These sort of table saws have been around for a while, but beyond knowing they held a mild charge, I didn’t realize how the braking worked. I’ll ask the hard question: What are we supposed to use when we need to pare down hunks of salami? (Answer: Use a lathe to create delicious chair legs.)
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I’ve seen this thing before. Apparently though, as safe as it is, it costs just as much as the saw does to reset the mechanism and replace the blade. I guess that doesn’t matter much when you realize that you get to keep your finger.
I heard on “this old house” that it’s more like $150-225 for the new mechanism and the new blade (obviously.) I looked on their site and it says $89 bucks for the brake mech.
The saw itself is about 2800 bucks which is a lot, but it looks like a top of the line tool.
It’s unfortunate that the only way to brake the blade that quickly is to actually break it, but you’re absolutely right, Mike, what’s more expensive $89 bucks or a trip to the hospital?