Favorite machines??

[Lao Tze's monkey]

I have heard many ppl are loving the pneumatics (neuma) and the rotary(hawk) there is also a few others does anyone have any insight into these new technologies or any good reasons they love their old doorbells??? And if so whats best for who in your mind??? General machine chatter...if a new machine were to be invented what features would u like to see in it??(i for one want no clipcord!!)

[sean rakos]

a wireless foot switch and machine would make me tingle all over!!!!

[Paul Oliver]

NOt too sure on the Neumatic machines. In my opinion you might as well run a rotary as they are or can be pretty much the same. I'm not dissin them just why spend the money on a compressor when a rotary runs on your current power supply and are quiet as hell.

As for wireless footswitches check out Critical Tattoo. They are very close to releasing theirs.

[Lonnie Pease]

My sister is an engineer at GE and I've spoken with her quite a bit over the years about helping me come up with a wireless tattoo machine. The roadblock is always the battery. Getting the signal to the machine is the easy part. Having some way to power the machine is the hard part. It has to remain small and light and for now there isn't a good way to do that.



sean rakos said:

a wireless foot switch and machine would make me tingle all over!!!!

[Fronkie L'Heureux]

A friend of mine has switched his shop entirely to pneumatics and has nothing but great things to say about them. He also somehow installed a giant compressor outside that runs to all the stations and all the stations can run at once off this one compressor, which helps eliminate the noise. He likes that the neumas don't require any tuning.

I'm interested to hear about other people's favorite old doorbells, what makers and styles others prefer.