Talk about machine coils

[JohnnyTeabags]

Originally Posted by travelingtom

hahaha you said boned!! but they really are'nt that hard to understand. all it is is an electromagnet. there are lots of things that use them, like hair clippers for example.

Yeah Jess, Machines are about as complicated as a door bell, and work on the same principle as i recently found out.

I was rockin some next generation half coil orions for the longest time, I got my hands on a machine building book and someone gave me Six monster Steal machines to tinker with, And I'll be damned if I ever use another coil that I didn't build and tune myself.

I stripped them all down to just the frames, re wrapped a couple of the coils, and started going to work on them, and let me tell you, it took a few tries to get it right. But now that I know what I'm doing, I've got those things purring like kittens. they run fast and loose and just bury ink. I'm running 10 wrap coils so mine do run a little hot. I'm running at 13-14v if I'm doing solid color, and they actually do get Hot after extended use, but they'll push just about anything anyway I want it.

Heres something I did on my leg yesterday in about 15 minutes out of boredom, Ignore the lines in the upper right hand corner, I know they're s&!t, my girl came home and started screaming about our dinner reservations that I had forgotten about and so I whipped them out in about 2 seconds flat so I can come back and fatten them up later. Just a guide for me since I didn't want to loose the Outline I had already drawn on myself.



Like i said, this was just something out of boredom that I whipped out in 15 minutes, and not something I'd put in my portfolio, I know it's a s&!t piece, but I'm using it as an example because I think it shows how well these things bury alot of black very very quickly.

anyway, I'm rambling, again, I apologize, what I guess I'm trying to say, is Building my own machines, made me appriciate them that much more. They're so simple yet extremely complex, and I kinda felt like a Jedi who'd built his own lightsabre after I was done.

[jess the dude]

just so you guys know when i said tattoo machines get me all boned up i didnt mean that they confuse me.

[SJRabbit]

I think a coil machine is probly the easyist thing to understand, but im just mechancally inclined

[SJRabbit]

but it's kinda funny when you get a guy in the shop who hasn't a clue and forget some thing as simple as a the plastic Insilating washers (i guess that's what it's called) on his binding posts and wonders why it dosen't work or just forgets the top one and goes to fiddle with the top screw and shocks himself LMFAO ahhhhhhh........ Idiots

[travelingtom]

Originally Posted by jess

just so you guys know when i said tattoo machines get me all boned up i didnt mean that they confuse me.

i....................uh...........i knew that. and....uh......they get me all........uh sweaty........yah.......sweaty...................* runs off to the bathroom*

[tommiwommi]

The one thing I haven't understood is the thickness of the core, I have yet to get much insight on the difference, It's just something I have yet to understand, I'm sure it's kind of a minor thing, I'm just the type who won't leave stuff alone until I can understand it.

[dank]

Whats a coil?

[Nicole]

DANK


How ya been man? Glad to see you here again.

[dank]

Been pretty good......I opened a new shop last year and been building what feels like 24/7 just like always ahahaa Just been so overwhelmed I don't know if I'm coming or going. But I think I found someone to help run the shop so I can build more and tattoo a couple days a week or something. And I'm only doing a couple more machines built to order for a minute and working on a run for a project thats been in the works for a while now Then I'll go back to buis as usual, might do a couple one offs here and there while I'm doing this run but thats it.

How is everything? You, Josh and the family all good?

[SugarT]

i told you i was gonna get him to post :P