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jamie peacock: Welcome to the Loan Machinist podcast, where we now have Technicolor. Yeah, it's the first episode of that we are planning on going to video. So if all goes to plan, there will be video on my YouTube channel, as well as on Zencaster.
jamie peacock: As far as I know, AJ actually watches on Zencaster because he gets video every week.
Curt: What a crazy person.
jamie peacock: Well, there's AJ, just saying.
Curt: I guess if you tap it on in the background, that works out, yeah. so
jamie peacock: Yeah, and exactly. so I think he uses Encast as his player.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: But anyway, so what have you been up to today?
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: Or this week?
Curt: Uh, this week I had got all the English, um, all the orders are shipped. And then I reordered a bunch of supplies and just stuff that kind of has crazy long lead times. Like those little like triangle pen boxes. i was kind of getting nervous. I was getting low on those.
Curt: And last time I ordered them, they were like a huge, like two month lead.
jamie peacock: Ah, okay.
Curt: I made sure like I have,
jamie peacock: Oh, wow.
Curt: Yeah, I have one, like I made sure that I had a huge box of them and I wrote right on the box, like if you open this order. So I followed my own instructions and they thankfully shipped today.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So I don't think it's going to be an issue, but yeah, just, yeah, just kind of the, the more, um I don't know, janitorial kind of end of the war, end of the, end of the week kind of stuff.
jamie peacock: Okay.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Just get everything tied up. But how about you? do you have been up to?
jamie peacock: Yeah. Also ordering boxes. Um,
Curt: Ooh.
jamie peacock: Yeah, I got some anchor point orders for sales over the weekend. So I was busy boxing them up today and was having to take batch one anchor points out of boxes so I could put pallets into those boxes because it's all the same box, but I have run out.
Curt: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: So I've ordered another 50 boxes so that I have stock and then I'll yeah i'll put some Kanban cards in place. Because order cards, you can generate your own order card, your own cards.
jamie peacock: So I'm going to get my packaging stuff sorted out and just have cards in
Curt: Mm-mm.
jamie peacock: that we don't end up in this situation. I should have boxes probably tomorrow or the following day. um They're just generic local boxes. It's not the end of the world.
Curt: Right, yeah.
jamie peacock: But yeah been yeah, been packing things and admini, bought some titanium.
Curt: Nice, nice.
jamie peacock: Yes, going to make titanium racking. And also bought a sheet of 0.64 to make other racking. So I need to, yeah, 0.64, points, yeah, millimeter.
Curt: points Oh, chunky stuff. Oh, wait, millimeter.
jamie peacock: um
Curt: Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, that's, i don't know what it is in bananas.
Curt: I don't know, 400 bananas or something. Oh, I'll plug my banana.
jamie peacock: 0.64, it is, so we have imperializers, Kurt. 25,000.
Curt: I know, I'm um'm just plugging mine in right now.
jamie peacock: a
jamie peacock: twenty five but not twenty five thousand
Curt: Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: So 25 banana. Yeah.
Curt: Yeah, bananas.
jamie peacock: So pretty thin, but it's what all my racking is currently made of, except this time I'm going laser cut. So I'm going to do some designs and then I'll send the sheet off somewhere and have them laser cut it for me because no one here cuts fancy things.
jamie peacock: So um ma it well I do work for the guy at the knife store and he's got a laser cutter that'll do it. So yeah, I'll design it, have them just blast out a bunch for my mag bases and knives and all that.
jamie peacock: And then the pinning, I bought 6mm diameter titanium rod. Then going to thread M5 for racking the anchor points when I anodize them.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: Because currently the anodizing pins are consumable, which really isn't the end of the world.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: But if I can make my life easier, I'll make my life easier.
Curt: totally. Yeah, why not?
jamie peacock: Yeah. And the anodizing I now have pretty well dialed.
Curt: Yeah, I was, ah well, you told me before the podcast to check out your story and that you did that green.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: Oh, it's such a nice vivid color.
jamie peacock: Yeah, it was meant it was meant to go to one of our Patreons, but it's not going anywhere now. I'm milled off one of the Langstad holes because I'm very smart.
jamie peacock: So that will go on to my but other shenanigans from the from the weekend. um
Curt: i I think I saw that.
jamie peacock: You saw the shenanigans.
Curt: are we talking about the same thing? is it Is it the like the little trunnion?
jamie peacock: The Trunion. Yes, okay.
Curt: God, that's cool. That is so cool. Mm-hmm.
jamie peacock: So that's been chilling in my head for a while. And then I designed a version for Jacob, EJ, and James. We're all hanging out on Friday nights on Discord.
jamie peacock: And we're discussing that whole story. I'm like, no, I'm a little worried about rigidity. So I'd rather make it a trunnion. And then I knocked up that design in like 35, 40 minutes. and then sent to them titled, A Bad Idea, and then sent them a message the following morning.
Curt: It's, yeah, it's pretty.
jamie peacock: I'm like, guys, going to send you updated version that's a bit better designed for manufacturing, like change some of really big things you've got to machine into plates. So I did that. So it's on my docket for being manufactured as well because I want one.
jamie peacock: Although I have a harmonic drive and i'm probably just going to build an indexing unit. But yeah, I like making fun stuff.
Curt: Right.
jamie peacock: So...
Curt: And that's like, it's basically just like, ah it's an indexer is essentially what you're making it for, I'm assuming.
jamie peacock: Essentially, yeah. So you, in theory, could use it like, assume you've seen AJ's latest video, the poor man's fifth axis, or you don't need a kern or whatever he titled it.
Curt: Okay, yeah, yeah.
Curt: It's sitting in my, I haven't watched it, but it's sitting in my two to watch but bucket.
jamie peacock: ah Okay, so yeah, in a nutshell, he's got an aroa system, which indexes at 90, and he's got a horizontal and a vertical, so he can hit five sides.
Curt: Right, yeah, yeah.
Curt: Correct, yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: So, yeah. So basically, this is the same thing but thank about anchor point.
Curt: Gotcha.
jamie peacock: Yeah, i but i've used I've actually used the anchor point as a dividing unit before.
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: Back when I did that really stupid Delrin job that was 900 millimeters long on a 700 millimeter travel machine. um And then I was clamping the Delrin. I had it screwed to an indexing plate and then I just popped it into an anchor point and indexed it.
Curt: Well, and I guess...
jamie peacock: And the nice, you can put, yeah, sorry.
Curt: quote I'd say the cool thing about your pallet is like on the bottom, like you can, if you wanted it, you could just like index. So you could drill holes to make 90 indexes or you could, you could drill holes like every 10 degrees and just like thinkingingingking ti ta ta tiing if you needed to.
jamie peacock: Yeah, whatever you want.
jamie peacock: Yeah. i've got ah I've got a pallet with 15 degree increments.
Curt: Cool. Okay.
jamie peacock: that are made for that exact reason.
Curt: hey Yeah.
jamie peacock: um And then, yeah, we built, I designed around the little Zingdai vases because I have one of those that I don't use.
Curt: Yeah. It's so cute.
jamie peacock: So it's super cute.
Curt: It's so cute.
jamie peacock: And then, yeah, I've got the the little tailstock support thing because I don't trust it. Like, you're going to run out of rigidity really quickly.
Curt: No.
jamie peacock: So we've got the little tailstock dingle. And then I think, oh, it looks like it'll work. So I'll build one and then we will we'll see. um I'm pretty sure I have all the material on hand already.
Curt: It's a smart looking design. I was like, ooh, I like the tail stock on it.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: It looks like a little chunky little unit.
jamie peacock: Yeah, little trunnion, I've got a job that I need to index like that, so may as well just roll it into this.
Curt: I like it.
Curt: Yeah, why not?
jamie peacock: Making some sites, front sites for 1911s. So I need to hit it from three different sides, and this will do the trick.
Curt: Well, and it'll probably be more rigid than your harmonic. Unless your harmonic is just built like an absolute tank.
jamie peacock: ah Yeah, it's not.
Curt: Like I imagine... So this is probably going to be more rigid if you don't require simultaneous.
jamie peacock: It's this big. Yeah, it's it's a small harmonic that I have. So yeah, don't require simultaneous, so it's fine.
Curt: Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: And I changed the the little tailstock thing so it's actually just supports on the bottom so that you can actually unclamp and take the trunnion out and put a different trunnion in without having to unbolt anything.
Curt: Okay. I was wondering, was like, how the fuck do you get it out?
jamie peacock: Because...
Curt: I'm like, well, I guess it's a vice. You never really take it out.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: You're just kind just going to pull it out and separate and spin it. But that makes more sense.
jamie peacock: So, yeah, my thought was to be able to take it out and then you can also take that little support dingle off and put it vertically on an anchor point to be able to hit the front face.
Curt: Right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: There's lots of fun fun and exciting options. But yeah, the first anchor point that isn't in North America landed today.
Curt: I've...
Curt: Oh, cool, cool.
jamie peacock: Yes, it's in the Netherlands. And another one is leaving tomorrow to France. And another one's leaving to the US tomorrow. EJ's one should be delivered tomorrow as well. He ordered a second one. He ordered the French flag.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: And then made me engrave stars on it so it wasn't a French flag anymore.
Curt: Nice.
Curt: Aw.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so that's ah that's arriving there. It should be today or tomorrow.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: So, quite excited.
Curt: Oh, cool.
jamie peacock: so he's going to have two of them. And then he's going run his lures, Op 1, Op 2, and two anchor points.
Curt: Yeah. I think ah that's the way.
jamie peacock: Yeah, they are quite useful.
