Thursday 1 September 2016

Theory on phimocure ring sizes

On the phimocure website, it is stated that the kit:
"Now includes 11 medical grade flexible rings, sized from 9.5mm to 30.2 mm diameter."

That seemed odd to me. Why would someone manufacture a ring that's exactly 30.2 mm in diameter? 30.5 I would understand, but 30.2 seems arbitrary. I thought maybe the rings are manufactured in America, and the measurements are actually in imperial units (inches), but are converted to metric units (mm). Well, 30.2 mm is 1.188976 inch, and 1.2 inch is 30.48 mm. That's not right.

And then I thought, maybe the rings are manufactured to have a very specific circumference, and the number being advertised on the website is the diameter, because it is more meaningful to the user. Well, a circle with a diameter of 30.2 mm has a circumference of 94.8760981384 mm. That's pretty close to 95. A circle with a circumference of 95 mm has a diameter of 30.2394391875 mm, which gives you 30.2 when you round it up. The smaller ring, which is said to have a diameter of 9.5 mm, would actually have a circumference of exactly 30 mm, which would yield of diameter of 9.54929658551, which gives us 9.5 when rounded. That's why I concluded that the phimocure rings are manufactured with circumference in mind, i.e., their circumference in mm is made to be a round number.

Now here's the interesting part. There are 11 rings, the biggest one being 95 mm (circumference), the smallest one 30 mm. That would give us an increment of 6.5 mm. The smallest one is 30, the second one would be 36.5, third one 43, etc.

That still doesn't seem quite right to me. I can't believe someone would manufacture flesh tunnels with 6.5 mm increments, 5 mm would be more logical. If the increment were 5 mm, how many rings would there be? '((95 - 30) / 5) + 1' (you need to add 1 to account for the last ring) gives us 14.

Could it be that the phimocure kit was meant to be a kit of 14 rings, but that only 11 of them are actually sent to us? I was curious, so I made the measurement. Here is the circumference of the rings, in mm, from the smallest to the biggest. I measured them using a string and a ruler.

30, 40, 45, 50, 60, 65, 70, 75, 85, 90, 95

As you can see, the increment between the rings is of 5 mm, but there are gaps of 10 mm, which means that there are missing rings. Which means that it should be more difficult to move to the 2nd, 5th and 9th ring. I believe that this can explain most plateaux experienced by phimocure users. What do you all think? I'm sharing this knowledge with the community because I believe it can be useful to phimocure users. Manual stretching can be used to manage those bigger gaps.

For the curious, here are the next rings that phimocure will send you if you ask them:

100, 105, 115, 120, 130

As you can see, again, there are missing rings.

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