA.

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