Curt: Yeah, I know.
jamie peacock: Haven't used mine in like a week, but they're quite useful.
Curt: I don't know. I have mine collecting dust, and I just, yeah, every time I do something stupid, I'm like, why am I not? So it's going to my machine eventually once I get my...
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: act in gear here.
jamie peacock: Yeah, no well that's the thing. when you When you find the need for it, you'll use it.
Curt: Oh, the problem is i have the need.
jamie peacock: yeah Yeah, you just...
Curt: I'm just like, I'm just, yeah.
jamie peacock: The time investment up front is the the tricky one. To convince yourself to do that is the tricky bit. So I'm...
Curt: Yeah, yeah, totally.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so one of my talks here more Torxbits. I went and...
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So I'm actually waiting to hear back from Heat Treat as should have heard back today. I'll phone them tomorrow. um We dropped 1,000 of them off at Heat Treat. Customer and said, what's happening with Torxbits? We need to order more. We want another 2,500 to
Curt: Yikes.
Curt: Oh. Mm-hmm.
jamie peacock: to start
Curt: yikes
jamie peacock: So I ordered, I'm waiting, I'm getting drills in tomorrow.
Curt: oh
jamie peacock: I'm changing up the way I'm doing the stupid aim assists. I bought myself 12 millimeter, what is it? It's a RMMT insert, a little, it's the button inserts, the round ones.
jamie peacock: I bought myself a little indexable mill, one tooth indexable mill. I'm going to mill the side off of it and mill it flat. It's going in my latest boring bar. because it's the same profile as I need, so it's going to become a super stubby boring bar.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: And then I bought an 8mm reducer sleeve that's going to go into my machine.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: I'm going to indicate the center line, put a drill in the lathe chuck, and then feed it in to bore it out to the size I need, so that the drill's also super stubby.
Curt: Yep. Mm-hmm.
jamie peacock: And I'm going to try to shorten up that whole travel and everything, and try and cut a minute off my cycle time, is my goal.
Curt: Nice. Yeah, well, it's goingnna make ah it's going to make a ah big difference at that quantity.
jamie peacock: And then...
jamie peacock: ah Yeah, although that 6mm boring bar has done friggin' well. It's made 2,000 of the things.
Curt: That's a lot,
jamie peacock: I ground a hell of a radius on the tip and that solid carbide boring bar is just, it won't say nah. But it eats a lot of cycle time boring it, so I want to rather drill it, buy a bigger press and just use more force.
jamie peacock: um
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: And then I'm making anchor point pallets to run the Torx bits on. So I'm going to order eight pieces of material. because i'm going to have four anchor points in my machine, so I can walk away for 45 minutes at a time.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: So I'll have two sets of pallets, so I'll load one while the other one runs, and then, yeah, I get about 45 minutes of walk away time.
Curt: Oh, sick. OK.
jamie peacock: And every time I hit go, 64 Torx bits.
Curt: OK, so that's that's reasonable.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: It's not like a just not like killing yourself by just standing by the machine for days on end doing one minute cycles.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Well, yeah, we're doing a 14-minute cycle for 20, And that's a bit annoying to have to reload that often. and So we'll just make lots and lots and lots of them.
jamie peacock: So I'm going to make a bunch of fixtures, number them all as I like to do. ah need to make a rack to hold pallets, but I'll deal with that in the coming in the coming little while.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: But yeah, so what have you been up to this week? You see you've...
Curt: ah
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Well, aside from all the packaging and all the actual stuff that kind of feels nice to do, because then it feels like I get, like, I've got paid.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: just like, ah, let's put these things in boxes and send them out, and it all feels nice. um I also had to do a bunch of rework for, i didn't i didn't go on Instagram and say it just because I was kind of in the deep depths of despair while I was going through it. Not despair, but I was just like, I just, I did all my, I did a bunch of those iso grips with the, like, the black anodize, and
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: and the pattern they have on them, I clock all the end caps, which is fine. I have a bunch of jigs that lets me clock them pretty like perfectly. Like I make parts in a vacuum. So like I can make one part and I can make one part and put them together and they they match.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: um So I did that and they all matched and I did a test assembly because I'm not silly um and they all matched. And then I put them through the the blackening process, which has a very heavy chemical etch and my threads are 40 threads per inch.
Curt: And I, I etch them a lot harder than I do for a color anodized and color anodizing.
jamie peacock: Hmm. Hmm.
Curt: I deliberately don't etch it too hard. Cause I, I, I know this happens. the The threads shrink ever so slightly and it doesn't take much, ah you know, 40 turns per inch to change the degrees.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: And if it's, off if it's off by like even half a degree, you can see it and it looks stupid.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: um And that's exactly, that's exactly, that's what happened with every single one of them.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Every single one of them, the clips was like off by like maybe a degree.
jamie peacock: Oh,
Curt: And I was like, Oh no.
jamie peacock: What is your workaround on that?
Curt: And I was like, my workaround is take all the end caps and throw them in the trash and make new ones, which isn't too big a deal, honestly, because the lathe can chunk out end caps like lightning quick.
jamie peacock: Oof.
jamie peacock: Yeah, they're not... Yeah, but still.
Curt: and And I drop them in the the sile and it just, it can machine that like everything is, it took me an hour to get back to square and then another hour, an hour of finishing to match the finishes to cause like,
jamie peacock: Okay.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: It was just just tedious, but
jamie peacock: How... Okay, sorry. Just want to... finish updating your shirt order because Kurt's decided to go and get buff so the shirts that are organized for him don't fit and Printful's being daft.
Curt: I appreciate it.
jamie peacock: No, no stress, Bree. ah So how how are you clocking them? Are you... just trying think your...
Curt: I use
jamie peacock: Oh, yeah it's just your...
jamie peacock: The words are hard. It's just the clip that's clocked. The pattern doesn't extend up.
Curt: totally.
jamie peacock: Okay. Okay.
Curt: Yeah, well, the pattern is on the clips, and then the I just want the pattern to match on the clip on the body, but that just means aligning it to a position on the body. So it's it's not hard. You just got to he's got to align the end cap to the body.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: and like You could literally just do it, like tighten them on, put a Sharpie line, and then just I have other jigs where the Sharpie line lines up when I go and machine the pocket where the little clip goes. the sounds If people listening, this can make no sense.
jamie peacock: Dude.
Curt: But...
jamie peacock: No, no, that that's not even the worst thing I've heard. I've got a customer who threads parts, and if he needs to rework the thread, he literally draws with a Sharpie on the part and on the um chuck jaw that he can take it out, test fit, then put it back in.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah, I have. I might have done that in the past.
jamie peacock: yeah i see my wife misspelled your name so good luck with that spelling there we go sorts it out yes no okay cool uh yeah so i've got a customer who does it with a sharpie with uh threaded uh threaded nuts that he makes for uh for scaffolding okay so you you've got like a savage i like it
Curt: Beautiful. Thank you, buddy.
Curt: Mm-hmm.
Curt: Well, and, like, I realized, like, i could I could get really crazy, and I could put, like, a threaded stop in my 5C collet so the body's thread in, so, like, they come off, machine the exact same.
Curt: Like, I could get really weird about this, but I don't worry about it yet because it's...
jamie peacock: Yeah, but that, yeah, that starts to add points of failure, because if you get burr or shaving or something, and now it's pushed out, you take it off, you clean it, you assemble and that doesn't clock again.
Curt: it's yeah
jamie peacock: So yeah, it's
Curt: Yeah, and like and people have asked me, like I've had a few people ask for end caps, and I'm like, I can send you an end cap, but I can't guarantee it'll be... like I can guarantee it'll be clocked within probably a few degrees, but I can't guarantee it'll be perfectly clocked because they're fit up by hand.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: like I check them, and then
jamie peacock: yeah yeah uh yeah
Curt: um And a lot of people send my pens out for modding and this happens um frequently is the modder will take it and they're going to anodize it. So they just cook them in the etchant and it just totally messes the thread tolerance up.
Curt: And then the the customer gets it back is Hey, why doesn't anything line up? I'm like, because I got that modded. It just cooked the piss out of it and just took away a ton of material.
jamie peacock: yeah yeah sounds like my anodazes
Curt: And now it doesn't fit up the same. Yeah, it's like, this is what happens. But most people are, there's they ah know they're they're cool with it And if they have a problem, they send it to me I fix it up.
Curt: But that's just, yeah, rework and stuff.
jamie peacock: Yeah
Curt: It's fun to do. I don't mind doing it, but man, does it suck when you, like i stockpiled all of these in like one day where normally I would just do like a little bit of rework here, a little bit of rework there and if you don't notice it.
jamie peacock: Yeah Yeah
Curt: But I put them all into one day and I'm like, I worked the entire day today for nothing. I made not a dime. I'm like, actually lost money because I shipped it to them and I didn't charge them shipping, which if you guys are listening to this, I don't mind.
jamie peacock: yeah
Curt: Like the feedback you're giving me is more valuable than the 10 bucks you're going send me for, you know, shipping. But it just, if it is mentally kind of like, I, I feel rough.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, no, Rework is never fun. Like, ever.
Curt: No, no, no.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: Yeah, so, yeah, last week, Tuesday was an interesting one.
Curt: but but
Curt: Yeah. Tell me more.
jamie peacock: So I got an email from my local Shunk agents.
