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- Path: sparky!uunet!scifi!acheron!clarke
- From: clarke@acheron.uucp (Ed Clarke/10240000)
- Subject: Re: Safest way to use radial arm saw?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.131907.5565@acheron.uucp>
- Organization: Ciliophora Associates
- References: <Treble-181292095032@asc438.asc.slb.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 92 13:19:07 GMT
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- From article <Treble-181292095032@asc438.asc.slb.com>, by Treble@asc.slb.com (John Treble):
- > Do I set up the fence so that the saw is parked the furthest away from me
- > behind the fence? Or do I park the saw closest to me in front of the fence?
- > Is it best to push the blade through the work, or pull it through the
- > work?
-
- The fence goes furthest away from you on the side of the table closest to
- the column. You pull the saw through the wood.
-
- > I also have one of those wobbling dado heads, and consider it to be the
- > most vicious tool I've ever seen! How do you put the guard on that beast?
-
- I don't think that you CAN put a guard on a wobble dado on a Sears saw.
- You have to run guardless.
-
- They don't scare me as much as a fly-cutter. A fly-cutter is a drill bit
- that has a cross arm held by a dinkey little set screw. There's a nice
- sharp piece of tool steel on the end of the cross arm just waiting to come
- off and impale you. You use these (you not me) to cut large circular holes
- in wood or light metal.
- --
- |
- Ed Clarke | I prefer not to kill animals. I'm a humanist; I'd
- acheron!clarke | rather kill a MAN than a snake.
- | - Edward Abbey (Desert Solitaire)
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