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Unfortunately I have to use whatever cheap ass blade the boss buys, as I no longer work for myself. Not too soon, all humor is welcomed. SawStop would not have helped at all in this case, as it was the board itself that stripped my finger of flesh. So, Carrot Finger lives! X-rays looked great. The Dr. was very happy with the previous Dr.s closing of the wound, and was also happy to see the mobility in my finger. Thumb was more hashed than I originally realized, but still nothing like the finger. I was given a cleaning regimen and finger exercises. The Dr. says it should heal and recover nicely. It'll just look funky. Have a follow up in a week, then one more in two weeks. And that should do it. I'm very happy with the prognosis! Thanks so much for all the well wishes, not sure you guys know how much they help!

Best wishes, Steve. That there's no tendon and bone damage is a very good thing. That they managed to close the wound with stitches is also great, I would have expected that you needed some sort of graft after reading your injury description. I'm pretty sure it'll go fine, although you might need some form of PT afterwards to recover the movements. Hoping for the best

Bunch of goddamn aliens.

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Let this serve as a good lesson. I'm very familiar with tablesaws, and yet things can still go very wrong. Stay away if you're not completely comfortable with the tool. And always be sure that someone is close by, just in case.

Lawsuits against table saw manufacturers who have not included standard safety equipment, and companies who have not supplied their workers with said equipment are a thing. Riving knifes are bog standard at this point.

Damn, can you still use a router? Still need some cleaning up on the corner speakers. Oh wait; too soon? Seriously, that sucks. If I am picturing what happened, would it be safe to assume even SawStop wouldn't have helped?

It's my pleasure, Steve. Sharing knowledge and helping friends is a wonderful thing that I enjoy doing . Please let us know how it goes.

The Dr. said the same thing. I tend to be calm and rational in these situations. It's my norm. My co-worker however was freaking the hell out. I honestly felt like I was taking care of him. I called someone else to take me to the Emergency Clinic, because I didn't want to die in a car crash on the way. I did know that it was bad when I was rinsing the wound, but I'm a practical guy. And I have a high pain threshold. I realize I'll be disfigured, but I'm very thankful that it was my Left hand and not my Right. Also it's a lot less traumatic at 55 than if I were a young guy. I was wearing a T-shirt that says "It is what it is", and that sums up my feelings about it. In my line of work the odds are that you'll have a bad incident at some point. They are scary, but I feel pretty good that in this situation I did everything right. I had a coworker nearby. I never lost focus. In short I made no mistakes, sometimes you just can't control everything. I find that Oak has a tendency to be grabby, because of it's grain pattern, so I purposely decided to only cut about an 1/8" deep at a time. I was about 1" into my first pass, and it just grabbed, twisted and shot out like a bullet. It would be a lot more difficult for me if I had broken my own rules and lost focus. Shit just happens, but don't think for a minute that I'm not going to chase you bastards around with my freaky finger, next time I see you guys!

The Right Stuff (1983) For the other RIPs today

I hate flanked spieces to pieces.

Fisting will be 20% easier too

Remembering Greg Lake (and Keith Emerson)

Well as I said to Naaman, it will make it easier to pick my nose. And I'll be expecting a 10% discount on any future manicures.

I just buy another 3eas of GP4000 S II for 94€ with shipping and taxes

Today 3500 kms with the Continental GP 4000 SII; Rear tyre around mid use (according to the wear marks), some little cuts and a big hole (around 2 mm) on a side. Very dangerous, you can see the canvas inside. I have replace this for a new GP 4000 SII (yesterday) Front tire around mid use too (according to the wear marks). Some little cuts and some wear symptom but nothing special. I think that I can use this others 500/1000 kms. In total, two "flat tire" on 6 months. I think that the Michelin Pro 4 SC has a bit more grip than the GP 4000 SII (on dry) and is more faster EMO when the tire is new. With wet asphalt, I feel more secure with the GP4000 SII (more grip and very progressive, advise when it reaches its limit ) but the front tyre raises a curtain of wáter in front of your face.. This is a little uncomfortable for the vision but nothing serious. Michelin Pro4 SC on wet tends to lose grip without warning. You have all grip or nothing. They suffered a total wear with only 3200kms and three "flat tire". Last year I used 2 pair. Them I change the rear for a Lithium 2 and a Pro4 SC front. ...And of course, 25 better than 23. sorry for my English

Steve, so sorry the accident happened. I'm even more glad that the prognosis is so positive.

