Kickback up close !

[Stytooner]

quote:Originally posted by paulstenlund

Do you lose any blade hieght with the Shark Guard?

Paul

About 3/8" or a little more depending on how low you set the riving knife. Top of the stock usually rides at the bottom of the gullet. At least on some blades.

[sacherjj]

quote:Originally posted by scorrpio

There are things in this world that teach you to respect powertools. TS kickback is one. Another one was ducking under a table when someone turned on a heavy metalworking lathe without removing the chuck key. The 4-pound hunk of metal zipped across entire classroom and got embedded into a concrete wall. Funny thing is, the classroom had a warning poster of a chuck key in flight, depicted with teeth and claws, right above the lathe...

I like the new chuck key designs. On the HF floor drill press I picked up recently, they have a spring loaded pin on the key. There is no way that it will stay in the chuck without you holding it.

[stewchi]

quote:There is no way that it will stay in the chuck without you holding it.

Sooooo thats why they did that!!

It has always annoyed me, never thought of it like that before.

[beetee3]

You can always make your own riving knife if you don't want to cut down the stock guard. They're surprisingly quick and easy to make. I knocked up this little puppy in about two hours this morning, using nothing more than a hacksaw and a set of Harbor Freight files. It started out as a piece of 16 guage steel (around $6 for 6"x18" at Lowes).