Curt: Tell me more.
jamie peacock: They're like, we're doing a demo day thing. Which would you like to come? These are the days. These are the time slots. And I'm like, they threw the worst intersection in Joburg. So like, let's plan this for like a middle of the day. So there won't be traffic.
jamie peacock: And then Tuesday, i was pottering around in the workshop.
Curt: No.
jamie peacock: I'm like, I wonder when that chunk thing was. Wasn't it meant to be like today or tomorrow? thought I had booked for 2.30. So I go, it's 11.30. I go look at my emails because I was expecting a Google calendar link so that I could just pull into my calendar.
jamie peacock: And go open the email, 11.30. I'm like, oh, shit. I'm meant to be 30 minutes from here now.
Curt: no
jamie peacock: So I phoned them quickly. hey, on my way. I'll be there in 25 minutes. Danica was meant to go with me. She was running, she was blanking Torx bits on the M car. i'm like, sorry, chick, you staying here. I'm going going to this demo day.
jamie peacock: So hopped in my truck, zooted off there. Shunk makes some really nice stuff. Like, really, really nice stuff.
Curt: Yeah, I've heard.
jamie peacock: And i think they get a bit of a bad, like, mom my perception of them was really bad. And that's courtesy of Clockwise of C&C. um like, i don't know, when he pushes a product, you assume it's shit and he's just pushing it.
jamie peacock: um
Curt: um clockwise, I got i got you.
jamie peacock: But yeah.
Curt: Took me a minute, yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, there we go. It took you a minute. ah But like, they're they're self-centering vases. The screw's not exposed. It's fully enclosed. So you never get shavings in the screws. Like in the main lead screw.
Curt: Oh, nice. Yeah, okay.
jamie peacock: like it's just It's all really nice stuff. also learned that I should be asking for pricing on their... silver series of hydraulics not the tento compact because the silver series they do 6 8 10 12 16 whereas the tento compact they do 12 20 12 16 20 so the silver series is a bit more of like an economy range that does all the common sizes so i'm waiting for quotes on that and also for quotes on little tribos kit
Curt: ah Okay, okay.
jamie peacock: The extendos, tribos extendos. So the, yeah, the extended shank thingies. And then the little tribos clampy unit. um And then that just might get thrown in my hydraulic holder.
jamie peacock: For shits and giggles.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: Because it's got the best run out.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: Yeah, for doing but doing small end mill work. Because I've also been, yeah, been figuring out how to make screws.
Curt: Right.
jamie peacock: With a rotary broach.
Curt: How's that going for you?
jamie peacock: Because these people are fucking... well i need to go and arrest them for money because i'm not buying a rotary brooch until they give me money like that you can get them cheaply uh i can get one cheaply it'll arrive here within like three or four weeks um i just am not going to do that on my own dime i'm tired of doing things for free so even today i customers wanting uh they want me to make a jig i'm like guys you're doing this the most difficult way possible
Curt: Yeah, those aren't cheap.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: And um' at this point, I'm just like, okay, that's the you want fucking do it. Here's your pot. I'll machine for you tomorrow. And I'm going to rip the ring on the price. Because you're doing it stupidly, so you're going to you're goingnna suffer now.
jamie peacock: ah Because I redesigned their pot for them to make it easier for manufacturing, assembly, and potting. And they want to pot it like the old ones. I'm like, cool. You guys are gonna you're going to suffer now. So I will let them suffer.
jamie peacock: I don't mind.
Curt: that was yeah that was the one you reworked with like you you made a mold so it could push in they could plot it wait yeah yeah i remember that
jamie peacock: like They're not blessed.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Yeah, and they want to go the difficult way, so they can go the difficult way. They're not giving me enough orders for me to care at this point. too Like, this month, I haven't even got an RFQ from them.
jamie peacock: Last month, they did entire $250 worth of sales.
Curt: yeah oh
jamie peacock: I'm like, woohoo, what am I meant to do with that? lock Like, really, I'll go about lunch and I'll be out of freaking money.
Curt: Right, yeah.
Curt: Excuse me.
jamie peacock: um
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So yeah, there they are frustrating me a little bit, but that's why I have other customers that can pick up the slack. and also my own products, they can pick up the slack.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: And yeah, that's yeah, product is the way to go.
Curt: Yeah, that's that's a nice one.
jamie peacock: Like, I was chatting to my financial advisor today, he came past for his annual checkup and whatnot, with my retirement policies and that. And we're discussing products are wear it at where it's at. was at a customer this morning, they make, a trying to think how to word this delicately, ugly furniture.
jamie peacock: So they polyurethane, like, I'm trying to think how to word this really delicate. Like, you know, you get that like style, like, Furniture with like, that's really, not textured, like frilly and yeah shitty looking.
jamie peacock: Anyway, they do this with chipboard. So I retrofitted their router for them just over a year ago.
Curt: ah Okay.
jamie peacock: And I said to them, watch your grease lines. You're going to have a bearing failure. Because if you're not getting grease to your bearings, sawdust equals bearing failure. And got a call from them last week.
Curt: Right.
jamie peacock: We found a ball bearing on the machine. I'm like, okay, I will see you tomorrow.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So I went through there on Friday morning at half past six in the morning. Ungodly early. Had a look.
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: Okay, cool. It's just a THK bearing. I know the agent I used to work for is dad. So I sent him a mail, said, hey, it's this number. It's a wide, short block. He's like, here's the data sheet. Can just confirm?
jamie peacock: So messaged the guy. I'm like, hey, just please let me know what the length of the block is. And he didn't come back to me. So this morning, ungodly early back there, because I know he gets there at past six in the morning. So if I get there by then, i don't have to sit in traffic.
jamie peacock: So I got there stupid early this morning, measured the blocks. Okay, cool. I know what it is. Then I was chatting to them. Their margin is 8% on that furniture.
Curt: Ooh, that's tight.
jamie peacock: I'm like, that is tight. Holy cow, that is tight.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: like And then, yeah, I could get Tangerash when it goes to the warehouses and then their customers send it back for repair.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: They charge them for the repair, make a little bit more money and send it back to them. But yeah like they their Christmas orders just came through last week and now they've problems with their router.
Curt: Oh.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so at least it's only one block that's exploded. So I'm going to go swap that one block, clean the rails and put in oiling system for them. which I did to the to the other woodguards, and unfortunately their bearings stopped breaking.
jamie peacock: So I got stopped invoicing.
jamie peacock: Now making a freaking killing. We put in THK blocks. So the THK does, they do the... sealed greased for life bearings. And they're great.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: In a machine tool environment, yeah, sealed greased for life. In a wood environment, hell no.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Two weeks. Bearing exploded.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: um
Curt: Yeah. yeah
jamie peacock: And then I put on, ah they replaced them with normal blocks and I put in the oiling, or I fixed the grease system. They've been running for like two years now.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: So, the importance of lube, guys. Always remember to lube everything.
Curt: Yeah. Lube makes everything go better.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah. I know I had a
jamie peacock: Or even their one lathe that was exploding bearings every like two weeks. Put an oiling system, haven't replaced a bearing in there for like a year and a half.
Curt: yeah machines love lube yeah just keep them yeah i know the the big router used to work same thing it had thks on it and it was um actually what they had is they had little oil reservoirs on either side of the uh bearings with little felt like wipers um and i'm assuming those were like lubed for life but yeah after a week all the oil is gone so i would just i told the guys i'm like anytime you're running this like the wipers already shot
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Yes.
jamie peacock: Wow. Yep.
Curt: I'm like, just oil the piss out of the rails.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Just keep the rails just greasy. Because they're cutting mostly aluminum and like foam.
jamie peacock: yeah Okay, that's not too bad.
Curt: So it just it collects.
jamie peacock: Yeah, they're not cutting oak.
Curt: It's not horrible, but no.
jamie peacock: Oak is the worst.
Curt: Yeah, yeah. Wood and anything that just sucks up and it just it's fine.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: And yeah. So they just, I said, grease them.
jamie peacock: So they were... ah Yeah.
Curt: Oh, it's just grease them.
jamie peacock: So Hotlander, their greasing system was working because I serviced the stupid units. um It's so one of those... it sequentially let's grease through really annoying i took my ultrasonic cleaner stripped the whole thing horrible hate those units um And then their one rail, so their upper rails were all fine.
jamie peacock: Then this whole machine cantilevers, because it's made by an Italian. um And the one the rail just totally fucked up, the bearings fucked up. I replaced them.
jamie peacock: And then they were getting a buildup of dust that was actually getting pressed onto the shot onto the the ballway, and you had to scrape it off. So they were scraping it off like every day, and it was still becoming an issue.
jamie peacock: Added oiling system. Hasn't been an issue in a year and a half. Oils it every 45 minutes for like 10 seconds and just flushes all the oak dust out. Because that oak dust gets in and just reacts with the grease and makes like just solid.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah. yeah
jamie peacock: But yeah, machining dead trees.
Curt: Totally.
jamie peacock: It's great. Like I sent the THK agent a email. I'm like, I need one block. This is a router. If they're within two millimeters, they're happy.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: Like, please don't try to sell me rails. Because if try to sell me rails, I go elsewhere.
Curt: Yeah, totally.
jamie peacock: Mark, don't come with that cuck.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Nice.
jamie peacock: reading your your fancy things.
Curt: Yeah. I'm reading your fancy things too. Okay.
jamie peacock: Yeah, ye you're next.
Curt: okay
jamie peacock: You had a new shirt design, Kurt.
Curt: Yeah, so I i mean, I think we use the same fulfill fulfillment. I use um Printful for shirts just because everybody uses it and it ships anywhere in the world.
jamie peacock: Yeah, we do.
