ralliart12
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A properly taken impression should only yield issues if it shrinks. We certainly don't do enough shaving in our processes to modify the shape or size of the impression to be smaller.
It's a loaded question you ask. We can't say how thick one layer is for sure, and even so, we wouldn't be able to gauge how much is needed anyway! (0.1mm? 0.05mm?). If only fit issues were so easy to diagnose!
You see, the thing is, I currently have a pair of customs back at UM for re-fitting. There were a couple of reasons I asked for a re-fit. My last pair of customs was done with Rooth. These pair, which I'd done with UM, I specifically requested for longer ear-tips. So when these pair returned and the ear-tip regions are the same length as my Rooth pair, I was a bit disappointed. They were also slightly smaller than the Rooth pair; hence the snug fit wasn't 100% there. So in the end, I asked my distributor to send them (the UM pair) back to UM for refitting, making 3 changes: ear-tips to be longer; ear-tips to be thicker, body-shell region to be "bigger".
I was informed by my distro recently, that UM informed them that the impressions I'd supplied them earlier, weren't long enough for UM to make longer ear-tips. Now, I had tried to ask the audiologist to attempt to make my ear impressions longer for the past couple of times that I had to make ear impressions. Perhaps UM can provide some key words or guidelines so that potential customers can highlight to their audiologists and they will know how long the impressions will have to be, for those who really want longer ear-tips? Right-now, I believe most impressions are made "past the 2nd-bend", as what the audiologists will say.
Secondly, the reason I asked about how thick 1 layer will be is because I was informed by my distro that that's how UM is gonna make my body-shell and ear-tips thicker, i.e. layering one more layer on top to make the physical dimensions bigger. My distro advised me against adding 2 layers as they are afraid it may literally end up too big. Well, I, on the other hand, was afraid adding just one layer, wouldn't make the physical dimensions big enough. Hence the curiosity about thickness of one single layer. But from your statement, it seems UM is unsure how thick one layer is, or require the customer to specify how thick they want one layer to be??
Thirdly, I was told layering one more layer on top may affect the intensity of the body-shell's colour, particularly if the original colour's translucent? Is this true?
Thanks in advance.