On Thursday, June 02, 2011 06:41:19 PM Ian W. Wright did opine: > On 02/06/2011 22:10, gene heskett wrote: > > As long as the work is held down so the blade cannot lift it, its much > > safer to cut on the push. I have even considered putting some toggle > > type hold downs behind the fence to reach over and clamp the work. > > Sharp blades do not have a lot of lift though. > > What you need is 'finger boards'. Get a piece of wood about > 9in x 3in x 1/2 in and cut one end off at an angle of about > 60 or 70 degrees. Now saw slots about 1/2 in apart from this > end parallel to the long side and about 4 or 5 inches long > right across the board ( fingers). Now put your work on the > saw table and clamp this finger board to the guide fence so > that the fingers just touch the top of the work and point in > the direction of travel. Now the work can only move one way > through the saw and can't kick back or lift.... Safe as > houses. A second finger board clamped onto the table will > keep the work held tight against the fence also. Yup, I have them handy too. But there is not anything to function as a clamping anchor on a BT-3000. Its top is an ALU casting, so magnets are worthless too. One could drill & tap I suppose, but the top of mine is Formica covered to keep the wood from being marked & dirtied by the alu. So I generally use one of 3 different push sticks, sometimes 2 for wide work.
Where the finger boards might come in handy would be mounted beside the blade of the radial arm saw, but that would need a quick release of some sort to retrieve the work. > Ian > ___________________ > Ian W. Wright > Sheffield UK > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ------ Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment > with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean > your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Discover what all > the cheering's about. Get your free trial download today. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-dev2dev2 > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) <http://tinyurl.com/ddg5bz> <http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html> Q: What's the difference between a dead dog in the road and a dead lawyer in the road? A: There are skid marks in front of the dog. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRanger. Installation's a snap, and flexible recovery options mean your data is safe, secure and there when you need it. Discover what all the cheering's about. Get your free trial download today. http://p.sf.net/sfu/quest-dev2dev2 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
