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Ep. 62: RAID 1 and Pray
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This week on The Lone Machinists, Jamie and Curt spiral (responsibly) through ultra-paranoid RAID backups, fiber lines getting excavated into oblivion in South Africa, and the launch of the brand-new Noughtical Workholding Shopify store. We dive into mirrored drives, M-Discs, offsite backups, and why losing your childhood photos is a trauma you only need once. Then things escalate: Haas machines booting up with ads, ChatGPT hallucinating wiring diagrams, gimbals doing unnecessary 360° flips, and the very real possibility that we’re speed-running the darkest timeline. It’s machining, media, marketing, mild conspiracy, and a healthy dose of “just hold it properly” — all in one episode.
Links Discussed:
- Noughtical Work Holding: https://www.noughticalwh.com/
- Easily Replaceable USB-C Port Spawned By EU Laws: https://hackaday.com/2026/02/26/easily-replaceable-usb-c-port-spawned-by-eu-laws/
The Lone Machinist:
- Website: https://thelonemachinists.com/
- Bonus Content: https://thelonemachinists.com/#bonus-content
- Merch: https://www.jspeceng.com/online-store
- Patreon: https://patreon.com/TheLoneMachinists
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Transcript
Introduction and Podcast Overview
00:00:00
jamie peacock
Welcome to the Loan Machinists where it's just you that work in your machines. What are you up to today
Data Storage and Backup Solutions
00:00:08
Curt
ah Today I'm going to talk about my ultra paranoid raid archive setup. ah Titanium cutting, nine hours in the cut, pretty happy about that. And filming is fun, I forgot about that. ah How about you Master Jamie?
00:00:21
jamie peacock
discuss my new online store.
00:00:23
jamie peacock
I've been using my big camera again because of you and my fiber lines been down since Friday.
00:00:30
Curt
Ooh yay, so this might be spotty spotty podcast, we'll see how it goes.
00:00:30
jamie peacock
Oh, yes. Hopefully not. But yeah, we will see. But anyway, how are you this fine day, Kurt?
00:00:38
Curt
All things considering, I'm doing pretty fantastically. how about ah how about you in sunny South Africa?
00:00:44
jamie peacock
Yeah, living my best life, fighting with my networks because, yeah, my fiber line got dug up by the water people on Friday afternoon at like four o'clock.
00:00:53
Curt
Okay.
00:00:55
jamie peacock
So I didn't have
Internet Connectivity Challenges and Solutions
00:00:57
jamie peacock
internet. I had like obviously my cell phone. And then I ended up putting the my data on my cell phone, putting it in my old router, setting that up to give this PC internet so Danica could work.
00:01:00
Curt
Right.
00:01:09
jamie peacock
And then reconfiguring my nashnet mesh network, which has managed to catch the tism somehow. And if I plug in the one unit, everything just breaks. um But I've got basically backup solution running now.
00:01:22
jamie peacock
And then hopefully my fireball will be back up this evening. I went and spoke to them.
00:01:26
Curt
Nice. Okay.
00:01:26
jamie peacock
They're busy submarining in the fucking hole. um yeah Basically, the guys are digging up a broken pipe and pulled the cable and half damaged half the connections. One of which is mine.
00:01:38
Curt
Rough.
00:01:39
jamie peacock
Yeah. This is the exact reason i avoided fiber for so long.
00:01:45
Curt
Fair. I mean, I just would have assumed once it's buried, it's pretty safe.
00:01:46
jamie peacock
Because, yeah.
00:01:49
Curt
But yeah, I guess if you're just digging haphazardly.
00:01:53
jamie peacock
Yeah, exactly. And the problem, yeah, our water infrastructure is old and not really been upgraded. And there tends to be a bit of shenanigans where they up the pressure in the suburb and start cracking the joints so that their friends can come in and repair them.
00:02:09
jamie peacock
So you'll see like the suburb, you'll get a whole bunch of water leaks and the guys will dig up the roads and fix them. And then for about two years, there'll be nothing. And then all of a sudden, like you'll see it goes from suburb to suburb. that they crank the pressure a bit so joints start popping and they their friends can come in and fix them, ah quite literally.
00:02:25
jamie peacock
So every two years or so, they come and dig up all the fucking roads because all the pipes are fucked.
00:02:26
Curt
Oh,
00:02:30
jamie peacock
Africa, it's the best. So we've had no fiber, which has been frustrating as hell.
00:02:32
Curt
yeah
00:02:37
jamie peacock
So I'm busy reworking on my network architecture so that in the event that the fiber goes down, my one route just defaults to 4G and everything else is from that point on.
00:02:48
jamie peacock
So there's no no hiccup in service, basically.
00:02:49
Curt
ah okay.
00:02:53
Curt
and Fancy. I mean, it's unfortunate.
00:02:54
jamie peacock
Yeah, verified.
00:02:56
Curt
Unfortunately, you have to, but yeah, fancy.
00:02:58
jamie peacock
so for for four dollars a month i went and got a sim card today that's got a gig of data on it that'll go in this uh router as a backup and if we go on turn and i get a message say hey you're out of data it means our father line's down because we probably won't notice uh then i can top it up from my banking app and basically load up 60 gigs of data for like 25 dollars
00:03:13
Curt
Right.
00:03:19
jamie peacock
any five dollars
00:03:21
Curt
Wow.
00:03:22
jamie peacock
And then we've got dot that's valid for 60 days. So while we then just have to be a little conscious about what we do, but we can still work.
00:03:30
Curt
Right, yeah, no, that makes sense.
00:03:31
jamie peacock
Yeah, because I had a bunch of CAD work planned for Friday and night, which I didn't get to do because I had no internet and then get through on Saturday because Danica then commandeered this computer to finish a podcast she was editing.
00:03:32
Curt
Yeah.
00:03:42
jamie peacock
And then Sunday, just didn't feel like working.
00:03:46
Curt
Fair. Yeah.
00:03:46
jamie peacock
As one does. Yeah, and watch Bridgerton was great.
00:03:51
jamie peacock
We'll get to that later.
00:03:52
Curt
Okay, so we can update we can update the bonus content now with more Bridgerton rants?
00:03:55
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:03:55
Curt
because who
00:03:56
jamie peacock
Not really. um those little thumb butja not Not that bad.
00:03:57
Curt
Okay, well, that's good.
Data Archiving Methods
00:04:00
jamie peacock
So yeah tell me about your your fancy raid array that you are building because you are paranoid.
00:04:06
Curt
Dude, so like I have, I have photos mainly of just my family that I don't ever want to lose. um So I talked about a long time ago, i'm I'm burning it like I burnt copies of it to Blu-rays. um But I didn't, I should use M disk is what you if you want to burn something like that's the thing.
00:04:21
Curt
If we have digital media nowadays, the only way to really store it for like 50 100 years is to put it on some sort of physical media because like solid state drives are about the worst.
00:04:28
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah.
00:04:31
Curt
Hard drives are better, but you still have to cycle them and they have a failure rate. um Tape drives are better yet, but they're heinously expensive for like you know, the average bear, unless you have like just terabytes and terabyte, like hundreds of terabytes of data.
00:04:45
Curt
Uh, so yeah, physical media is still the best. So you can use M disc, which is like a stone, uh, Blu-ray and they're, they're archival archival, uh, grade. So you can put them somewhere for like, you know, 50 years and they shouldn't degrade.
00:04:58
Curt
Um, so anyways, I'm going use that for like master scary backups. Like if a nuclear bomb has, well, at that point, everything's gone. But, um, my, my,
00:05:05
jamie peacock
Well, the Blu-ray would actually be fun. It wouldn't be
00:05:09
Curt
Yeah, well, like those MDicks are good. The Blu-rays I have, they own like they they're organic, so they'll degrade after about 10 years in testing or whatever.
00:05:14
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:05:20
Curt
um The MDicks are great. They're just heinously expensive. So anyways, that's my super fallback, but my medium is just i'm going to put two ah drives in this PC and ah do a RAID array. Not even a RAID. Technically, it's a RAID 1 array, but I'm just mirroring the drives so that Like i'm going to put an two 8 terabyte hard drives in there, and then I'm just going to store my photos and videos on there.
00:05:41
Curt
And if one drive craps out, the other one is just mirrored continuously. And then I can, and as data, like as I grow with data, data also gets cheaper. So like there's no sense to me buying like a 20 or two 20 terabyte drives just by an eight now.
00:05:55
Curt
And then when I run out of it in two years time, I could buy the 16 for the exact same price and then rinse repeat. So yeah.
00:06:02
jamie peacock
Okay.
00:06:03
Curt
So that's going to be my setup.
00:06:04
jamie peacock
Have you considered going to one of the other RAID arrays, RAID 1, where it's just two drives?
00:06:09
Curt
Uh, yeah, I just don't have the room. Like I would like to build a proper like server with like a whole bunch of drives where I could do like a crazy redundant system, but I only have in this PC, I have space for two drives right now.
00:06:19
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:06:24
Curt
So I'm like, just in the meantime, I'm just going to do the the raid one array. And yeah, if I've.
00:06:28
jamie peacock
Because I know that was something um that was discussed with HexOS, which is a TrueNAS front end, where if you've got someone, another friend, for instance, who has a True HexOS system, you can back up to them as well.
00:06:29
Curt
Mm
00:06:35
Curt
hmm.
00:06:43
jamie peacock
So you can say, cool, um'm like I'm allocating you terabyte here, you're allocating me a terabyte, and you can have offsite backup with your friend, basically.
00:06:52
Curt
That's a cool idea. Yeah, that's cool idea.
00:06:53
jamie peacock
which is because that's the thing it's like it's all good and well but it's all right there if you have a power surge and both drives go that's it the drives fucked like obviously there's data recovery but yeah like that's the terrifying bit yeah
00:06:58
Curt
Totally. Yeah.
00:07:01
Curt
Yeah, that's exactly it.
00:07:05
Curt
Yeah, when like a raid one doesn't prevent you from like user issues, like you deleting it, or like you said, getting a virus that kills everything. And that's where my physical backups will come in place. Like once again, this is photos. So it's not like I'm, it's not crazy data, but I just don't want to lose it all.
00:07:17
jamie peacock
yeah well
00:07:19
Curt
So like, yeah.
00:07:20
jamie peacock
You say that, but Danica literally has no photos of her from when she was, think she said eight or nine and until so she got her first cell phone. There's no pictures because they were all that they went digital.
00:07:33
jamie peacock
And at some point her mom gave away the fucking computer or formatted the computer and that's it. All the photos gone. They had no backup.
00:07:39
Curt
Bummer. Aw, yeah.
00:07:40
jamie peacock
So she's got actual photos from up until about the age of nine or 11 or whatever it was and then nothing.
00:07:48
Curt
Yeah, that's a bummer.
00:07:48
jamie peacock
I'm like, ah my mom got a digital camera, I have a backup of that she has a backup of that it's on my Google Drive, it's on a hard drive somewhere here. Like i have lots of backups of that because that's my entire high school era.
00:08:01
Curt
Totally. Yeah.
00:08:02
jamie peacock
Yeah, you don't want to you don't want to lose that.
00:08:03
Curt
Yeah. Like, no, and I've been like, I've been filming and taking photos since I was in like, I don't know, grade seven. So like I have just crap tons of data.
