VA tattoo newest exam with accurate detailed solutions
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"the making of needles" Materials - ✔✔- Flat Needle Bar
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-round needle bar || || ||
- eye loop
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-drill gauge: tightens needle
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- souder
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Making of needles process - ✔✔-clean and sterilize after making needles
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-Tin the soldering iron
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-drop the needle into Jig, lightly tap to ensure all needles are even ( pointed side should be
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-drop a small amount of flux at the end of the needle groupings, tap with soldering iron.
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Diameter of a needle - ✔✔Affects ink flow and puncture of the skin
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Tapers ||
- Long Taper : Good for Lining
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- Short Taper : Good for color
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Coil Machine how does it work - ✔✔Uses magnets to power machine which moves the
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armature bar and needles towards the coil. || || || || || || ||
This pulls the needle into the skin, breaking the circuit, causing the needle to go back into
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the machine
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Coil Machine : Electromagnet ON - coils are not charged, the armature bar is up, pulling
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the needle up - ✔✔Coil Machine : Electromagnet OFF- coils are charged, pulling the
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armature bar down, pulling the needle down || || || || || ||
Tuning - voltage - ✔✔-4 volts for shading
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-5.5 volts for lining
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Rotary ||
7-8 for either beginner lining or shading, 9-10 for lining
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Tuning- CPs/Hertz - ✔✔- Cycle per second
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- 130 for lining
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-120 for shading
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How to adjust CPs/Hertz - ✔✔- Adjust by moving contact screw
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- Increase : moving closer to the front spring, this also shortens the stroke.
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- Decrease: moving further from the front spring, this lengthens the stroke
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Tuning: Stroke - ✔✔-lining, shorter stoke 3mm
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-Shading, grey wash, med stoke 3.5mm || || || || ||
-packing color, longer stroke, 4mm || || || ||
Tuning: Duty - ✔✔Measures how long the needle is in the skin
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Duty below 50 - ✔✔Machine is spending more time off than on during a cycle
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