topccat29
29 year HT veteran
After listening to a caller phone into an internet hairloss broadcast I was really surprised to hear how enthusiastic the person sounded about getting into the chair and having a robot perform fue on him. The patient clearly does not understand the concept of punch sizes and how diameter numbers are so deceiving. It is my understanding that the robot is using a diameter that is slightly larger than 1 mm but for this example I will use the 1 mm figure. Now when you hear the number .75 mm it does sound smaller but in one s mind it doesn t sound like much of a difference.
I knew for a fact it makes a huge difference and that was at least 7 years ago. But I do find it amazing that so many really don t seem to understand. Maybe because outside of working in the night club business I have plenty of trade experience thanks to my dad putting me to work in the factory at 14. But something happened recently to me that might make the point much clearer for those that still do not understand. I know punches have been presented on the forums but they do not really provide a good example.
I bid on a job recently that required a catch basin to be tuck pointed. For those of you who do not know what that is it is basically a sewer where all the kitchen waste water goes to keep the grease out of the main sewer line. So yes I was going to get into a sewer, some of us do real work ¦.lol ¦.Anyway the sewer opening was not standard and the diameter was only slightly smaller, but this had a huge affect on the overall size and I realized I could not get inside and if I did I could end up trapped, so I had to refuse the job. It also gave me this idea of showing others what does a hole that is 75% the size of what we will consider hole at 100% looks like on a larger scale. When viewed this way one can easily understand why using a 1mm punch is not a good idea when smaller punches are available to those skilled at using them.
In the picture below the circle to the right is exactly 75% of the one to its left, quite a difference.
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I knew for a fact it makes a huge difference and that was at least 7 years ago. But I do find it amazing that so many really don t seem to understand. Maybe because outside of working in the night club business I have plenty of trade experience thanks to my dad putting me to work in the factory at 14. But something happened recently to me that might make the point much clearer for those that still do not understand. I know punches have been presented on the forums but they do not really provide a good example.
I bid on a job recently that required a catch basin to be tuck pointed. For those of you who do not know what that is it is basically a sewer where all the kitchen waste water goes to keep the grease out of the main sewer line. So yes I was going to get into a sewer, some of us do real work ¦.lol ¦.Anyway the sewer opening was not standard and the diameter was only slightly smaller, but this had a huge affect on the overall size and I realized I could not get inside and if I did I could end up trapped, so I had to refuse the job. It also gave me this idea of showing others what does a hole that is 75% the size of what we will consider hole at 100% looks like on a larger scale. When viewed this way one can easily understand why using a 1mm punch is not a good idea when smaller punches are available to those skilled at using them.
In the picture below the circle to the right is exactly 75% of the one to its left, quite a difference.
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