Table saw safety tips and rules for beginners

1. Intro: 2. About this course: My name is Michaelson Amy, and I'm a Mayko of many years of woodworking experience. It is dis experienced that I believe gives me the qualifications necessary. Toe have this discussion. The goal of this course is to teach you the fundamentals of tables or safety so you can have a safe and enjoyable time in the shop. Fair warning. The tips I'm about to present are not intended to be the end. All be all of tables or safety. The contents of this course are solely my perspective. Based on my experiences. Every woodwork in machine, including a table saw, comes with an owner's manual. Please read it. Any information gleaned from this course is intended to be supplemental and not a replacement for your owner's manual. With that said, everything I'm about to share with you is based on my obsession with keeping myself safe in a woodworking shop. After all, I still have all nine of my fingers for whatever that's worth. See you in the course 3. Unplug the saw when performing operation that may Bring you in contact with the saw blade: whenever you're about to perform on Operation Way involves coming in contact with a blade. I was make sure you unplug it, actually advice that you pull the card above the table so you can see and you know you have visual evidence that I'm so it's not plugged at that time. 4. Drop the saw blade when not in use: The other thing I like to practice is when I'm gonna So it's not in use. Notice. Saw blade. Is that up? That's intentional. Hours dropped the saw blade because anything can happen. You got something in your pocket, you could bomb this on button if your hand is resting hair because you feel comfortable because, you know, that decides off any bump and it turned on you be in a whole lot of trouble, so toe reduce the chance of something like that happening. I'm not using the saw A drop the blade. And if for no other reason, sometimes you handling material, you moving it around. And, um, if the saw blade is up, you could damage a blade. You can hit your blade. You could warp your blade or whatever just is a good idea. 5. Stay on guard : on a practice that I try to arm encourage is, um, first of all, if you have a god, keep it on the soft. Okay? These guards are very, very important. Please don't take them for granted. The saw God put something between you and that. I'm spinning saw blade. Okay, um, in my case, I have a disorder. So the dust hood is also a guard In the case of this dust hood, what I like to do also is when I like to drop it even when I'm actively using the soil that they had, you know, walk away. How to go do something. I will drop it over the blade. I taking it down. I got I got a barrier right there. Also also prevent any chance of me hitting the blade with something or get in my hand. Um, you know, in a powerful blade 6. Riving knives and splitters : splitters and Riva nyse. Okay. Okay. Okay. What you're looking at right here on right here in this case, is, um, rival knife. This Riva knife, his removable generally could do it without removing the guard. But I don't know why. Performance for today. Drive a knife. No arrival knife is different from a splitter in that it rides on the same mechanism as the blade. So when I raised the blade or I drop the blade, the drive a knife also rise. And four. And it's for this reason it's safer. Dan. A splitter. A splitter is good. Both the split and arrive er serves, um, the function off maintaining on open kerf. The curve is the groove, the opening that's created when you cut aboard. So arrive a knife keeps diem wood from closing in on itself. The reason why you don't want that you don't want the border closed in on itself is the board to pinch about back of the blade. And when it pinches the back of the blade, it creates a phenomena. Call a kickback. That's when the blade flings the work piece at you. And in the process of flinging the work piece it could drag your hand into the blade and cut you. If it doesn't cut you, the actual work piece could do damage to you internal, you know, cut you. You know this a lot of table saw injury. It's caused by kickback. 7. Anti-kickback pawls and clear cut stock guides: no. With the original equipment, it has an additional feature. Has these what you call anti kickback Pause The spring loaded. Know what that does? It holds the board down to the table and the only goes in one direction. You go the opposite direction. These I call them thongs. Problem. Sorry. Turns digs into the board and prevents the board from coming back at you. Now I don't use them and I don't like them for The main reason is if you cut in a nice piece of wood, you don't want to be doing damage to it. So I purchased aftermarket product that serves the same purpose. This particular product is known as clear cut stock diets and what it is. Is it spring loaded wheels that only rule in one direction? They're also canted toward, um, defense. On what that does. We know using this right now, So once