Comment on Acquired a sliding mitre saw
grue@lemmy.world 2 days agoAre you saying that because of the sliding function or are you saying it about miter saws in general? My non-sliding miter saw doesn’t scare me as much as even a handheld circular saw, let alone my table saw.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s a the sliding part and how that impacts where the workpiece/ hands/ force of rotation go. Because you are doing miters, things a going to be a little funky and what fucks people up is the sliding aspect, which granted, is super useful, but the slide is where people lose digits. The additional degree of freedom fucks people up.
The radial arm saw is the same principle with even more degrees of freedom to the movement of the saw. Those were so famously dangerous they don’t even really make them any more.
The thing about a saw where the blade has a very static motion relative to the piece is that it’s very very predictable as to where force is being applied and what’s gonna happen to the piece. Especially in the event of kick back. Start adding in degrees of freedom and it gets less and less predictable. In this way a table saw or skillsaw is actually really safe because the blade relative to the piece is extremely predictable. I’m not scared at all of a table saw or a skillsaw. Just don’t rest the work piece in your knee. A radial arm or sliding miter saw gives me the heeby jeebies.