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Summary: When cleaning a tattoo machine, disassemble the needle and tube assembly before dropping them into a water soak that includes bleach. Dispose tattoo needles after every use with tips from an experienced tattoo artist in this free video on tattoo equipment.
"Hi, this is Doc Lowry. When you're, complete your tattoo, they're...clean your machine by disassembling the needle and the tube assembly like this, and we drop them into soak and bleach water soak. They soak in there for a while and that cleans all that off and then the equipment then, we can just spray down and the body of the machine frame, and rinse it off, and then dry it and it's ready for your next service. The, when you're finished with a tattoo then, the needle goes into a Sharps container that's full of used tattoo needles, and they just collect there until they're ready for disposal, and that gets...and that gets thrown out. The tube part goes through a sterilization process and we'll go over here and show you how that works. After thee tattoo is completed and the tube is soaked in some bleach water, then let's move to an ultra-sonic cleaner and they're where they're just dropped in this basket and they, and then they...have sound waves that vibrate any residue off the remainder of the tube, and they clean in there. Just a soap solution. And then after they've been in there, they go into the autoclave. An autoclave is very similar to just a, oh, okay, well here's some tools here I just cleaned, to a pressure cooker, and this one even looks like a pressure cooker. But the tubes are bagged, just like these tools are into sterilization bags, and the bags are chemically treated so that they change color. And you can see, here's some jewelry that's been prepared for sterilization and so it changes from pink to gray so you know that the transformation has taken place. And then...and then it cooks in here for an hour. Here's a pair of tubes that have been all bagged up and ready to be autoclaved, and so they go in there and then they get sterilized and then the tube part, and the handle part, is ready to do another tattoo."
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