Now in the last video, we’re talking about what are the advantages are of this little square push pins. So here we’re going to show the exactly what you can do with this. Now in this photo, we can see that at the pin and the back was fixed as it wasn’t movable, then you can place the push stick flat on the wood and take advantage of the traction tread. But since there is a retractable push pin, I can press down and set press, and sit perfectly flat on the wood and use the full grip of the traction tread to push forward on the board.
So you see when I get to the end of the board the pin just automatically pops downs since it is spring loaded and I can safety grab the end of the board and finish the push. So once again, we’ll just show you close up here at the pin is up inside the body of the push stick and then it will just pops down and you come to the end and here is just another angle of it down pushing the wood.
Now, this case of pushing thing wood, you can see that the pin will automatically adjust its length to accommodate the thinnest of the wood. So that’s that full use of the traction tread. See you can even have 160 end strip end push stick would still flat, and the pin would still protrude just enough to grab the end of the strip.
Next is the situation that is only safe using this type of push stick and that is pushing short pieces of wood, which is normally a tricky and dangerous cut. As you see in this live video coming up, the ability to cut strip pieces wood safely. It’s easy to do with this push stick because it’s just flattening the wood. The friction pad keeps the wood from shifting sort of smoothly against the fence and the push pin on the back prevents the wood from getting away from you.
So you can see, we’re just cutting five pieces wood here and each one is getting shorter as we go a long. And the situation is the same. You can pretty much you hold your push stick flat on the piece, you just push forward. You slide it on the fence. And as long as you sitting flat, you’re not rocking. It’s just goes through with a piece of cake. This is just no anxiety, no issues, no hang-ups. I will turn this off to move that piece next to the blade and we’ll turn them back on. Give me a small piece like this. It’s just slides right through, just easy as pine doesn’t getting messed up. There is no anxiety with it at all.
Now for the last part of this lesson on ripping wood, I need to show you that there are actually two traction treads. The other one you see here for the first time is called the V-Groove traction tread. All you have to do is remove the flat traction tread from the body of the push stick and we placed over the V-Groove traction tread and you probably have a second tool. Okay so where’s is the V-Groove? This V tread is use for pushing wood on shapers and other tables. On each of these machines, you need to press the wood at three angles at the same time. That is you have to press the wood against the fence. You have to press the wood against the tabletop and third you have to push the wood forward. That’s three forces happening at the same time. So with the V-Groove tread, this allows the push stick to tilt in an angle of 25 degrees more or less, so you're pushing against the tabletop and the fence as you move forward.
This is not only protects your hands in these situations but the quality of cut is much cleaner. There’s essentially no chatter or too much clean up. Again, the anxiety level is so reduced. It’s almost none existent. And finally folks, that incredible disappearing push pin at the back of the push stick, well by now you know where pop out just in time to grab the end of the board and finish the push and tool safety since your hands running even close to the blades.
So I hope you enjoy these two short videos on table saw safety and thanks for watching.
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