Check your nuts often.

[dnewman]

Actually, I think your nuts and your sphincter(sp?) would both be tightening if that happened!
Lee - thanks for the head's up! One more reason why the Shark has the best service reputation in the industry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jerry

As the idiot who launched his riving knife, I can assure you that it happened much too fast for any sphincter tightening. In fact, the effect was nearly quite the opposite.

It scares me every time I think that had I been making a rip instead of standing off to the left using the cross cut sled I likely would have been impaled by the knife at 100+ miles per hour.

I put Lee's nuts on the saw as soon as the knife arrived. I hadn't yet made it to HD to get some, so I was real pleased to see he had included them (thanks again, Lee). I rarely remove the knife, so even with the locking nuts I plan to check them often.

David

[LinuxRandal]

For those that rarely remove the knife, especially, would it be a good idea for threadlocker?


Makes me wonder why they don't use something like a castle nut and bolt with a hole for a cotter/hitch pin in it.

[Slik Geek]

It scares me every time I think that had I been making a rip instead of standing off to the left using the cross cut sled I likely would have been impaled by the knife at 100+ miles per hour.

Scared me enough that I now have locknuts installed. Thanks for the warning - I shudder to think of the results of a riving knife taking flight. Having taken a launched board just below the belt one time (on a saw without a riving knife), I have an appreciation of the amount of energy that the blade can impart to a willing projectile.

A co-worker recently used a table saw to cut small sticks for a craft project. One of the sticks took flight and hit her in the face. Unfortunately for her, she was NOT wearing eye protection. Messed up one of her eyes.

There were able to get her eye to heal pretty well, but the injury resulted in a cataract. Recent surgery addressed that problem, but she still has, and will always have rings of light in that eye - especially at night.

The bottom line is to respect the power of that table saw and take precautions against projectile launches.