Cuprajake
Ahh Jake, apologies for being misleading.
That’s me using a word one way, when it can be interpreted in many ways. Ambiguous at best, misleading at worst.
Maybe I can say that thinner needles do a better job of “displacing” the grinds.
In my anally retentive world, I “push” a wheelbarrow. The whole thing moves.
But I realize that I’m being (a) pedantic and that (b) we all have different definitions of what push/displace/move might mean.
The thicker the needle, the higher number of grinds get “pushed” and the thinner the needles the more “displacement” and therefore “distribution” occurs, which is the obijective.
And the thinner the needles, the more of them you need to get the job done. Four needles at 0.4mm seems to be what some prefer. My sworksdesign puck rakes has 11 needles, some 0.25mm and some 0.3mm (from memory).
And it’s a spectrum, much like the one that I’m on. At one end there is more pushing and less distributing and at the other end it’s the opposite, but both characteristics exist at either end.
This is where I start to sound like I’m engaging in a debate on how many angels can stand on a pin head (or in this case, an acupuncture needle) so I think I’ll end now because I’ve passed the TLDR threshold.