Curt: And so I had a bunch of test shirts um that I did up and sent to myself ah to make sure they weren't, you know, heinous. And I didn't like them. Like I went with, I did like the little logos on the back neck because that's where I wanted a little logo there.
Curt: like you can do back printing and it goes like right below the collar.
jamie peacock: yeah oh yeah
Curt: um So I had a little text there and it it wasn't square. Like I put a shirt on and would be drifted off, you know, half inch to one side or whatever, or it would be skew. um So I emailed them. I'm like, Hey, what's it, what's the deal? and they're like, oh our tolerance on printing is like plus minus an inch.
Curt: i was like, Ooh, that's ragged an inch.
jamie peacock: an inch good god like a whole banana that's ridiculous
Curt: Yeah. They're like positional. It's, An entire banana. So, yeah. um So i was like, well, ah so i emailed them back. i'm like, hey, is there like a higher premium shirt I can buy?
Curt: Like, can I get this better? Can I pay you more to get it better?
jamie peacock: Yeah. Yeah.
Curt: And they're basically just like, no, like you get what you get and you don't get upset. I'm like, okay. So I went the other way around. So I redesigned one of my shirts. um I made the logos just, I use it on my big sticker logo and I distressed it.
Curt: So it looks like, you know, it's been washed a million times. um And then I put it on the shirt and then I kind of just resize it so that if it is out, you're not going to be able to like cite it to like certain lines on the shirt.
jamie peacock: yeah
Curt: Um, and then I got rid of the little logo in the back cause it was costing money and it was looking like crap. Um, so anyways, going to send a few of those to myself.
jamie peacock: yeah
Curt: Um, mainly just because with the discount, you can get like ah hot tip for anybody.
jamie peacock: but
jamie peacock: yeah ah Yeah, you get up to three.
Curt: Um, go on like a custom shirt designing website, put your designs in, you can buy one shirt and you'll get a discount and you can do it every single month. They give you percentage usually. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Your shirts with ah with the demo units.
Curt: So you can, Yeah, so you can get like shirts for like $15 full custom.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So yeah, it's it's a nice way to replace your wardrobe with stuff you actually want to wear. I'm going to print few more of them, see if I like them. And then if I actually like them, I'll put them on my site.
jamie peacock: Yeah, that's something... ah That's something like Danica and after you had issues with them, we realized that all of Danica's artwork, you can't, it's not full, so you can't see if it's not clocked.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: And that's by design.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: um
Curt: Yeah, and I noticed that.
jamie peacock: I'm trying to de decide, I'm trying to decide if I want to tell you what shirts I'm sending you.
Curt: I looked at all your shirts. Yeah.
Curt: ah You play the game, whatever you want. It could be a surprise. You could tell me now. I'll be excited either which way. so
jamie peacock: I know you will. Well, you're definitely getting a gy four shirt.
Curt: Nice. My wife is going love this one. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, I'm in a G84 social I was actually looking at AJ's video from IMTS with with all the machines, and I'm rocking that shirt in the video.
Curt: Yeah. ah Yeah. Oh, you know what? I'm going make her little shirt that says my little M8 or something like that.
Curt: She won't get it, but it'll be heinous.
jamie peacock: great. Oh, jeez. Yeah, I know. Speaking of getting all fancily dressed, we went to a medieval fair this weekend.
Curt: Oh, yes. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yes, I dressed up as as Doctor Who.
Curt: Tell me more, my my liege.
Curt: as you Yeah, that works.
jamie peacock: Yeah, obviously. um Yeah, I wasn't the weirdest dog there. There were a bunch of freaking weebs.
Curt: Oh, yeah.
jamie peacock: Like a bunch of anime nerds. I'm like, guys, this a medieval fiend. Not a fair, not a weeb conference. But anyway, they were guys sword fighting and I ate a turkey drumstick that I paid it entirely too much for.
jamie peacock: Got to throw some axes.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: It was fun.
Curt: Sick.
jamie peacock: It was something different.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: I was feeling a little bit burnt out last week.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: So it was a nice, like, entirely day off.
Curt: That's a good idea.
jamie peacock: i was actually chatting to my mate Dave, who burnt out hard.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I think it was last year. Pitched up at my house drunk.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: a i will
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: I got a call from his girlfriend to say, listen, we've just had a fight. He went out, came back pissed, and got in his car and left. um If he gets to you, please let me know. I don't know where he's going. So yeah, he burnt out hard. So we're both very aware of burnout being a thing.
Curt: Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: so And we've also gotten a bit better at identifying it. Like... But yeah, he was drinking to cope, which is not ideal.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: No, no, it never leads down the bright and sunny road.
jamie peacock: Yeah. No, no.
Curt: Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: So he got, yeah, confiscated his keys. And then he wanted to leave so could go get drunk. So Danica was like, oh, you want to get drunk? Do you now? So we got him drunk enough to pass out so I could go to sleep. And then he woke up in the morning not remembering anything.
jamie peacock: So needless to say, he doesn't drink anymore.
Curt: I... Yeah, weird.
jamie peacock: Yeah, wonder why.
Curt: The more I more i hear about Danica, the more I like her, and the more I'm also terrified of her. She seems like such a nice person, and also seems like a terrifying person.
jamie peacock: dude
jamie peacock: She deals with me on a daily basis.
Curt: That's what I mean. Like, I know what you're like, and i' like, if she deals with you, and like, I see your interactions, they're usually quite happy and funny, and just like, oh man, she must run a tight ship when Jamie's off off camera.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Oh,
jamie peacock: nah. I carry on as I want.
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: um But janna she's she yeah, she knows what she married. I'm a crazy person. I don't know.
Curt: Mm-mm. Mm-mm.
jamie peacock: So burnout, so took the day off and then Sunday was actually going to take the day kind of mostly off. And then the anchor point orders started rolling in. So I decided to anodize the the black one that went out that's going to the US.
jamie peacock: So i ran that on Sunday afternoon, set up anchor points, body up twos, because I still had another 12 bodies that needed machining. So set up up ones for those, let those up one while I did anode and potted around the workshop.
jamie peacock: And then today those ran pretty much till 12 o'clock. While I quickly bought out a pot for a Zlin two-seater aerobatic plane.
jamie peacock: The inverted oil pickup, yes.
Curt: Ooh. Oh, right.
jamie peacock: Which was, yeah, it was one, two, three, four, five, six operations.
Curt: Yeah, yeah.
Curt: Wow.
jamie peacock: I'm not entirely happy with the threads on the one end, so I might remake it. But, But I bored out. So there's no tolerance. Here's a pot. It's not working. Make it work.
jamie peacock: So machined it out of bullets. But yeah, the at some point it got little cock-eyed and the threads on the outside on super great. So I'm going to probably just run it through Anno. And if it does leak, I'll just remake it for the guys.
jamie peacock: But it should be fine.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: The problem is there is no tolerance. So when I measure the bore where this thing slides in, depending on where I measure, it varies by like comma two of a millimeter.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: So, yeah, it was a bit of a but of a thing. maybe But anyway, put my very short boring bar, or Udrill, 5xD 24mm Udrill, and poked a 100mm hole through a piece of aluminium.
jamie peacock: the Yeah, problem there, I don't have enough travel. So I had to take my one block and move it back and like do some serious Jenga or Tetris to get it to all work.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: But yeah, i know poked those holes through and then went and bought a brake cylinder hone and just honed the bores out nicely.
Curt: Oh.
jamie peacock: Yeah. And then I'm going to run it through anode just so has a nice smooth, hard surface on the inside.
Curt: Smart.
jamie peacock: I mean, looking at it, it was a casting.
Curt: Smart idea. Yeah.
jamie peacock: My part's a little bit better than fucking casting. um
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: And it looks like that thread, it doesn't seal on the threads. It seals on a nut with a face, like with a face O-ring. So if the threads are a little bit chewed up, it's not the end of the world.
Curt: Alright, yeah. So done done properly.
jamie peacock: But yeah.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: yeah so we'll see i'll i'll find the guys hey check if this works if it doesn't leak then you can pay me if it does leak then i'll make you another one um because i wasn't gentle on the price because i had to reverse engineer the thing and yeah i just fuck no not interested in being gentle uh that i yeah i couldn't bore it in the mill otherwise i would have gone that route like i don't have a long enough setup to do that
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: um Okay.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Well, and it's...
Curt: It's going on an airplane. It's not going on ah someone's lawnmower. It's going on an airplane. So I'm assuming they don't care to spend, like, they'll probably be okay spending a few extra shekels to make it good.
jamie peacock: Yeah, not 100%, but yeah, they'll fit it there, considering the previous one had been welded and had a piece of rubber and a hose clamp to seal it.
jamie peacock: I think it'll be fine. I really think it'll be fine. What was really cool is all the threads short, there's one M6 thread and everything else was a 1.5 pitch.
jamie peacock: So there was a 16 by 1.5, a 25 by 1.5, a 38 by 1.5 and a 30 by 1.5. So everything is the same pitch. I'm like, Hank, fuck.
jamie peacock: Because they could have been really dumb, but all the fittings are 1.5 pitch.
Curt: Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: It was great because I've got a nice 1.5 thread mold.
Curt: Nice, yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah. And then speaking of threadmills, I got an M12 threadmill in today.
Curt: Ooh, like a single point or like multi or?
jamie peacock: ah The three-toothed ones. The ones i normally like to run.
Curt: OK, yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: I just didn't have M12.
