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jamie peacock: Welcome to The Loaded Machine, so it's just you, the work, and the machine. What have you got going on today, Kurt?
Curt: ah This week, I'm going to complain about... My government's stealing phosphates from me. uh DIY tool shrinker that I built a while ago, how it's holding up. And, uh... Giant nerded out.
Curt: Dive on deep cleaning which I promise will be more interesting than it sounds
jamie peacock: Ooh.
Curt: How about you? What are we going to talk about, Jamie?
jamie peacock: We're going to talk about my vacuum gripper We're going to talk about... Should the toolpath meet up? just before IMTS. um and been sourcing some stuff from China and some of the interesting conversations I've had there.
jamie peacock: Okay.
Curt: Ooh.
jamie peacock: That's all. How are you this fine day, Kurt?
Curt: Doing fantastic. Doing fantastic. i' am sitting Sitting here, I got my...
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: Dr. Pepper Vanilla Float, fancy drink. I've now... Officially ran out of like non caffeinated drinks to drink so we're switching over to caffeinated drinks which
jamie peacock: na
Curt: Whatever we'll see how that works out
jamie peacock: Well, you sound like you're dying a bit less.
Curt: It's late for me that's why. ah Dude, I feel like so much better. And you sound like you're not coughing as much either. So I can't promise this podcast will be coughing free, but.
jamie peacock: ye It won't be.
Curt: We sound like we're better.
jamie peacock: um
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, no, I was doing a bit better till...
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Friday afternoon. I started feeling congested and yesterday we had a family thing. and that really delicious ravioli baked stuff and then i realized it's full of cheese
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: So... you know hacking up along a bit So I don't have coffee today
Curt: Jesus.
jamie peacock: I've got Ginger Drink.
Curt: Cheat cheese makes you cough or What's the deal?
jamie peacock: uh yeah anything with dairy just like my whole head gets congested and i start coughing
Curt: Uh... Oh, weird.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Wild. Okay.
jamie peacock: So the loss the last time I had a really bad cold. I'm trying to think. I think it was before IMTS last time. Uh...
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: for about five months after i was really sick if i drank milk i would cough So I stopped drinking milk in my coffee and I haven't drank milk in my coffee since. because I'd literally have a cup of coffee and I'd start coughing.
Curt: Weird.
jamie peacock: So I cut milk out, which also turns out if you do that, it makes you lactose intolerant. like after a certain threshold and that threshold is uh
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: seven out of eight pieces of pizza. on a pizza I've learned this the hard way. Multiple times.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: where i eat the whole pizza and then two in the morning I'm on the porcelain fucking and throne. so yeah ah like it it's interesting cut milk out and now um I can't eat too much cheese or I shit my lungs out.
Curt: Well, I mean... Eating a whole pizza probably isn't the greatest. For a lot of reasons, but...
jamie peacock: hey It's delicious.
Curt: It is delicious. I'll give you that.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah. well there's the two cagey pizza up the road that i did on my birthday last year.
Curt: hmm
jamie peacock: I got... just over halfway. in 11 minutes you have 20 minutes to finish it and it's free i'm like fuck i'll smash this thing
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: 11 minutes in, I was one slice past halfway, and then I could not put another...
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Bites in my mouth. I didn't eat till lunchtime the next day.
Curt: oh
jamie peacock: I didn't sleep because I had the fucking meat sweats. I was laying in bed like.
Curt: ah
jamie peacock: Try not to die.
Curt: no
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Ugh.
jamie peacock: It was ah very rough.
Curt: Yeah, I...
jamie peacock: Let's go.
Curt: yeah I'd probably do the same.
jamie peacock: But hopefully no coughing.
Curt: I like this.
jamie peacock: That's the important thing.
Curt: I like pizza.
jamie peacock: Uh, yeah.
Curt: Sick.
jamie peacock: So...
Curt: Cool. How's Sunny's? Yes.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: oh i don't
jamie peacock: no no sunny South Africa it's fucking sunny it's cold as Fuck in the morning, but then... t -shirt weather in the afternoon or fell by lunchtime and as soon as the sun goes away it's cold again
Curt: Sick. how's ah How's life in the new shop going?
jamie peacock: So. Yeah. um Our neighbor. God is delivery or fuck away hefts. and put a container at the back of our shop.
jamie peacock: And then it comes to call, ah can you move your car so we can get into our container? Good luck. That's our parking spot motherfucker. So we're trying not to be dickheads. But we're considering both parking our cars at the back going forward and just closing all the doors and acting like we're not there that they can't get into their container because sorry it's and behind our units in our parking Like get fucked friend
Curt: Yeah. Yeah. Fair, yeah
jamie peacock: Zero fucks given, like... If it's going to become a problem, I'm going to make it a bigger problem. But yeah, we're trying not to be dickheads. Um, I had a customer there the other day. He's like, oh, yeah, can you move your cards in front of our door? It's like fucking a third of the way across his roll -up door.
jamie peacock: And, you know, can you move it across the way? Now there's a forklift permanently parked. Well, and'm sorry, not a forklift, a lift. It doesn't have folks. parked across from us permanently in that parking spot. because he's now got forklifts in in his demo room yeah so
Curt: oh
jamie peacock: Turning to our other neighbor. and the guards across the way, they do not they have zero time for this guy. Like he was he makes dog food and literally had his stuff sitting outside.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: There was a huge rat problem like six months ago because of the way the soaks carrying on So yeah. Everyone has their time for them. but I live in my happy place in my little office and yeah. is what it is.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I'm trying not to cause shit.
Curt: Fair enough.
jamie peacock: um It's not easy, but I'm trying.
Curt: ah Yeah
jamie peacock: But yeah.
Curt: I don't know Yeah.
jamie peacock: Workshop's lovely. We're doing lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of work.
Curt: Good.
jamie peacock: I had to phone Eurosteel this week and be like, ah please can you extend my credits on the... on our account Because, uh... I need to order material. So we had a credits increase on our account so that we can actually order enough material to get parts out the door Because yeah this month is going to be a banger.
Curt: Nice, okay.
jamie peacock: Um, Because we're trying to... Push because next month I'm not there for nearly three weeks
Curt: Right, right, right, right, right, right.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So. trying to get everything that needs to be lined up lined up ahead of time so that when i'm not there call can still run
Curt: Yeah. Makes sense.
jamie peacock: No. So. But yeah, we've got a lot of parts going into the EMCO is fully booked out. so is the good way for the rest of the month.
Curt: Sick. Nice.
jamie peacock: Yeah, we got it, unfortunately.
Curt: That's good.
jamie peacock: The Goodway's booked out and the part number that these clowns want in two weeks. was meant to go on the Good way, but it's booked out. so Can do them on the Emco. but we can't drill them because I literally do not have enough travel to drill through the parts.
Curt: Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: Knock. The length of the drill bit and the length of the pot?
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: take up my entire travel. So...
Curt: Ah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: I'm going to have to blank the parts on the anchor and then I think... I was going to spindle grip them, but I think I'm going to, because it's like 1 ,800 parts. So that becomes 5 ,400 tool changes.
jamie peacock: if I'm running them one at a time.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So I'm thinking, fuck that palette. and do 30 or 40 at a time. On a...
Curt: Sure, yeah yeah.
jamie peacock: on a pallet and just to have pallets and load pallets. um because that's all going to be done by the first
Curt: Ooh, yeah, that's a lot.
jamie peacock: So young.
Curt: Yeah, that's a lot.
jamie peacock: Yes. And it's not the best margin either. So putting it on the LK is a literal waste of time.
Curt: Okay, that makes sense.
jamie peacock: But it's doing it with what we have access to.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: So... and it'll become a recurring order so then we'll schedule it into the good ways Run Tom.
Curt: aluminum or steel or
jamie peacock: aluminum. So I ordered 20 lengths of 25 diamonds, 20 lengths of one inch bar.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: And I think they're 20 foot lengths, so.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: That's a lot of material.
Curt: That's significant, yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: so and then yeah we had uh fun stuff yesterday so yesterday i had a family thing So I went into the office. ah Ren. i'm running a bunch of knives for mts So I ran those on Friday nights. Got in on Saturday morning and...
jamie peacock: I had 13 good parts out of 24. I had some misloading issues where...
Curt: ooh
jamie peacock: My tray that I cut. I think I cut the slots 34mm wide and the material is 32mm. so it could be a little bit skewed. and that little bit skew, the Vastrals weren't opening enough.
jamie peacock: So I quickly shimmed the jaws differently, remachined my jaws. And then... had a pretty good run of parts through the day yesterday i lost two parts One didn't pick because the suction from the...
jamie peacock: pallets and the part was too too much and overcame the vacuum So it couldn't pull it out of the tray and the other one misloaded with the shaving or something and was thinner So I just scrapped it So that ran last night again.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: um I'll probably go in later today. Well, I have to go in later today. I'll go in and have a look and see what my yield was like. So I'm just running that. Every time I get a chance to shoot it, it takes me half an hour to do the op one. I turn everything over, hit go, and leave, and let it turn off when it's done.
Curt: And are you... are you like pro doing anything like to determine like stock is there or like They're just... blocking it, just check.
jamie peacock: YOLO! if it doesn't so
Curt: Just fucking - okay.
jamie peacock: So I plan in such a way if the... If the stock doesn't clamp, the first tool coming in is a face mold. is going to throw it out of the way.
Curt: Okay. Okay, fair.
jamie peacock: without damaging the facemals and just throw the parts out the way and carry on and can machine air Doesn't really matter. Um,
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: Yeah, i don't have it in I don't have a probe in my machine yet.
Curt: Okay. So if, yeah, if it doesn't pick the part out of the vice, it's probably going to ram the next.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: raw stock into the part. But.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: The. Jaws will probably just fail on the...
jamie peacock: The, yeah.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: Exactly.
Curt: Yeah. yeah
jamie peacock: So at the vast, the fastener clamping with three mils. So it'll place it on the top.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: And then as soon as the coolant turns on, it'll probably blow it away. So I'm not sure.
Curt: Sure. And if not, yeah, the face mill will just walk it away. Yeah. Okay. All right.
jamie peacock: Exactly.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: So it's running pretty pretty reliably. um Yeah, that' that's been running. That's been great fun. So we've been using the...
