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Old 05-02-2008, 08:30 AM   #6
glatt
 
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Arlington, VA
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foot powered? Amazing.

Years ago, I saw in the old Arts and Industries Smithsonian museum (which has since been converted into a crappy interactive museum with lights and buzzers for kids) a human powered table saw. It was the same size and shape as a regular table saw, but had a heavy flywheel and a hand crank on either side. Two people would crank the thing while one person operated the saw. It actually looked like it would work really well.
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