On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 17:29:44 GMT, "Barry Parsons"
wrote:

If you lived in the good old UK you would have no choice; all our saws have
short arbours so that we can not use dado blades.

Only the recent ones (mine has no trouble), and not the production-grade
ones. Even Machine Mart will cheerfully sell you a dado head.


Apparently our Health and Safety Executive believes we can't be trusted with them!

They don't like them, but that's not why we don't have short arbors.
It's to do with the spin-down time regulations of PUWER 98 (Google this
ng for details)

If you haven't already seen it, this is worth the read.
http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/woodindx.htm


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