With some practice, I'm sure you could do cabinet level work on the saw. Put all of that on a gravity-rise stand and you've got a machine that can handle anything on a construction site and most of what you'll need for finish carpentry. With outfeed extension support, soft start, on-board push stick storage, and a robust rip fence that Bosch calls Squarelock, you have a great saw. Bob Lucchesi plowed through some rip cuts in red oak stair tread as I snapped photos, and the saw hummed through it, producing a glue-line quality cut (Photo 6). The Shadow of LitigationĮven if the Reaxx didn't have the injury-preventing mechanism, it would still be an impressive tool. Either way it beats sawing into your thumb. I would say that the first time you accidentally trip the blade (say, with a piece of wet lumber or by hitting a metal staple) it'll take you a couple of minutes to get everything sorted out and get the saw running. There's no damage to the blade, and other than flipping the cartridge, there's not much to replace.īosch estimates that this process should take a minute.
Reset the riving knife to the correct height, reset the saw's "On" switch, and you're back to sawing lumber. Once the cap makes firm metal-to-metal contact, you're almost good to go. Screw the electrical cap back down finger-tight and turn it the last eighth of a turn with a small specialized wrench that comes with the saw.
#CUT FINGERS INSTALL#
Since the cartridges come in pairs, all you do is lift the cartridge out, flip it, install the fresh cartridge into the chamber and reconnect the electrical lead.
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The blade locks itself in at full height-all you do is lift.įrom there, you unscrew the electrical cap above the cartridge's chamber and unplug the electrical lead to the cartridge. To put the saw back into service, you disconnect it from its power source, depress a lever and lift the blade into position. Once the cartridge fires, it's permanently disabled because the outward projecting pin prevents the saw from operating.
Once the clasp is knocked out, the spinning blade assembly free-falls into the cavity below the table, its journey accelerated by the blade's torque. The loud bang we heard was created by the cartridge as it fires a stopped pin forward the pin knocks out a clasp that holds the spinning blade in position on a drop arm assembly. Flesh coming into contact with the blade shorts the circuit and trips the chemical firing mechanism of a cartridge housed next to the blade. How It Worksīosch's saw establishes a low-voltage capacitive circuit between the user and a sensing device next to the blade. You could have put that hot dog on the grill and no one would have known that moments before it had made contact with a table saw blade spinning at 3,650 rpm. There was only the faintest evidence of contact, not even a cut. This time our building carpenter, Bob Lucchesi and Bosch's Jim Bohn and Jim Stevens examined the frank.
The blade disappears and won't tear apart the meat. The demonstrator slowly and gently feeds a hot dog into the blade and bang, the same result. Next up was the famous hot dog test, a bit of engineering showmanship pioneered by the inventor of this technology, SawStop. All I can say is that it's faster than your eye can capture. Bosch doesn't say how quickly the Reaxx reacts. The saw reacts so quickly that your eye can't see the blade plummet down into the saw body. 22 caliber long rifle inside a closed room. About midway through the cut, when the blade moved from the wood's dry exterior into the moist interior, there was a loud bang, about equivalent to firing a. We wheeled the saw into the building's carpenter shop on the first floor, and after setup, we deliberately tripped the machine twice to judge its effectiveness.įor the first test we cut a soaking wet piece of pressure-treated lumber, the idea here being to find out whether the saw's flesh-sensing capacitive circuit interprets the moist lumber the same as it would a human limb. We wanted to see this flesh-saving tool in the flesh, and so Bosch representatives recently brought Reaxx with them to the PM office.
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This portable 4-hp, 10-inch contractor's sits on a rolling stand and comes equipped with technology that stops the blade when it comes into contact with your finger or hand. Bosch has officially entered the limb-saving table saw market with the rollout of its Reaxx table saw, nationally available June 1 ($1,500).
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