Comments on: It’s Just Cool: SawStop Prototypes http://toolmonger.com/2008/04/28/its-just-cool-sawstop-prototypes/ All tools. All the time. Your source for news, information, and reviews of hand tools, power tools, and tools of all kinds. Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:55:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: d http://toolmonger.com/2008/04/28/its-just-cool-sawstop-prototypes/#comment-295774 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:03:55 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2008/04/28/its-just-cool-sawstop-prototypes/#comment-295774 People deserve a little something for their ideas. The fact that you'd have to redesign the machine from the ground up in order to incorporate this technology is probably more discouraging than a licensing fee. The existing manufacturers have many machines, all of which would have to be re-engineered to allow for the addition of contact detection technology. Even with a high licensing fee, these big players would be raking it right now if they had taken the plunge to license SawStop contact detection technology. So it's not as if they would have been hurt overall. They just didn't want to take on the liability or redesign the machines they have been making for decades. Too bad. People deserve a little something for their ideas.

The fact that you’d have to redesign the machine from the ground up in order to incorporate this technology is probably more discouraging than a licensing fee. The existing manufacturers have many machines, all of which would have to be re-engineered to allow for the addition of contact detection technology.

Even with a high licensing fee, these big players would be raking it right now if they had taken the plunge to license SawStop contact detection technology. So it’s not as if they would have been hurt overall. They just didn’t want to take on the liability or redesign the machines they have been making for decades. Too bad.

]]> by: jasony http://toolmonger.com/2008/04/28/its-just-cool-sawstop-prototypes/#comment-293381 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:55:44 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2008/04/28/its-just-cool-sawstop-prototypes/#comment-293381 that second video is a terrifying tool. I don't care what kind of safety features it has, it gives me the screaming heebie jeebies. A guillotine in reverse. *SHUDDER* that second video is a terrifying tool. I don’t care what kind of safety features it has, it gives me the screaming heebie jeebies. A guillotine in reverse. *SHUDDER*

]]> by: Chaim http://toolmonger.com/2008/04/28/its-just-cool-sawstop-prototypes/#comment-293274 Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:13:53 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2008/04/28/its-just-cool-sawstop-prototypes/#comment-293274 This is dumb. It's been five years and they can't even get their contractor saw out. These videos have been on their site for that whole time as well. I doubt we'll ever get other tool with the sawstop system. If they believe in the system to save fingers (as opposed to making money) as the site says, license it for free and get it saving fingers/hands by getting it integrated into big name brands. This is dumb. It’s been five years and they can’t even get their contractor saw out. These videos have been on their site for that whole time as well. I doubt we’ll ever get other tool with the sawstop system.

If they believe in the system to save fingers (as opposed to making money) as the site says, license it for free and get it saving fingers/hands by getting it integrated into big name brands.

]]> by: Frank Townend http://toolmonger.com/2008/04/28/its-just-cool-sawstop-prototypes/#comment-292976 Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:31:17 +0000 http://toolmonger.com/2008/04/28/its-just-cool-sawstop-prototypes/#comment-292976 I would hate to see the number of half-fingers on the floor in their engineering lab as they work out the bugs in the technology. I would hate to see the number of half-fingers on the floor in their engineering lab as they work out the bugs in the technology.

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