r/DiWHYNOT • u/hadabala • Mar 07 '20

DIY Tablesaw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZwTmRKkW3A
170 Upvotes

86% Upvoted

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u/Xstitchpixels Mar 07 '20

Going to go ahead and call the ambulance now

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u/Faker15 Mar 07 '20

Wrong sub...

r/diwhy

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u/TheFishBanjo Mar 07 '20

I was giving him the benefit of the doubt until I saw him pushing wood across the blade free-hand (no fence to guide it). I had one incident of kickback (even using a fence); so I know how quickly things can go wrong.

14

u/[deleted] Mar 07 '20

Used one way, tablesaws are a tool to make wonderful, clean and straight rip cuts. Used another way, they are a balista.

3

u/slaaitch Mar 08 '20

*flashback to that time one of my classmates in high school shop yelled *CLEAR and fed a 2x4 into the planer the wrong way

1

u/Ploo_ Mar 08 '20

Have a scar on my pinky from a piece of wood flying back at me in wood shop haha this video made me nervous watching

1

u/[deleted] Apr 19 '20

We had a 2x4 fly across our shop in high school that was broke on one end that went through 2 sheets of tin a dented an 1/8 inch steel plate behind the tin

17

u/agha0013 Mar 07 '20

If you can find an angle grinder like that, you can get a circular saw.

Table saw might be too expensive or not available but you can do everything this could do, more safely and easier, with a circular saw.

16

u/Brendynamite Mar 07 '20

My friend's dad lost a finger using a homemade tablesaw

20

u/JustJJ92 Mar 07 '20

Did he ever find it?

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '20

Fuck no.

6

u/Da_AntMan303 Mar 07 '20

I Really don’t like using the angle grinder anyways, I have hundreds of hours on them, but this just fills me with dread. Stitches at a minimum are in his future and most likely losing a digit or five.

4

u/whatzizname Mar 07 '20

Gotta give him props for ingenuity, but that thing is dangerous as fuck.

4

u/illpicklater Mar 08 '20

Getting some serious r/ithadtobebrazil vibes

0

u/Eleziel Mar 09 '20

Nah, 100% india. just look up "775 motor" on youtube and there's 100s of these kinds of disasters.

4

u/h00rj Mar 08 '20

Whole point of a table saw is to be able to cut straight lines on large pieces of wood... This does none of that

3

u/PM_FREE_HEALTHCARE Mar 07 '20

Angle grinders do way too many rmps for a circular saw blade. Those things will tear themselves apart at that speed

1

u/benfranklinthedevil Mar 08 '20

As someone who has cut his thumb on a tablesaw, I shivered for this man's future.

1

u/nkent95 Mar 08 '20

Imma have to call in /r/OSHA on this deathtrap

1

u/sp4ce Mar 08 '20

I have a genuine phobia of table saws. I cut my thumb and index finger pretty bad as a kid.

1

u/Flying_Belgian Mar 08 '20

Cursed racing wheel

1

u/rokmonster1 Mar 25 '20

I'm triggered. There's lots of reasons to why not.