00:08:14
Curt
Thankfully the data back then was really small. Like videos were really poor quality. So it's easy to store a ton of it, but like, yeah, I don't want to lose it all. And like I burnt those onto DVDs and like those DVDs are dicey now.
00:08:20
jamie peacock
No. Even if, yeah.
00:08:24
Curt
So like,
00:08:25
jamie peacock
Even if you never look at it again, you don't want to lose it. Just in case you want to go look at it.
00:08:29
Curt
I don't want to lose it. Yeah.
00:08:30
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:08:30
Curt
Well, and it's cool to be to like show like, yeah, like your future, like showing my kids like my childhood be like, oh sorry, i don't have the data anymore because it was on whatever.
00:08:37
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:08:40
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:08:40
Curt
Put file and that site went down, you know, like.
00:08:43
jamie peacock
Dude, that's the other thing. Like, cool, it's all backed up on Google, but what happens when the evil overlords decide that they no longer like us?
00:08:50
Curt
That's a hundred percent why I'm not, I'm not ditching Google. I'm still using it, but I have, I'm running my own system now.
00:08:56
jamie peacock
your own backups.
00:08:56
Curt
So that's, that's, yeah.
00:08:59
jamie peacock
Now 100%.
00:08:59
Curt
Actually, that leads perfectly into the, the I talked about it last week, ah image, I-M-M-I-C-H.
00:09:04
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:09:06
Curt
Fantastic. It is so cool.
00:09:06
jamie peacock
It only appears three times in the dock.
00:09:09
Curt
Yeah, I've been, ive I forgot how many times I wrote it. to But if you're looking for like, if you want a like iPhoto-ish, Google Photo-ish system um to store your photos and whatever on your PC, so you can still like, you know, search by faces or like it organizes nicely by dates and it presents it to you in a pretty format.
00:09:25
jamie peacock
Yep.
00:09:28
Curt
I highly suggest Image. It's open source. It's, ah it lets you do all kinds of crazy stuff. it's It's awesome. I'm using that now and I'm basically putting all my photos on there.
00:09:33
jamie peacock
OK.
00:09:35
Curt
So yeah.
00:09:36
jamie peacock
Nice. And that runs locally.
00:09:38
Curt
Yeah. Yeah, you can run on your local system. You can true NAS it. you can There's all kinds of ways you can access it. And then you can access it from, ah you can port forward if you want to do like remote access. you can put There's an app on your phone so everyone in your local network can see it if you want them to. And yeah, it's a cool piece of software.
00:09:57
Curt
I like it.
00:09:58
jamie peacock
and OK. Very cool.
00:10:01
Curt
speaking of ah Speaking of digital stuff, tell
Launching Nautical Workholding Online Store
00:10:04
Curt
me about your ah your new online store. That's what I want to hear about because we gave you shit for it the other week.
00:10:06
jamie peacock
Yes. So, um, Oh, don't worry. Jacob gave me shit about it as well. um So I forked off Nautical Workholding to nauticalworkholdingwh.com.
00:10:19
jamie peacock
And that is now the online store for the anchor points, the keel clamps, and there's some other stuff in the works. Shopify is different to Equid. It's taken some getting used to and figuring out to get what I want to work on there.
00:10:34
jamie peacock
It's spelled N-O-U-G-H-T. C-A-L-W-H dot com
00:10:40
Curt
Yeah.
00:10:42
Curt
We're holding China. I'm just Googling it to try to.
00:10:50
Curt
The podcast.
00:10:50
jamie peacock
So yeah, it's just it's a basic Shopify store, but it's got all the stuff on there.
00:10:54
jamie peacock
I haven't really announced too much about it yet. Figured I'd wait for the podcast. But I'm going to disable all the Anchor Point and Keel Clamp stuff on the JSpec site now. And then I think we'll do a bit of a revamp there this week sometime and push people to the Shopify store.
00:10:54
Curt
Hmm.
00:11:11
jamie peacock
One cool thing with Shopify is there's a tunnel plugin.
00:11:12
Curt
Cool. Cool.
00:11:15
jamie peacock
But I have to go up a tier in Shopify subscription to get that to work. And I think it's a little bit complicated with the shipping because I can put multiple things in a box and yeah I need to figure out how to deal with that.
00:11:31
jamie peacock
Right now it's just got fixed rate shipping, which I know covers and turns out the tariffs didn't really change the price much.
00:11:31
Curt
Fair.
00:11:32
Curt
Nice.
00:11:37
jamie peacock
It turns out I was just eating it on the tariffs.
00:11:41
Curt
Oh, bummer.
00:11:41
jamie peacock
So I was charging the tariffs, but I was still eating a bit of the a bit of the tariffs. So now that it's changed, it's now actually squares out properly like it's supposed to.
00:11:52
Curt
Cool. Cool. Yeah, well...
00:11:53
jamie peacock
Yeah, so that's now on its own website.
00:11:57
Curt
Nice. i will ah I will look it up.
00:11:58
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:11:59
Curt
on it The Google bots haven't crawled it yet, so I can't Google it, but I will...
00:12:01
jamie peacock
Yeah, I haven't done too much on the SEO stuff. I've just been focusing on getting the products up there.
00:12:08
Curt
Yeah, yeah, yeah, fair.
00:12:11
jamie peacock
There we go. Hang on.
00:12:14
jamie peacock
Googling on the podcast.
00:12:14
Curt
just I just want to...
00:12:16
Curt
On the podcast.
00:12:16
jamie peacock
Especially for AJ Will Sing It.
00:12:18
Curt
Googling on the podcast.
00:12:19
jamie peacock
There go.
00:12:20
Curt
Yeah, he likes Oh, that's all my hair. Okay, I'll click that. Boop. And then I'll drag you off here.
00:12:24
jamie peacock
Paste. There we go. This is so professional.
00:12:27
Curt
Ooh, pretty.
00:12:27
jamie peacock
Googling on the podcast.
00:12:27
Curt
Yeah. Okay, all that's that's that's way better.
00:12:30
jamie peacock
Yeah, much cleaner.
00:12:31
Curt
That's way better.
00:12:32
jamie peacock
It's just the workholding stuff.
00:12:32
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:12:34
jamie peacock
Yeah, I also spun up the, well, got the Instagram from Danica for nautical workholding. um She generated a bunch of slogans for me, which is really a bad plan because i like them.
00:12:45
Curt
Okay. Okay.
00:12:50
jamie peacock
I'm going have a whole bunch of t-shirts, funny fucking sayings on them.
00:12:54
Curt
course you are, of course.
00:12:55
jamie peacock
obviously all nautical work holding. This was my plan for IMTS. um
00:13:00
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:13:00
jamie peacock
if If we can get there. um What we clamp down so you don't go overboard making waves and precision engineering.
00:13:04
Curt
Yeah.
00:13:10
jamie peacock
That's the the bio on my on the Instagram. And then I think the website, the go like the description of the website is cause just because just hold it isn't a strategy.
00:13:10
Curt
Ooh, it's fancy.
00:13:27
Curt
nice
00:13:27
jamie peacock
So we've got a bunch of funny ones that we were having fun with. But yeah, getting that all working and all the products ported over and figuring out the shipping and variants and all the plugins that you need to make Shopify work the same way Equid works.
00:13:40
jamie peacock
But yeah, getting there, figuring it out.
00:13:42
Curt
Sure. Yeah.
00:13:44
jamie peacock
But yeah, as far as I know, it's working.
00:13:44
Curt
Sick.
00:13:46
jamie peacock
I placed order there yesterday. But it was a $0 order because I've got the CAD files all sorted out now.
00:13:48
Curt
I'm,
00:13:52
Curt
I'm looking at a thing. Oh, I like how, yeah, I like, I want to switch to Shopify just because I like the way that their cart is, but it's just a hang hassle on my site. But yeah, it's pretty, I like it.
00:14:02
Curt
It's very nice. Yeah, that works. Easy to navigate and easy to find things.
00:14:03
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's a proper hassle. Easy to navigate and not convoluted all the other crap.
00:14:09
jamie peacock
So, yeah, that was the reason for separating out nautical workholding is so that it's less convoluted and it's more straightforward for people to give me their money.
00:14:10
Curt
Right, totally.
00:14:20
Curt
and Exactly. Yeah.
00:14:20
jamie peacock
Like literally, like my website has gotten, yeah, it's gotten convoluted as we've added products and things.
00:14:20
Curt
You got the nice pay pay with PayPal links and yeah.
00:14:27
jamie peacock
um So I'll get Danica to strip it down to be a bit more, a bit less of the anchor point stuff. And the flack will still be over on Jspec. But I want to strip down the site a little bit.
00:14:39
Curt
Sure. Yeah.
00:14:39
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:14:40
Curt
No, that looks good. That looks good.
00:14:41
jamie peacock
But yeah, that took a whole afternoon to get up and running.
00:14:41
Curt
That's yeah.
00:14:44
Curt
ah It looks good. It looks, ah yeah, it looks great.
00:14:46
jamie peacock
And then another two days to get all the products loaded because that's freaking night there. And the shipping sorts it out. And yeah.
00:14:53
Curt
Yeah.
00:14:53
jamie peacock
The very difficult way they want you to do things.
00:14:57
Curt
Yeah. Yeah. Once you learn the system, yeah, exactly. I mean, at least you'll have some automation for the lower price things like like keel clamps, right?
00:15:00
jamie peacock
like getting
00:15:04
Curt
Like it's, it'd be nicer when that's just punched through as opposed having to touch with it because it's a lower price item. So.
00:15:11
jamie peacock
yeah so there yeah look it's now pretty much dealt with everything's up there i think all yeah all the cad files are up now for the keel clamps as well that I did today. So there's a CAD pack for $0 that gets you all the models for the keel clamps. If you really want to machine them yourself, go mad. Like, I don't mind.
00:15:29
jamie peacock
But they're there if you want to buy them.
00:15:32
Curt
Yeah, I see that. Yeah. Oh, cool. Yeah, I like this.
00:15:34
jamie peacock
And the yeah, there's only the m6 is available currently. We're working on trying to source flipping screws, trying to source m8 or 20 countersunk torque screws is proving challenging.
00:15:45
Curt
Oh, really?
00:15:46
jamie peacock
Because well,
00:15:46
Curt
Weird.
00:15:48
jamie peacock
The Chinese supplier am using, they will only ship me 30 screws at a time. Unless I speak to them, but want to speak to them.
00:15:54
Curt
Okay. Yeah.
00:15:56
jamie peacock
I can buy from a place called Accu in the UK. They're really nice screws. They come from China. The package says made in China. um
00:16:04
Curt
Hmm.
00:16:04
jamie peacock
But they are like three times the price per screw.
00:16:09
Curt
Ooh.
00:16:10
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's brutal.
00:16:10
Curt
Yeah.
00:16:10
jamie peacock
And then import duties and all that and shipping and everything.
00:16:11
Curt
Adds up.
00:16:13
jamie peacock
ah The castings are done with those screws. It's just I'm trying to find an alternative to make it less brutally expensive to make another hundred of the clamps.
00:16:25
Curt
Right, right, yeah.
00:16:26
jamie peacock
so But yeah, I've been chugging along with that in the in the background.
00:16:27
Curt
Cool.
00:16:30
jamie peacock
I literally machined parts today just so I could take footage of using the anchor point and the keel clamps.
00:16:36
Curt
Nice.
00:16:36
jamie peacock
I didn't need to make stock.