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: The vacuum gripper. which is labeled the mark. the mechanical interface for kinetic extraction. um Yeah. so it goes picks the parts up puts it in the vase then i use the handy semen to unload it
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: because it then has a hole in it I can't grab it with a vacuum dripper.
Curt: okay
Curt: Right, right.
jamie peacock: Yeah, and then I can't put it back in the tray because the...
Curt: right
jamie peacock: Think the tray. is three millimeter acrylic and the parts four millimeters thick so then i drop it into a box On the... side of the machine.
Curt: Oh, yeah. Okay.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so I unload into a box and then I'll, yeah.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: that That's actually been running really well. And I want to make a... stick version of that vacuum gripper where it is Uh... 19. A non -teen. um that goes into a side lock and it's just a stick with a suction cup on the end.
jamie peacock: and it's for through spindle air you put air into the back of it and it's suctions on the front
Curt: Oh, okay. Yeah, good idea. Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so we're gonna make I think we're gonna make a version of it like that that you can just put in a side lock holder and then you've got a a vacuum gripper.
Curt: Yeah, that works nice.
jamie peacock: But requires through spindle air to work. Mine has got a bar pulse on it.
Curt: Yeah. I guess you youd probably have enough air to pick. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah. no no through spindly you get a lot of air through through spindly
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: and also if it's all sealed yeah if it's all sealed you're going through a 0 .7 orifice
Curt: Oh, do you? Okay, I don't...
jamie peacock: or 0 .5 orifice on the vacuum generator.
Curt: that's true yeah
jamie peacock: Yeah, so I'm gonna...
Curt: Yep.
jamie peacock: draw that up at some point and then make a through spindle version of it to add to the evergreen product list
Curt: Cool. Nice.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Yeah. So what has your government done with your phosphates?
Curt: That's awesome. Dude, that was such a... Deep. i like I think this is solved a ton. of like if If you're listening to this podcast and you're anodizing titanium, there's going to be a bunch of information here that's going to be very useful for you because I... cracked my head against the wall for like the last forever trying to figure this out For the longest time, I couldn't figure out why I'm not getting good high voltage colors like my colors start to taper off at around 60 volts and i'm just i'm getting like Everything I try, nothing is working great. and um
Curt: So I was I was talking with I ah open up Claude. I'm like fuck this like I'm just gonna I'm just gonna talk to this robot And. let throw things back at me and we'll figure something out so it started with me just going over my like cleaning um
jamie peacock: Hmm.
Curt: Just. like I'm like, okay, this is how I'm currently cleaning. uh you know where can you see pitfalls something like i think did we talk about that last week i just Let me check.
jamie peacock: Yes, we did
Curt: Uh, Yeah, so anyways, it was... I was like, where's my pitfalls? And it's like, oh, you know, you air contaminate or oil contamination, blah, blah, blah, all this stuff. And I was like, okay. okay And then... ah so i said well i i did this in the past at a lower volume and it worked and now that i'm doing a higher volume, my process has changed. um so anyways it recommended different cleaners and stuff to use um and then uh i was like okay well i think i have my cleaning nailed now um i'm changing out from alkanocs i'm changing to just different degreasers some
Curt: solvent degreasing and whatnot. um But then I talked about anodizing and I anodize. in baking soda. That's what I've been anodizing with forever. Um, for a long time anyways i started with Trisodium phosphate, TSP.
Curt: And then I switched. Hi. I didn't switch to baking sodas. This is kind of something I forgot about. i Was using TSP here and then I started getting inconsistent results and like really weird artifacts happening in my anodizing and I'm like What the fuck is going on?
Curt: So I was like I had no idea
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So I just ditched him. Like, whatever. It just has to be a conductive solution. It doesn't matter. Baking soda works just fine. I carry it on with baking soda. I've been using it since. um So I basically told. chat or a cloud that I was like, Hey, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, there must have been some sort of contaminant in the TSP I'm buying. And it's like.
Curt: You live in Canada. It's like. it's very likely that the phosphate ban is what is causing your issue and i was like Tell me more. um Because I used to buy... Trisodium phosphate in.
Curt: Like, it was dirt cheap. Like, i get and it came in actually a little, like, milk milk carton looking things, like, for a few bucks.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: And I just couldn't find him anymore. So I'm like, well, whatever. I'll just buy Liquidform TSP. um but most so what we had here is we had so many phosphates in our cleaners that the government passed basically a regulation saving or stating that You have to remove the phosphates from cleaners unless they're designated as an industrial cleaner.
Curt: um And TSP.
jamie peacock: Okay.
Curt: tsp that's sold in the home stores which is typically where i would just buy it um fell into this so unless it was specifically called like an industrial degreaser it had to use to form use a formulation that was phosate phosphate -free.
Curt: And the FOSS...
jamie peacock: o
Curt: Yeah, and the phosphates are... key in this building up an anodized layer stage. especially at high voltages. That's where its conduction comes into effect. So all the TSPs I've been buying hasn't been a contaminant issue. It's been an issue of not having enough phosphates into it.
Curt: um So anyways. I was like, what? Is that seriously it? And then I started looking at all the like TSPs that I bought. And it's like, TSP. PF, which is phosphate -free, or TSP +, which is...
Curt: like trisodium phosphate but it has like surfactants in it and just a bunch of bullshit that i don't need And that's causing a lot of my issues. So anyways, I was like, oh. Well, easy. I'll just buy commercial grade, like, I mean, or sorry, lab grade TSP. That's fucking hard to find. So anyways, this led me down like this.
Curt: monster uh just rabbit trail of i finally found a source like i was looking at msds of all the things and i finally found pure Trisodium phosphate that I can buy. um and i i have it sitting here right now i'd buy a shit ton of it um But now I have a look.
Curt: a Fucking decades apply. um And it's pure TSP, like trisodium phosphate, trisodium phosphate dodecahydrate, which is like mixed with a water carrying crystal. Anyways, it's okay. It's good. um But the coolest thing is once once I realized... i was like what would happen if i wasn't using this it's like oh you would see like modeling or like kind of blotchiest blotchy effects anything over about like 60 ish volts because it wouldn't it
jamie peacock: ah
Curt: baking soda doesn't contain the conduction required. for that layer. um that you're trying to build. And I was like, That's exactly what I'm seeing. and like i can get around it i know he's around it now but i'm like that's exactly what i'm seeing so
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: I'm 99 % sure that was my problem. um I'll know this week. i'm in like two days, I'll be doing all the anodizing and I'll know for sure. and i'm gonna i'm gonna go analytically like i'm gonna change one thing at a time
jamie peacock: Okay. Yeah. yeah
Curt: um just to see if that is, but I think that's it. So anyways, yeah, it's just. government protecting me from myself actually the government protecting the freaking wall. water from being contaminated by people just running shit down the drain but
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: i was just like ah That's what it was. so Yeah.
jamie peacock: Okay, well at least you hopefully have found the the issue.
Curt: it was just It was so weird because I didn't even think about that. And then I was like, oh yeah, you know now that I think about that, I can't get this shit.
jamie peacock: yeah
Curt: anywhere anymore and it's like yeah it's because Dude. you don't use it in your products anymore like cleaning products are' like yeah
jamie peacock: Interesting.
Curt: Sorry.
jamie peacock: So how much did you have to buy?
Curt: Uh, not a ton. I have two kilos, so it's...
jamie peacock: That's not that bad.
Curt: Yeah, it's not a ton. Yeah, and it wasn't heinously expensive.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: like So. should Should work.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: I think hopefully. like it's not banned here it's just yeah that's what it is
jamie peacock: What's up? Yeah. just hard to get.
Curt: Mm -hmm.
jamie peacock: ah Yes, so I pulled a Kurt this week.
Curt: Okay, sweet. What's that?
jamie peacock: I went and I got custom springs.
Curt: Ooh, fancy fancy.
jamie peacock: Yes. so the current handy semen in my machine has got a spring that fully compresses at about 1 .7 kilos
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: But I wanted to open with more vigour. It opens fine, but I want more.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: So I went to the spring place. I'm like, hey, I'm looking for a spring like this. uh they gave me a sample spring i went back assembled it into one of the nimble grippers it compresses at four kilograms I fully compressed them. work Okay, cool. This works.
jamie peacock: got a quotes i'm like yeah i need like 20 of them It was the same price to buy 100, so I just bought 100.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Like they're custom making the spring for me and I'll have a spec for the spring.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: Um, But yeah, I was busy. doing all the rework on the other The stuff I have to do. to the nimble g grippers. So they come in, I strip them.
jamie peacock: We drill the rear port into them. we modify the piston slightly But the Chinaman's locked hearted the fucking screw. into the back of the piston.
Curt: no Okay.
jamie peacock: So I ended up having to drill the fucking screws out And then... With Vostrup. take the remnants of the screw out of the The shaft. And the one snapped all flush, so I'm like, fuck.
Curt: Ugh.
Curt: oh
jamie peacock: I'm buying these from the manufacturer. Let me find out if they can assemble them without Loctite for me. So I messaged them. And.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: They can. No additional cost to not use Loctite.
Curt: Oh wild
jamie peacock: No additional lead time either. So I've got a bunch more coming without Loctite in them.
Curt: Oh nice.
jamie peacock: Because they're going to come and I'm going to strip them. I have to... drill the body i have to load the piston in a in soft jaws and I change it from a... These ones have got a... button head screw in the back, which is the worst. to a countersunk Torx screw.
jamie peacock: so that the spring fits
Curt: How nice.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so
Curt: That's...
jamie peacock: They are. Like it. The choice of dealing directly with. with China. because we're buying a cylinder off the shelf but then we're doing some modifications to it
Curt: Well, that's cool that they actually...
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: like They weren't just like, oh no, sorry, we have 50 ,000 of these already made.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: like You're just going to get what you get. but
jamie peacock: Yeah, no, they they seem to be pretty...
Curt: That's cool.
jamie peacock: Open tune. customizing stuff for me. So yeah, those are... ordered and should be here in the next like week or two Um,
jamie peacock: And then, you know, waiting for the springs. Those are three to five days lead time on those. which is a
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: Yeah, not too bad. um I've put off going there for like... three weeks so i could have had them a while ago um But yeah, we are. in the full swing of making handy semen
Curt: I still love that name that is the best.
jamie peacock: So long.