Curt: OK.
jamie peacock: I've got everything up until M10. I don't have M12. I don't have M16. So now I have M12 so that I can threadmill pallets because I want to make a vacuum pallet.
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: So obviously I don't want the hole sticking through it. So...
Curt: Yeah, yeah,
jamie peacock: yeah bought bought that i've got some shenanigans coming along with pallets in the short term speaking of i need to arrest my cousin tomorrow i ordered uh material last week and hasn't arrived yet so i'll phone her and shout at her she's actually coming to visit me tomorrow she can deliver it if they don't deliver it she just put on top of her car put a six meter length of aluminium on your car um yeah i ordered i ordered a whole bunch of pre-cut material so it's normally quite a quite a queue for cutting
Curt: Okay.
Curt: Nice, he's nice, nice.
jamie peacock: But yeah, also i need to make more pallets because I have a grand total of, I think, eight blank pallets left.
Curt: Oh, wow. Chank it through them.
jamie peacock: Yeah, I didn't make that many, but yeah, I need to make a whole bunch more now and just restock because if I sell in more anchor points, I'm going to run into problems.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I'm also thinking of doing a bit of a... bit of a deal on the batch ones because i want to get rid of those. There's four left from batch one still.
Curt: Mm-mm-mm.
jamie peacock: So I was thinking of just doing a doing a bit of a special there. So keep an eye out for the special. I'll put on the email list. So people who've signed up for the interest form, they will get notified first and I might just let them go at bit lower price just to get them off the off the shelf.
Curt: Nice.
Curt: Yeah, ah fair.
jamie peacock: Look, just have them them gone.
Curt: Yeah, I guess because I say you could make you could you could color them kind of pretty to make them go away. But then that means disassembling. I means redoing a ton of crap.
jamie peacock: Yeah, no, not have. Yeah, no, no.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Those are going as they are. They're the old Anodars. They're just going on as they
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Because currently I've got one, well, I've got two anchor points that are now my anchor points, because one, i didn't put a hole in it for the airline, because I put a slot there.
Curt: Makes sense.
jamie peacock: And the other one, I tried to mill eight millimeters off the bottom.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: this afternoon. So, and I have a green one, which I think will go into my, my index unit.
Curt: Anchor point.
Curt: Anchor point slim model.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Ultra light.
Curt: light Light model, yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Sick.
jamie peacock: Jeez. I packed up order today. 10 kilos. Anchor point starter kit with six additional pallets.
Curt: That's...
jamie peacock: 9.6 kilograms.
Curt: Nice. Nice.
jamie peacock: It's hefty. Yeah, that's very hefty. But I've got some five inch pallets that I need to machine up and test. And then I've got round pallets coming in.
Curt: Mm-mm.
jamie peacock: And then I designed a whole bunch. There's also going to be a product on the store for $0. That is a, it's all the CAD. So for all the different, all the different pallets and for the dummy units, we'll all be in that.
Curt: Gotcha.
jamie peacock: You just buy it, check out and the emails it to you.
Curt: That's a nice idea. That's a super nice idea.
jamie peacock: Yeah. So we've also got, I made a super glue palette with dowel holes so you can drop dowels in to align your part and then pull the dowels out on a five inch palette. And then I've made a round palette with like a diamondy looking cool pattern for super gluing as well.
jamie peacock: Just because I could.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: So I need to machine up some of those as well amongst all the other things that I have to do.
Curt: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: Because I'm making molds.
Curt: Well,
jamie peacock: I need to actually program them after this.
Curt: I feel like I was playing in your world of actually doing actual machining as opposed to just like making itty bitty. Well, okay. The parts are still itty bitty baby parts or soft jaws. Um, but I machine, I did some,
jamie peacock: Oh, yes, your 3D machined soft jaws.
Curt: Yeah, 3D machining because this stupid... I don't have one of those mechanisms floating around here, but the top side of it is like all kinds of... It's got curves and radiuses and it's very organic shaped.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: um So I just plopped into a set of soft jaws and Boolean, done. And then the geometry was heinous. I was like, this is so ugly. It's going to take a billion years to finish, like to machine.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: There's no reason... So like, I just kind of de-featured it and just machined it basically. But I was super, like I haven't really done a lot of like 3D machining where the machine is, you know, like actually doing a surface.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: um And yeah, it did really well. And I just used, I don't have like a bull nose or anything for that length. So I just used a straight end mill.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: And i was like, I'm quite impressed with how well this all repeated, so.
jamie peacock: Um, were you using cycle 832? Okay.
Curt: Oh, hell yeah. Yeah, yeah. yeah My machine will die if I don't, so.
jamie peacock: I still haven't got around to playing with it. Like, it was meant to be a thing I was supposed to do, and I just never got around to it.
Curt: Really? I'm surprised.
Curt: Like, i I literally, like, if I run the machine without it, just like, okay get like, if if I hold them, it like, have my hand on the machine, it just, just but it it's just constantly beating itself up.
jamie peacock: Like,
jamie peacock: No, I must not. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Okay. I must play with it.
Curt: Whereas, like, I run that cycle, and it's just, you can put your, I can put a glass of water on the machine, and, like, nothing moves.
jamie peacock: And it just runs.
Curt: Yeah. I mean, it's tiny tools.
jamie peacock: Okay.
Curt: They don't make any vibration.
jamie peacock: I definitely need to make time to play with it.
Curt: Try it. Yeah. first, like I cannot get a nice surface finish without it.
jamie peacock: So ah I've got a piece of aluminum I was going to just basically take the airfoil section from one of the molds I've made, divide into three, and then run without in the different modes, basically, and see what the surface finish looks like.
jamie peacock: Because it's got speed, surface finish, and accuracy on your settings.
Curt: Yep.
jamie peacock: And yeah, i'll be I'm actually very curious to play with it. Because I mean, I was surfacing stuff today. machine does a bang-up job with surfacing, even without without the fancy code.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: you maybe like, maybe it's an acceleration value. Maybe it's I don't know. Cause like without it, like I, the surfaces will look like I cut them with my teeth. Like if I wanted to do ah a blended surface, like it'd be like, Oh, I could do that with a chisel better than I could do with a machine.
jamie peacock: Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah.
Curt: And it would take a hundred years as opposed to, you know, a minute once a cycle.
jamie peacock: Okay. Yeah, I don't know what the default settings of my machine are because I haven't really messed with that cycle. I don't know. Yeah. I must go and play with it.
Curt: They're obviously, obviously better tuned than however mine was.
jamie peacock: Decent.
Curt: Yeah. yeah
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So, yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, I keep getting adverts for the local cell agents. They just got a shipment of machines. Looks like they all have Siemens controllers.
Curt: Nice.
Curt: Yeah, i think they I think they basically are only going to that one. As far as I know, I haven't seen...
jamie peacock: Well, after I played with the LNC controller, I don't blame them.
Curt: Oh,
Curt: oh yeah? I haven't messed with it, so...
jamie peacock: Yeah, don't avoid them like the plague, the shit. Justin's going to shout at me for saying that. um They're interesting. So i was playing with one on a router, and it was an interesting experience.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: um very unintuitive and some really weird quirks but yeah got got to work and go actually i had to troubleshoot a guy this weekend he was trying to run that machine followed a tutorial online because there's no manual why would there be a manual um following a tutorial and the tutorial wasn't as per the way his machine needs to be done so it kept throwing a z uh z alarm because it kept trying to go
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: kept trying to go up because when you use the button and the that they used in the tutorial it didn't set the z offset properly so yeah that was interesting apparently the macro language is really nice according to justin
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Oh, that boy lives in macro land, so I'm sure he likes that.
jamie peacock: yeah he does like yeah so he was gonna get lucky and get a green anchor point but then uh jamie happened
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Oh.
jamie peacock: The green came out really nice. I didn't get one stain on it though because the green kind of is old as hell and had floaters. And I missed one floater when I took it out and put it into the seal tank.
Curt: Oh.
jamie peacock: So it then like stained a dark green.
Curt: Ah, yeah,
jamie peacock: But it's fine. It looks cool. It's going to go into an indexing unit so I can hide my little mistake I made.
Curt: yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: also added like... So when I DFM'd that Trunion unit, I added an external port on the back for your airline.
Curt: Oh, OK, OK.
jamie peacock: see So you can put the anchor points in any orientation and not worry.
Curt: Ooh, speaking of external airs, I don't know if we talked about it last time, but that little that little air valve vacuum line that you made up for, I don't know, did you make it up for Nocturnal?
jamie peacock: Oh, we wouldn't have because that was Friday.
jamie peacock: Yes. I made one for EJ and I made myself one as well.
Curt: That is so pretty. I know it's just a basic thing, but it's so pretty.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: Like, you did well, yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, I was thinking of throwing it on the store because it's just, yeah and like, you don't need a slide level. It's just a hard point to add airlines to so that all your airlines always come to the same place.
Curt: It's cool.
jamie peacock: Like, yeah.
Curt: It's just like you put you put some basic angles on it and some simple machining, but it just makes the part, it looks so much like, it just looks nice. it looks nice I appreciate when someone designs something and just makes it look nice because they can, not because they need to.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, exactly.
Curt: It's just like, wow, it looks pretty. Oh, yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, no, and it's 7075 because that's what the blocks of material were. And it anodizes. The purple is, or get like, the normal purple is orgasmic. This is, like, super orgasmic.
jamie peacock: it I don't know.
Curt: oh yeah
jamie peacock: It's just, ah it's a little it's a little bit darker. the The same recipe, but in 7075, it's just a little bit...
