At 03:30 PM 12/07/2010, you wrote:
>Olin:
>
>Those are called "anti kickback fingers", go figure.  For the past 
>20+ years I have done industrial (and high end hobby) woodworking 
>machinery.  It is true that table saws are toward the top of the 
>heap as the most dangerous piece of machinery in a wood shop.

I asked a long-time woodworker about the anti-kickback fingers on my
table saw scratching the wood, and he said the first thing he did
when he got a new saw was to take them off. Go figure.

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