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All tattoo machines except rotary tattoo machines are made up of a frame, two coils, copper wiring, an armature bar, power supply and eyeless sewing needles.

The frame of a tattoo machine gun is the outer part. It forms the body of the machine. And then two coils, and it’s just a piece of steel down the core that’s wrapped by copper wire, they are wrapped to different thicknesses. This is wrapped, ten wraps deep. In tattooing generally the coils are wrapped from anywhere from six to ten wraps. And usually they use two coils. They are connecting together with a capacitor that acts to reduce the current to smooth out the energy flow. And then an armature bar, that when you attach a power supply, in this case it’s a twelve volt power supply. It creates an electromagnet and causes this armature bar to move up and down. When that contacts electricity, the coil sucks the bar down and when it breaks the contact up here, then it’s not a magnet anymore and the spring, springs it back up to do that again and that process repeats three thousand times approximately every minute. The needle portion is an eyeless sewing needle makes the tattoo needles. This one you probably can’t see but its three needles all packed together. And then they are soldered down to a long bar which we drop down to what we call the tube. And a couple of rubber bands act as a tensioning device to stop the needle from bouncing around.

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