Curt: That's me.
jamie peacock: Fucking great.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Um, And it works fucking well as well. like go So the the new ones. i need to update the drawings at some point the Integrated BT31s are 10mm longer than...
jamie peacock: they're supposed to be. Because... The tool holders are bored. i thought i was buying 60s and i bought 70 millimeter gauge length
Curt: Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: So they're a little bit longer, but it's not the end of the world. We just extended the wear ring by a few millimeters and Problem solved. So we've got like I'm anodizing
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: I'm anodizing them today. That's on the list of shit to do today while I'm at home because my Anno setup is still at home.
Curt: Yeah, right.
jamie peacock: So yeah, I need to add it. I've got a bunch of them here. I've been running. Handy semen pots during the week. And then I would have more material around those quickly on Friday. so that I've got enough stock because I did not have enough stock.
Curt: cool
jamie peacock: So yeah, handy seaming.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: It's great.
Curt: Handy seaming.
jamie peacock: Um, Yeah, handy seemling. But yeah, the...
Curt: Aaniin.
jamie peacock: the production on those like i'm not running on pallets or anything yet i think i need to move them onto pallets where i'm up one -ing in the vases and then up two -ing on a pallet just to That I don't have to make soft draws every fucking time that I want to make a part.
Curt: Sure. yeah
Curt: Yeah, yeah, I get that.
jamie peacock: because right now i'm machining soft jaws every batch
Curt: Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: which also is not the end of the world, but yeah. a little bit annoying
Curt: Yeah, well, he said get it Get it done, get a few made, and then you can focus on.
jamie peacock: Good job. Yeah. Oh.
Curt: streamlining once you have something.
jamie peacock: Even the... The utility knives, I'm going to make another. one or three palettes. I haven't decided yet. so that i can load the pallets every time i get a gap just throw them in the machine that uses three tools for the final op Hit go, let it run and do something else.
jamie peacock: like prep the next job and have the machine running.
Curt: Totally.
jamie peacock: um
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: because there's going to be a lot of pallets that have to run on those.
Curt: Yeah. That is.
jamie peacock: So yeah.
Curt: That is the magic of Zero Point. That's what it's for.
jamie peacock: And I, yeah, ah do yeah. It's fucking magical. like ah on On Friday. I came and I'd run the gripper through the knot. i came in i was going to set up to run i ran up one then i needed to do another job quickly som like shipped okay Pull the zero points because now my tray is on the zero points. Pull out the harbor. put in my little vase, ran a job, ran another job. Then the material arrived for the handy seaman. So I'm like, all right, let me run these quickly.
jamie peacock: come like four, five o 'clock in the afternoon, slept the zero point tray back in with all the parts. Loaded the program, hit go, and I fucked off. and Left it to run. Like I put my work coordinates for the pneumatic vise. That's on my... mechanical anchor points the that is set up on g56 i never touched g56 So it's set up. I can take the fast in and out.
jamie peacock: When I put it back in as where it was and I can just hit go and know that it's good.
Curt: Yeah. That's awesome.
jamie peacock: No.
Curt: Ha ha.
jamie peacock: It's freaking amazing. Like zero points are magical.
Curt: Yup.
jamie peacock: like I take it for granted now.
Curt: Yep, no, totally.
jamie peacock: uh that i've just Just throw a thing in the machine quickly. so i need to do a bit of promoting of the anchor points
Curt: Yep.
jamie peacock: um That is actually... one of the topics. There's going to be a meetup at Justin's shop. on the Thursday before IMTS. in Cleveland so Anyone in the Cleveland area?
Curt: Mmm.
jamie peacock: I think the invite will be going up this week on Instagram and whatnot. um so if you're in the area pull in We're going to have some anchor points and some Andy Siemens and stuff to show off.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: and just talk shit and have fun at Justin's shop.
Curt: Oh, that's cool. That's awesome. That sounds like fun.
jamie peacock: Yeah. So yeah. Yeah, that's one word for it. We land at 730 in the morning in New York. I'd have to be in Cleveland. at five o 'clock in the afternoon for the meetup.
Curt: Wait.
jamie peacock: That's like eight and a half hours. Drive or eight and a half hours later
Curt: What time do you... What time do you? What time do you leave South Africa?
jamie peacock: Uh, the previous day sometime?
Curt: Or...
jamie peacock: I'll tell you now
Curt: Okay, so you're netting on trying to sleep on the plane.
jamie peacock: I am sleeping on the plane.
Curt: Oh, yeah, just going to drug yourself.
jamie peacock: We leave at 5 o 'clock in the afternoon on the Tuesday.
Curt: in
jamie peacock: Sorry, we land on the Wednesday. Oh, the meetup's on the Wednesday, the 9th of September. Sorry. the Wednesday. um Yeah, so we land at 735 in New York, pick up a rental car.
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: and then drive eight hours straight to Justin.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so I'll be sleeping in the car. for sure. um preferably not while I'm driving.
Curt: I was gonna say, yeah
jamie peacock: But yeah, we, yeah. So we're going to be adjusting that not. Then the next day, I think... Jacob might be flying in as well for that. And then Jacob's going to go with us to AJ the next day.
jamie peacock: Then we had AJ for the night.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: Then we're going up to... more ear manufacturing than the Friday. And then Saturday, we're going into Chicago. So it's going to be a very busy few days before IMTS.
Curt: That's going to be a lot of moving around. Yeah, because you're all jet -lagged.
jamie peacock: It's about 20 hours in the car. over like three days.
Curt: Ugh.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah, that's very good.
jamie peacock: It's... it's going to be fun but we get to go see things so yeah
Curt: I'd say, yeah, you're meeting.
jamie peacock: trying to arrange
Curt: Cool people, yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, we're still trying to arrange a shop tour that's kind of on the way that I always wanted to go to that shop. So we will see.
Curt: cool Cool.
jamie peacock: Now, hopefully we can get that right. But yeah, there'll be a meetup on the...
Curt: I hope.
jamie peacock: 9th of September. at the tool pot shop in cleveland if anyone wants to come in just DM me and I'll send you the invite thingy. But I'm sure it's going to go out on Instagram in the next like day or two.
jamie peacock: Danica and Justin have been working on that.
Curt: cool
jamie peacock: Also, speaking of that, have you did you see Sander's post this week?
Curt: I did not. No, I did not.
jamie peacock: Oh, Saunders Lathe Works.
Curt: o Oh, maybe I caught an edge of it Uh...
jamie peacock: One moment. please We're being professionals here. Um, I believe in your phone. You can do it.
Curt: I thought I came across this a while ago, but that mal that bit that might have been...
jamie peacock: Muffa, there we go no no this is the This is the new shirt.
jamie peacock: There we go. That's his whole crew.
Curt: i don't know which way which oh you sent it on me okay I was like, we have too many
jamie peacock: Let's answer on WhatsApp. Yeah, what's up? Um, Yeah, the quote is... open thing Um...
Curt: Oh, Roman.
jamie peacock: Real men make parts on B -axis lathes. John Saunders, probably.
Curt: That's awesome. that's awesome up ah
jamie peacock: Yeah. ah Yeah, Danica did the artwork for Justin on that.
Curt: Sick. Oh that's cool dude.
jamie peacock: Yeah. It's freaking sweet.
Curt: That's cool.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Huh? I love this community for just shit like that.
jamie peacock: Oh, yeah.
Curt: it just like
jamie peacock: Exactly.
Curt: I don't mind.
jamie peacock: That's great. Well, I mean...
Curt: Yeah. Bunch art.
jamie peacock: I'm wearing the Justin Gray shirt today.
Curt: My, uh... my wife actually asked me that she's like do you ever miss like working with like people um because i just worked here all the time and I was like, you know, i like, no, I don't. i don't
jamie peacock: People suck.
Curt: typically like people. like i'm big proponent of just being alone um but i'm also like if i want to talk to people i'm like i can jump on discord and there's like There's a gathering of like all the dorks that I talk with on Instagram and everywhere else just there and like
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Either i could just we can just go in there and talk shit, or like if someone legitimately has a problem, you can just like chime in to one of the various... discord channels that are out there that are all centered around
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: the machinists here and like someone will either genuinely help you or just like call you out and call you whatever and like it's That's a great way for like all of us that are in shops, like it was one guy, two guys.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So like all kind of networking interact. I never go on there. I'm totally hypocritical. I'm never there. I like once in a blue moon, I'll pop into like the taps of patience one.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: um but like it's so cool that it's right there and just like it doesn't feel like you guys are thousands of miles away and people that I've never met it's just like yeah it's different
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Ameen. Yeah. That's my my Friday nights or my CAD evenings. So I like schedule all my CAD work and programming me stuff for then.
Curt: h
jamie peacock: And then I sit and talk shit with the guys while I... do my programming. All right.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah. and it's fun like the guys come in and out and then because it's friday morning for them So they'll...
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: you come in talk shit for a bit while they're working and i know they're going off to lunch and then if you hang around long enough they come back usually
Curt: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's just.
jamie peacock: My thoughts. dots The community is quite wholesome.
Curt: It's cool. It is.
jamie peacock: No.
Curt: i'm I'm a huge fan of being part of it. So it's it's nice.
jamie peacock: Yeah. I definitely.
Curt: And if this gives back in some sort of way where you people find interest, which they do, I should forward messages to you.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: People send me messages all the time and be like, dude, we love it like I love listening to you guys just talk to shit. I'm like, we don't talk about anything of importance. But if you're listening to it and you dig it.
jamie peacock: No.
Curt: I appreciate it a ton.
jamie peacock: Yeah, that's it.
Curt: So.
jamie peacock: likewise ah i enjoy getting feedback that people enjoy it
Curt: Yeah, it's wild. Yeah.
jamie peacock: It's yeah it's just really interesting to see who listens to it as well. like Fucking hell. And, yeah.
Curt: oh yeah i've been totally impressed i'm like you listen to our shit podcast like really i'm like that's that's
jamie peacock: Yeah. Yeah, we literally just talk shit for...
Curt: I appreciate it. Yeah.
jamie peacock: an hour every week. It's great.
Curt: I'm pretty sure we just talked about drones continuously last week with like very little machining.
jamie peacock: on the top.