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: yeah darker or yeah i don't know how to describe it fucking pretty let's put it that way um yeah it looks beautiful and yeah super convenient now i have my vacuum line there i have my two air supplies yeah super useful was thinking adding it to the website like i need to go through and add a bunch of stuff to the website blank palettes uh that's um short pull studs for if you want to make a vacuum chuck and you only want to go with uh
Curt: Sick. Yeah. Cool.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: 20 millimeter material so then i'll just zip the end off of the pull studs and then i want to make aj a m10 bt30 pull stud
Curt: Right.
Curt: Why is that?
jamie peacock: he's making a row he's making everything compatible pallets at the moment but a row is m10 and bt30 is m12 so i'm thinking i'm just going to throw them in the emco rip them down to be uh 10 diameter and then thread them
Curt: Oh, I got you. OK, OK.
Curt: OK.
Curt: Nice. OK, yeah.
jamie peacock: Because I've got a little Zang Dai vase. And if I make a 10mm thick aluminum plate that goes between the pull stud and the vase.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So you put that between the vase and the pull stud. You clamp that whole thing together. There you go. It drops onto your machine and locates.
Curt: Right, right, right, right.
jamie peacock: And it's a minimum stack up. So yeah, was thinking of making a little adapter plate for those.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: But yeah, the issue is your shipping out of this place.
Curt: Cute.
Curt: Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: It gets yeah gets expensive quickly.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: But we will see.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Because also, come, I think, eight days from now, is the cutoff for Americans getting their things without paying import duties.
Curt: Allegedly.
jamie peacock: Allegedly, yes. Well, that's our cutoff date for shipping it to them.
Curt: Yeah. ah and
jamie peacock: It's the end of the month. But yeah, we'll see.
Curt: I know. that's ah it's
jamie peacock: I was chatting to the guy in the Netherlands.
Curt: ands yeah
jamie peacock: He just pays his import duties because that's how the rest of the world works.
Curt: I know. i was a I was talking with Justin this morning. By the way, Justin's a sweetheart. That is all. He's just is this a super kind
jamie peacock: I saw that. I was wondering.
Curt: Yeah, he sent me a message. ah well i'll More will be divulged later, but he's just a cool guy.
jamie peacock: Okay.
Curt: Anyways, um he was kind of concerned he sent me some some shipping information, and I was like, dude, I'm like, don't stress. Like, We like, I am so used to paying like brokerages, import duties, like no matter what I get, like if someone someone gets, if someone sends me a package and I'm like, Oh, have to, it's $40 owing on it.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: I'm like, yep, here you go. Here's 40 bucks. That's just how it works here. Like every single package I buy, unless I buy it within Canada, everything I order is going to have between $80, $20, $35.
jamie peacock: Exactly.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: eighty dollars twenty dollars thirty five It's going to cost me something because that's just how it works.
jamie peacock: yeah If I bring something from China, FedEx, anywhere between $20 and $100, depending on what I bring in.
Curt: Mm-hmm.
jamie peacock: um
Curt: Yep.
jamie peacock: I bought screws in from the UK. paid for screws, shipping,
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: sixty dollars for import duties
Curt: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: I literally paid more on input duties than I paid on the on the screws. And it's just, it is a part of life.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Like, everywhere else in the world.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Send stuff to France, send stuff to Netherlands this weekend. The Netherlands one arrived, the guy sent me to the tank, the anchor points arrived, looks beautiful, but shirts haven't arrived, and now those get fulfilled from within Europe.
jamie peacock: He's like, no, the input duties have the shirts, like, they really shouldn't have, because the ah commercial invoice wouldn't have had that on it.
Curt: Mm.
jamie peacock: So...
Curt: Right, right.
jamie peacock: But yeah, like everyone's used to just paying import duties. That's how it works. I mean, I got hit 30% on fricking screws.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Because we make them locally, there's a 30% tariff.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: We don't make them locally because they're fucking torque screws. But yeah, try explain that to someone.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: um Like, ah yeah, actually curious see how much my import duties are going to be on my very cheap thread gauges that I bought.
Curt: Oh, yeah, fair enough.
jamie peacock: Yeah, Jacob's a bad influence. um He put me onto an AliExpress seller that does cheap thread gauges. So nogoge go no-go gauges.
jamie peacock: So I bought M8, M10, M12.
Curt: Right, yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: And then I bought two rings. I bought a 10 and a 16. because my ball marks that I have are 14 to 17 and 8 to 10, and they've got a 17 and a 8mm calibration ring, which are not the sizes I'm measuring.
jamie peacock: So I want a calibration ring on size, so that I can yeah make sure that they're measuring as with as little deviation as possible.
Curt: right yeah
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: I also bought nail polish this week to nail polish my thread gauges, red and green.
Curt: Ooh, a color. What color? Oh, thought you were going to tell me something something special.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I think we bought some other ones. I don't know. Danica bought gel one. I was like, I want shitty nail polish. I don't want to have to use a UV light. want shitty nail polish to mark my my gauges. Not that I need it. It's that if I want Danica to gauge something, it must be straightforward.
jamie peacock: ah dont twenty yeah I actually had a customer reach out.
Curt: yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: Needs me to do some turning. Needs me machine 100 dowel pins. I'm like, a why? You machine these out of BMS, firstly.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: And you want me to hold a silly tar tolerance on them? Are you on drugs? So like a 20 micron tolerance.
Curt: Yeah, why?
jamie peacock: What the fuck? And then the pin's 40 mils long. They want it threaded right through. I'm like, why? Are you putting it on a piece of threaded rod right through?
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Thread in from each end. So now I've got to drill them. Then I said, sorry, I can't thread them. You can thread them yourself. I'll lend you a collet block, set it up in your bridge port, get your appy to put it in and just thread them with a drill. Power thread them. I'm not threading them.
Curt: Yeah,
jamie peacock: Now, I can't thread that blind. it I'm going to break a tap. Not interested. So I've got to turn. I'm doing them, yeah, stupid favor fucking jobs. um yeah the works Yeah, same work with the machines that if he breaks a drill, loses money.
jamie peacock: Same guy. And when he took the work on, he was he was quiet and then those orders picked back up.
Curt: not fun.
jamie peacock: So now he doesn't want to break his machines down to run 100 stupid little pins. So it's become my problem.
Curt: yeah It's fine fine if it's your problem.
jamie peacock: I've all... oh
Curt: You just got to get paid for it.
jamie peacock: Well, yeah, I'm not going to pay much for it, but yeah, anyway, I'll help him out. He helps me out with wire cutting, so and he does my heat treating on the anchor point pots. So, willing to scratch his back a little bit, like.
Curt: Okay. Well, fair. Fair enough.
jamie peacock: um
Curt: Yeah, okay.
jamie peacock: Did I ever tell you about the line winders I built for putting fishing line onto fishing reels?
Curt: I think briefly you might have mentioned it. I remember you saying something along the lines, but I don't know much about it.
jamie peacock: Yeah, the... Yeah, the machines that I sold for $2,500, sold two of them and ended up spending file like $5,000 or $6,000 servicing these stupid fucking things.
jamie peacock: Because I didn't realize that morons were driving them when I designed them. Anyway, after five years, one of them is in my workshop now.
Curt: ah yeah yeah wow
jamie peacock: The guys were like, oh can you just give it a look over the pedal stopped working and whatnot?
Curt: wow
jamie peacock: They wanted me to give it ah a solid looking over. Power supply died, so I swapped the power supply. Open the gearbox because I got it working. I'm like, hey, why the one drive not working?
jamie peacock: So I open it up. the The bearing collapsed and the bolt fell out. So they took a screwdriver, shoved it through the bolt hole, and then tied it with fishing braid.
Curt: Bexed.
jamie peacock: So I ended up taking these, because now this thing was belt drive, i ended up making it gear drive because they kept st stripping belts. um Made it gear drive, so it's noisy as hell. took the gears out, bored them out, made a sleeve, put it together, and now need to go TIG weld. So now I'm trying to get to my mate's house who's got my TIG bottle so that I can go and put six little TIG welds and then reassemble this thing and have it out of my workshop because it's in front of my Emco right now because I literally do not have space for it in my shop.
jamie peacock: But yeah, that I hate those things.
Curt: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
jamie peacock: But yeah, they're getting billed through the ring.
Curt: Yeah, it sounds annoying.
jamie peacock: And when they complain, going them, when you pay, you can fetch your machine. Until then, don't send anyone.
Curt: Just, they can just tell them they were, it was basically you were just paying X amount of dollars per year for the last X amount of years that you've just been brutalizing it and now you're paying for all that maintenance in one go.
Curt: So it's actually inexpensive.
jamie peacock: There we go. Yeah, power supply's dead. Power supply's straight up like $60.
Curt: Right, yeah.
jamie peacock: Luckily, I had one on hand. And then I want to change the pedal. It's got one of those ah flexible resistors. So the more harder you press, yeah, I use one of those.
Curt: Okay. Oh.
jamie peacock: going to change it to a Hall Effect sensor so that they physically cannot break it because nothing touches.
Curt: Ah, you underestimate people.
jamie peacock: Because, yeah, free the other level of dumbassery on these machines, like, holy cow. um so yeah no those are those i learned my lesson hard back in the day that was in like shit that must have been 2021 maybe 2020 somewhere around there that i made these and yeah fucking stupid idea but anyway we live and we learn
Curt: Mm-hmm.
