Chris,
Instead of pushing, another approach is for the operator to pull the slide table towards himself from the opposite side.
The slide table itself would have a limit stop and could not hit the operator in the stomach.
Also, the chips and/or loose teeth would fly away from the operator.
More better?
Stu
As long as the blade is above the support of the material cut, the rotation should be such that the work want to go away from your face and towards a fence. The work should not be allowed to be stopped by the neighbour's fence behind you. There should only be as much blade as needed to make a cut, especially when exposed to the naughty bits. A table saw with a zero clearance mitre box is the better, nay, MUCH better choice here. (Yes, even though the blade is spinning towards you.)
And I have never seen a tooth come off a sawblade. Of course, during demolition that happens all the time; but we're talking woodworking here. Of course, knocking a beautiful Japanese vernier caliper off the fence onto a running blade will both destroy several teeth and the caliper and then have the caliper fly through the air narrowly missing the idiot's head....or so I'm told.
Much more better?
Besides, micro-surgery has come a long way. In fact, just recently doctors in Africa grafted a baby elephant trunk in place of a wrestler's penis which had been ripped off in an alligator fight. The wrestler in question, after many months of intense therapy and healing, was interviewed by a team of doctors When asked what his overall experience was, the wrestler commented that his girlfriend was quite happy, but that every time he walks across a lawn, the damn thing would shove a tuft of grass up his butt.
Like the Buddhist who walked up to a hot-dog vendor and said: "Make me one with everything." The vendor replied: "Change is coming."
LOL
Yes, obviously, much better. But the question still remains why are you going to so much trouble? If you need a bunch of thin slices such as those depicted in the video, why go to all this trouble to resaw them from an only slightly thicker slice? Why not cut them off the end of a much larger piece? This whole thing looks to me like a solution in search of a problem.
============= That's about as good a parable as I've seen on the unintended consequences of lawmaking.
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