Curt: So I'm like, well, thanks for.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Going along with that.
jamie peacock: Drones and minecarts!
Curt: Yeah, i yeah of that's a fun thing, yeah.
jamie peacock: No. Yeah.
Curt: ah
jamie peacock: So did you, I'm assuming cleaning deep dive is the same cleaning deep dive or did you learn more?
Curt: Ah.
Curt: Dude, basically this No, basically the same thing. and just i like ah The ways I'm going to structure my um ultrasonic tanks and stuff changed a bit because I'm using different degreasers and I just can't fill my tanks with it. But ah yeah, so that'll work. Hot tip out there, if you have ultrasonic tanks, put...
Curt: jar or like containers in your tanks.
jamie peacock: Oh.
Curt: go ahead
jamie peacock: Interesting thing. the ultrasonics are generally built around the
Curt: Yeah, yeah
jamie peacock: i forgot what they're called but they use them for cooking So you can literally bar tanks that nest in them.
Curt: Oh, really? Sick.
jamie peacock: Yeah, because the tank is ah is a baggger tray for food prep.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: so you can buy them they into stacks.
Curt: Sure.
jamie peacock: You can literally drop it straight in there.
Curt: Oh, cool. Okay.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Um, um But yeah, I'd go to like... dollar store or whatever. ah Glass containers work. Plastic containers work. Fill them up with whatever kind of solvents.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: I mean, not solvents that are... Use your own. You're big people. Do what you want. um And then you can just drop them into tanks of water. So you can fill your big ultrasonic with water and then have like multiple little tanks and they have all kinds of different.
Curt: cleaning solutions and you don't have to, you know. invest in 10 liters of some crazy expensive degreaser.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: ah just to decrease your parts. Yeah, kind of cool idea.
jamie peacock: Yeah, I need to get my ultrasonic to the workshop.
Curt: But yeah, that.
jamie peacock: It's still here as well
Curt: Yeah, I kind of forget how useful they are. Sometimes I'm like, I don't need to be ultrasonic -ing parts, and then i' like I'll put one, and I'll be like, oh yeah, they're so much better than any form of cleaning. Like, they're just so much better.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Even cheap ones, so.
jamie peacock: You know. They're freaking great.
Curt: Um, Let me see. uh oh my uh so i was pissed off my Tool shrinker, which is funny because um I posted it
jamie peacock: Yes. You.
Curt: Yeah. I posted a story about it, or like a bunch of pictures. um
jamie peacock: Doing your annual tool shrinking.
Curt: I just have I keep my thread mill in there and my thread mill only cuts titanium like Tiny threads. And it literally lasts for. thousands and thousands of holes. So I change it.
Curt: yearly when I think it's going bad. um And like. ah So anyways, I... Brought up my DIY shrinker and took a bunch of pictures of it. And ah it's just, ah it's like you could buy them on Amazon.
Curt: Um, They're just like inductive heaters. um i completely replaced every single component on the board because it was shit and now it's way more powerful I run it off lipos. Um, It works great. um it is its limit is about 1 8th tooling and even I talk to people like. with professional shrinkers. And they're like, yeah, 1A tooling is...
Curt: kind of tough to shrink out. It's easy to shrink in.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: tough to shrink out because you have to heat so fast to keep the tool from expanding and Just getting jammed up. Um,
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So anyways, I was chatting with some people about that. um The funny thing is my wife showed the post to some people she worked with. And. ah They're like, is he? trolling by saying like shrinking tools like does this machine shrink tools and i'm like ah It should be called a...
jamie peacock: Yeah, context.
Curt: Tool Exp... or a tool holder expander because it's just heating it up but i'm like yeah it actually does
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Like, expand.
jamie peacock: holds by shrinking.
Curt: the piece of metal then it shrinks and it holds the tool she's like oh really she's like all the guys at work thought you were just like
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: like totally just trolling and being like oh this is my special machine for shrink i'm like no it's legit it's just It's wild when you think about it, yeah.
jamie peacock: It's a thing, yeah.
Curt: so
jamie peacock: Yeah. That's absolutely fucking wild when you think about it.
Curt: But.
Curt: I will never buy another Haas. shrink fit holder because i don't like them and they're pain in the ass but the few i have they work fine for their needs so Whatever.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: is what it is. Yeah.
jamie peacock: I've been loving my hydraulic. I'm using the hydraulic on my 12 for finishing everything.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: It's it's magic. Fuck.
Curt: Yeah, I'm jelly jelly of those.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: I want a few
jamie peacock: They are really really nice. um i should still pay for one of them but yeah they're really nice
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: I've been trying to buy a fucking drill bit from the guy for like a week and a half now, and he hasn't come back to me, so. I might have to just go there in person and be like, oi cunt, I need a fucking drill bit. You're holding up on production now.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: sourcing an 8 .7 carbide drill in South Africa is proving rather fucking challenging.
Curt: 8 .7
jamie peacock: yeah
Curt: What does that even translate over to?
jamie peacock: I'll tell you now, because...
Curt: some sort of a decimal
jamie peacock: Thanks.
Curt: Nonsense.
jamie peacock: Point. Seven. Uh... 0 .3425
jamie peacock: Don't you have an imperial as a kid?
Curt: Yeah, but it's not plugged in. goose, 0 .342 inches. what the Fuck is that?
jamie peacock: So it's we drilling a little
Curt: That's probably a letter or a number. Anyway.
jamie peacock: We're drilling oversize for... Uh, rigid tapping M10. so it's meant to be 8 .5 we're drilling eight point seven Just to not fuck the tap up entirely.
Curt: Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: um But yeah, I'm trying to get a call module is just being challenging. Because I want a stubby one as well.
Curt: Mm.
jamie peacock: so it doesn't walk but uh yeah we'll see i'll deal with that on monday because we're gonna need to get that job in rather soon because we have 14 days left in the month.
jamie peacock: and we need to still make 2 ,500 of those.
Curt: Jesus, time flies.
jamie peacock: and 2 ,500 of another part number.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Whoa.
jamie peacock: So.
Curt: Fun.
jamie peacock: We've got 5 ,000 pots to go.
Curt: Huh.
jamie peacock: for the month.
Curt: Just a high -speed steel and a bench grinder. Just touch it up every...
jamie peacock: Yeah. So we're using... we're using Really nice drills and the first drill we got 2 ,000 parts off of. and then the next batch of material came in and it's got a hard spot and the drill just fucking wants to drill out the side of the ball.
Curt: Hmm.
Curt: Ugh, gross.
jamie peacock: Like within five parts that skew.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: and that's with the stubby drill that's split point and like all the best things uh the carbide fixed that but we had an 8 .5 carbide so it was murdering our taps
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Like we're chipping the taps.
Curt: Oh.
jamie peacock: Again, hard spot.
Curt: Yeah. yea
jamie peacock: So that's why we're drilling oversize.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So yeah. a bit a bit tedious and call out from china has just gotten a stupid expensive so i haven't bothered buying directly from china
Curt: Get it.
Curt: Fair. Fair, yeah.
jamie peacock: For the same money I can buy a... a German tool. or uh korean tool or something like why the fuck would i go and buy a Chinese tool and I can get a good quality tool.
Curt: Oh, fair. That makes sense.
jamie peacock: Yeah. But anyway, um you know what else makes sense?
Curt: Yeah. What makes sense? Tell me.
jamie peacock: We have Patreons. They make the wheels on the minecart go round and round.
Curt: Ooh, we're still doing the mine cart. Yay.
jamie peacock: oh yeah it's gonna be a while that we do the minecart uh yeah thank you to all our patrons You guys have helped greatly with the Airbnb for IMTS.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Um, yeah the patrons get access to the after show we because i normally talk ship for a little bit afterwards um They also get access to Google Forms that I don't know that Kurt did.
jamie peacock: um
Curt: fuck ah no No, I have not.
jamie peacock: Yeah, there we go. Please, everyone, check in the description.
Curt: Making a note.
jamie peacock: There will be a link to a Google form for if you are attending the meetup. Whether you're a patron or not, please fill out the form if you're going to be at the meetup so we just have an idea of how many people are going to be there. um but yeah looking forward to seeing some of our patrons that are going to be at IMTS. Don't know that all of these guys, well, I know that all of these guys won't be there, but yeah, our top tier patrons, they'll get a shout out every...
jamie peacock: every week. And they are. jade from benchmark 20 luke from fantastic aj from subtract manufacturing and 73 other companies jason s EJ from Nocturnal Welding. The Aussie Machinist, Christian Olsen, Charles Watt, Carl from Cursed Machine, Matt from Offworld Gear, Alex B, John from Tursin Performance and Engine Tricks, Matt from Modern Fuel, Josh from Layton Machine, Greg from Tabletop Machine. Shut up.
jamie peacock: Ben from Brick Repair Designs and Jesse from DataPro. I had to scroll down. That is how many they all know.
Curt: Prickly pear prototypes Bennett prickly pear prototypes, not not design.
jamie peacock: Yes, I'd rather leave on the planetops.
Curt: No, you said designs, but I...
jamie peacock: Oh, oh, design.
Curt: It'll work.
jamie peacock: Okay, pretty good prototypes, yes. ah Yeah, thank you to all of our patrons. You guys, ah yeah, keep the wheels on the minecart. rolling Ugh.
Curt: That's so cool.
jamie peacock: Um, Yeah, the patrons. There'll be a Google formal arrest cut this week for it.
Curt: Yeah, I've already put a note.
jamie peacock: um
Curt: I'll arouse myself.
jamie peacock: Okay. Yeah, that way we can get all your details that if you're not at IMTS, we can still send you a care package.
Curt: exactly yeah
jamie peacock: Because yeah I have some shenanigans planned for IMTS, but... they will be a surprise so i will tell kurt about them between the shows but uh You'll find out if you're there in person. You'll find out what time should I have planned.
Curt: o
jamie peacock: Um,
Curt: ah
jamie peacock: Proper like next level trolling.
Curt: Exciting. All right, and then so one of these episodes Jamie will be
jamie peacock: That's all.
Curt: exported back to South Africa. Or deported? Yeah, deport.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: That's the word. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, we got some proper fun stuff c planned. um
Curt: cool
jamie peacock: Yeah, so which one would you like to tackle there, Kurt?