Curt: who Yeah, no doubt.
jamie peacock: Like, I don't build machines anymore for this exact fucking reason. Because stupid people drive them. Although having said that, like retrofits, generally machinists aren't too bad. It's the general population you got to worry about.
Curt: yeah yeah Yeah, yeah, no doubt.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Like, machinists are okay. Even these guys that the they broke a bearing on their router. That machine, it runs better than it ran before. um and I was chatting to them, and they were saying, oh, with the new...
jamie peacock: Oh, yes, with the Apricot Pa that's in there, or the little Apricot computer, is what it was described to me as this morning, ah the Raspberry Pi in there, the little Apricot.
Curt: who
jamie peacock: It turns on so quickly compared to their Windows XP machine that was running it that they turn it on, run it, and turn the machine off. Because I was discussing with them the oiler, it's going to oil every 45 minutes, whether you're running or not.
Curt: Right.
jamie peacock: So don't leave the machine standing or you're going to have a puddle of oil.
Curt: Right, yeah.
jamie peacock: And they're like no, they power on, run the machine, power off.
Curt: Right, yeah.
jamie peacock: Because they don't, and also theyre worried about power surges. But yeah, the the apricot turns on so quickly that it's not an issue to power cycle the machine. Yeah, that would be great joy when he called it an apricot this morning.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: Because they're like they're not technically inclined.
Curt: forgot.
jamie peacock: Like, they make furniture.
Curt: Yeah, no, I get it.
jamie peacock: Yeah, it was fucking great.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: That apricot.
Curt: Cute.
jamie peacock: But yeah, that's running a Pi 5 and a 7R96S board.
Curt: Cute, cute.
jamie peacock: And yeah.
Curt: Oh, yeah.
jamie peacock: and yeah
Curt: It'll boot up a little quicker than the old. Although, you know, in Windows 98 box with nothing on it it, still boots up pretty quick.
jamie peacock: yeah
jamie peacock: Oh no, that had lots of crap on it.
Curt: Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: That's Zalog. The machine runs smoother than it ever ran before. With the SCM controller, it runs it's running smoother than that.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Like, it's ridiculous. But yeah, the SCM machines are not my favorite machines in the world.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I actually thoroughly dislike them if you hadn't caught on to that. Ah, okay. What else have we got here? oh Kurt's becoming a gamer and trying to convince me.
Curt: ah Yeah. So I'm going to successfully convince you. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, it doesn't take much.
Curt: yeah I want to actually have a few people in my DMs that are kind of always sending me, not sending me, but they always have pictures of like those like retro consoles and stuff like that. And I'm like, oh, you guys are just sprinkling cocaine in front of a coke addict here.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: And I don't have one of those. like i have I use my phone, but like i like sometimes I'll play like whatever grand theft auto on my phone and i have a little controller i plug into but like the phone gets hot and like i'm usually low on battery already and i'm like you know what it's kind of annoying because then the text comes through and then then i'm distracted and i'm like you know what i want just a little console so like in the evening you know my little people are in bed and i've i've done all my shit for the day instead of just doom scrolling something that doesn't help me i'm like i could just sit down and play some old school mario or whatever um so i kind of
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: yeah
jamie peacock: yeah know if it's just if you can run steam on it then you can freaking run like portal or half-life or one of those old age of empires like
Curt: uh that's That's the problem is ah I looked at these, this Retroid Pocket 5 is what i what I ended up buying. And yeah, you can run Steam. You can you can easily run Portal 2. There's guys, there's videos on the running Portal 2. I have Portal 2.
Curt: Like you can run Half-Life, one of my favorite games ever.
jamie peacock: Yeah, yes.
Curt: I'm just like, ah yeah, so I'm kind of pumped about this. So now I'm trying to convince you.
jamie peacock: Yeah, no, that's...
Curt: It's like a cheap Steam Deck.
jamie peacock: Oh, dude, no, no, no. You have convinced me. Guys, buy Anchor Point Socket, buy one of these, please.
Curt: Yeah, exactly. buy um Buy more of Jamie's shit so he can and buy little gaming things.
jamie peacock: Well, actually, speaking of that, the sales from the weekend actually paid my machine payment.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Sick. That's awesome.
jamie peacock: Yeah, like that to me is freaking cool.
Curt: That's good.
jamie peacock: Like my product actually paid for my machine payment this month. And that, yeah, that's freaking awesome.
Curt: That's cool. That's a cool feeling.
jamie peacock: Yeah, no, it's a very cool feeling because obviously the machine pays for itself every freaking month, but this from a product, like not from random job shop work. It's from the product I made, which is cool.
Curt: Yeah. It's a different feeling. Yeah, for sure.
jamie peacock: Yeah, it's a very different feeling.
Curt: i Yeah.
jamie peacock: um
Curt: To be like, yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, and then ah speaking of, so I've got two interesting things.
Curt: Oh, yeah, you have a few topics I want to hit. I don't know if I'll have to push some to the next.
jamie peacock: Okay, go for it. No, no, which ones would you like to know about?
Curt: ah Okay, well, let's do, I feel like i feel like the millilave thing, we could go on real long, so we'll leave that for just a second. um
jamie peacock: Yeah, we'll leave that for a second.
Curt: Tell me about your coffee grinder, because I guarantee everybody listening to this podcast is a savage when it comes to coffee as well.
jamie peacock: So.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so, okay. so for Danica's birthday, my mate Dave got her a little French press and some pre-ground coffee. And it's like, don't share this with Jamie.
Curt: OK. OK.
jamie peacock: He's a savage. This is for you.
Curt: Right.
jamie peacock: And then we ran out of beans. So we started doing that. I'm like, oh, my word, this is so much better. We're getting a much darker coffee in the filter pot thing, just the drip coffee, but a much darker and much better extraction, for lack of a better word. to shouted at by the coffee people.
jamie peacock: And I'm like, I know why. It's because you've got this fucking little spinny bitch with ninja swords trying to chop my coffee beans up.
Curt: right
jamie peacock: and hate it. But it was free.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: But I hate it. So yesterday I'm like, nope.
Curt: Sure. Yeah. Nice.
jamie peacock: Screw this noise. We're going to buy a Burr coffee grinder. So I looked around online. We went to the to the mall. Went to all the shops. I knew where I was going to buy one, but we tried everywhere else. Ended up buying a coffee grinder, a waffle maker, and a hair curly thing for Danica for 26 Rand more than the coffee grinder would have been.
jamie peacock: So literally $2 more because it was... Buy this, but buy two and you get 30% off. Buy three things and you get 40% off of all of them. So yeah, ended up paying an extra like a dollar and a half and got a waffle maker and a hair thingy and I got a burr grinder.
jamie peacock: Magic. Push button.
Curt: Oh, yeah.
jamie peacock: Burr's out, like grinds it nicely and the coffee is so much fucking better.
Curt: Mm-hmm.
jamie peacock: Like not even comparable.
Curt: Mm-hmm.
jamie peacock: So yeah, threw that stupid little ninja blade thing away.
Curt: Oh, 100%. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Like fuck that thing. um
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: But yeah, again, it's what we had. So we used it, but... Yeah, shit compared to the burr.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: Like, the burr grinder does so much better job. So, very, very happy with that.
Curt: I'm a coffee snob. Like, I'm a coffee snob, but I will drink any coffee that you give me.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Like, I don't care. Like, I will not complain. Like, if someone if i go to someone's house, yeah like, I do not care. I will drink any kind of coffee. But yeah, you're right.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: When you pay good money for, like, a nice little burger grinder, get some good beans, some, like, locally roasted beans that haven't been sitting on the shelf for nine months.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: It makes a big difference.
jamie peacock: So, I get beans that's... ah Guatemala. So we get single origin here from our local supermarkets. And I like the, I think it's the Guatemala.
Curt: Mm-hmm.
jamie peacock: I like the, god it's the blue one. I like those beans. I like the the flavor profile of it. So Danica was like, no, maybe we should get like a darker restaurant. our grinder is the problem. Because if I buy a pre-ground of that, it's nice and rich.
Curt: Probably am.
jamie peacock: But if we're grinding ourselves, a fuck up. So yeah. Bought one. I set it to three. I go, and it grinds me the perfect amount. And I'm rid of it. It's great. knock And then Danica was reading the instruction manual.
Curt: Sick. Nice.
jamie peacock: Do not put beans in the hopper. If the hopper is not installed, they will fall through the bottom. That is literally the instructions.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: It's like, what the fuck?
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: So yeah, that was great. And then my screen arrived today.
Curt: it
jamie peacock: I bought a new monitor for the workshop.
jamie peacock: Yeah, 27-inch, 1440p monitor.
Curt: Not for the workshop, of course. Yeah. Well, I guess for CAD.
jamie peacock: Yeah, for my office.
Curt: OK. Yeah, fair enough.
jamie peacock: Yeah, for CAD. No, no, dude, like literally, if you take away the little ah the file manager menu thing on Fusion, I can have Fusion on one side and my email's on the other side and they're both still usable.
Curt: OK.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah. Nice. Nice.
jamie peacock: Like, it's insane. it isn't mounted yet because I need to rip my whole desk apart. um But that whole setup, I bought it. It's refurbed monitor. I paid... Oh, that's in millimeters. $140 for a monitor.
Curt: That's pretty cheap.
jamie peacock: Factory refurbished.
Curt: hu That's pretty cheap.
jamie peacock: I kind of want to buy another one for upstairs. And then take my 24-inch monitors as the secondary monitors.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: Yeah, i like a true savage. But yeah, ah I've been wanting to buy one of those for a while and it's great. Like, I don't even know that I need a second monitor. It's that that big and that high resolution.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: Because, I mean, I've been on 1080p for, God, now feel old, for 14 years.
