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WCDT 4141-4145 (Nov 25th-29th, 2019)
cybersmurf:
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--- Quote from: BenRG on 24 Nov 2019, 23:27 ---"Thermal decoupler" is an interesting technical name for what's basically an electrical hot knife.
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Who knows... My imagination made it a permanent but invisible seam with some sort of heat sensitive adhesive, so the application of the tool opens the pre existing seam. Another question is that of stretch. Do they need to add extra skin to allow for the implants, or like human skin will it adapt by itself?
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Technically, a (welding) torch, or a soldering iron are thermal decouplers, too!
Question is, how elastic the "dermal cover" is, and how much the difference is. I guess there needs to be a certain amount of stretch to account for movement, so as long as you don't add like ten pounds per cheek, it should be fine.
Wingy:
--- Quote from: cybersmurf on 25 Nov 2019, 02:42 ---Question is, how elastic the "dermal cover" is, and how much the difference is.
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I would expect they ordered in any they need along with the implants; probably standardized colors as well as materials. I would think there would be resellers of after-market or OEM dermal components; after all May found some the proper color eventually.
awkwardness:
--- Quote from: JimC on 25 Nov 2019, 01:05 ---
--- Quote from: BenRG on 24 Nov 2019, 23:27 ---"Thermal decoupler" is an interesting technical name for what's basically an electrical hot knife.
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Who knows... My imagination made it a permanent but invisible seam with some sort of heat sensitive adhesive, so the application of the tool opens the pre existing seam. Another question is that of stretch. Do they need to add extra skin to allow for the implants, or like human skin will it adapt by itself?
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You had the same idea that I had about it...it's likely that it's a specialized tool and not just a normal tool despite appearances and Bubbles is familiar with it it due to repeated use(probably from battlefield medical use on herself/colleagues).
The real question I had is: if it's really just a hot knife, how has Faye not used it before in some capacity? Or was her sculpture work never in small-scale designing where that'd be used for visual aid?
BenRG:
--- Quote from: awkwardness on 25 Nov 2019, 06:49 ---You had the same idea that I had about it...it's likely that it's a specialized tool and not just a normal tool despite appearances and Bubbles is familiar with it it due to repeated use(probably from battlefield medical use on herself/colleagues).
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I don't know. Sometimes I think that Bubbles likes to show off (to Sam if not to Faye) and deliberately jargons stuff up to make what she knows look more impressive.
--- Quote from: awkwardness on 25 Nov 2019, 06:49 ---The real question I had is: if it's really just a hot knife, how has Faye not used it before in some capacity? Or was her sculpture work never in small-scale designing where that'd be used for visual aid?
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Everything I've seen about Faye's art is that it was at least desk furniture-sized. She never did super-small precision work.
rtmq0227:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 25 Nov 2019, 07:00 ---
--- Quote from: awkwardness on 25 Nov 2019, 06:49 ---You had the same idea that I had about it...it's likely that it's a specialized tool and not just a normal tool despite appearances and Bubbles is familiar with it it due to repeated use(probably from battlefield medical use on herself/colleagues).
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I don't know. Sometimes I think that Bubbles likes to show off (to Sam if not to Faye) and deliberately jargons stuff up to make what she knows look more impressive.
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As a skilled technician, I've often been surprised at how many common tools have more specific names (a basic example being "hex wrench" aka "Allen Key"). Bubbles strikes me more as the kind of person to use the true/original name for tools, as it's more accurate. Heat Knife gets the point across, but if it's not actually sharp, is it really a knife? Thermal Adhesive may basically be Hot Glue, but Bubbles is more precise than that.
Of course, sometimes a hammer is just a hammer.
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