Curt: Ciao. you Uh... I want to hear about your new compressor. Question mark.
jamie peacock: Ah, yes. so yesterday so with running the spindle gripping. and two lathes we've only got one little 40 liter compressor so it's like i think a five 10 gallon compressor
Curt: Okay, yeah Yeah.
jamie peacock: um because I had two of them at the house. but the one uh she don't compress so well So I was just using it as a buffer tank. And... when we moved i'm like go i'll go buy two new heads because that head is also a bit noisy lets go about two new it's the mo it's the silent compressor by the motor the whole pump assembly They're not too expensive.
jamie peacock: We've been running the one. And if the lathes are running and the spindle gripping is running and you turn the feed rates on the mill down. or you use validation stops, or MO1s. We run out of air.
jamie peacock: because it's gripping like we are on the limit so i went yesterday and bought a new head for the The compressor that's at home, I'll strip it today.
Curt: Ha ha.
jamie peacock: And then... tomorrow. i'll Probably take it to the workshop today and just bolt the new head onto it. And then we'll have two compressors. And as far as I remember, this one that's here turns on sooner and turns off later.
jamie peacock: So this will be the lead. And then the other one will be the lag.
Curt: Oh, cool. Okay. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so then it should just work
Curt: yeah Cool.
jamie peacock: Um, But yeah, I need to still get the home assistance stuff dialed in at the workshop. I haven't put the LK on home assistance and I really wish I had. so i could be tracking up tom Um, Also, then I can...
jamie peacock: Do some if and thens and that's and shit so that If the LK is on and you turn the lights off, the compressors stay on until the LK turns off.
Curt: Right. Yeah. yeah makes sense
jamie peacock: Yeah. So. do a bit of logic there because right now when I turn the lights off. i turn the lights off i turn the compressor off turn the lights off turn the compressor back on manually That way the compressor is on.
jamie peacock: And then when I see the machines turned off, I can remotely switch the switches off for the compressor and the...
Curt: Right.
jamie peacock: the drain.
Curt: Right, right, or right.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so overcomplicating my life right now.
Curt: Okay. Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: uh but it it works Like we're getting extra hours in. like an extra two or three hours currently every day
Curt: Sick. That's awesome.
jamie peacock: And this week we're going to be running molds and the finishing is four hours.
Curt: That's nice.
Curt: Mm -hmm.
jamie peacock: So I'm gonna want to be able to leave it to run So. I'll probably get that all integrated this week.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: And then I was. thinking of potentially tying so i used to have my face converter and my Isolator box tied into Home Assistant.
Curt: Yep.
jamie peacock: so that when the LKR turned off, it could turn off the phase converter.
Curt: Right.
jamie peacock: I'm thinking of...
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: tying that to the machine's e -stop circuit. So if I remote into the camera and see a shit's not looking good i can just hit the e stop and it'll auto power down Because if it's an APO and you e -stop, it powers down.
Curt: Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: um Just that if I'm running unattended and I see something stupid, I can turn the machine off remotely.
Curt: Yeah, might not be a half bad idea. Yeah.
jamie peacock: yeah i'll probably put it on like a little missile switch or something so defaults that if you push the home assistant e -stop nothing happens when i leave and i'm doing that i I flick the switch to enable it.
Curt: Gotcha.
jamie peacock: Just as a...
Curt: Yeah. Yeah. yeah
jamie peacock: as a physical disconnect that I don't have to worry about it. Um,
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: But yeah, I was thinking of maybe tying that into my home assistance. Just because i'm I'm putting a camera I printed the housing yesterday in the machine. so that I can see what's happening. when I'm not there.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Because if we're running into the night some kind of woman Be able to check that shit isn't entirely fucked.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah, then you can you can wake up in the morning and watch the video like ah Poor Harrison had to do.
jamie peacock: Yep. Well.
Curt: ah
jamie peacock: I've got to take my PC to work today so I can go download the video of yesterday's incident.
Curt: Oh no, what happened?
jamie peacock: I sent you the picture.
Curt: Well, I know, but I'm just talking for the the listener.
jamie peacock: ah Yeah, so we had a lathe incident yesterday. Um, I wasn't at the shop.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: My call was there. i had i'd gone to a family thing And I was pushing him to finish the job. He was sitting up. the up two
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: and was touching off a tool. And the chuck hooked shaving and... pulled all the shavings out of the chip bin around the chuck.
Curt: ah Okay.
jamie peacock: also pulled the MPG.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: out of his hand hooked the cable for the mpg
Curt: Oh. Oh no.
jamie peacock: Ripped it off the machine. He heard the noise and he reckons he just ducked around the side of the machine.
Curt: Oh no.
jamie peacock: There are shavings everywhere. everywhere in the workshop. Because now the door's open. He's literally looking, touching off a tool. Um, But yeah, join the like snap the cable on the MPG.
jamie peacock: luckily when it did that it triggered the e -stop because the e -stop's on the mpg
Curt: Sure.
jamie peacock: So the machine stopped but now you can't move the fucking machines untangle it
Curt: Yeah. yeah
jamie peacock: Because the E stops pressed.
Curt: Yeah. Right.
jamie peacock: So y 'all, shatter the MPG.
Curt: you Yeah.
jamie peacock: Um, So yeah I've got to go in today and just rig up an e -stop and a pause button so that we can finish the job first thing tomorrow morning. And then we'll get an MPG through the course of tomorrow and put a new MPG on it.
jamie peacock: But yeah, I'm keen to see the video rocket Yeah. We were having to push. They delivered the material at two o 'clock on Friday and one part on Monday morning.
Curt: Ugh.
jamie peacock: This was after on Tuesday.
Curt: Oh.
jamie peacock: They're like, hey, we need 100 parts. Can you do them by Monday? Or how soon can you do them? like They can go on the machine on Thursday. They're like, oh, I'm like. There is a job in my machine until Thursday. It can go in when that job is done. oh but i'm like On Thursday, end of conversation.
jamie peacock: Like, okay, no, that's fine. Monday morning. No worries. We can do 100 by Monday morning. oh there's another 32 can you do those as well I'm not. No. they When are we getting material? We've got material Friday afternoon.
jamie peacock: So Cole was busy pushing to get that done on a Saturday afternoon. when this whole incident went down.
Curt: Of course.
jamie peacock: And like, yo, it's caused some, uh...
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Change of as SOPs, like we updating our terms of service. Minimum turnaround on a job is now three days, three working days. from when material arrives is the minimum turnaround we will offer.
Curt: okay
jamie peacock: to them. Because this shit, it sorry, no, I'm not working a Sunday. for a job that is I think 36 of those is like... Oh, no, wrong button.
jamie peacock: Where is rent dollar version? It's a $100 job. I must work the weekend for $100 worth of pots. like no just just fucking no
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: So yeah, we are I'm at my fucking wit's end with those oaks. but they also give us lots of work so kind of have to be a little tolerant. but I'm tired of every, they couldn't or organize a piss up in a brewery if they were already fucking drunk.
Curt: Yeah, well...
jamie peacock: They are that disorganized. Fuck.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Sorry, you delivered material on Friday afternoon, you want shit on a Monday or you want fucking drugs? We are not ah we're not your little bitches. We don't work Sundays. We were finishing the other job up on Saturday. We had scheduled it to finish on Saturday.
Curt: Well, and especially if they're not if they're not willing to be like...
jamie peacock: So.
Curt: We will just make it worth your while.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Because then it's a different story.
jamie peacock: No. And that's not the case. And now they phoned me and said, oh, we're going to have ports on Monday. I'm like. I told you you'd have your 100 pounds on Monday. Oh, what about the other 30? I'm like, we'll see what we can do. Sorry.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: We'll see what we can do. I'm not committing to making Carl go and I was meant to run them today. I was like, Carl, just set up op two and then fuck off home. I'll come in and run them on Sunday. like that needs to be delivered.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: It is what it is. and then yeah now we are doing terms of service change because uh I'm sorry, but no. You're not... You're not gonna get me to Work myself into an early fucking grave.
Curt: Yeah, exactly. Not for...
jamie peacock: Mark.
Curt: Yeah. Well, not not for anything, honestly.
jamie peacock: Not for that. Yeah.
Curt: Yeah. yeah
jamie peacock: I mean, as it is, we're battling to squeeze in their other work. this month like i've got to run 1800 parts realistically we'll be lucky to get like 400 parts a day so it's like five days worth of production then it's still going to go into the lk to be drilled The LK has booked out this entire week on moldwork.
Curt: Mm hmm.
jamie peacock: I'm not taking mold work off to drill something that I'm literally... almost losing money on. because the margins were not there for it to be run on that set of machines.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: It was there to be run on the good way, but the good way is fully booked out.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: It's also We've been quoting this job for like four months and now they want parts in two weeks.
Curt: Yeah, but that's how rose works. Yeah
jamie peacock: Yeah, so... My tolerance is very quickly. waning. um to the point that like i was saying to carl i'm tempted to just fucking near bankrupt ourselves and we just fucking give these okay helped us with the move so we We have an arrangement for the repayment. I'm like, fuckers, I'm tempted to just... Settle up. and be like, take your shit and fuck off. We'll find other work.
Curt: Yeah, that might be better in the long run Yeah.
jamie peacock: Because... yeah they kind of trying to hold that over us and i'm like ah no friend that's not how this works so yeah we'll I think. they might get kicked to the curb very soon.
Curt: Yeah, I might be short short -term pain for a much longer term
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Longer term gain, yeah
Curt: Bye. Totally.
jamie peacock: Because everything from them is always a fucking shit show and hot job. It's like no guys. That's not actually how it works We have...
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: um It's not... We didn't hear from them for the first two weeks of the month. like they gave us nothing they sent us nothing Our machines are busy. But they're assuming our machines are sitting waiting for them and that is not the case.
jamie peacock: Our machines are fucking busy. Yuck.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So you can get in the fucking queue
Curt: Yeah, exactly.
jamie peacock: Okay.
Curt: well it's like my
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: poor planning on your part is not does not constitute an emergency on my part like
jamie peacock: Exactly.
