So… yesterday after I got my first printed Entoform I tried to pierce it with an insect pin… to no avail. The material is far too hard. I tried heating the pin with a lighter, but it wouldn’t keep the heat. Then this morning I had the bright idea of attaching the needle to a soldering iron… but… well… there was no neat way to do that.
Thus I went to a DIY store and asked them about tiny drills… the smallest bit they had was 1mm whilst the pin I want to use is 0.5mm… As I tried to explain my predicament to the shop owner he just looked at me cross-eyed as if I was missing a marble or two (admittedly I might at that).
So… I took the subway to a tiny shop all the way on the other side of town, a shop that sells things for people who make model airplanes and such… (http://www.quartel.nl). Here… well they still looked at me cross-eyed, but had exactly what I needed! A teeny tiny drill (see the screwdriver style thing in the picture) that you use by hand, and a set of teeny tiny bits that would give your dentist a serious case of drill envy… everything from 0.3 to 1.6mm…. soooo small!!!!
I’ve now drilled my first Entoform and it works absolutely perfectly… I can stick the pin through and it grips beautifully… Next I’ll have to see if I have a teeny tiny pen for the teeny tiny labels…
