[Texaggie79]

um .... won't it be easier to break?

[Fish out of Water]

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[anguish]

0.2 millimetres? Who cares, it's a NEEDLE!!! *screams & faints* :)

[The Duke]

I suspect it's not so much the needle that hurts anyway, but rather the volume of fliud injected. Otherwise it would be as painful to take blood as it is to receive an injection.

This story of the thinnest needle reminds me of a story one of engineering professors used to tell many years ago. A US toolmaker had a healthy competition with their Japanese counterpart. The US company one day announced that thay had created the world's tiniest drill bit - almost as thin as the human hair. The director of engineering packaged and mailed one of the new bits to their Japanese competitor.

A few weeks later a package arrived at the doorstep of the US firm - containing the drill bit that they had sent. Inspection under a microscope revealed that a hole had been neatly drilled through the center.

[theFIRMbss]

>The newly designed needle is just two-thirds as wide as the current smallest model, the 0.3mm-wide "30-gauge" needle.

What would Neil Young write?
    "I (barely) see the needle/
    And the damage done..."

[Hot Tabasco]

The newly designed needle is just two-thirds as wide as the current smallest

But when you drain them in a collander, won't they slip out thru the holes? Oh, thats Needles, sorry......