Entomological pins questionnaire. EARN SOME FREE ENTO PINS

[wollastoni]

Dear members,

For the first time, an entomological pin supplier wants to know what our needs in entomological pins are.

ENTOPINS FOLCH (sponsor of this forum) wants to produce the best entomological pins ever. They already have stronger pins than the classic Czech or Polish pins most of us are using. This can be very useful for all beetle collectors as some species have a very thick body (Goliathus, Carabus...).

To improve their research with customer insights, Josep Folch, the founder of Entopins Folch, has developed a questionnaire for you. There are few questions to answer and to send to Josep Folch (his email is at the end of the questionnaire).

Please note that :
- the first 25 members who answer the questionnaire will receive FREE entomological pins from Entopins
- all members who answer the questionnaire will get a 20% discount on a future order in Entopins shop

Here is the link to download the questionnaire : Entopins Questionnaire

It is the first time I see a supplier asking questions to insect collectors. I find this approach very smart and consumer-oriented. So I hope many of you will answer.
If you want to know more about Entopins, here you can download a company presentation about them : Entopins presentation

Please post a message in this thread when you have sent the questionnaire to them.

[exoticimports]

I completed it and sent it.

Interesting cultural difference, in USA we refer to pins in sizes 00 - 5. While I prefer metric, and can generally translate between the two, their use of mm is foreign to me. I could go put a mic on a #3 pin, but too much effort. So if they are going to sell in USA they are going to have to equate them to standard sizes.

Chuck

[richardshelton]

Done and sent some hours ago. Thank you

[tv]

I sent one as well and included a suggestion for a new product...fingers crossed.

Hey Chuck, I was assuming they were the sizes correlating for 000 through 7, was that not what the sizes were?

[exoticimports]

I don’t know for certain. I could mic them but no time. So I guessed.

Chuck

[tv]

On their website, they have them listed with both number and size, so the 0.35 is size 0 and 0.6 is size 5. That works out so that 0.25 is size 000 and 0.7 is size 7

[thepinmaker]

May 19, 2021 10:34:26 GMT -8 exoticimports said:

I completed it and sent it.

Interesting cultural difference, in USA we refer to pins in sizes 00 - 5. While I prefer metric, and can generally translate between the two, their use of mm is foreign to me. I could go put a mic on a #3 pin, but too much effort. So if they are going to sell in USA they are going to have to equate them to standard sizes.

Chuck

Thanks  for  completing, the  questionaire,   we  have  equated  the  sizes, mm  and  inches,  to  make it easier, for  everybody
we will send  and email,  with the  details  for the sample shippings.

Thanks  your comment   we have added  the  sizes  in the  questionaire


www.folch.com/images/pdf/QUADRE_AGULLES_ENTOM.pdf
here you can get  the  chart with the sizes  and  codes.

Josep m  the pin maker

[thepinmaker]

May 19, 2021 11:27:36 GMT -8 tv said:

I sent one as well and included a suggestion for a new product...fingers crossed.

Hey Chuck, I was assuming they were the sizes correlating for 000 through 7, was that not what the sizes were?

  Thanks  for sending the questionaire, we will avaluate your  suggestion, and we will give our feed back
 
  we will send an email about the sample shipping details

  Josep m  the pin maker
 

[thepinmaker]

May 19, 2021 11:16:21 GMT -8 richardshelton said:

Done and sent some hours ago. Thank you

  Thanks for sending the questionaire,  we will  send  to you an email with the samples  shipping details

  Josep m  The Pin maker

[benihikage92]

I also answered to the questionnaire, and just sent it now. I hope it will help.

[thepinmaker]

May 20, 2021 4:27:39 GMT -8 benihikage92 said:

I also answered to the questionnaire, and just sent it now. I hope it will help.

   Thanks  for  sending  us your   questionnaire,  we   appreciate that we  are getting the  first  questionnaires with valuable information,   that they will help to learn about  your  pin  choices  for the insect pinning, and also your  comments  about your wished pins, in a few days  we  are going to send  solid head pins   for your  avaluation, 


JoseP M folch   The  Pin Maker

[jwa121]

I answered the questionnaire. Thanks.

[thepinmaker]

May 19, 2021 13:10:06 GMT -8 tv said:

On their website, they have them listed with both number and size, so the 0.35 is size 0 and 0.6 is size 5. That works out so that 0.25 is size 000 and 0.7 is size 7

Thanks  for  visiting   our   site,  we understand  that  the  numbers  are more important  than the sizes  we will keep this on mind,  our idea is to build  the full  range  of the  insect  pins that are actually in the market, steadily, we have started  with the  pin size 2  ( diam  0.45 mm) and  we will  keep going  up  and down,  and  depending  of this questionnaire will go  faster in one direction or another, we are also introducing  new materials,  that we will  be happy that  everybody could  test and evaluate.

Josep M  the Pin Maker

[exoticimports]

Thanks Josep.

I think most people prefer stainless steel pins.

I would not like the flat head pins. But also, I don't like when the head falls off the round pin.

Not sure about others, but I have about 300 size 00 pins for setting specimens. Most of what I use- many a year- are size 3. I'm guessing many other people also use this size most often.


Chuck

[tv]

Man I wish I could catch enough large specimens to mostly use size 3 pins. I do catch some, but most often I catch smaller specimens that require size 000-2. I guess I also prefer the black pins (no lost pin heads and less issue of spinning specimens in my experience). I'm glad that they're taking a survey so that they can collect data from a lot of individuals rather than relying on generalizations.