again, drop it when you're not using it, give you a little illustration. How you set it up is released. This allows it to move freely. Now get moving in and out so you could send it to the thickness of the board by engaging the board with the this outside piece, and now a set is under, um, tension, which brings and when you run it through. And this is just one, by the way, you see, it doesn't want to come back this week, and I'm pulling on it so hard it is. And that's just one. So it serves the function of the pause. It uses these rubber wheels so it doesn't do any damage. Doesn't mortarboard. So, um, I prefer these over there the pause. And, um, if I didn't have this dust, um, hood, I would be using this. 8. Dust collection : I used the dust hood also, um, for just that. Dust is connected to my HVAC system, so it helps take the fine particulates are today. 9. Safety Rant : just to go over it again. I don't know if I stressed it enough. I understand there certain circumstances where you have to forego the blade guard we went ever and as much as possible used the blade guard. Reason being is you have a spinning blade, a spinning blade, a cold blooded mechanical device that don't give a damn or you your family and medical bills, you know, don't care, has no emotions. You put your head in there. The bled is not going to show you any mercy. Okay, Those, um, devices was placed there by the manufacturer for your protection. For your benefit. Use them in a rare situation where you need to use the piece of equipment without God, Be shorter using some type of jig. No, not a little tip also is you only want to expose as much blood as you need to make the cut . Now, I just raise this blade up is actually a little bit too high. I will drop it. Well, you know, notice diesel. Um, these little pockets between the blades, the car gullets. I just want out to clear. Because that area there is what allows d m the dust of escapes. It doesn't overheat the to. So I just want to go it at its highest point to clear. Okay, reason for that is if once again, somehow you're making a cut. Somehow you broke the rules. You could minimize the Mona damage. You know, that could be done. But that's not even a reason. And that's not even, um, good reason for that. The god always remember that. That's that's your safety device. But the main reason for that is that also helps with preventing burning and swirl marks. And so what? I cut you down. Yep. Once again, not using a blade. I'm just gonna drop it cool. 10. The table saw fence, ripping, and 12" rule : anything on it on a table saw that I'm ripping when you rip, Use defense defenses for ripping, not for cross cutting. And I'll explain that in a minute. Anything on the 12 inches is no longer safe for me to use my hands. Generally speaking, so I will use a push stick, and they come in all shapes. You could make them yourself these to a shop made. You have some fancy aftermarket ones. Night DS, but they take the place of your hands. So if something goes wrong, you damage the jig, you replace it. Good. No medical bills, no trauma. Other thing I want you to be careful to is their attention to the cues this saw is pretty, like more so. It's pretty dull when I said dull, dull is no nothing calls attention to itself. This cast I in town. Um, you got, um ultra high molecular plastic on defense. You know, you gotta friends. Nothing exciting, except this bright color red right hand. Scarran, attention is saying look at me Here. Look, look, look. Pay attention to this. And that's what reason you're manufacturing speaking to you again is telling you that this area is the business area either saw And it's a very dangerous area too. So So once again the reason why I say 12 inches If you're pushing with your hand you don't want any your finger, especially that thumb You know your thumb your right hand You You're right handed Even if you're left handed. You pushing with your right hand You're pushing aboard. You wanted nowhere near this blade? No, the thinner the board Notice this. You see that finger gone? So my rule is 12 inches of more on the side that you're keeping. It's OK. You can cut less than 12 inches. Reach for push stick. I like to refer to the post Stick as, um, to use an analogy. Stunt men, They're stunt men for your hand. When you get into that area where the hair started come up in the back of your neck you to start a show. Your hands, especially to start a show, is the one I'm moving. The board, you know, is the one next, um feeding the board Trudeau saw. So you want to keep him? You call in the stuntmen, which is approved. Push, stick something go wrong. The stuntman is not as valuable. I mean, it's for human life. You need to use in the case of a real starting man, his life in my parents just as valuable as the actor Bus four as costs. As for US talent, the actor is the most important person, especially this doctor. So they're going to take in a quote unquote less up person to take the risk. In this case, is this inanimate object collar pushed