00:16:37
Curt
Nice.
00:16:38
jamie peacock
I just had materials. I'm like, cool, let me run stock of Glock 19 bases because have material.
00:16:45
Curt
Yeah, I like i like that. That is cool.
00:16:48
jamie peacock
Yeah. Being content creating.
00:16:52
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:16:53
Curt
Yeah, no, they look good.
00:16:53
jamie peacock
I guess I accidentally ticked off another thing.
00:16:54
Curt
They look...
00:16:58
jamie peacock
Yes, did you? Oh, yes.
00:16:59
Curt
Cool.
00:16:59
jamie peacock
Did you see my email this morning?
00:17:02
Curt
I did. I haven't looked at it yet. I appreciate it.
00:17:03
jamie peacock
I have questions.
00:17:04
Curt
I'm like, oh, Jamie being a f freaking gentleman for the.
00:17:06
jamie peacock
Yeah, I have questions.
00:17:09
Curt
OK, what are questions?
00:17:09
jamie peacock
Why is your rotary where it is?
00:17:14
Curt
What is my rotary word is? What do you mean?
00:17:16
jamie peacock
I'm assuming your travels are from the center of your table.
00:17:21
jamie peacock
Your X and Y are referenced to the center of your table.
00:17:21
Curt
e Yes.
00:17:21
Curt
Yes.
00:17:25
Curt
yes
00:17:25
jamie peacock
You could eke up like another 30 millimeters.
00:17:28
Curt
Oh, I totally could. It's just the back of that rotary has a monster clamp and I have to remachine a clamp.
00:17:33
jamie peacock
Ah, okay.
00:17:34
Curt
Yeah, it has. It's like literally two inches thick.
00:17:36
jamie peacock
I was wondering.
00:17:38
Curt
Yeah. If I machine a new clamp for the back that that would like hold the T slots better, I could move that rotary back at least an inch or two.
00:17:39
jamie peacock
Okay. Now, yeah.
00:17:45
Curt
So yeah, that's why it's way in the wind.
00:17:45
jamie peacock
Yeah, because ah you're out of space. I think we we need to have a look at that in the after show.
00:17:49
Curt
Oh, yeah.
00:17:51
jamie peacock
Or after the after show, we need to have a look at that CAD model because I i had to move the toolsetter to make it actually fit
00:17:51
Curt
Yeah, sure.
Machinery Issues and Solutions
00:17:59
jamie peacock
a harbor on it.
00:17:59
Curt
Oh, yeah.
00:18:00
jamie peacock
And the toolsetter is between two of the anchor points.
00:18:01
Curt
and
00:18:03
Curt
Hey, I mean, it would work.
00:18:05
jamie peacock
it's yeah it'll work i just i'd be concerned you accidentally hit it with a pallet would be my only concern learning a pallet yeah so but anyway we'll we'll save that one for our uh for our patreon after show where we can go through that and not worry too much about the whole world seeing lens out your machine because that model you sent me is quite cool but yeah anyway we'll yeah we'll come back to that yeah no we'll circle back to that yeah
00:18:05
Curt
It would work. Yeah.
00:18:11
Curt
Yeah, that would kind of suck. yeah Yeah, no, I...
00:18:24
Curt
Yeah. ah I don't remember what I sent you, but all right. Sounds good.
00:18:32
jamie peacock
ah
00:18:33
Curt
Cool.
00:18:34
jamie peacock
Oh, did you watch the Hacksmith video?
00:18:36
Curt
I did not the laser one.
00:18:37
jamie peacock
it Episode 20. ah Yes, the newest one.
00:18:43
Curt
ah No, I came across my feed last night and I ignored it for I watched something else. forgot what I watched, but.
00:18:49
jamie peacock
um The 1X7 spindle shot the bed.
00:18:53
Curt
Oh, really?
00:18:54
jamie peacock
So the UMC400.
00:18:58
Curt
Ooh.
00:18:59
jamie peacock
Yeah. So the X7 sits at full RPM, 12K, all day, machining the Smith blades.
00:19:00
Curt
Uh-oh. Okay, well, that would do it, yeah.
00:19:05
jamie peacock
And it's the first machine they spun up, so whatever. They're not the end of the world. But the UMC has got, like, single-digit or double-digit hours on it, and the spindle died.
00:19:16
Curt
who
00:19:17
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:19:18
jamie peacock
That was interesting. and They're also doing some tweaks to their anno setup.
00:19:18
Curt
That's not good.
00:19:20
Curt
I, uh...
00:19:23
Curt
Okay, I'll have to check that video out.
00:19:25
jamie peacock
Yeah, really...
00:19:26
Curt
I love watching their videos. i just I was like, oh, that's a long one. I need a short one right now. so i i try to I like to do like yeah a sub-10 minute video because it doesn't take me hours and hours and hours and hours to edit it.
00:19:31
jamie peacock
story of my life. Everyone makes hour long YouTube videos these days. Your video, that your video was nice and short. Your shop tour.
00:19:42
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:19:44
Curt
um but yeah it's They're rare nowadays, short videos.
00:19:45
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah, everyone wants million million hour videos.
00:19:49
Curt
so
00:19:53
Curt
Well, yeah, you get, yeah, you can put more ads in it and yeah, I don't, whatever, whatever.
00:19:53
jamie peacock
My wife is
00:19:56
jamie peacock
exactly. Yeah, no, that's the thing.
00:19:58
Curt
Like,
00:19:59
jamie peacock
i could It's market forces that dictate dictate that, unfortunately.
00:20:06
Curt
yeah, I mean, I'm lucky in a position of like, if someone watches my video and they buy a pen, that's more ad revenue than any video is going to give me.
00:20:06
jamie peacock
um
00:20:12
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:20:12
Curt
So it's like, I don't give a shit about ads. Like I try to make sure it doesn't put mid roll ads in and yeah.
00:20:14
jamie peacock
Exactly.
00:20:18
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:20:18
Curt
Yeah.
00:20:19
jamie peacock
But yeah other the other ads on YouTube are just ridiculous. I haven't seen one in like five years, but they're ridiculous.
00:20:25
Curt
I know occasionally my system jumps to like a different version of YouTube and then I'm umm i'm like, oh, gross. I forgot about these ads. I'm like, why are there so many of you? I'm like, ugh, this is disgusting.
00:20:35
jamie peacock
Speaking of ads, have you seen what happens when you turn on a Haas machine these days?
00:20:35
Curt
So.
00:20:40
Curt
Oh, I heard that on, with Intolerance, I think they're talking about that.
00:20:42
jamie peacock
Dude, I saw it in the background of a, I think it was the Grimsmo video where he toured Hacksmith and they turned a machine on and it's playing Haas tooling adverts while it boots up.
00:20:44
Curt
Oh.
00:20:52
Curt
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:20:59
Curt
No, that ah unsubscribe.
00:21:01
jamie peacock
I'm like, hell no.
00:21:01
Curt
Yeah.
00:21:03
jamie peacock
Like, and the problem there, as far as i understand it, if your machine is a past financed machine, it has to be connected to the internet or she don't graft.
00:21:03
Curt
Yeah.
00:21:12
Curt
Right.
00:21:13
jamie peacock
Cause that way, if you don't pay, they can turn your machine off.
00:21:14
Curt
Right, right, right.
00:21:15
jamie peacock
Um, yeah.
00:21:16
Curt
Right.
00:21:17
jamie peacock
So it's like, you can't even get away from that chip.
00:21:21
Curt
Yeah, that's disgusting. That is so gross on a piece of software a piece of hardware you own.
00:21:22
jamie peacock
I know. Um,
00:21:24
Curt
Like, no, no, no. no no no
00:21:27
jamie peacock
I don't know, the world is a unique place right now. Everything vying for your attention.
00:21:32
Curt
Yeah, like, well, and like me and my wife talk, it's like, the problem is you have like a generation of like like us growing up that don't want certain types of marketing.
00:21:43
Curt
And then you have the older generation that are running these monster corporations that are like, you know, what's a great idea. It's like, you guys are shooting yourself in the foot. Like, no one likes
Digital Ads and Privacy Concerns
00:21:50
Curt
that. Like, there's way better ways to market it nowadays than just like, essentially cold calling.
00:21:53
jamie peacock
I...
00:21:55
Curt
Yeah.
00:21:55
jamie peacock
Yeah, I googled a mattress topper, because we we're looking at a new mattress. And I was like, let me see what about a mattress topper. The number of Instagram ads I googled it once the number of Instagram ads I've got from Matt mattress toppers is fucking insane.
00:22:08
jamie peacock
Like, it's absolutely nuts.
00:22:10
Curt
Yeah. success
00:22:11
jamie peacock
I just ended up buying a new fucking mattress. But yeah, like, it's insane the number of ads that I've gotten in for that.
00:22:18
Curt
Yeah. That's gross.
00:22:19
jamie peacock
yeah The devices are definitely paying attention to what we are doing and showing us things that they think we want.
00:22:21
Curt
Yeah. excellent
00:22:28
Curt
Yeah. Like, yeah, I don't know. There's whatever.
00:22:30
jamie peacock
We're definitely in the darkest timeline.
00:22:31
Curt
It's,
00:22:33
Curt
It's, yeah, I mean, actually, I have this this topic on my list. So, like, I subscribe to chat. Like, I bought a chat and GPT license, whatever. And, like, this weekend, I immediately canceled it after hearing their, later you go look at the Sam Altman tweet, um what they're basically doing.
00:22:50
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:22:51
Curt
doing with it nowadays and I was just like hard pass like this is the express path to like black mirror like robot dogs running and chasing us and gunning us down like yeah sure it's only a matter of time before that does happen but like I don't need to advance it any faster so uh yeah anyways folks if you have ah a chat subscription maybe just take a peek over there and make your own decision if it's still something you want support because I was I was kind of freaked out by that so
00:23:17
jamie peacock
Yeah, I've stopped using, I think Danik's also stopped using chat now. She's using Notepad LM or Notebook LM because chat's become useless.
00:23:26
Curt
Yeah, like I...
00:23:29
jamie peacock
um She uploads the transcript from, she'll open a new chat, upload the transcript from this week's podcast, ask it to summarize the podcast and give us, give funny quips. She'll send them to him like, that's from last week's podcast. She's like, no, I opened a new fucking thing and it's referencing other stuff.
00:23:47
Curt
Yeah. Yeah. It's... yeah it's yeah i don't know. It's a freaking weird world. like It's is what it is.
00:23:55
jamie peacock
Darkest timeline, boo. Darkest timeline.
00:23:58
Curt
some of the pictures on Reddit have made me I was just scrolling and just like gigantic like hover robots with just billions of guns just like bra and you're like like well this is where we're headed I suppose yeah mm-hmm
00:24:12
jamie peacock
Yep, that is exactly where we're fucking heading. um ah Yeah, that ah the, what's it, Lean Built. They were discussing ChatGPT and the stuff.
00:24:21
Curt
mm-hmm
00:24:22
jamie peacock
And they're like, it you're either going to be in on it or you're not going be in on it. You're either going use it to, one of the guys described it as instead of um adding 10 hours to a 40-hour week, it makes it a 400-hour week if you're using it properly.
00:24:37
jamie peacock
You can get it to do a lot of menial tasks and things like that, but also it fucking hallucinates.
00:24:40
Curt
Sure. Yeah.
