No fair, Dude ... interjecting real experience into an argument based on hypothetical bickering.
For shame ...
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12 years ago
Sawstop's suit against Ryobi is upheld
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12 years ago
If there's "no need to sell it to the industry" then why is there a need to regulate the industry into buying it?
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12 years ago
I think the guards suck, they simply prevent many procedures from being done on a TS with them installed. Kinda tough to cut a board to length that needs to be say 60" long with a guard attached, or cut dado's, cove moldings, 1/4" wide rips, etc.
BUT I think you are spot on with the notion that the manufacturer offers the SawStop option and there can no longer be any law suits against manufacturers in this regard.
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12 years ago
No by definition a beater is one that you don't care what happens to it, no great loss if it gets torn up.
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12 years ago
What if you are stupid enough to ask such questions???
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12 years ago
After beaucoup years, we _finally_ agree on something!
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12 years ago
I'm not a patent lawyer, but don't the major tablesaw manufacturers only have to delay things for 20 years or so until the patents expire?
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12 years ago
I believe it's still 17 years ... but that can be changed by lobby pressure on clowngressman, as they are doing with copyrights.
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12 years ago
Man, that's a scary thought. Funny how Congress can stall for months over a health care or budget bill, but when their high-$$ campaign contributors want to get something done...
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12 years ago
In my brief experience working retail sales of WW equipment, the "public" is not buying Sawstops.
Institutions are buying Sawstops, to reduce their liability exposure.
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12 years ago
Sorta kinda. Gass is a patent lawyer--he knows the tricks--when the intial patent expires he can patent some minor "improvement" that if worded carefully enough can still give him control.
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12 years ago
Guards are easily sidestepped, too. Place your hand in the saw's path and it will slide right under the guard. And you're right about the splitters stopping dadoing, coves, rabbets, and the like. Preferred are the top-mounted guards with dust collection and rip guides in the zero-clearance inserts. Both are easily removed and installed so it takes just a minute extra to set up for your specialty cuts.
Hah! What an optimist. While it means they shouldn't continue, you'd better believe that the lawsuits will not stop. Slow, maybe, but stop? No way. There are far too many ambulance-chasing speaking weasels and stupid, greedy people out there.
-- Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself. -- Thomas Jefferson
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12 years ago
Negotiations failed (supposedly over a typo) and he lost them as clients. Why would he be mad? Go figure. My guess is that they had premature buyer's remorse since he failed to cover liability issues.
-- Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself. -- Thomas Jefferson
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12 years ago
Nobody needs to sell it to the industry.
The medical insurance industry wants to cut their losses and your upcoming tax dollars to pay for idiots that operate TSs carelessly and a government issued "TS Operator's permit"
Welcome to free Government Health Care!
Shall we apply the same talk about the idiots that fight in wars and should be responsible for their own injuries?
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12 years ago
"The ultimate result of shielding men from folly is to fill the world with fools" Herbert Spencer, 1891
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No, it's 20 years from date of patent filing with the USPTO. It used to be 17 years from date of issue, but it was changed some 20ish years ago to fight "submarine" patents. ...a good thing.
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Unless that "minor" improvement is required to make the unit work (for some, perhaps, redefined value of "work"), the improvement doesn't extend the patent. He could always buy another congresscritter to help redefine "work", however.
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Using that logic, you can restrict freedom in any way you want. Some people get hurt by guns, knives, and even baseball bats. No thanks!
So, will SS buy me a new $300 dado set if it misfires? I think I heard I'm outta luck with the $125 blade.
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12 years ago
No, CONGRESS is why jobs are scattering to the winds. It's just too hard to make things here. ...and getting much worse.
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12 years ago
Because of our ridiculous tort system.