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At last a tool for us blokes with big fingers!!!
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 7:59 am
by RustyAs
Imagine the potential for all those high speed, finger chomping tools in our sheds or garages..
http://www.clipta.com/Amazing_Technology___v3605573802
Cheers
Re: At last a tool for us blokes with big fingers!!!
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 8:08 am
by robracer
Give that man a medal
demonstration made me feel sick until the blade stopped
Re: At last a tool for us blokes with big fingers!!!
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 8:08 am
by ijuschill
WOW
glad it was his finger
Awesome tech to stop a saw that fast
Re: At last a tool for us blokes with big fingers!!!
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 9:27 am
by waynemorgan
That's amazing! Great idea and well implemented
Re: At last a tool for us blokes with big fingers!!!
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 10:10 am
by laidback
Great idea and should save many of those lost fingers/hands and whatever parts get zapped. Wonder if the concept can be adapted to the hand held circular saws and even chainsaws.
Re: At last a tool for us blokes with big fingers!!!
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 10:31 am
by Kawawog
Defeinately awesome engineering
Re: At last a tool for us blokes with big fingers!!!
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 10:47 am
by Smitty
now if they can only fit it to portable power saws
he would have a winner....
Re: At last a tool for us blokes with big fingers!!!
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 11:49 am
by seiko1
Fantastic
Re: At last a tool for us blokes with big fingers!!!
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 12:23 pm
by DMonkey
that is an awesome invention! I know a few people that have lost parts of fingers from exactly that!
Re: At last a tool for us blokes with big fingers!!!
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 12:32 pm
by mike-s
I saw this a few years ago while the guy was developing it. He used a hotdog and not a finger to demonstrate it, the dog still got a decent nick taken out of it. Which is still a vast improvement on having a finger sliced off. but would still freaking hurt. It looks like he has improved the process considerably as he was happy to throw his own finger in there.
Not that it's much of a complaint, but the only problem is that it is a use-once technology, which may be a problem for the clutzes out there.
Re: At last a tool for us blokes with big fingers!!!
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 12:37 pm
by dub
I guess a one-use saw is better than a no-use finger.
I must have watched the close up a half-dozen times. I'm still not sure whether he touched it or just got close enough to have the sensor go off.
Re: At last a tool for us blokes with big fingers!!!
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 1:36 pm
by DaBigfella
Time warp is a great show.....
Re: At last a tool for us blokes with big fingers!!!
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 2:02 pm
by robracer
dub wrote:I guess a one-use saw is better than a no-use finger.
I must have watched the close up a half-dozen times. I'm still not sure whether he touched it or just got close enough to have the sensor go off.
Guess would be it has to touch to set the sensor off
he was real cautious but
Re: At last a tool for us blokes with big fingers!!!
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 4:20 pm
by dub
It caused a nick in the sausage but nothing in his finger was what originally got me thinking.
Either way, a nick is way better than lopping the end off...Awsome stuff!!
Re: At last a tool for us blokes with big fingers!!!
Posted: Thu Jan 14, 2010 5:01 pm
by Six Addict
immediately reminded me of this, a boat prop that doesnt cut and doesnt lose thrust...
won the new inventors in 2009
http://www.abc.net.au/tv/newinventors/i ... s_2009.htm