00:24:43
jamie peacock
So you need to check what it's doing. Yeah, like that's the thing.
00:24:46
Curt
Yeah, exactly. There's...
00:24:48
jamie peacock
you You can't trust it outright because that's a recipe for fricking disaster.
00:24:48
Curt
Yeah.
00:24:53
jamie peacock
Ask me, I know. I got it to tell me how to wire a servo drive and gave me the entire wrong pin order and gave me the picture with a different pin order.
00:25:01
Curt
And I will...
00:25:04
jamie peacock
And that's when I went to Notepad.
00:25:07
Curt
When the, when the robots, I'm going to, this is a message to the robot. So a chat robot from the future, if you're going take me out grenade to the back, please don't send your robot dogs to just shred me into pieces. Cause that seems like a worse way to go.
00:25:24
Curt
and Anyway.
00:25:24
jamie peacock
Yeah, no.
00:25:25
Curt
um
00:25:27
jamie peacock
Yeah, we we're definitely heading for the darkest timeline, yeah. Anyway, um one of the topics I added to your thing.
00:25:32
Curt
Yeah, man.
00:25:34
jamie peacock
You're a nerd. Camera nerd.
00:25:35
Curt
Why am I a nerd?
00:25:37
jamie peacock
You're a camera nerd.
00:25:37
Curt
Oh, dude, I'm hook, line, and sinker in that world so hard right now.
00:25:42
jamie peacock
I was...
00:25:43
Curt
Like...
00:25:43
jamie peacock
so I saw that the flippy flippy you did on Instagram, and then I saw it in your video.
00:25:48
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:25:48
jamie peacock
was like, okay, so it was purposeful.
00:25:51
Curt
Yeah.
00:25:51
jamie peacock
Unnecessary, but purposeful.
00:25:53
Curt
and absolutely unnecessary. It's a one feature, and what Jamie's talking about was like, I bought a gimbal.
00:25:55
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:25:57
Curt
I bought a RS3 mini gimbal. Actually, it was used, um it was like mint condition, so i I grabbed it off of Marketplace because I'm a scrolling that way too often. And um there's a function on it where you basically, it'll orbit your camera like 360 so aiming forward it holds the center and that just spins and like what would you use this for like there's almost no use case for it but it looks kind of cool um so yeah i did it once and i was like i'll put this in the video it's a weird weird perspective but like just things you couldn't do any other way and yeah gimbals are wild i've been having so much fun with that thing it's incredible like it cost me like i don't know about 200 bucks canadian and it's phenomenal what like hardware you get for the price nowadays like ridiculous it's so cool
00:26:24
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:26:39
jamie peacock
I was looking at one I can get a second hand DGR Osmo phone or whatever for but it's second hand for like 1000 Rand or I can buy a brand new one, and not some off brand one for 900 bucks and I'm like, Hmm,
00:26:40
Curt
Yeah. Mm-hmm.
Interest in Filming and Camera Equipment
00:26:56
jamie peacock
In context, that's like, call it $60. It's not a lot of money. I'm like, hmm, I think I might need one for just shits and giggles with the phone I use to record video in the workshop. Because then I can actually shoot my top shot to and not feel bad about shaking the camera like this.
00:26:56
Curt
yeah
00:27:11
jamie peacock
Because it looks shitty when it's shaking.
00:27:12
Curt
Totally.
00:27:15
Curt
Yeah, and ah that's what I wanted for because it just saves me from having a haul a tripod around everywhere.
00:27:16
jamie peacock
So, yeah.
00:27:20
Curt
So you get you get a decently stable shot, and like it takes all the little micro jitters out, and you just, yeah, it's it's nice.
00:27:21
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:27:26
jamie peacock
Yeah, was I was using the tripod today to film the I put a video out today.
00:27:26
Curt
I like it.
00:27:31
jamie peacock
It's using the anchor point and just like slideshow thing. And then there's the fourth axis rotating for fun. But I was doing that all of the decent camera because it does take better pictures turns out when you got a big lens, it makes better pictures.
00:27:46
Curt
Yeah, who would have thought, right? like
00:27:47
jamie peacock
was Really weird. Also, finally did a test cut on my stupid setup.
00:27:50
Curt
Yeah.
00:27:54
jamie peacock
I posted a story a post a store on Instagram, so it'll be gone by the time this episode comes out, where I was going in with a 12mm N will ya, where I've got a block of aluminium sticking out of my Zendai vice, which is clamped by like a millimeter and a half, which is then bolted to an anchor point pallet in an anchor point on the jang plate on my fourth axis.
00:27:56
Curt
I think...
00:27:59
Curt
I think I saw that.
00:28:13
jamie peacock
And I was not exactly being gentle or slow.
00:28:13
Curt
Yes. Yes.
00:28:16
jamie peacock
um It was quite fun. I have things planned for that.
00:28:20
Curt
Nice.
00:28:21
jamie peacock
We will be enjoying that shortly.
00:28:25
Curt
Yeah, I like the, I like the.
00:28:25
jamie peacock
I actually think I need to rework my fourth axis controller.
00:28:32
Curt
Oh, is it giving you issues or are you just going to try to go?
00:28:33
jamie peacock
No, no, I just want more features. um
00:28:36
Curt
Oh, okay.
00:28:37
jamie peacock
Specifically for zeroing it. So it's zero returns, but it's not it's specifically not straight. I made sure everything was skewed so that I'm forced to then zero the... So then I indicate the top of the fourth act of the anchor point.
00:28:52
jamie peacock
So I zero return it, and then I jog it, and then that's my new zero reference.
00:28:53
Curt
Okay.
00:28:56
jamie peacock
But if you overshoot, you have to go right around again. So I need to make it that it can go both ways with an MPG or something.
00:29:03
Curt
Okay. if Fair.
00:29:05
jamie peacock
Yeah. because my fault only goes in one direction. So I did consider there are so there are screws up three screws on the side to adjust the preload or to take out the backlash.
00:29:09
Curt
Yeah, fair. Mm-hmm.
00:29:15
jamie peacock
So I should probably do that. um And then I was considering just buying a little fourth-axis control unit from China Land that you basically send it a pulse and that executes the program, multi-stage program. So you can have it move 5 degrees, then 10 degrees, then 45 degrees. Like, you can have it in random increments, not how I've got mine currently.
00:29:37
jamie peacock
so I'm kind of tempted to buy one of those.
00:29:38
Curt
Right, right, okay.
00:29:40
jamie peacock
I know SilverCNC do one. That's really nice and overkill. So I don't know. We'll see.
00:29:47
Curt
Yeah.
00:29:48
jamie peacock
Because I have also got a bunch of drone work allegedly coming along that requires the fourth axis and the spindle gripping.
00:29:57
Curt
Oh, nice, cool, cool, cool.
00:29:58
jamie peacock
Yes, so that's finally fucking coming along. um So then, you'll we'll get like I said to those, I'll buy the vase. When it arrives, we'll get the spindle gripping going, but for the interim, I'll get cracking on parts because I still want to make pallets for everything and palletize that every time I put a pallet in, I get a full drone's worth parts of each component off for the op twos and threes and stuff.
00:30:18
Curt
Sure, right, yeah, yeah.
00:30:20
jamie peacock
So I need to design all that still, but I'll do that when the order comes through.
00:30:26
Curt
Was that like one of the monster quantity orders or just like a reasonable quantity?
Drone Parts Production and Military Contracts
00:30:30
jamie peacock
for teroft It's components, I think 200 components, it starts to get up there.
00:30:37
Curt
OK, yeah, so.
00:30:40
Curt
Yeah. OK, yes.
00:30:41
jamie peacock
Because it's 40 of each component. I think there' there's actually seven, eight, but it's a lot of parts. but like op one is super short cycle time op twos are generally pretty short cycles uh some of them have like seven operations um just i've got to hold them in different fixtures and things but i have a plan for that where they're going to go the way i want to describe it is not pc but you have a ah square palette with one facing that way one that way one that way one that way um
00:30:47
Curt
okay yes
00:31:11
Curt
Okay, yeah.
00:31:11
jamie peacock
that I can machine them all from the top, put them on the fourth axis, do the end machining, rotate, end machining, rotate, end machining. And then every time I hit go, i get four pieces out, which is one craft.
00:31:22
Curt
Nice, okay.
00:31:23
jamie peacock
So I'm just, I'm trying to optimize my my workflow there. Then all the op ones are just going to be done with single ops, single station pallet loading. Grip, load, machine, unload, let that run in the evenings, and then put everything else onto pallets for op twos, threes, fours, and fives.
00:31:39
Curt
Cool, cool.
00:31:40
jamie peacock
Yeah, and that should become an ongoing endeavor considering they are going to go speak to the British military.
00:31:49
Curt
Ooh, I mean, i guess that's a good thing.
00:31:50
jamie peacock
Because that's what I need is more contracts for the British military.
00:31:52
Curt
Oh,
00:31:54
jamie peacock
Because I already have two jobs that I do for them.
00:31:57
Curt
ah wild. Oh, cool.
00:31:59
jamie peacock
Yeah, I'm like third tier, but yeah, that's where the parts are ending up.
00:32:04
Curt
Yeah. I mean, yeah, i mean, at least they're going to be replacing them.
00:32:09
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:32:09
Curt
no Yike.
00:32:12
jamie peacock
Yeah, like some of the stuff I'm doing now is radar-related, and then this is now drones, not necessarily kamikaze drones, but you never know.
00:32:20
Curt
Yeah, well, I mean, anything could be a kamikaze drone. Yeah, like, yeah, exactly, exactly.
00:32:24
jamie peacock
If you try hard enough, you know. I was actually watching some footage from Operation Spiderweb or fucking whatever it was, when the Ukrainians sent in the drones in containers.
00:32:37
jamie peacock
And those were all driven on board with ai And it's really cool to watch it.
00:32:39
Curt
Yes.
00:32:40
jamie peacock
They fly super slowly. And you can see them processing what they need, where they need to go and what they need to hit. That was all done locally, like in the shipping container, tethered to the drones as a they flew into the into the bombers.
00:32:47
Curt
Wild.
00:32:52
Curt
Right.
00:32:56
jamie peacock
It's really cool.
00:32:57
Curt
Yeah, wild. That's wild.
00:32:59
jamie peacock
and doubt The world we live in, it's quite exciting.
00:33:02
Curt
No doubt, right? Yeah.
Community Support and Podcast Growth
00:33:03
jamie peacock
Speaking of exciting things, we have Patreons.
00:33:03
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:33:04
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:33:07
jamie peacock
And they make the wheels on the train go round and round.
00:33:11
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:33:11
jamie peacock
All the Patreons get access to our aftershow.
00:33:11
Curt
ah
00:33:15
jamie peacock
this week's aftershow, we're probably going to discuss Kurt's Silex 5 model. um But yeah, they all get access to aftershow.
00:33:19
Curt
We...
00:33:21
jamie peacock
And when we do Q&As, which I don't know we've ever done, they get emails about that and exciting things like that. the top tier patreons uh they get their names shouted out in every week's episode and those guys include jade from benchmark 20 luke from fantastic aj from subtract manufacturing and 34 other companies jason s ej from nocturnal welding azimachinist christian olsen charles white kyle from cursed machine matt from offworld gear and alex b um yeah the patreon patronage is going towards getting us to imts
00:33:54
jamie peacock
Yeah, I won't say the rest of that sentence. i'm Getting just to go towards IMTS. Let's leave it at that for this week, knowing which week it is.
