The SawStop bench saw drew blood today. An electric field surrounds the spinning blade, if something conductor touches it, it stops violently by forcing a single-use perforated aluminium block into the teeth of the blade. Momentum then forces the blade under the bench top.
In this case the victim inadvertently touched the side of the blade when the workpiece kicked back. As the blade dropped below the table top (rotation had stopped), a few of the 60 teeth travelling downward have brushed against his finger & fingernail, peeling back a flap of skin & damaging the fingernail.
A couple of sticking plasters fixed the bleeding.
As for the safety cartridge, we need to buy two of tgen: one for the saw & one for a spare.
If we give the triggered unit to the supplier, they send it off to the manufacturer who analyses the onboard data. When they determine it was contact with human skin that triggered the safety mechanism, they reimburse us the cost of the cartridge.
@kdfrawg The last time I saw snow was Dec 4th, 2012, on the way home from a venue where a few of us taught older folk how to get the best out of their cell-phones. Bear in mind that this was technically in summer. I travelled a mountainous route, through a town that only exists because of its extensive winter snowfields. Granted, it wasn't a lot of snow, just three or four inches on road verges & parked cars.
// @literary
Bugger. Reflux. 3:40 am. No antacids available, found some chewable mint-flavoured calcium carnonate tablets. Chewed two, washed down with yogurt thinned out with milk. Most antacids contain calcium carbonate.
At Mum's place, looking for some earbuds, thought I had some with the MBP that lives here. Nope. But out in my car, the almost-forgotten earbuds from the Lumia 1020. Perfect. They fit well & sound great plugged into the 6th gen iPod Nano.
Just spotted, on Twitter, an unfortunate fellow with a touchbar MBP. In the short video, the touchbar is blank but about ⅓ of the way down from the top of the screen, the touchbar contents are displayed all in a row. None respond to clicking, not even the X that's supposed to dismiss it.
I cannot believe that only two days ago the temperature was 38°C. Right now, according to various weather apps, it's 8.5° and feels like 6°C. At 4:30 pm. One week away from summer. It's pissing with rain, windy as all fuck and I hate it.
Now here’s a find! A webkit-based web browser called Roccat. It’s system requirements are OS 10.5 or newer, PPC or Intel processor. It’s being actively developed, in fact, on my Sierra MacBook Air, it’s hosting Cappuccino. Security issues prevent it from accessing 10C on PPC Macs, plus when such Macs try to work with nice.social, the browser ignores the Upload Files button. No such problems in Sierra, though. Unlike TenFourFox on PPC Macs, it does support Flash. Plus, it is a fast browser to load. It could be the answer to 10.6.8 Mac users who don’t have access to a modern secure web browser.