Hey Sirs, Today I'm giving the recipe and how to info of Saç Kavurma, A Turkish Cuisine Classic. Lets start with ingredients. For one hungry person (just multiple the quantity of ingredients with number of people) : 250-300 Grams Entrecote (any soft red meat can be used, not sure about pork) One middle sized Tomato Two middle sized long green pepper Half of a middle sized onion (I'm not using it now cuz I don't like onion) 1-1,5 tablespoon Butter (the one made from milk) 2-3 tablespoon Olive oil (not going to be used if following my way) Salt, pepper, thyme, flaked chili pepper as much as you wish (salt, pepper are not going to be used while cooking if following my way) For my special recipe: Those are needed for marinate the meat: 5 table spoon milk 1 table spoon vinegar, 2-3 table spoon olive oil 1-1,5 table spoon honey Half table spoon curry Pepper, salt as much as you want. How to cook: Marinating: Put the honey into bowl (I was adding sugar when I use tomato or tomato paste every time cuz sugar takes away the sourness tomato or paste adds, and once I added honey instead of sugar, It made dish much more tasty) : Then add olive oil and vinegar onto it: Stir them till make them homogen mix. Then add milk, Stir them homogen again. Then add curry and pepper stir again (never ever add flaked spices into marination, cuz they tend to burn) Then cut the meat into small (roughly 0,5-1cm cubes) pieces: Put the meat pieces into the mix, let them rest for 1-4 hours. For best result let them rest as much as you can. Cooking: You need to peel the tomato, so make an X on the bottom of it and put it in a hot water filled bowl for a 5 min: Then slice the tomato into small (don't have to be tiny, they'll melt anyway) pieces: Slice the long greet peppers too (if you do not like the seeds, you can remove them with the tip of the knife: just cut them horizontally and vertically into 4 pieces, and remove seeds with the tip of the knife) Slice onions to cubes too if you want to add them. You need to make them ready for mixing, cuz this dish requires non stop stirring, cooking must be made with big flames, so if you cease stirring for slicing, meat will be too dry and hard. Heat the pan (pan must be deep, cuz of easy stirring and actually this dish requires special pan called sac, the name of the dish comes from it) with big flames (never reduce the heat during cooking.) After heating the pan, put meat into pan. Stir them non-stop till meat take the juice: After some of the juice is gone, add green peppers After 1 min of stirring add tomatoes After tomatoes are shrinked, add the flaked spices and stir them for 30 seconds: After some stirring, add butter, stir for 30 sec again: Saç kavurma is ready, bon apetit! PS: colors may differ cuz of poor light condutions. I'll add the recipe I know when I cook them.

It is my opinion that a kickback guard & fingers and a riving knife certainly couldn't hurt, and may well have prevented the injury. Again, not my equipment, though you can bet I'll insist on it now!

That sounds like an excellent prognosis, here's to hoping for a speedy and relatively pain free recovery!

Steve, this really sucks. I hope the hand surgeon gives you good news. If he talks partial amputation, consider getting a second opinion. You never know.

I'm glad you got the humor -- "I hate meeces to pieces" was a tag line from a random cat and mouse cartoon called Pixie and Dixie and Mr. Jinx. Your English is extremely good, but given that you want to correct the spelling you should also change spieces to spices (and reciepes to recipes while you're at it). ;-) I still think "flanked spieces" would be an awesome forum nickname. Dusty?

Bloody hell Steve. A whole new definition to a hand job. As a user of woodwork machine tools (planer thicknesser, band saw, and an entirely lethal Wadkin radial arm saw) I can visualise precisely what happened. Here's hoping the tannin in the oak had a natural infection control. Let us know what the hand Doc says. Thinking of that table saw Steve - what rake angle is your blade?