00:33:59
Curt
and
00:34:01
jamie peacock
Yeah, I think you guys can fill in the context there. But anyway, thank you to our Patreons. And yes, speaking of Matt from Offworld Gear, he reached out say thank you for the shout-out. Because we shouted him out last week or week before.
00:34:11
Curt
oh sick well
00:34:14
jamie peacock
Episode 59, I think.
00:34:15
Curt
well thanks for building cool shit like we're gonna shout people out that are just making cool shit it's that's the easy hack it's just make something cool yeah
00:34:16
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:34:21
jamie peacock
Exactly.
00:34:24
jamie peacock
Yeah, make make cool shit and let us see it, and then ah we'll talk about it because we like cool things.
00:34:30
Curt
yeah i like the I like the intricacy of his knife, and he has like a little like ah flexure spring release on the end cap I've been watching.
00:34:35
jamie peacock
Dude, the end cap release is so cool.
00:34:36
Curt
and yeah he's doing some cool stuff. Very intelligently designed, yeah.
00:34:39
jamie peacock
i was watching this video about it where like you open at 90 degrees, it doesn't come out, you go over, and then it slides. like oh So over-engineered.
00:34:45
Curt
Yep.
00:34:46
jamie peacock
It's great. Like, I look at that from, like, I look at compare to the Flak, and I'm like, the Flak is all it needs to be.
00:34:48
Curt
i
00:34:53
jamie peacock
It holds a blade, and that's it. Whereas that thing is just a work of art.
00:34:55
Curt
Sure.
00:34:58
Curt
Well, and it's like you when you put effort in to make something that like, like it's tool-less, like he's made it so it's basically a tool-less, fastener-less kind of attachment method, which takes so much like backend work.
00:34:58
jamie peacock
Like.
00:35:09
Curt
But then when you showed somebody, they're like, oh, of course that's the way.
00:35:10
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:35:12
Curt
It's like, well, yeah, but like, do you know how much thought that took to make it simple? Like, it's cool.
00:35:16
jamie peacock
making something simple is not easy
00:35:17
Curt
I like the stuff. Dude, me and my old boss used say that all the time. like To make something simple is the hardest. You can make something complicated and like Rube Goldberg very easy, but to make it yeah simple and like clever, that takes a lot of work.
00:35:28
jamie peacock
yeah yeah like yeah 14 versions to get it down to just be what it needed to be and nothing else like
00:35:41
Curt
Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah
00:35:42
jamie peacock
14 versions, like, that's how many it took to get the flock down to just just what it needed to be. The anchor point was also a bunch of revisions to get it to be ah a functional well to get it to be the best it could be in that case.
00:35:48
Curt
I bet, yeah, I believe it.
00:35:56
jamie peacock
But also simple and functional.
00:36:00
Curt
Yep, that's the hard part.
00:36:02
jamie peacock
Yep, that is very much the hard part. um Anyway, moving on.
00:36:06
Curt
Yeah. know So I have figured out that ah with with everything behaving nicely now, like my tools just wear out.
00:36:07
jamie peacock
um What did you cut for nine hours Kurt?
00:36:18
Curt
Like they typically don't break unless I do something dumb. um But for production, it's just like load tool, run, load tool. And on this batch, I was doing ISO grip pen bodies, which is just a shit ton of surfacing with 1 tool.
00:36:30
Curt
um So put a pen body in, hit go. And I ran that tool. Like it was dull at the start. I'm like, oh, it's starting to throw burr. So I replaced it. And I'm like, oh, this is cool. Because like now I'm probably going have enough pen bodies through this that I'll i'll roast the tool.
00:36:44
Curt
Oh, Jamie disappeared. But hopefully you can still hear.
00:36:46
jamie peacock
didn't disappear, my wife's bringing me water.
00:36:49
Curt
Oh, okay. Not just want to dox people. Gotcha. Okay. um So this was a nice instance where i was like, I can run this long enough where I'll have like a good understanding of like how long this tool actually lasts. It's doing this one operation.
00:36:59
Curt
And yeah, it ran for ah nine hours of surfacing in titanium before it started to throw. It probably would have ran for another, at least like I probably could have pushed it for another nine hours. it would just been making a nasty burn. And my world, it's just easier to ditch the tool and not have to do the finishing.
00:37:14
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, 100%.
00:37:14
Curt
The tool is a cheap part at that point.
00:37:16
Curt
Yeah, nine hours in Thai.
00:37:17
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:37:18
Curt
I was pretty impressed with with that. I was like, I think that's decent for Titanic. I have no idea if it is or isn't, but to me it sounded okay.
00:37:24
jamie peacock
So are you now gonna run tool life management on that?
00:37:28
Curt
I probably... I probably, if I could figure out how it works and the problem is like in, I have so many different operations that they wear the tool at different speeds. Like the surfacing cooks like the bottom, just a little bit of it.
00:37:43
Curt
But then I have another operation where it's using the side of the tool. So then that it's sharp for that. So like if I stack my operations well, I can use the tool for a long time.
00:37:50
jamie peacock
Yeah, fair enough.
00:37:51
Curt
So, and then on certain operations, I don't care if it's a little dull. Cause like, let's say it's doing ah a chamfer and then two other tools are coming and cleaning up the edges anyway.
00:37:56
jamie peacock
It's roughing.
00:37:59
Curt
So I'm like, if you throw a burr, it's going be cleaned off anyway.
00:37:59
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:38:02
Curt
So I don't think I'll tool a life manage it. was just, I want to make sure I'm not using like one tool per pen. So and
Tool Longevity and Workshop Expansion
00:38:08
Curt
like that was kind of more of that, but yeah, it was, that was cool.
00:38:08
jamie peacock
Fair enough. Yeah.
00:38:11
Curt
It was fun.
00:38:11
jamie peacock
Okay. Interesting. Because my solution for that is just have tools dedicated to specific operations or jobs.
00:38:14
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:38:20
jamie peacock
because what tends to happen is i will have a 6mm N-mill that I use for finishing,
00:38:20
Curt
It's yeah. Nice. Yeah.
00:38:26
jamie peacock
And then I will use it for some other random job where I'm only using the bottom three millimeters. And then I go to finish to set up to do that other job. and now I've got a line. So hence my tool tags in various colors that I can tag out different jobs with different color codes.
00:38:41
jamie peacock
So like, okay, load all the red tools into the machine. Now that's for that specific part number or that specific job so that I don't have funny business. Obviously costs a bunch of tool holders, but it removes the potential issues of scrapping a bunch of material because you've now got a streak down side of your pot.
00:39:00
Curt
Totally. Yeah. And I thought for like a second, I'm like, I should like save these tools and then I can use this tool for like another. ah And then I was like, it's not worth my time trying to manage it. I'm like, let's just, even though 90% of the tool is razor sharp, I'm like, I'll just, I'll just bin it, put it in my bin and like move along.
00:39:10
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah.
00:39:16
jamie peacock
Well, that's the thing. It's what is the what is the cost of the tool?
00:39:20
Curt
It's like 30 bucks, 20, 30 bucks. So i just, it's not worth it.
00:39:23
jamie peacock
Yeah, exactly. After nine hours, you can bin it and not have to worry.
00:39:24
Curt
Just
00:39:27
Curt
Yeah, that's exactly what I figure. I'm like, it's not worth my time to even think about this.
00:39:29
jamie peacock
Or move it to a different tool holder with a different tool number that it's only used for side milling after that point.
00:39:30
Curt
I'll just...
00:39:37
Curt
Yeah, yeah. I just, I basically throw it in a bin of like, these tools are still really sharp if you want to do something silly, like R&D kind of stuff. Here's a gang of tools that you could use to play with, but like, don't use these for production.
00:39:44
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:39:49
jamie peacock
But also you end up within a mountain of things that shouldn't be in your workshop.
00:39:53
Curt
That is true, but thankfully all my tools are like 1 32nd, 1 16th, so like i can and I can have a pretty big mountain before ah before I start overflowing that area.
00:39:57
jamie peacock
So that's more...
00:40:02
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:40:02
Curt
I could have a shoebox of 1,000 and I would still not notice it.
00:40:07
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, that... ah I actually gave away all my 20mm remnants and it was a bit annoying last week because I put up a fence and I needed something to shove in the concrete to put the pipe over and managed to find two pieces of 20mm bar, like two, not even four inch pieces that I hammered between bricks and then put a fence over.
00:40:28
jamie peacock
Because I had to fence off the back door of the workshop so that my dogs don't eat my press operator.
00:40:35
Curt
Oh, fair. Okay. Okay.
00:40:36
jamie peacock
bathroom's out the back, so now I've got a fence so that my dogs can't get to him when he goes to the bathroom.
00:40:37
Curt
Yeah.
00:40:42
Curt
Okay. Yeah. Motivates him to not go to the bathroom, I guess, but.
00:40:44
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah, but that's fine. He can press enough pots in a day. We're waiting for pots.
00:40:50
Curt
yeah
00:40:51
jamie peacock
They gave us 1,500 pots last week, and I'm still waiting for more. We meant to be doing 20,000 week.
00:40:58
Curt
That's a lot.
00:40:59
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:40:59
Curt
That's a lot.
00:40:59
jamie peacock
So I'm waiting. They've got like, I think he said there were 4,000 or so there. He's like, when there's 10,000, he'll phone me and I can come fetch and then we can get the guy and he can run because he should be able to pretty easily do 10,000 a day.
00:41:13
Curt
That's a lot. It's a lot of just one thing.
00:41:14
jamie peacock
Yes. And then here, good thing I'm not doing it. um there's more press work coming because I have a small press and they need someone who can press small things. So I'm going to have to build a setup around my press for single minute changeovers.
00:41:29
jamie peacock
So I can literally go from hammering nails to change over to a different job, run 3000 of something and then change back to hammering nails in a very short changeover period.
00:41:37
Curt
cool.
00:41:39
jamie peacock
But yeah, potentially very, very lucrative in the long run.
00:41:44
Curt
Oh, that's cool. Yeah.
00:41:45
jamie peacock
So
00:41:45
Curt
you're like ah You're like a little Toyota.
00:41:48
jamie peacock
Pretty much. Like, yeah.
00:41:49
Curt
Like pressed.
00:41:50
jamie peacock
So that that's the thing. When build a new workshop, this current workshop is going to stay as a workshop. My bandsaw will move in there, my material storage, and then my grinding and all the dirty shit's going to stay there.
00:42:02
jamie peacock
So I have space then to put a press or another press in and have, I don't want more than one guy. He can press parts if there's parts to be pressed. Like he can make a flipping good living um and I get rich. It's great.
00:42:16
Curt
Right.
00:42:16
jamie peacock
obviously Obviously, I have to maintain all the freaking tools and shit, but that's not the end of the world either.
00:42:16
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:42:21
jamie peacock
like it's we We're not running 100-ton presses.
00:42:22
Curt
Yeah.
00:42:25
jamie peacock
We're running like a 15-ton max. So we're actually discussing ways to do that a little bit more efficiently, kind of servo-style presses.
00:42:37
Curt
Oh, cool. Okay.
00:42:38
jamie peacock
So, yes, I have a plan that I want to test where we have a very narrow...
00:42:39
Curt
Interesting.
