>Be interesting to make
> a test model for proof of concept anyway, if I have time between various
> projects I might have a little go at it, if for no other reason than it
> interests me. Were you thinking of doing similar? Or just thinking out
> loud..

I'm finding there are a limited number of hours in a lifetime and I
tend to fill too many of them wrongly already :-0>

It occurred to me that it was one more thing that would be fun to try
BUT it was unlikely I really would. So I described it as thoroughly as
reasonably possible off the cuff in a few minutes. In NZ that makes
anything novel unpatentable here immediately - and in the US, as I
understand it, gives you one year precedence to do something about it.
So, if there is anything usefully novel in what I said - and even if
there is there are numerous people on the list who could come up with
similar, then you (we :-) )  have 1 year to make something of them. A
year from now they become public domain if they aren't already old old
hat.

I rather like the pop back at > feed rate and optional shields up
addition. It would be as magic as SawStop is now - but better. You
reach for the blade and suddenly it is a few mm further away that it
has been and there is a guard between you and it ad the blade is
(perhaps optionally) decelerating at a saner rate. If you can get the
pull back and shield working well then you don't need to stop the saw
- just trip the shield release and continue.


                  Russell
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