Tune That Coil Machine Into a Colour Packing Beast! Pro Tuning Guide!

[@A.TAYLOR]

You literally have the best tutorials. So simple to understand!

[@fujitattooz5127]

Thank you Jono, using pens and neo tats but loyal to the coil. love yer videos thanks again :)

[@JonoSmithTattoo]

Thank you so much! You'll get a shout out on the next upload.

[@SID_666_]

Thanks for this video, has helped me understand packing setup better.

[@JasondeanDuncan]

Thank you brah outstanding desperatley needed that knowledge!!! Thank you again keep it up

[@MrJeffro1968]

As far as your rubber bands go, here in Australia at a lot of stationary stores we can get different sizes of rubber bands and the ideal bands are a No.12 for a single wrap band. If you can get them in the UK then alls good but I can get boxes of a couple of hundred in a box for about $6AUD

[@JonoSmithTattoo]

Yes just use what seems to comfortably hold the needle back in its place without any extra stress on the machine. I wouldn't worry too much about actual specifics of the sizes of bands. Thanks for watching!

[@sushinktattoo1366]

Help me out here. I got my vlad blad whip shader tuned 95cps unloaded/75 loaded. Hard hit. Got soft hitting coil tuned 110cps/ 100 unloaded as packer. Is that right ?

[@DangalInk]

How we miss you brother 😢R.I.P

[@konstantinosk1198]

Hi Sir, thank you for this video. I would like to ask you about capacitors. what Capacitance how many uf should someone use for Shading and what for Color Packing? Thank you again all your videos are awesome.

[@PatLoveridge]

Hi my friend, thank you so much for all your info videos, I have learnt so much. I have gone from stick and poke to now machine tattooing myself, and all the tips I have got from you. I do hope your health is getting better and you still keep doing your videos in the future. I wish you could see how far I have come from hand poke to Dragonhawk, yes I know still doing it on the cheap lol. Just one question..... What do you think of colour packing with like a 11RS Shader? That's all I have to play with at the moment to finish off some of my line tattoos on me. Keep doing what you do my friend :)

[@JonoSmithTattoo]

Thank you! Im glad the channel has helped you out. My advice is to use what you have. 11Rs will do the job. Thank you for your support.

[@bradmoules5389]

Awesome! Thanks Jono...

[@ilyakucherov1064]

hey Jono- what are you using for cleaning the machine?

[@MrJeffro1968]

Also Jonno can you answer a quick question for me? When I clean my armature bar & coil posts I use a very fine grit (1800-2000) wet & dry but I only use it dry to clean my machines, have you ever tried it or know of anyone who does?

[@JonoSmithTattoo]

I only use Brasso to clean my armature bars. I find it gives really good results.

[@hacedms]

Thanks for the video, do you ever use spring tension gauge? I don't see many people talk about it.

[@JonoSmithTattoo]

To be honest I've never used a tension gauge but they would be a huge help for that extra level of refinement. Thanks for watching!

[@CoTheme303]

I use a digital scale and it definitely helps to fine tune. Thanks Jono, your videos are great.

[@hacedms]

@@CoTheme303 what are you figures for lining, shading and packing?

[@JonoSmithTattoo]

130-135 lining, 90-100 shading around 90 packing. There's actually a chart for these in the video. Feel free to screenshot it. Good luck with it!

[@MrGazza666]

im slightly confused Jono you havent mentioned Duty figure etc power pack showed 44 % is that right thanks

[@JonoSmithTattoo]

The duty is fully covered in the video i did years ago which is mentioned in the beginning of this one. 44% is acceptable though 50% is perfect.

[@JonoSmithTattoo]

Duty is quite a big subject to cover (which I've done in a previous video) and show you how to set it. Basically you're aiming for 50% but 5% either side of this will be fine.

[@nielfoster376]

Thanks jono

[@JonoSmithTattoo]

Thanks for watching!!

[@paulperrin2152]

What gauge springs

[@JonoSmithTattoo]

I'm pretty sure this setup is .22 back and .18 front but ill double check for you.

[@paulperrin2152]

@@JonoSmithTattoo thank you

[@wadenvern]

@@JonoSmithTattoo 22 guage back spring is waaaay to thick for a color packer or shader. You want the back spring thinner so the pull force back up is slower, slowing the machine down. The voltage has nothing to do with the speed. A properly tuned machine should not change much in duty or speed when raising or lowering the machines voltage.

[@wadenvern]

1. Force is not dictated by voltage, it's dictated by the springs, both back and front. 2. That machine sounds like crap cuz youre running it at 14+ volts....there isn't a machine out there that sounds good at 14+ 3. CPS is only one aspect of a machine, duty cycle will tell you how long the needle is in the skin, and therefore whether or not the needle will catch the skin. 4. The contact between the armature bar and the front coil is irrelevant....what is relevant is the material the armature bar is made from, not how clean it is. The coils magnetize and pull the armature bar down, breaking contact the the "contact screw", forcing the back spring to pull it back up, "contacting" the contact screw again to start the cycle again. There is so much wrong with this video, I can't even mention it here, because I just don't have the time. I guess it serves the purpose of getting you views, and subscribers, because good tuning advice is hard to come by, and therefore easy to fool people with, but this is not good machine tuning advice, at all. You need more practice. Get your hands on some Machine Gun Magazines and get studying bro.

[@tubezeronine]

Right tuned with DC 44% and Voltagem at 14V 😂 must be a joke 🤦

[@JozefSpotify]

@@tubezeronineidk, Dekalcomanu using 20V or maybe little more and everything running perfect

[@ciscokid1223]

He knows that the info is wrong. The views is all that matters. He has good equipment and his heart is in the right place trying to educate people but you're right he needs to really do his homework and then teach. Good comment.

[@TeezyTattoos]

Crazy in the past 20 years there’s not one good video on tuning a coil machine. But still pretty badass you got to go to the source to learn this shit. Thanks for shouting out machine gun mag. Best info on learning these machines out there

[@wadenvern]

@@TeezyTattoos machine tuning is a lost art that a lot of folks like to tinker with, only way to learn is to rip’em down and build them back up then take note of the changes. Make sure you have a reliable power supply with readings on it, duty cycle, hertz, volts and amps as well if you can find one….follow through, usually signified by “ft” on a screen can help diagnose some issues as well

[@mobassintv6435]

Why are you running it at 14volts in the first place? Lol 😂 smdh

[@ericwalker8553]

This was kind of garbage, I didn’t learn anything from it. You failed to explain anything that you did to make that into a packer. There’s all sort of things you could’ve covered other than cleaning a machine like the gauge of your springs, angle of deflection, capacitors, duty, or the position of the contact screw to the front coil core. All very vital information to consider when tuning a machine. All you did was clean it & unwind the contact screw a tad, very disappointing as I thought I was gonna learn something…..anything.