Showing posts with label saws. Show all posts
Showing posts with label saws. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Stopin' & Startin' - Power Control for Your Tools

Bigger is Better.  Especially if you are trying to find the OFF button in a hurry.  You can bang your knee into this puppy and know it's going to get the job done for you.


ReiTech (www.reitech.com) makes several flavors of this to fit just about any shop tool.  It is more than just an ON/OFF switch - it has a magnetic contactor in it that will shut-down the power if you have a electrical outage, too, so the machinery won't re-start on it's own when the power is restored.

They also offer machine bases with the EASY OFF fully integrated upon which you can mount your existing tools.  This is great for those items that are sitting on the wobbly handmade bench just waiting to topple-over.

For other E-Stop Options, look at:
www.theatresafetyblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/stop-in-name-of-love-of-keeping-your.html
and
www.theatresafetyblog.blogspot.com/2011/12/power-play.html

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Gimmie a push, will ya?

Keeping all your fingers attached can come in handy in life, and one way to do that is to be very careful when working around table saws.  ADS Tool Designs (http://www.tablesawpushstick.com/) offers a nifty push-stick for helping you run your wood materials past the blade in your table saw.  The easy to see orange plastic won't tear-up your saw blade if it gets nicked, and it's big enough to keep your hand away from the blade.


And here is an even more stable pushstick system that reduces the potential for kick-back and board lift from Rockler Tools (http://www.rockler.com/)

GRR-Ripper

And there is a great bunch of Saw Safety Videos at: