Hindsight

So many things hindsight is good for. I'm thinking how it used to be that real men didn't wear helmets on motorcycles, and guards on table and circular saws just got in the way, so we'd remove them or wedge them open. Guess I'm lucky to still have all of my fingers… 🤪 Thanks!

Yours, Larry

with table saws it is more that most of the guards are very poorly designed. it takes about 10 minutes to take the guard on/off my saw to switch between a through cut and a blind cut. you have to take the throat plate out which is 3 screws then reach down to some nuts that clamp it between a stack of shims and washers and both of those things need to be set to the position of the current blade.

it took knowing a lot of people that aren't the type of people that have accidents that have had table saw accidents to convince me i needed to spend that time to put it back on.

btw if you're buying a new saw, get a saw stop. there is a solution to this problem but there is a bunch of complication that keeps it from being implemented. bosch used to make one too but i think sawstop sued them and now it is like 20 years later and people are still managing their hands.