00:42:45
jamie peacock
bore honed tube with a rod in it and a servo motor that we literally ram forward and we're trading travel for bore. So we're moving a very small bore long distance and our big bore on the actual pressing side is moving a short distance.
00:43:01
jamie peacock
We're trading travel for force basically. And a 3.2 Newton meter stepper, well, servo on a five pitch bore screw should give you around 500 kilos of force.
00:43:05
Curt
Gotcha. Yeah.
00:43:15
Curt
Oh, that's significant. Yeah.
00:43:17
jamie peacock
It is. So, yeah we are messing around with some maths to do that, which would be kind of interesting if we can do it at very low, like at under a kilowatt would be kind of cool.
00:43:28
Curt
Yeah, I guess you don't need the like super fast cycle speed.
00:43:31
jamie peacock
Well, I'm going to be able to go at like stupid meters a minute because it's a servo. So I can run that ball screw at 3000 RPM.
00:43:41
Curt
Okay, i yeah, I guess.
00:43:41
jamie peacock
But I can ah can also do a fast approach and then slowly feed.
00:43:42
Curt
I guess, yeah.
00:43:46
jamie peacock
So the press can come down and then press with force and then go up. So we're going to mess around a little bit, do a bit of testing, um because I don't want a hydraulic system going all day in my workshop, eating power, converting power into noise and heat.
00:43:51
Curt
Right, right, right.
00:44:01
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:44:01
jamie peacock
um It's also a winding noise, which sucks. So yeah, we we will see. Jamie's press shop. I can...
00:44:09
Curt
Nice.
00:44:10
jamie peacock
Yeah, I mean, if it's going to make money, it's going make money. I'm happy to run it.
00:44:15
Curt
Yeah, especially if you have to work for it. Yeah, sure. why not?
00:44:16
jamie peacock
Yeah, like the nails is an extra $1,000 a month just for hitting nails.
00:44:23
jamie peacock
I may as well. walk It's $1,000 a month that comes in on that.
00:44:23
Curt
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
00:44:26
Curt
Yeah, especially.
00:44:27
jamie peacock
I think I'm going pay the guy. It's like $50 a
00:44:33
jamie peacock
it's like $200 that I get to pay him.
Economic Insights: Labor Market in South Africa
00:44:35
jamie peacock
there's like two hundred dollars that i get to buy him
00:44:38
Curt
Jesus, that's so low.
00:44:38
jamie peacock
for the month. It's yeah come to Africa, Africa is great.
00:44:41
Curt
That's.
00:44:42
jamie peacock
And that the paying him that he's like, well paid, like double what he would make being a gardener or being a cleaner or whatever.
00:44:43
Curt
Ugh.
00:44:50
Curt
Right. Yeah.
00:44:51
jamie peacock
So he's also getting paid fucking well, but having to sit there and hit 10,000 pieces is a little mind numbing.
00:45:01
Curt
Yeah. I don't, I don't know what I'd rather do rake leaves or whack nails. I think both have their own pluses and negatives.
00:45:09
jamie peacock
um now I've been thousands of parts.
00:45:09
Curt
Yeah.
00:45:11
jamie peacock
I've assembled thousands of parts on a press on a harvard press with cheetah bar. I've assembled like five or 6,000 components like that. That's why I bought an eccentric press because it would take me and make my arm this fucking big.
00:45:22
jamie peacock
It would take me three hours. I did in 45 minutes on the eccentric because you just load part of it.
00:45:26
Curt
Cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:45:29
jamie peacock
Done. That's why bought it. And now it's got a whole bunch of other work that's going on, it which is great because I like money.
00:45:36
Curt
That's cool.
00:45:36
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:45:37
Curt
Yeah, fair.
00:45:39
jamie peacock
So that's... ah i We haven't even covered half my things.
00:45:40
Curt
Cool.
00:45:42
jamie peacock
Oh, I covered that, I guess.
00:45:45
Curt
How's your... ah i I saw you playing with some 3D scanning on the weekend with Roger.
00:45:45
jamie peacock
So...
00:45:49
jamie peacock
Yes. Mr. Uncle Roger came through. I made him some lenses for...
00:45:53
Curt
Hmm.
00:45:55
jamie peacock
He designed the lenses for these guys, needed prototypes, I milled them for him. And he also sold my one printer, my Harlot, to one of his friends. Because I'd offered it to him.
00:46:06
jamie peacock
He sold it to one of his friends. um He's like, no, you'll come fetch them. I'll bring your scanner. You can pick up your lenses. So we three d I sucked out the tank. We 3D scanned it. I'm busy drawing up the new chip baskets that i want to have made.
00:46:19
Curt
Oh, cool.
00:46:19
jamie peacock
Because my chip baskets are basically, there may as well be nothing there.
00:46:25
jamie peacock
the holes in the basket are too big and then the bottom stage overflows and puts chips in the fucking tank anyway.
00:46:26
Curt
Fair, fair, fair.
00:46:33
jamie peacock
So I ordered some mesh with a 0.12 millimeter gap.
00:46:39
jamie peacock
So far, it's frickin tiny.
00:46:39
Curt
That's pretty tiny, yeah.
00:46:41
Curt
Yeah, know.
00:46:41
jamie peacock
So my new plan is to build a so my system currently has a chip tray and then two trays under that that are meant for farms. But there's a gap on each side.
00:46:51
Curt
Okay. Mm-hmm.
00:46:51
jamie peacock
So as soon as they fill up, they just overflow. So I'm now making one big tank, one big filter that drops in and everything goes in there and goes through that mesh on the bottom.
00:47:03
jamie peacock
And then I'm making baskets with like a one millimeter punched mesh that drops in. i'm going to have four of them so I can have two in the machine, two out of the machine. And as they get full, I just pull them out, swap new ones in.
00:47:14
jamie peacock
If they overflow, it's fine. They go into the fine mesh. It's not going to go through the fine mesh. And then I can pull the whole fine mesh out once every day or two or week or whatever it needs to be to get it out, but it's not getting from there into my coolant tank.
Innovations in Machining Operations
00:47:27
jamie peacock
And that's the big thing. It can't overflow into my coolant tank.
00:47:31
Curt
Sure, yeah, that makes sense.
00:47:32
jamie peacock
Yeah. So i I was designing it this afternoon. And then I'll double-check the measurements and send it off for laser cutting and then go sit at Commissioner's House and TIG weld it.
00:47:37
Curt
Oh, sick.
00:47:42
jamie peacock
And then I'll have a fancy new filter system. Because mine is...
00:47:47
Curt
I mean, that'd be nice.
00:47:48
jamie peacock
Basically useless.
00:47:49
Curt
Yeah.
00:47:52
Curt
Yeah, looks like yours gets a, well, I mean, you're you're pushing a lot more chips through everything than I am, but I was always like, like oh that's that seems like a hassle.
00:47:58
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:48:00
Curt
yeah
00:48:01
jamie peacock
It is a hassle, and I need something that I can use to deal with it now that I'm ramping up production. I want to go a bit more unattended. I need something that I don't have to babysit constantly. Even the HTTP I'm running now, three parts, the whole back of my machine is full.
00:48:18
Curt
Yikes. Yeah. ykes yeah
00:48:19
jamie peacock
Yeah, and that's the big chips at least, but that's machining at boobs per minute.
00:48:20
Curt
Yeah.
00:48:24
jamie peacock
It's like a bit of an issue. Ah, you've changed cameras.
00:48:30
Curt
more Why is my camera just deciding to change on me? I have no idea.
00:48:34
jamie peacock
Operator error. Hello, Mr. Elgato. um
00:48:37
Curt
Yeah. Like, okay. Weird.
00:48:39
jamie peacock
There we go.
00:48:39
Curt
Oh, okay.
00:48:40
jamie peacock
um Yeah, so I have thoughts on making a paper band filter as well that can basically drop into this main filter system I have.
00:48:46
Curt
Okay.
00:48:49
jamie peacock
Anything that doesn't get carried out by the paper band can just fall into the the fine mesh filter and be dealt with later. But I can get most of the ship out of the machine. that's the That's the big thing, is that I can get most of the stuff out of the machine.
00:49:02
jamie peacock
So yeah we'll see what what comes there in the coming coming little while. Trying not to just focus all on machine upgrades and actually do some work.
00:49:12
Curt
that's a hard. That's a hard game.
00:49:14
jamie peacock
It is. like Today was very much a yeah a very interesting day.
00:49:14
Curt
It's so fun to just... Yeah.
00:49:19
jamie peacock
Didn't do much that could be construed as productive. I played around my Shopify store, did a little bit of fuckery in the workshop.
00:49:24
Curt
I know there's,
00:49:27
jamie peacock
and Yeah.
00:49:30
Curt
there's so much in my world where I'm like, is this helping make the beer taste better? Or is this just something that I want to do? And it's like, I, I, I'm fine with having a little bit of a balance of like making my world just enjoyable for me.
00:49:41
Curt
But like at the same time, it's like, all right, okay, let's focus on things that make money.
00:49:42
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:49:46
jamie peacock
Yeah, exactly.
00:49:49
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:49:49
jamie peacock
like um yeah I need to harass customer for models now. um Because we've got 100 and something plates to machine and I don't have models yet. So they want cyber bots.
00:49:59
Curt
move
00:50:00
jamie peacock
I'm like, I need the models. Or am I modeling these from the drawings you gave me? They are missing dimensions. Like I made rudimentary models to be able to roughly quote the job.
00:50:06
Curt
Yeah.
00:50:10
jamie peacock
But now I need actual models so that I can go ahead and make fixtures and machine these things. So never a dull moment.
00:50:17
Curt
Yeah. No, fair.
00:50:21
Curt
Yeah, yeah, no doubt.
00:50:24
jamie peacock
Yeah, and hopefully this week I'll hear about'll back from them about five molds that have to machine.
00:50:24
Curt
Yeah, i don't know.
00:50:30
Curt
Ooh, okay, okay.
00:50:30
jamie peacock
And I'm busy quoting on a rocket fin mold now.
00:50:35
Curt
Oh, interesting.
00:50:35
jamie peacock
for a different customer, yes, for a, I think it's a space shot size rocket. It's like fucking eight inch diameter rocket tube. I made the tip for their rocket, I was stainless like two or three years ago.
00:50:45
Curt
Okay.
00:50:49
jamie peacock
It's the same group of guys. Now they want to production manufacture fins out of pre-preg with foam core. so I'm going to be machining some aluminium moulds that they're going embed elements into the back of so they can basically lay it up, close it and then just on the PID control it you can cook and it fucking and ramps and does all this bullshit with the pre-break yeah so you know always always interesting things happening
00:50:57
Curt
Oh, cool, okay, interesting.
00:51:12
Curt
Interesting. That's cool.
00:51:17
Curt
Yeah. Yeah. That's wild. That's fun.
00:51:20
jamie peacock
yeah that is lots lots of fun so what have you been filming that filming is fun
00:51:25
Curt
I just, I forget how, like I did a YouTube video for folks that are into that. You can check it out. I've linked it pretty much everywhere. um I forget how,
00:51:32
jamie peacock
Yeah, you put a link in the show notes as well.
00:51:34
Curt
I will have a link in the show notes. um I just, I forget how much of that I enjoy, like how much that just makes my world feel like fun and not work. And, ah it just, I don't know.