Curt: Unless you're willing to pay me the emergency rate, but yeah.
jamie peacock: But then... Yum. that's it like but unfortunately they are yeah Like, da just charge them more.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: I'm like, I can't just charge them more. This is the amount of money on the job. If we want it, take it. If we don't, tell them to fuck off. and unfortunately we at the point where we need to take that work because we need the cash flow but yeah, it's ah
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah. that are testing my patients.
Curt: Yeah. Sounds like it sucks.
jamie peacock: Knock.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, well, they were going to order 10 ,000 pots and I was like, can we have 1 ,800 of this and like 500 of that and 500 of that? I'm like, no.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Give me a proper blanket order or fuck off.
Curt: Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: Like, I'm not interested.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Like, the margins on this job, on 500 parts, we lose money because of this. I've got to now set the job up to run for the first time, I'm losing money on it. Because you're not going to pay me more for 500 parts than you're going to pay me per part for 2 ,500.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So no.
Curt: Totally.
jamie peacock: but yeah, that's just a
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Teething pains of growing and yeah. and fun stuff.
Curt: Yep.
jamie peacock: But the most important thing is Carl didn't die. Because that would have been a little bit awkward.
Curt: well It was a the bird nest was big like for the listener.
jamie peacock: Dude.
Curt: I was like if
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: It covered the entire chuck, like the diameter of the chuck.
jamie peacock: I'll post Yeah.
Curt: It's is big.
jamie peacock: I'll post some stories on my Instagram. Awesome. I'll post her. Yeah, I'll post her. A post about it. uh when i'm there today i've got some pictures and i'll take some more pictures and yeah i'll share it that's uh they can see the
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: The fun times we had. because yeah the reason the machine was so full of shavings is because literally pushing It's going to take 20 minutes to clean out the machine. Let's just carry on running like we're almost done.
Curt: Yeah. Mm hmm.
jamie peacock: And then. Yeah, that shit happens. So, like, I'm not even angry that that fucking happened. It's just, yeah. It was a bunch of small things that added up to a big thing.
Curt: Yep. Yeah, that's how it works. Yeah, you're pushing and hustling.
jamie peacock: Yeah, like it it'll be fun.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: It'll be fun. But yeah when yeah
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: Yeah, it'll be fun right up until it isn't.
Curt: Mm hmm.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Um.
Curt: Uh,
jamie peacock: But anyway, so. Are you doing timed pre -sales now?
Curt: Okay, yeah, this was this was genius. I'm not I don't know if I'm doing it yet There'll be an email going out and probably have already gone out if you're listening to this and you subscribe to my shit um I think it was Billet Spin who's been doing them.
Curt: their bill been I think it's billet spin. Um, Super nice guy, by the way, like I've i've chatted with him. um he's chatted with me super good guy this whole community full of all kinds of great people bye uh what he did is he's the same kind of issue i have like he produces things and sells them and they boom they instantly go um which I'm very thankful for.
Curt: um But in the effort to always try to find things that appease people and I get the least amount of hate emails, what I think I might end up doing. is um A presale, a timed presale window. So basically I'll open my site. um all the pen styles that I would make.
Curt: would be available. and i And I'd send an email out to everybody, be like, hey. at whatever 10 o 'clock or something.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: um the store opens and it's going to remain open for one minute and Let's say you have a... limit of whatever, four pens per customer or something like that. Buy as much shit as you want. And then in one minute it closes and then I see how many orders I get in and then I can basically stipulate how long that's going to take me to ship out.
Curt: And then just rinse, repeat.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: um i might and i might end up doing this because then it kind of gets around people feel like they have control like with a lottery system it is great it is technically probably the most fair system but nobody feels like they have control because there's people that on my list that were there forever and chance is just not in their favor even though i have odds that are stacking chances to older people it's just like
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: you still have no real control over it. Whereas this you do, if you are legitimately want something and like some people in my lottery. want a pen but like they won't go through any kind of effort to buy one because they just they just don't care that much and Like.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: where some people care a ton and they do they follow me on everything they possibly can and it's just like there's two so there's a bunch of there's and there's a scale right everybody falls in somewhere so At least with this method, it lets people that are actively wanting to buy it.
Curt: work it out so i don't know i might i might do it it seems it seems like a good option and
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: according to the reddit posts ah most people seem pretty happy about it and I've received a shit ton of messages, people asking if I'm going to do it. And I'm like, Yeah, I'm pretty sure I am because it seems like a really good idea. So.
jamie peacock: Yeah, that seems like a
Curt: We'll see.
jamie peacock: Yeah, seems like an interesting way to do it. I'm curious to see. How? Yeah, how it goes.
Curt: Yeah, and then you can then I can alter the time be like okay one minute worked.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: I wasn't crushed Let's move it up to two minutes and like okay.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Will it crush me though. Maybe it won't maybe it will like I don't know and Maybe I'll be like fuck now. I'm hosed for the next three months or something like i don't know so
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: We will.
jamie peacock: I'm very interested to see how that time it goes
Curt: ah
Curt: Yeah, and like there is potential issues, I think. Thankfully, my payment processor I use now, I don't think there's going to be a problem if it's like an... a large sum of money with paypal they kind of get testy if it's like
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: many tens of thousands of dollars but with my other processor it's they don't really care
jamie peacock: Okay.
Curt: Um, So. I think it'd be okay. We'll see.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: I might try it and just see how it is. so
jamie peacock: Yeah curious to see how that how that goes
Curt: Yeah. I don't know Always trying to find better ways. Just, yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So many threads, people are like, he should just scale up. It's like... Ah.
jamie peacock: No.
Curt: yeah it's like that's such an easy thing to say until like of course i want to but like
jamie peacock: to fucking know Yeah.
Curt: there's there's just so much more to it like than just like the machines run yeah but now i'm going to spend like the next x amount of time doing like anodizing and cleaning and assembly and packing up orders and like a bunch
jamie peacock: Yeah. And you don't want to... You don't really want to pawn that off to someone else because then... Quality becomes a ah challenge.
Curt: yeah and like i don't yeah and my goal is not to i don't want to hire people i want to do what i want to do and what i'm currently doing i make a great living at and i love doing it so it's just like there's there is
jamie peacock: Exactly.
Curt: there's levels to the game and there's different different goals for everybody so anyways
jamie peacock: Yeah. Speaking of goals. My wife says I need to talk about t -shirts. Kurt, I sent you a picture. Um, Anyway.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: T -shirts, available now. New shirts on the... jspec eng store including the one i just sent kurt which is the best i was hoping to have one but i don't have any blank shirts at home
Curt: think
jamie peacock: There we go.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: Fucking winning.
Curt: but
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Dude, that's um that's... I gotta get that one instantly.
jamie peacock: Yeah. yeah exactly that's fucking great uh yeah i'm my family's bread loser for the raccoon it's freaking great
Curt: That's... Fucking. Awesome.
jamie peacock: um yeah there'll be a link for shirts down below please go grab shirts
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: um We'd love to see everyone at IMTS wearing our shirts. ah Yeah.
Curt: Oh, that's so cool. yeah
jamie peacock: I'm definitely going to be wearing this shirt when I go see Justin.
Curt: Yeah, he likes...
jamie peacock: This is the JG shirt. um Yeah, when I announced the the Handy Seaman, he's like, what the fuck is that shirt?
Curt: who
jamie peacock: Because i wore cause he wore one of my shirts when he announced his back at Toolbox. So I was like, well, I will wear this shirt to announce the the handy seaman.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Like, yeah, I can.
Curt: Haha.
jamie peacock: But yeah, there's a whole bunch. There's a bunch of other ones as well on the store now. So yeah, go check them out. There'll be a link in the doobly -doo. um Derek asked me nicely to please shut up the shirts. So I did.
jamie peacock: Um,
Curt: yeah i'm looking right now because i don't even know the kind of shirts we have available
jamie peacock: Ah. uh yeah there's a bunch i need to actually just double check the shipping things on them because i yeah
Curt: Um.
Curt: Back catalog. and Oh, we have more.
jamie peacock: Yes, that's a lot.
Curt: We have all kinds of new ones.
jamie peacock: One second. Yeah, no, those are all the old ones. Every three months or so, she puts out new shirts.
Curt: can i missed all the can i machine at one i'm not i good you gotta go look folks i'm not gonna
jamie peacock: Yes. Yeah, you're gonna have to go look. They're freaking good.
Curt: ah
jamie peacock: That was done in collaboration with Justin as well.
Curt: Hmm. I don't know.
jamie peacock: Which one did you see?
Curt: good luck Good luck getting stocked. Yeah, I like the Kenna Machinist shirt.
jamie peacock: Oh, yeah.
Curt: with Yeah, anyways. Okay, there's cool ones. Yeah, I got it. Whoa, boy.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: em
jamie peacock: Um, What was the other one?
Curt: Breaking shit now, sorry folks.
jamie peacock: Oh, yeah. There's some real bangers. Like, there's one... Have you tried not being dumb?
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: it was if you tried being smarter but i'm like that needs to be fixed so there's one of each
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: These are awesome.
jamie peacock: There's also, if you're looking for a problem, I'm right here.
Curt: Yeah, these are sick.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Some of these are...
jamie peacock: there's some
Curt: Freaking awesome.
jamie peacock: Yeah, there's a whole bunch of really cool ones for for IMTS specifically.
Curt: ah Oh man.
jamie peacock: No. It's freaking great.
Curt: Sick.
jamie peacock: um Yeah, so I've been ah struggling this last two weeks to source PTFE.
Curt: Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: Ma... PTFE supplier. has no stock until the middle of September. And I needed 24 meters of PTFE. of 20 diameter.
Curt: Mm hmm.
jamie peacock: eventually got hold of one of my friends who's organized I've machined PTFE for him before. So I'm like, where do you get your piece of music? No, Mitsubishi. I'm like. He's like, try DEMS engineering. so got all the dems they had stock sent danica there to go buy it for me
Curt: and
jamie peacock: Um,
Curt: Mm hmm.
jamie peacock: They were cheaper, so they are now my new supplier of PTV. I managed to source it eventually.
