MiniFox

Any chance I could get you to look at it? Don’t know where you are but I’m in Cleveland. I just found out that my local tattoo retail shop wil diagnose machines but they do NOT fix them… just sell the parts for a huge mark-up. I’d really like to learn how to diagnose AND build machines myself but in the mean time I just want my machine to work :?
Thanks!

Actually that is exactly what was happening! I just logged on here to see if I could figure out why. When I start up my machine it just gives a little bz then the armature bar is actually stuck to the top of my coils and I have to physically remove it. I thought my machine just quit on me until I saw what was going on. Does anyone have an…[Read more]

Thank you!!!

I have looked everywhere and it seems that there isn’t a driver for riteman. That’s why I asked… maybe I’ll go to a computer forum?
That isn’t what this forum is really for is it? LOL
Thanks anyways!!!

I got a dot matrix printer thinking I could do the same thing before I even read this post. My problem is that I cannot find the driver to use it. Did you have this problem with yours? I’m running on windows XP and the printer is a riteman.

I finally figured it out and now I feel dumb. But I wanted to share anyways since some other newbie might run into this.

I cleaned evreything and I mean E V E R Y T H I N G!!! Except my foot pedal. There was a build up between the foot pedal pieces!

My new machine (Hidlbrandt .44 Magnum) sounds like a dream. While the other two machines do now…[Read more]

Everything seems to be tiight. I even took my machines apart and put them back together thinking something might have come loose. That’s why I can’t figure out what’s wrong. The real question I guess is do I just start buying new parts and replace them one at a time to figure out what is wrong?

Back yard mechanics do this… that’s why you pay…[Read more]

Follow up…
I forgot to mention that I am using a shding machine and that I tried round shaders, mags and double stack mags all with the same result. I did have my water handy as well but that wasn’t helping either. Because I don’t do this professionally (yet?) :? I buy most of my needles in small amounts so they don’t sit around too long. I…[Read more]