it. Something goes wrong. You damage the push stick. You can replace it cheaply at that when you're ripping, meaning that you're cutting along the line for the board. That's the purpose of defense. That's what you use offense for. Offence is designed for ripping. Cross cutting is when you cut it along the whiff of the board across the width of the board . Now, when you notice if I was to put this against a fence like this, I would be attempting across cut. Okay, I'm going across the width of the board. Notice how very little bearing I have that's compared to all it is bearing that I have against a fence. This small amount of bearing against offenses. What makes this dangerous Because you can rock you had in either way and catastrophe could happen. Kickback saw blade will grab the board and want to rip it out your hand. And not just not just a mere faculty ripping out to your hand reflex your own reflects is gonna play against you. You're gonna want you. Your instinct is gonna be the whole onto the board. And you're not stronger than Essman in Blade. This thing has three horsepower. The motor yours might have, you know, 1.5 1 and 3/4. Don't make a difference. That thing will pull your hand into the blade and we don't want that to happen. So you're probably wondering if you're new to woodworking. How do you accomplish a cut like this? I'll show you that in a second. 11. Jigs and push sticks: on a jig is a device does allow you to take a risk out of Ah, um, a particular move for particular cut or whatever it is that you're trying to, um, make or increases accuracy. So yes, it's theirs do purposes? One. The simplest jigs is a push stick. 12. Mitre gauge and crosscutting : notice they have two groups here in a table. Some of these are called minor grooves and designed to accept this device, which is a mighty gauge. This happens to be off the market. One. It allows toe safely produce across cut notice. Defense on the miter gauge is perpendicular to the blade. So he's allowing me to make a cross. Got But because the board has plenty of barren surface on miter gauge, um, fence, I can see carefully make this cut. So that's what it might engages for. And once again, this is ah, commercially purchased. One is aftermarket. Um, generally speaking, the miter gauge that comes with the matter sauce there, So so date more so than I'm not. You're gonna wanna upgrade your miter gauge if you want to do good, accurate works. No, This allows me toe cut up to 24 inches deep and up to a little bit more than I would say about 59. I mean, 49 inches, and that that number is therefore reason. I want to be able to cut up to 48 accurately and 24 and I relates to cabinetry. We'll get into that one day, but this allows me Cross got safely 13. Personal protection : a lot of things you want to concern yourself with. Pertaining to the table saw is I protection. You got flying debris. You don't want to lose the eyes That pretty much put an end to your woodworking correct hair and protection between the table saw dust collector, the air, clean eyes, a lot of noise pollution, um, taking place in the shop and over time is gonna damage your hearing is not worth it at protection. No, the sleeping killer in a workshop is dust. I mean, after all, is not a blade does is not going to cut you. It is not gonna, um, you know, blind you and is certainly not going to make you death, but accumulated it over time in your lungs, it's gonna create respiratory issues that was short in your life. Oh, this street. All right. Kill you. You got glues and resins as in a plywood And for someone Yala Darren enough to use MDF, which I tend to stay clay off. Those things produce very, very, very find us. That is very dangerous. Um, for your respiratory system. So it does mass. Please, preferably dust Master work in tandem with some type of vacuum cleaning system. And if you if and when you can get cleaning too 14. Lady Tipsy and Mr. Tiredness are woodworking foes : Lastly, alcohol drugs does not mix, does not go well. Would would work in tiredness. You start feeling tired, generally speaking from working on in the shop and I start making errors. Dunford ity. You start making errors on fourth Eros done for today. Your mind at that moment is that shop you go and up in a situation where you're gonna hurt yourself. So anything that would impair you drinking drugs, tiredness is a no go. 15. Demo : a couple of things I want you to take note off. June This demonstration the setting off the blade height, the use of the clear cut stock guides, the fact that the work pieces under 12 inches, thus the use off the push stick and last but not least, the use of the dust hood, which also doubles as my blade God. Small pieces such as this one left behind under saw compose a real danger in that it could be flung at you. When this occurs, Please stop the sore and Claire with a push stick. 16. In closing : respect to safety rules, respect the equipment. And what working cannon will be enjoyable. So, until next time, thank you for watching.