00:51:46
Curt
I haven't done filming in so long. Like I've, I've recorded film, but just sit down and edit something. Like I, I gotta to get back into that. I want to try to do more like
Content Creation and Personal Projects
00:51:53
Curt
weekly videos again. Cause I just, I love, it's it's fun sharing. Like literally if nobody watched it, actually this video is doing quite well, but even if nobody watched it, like I get so much, i get such a kick out of it doing that.
00:52:02
Curt
It just like, it's interesting to me. So it's, yeah, i don't know. I had a lot of fun doing it.
00:52:06
jamie peacock
I love it. I love it when you're putting out weekly videos. Like, I enjoy weekly videos, like even um Rotary S&P.
00:52:09
Curt
I thanks man. And
00:52:14
jamie peacock
Mark from Rotary S&P, every Sunday puts out a video.
00:52:15
Curt
Yeah.
00:52:18
jamie peacock
This off the this Sunday, we were watching Bridgerton. Bridgerton finished. Thank goodness. um And Danik's like, oh, what next? I'm like, it's a Sunday afternoon. It means Rotary S&P put out a video.
00:52:29
jamie peacock
So I spent 51 minutes watching him tear down his tool changer on his Charbonne.
00:52:34
Curt
Yeah, and like in this...
00:52:35
jamie peacock
I love weekly content.
00:52:38
Curt
YouTube is like changed to like the point where it's like there's content on there that is so like masterfully put together and filmed and edited. I love those too. But I also love just seeing someone's like vlog.
00:52:50
Curt
Like even if it's not a topic I'm super interested in, I follow a bunch of people because I'm like, I just like to see into your world.
00:52:53
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:52:56
Curt
I don't need it super polished. Like I want that like early 2000s feel of YouTube still. Like to me, that that's still interesting to me. So I follow a ton of channels that are just like, yeah, just...
00:53:03
jamie peacock
Yeah. that's that's how i treat my instagram my stories because it's unpolished unedited because youtube had the expectation that it would be polished and edited that was why i went over to post that stuff on on instagram because it required less effort like but yeah i i don't know if you ever watched matthias wandl
00:53:06
Curt
film their day-to-day and i'm like, yeah. Right.
00:53:17
Curt
Yeah.
00:53:23
Curt
Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
00:53:29
Curt
Oh, 100%. Yeah. Yep.
00:53:30
jamie peacock
yeah Dude, his stuff, every Friday I've seen him, that used to be my routine. Come home from work on a Friday, sit and watch his video. Because he put out on every Friday, he put out a woodworking video. I am not a woodworker, but I used to watch his stuff because it was interesting.
00:53:44
Curt
Dude, same. I don't do woodworking.
00:53:45
jamie peacock
Yeah,
00:53:46
Curt
I don't really enjoy woodworking. And I would watch all his videos because, yeah, he's it was just, A, it's fun to watch.
00:53:48
jamie peacock
yeah I don't fondle treats.
00:53:53
Curt
It's fun to watch someone build something.
00:53:53
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:53:54
Curt
And, yeah, it wasn't, like, overproduced anything. it was just interesting.
00:53:57
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:53:57
Curt
And, yeah, I miss that.
00:53:58
jamie peacock
It was produced well enough. It wasn't overproduced.
00:54:02
Curt
Totally. Yeah, exactly. Like, yeah, good audio, not shaky.
00:54:03
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:54:05
Curt
There's a story to follow. Like, that's the only checkboxes I really need.
00:54:07
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:54:09
Curt
Like, I'll watch your content if it if it does that. Yeah.
00:54:12
jamie peacock
Do you watch Alex Steele?
00:54:15
Curt
I did for a while, and then I kind of tapped out, got a little too salate or salacious for me, and then I check in once in a while.
00:54:18
jamie peacock
He's busy making a ah Barrel Damascus with his name in it. So wrapped around a barrel with his name, like it's it's effectively a forgotten art.
00:54:26
Curt
Cool. That's cool.
00:54:31
jamie peacock
they They don't do it anymore.
00:54:32
Curt
Yeah.
00:54:33
jamie peacock
No one knows how to, well, they're not kind of know how to do it. But yeah, anyway, he's busy with that. He started his channel when Casey Neistat got big on YouTube by posting every day. He started posting every day and that's how he grew his channel.
00:54:42
Curt
Yeah.
00:54:44
jamie peacock
Just every day, what's going on in the workshop, like 10, 15 minute video.
00:54:46
Curt
Yeah.
00:54:49
jamie peacock
And that's how he grew his channel.
00:54:49
Curt
And that's what... got That got me locked into him. Like I watched all his old like little in his shop with his like and they were well filmed.
00:54:53
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:54:57
jamie peacock
Daily steal.
00:54:57
Curt
I will say that. But yeah, like they were so interesting.
00:54:59
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:55:00
Curt
I'm just like, I don't care what you're Oh, you're just going to you're going make 50 Hammerheads today. I'm like, sick. I'll watch it. It's like it was interesting.
00:55:05
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:55:06
Curt
Yeah. Mm
00:55:07
jamie peacock
Well, it was interesting. I think, you know, both were active on YouTube and whatnot during the like the vlogger period, like 2015, around there, where a lot of people made a decent living vlogging.
00:55:16
Curt
hmm.
00:55:21
jamie peacock
aye
00:55:21
Curt
Totally.
00:55:21
jamie peacock
There's a chick, Emma Blackery. She... got kind of famous for her um fuck you Google Plus song. Or Google, yeah, was Google?
00:55:30
Curt
Okay, I don't know if i watched that.
00:55:31
jamie peacock
Yeah, she got a little ukulele and she said, fuck you Google Plus, it's great. That kind of blew up and then she moved, there was a city in the UK that a whole bunch of the vloggers all moved to and all interacted with each other and whatnot and made content.
00:55:44
jamie peacock
And she did that for a few years and then went got a real job because it died off. which was kind of to be expected, but her she had a jaw just making content in the little content village.
00:55:50
Curt
Sure.
00:55:55
jamie peacock
And yeah, it's a lot of people really were successful in that era.
00:55:57
Curt
Yeah.
00:56:01
Curt
Yeah.
00:56:01
jamie peacock
i mean, no, that's when I was most active on YouTube, but not that famous, unfortunately.
00:56:02
Curt
Well, like...
00:56:07
Curt
Yeah, and like, I mean, you like he could still make YouTube videos. Like, ah the the ship hasn't sailed.
00:56:11
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:56:12
Curt
Like, there's there's great people building great stuff out there. And like, you don't know.
00:56:16
jamie peacock
Yeah. i and I put out a video today and I think I put one out on the weekend or on Friday or something.
00:56:18
Curt
Yeah, it's...
00:56:24
Curt
Yeah, I think I did.
00:56:25
jamie peacock
um'm just doing fill it I'm just doing content on how to use my products, but it's content. like At least there's something going out there.
00:56:32
Curt
Absolutely. Oh, yeah, you I haven't seen the tutorial on your M6.
00:56:35
jamie peacock
Oh, sweet.
00:56:37
Curt
Okay, i'll I'll check those out.
00:56:38
jamie peacock
Have you not? like I haven't machined that part yet.
00:56:39
Curt
I have not.
00:56:41
jamie peacock
um But yes, one of our Patreons
00:56:42
Curt
no I'm going check it out, though.
00:56:45
jamie peacock
ah Jason, your knife just shipped. Sorry, it took a little little while. had to get mates in the UK to ship it. He just sent me a message say it's shipped.
00:56:55
Curt
Fair, yeah.
00:56:56
jamie peacock
Because all my knives sit in the UK and then get dispatched from there.
00:57:01
Curt
Probably a good thing now, yeah.
00:57:01
jamie peacock
his His kill clamps actually should have arrived today as well as John's.
00:57:08
Curt
Cool, that was pretty quick then.
00:57:08
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:57:09
Curt
Because yeah, that's not been a lot of, yeah, that's quick.
00:57:10
jamie peacock
ah Yeah, a week.
00:57:13
jamie peacock
Yeah, FedEx fucked around was meant to actually be delivered on Friday.
00:57:14
Curt
That's quick.
00:57:18
jamie peacock
But then, i don't know, some Elvis impersonator was fondling the package in Tennessee.
00:57:18
Curt
Fair.
00:57:22
jamie peacock
But they both left Tennessee. That's always the most stressful is when they're Tennessee because that's where EJ's one been missing.
00:57:28
Curt
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:57:29
jamie peacock
Yeah, so in everything, I'm fucking just shitting bricks. And then, ah yeah, it it left. And I was like, okay, okay it's fine. It's now in the area for delivery. So, yeah, they should all be delivered today.
00:57:41
Curt
That's quick. That's pretty quick.
00:57:42
jamie peacock
Dark. It is tunnels works magic. It literally does.
00:57:47
Curt
That's, yeah, that's pretty decent.
00:57:48
jamie peacock
So Kurt, what is in your Google box?
00:57:49
Curt
That's decent.
00:57:53
Curt
Well, do you want to take a guess to see ah what one of the topics is?
00:57:57
jamie peacock
Well, we've already covered like most of the topics, but go mad, Kurt.
00:57:58
Curt
it's
00:58:01
Curt
No doubt.
00:58:02
jamie peacock
I think I should add, I'm going to add a topic for you.
00:58:02
Curt
ah Yeah.
00:58:06
jamie peacock
There we go.
00:58:06
Curt
Sure.
00:58:06
Curt
Yeah, I was. Oh, nerd. Perfect. Yeah, exactly.
00:58:08
jamie peacock
yes
00:58:10
Curt
Yeah, of course. Camera shit. Actually, someone called me out on ah YouTube because they're like, oh, they're like, I see lenses like on your computer screen in the background of one of my shots.
00:58:16
jamie peacock
Yes, I meant to message you.
00:58:18
Curt
Yeah. ah
00:58:19
jamie peacock
meant to message you when I watched your video this morning and then i forgot.
00:58:22
Curt
I was editing that and i was like, should I blur this? I'm like, ah, fuck it. i'm like, someone will call me out. That's okay. how don't mind. um But yeah, no, I'm just looking at...
00:58:28
jamie peacock
ah nearly did, but then I got distracted.
00:58:32
Curt
I want more um ah like prime lenses for just super fast lenses, like super 1.4, 1.8. Because this little mil I have is a or aperture get like...
00:58:46
Curt
you can shoot in low light and like low iso and get a really sharp image still anyways i want some prime lenses that aren't like
00:58:50
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:58:53
Curt
This is my current like 30 and 40 mil, 50 mils are like two and a half, three, four F-stop. So it's just a lot slower. And besides the point, lots of camera shit in my searching marketplace.
00:59:02
jamie peacock
Nerd.
00:59:03
Curt
um Nerd, yeah, image. Rapid Raw, which is another cool photo editing software if you have raw images. Once again, open source, great software, easy to use. ah Ghoulgasm books. I looked it up for my wife.
00:59:16
Curt
Just so, yeah, if you just go go check out...
00:59:16
jamie peacock
Yeah. I saw that and I was kind of curious.
00:59:19
Curt
yeah It's like the tentacles in the toilet. it gets um It's yeah.
00:59:23
jamie peacock
Okay, yeah, yeah.
00:59:25
Curt
Yeah. Oh, I got lights flipping.
00:59:26
jamie peacock
Don't worry.
00:59:27
Curt
who
00:59:28
jamie peacock
Someone's going to deliver something good.
