DO NOT USE THE TABLE SAW AS A PLACE TO CUT STUFF WITH A CIRCULAR SAW!!!
This makes me so mad! With all the places to use to support work to be cut with a circular saw or the track saw, somebody decided to use the table saw and managed to cut a groove in the top! I have so many words to say about this but can’t post them here!
seeing this and wondering why??? makes me head hurt.
I used the table saw early afternoon today and didn’t notice that. Must have been after that.
I arrived at about 14:00. Debating whether to ask security to look at the video to see who is responsible…
I wouldn’t debate it.
Whoever did it at the very least disregarded safety to save 30 seconds of material handling to move a peice and damaged a peice of equipment in a way not so easy to repair.
Thats not an accident. That’s an intentional.
If you haven’t already, pull the video. At the very least the lead need to have a private talk. Laziness is getting expensive.
Security has been notified. I’ll be sure to let the lead know.
What the &$#%!
I did a quick “repair” today to the tablesaw top. There is still a small burr that you can feel if you run your finger across the cut, but I didn’t have time to stone that down today. I am out of town for the next few days but will try to get in and finish working on that when I get back.
it might be time to start thinking about card readers for woodshop access.
Im pretty sure we talked about that building wide for shops at one point. Think it was abandoned as feasible but impractical. May have also had a we smidgen of “there’s big brother” push back. Might be time for some form of logging besides general building badge log.
The main argument against outfitting the doors with a key card access centered on the inaccessibility of the shop in the event that a sole user becomes incapacitated, i.e. someone gets hurt in there alone and only authorized people can get to them. I think an expansion of the card reader system for turning machines on plus stiff penalties for abusing machinery, using equipment and spaces without authorization and general dumbassery might have the desired effect.
There are several reasons that badge access to various machines does not make sense in the woodshop. In addition to Jai’s point, the nature of the work that is done in the woodshop makes it somewhat impractical to have to badge in every time a machine is turned on. I would love to implement a system whereby a user can’t leave the shop until they have held a broom handle for at least 5 minutes, but that, too, is not realistic. Unfortunately, some issues are just “nature of the beast” and the best we can realistically do is to educate and try to reinforce good practices. In a space like this, where there is nobody looking over anybody’s shoulder, it is impossible to ensure that nobody will ever do harm, so we have to do what we can to encourage good behavior.
I’ll add that woodshop is not the only area with these issues. Ceramics, metal, textiles, and occasionally, even fablab, all experience bad actors at times. Sometimes it’s just somebody who is ignorant of best practices. Other times, it’s pure laziness, or “somebody else will deal with it”. Again, nature of the beast. Unless we have somebody sitting in every room 24/7 to monitor users, stuff will happen.
Agreed, though i wonder if it’s possible to have a system that tracks badges as they move through the building so we can at least compile a short list of people who were in the shop at the time, or their guests.
This is brought up every time, but I don’t agree that it is a big issue. It would not be hard to ensure that anyone could access the shop in case of an emergency. Just use fail-safe locks that open when power is removed and a button outside the door that cuts power to the lock. Something like this: https://www.maglocks.com/locknetics-egb-100-g-emergency-door-release-station-green.html
The NFC badges we use have a max range around 10cm. You would need a longer range RFID badge to track without tapping the card to a reader.
That seems a reasonable solution. I agree that it’s a minor issue, but it is the one that usually comes up as a counter.
So, cameras? any thoughts on just adding more to the woodshop and having them centered over the equipment individually?
That was a conversation Rivers and I had at one point. The biggest problem with just adding more cameras is just the amount of extra space it takes up on storage. You can fiddle with resolution and quality to decrease the data but then you get to “can I tell thats a person or a very skilled bigfoot” territory.
Maybe a video camera at the shop entrance to get a good view at who’s coming in then a camera inside the shop that has a good shot of 90%+ of the shop that takes stills every 30sec might be a good middle ground.
Does the existing camera not capture most of the shop space already? If so, we should be able to see who is leaving (and we can probably assume if they are leaving, they also entered at one point.)
