120VIDEO Safer Table Saw

It's Steve Maxwell here and I've just done something that's really amazed me

I've tried to cut this sausage with my table saw and it didn't work and it

didn't work in a really spectacular way too and I want to show you what that. This is the new Bosch Reax saw. It's quite a bit like their Gravity Rise folding saw

that they've had out in the market for a while. I really like that saw. This one is

equipped with a mechanism that causes the blade to immediately drop down below

the table as soon as the teeth touch anything that's like meat. I tried it

with this sausage and it did not even make a single mark on the sausage. I'll

show you some slow-motion footage of it but that's where I tried to cut it. I

can't even see a single scratch on the skin of that sausage. So this is a pretty

amazing piece of technology. A lot safer than regular table saws and I'll show

you a bit about how it works now. This is where the slow-motion footage kicks in. Normally I don't cut things

this slowly on a table saw, not even a sausage, but as the sausage approaches

all of a sudden, boom! Even at 240 frames per second we could not see that blade

drop off. It happens in milliseconds without leaving a single scratch on the

sausage at all. So this is a close-up of the front of the saw. It looks like a lot of

portable table saws. Normally when we've been using it this light has been on in

green because the active response technology they call it has been tripped

It's now got this this warning symbol on it