00:59:30
Curt
Someone's coming to my door. I'm going to see who it is. oohs Who the hell is that? Oh, the lady picking up some stuff.
Humorous Discussions and Tech Innovations
00:59:36
Curt
Okay, cool. That's fine. um Yeah. Anyway, so yeah. Google ghoulgasm and pick your wife up some.
00:59:40
jamie peacock
I know all about these kinds of books. I have a wife.
00:59:43
Curt
Yeah. Yeah, they're the good kind. um
00:59:46
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:59:47
Curt
Yeah, if your wife send it if your wife's into tentacles, check that out. And yeah, that's what that's a about it. up Or who maybe you're your whatever, whatever partner. If you're into tentacles, who and no judgment here. um What are you looking at, Jamie?
01:00:02
jamie peacock
yeah I've been watching the Rand dollar like a hawk with all the funner things happening in the world. ah got Got a really awesome article on Hackaday come across from our feed about easily replaceable Type-C connectors, a new standard for them, because the issue is desoldering and then re-soldering Type-C connectors onto a board.
01:00:08
Curt
Mm-hmm.
01:00:17
Curt
Ooh, cool.
01:00:20
jamie peacock
This is a proposed standard where it bolts down and has the connectors got fingers, gold little finger thingies that touch on gold pads.
01:00:29
Curt
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:00:30
jamie peacock
Really clever.
01:00:31
Curt
Yeah.
01:00:31
jamie peacock
Yeah. Then I was looking at fiber optic whips because we went to a fire po dancing fucking thing on Saturday night and they had fiber optic whips and my mind was breaking.
01:00:40
Curt
OK.
01:00:44
jamie peacock
Basically, it's a bundle of fiber optics with an LED and and like a torch. and it pulses and whatnot and this lady was wooing with it um but the whoops all different lengths like the fiber optics so it leaves like this really trippy trail so i was looking them up because inevitably my wife is going to want one and i'm not going to make her one i'm just going to buy her one it's way cheaper um and then was looking up motors for vacuum cleaners because i kind of want to put a motor on the top of monica so she sucks better
01:01:01
Curt
Yeah,
01:01:04
Curt
fair.
01:01:14
jamie peacock
And then the Land Rover has a CD player and an AUX input, no Bluetooth.
01:01:16
Curt
Okay.
01:01:21
jamie peacock
So I bought Danica a little Bluetooth adapter that plugs into the cigarette lighter, or sorry, the 12-volt auxiliary port.
01:01:28
jamie peacock
Not a cigarette lighter anymore.
01:01:28
Curt
Right, right.
01:01:30
Curt
Yeah.
01:01:30
jamie peacock
Plugs in there, um and then basically transmits at low power over FM, and then you just tune the radio to it. But by default, it's on the bottom of the range at 87.5,
01:01:42
jamie peacock
There's ah every other dickheads one has left at that. so you're driving down the freeway like when we're into place and a truck comes past and all of a sudden you're listening to what they're listening to as they go past you. So I changed the frequency up a little bit.
01:01:52
Curt
Sure.
01:01:54
jamie peacock
And Danica said to me now that I know when she drives past Santon, so she goes through Joburg past Santon to where she works, there's a section of the road where she picks up the radio, not her audio book.
01:02:06
jamie peacock
So was like, no worries.
Exploring FM Frequencies and Drone Memories
01:02:07
jamie peacock
Let me Google the the local frequencies and see if there's a gap. Turns out the first gap is at 94.2, I think, megahertz.
01:02:17
Curt
OK.
01:02:17
jamie peacock
Every single decimal is taken. 0.1, 0.2, that, yeah, there's a gap there.
01:02:21
Curt
Oh.
01:02:23
jamie peacock
So I programmed it to that that frequency. So hopefully she doesn't get any crosstalk.
01:02:29
Curt
That's tight.
01:02:29
jamie peacock
But like,
01:02:30
Curt
I'm surprised you could even have radio stations that close.
01:02:33
jamie peacock
On some of them, there are like six stations, but they're different regional stations. So there'll be one in Cape Town, one in Limpopo, one in Durban.
01:02:38
Curt
OK.
01:02:40
jamie peacock
Like, it's spread out enough that they can share the waves, but like 0.1 megahertz apart.
01:02:43
Curt
OK.
01:02:48
Curt
Yikes. That's tight.
01:02:48
jamie peacock
It's insane. Like, I was shocked when I – because ah I was like, okay, let me just Google it and see. And yeah, scroll whole 0.87.5. eight ah eighty seven point five Full up from there forward. 88, full.
01:03:04
jamie peacock
89, full. 90's full. 91's full. I think 92.2 or something is where I found a spot.
01:03:10
Curt
Fair.
01:03:10
jamie peacock
But yeah, I was quite shocked to see how full the band was, which for radio people is kind of cool, but yeah.
01:03:11
Curt
just...
01:03:17
jamie peacock
I don't know how many people are now that into radio things.
01:03:17
Curt
Just unplug your antenna and you're on your vehicle.
01:03:23
Curt
Just like disconnect the land rover antenna.
01:03:23
jamie peacock
No.
01:03:25
Curt
Then you'll be fine. and It'll only pick up what's in your vehicle.
01:03:28
jamie peacock
Yeah, well, that would work too, I guess. um But yeah, I mean, you used to fly FPV. I don't know if you still do. But I mean, we had a frequency chart with which channels you could be on to fly together.
01:03:36
Curt
Yeah.
01:03:41
jamie peacock
ah
01:03:41
Curt
Totally.
01:03:41
Curt
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:03:42
jamie peacock
I was showing a guy footage on Saturday of us. Danica was driving the car. There were three of us in the car, um goggles down, chasing the car. And we're please, can you go a little bit faster? We can't go slow enough. She was doing 80 kilometers an hour.
01:03:58
Curt
Wow.
01:03:58
jamie peacock
and there's three of us orbiting the car, like literally orbiting at 80 k's an hour. Like, please go faster, we're battling to go slow enough. Like, it's insane.
01:04:07
Curt
That's cool.
01:04:08
jamie peacock
And I mean, that's that must have been seven years ago.
01:04:13
Curt
Yeah.
01:04:13
jamie peacock
So like drones.
01:04:14
Curt
Yeah.
01:04:15
jamie peacock
I've actually in the room over there, there's an icon. Uh, now that we've made friends with, well, the pizza place up the road, we're friends with the owner. He's bought a new place and it's a big ass driving range. So I want to set the icon up with an FPV rig and take off fair and go fly out into the felt with a FPV and do a long range setup.
01:04:30
Curt
Cool.
01:04:33
jamie peacock
But yeah, when, when I have time for that, I need to buy lapos and they're expensive. Although in the grand scheme of things, not that expensive, but I have other priorities.
01:04:39
Curt
Yeah, fair.
01:04:42
Curt
No. in this Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Cool.
Personal Project Links and Updates
01:04:46
jamie peacock
Anyway, where can people find you and your things?
01:04:51
Curt
You can find me and my things at confoundedmachine.com. There's a bunch of pages that link to this show, link to YouTube, link to stores, link to newsletters. All the information can be found there.
01:05:03
Curt
How about you, Jamie? Where can people find your wares?
01:05:06
jamie peacock
Yeah, this list is long today. um So for the day to day happenings of the Jspec shop, you can find it at Jspec underscore engineering on Instagram. There is now nautical work holding Instagram as well, which you can search for nautical work holding, I believe. ah There's also the Jspeceng.com, which is the Store for the t-shirts and the flak.
01:05:27
jamie peacock
There's also nauticalwh.com. Nautical is spelled specially, so look for a link in the description. That is where you can find the anchor points and the keel clamps from this point forward, now that the file's all uploaded there. um But yeah, that's where you can find all of those things. And yeah, there's also the podcast is at theloanemachinists.com, where there's some bonus content, the Wall of Fame, and some other fun stuff. I don't know what the other other fun stuff is, but I'm sure there is some.
01:05:58
Curt
Nice.
01:05:59
jamie peacock
what are What are you up to today, Kurt?
01:06:00
Curt
ah
01:06:03
Curt
Uh, today I'm doing a bunch of pen finishing. I have all the, uh, machining done.
01:06:07
jamie peacock
Pass.
01:06:08
Curt
So now it's just like, yeah, making them, making them pretty, getting them in boxes. And then this week, after you're actually listening to this, like right at the end of this week, all of emails going out for all the lottery folks, uh, to sell this batch out.
01:06:20
Curt
So I wanted, I wanted to sell it last week cause I would have made my last month, like one of my best months ever. But, uh, I got to sidetrack with camera stuff. It's probably, it's probably what ended up happening.
01:06:31
Curt
So, yeah.
01:06:31
jamie peacock
can blame the cameras, that's fine. um
01:06:33
jamie peacock
Are those all the black ISO grips?
01:06:33
Curt
I'll blame the cameras, yeah.
01:06:36
Curt
Yeah, these are all black eye scripts, you bet.
01:06:39
jamie peacock
Nice.
01:06:39
Curt
You bet. So, yeah, they're fun ones to do.
01:06:40
jamie peacock
They look really pretty. Yeah.
01:06:43
Curt
Thanks, buddy.
01:06:43
jamie peacock
They look really good.
01:06:44
Curt
Thanks, man.
Technical Troubleshooting and Listener Engagement
01:06:45
Curt
How about you what are you?
01:06:45
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:06:46
Curt
What are you up to tomorrow, i guess?
01:06:49
jamie peacock
That's a very good question, because I don't actually know yet. I think I might go install a ISO controller tomorrow.
01:06:53
Curt
Oh, wild.
01:06:56
Curt
Oh, cool.
01:06:56
jamie peacock
Now that I don't have parts to press, I may as well quickly go to site and get that done.
01:06:57
Curt
Okay.
01:07:00
jamie peacock
The last piece I needed came in, so I'm just procrastinating going and breaking the machine. I should probably just go through tomorrow and get it done, or at least get it half done, and then you can see what I'm still short of and work my way through that that project and get it off the books.
01:07:17
jamie peacock
goes yeah It's a maso, it's not complicated.
01:07:17
Curt
Cool. Cool. Cool.
01:07:19
jamie peacock
Like, it's a maso.
01:07:20
Curt
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
01:07:22
jamie peacock
But yeah, that I think that might be what I end up doing tomorrow.
01:07:24
Curt
Exactly.
01:07:25
jamie peacock
i was going to go fix Carl's lathe, but I fixed it. I intimidated it into working over WhatsApp. His spindle stopped running forward and backwards.
01:07:32
Curt
Oh,
01:07:34
jamie peacock
I got him to go vocal the relays and then problem solved. I think you just had a dodgy connection in the spindle forward relay.
01:07:42
Curt
ah okay.
01:07:42
jamie peacock
Which is kind of weird, but anyway.
01:07:43
Curt
Well, that's easy fix on here.
01:07:44
jamie peacock
done Yeah, it shouldn't be a problem, but it was. But anyway. but yeah that that's the plan I was going to go there but now I'm going to go and do a massive install yay it's be the best anyway thank you everybody for for listening if you've been listening or or watching on YouTube please consider liking subscribing and all those fun things if you've been listening on Spotify please consider sharing with someone you think who would enjoy the podcast and we'll see you guys all next week
01:07:54
Curt
Yay. Fun.
01:08:15
Curt
Take care all.