Curt: Mm.
jamie peacock: we've run 500 of the thousand parts we need to run out of that ptfe now so today while i'm at the shop change over for the next job let that run in blank parts that have to go into the LK. because we need to deliver parts by the end of the month. And the customer's like, oh, we're running short on diesel tubes. Can you assist us with a partial delivery? I'm like.
jamie peacock: Lack of planning the kids you've been buying like fucking a hundred of these things a month. What did you fucking expect? I've now pushed you to order 500 because we're going away. So yeah, we'll make a plan for you this week. So trying to source PTFE so we can finish the assemblies because it gets a little PTFE insert.
jamie peacock: Um, So yeah, this week I've got to assemble 500 fucking diesel tubes. It's going to be great. Like I think I'm going to spend Monday morning just machining 500 of the one components.
jamie peacock: that I'm then ready to assemble.
Curt: um Okay, yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: And I can just, yeah so they go on pallets, like running 500 of them is probably going to take me three hours and I'll be done. Like, I literally load the pallets. I have a minute to... stand and have my deck and then i have to load the pallets again markets
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: It's a really short cycle time.
jamie peacock: All right. What? being classy
Curt: Yeah, just... like it's exactly what it is though like a minute you can't do really anything see
jamie peacock: Yeah. You can do nothing for a minute.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: like Nothing.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So, yeah, and I run nine parts at a time on a little anchor point fixture. It's not worth making additional fixtures. like Yeah.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I could make a bigger one, but then the load time is longer. So I'm i'm back in square one. So I just use my little same fixtures that I've used since I had.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Started with anchor points. I think those ran on the V. to Anchor Point. Because V1 never made it into my machine. V2 was in there for like... A year? knees fixtures ran on that and yeah they've run on every anchor point since
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: No.
Curt: sick
jamie peacock: Um, So what is my MailChimp? ah Done to offend you.
Curt: Okay. ah MailChimp can, well, I'm in a lot of these companies I hate. um But MailChimp. specifically con - kind of suck it ah because I've Been with them forever.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: um And all they do is just. constant like My audience obviously always grows um and they they ratchet your price up. But what they also do. Is they. Keep... splitting.
Curt: the audience size. So like whatever. zero to a thousand audience and then a thousand to and so it used to be like zero to five thousand 5 ,000 to 10 ,000, 10 ,000 to 20 ,000.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So you had tiers, right? And of course, you just pay more for each tier. It makes sense. So now what they do is they just, they started breaking the tiers down to be smaller and smaller and smaller. So it's like. 0 to 500. 500 to ,000, 1 ,000 to 1 ,500 to 2 ,000.
jamie peacock: I know, fuck.
Curt: And every one of those is a new tier jump.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So you're like. ah So you're constantly jumping to new tiers. And if you don't, you pay like... per email like it gets egregious Um, Anyways. I don't typically mind if a company is ratcheting the price up and they're like, they're kind of.
Curt: maintaining with the market whereas like MailChimp is just like
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: light years ahead of everybody else in pricing. Um, and their features, I don't use their features. So anyways, once again, through the salt in the cloth, I'm like, am I getting fucked? And it's like, yeah, you kind of. getting like you're getting raked over the coals pretty hard for what you pay like i pay a Pretty decent.
Curt: bill every month just to send emails to folks.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Um, And I literally found sources that are one tenth the price. And a lot of them. So I'm just like...
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Okay. So yeah, they can they can basically suck it. So I think I'm going to...
jamie peacock: They can go suck a chode, yeah.
Curt: Yeah, like I'll probably use it for a little longer because honestly the the annoyance of changing is kind of a pain in the ass too, but uh it's at the point like that's the problem is like you can raise your price to the point where like i'm annoyed but the the cost of switching is just i'm still like nah fuck it like whatever
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: But once you breach like once you breach that point where I'm like, no, like I could spend a day. figuring this out and it's worth my while, then it's like, okay.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Peace.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: and like
jamie peacock: Bye.
Curt: So.
jamie peacock: Yeah, 100%.
Curt: Yeah. And like, that's. that's every company in nowadays like there's very little loyalty for like like customer retention kind of stuff so i'm kind of i'm pretty Uh, cynical when it comes to that kind of stuff so i'm just like nope Get fucked.
jamie peacock: Yep.
Curt: Like as soon as you price yourself out.
jamie peacock: Time to move on.
Curt: you totally right like so
jamie peacock: Yeah. No, that switching cost is all that keeps you at certain places.
Curt: Anyway.
jamie peacock: Like, apparently Zencast is really... changed a lot of on the back end i'll hear about it on probably tuesday uh when danica goes to edits like apparently you have to post process through their i chat bot now or some shit
Curt: Oh yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: Jacob was complaining about it. Um, as far as i'm concerned the ur still looks the same to me like they've changed a little bit but
Curt: Mm -hmm.
jamie peacock: dark not too much But yeah, we'll see.
Curt: Mm -mm.
jamie peacock: that But yeah, Zencastr, they're alternatives. And we may end up on the alternatives.
Curt: Yeah, well... and
Curt: And if anyone's listening to this right now um and you also send out emails. here's a ton of different ones for all over different markets for different worlds all with different features but like I'll just list them. email octopusmailerlight .com.
Curt: moose end sender .net, Brevo. Kit. And then MailChimp. Um, Yeah, just. there's there's a shit ton of different people you can pick and they all do this exact same shit so like Yeah.
Curt: Anyway.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Because that job is freaking tedious.
Curt: I'll switch
jamie peacock: um Oh, well, last one on my list there.
Curt: Yeah, sorry, Flipper Production.
jamie peacock: We're making a... Yeah. Yes, we're making a flip station.
Curt: Oh are you? Oh.
jamie peacock: Yes, the cylinders arrived this week. the parts are half machine i need to make i think i'm just gonna i'll change everything i think i'm just gonna make a fixture because they've got a Bold. so fuck to left Oh, they don't have any threat at all. Fuck. I'm going to have to use the Voss. um i might tweak them to have threaded holes so that i can just do them on a fixture uh but yeah i've got stuff to make two of them so i'm building two to test and then i added that to my software stack so that i can do
Curt: Mm.
jamie peacock: that two ops with the flip station.
Curt: Oh, sick.
jamie peacock: so flip stations
Curt: Nice. Cool.
jamie peacock: Coming soon? Tim? uh yeah first one is uh first one will be in my machine and then i've got another one that is probably going to get sent out for testing um i've made the base that it works on an anchor point or a 52 millimeter Zero point.
Curt: Ooh, okay. Okay.
jamie peacock: Yes. And I think I might be able to squeeze in some bolt holes so you can just bolt it to your table if you really want. Mark.
Curt: Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: three in one yeah and then it uses the same nimble grip as cylinder so it's all the same cylinders um And then obviously the flippy flippy.
Curt: Mm -hmm. Mm -hmm.
jamie peacock: um those came in pretty happy with the quality on them It's not just a case of getting it all prototyped and anodized.
Curt: m
jamie peacock: Also an anodizing comeback this week. at the same time anonymizing.
Curt: o Fun fun fun
jamie peacock: I'm not totally appalled. i'll will There'll be an update on the anodizing next week. I haven't unwrapped everything yet. But it doesn't look like total shit.
Curt: Okay. Okay.
jamie peacock: There's one or two parts that are going to be scrap.
Curt: Good.
jamie peacock: Just looking at them like they're fucking an air bubble or something. Does it smell good?
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: Um, But if my scrap rates is reasonable. they charged me $2 per part to analyze them.
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: It's really not worth me anodizing mag bases anymore so uh the customer that bars mag base from long listen i'll have stock but if i don't it's four weeks lead time So he ordered some AR -15 bases and some PO -7 bases.
jamie peacock: The material a arrives probably on Tuesday. I'll quickly smash them up one evening. Send the wolf to Anno. They have to be out of the Oz when they come back. The hell with the hell.
Curt: cool
jamie peacock: And are pretty...
Curt: cool
jamie peacock: Pretty happy with the red, the blue, and the black. Those are the three colors we do. Anything special, we'll anodize in -house.
Curt: sick That's nice.
jamie peacock: Yeah, and then...
Curt: It's nice to find something to get, yeah.
jamie peacock: The only annoying thing is I then have to post -machine the threaded hole because I know if i leave if I put that threaded hole in, there will be runs.
Curt: Right.
jamie peacock: so i've got fixtures for everything i just put on a fixture and machine the threaded hole it's really not the end of the world It's going to take like 12 seconds per pot. to punch a hole in it and thread it and then also the thread i don't have to risk breaking a tap in the hole Because I have done that on occasion.
jamie peacock: after anodizing getting ready to laser mark thread the holes with a tap and a drill and snap the m3 tap
Curt: Yeah. Fair. Fair.
jamie peacock: Done that a few times, so no longer an issue.
Curt: Sick.
jamie peacock: So.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: fanciness.
Curt: Um,
jamie peacock: So what is in your... Google box
Curt: Before we do that real quick, I should shut out my shout out our good friend, Ken.
jamie peacock: Oh, before we do that, yes.
Curt: from not suspicious .com because i was haranguing him.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: I have one of his keyboards. um which i absolutely love and i think i'm going to switch all the switches out on it um So I messaged him and I was like, hey, dude. ah Can you sell me one of the PCBs so that I don't have to desolder every one of these switches? Because they're not hot swappable yet. um So I was like, he's like, oh yeah.
jamie peacock: Yet.
Curt: He's like, I just put him up on the website. So anyways, if you, if you buy Ken's shit. You can also now buy PCBs and the plates that go over top of it. so uh thank you ken for putting those up i'm sure he posted them up for me because i was haranguing him and i haven't bought him yet um it's just been Freaking...
jamie peacock: Lost.
Curt: swamped with everything but yeah I'm going to do that so I can modify his keyboard and make it Making more. Fuck you. Um, Anyways.
jamie peacock: Nice.
Curt: yeah Check on the site if you're... The - one of the six people that currently have his keyboards which are Badass. Anyway. Um,
jamie peacock: Wait.
Curt: Google box you can ah
jamie peacock: Yeah, sorry, but i'm trying to I'm trying to find a link for a thing.
Curt: Do you want to start with your?
jamie peacock: I never got found. this um for a thing that I can share with people. Oh, it looks like it's a Reddit link. Okay, cool. Good enough. Um, Just...
