VA Tattooing Exam PSI (Latest )
Premium Questions and Answers Study Guide
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• Making of needles process -✓✓-clean and sterilize after making needles
-Tin the soldering iron
-drop the needle into Jig, lightly tap to ensure all needles are even ( pointed side should
be down )
-drop a small amount of flux at the end of the needle groupings, tap with soldering iron.
• Diameter of a needle -✓✓Affects ink flow and puncture of the skin
Tapers
- Long Taper : Good for Lining
- Short Taper : Good for color
• Coil Machine how does it work -✓✓Uses magnets to power machine which moves the
armature bar and needles towards the coil.
This pulls the needle into the skin, breaking the circuit, causing the needle to go back
into the machine
• Coil Machine : Electromagnet ON - coils are not charged, the armature bar is up,
pulling the needle up -✓✓Coil Machine : Electromagnet OFF- coils are charged, pulling
the armature bar down, pulling the needle down
• Tuning - voltage -✓✓-4 volts for shading
-5.5 volts for lining
Rotary
7-8 for either beginner lining or shading, 9-10 for lining
• Tuning- CPs/Hertz -✓✓- Cycle per second
- 130 for lining
-120 for shading
• How to adjust CPs/Hertz -✓✓- Adjust by moving contact screw
- Increase : moving closer to the front spring, this also shortens the stroke.
- Decrease: moving further from the front spring, this lengthens the stroke
• Tuning: Stroke -✓✓-lining, shorter stoke 3mm
-Shading, grey wash, med stoke 3.5mm
, -packing color, longer stroke, 4mm
• Tuning: Duty -✓✓Measures how long the needle is in the skin
• Duty below 50 -✓✓Machine is spending more time off than on during a cycle
This means the needle is spending too much time extended out into the skin, causing
extra trauma to the skin
• Duty above 50 -✓✓The needle is spending too much time in the tube, causing the skin
to not get enough ink
• How to Adjust the Duty -✓✓Swinging the armature bar out and lightly bending the back
spring
If the duty is less than 50, bend the back spring up
If the duty is greater than 50, bend the back spring down
• Setting up: coil machines -✓✓1. set up the springs around the screw on the Armature
bar.
-Wedge the springs around the screw.
-The back spring goes under the front spring.
-Loop the O-ring around the screw, going under the front spring and over the back
spring.
2. Put a slight bend in the tattoo needle
- easier to not barb the needle when sliding it through the tube
-lets the needle rest against the back of the tip more easily
3. Put the needle through the tube
- slider the needle through the tube and attach the rubber grommet
- attach rubber grommet
-needle lays flat against the back of the tip
4. Feed the needle and tube through the clamp
- loosen clamp at the base of the machine, slide tube through
- secure the grommet the end of the armature bar
5. Adjust the tube so the needle is fully retracted
- needle should be lined up with the tip of the tattoo
- tighten the clamp
• Setting up : Coil Machine pt. 2 -✓✓6. Put a rubber band around the machine
-creates pressure to the needle to ensure it does not bounce around
- also helps keeps the grommet in place
Premium Questions and Answers Study Guide
(Correct and Verified)
• Making of needles process -✓✓-clean and sterilize after making needles
-Tin the soldering iron
-drop the needle into Jig, lightly tap to ensure all needles are even ( pointed side should
be down )
-drop a small amount of flux at the end of the needle groupings, tap with soldering iron.
• Diameter of a needle -✓✓Affects ink flow and puncture of the skin
Tapers
- Long Taper : Good for Lining
- Short Taper : Good for color
• Coil Machine how does it work -✓✓Uses magnets to power machine which moves the
armature bar and needles towards the coil.
This pulls the needle into the skin, breaking the circuit, causing the needle to go back
into the machine
• Coil Machine : Electromagnet ON - coils are not charged, the armature bar is up,
pulling the needle up -✓✓Coil Machine : Electromagnet OFF- coils are charged, pulling
the armature bar down, pulling the needle down
• Tuning - voltage -✓✓-4 volts for shading
-5.5 volts for lining
Rotary
7-8 for either beginner lining or shading, 9-10 for lining
• Tuning- CPs/Hertz -✓✓- Cycle per second
- 130 for lining
-120 for shading
• How to adjust CPs/Hertz -✓✓- Adjust by moving contact screw
- Increase : moving closer to the front spring, this also shortens the stroke.
- Decrease: moving further from the front spring, this lengthens the stroke
• Tuning: Stroke -✓✓-lining, shorter stoke 3mm
-Shading, grey wash, med stoke 3.5mm
, -packing color, longer stroke, 4mm
• Tuning: Duty -✓✓Measures how long the needle is in the skin
• Duty below 50 -✓✓Machine is spending more time off than on during a cycle
This means the needle is spending too much time extended out into the skin, causing
extra trauma to the skin
• Duty above 50 -✓✓The needle is spending too much time in the tube, causing the skin
to not get enough ink
• How to Adjust the Duty -✓✓Swinging the armature bar out and lightly bending the back
spring
If the duty is less than 50, bend the back spring up
If the duty is greater than 50, bend the back spring down
• Setting up: coil machines -✓✓1. set up the springs around the screw on the Armature
bar.
-Wedge the springs around the screw.
-The back spring goes under the front spring.
-Loop the O-ring around the screw, going under the front spring and over the back
spring.
2. Put a slight bend in the tattoo needle
- easier to not barb the needle when sliding it through the tube
-lets the needle rest against the back of the tip more easily
3. Put the needle through the tube
- slider the needle through the tube and attach the rubber grommet
- attach rubber grommet
-needle lays flat against the back of the tip
4. Feed the needle and tube through the clamp
- loosen clamp at the base of the machine, slide tube through
- secure the grommet the end of the armature bar
5. Adjust the tube so the needle is fully retracted
- needle should be lined up with the tip of the tattoo
- tighten the clamp
• Setting up : Coil Machine pt. 2 -✓✓6. Put a rubber band around the machine
-creates pressure to the needle to ensure it does not bounce around
- also helps keeps the grommet in place
