Spektra Halo feedback thread

[vodu]

Used 3.6 today to packing....I'm sold, trading one of my hypers v3s soon for another halo...


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[Sage Oz]

I wanted to thank Kayleigh for the awesome asap customer service getting out new cams and lube to us at our shop

[fkirons]

I wanted to thank Kayleigh for the awesome asap customer service getting out new cams and lube to us at our shop

We strive to ttake good care of our customers. I'm glad you are a happy one!

[vodu]

Gaston, you sir, made a very well made machine...it´s too easy to work with her.I´m in love with mine...packed this today with my 3.6:

[fkirons]

Gaston, you sir, made a very well made machine...it´s too easy to work with her.I´m in love with mine...packed this today with my 3.6:

Thank you. Nice piece you have going on in there. Enjoy it and tag us on Facebook and Instagram @FKIRONS

[crabink]

Gaston, any idea when my halo will show up? ordered it a few days ago..
Also, you ever thought of making a steel tube line... would be nice to see someone with your precision and genius make some sick stainless steel tubes.
I always use steel tubes with a small 5/8 diameter barrell, and i slide a fat grenade grip from lucky's over em... so they are light weight, sturdy and fat...
easiest way to get fat grips with low weight and low vibration.
I hate disposables.. I only use em for putting in white.

[crabink]

Halo out of the box

This is a mini review of the Halo pre-tattoo. In other words a technical review of everything except tattooing with it, which will come later.

First impressions was that it is smaller than I thought, which was a good thing. Very lite obviously and well made.
The armature nipple is the perfect diameter, sometimes they make the nipple to large and I got to fight to get grommets on. (yes i still use grommets, fucking condemn me.)
The position of the nipple plate as if pertains to the linear placement of the needle down the tube is perfect, fucking slam dunk.
The vise tube is amazing.. so damn simple, yet so damn perfect..
Running the machine with the 3.6 OOB it was really quiet and very low vibration around 7-8.5 volts.
I played with the give and realized that the threading on the give screwl is very tight, with a lot of thread layers, which means a lot of range for the give.
You can actually open the give around 8 - 9 full complete 360 turns before it comes off.
And the fact that the give knob stem secures the armature in place with the give spring around it is pretty smart.
As I ran the machine and played with the give from tight no give to 6 open turns I found that the give system is unique because it allows a wide range of give with no hit loss... this machine won't bog like a v3 or prodigy.
In my opinion it's like the perfect direct drive when tight and then you can fine tune the direct drive type of hit so that it dampens, instead of gives like a coil machine (which it is not, so that's good.
Glad to see someone design a machine with rotary hit and rotary give in mind and not worry about trying to emulate a coil give.
Can tell that hundreds of hours of testing went into this design.
The only problem I had was the position of the rubber band posts.. wish it was a 1/4 lower.. in the future perhaps 2 or 3 stems kind of like a rib cage on each side to choose the perfect height for the rubber band placement.
Or perhaps an adjustable sliding side post system... or just 3 or 4 holes on each side and you place a peg or slide bar where you want it.
I like my rubber bands as low as possible so mags don't flap around. I mean how hard would it be to accommodate a few different rubber band heights... to me this is a big deal.

Overall 9.75 out of 10

Best technically designed rotary I ever owned so far... A must have no matter what for any rotary user, or tattooer period.

Post tattoo review coming soon, because I got a sexy ass Mexican girl coming in for a tattoo below the panty line in 3 hours for a cover up.. and she is fucking smoking hot. God I hate my job... lol

[crabink]

ok post tattoo review..

Ummm... she was smoking hot... lol

[tattood]

ok post tattoo review..

Ummm... she was smoking hot... lol

crab what did u think of the halo?

[crabink]

It literally has no give lol... i mean the amount of force it takes to get the give to raise even with 4 to 5 full turns out is more force than I would ever use tattooing.. so like I said.. its basically a DD for me.... but that being said.. I like DD machines and the ink flew in.. machine was quiet and smooth..no vibration at all with my steel tubes, 5/8 barell, all surrounded by a fat silicone grenade grip from lucky's tattoo supply.

Since I learned how to use rotaries I don't care to much if a machine has give... too much give like with a Prodigy or Dragonfly can cause float and not enough saturation, but they have a place in an arsenal for sure.

So it's pretty sweet. I plan on using it a lot...

One thing for sure.. this machine is made way better than the Prodigy... that machine has side to side sway on the nipple.. the bolt wasn't secured well and if u hit it, it would come loose... fuck that machine. Had a great give system but that's about it.

really happy with the Halo... colors fast and solid.. i'll post some tat pics when i get a fat piece in the next few days.

I'm sure Gaston has a softer model in the works... If he had a softer model he would have the market sown up... I mean he can make a direct drive if he wants to .. but the Halo hits hard and it pretty much fills that spot in my opinion, plus its adjustable. I don't think to many hard core Halo users open the give at all... or care too lol