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First of all, you should never operate a table saw without proper safety glasses and some kind of hearing protection
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Safety glasses these days are very inexpensive. These are great ones that I have from 3M
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They're almost always plastic so they get kind of scratched and dirty and things
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So don't hang on to an old cloudy pair when you can get, you know
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20 safety glasses for $30 or something like that. Just consider it a throwaway item
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Very important because things can fly off the saw blade. As for hearing protection, there are different options
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Earplugs, foam earplugs are one kind. I much prefer ear muffs though. They work really well
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But most importantly you can put them on and take them off because I don't really like to keep earplugs in
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For any length of time and it takes a while to put them in So I only wear the earmuffs when I'm actually cutting when there's noise to