Curt: I'll link. ah Not suspicious keyboards in the link as well, just because people don't Google things.
jamie peacock: Yep. probably
Curt: So go click down. below.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: Oh, what did you... Oh, don't put that in your... Uh -oh.
jamie peacock: That's there.
Curt: What have you sent me, Jamie? hu hu Ha ha.
Curt: Okay, so that's the end. Expert. the expert butt plug.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: So ah yeah, we're chatting yesterday. Someone said stand on Lego and then I'm like, ha hang the fuck on. You thought standing on it was bad. ah Yeah, so my Google box has got the Lego butt plug.
jamie peacock: uh 10 foot containers because i want to put a 10 foot container at the back of the workshop for
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: um grinding and tumbling.
Curt: Okay. Yeah. yeah
jamie peacock: What? So the 200th day of the year is because during the quiz they're like what that It was actually what month does the 200th day of the year fall in, and I thought they said what day. I was off by three days.
jamie peacock: in like a quickly calculated way. Fucking...
Curt: No.
jamie peacock: 19th of july nope it's the 16th i think all the other way around
Curt: Ooh.
jamie peacock: um They were like, what the fuck? I'm like, hmm. I averaged it to 30 days in a month and got us roughly there.
Curt: Hot water burn baby.
jamie peacock: And then.
Curt: Hot water burn baby.
jamie peacock: Um...
Curt: So. It's a deep reference.
jamie peacock: And then looking up. Looking up MPGs. because obviously call called as mpg
Curt: Mmm.
Curt: Right, Spaghettiatized it, yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah. like i can it's not wireless
Curt: Right, yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah. What is in who yours is? Oh, geez.
Curt: Excuse me.
jamie peacock: This is the drone episode again. What is in your Google box, Kurt?
Curt: uh well well it's funny you ask uh bl heli configurator because once i was updating my escs on my drone because i'm fixated on drones right now um jumper versus radio master uh because i'm trying to figure out which transmitter i want to go with for elrs And then of course, what leads...
Curt: ah the Where do those roads lead? They lead to AliExpress, which... ah If you're listening to this. and it's after august 16th they have a back to school sale going on which has like some crazy deals and I have a bunch of shit sitting in my cart.
Curt: ah that I'm waiting for because Yeah, there's massive discounts.
jamie peacock: Well today is the 16th.
Curt: well for you it is for me it's not and i have to i have to wait another nine and a half hours, and then I can click.
jamie peacock: Oh yeah, you and the post.
Curt: ship uh because i saved like It.
jamie peacock: food. Oh fuck.
Curt: 80 bucks. um So yeah.
jamie peacock: Oh nice, okay.
Curt: and I bought a shit ton of drone stuff and keyboard stuff and just all kinds of... things So.
jamie peacock: Yeah, AliExpress is a problem. I bought screws this week, so I don't know if you saw. um Aerials Post from Worcester Manufacturing. He was servicing.
Curt: I haven't seen shit, no
jamie peacock: Okay, he was servicing his shank gripper. and the shunk grouper
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: They are allen key screws that hold the little cover plates on. And he's like, no, he found the part number and replaced them with Torx screws. I'm like, thank you. I'm going to do that. So I measured the screws on the nimbles and ordered 100 screws from China.
jamie peacock: it was a literally like three dollars for a hundred stainless steel torx drive screws
Curt: Hmm.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: M -Typer 4
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: Like freaking tiny.
Curt: Okay. Tiny guys, yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so... yeah so any nimble grippers after those arrive any nimble grippers going out will have Torque screws.
Curt: the proper the proper drive.
jamie peacock: Yes, so I think what I'm going to do is anything that ships before all the bit like final bits and bobs are here, I'll pack all the final bits and bobs in a bag and just, when I'm in the US, ship them to the... Um, to the people.
jamie peacock: That way they can have the latest stuff like without having to delay shipping their orders
Curt: ah Makes sense.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: Because yeah where can people find you and your things, Kurt?
Curt: ah You can find me and my... things at confoundedmachine .com. All roads lead to everywhere. There's even a road that leads to media, and I think the media leads to the Lone Machinist, and the Lone Machinist leads to Jamie's site, which leads to the shirts, so you can find it.
jamie peacock: there we go
Curt: All with one. convenient click. How about you, Mr. Jamie? where Where can people find your...
jamie peacock: ah Yeah, you can.
Curt: Where's?
jamie peacock: Well, you can find all the stuff at jspecng .com. You can find the online stores, got the shirts. There's links to the Instagram. There's links to nautical workholding. If you're looking for nautical workholding, you can go to tapsandpatients .com.
jamie peacock: because we haven't moved that over yet. um Yeah, I need to do some shenanigans with the yeah URLs. that's ah That's a next week problem. um But yeah, you can find all that stuff there. um nautical workholding currently we've got the handy semen available we've got the barnacles the keel clamps, the anchor points. ah I feel like I'm missing something. Yeah. A whole bunch of shit.
jamie peacock: So go check out Nautical Workholding for workholding shenanigans. And we'll be bringing most of that stuff with. to the meetup at toolpath so that we can show it off in person Well, that's all.
Curt: cool
jamie peacock: What are you up to tomorrow?
Curt: ah Tomorrow. I thought I had something.
jamie peacock: Well, it's a Sunday, so...
Curt: Oh shit. I know exactly what I'm up to tomorrow. I have to move a gigantic sectional that my wife... ah But. and uh so yeah i have to i get to go do the u -haul thing and that i did like a few weeks ago where i go and rent a u -haul and then throw a giant couch into it and drive it across the country and then come back and then rinse repeat and unload a couch and move another couch and move that that's just like
jamie peacock: Nos.
jamie peacock: oh
Curt: You know what?
jamie peacock: That was horrible.
Curt: that's going to mean Dude, I have a lot of driving to do tomorrow. um It's going to be me.
jamie peacock: Huh. Dungeon Corner Call.
Curt: My wife is taking. My wife is taking care of our little one, so I'm going to sit in the car. I'm going to throw my headphones on because you halls are loud as fuck. And I'm going to listen to Dungeon Crawler Carl as I drive back and forth between all these places. So yeah, it's going to be not so bad.
jamie peacock: Nice.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: That's not too bad. Oh, yeah, in the after show, we need to discuss retroids.
Curt: No.
Curt: Ooh. Ooh sounds fantastic.
jamie peacock: Because I'm going to be traveling a lot, so...
Curt: Would you?
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: what What are you doing today?
jamie peacock: Today's a total fuck show. um I have to... and it does at some point today so i think i might push that to this afternoon so that i can like be at home and just chill while i run anno um i want to go get the lk running production i need to go and fuck coles machines so that we can run production that like we're going to be in tomorrow at like 5 in the morning to quickly run off these parts Um,
jamie peacock: Yes, so I've got to go and fuck a lathe. And then I'm going to get the LK running production. Leave that to run. i probably put the print on for my camera housing so i can see if that works So I'm going to put a camera in the machine.
jamie peacock: um yeah then Anodize, and while I'm running Anno, I need to pump out Monica, because Monica's at Coolington for three weeks. Sorry. not three weeks nine weeks um
Curt: o
jamie peacock: i'm gonna pump y 'all gotta pump that out into a drum I've got some other stinky coolant that I'm gonna pump into a drum. and then i bought degreaser to wash out monica to get her clean again.
Curt: Yeah, fair.
jamie peacock: because I'm pumping out the LK this week. to put in the BioCoolz AL, the new coolant that I got. Because the... FlexiLube MC is...
jamie peacock: It's getting very thick. With the whey oil.
Curt: oh
jamie peacock: So...
Curt: Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: it works beautifully like i fucking love it but it's just getting a bit thick I haven't got a skimmer currently. So I'm going to pump it out to change over to the new coolant see how it works on these molds like we're going straight to running a mold job with the new Barclay L.
jamie peacock: but it's an aluminium specific coolant so
Curt: okay
jamie peacock: We'll see how it works. So busy day.
Curt: Godspeed.
jamie peacock: Busy day today. um It's going to be busy right up until I leave. Like I don't expect to have a day off until I leave. Because, yeah. just a lot of irons in the fires
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Um,
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I need to find time to do CAD work. We're quoting a... Hmm. You guys a good job making a fucking... a spinning bench that fucking plays music and all sorts of damn shit um um somehow somehow i've got involved in this We're not doing the electronics anymore. the um dutch companies doing the electronics so we're just doing the mechanical manufacturing so i can send the file to my friend and she quotes i need a budget price quickly
jamie peacock: and then give them a prize, and then we can get the yay or nay luck. this week on the job. which I know if I need to fuck around with it or not. But yeah, lots and lots of fun.
Curt: cool Sounds like antidote.
jamie peacock: And I have another masso that I need to quote a retrofit on.
Curt: No. Great.
jamie peacock: Yeah. never ending. Fucking, yeah, literally never ending.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: But yeah, fucking fun, fun times.
Curt: And so... I say we'll soon have more Jamie ranting about retrofits on a podcast if you're into that. So stay tuned.
jamie peacock: Yeah. They were like, can they strip the machine now?
Curt: it
jamie peacock: It's easy when I get that, I'm like, no, because I'm going to reuse off the wiring. So I can't have you guys just yeet shit off of there. um
Curt: Yeah, yeah
jamie peacock: Also, if you eat shit like an idiot and fuck shit up, then it becomes my problem. So yeah i've got ah the problem is I've got to sit and go through. Fun manuals for the motors so I can see what shaft size everything is. I can make sure the motors are spec or appropriate.
jamie peacock: and like there's a lot of leg work that has to be done and i just could not be fucked to some front of the computer right now.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: look But anyway.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Only for the podcast.
Curt: but
jamie peacock: Good job. Thank you.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: everybody for listening. I hope you enjoyed the podcast. ah For the patrons, we'll see you shortly where we're going to discuss handheld gaming devices, I think. um
Curt: oh
jamie peacock: Yeah, it's gonna be fun. We haven't spoken about those in a long time But yeah, thank you, everybody. If you enjoyed the show, please consider liking, sharing, subscribing. um all those fun things and yeah keeps Let's get more subscriptions on YouTube so we can stay ahead of Tabs and Patients.
jamie peacock: Um, just to troll them. Just to troll AJ and Jacob for fun. But yeah, thank you very much. And we'll see you guys next week.
Curt: Take care, all.
