Thankyou for your amazing personalized & truly caring service. Mel was an absolute pleasure to deal with & I value your great service too. Very pleased with the item purchased. In all honesty, I am a coffee afficiando & wanted to make my own coffee powder declumping stirrer. So I placed a few of these acupuncture needles into holes in a wooden handle like a shaving brush type wooden piece / old champagne cork. And use it to stir the powdered roasted coffee in the coffee receptacle of my Moka pot. This stirring action helps breakup any clumps of coffee grinds & this enables the hot water to pass through evenly as there are no lumps left. It has worked brilliantly & I used around 6/9 needles 0.4mm & am very satisfied with the results. I know this is not what originally meant for, but you know how ingenious we kiwis can be! Best wishes & you are an awesome great trader!!!