This and this. Hope you're OK Steve. Table saws are terrifying machines.

Sorry Steve, heal fast and infection free.

Jesuit Christmas! Hope it goes well and you heal quickly!

Hope you're OK, lefty.....(seriously, I do)

RIP John Glenn - a guy made from the right stuff.

I've come to the same conclusion in regards to anything audio and life, really. The good stuff doesn't necessarily wow you immediately, but allows you to spend long periods of time without getting infuriated. Ideally, they are not mutually exclusive but that's pretty rare. Yeah, the rabbit hole is infinitely deep. Luckily HC members @cetoole and @Filburt know all about I/V converters and DACs in general, so maybe they have some advice to offer. The Holo Spring also gives another idea, with the nonlinearity compensation. These laser trimmed DACs, especially K grade, still have better precision than any discrete resistors today including foils, but if you want to squeeze every possible bit of performance then running an algorithm to at least handle chip-specific static nonlinearity errors would be nice. Apparently Holo are the first to do this in a discrete design, in which they use a digitally controlled second ladder, but they're doing it as an alternative to laser trimming. Maybe some attention towards deglitching would be nice, too. I'll leave it to you to look into designing FIR filters. Btw not sure which NPC you have, but the PMD100 datasheet says it is pin compatible with some. Just bouncing some ideas off you and see what you come up with, which might motivate myself to one day do something similar. Or we can just wait for KG's DAC, like you said. I'll definitely check out the Yggy and Holo Spring at the NYC meet, but probably won't ever find a Segue to hear. Did you end up repairing your Spectral?

Should have posted sooner: holy crap! I hope the recovery goes smoothly.

Holy shit Steve!

Oh shit Steve. I hope you have close enough to complete recovery. I'm afraid of my table saw, and use it as little as possible.

Hey buddy! I'll be fine. You need to get your butt to HC more often! Thanks Antonio! I love that you are always happy to give free advice to us. That's not a common thing here in the U.S., and we very much appreciate that! The Emergency care Dr. thought it might need a graft and mentioned the hand Dr. He called him then, but the hand Dr. suggested he do his best at closing it up and then made me the appointment. I thought the closure looked pretty damned good, and was very impressed with that Dr. overall. Will know more in a few hours. Will report back soon. The blade was at 90 degrees. No real reason to believe this would happen.

Best of luck tomorrow. Hoping for a good outcome and have a fast recovery.

Sorry Steve. Hoping for the best!

You sound so calm, Steve. I would be freaking the fuck out! Hoping for good news in the morning. And Claire had some Norco recently and it was no big thing. Don't be afraid to use it if you are in pain.

That's some shitty luck. Hope everything heals up well enough, Steve!

Ouch, Steve, that sucks! Best wishes for a speedy and satisfactory recovery.

That sucks Steve. Hope the hand Dr. Has good news tomorrow.

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Ouch! Steve. Here's hoping effective pain meds were on hand ...

Fuck, Steve, that sucks. Here's to hoping for the best outcome at this point.

Had a fight with a tablesaw, and today the tablesaw won.

John Glenn... he and the rest of the Mercury/Gemini/Apollo astronauts were my heroes growing up. I met him in person about 10 years ago and he seemed like a wonderful man. RIP.

RIP Greg Lake

Fine by me! Although it's probably too complicated for a simple ol' bachelor like me to follow. Indeed, and not just a flash in the pan! (fnar fnar)

High nutrient density snack.[emoji6]

I though Sorbothane was a University in Paris

It's been snowing for the last three days with high winds. There's over a foot of it on the ground, and the kids's school has been closed for the last two days. Going down to -30'C this weekend. We're leaving for Florida/metalcruise in 51 days.

Oh all right... with std. rectifiers With Schottky bridges One other thing I noticed while playing around with this. Since this is just on a piece of wood, I don't have the AC ground tab connected to anything. When checking AC voltage between it and the board ground, it was floating around at 50-60Vac. I assume this is normal since the board isn't really referenced to anything? Should I tie the AC ground tab to the board, either directly or thru the 10 ohm resistor that is provided?