Curt: Yeah, that's it.
Curt: Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: Since I bought, the monitor in my workshop is 14 years old.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: I think, no, it's older than that. No, no, it can't be a freaking teenage, it's a teenager.
Curt: It's probably kids listening to this podcast that are younger.
jamie peacock: Sorry, it's not teenager, it's a frickin' adult that monitors 18. Like, yeah. I feel old now, damn it. Other than this camera making me look old, and I feel old.
jamie peacock: Oh, shit.
Curt: Yeah, exactly. See all the pores and all the wrinkles.
jamie peacock: Yeah, no, I'm not a fan of that. Ah, I forgot to shout out our Patreons earlier. So, the Patreons make the wheels on the podcast go round and round.
Curt: Oh, yes.
jamie peacock: And this week... Jacob pressured EJ into joining our Patreon. So EJ from Nocturnal Welding, thank you for joining the Patreon. He also joined at one of the top tiers, so he's going shouted out every week, ah along with Jade from Benchmark20, Luke from Fabtastic, and AJ from Subtract Manufacturing, because that's what he wants to be shouted out as.
Curt: Thank you all. That's awesome.
jamie peacock: Yes. Also, I got a nice shout out on their podcast today.
Curt: ooh I'm excited. I haven't listened to it yet. So yeah, I'm excited for that one.
jamie peacock: Yeah, no, dude, that thing dropped out listened to at the same time. um But speaking of their podcast, ah Robot Oblivion got shouted out on their podcast.
jamie peacock: And that leads us into the topic mill lathe. Because both Kurt and I have gone down this rabbit hole of using our mills as lathes before we had lathes.
Curt: Yep. And it works surprisingly well.
jamie peacock: But yeah, it works amazingly well. um I'm actually just going to quickly... copy and paste this into the show notes. We will be putting a link to Robot Oblivion in the show notes.
Curt: Oh, good idea. Yeah.
jamie peacock: um God of New Zealand does his own anodizing, has a Sile X7, judging by the spindle on it. um
Curt: say yeah
jamie peacock: Yeah, I'll be in X7 with LNC controller. So yeah, we we ended up chatting today. um he hit me up. He was asking about my DIA tanks. And then um but I was going ask him what machine he had. So went and looked at his profile.
jamie peacock: And they're like, hey, wait, this is the guy, AJ and them were talking about this morning. But yeah, made he made a beautiful block for doing turning in his mill. Because he doesn't need to make a shitload of parts. He's making the kingpins for the custom skateboard trucks that he makes.
Curt: Yeah, which look so sick.
jamie peacock: not beautiful
Curt: Like, they're so pretty. I love the machined lines on them. Like, yeah they're so pretty.
jamie peacock: yeah
Curt: Makes me want to buy a set for the skateboard I never ride. Actually, it's sitting right here.
jamie peacock: Oh, speaking, yeah, I wrote ill ride mine every now and again.
Curt: Not that I don't ride it, it's right here.
jamie peacock: I've got a longboard that I built and I take it up to the pizza place, which I can literally throw a rock at and the cheese shop, which I could throw slightly harder and hit.
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: They're like in the same complex thing. But I will push my board down the road, then carry it up the hill to them just so that I can ride it down the parking lot. Because you can carve with that longboard so nicely.
Curt: it
jamie peacock: And yeah, the intrusive thought has entered my head to make an aluminum deck.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah. yeah guess you have the room.
jamie peacock: I have 700 travel.
Curt: You have the space for it. Yeah. Yeah. You have the room for it. Yeah, for sure. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, the thought has entered my head on multiple occasions. And I also have a vacuum chuck now that does the whole span of my machine. So yeah, um I'm trying to avoid that, but I think it'll be fun.
Curt: Yeah. Go down the, go down the, the Winston.
jamie peacock: The Winston Moy, yeah.
Curt: I think Winston Moyes, big ISO grid longboard.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah, that's pretty sick.
jamie peacock: Yep. Yeah, i did a surprise push-up the one day when I, well, recently when I was using my longboard.
jamie peacock: Yes. ah We went up to the to the cheese shop, Danik and I, coming back, carved down the parking lot, crossed the main road. I push off and my boot touches the back wheel.
jamie peacock: And I go forward. Surprise push-up. want to ruin my face. Surprise push-up.
Curt: Yeah, fair enough.
jamie peacock: Get back up. What the fuck? What just happened? Okay. Push-off again. Same thing. Surprise push-up. Yeah, my back was ruined for like a week. Like I pulled a whole bunch of muscles in my back.
jamie peacock: But yeah, it never happened again. Like now I'm aware that my boots are fucking giant, like clown shoes. And yeah, don't touch the wheel.
jamie peacock: ah john that yeah Not something I use that much anymore I'm scared of falling.
Curt: Oh, fun.
Curt: Yeah, I used to always just skateboard to the post office, and then they got rid of the post office.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: that was right beside me, and then the new post office is kind of a far skateboard.
jamie peacock: Oh, shit.
Curt: So was like, eh. And then my packages now are, like, I have enough of them that it's kind of awkward. so I'm just like, I just...
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Actually, the one...
jamie peacock: Yeah, we didn't have a post office nearby for like six months. They renovating the shopping center and we had to go to like one that was probably five or six kilometers away and then they opened the post office up again.
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: Yeah, but they will not send you a slip. So if anyone sends me anything, please put my cell phone number on it. Otherwise, ill literally just don't know it arrives. The postman doesn't exist anymore. They'll send you an SMS.
jamie peacock: Otherwise, you you don't know it's there.
Curt: yeah cool my dude well should we our should do what's in our google boxes
jamie peacock: my yeah laka yeah Oh, yes. watson What's in your Google box, Kurt?
Curt: holy smokearonis here
jamie peacock: um Oh, hang on.
jamie peacock: Sorry, so I was just looking. I did mention to ej that we were recording, and if you had any questions, to hit me up. um
Curt: duty
jamie peacock: For my third anchor...
Curt: ah do dode you do do <unk> and did if make it out of titanium go nuts i'll make i'll do it
jamie peacock: eye He asked he can get Nebula Patton for his third anchor point. Oh, jeez. No, the thought of that hurts. The thought of that hurts my brain.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: the thought of doing a nebula pattern on something that big hurts my brain too there would definitely be tears um would definitely cry
jamie peacock: Yeah, because I know the yeah the process there is interesting.
Curt: Yeah, you i would actually cry i'd cry from the annoyance, and I'd probably also cry from the freaking chemical exposure.
jamie peacock: Because I have...
Curt: So, yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, because that's, I know the process. That's not a fun, because I've tried it, but I didn't have my stuff shiny enough to get a decent finish.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah, it helps. Helps.
jamie peacock: Because I remember we chatted about it a long time ago.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: asked you how you did it, and then you gave me the basic rundown.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: um
Curt: Yeah. Google Entropic finishes for anybody listening that wants to know about that weird titanium nebula anodized.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: It's not hard.
jamie peacock: It's
Curt: It's just... Really freaking annoying.
jamie peacock: basically anodizing in a nutshell.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: um
Curt: Yeah, that's true, I guess. That's true. Yeah, it's easy to do, hard to do well.
jamie peacock: yeah dude that is a very accurate way to describe it like okay uh 57 on wordle because that's the most important obviously yep uh still have omni wheels open hoping they'll come back into stock uh looking up taurus tooling and midway tooling speaking of midway tooling you now have to log in to get pricing on their website is annoying uh
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Ooh, climbing up.
Curt: Yeah, get fucked.
jamie peacock: no no messaged the guy i'm like hey what's up with this he's like no um he's having his competitors undercutting him by like 10 bucks like not a lot of money i'm talking south african rands like 50 us cents but that's enough that someone will buy from the cheaper guy even if they have to pay more for shipping because south africans are fucking retarded um i got a lot of anchor point pages open for some reason um
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Just.
jamie peacock: tickets for booking thingies, and then tunnel my shipping agent with my list of shipments open because I want to see where EJ's parcel's at because that should be out for delivery today or tomorrow.
jamie peacock: What's in your Google box, Kurt?
Curt: My Google box is a nerd's wet dream. It's just, it's just like 6,000 different pages on, uh, those pocket handhelds.
jamie peacock: fun
Curt: Cause with anything in life, when I decide I want to buy something, I'm like, you know what? I'll research this for nine hours until I'm like, I've analysis, analyzed, analyzed it so much that I just don't know what to do anymore.
Curt: And then I just don't do anything. Cause I just paralyzed myself with too many indecisions. So, um, Yeah, I i started Googling a million things and then i was like you know what? just going to get this and I'm going to play with it and I'm going to enjoy the playing with it part and and that's and that's it.
jamie peacock: There we go.
Curt: So yeah, it's literally my entire my entire search is like handhelds, like Retroid Pocket 4 Pro vs. 5 vs. Odin vs. There's other weird ones.
Curt: It's just like, what am I doing?
jamie peacock: yeah I went down that a little while ago.
Curt: It's kind of fun. I do like it.
jamie peacock: Yeah, that is a lot of fun.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: But yeah, I went down that rabbit hole with portables a little while ago, and then I just started playing on my Xbox instead, since I have an Xbox already.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah, like, and so I was like, I could save this cash and just put it towards, like, a PC. Because I've got to buy a PC anyways. And i'm like, I'll just, but I'm like, I don't want to sit in my shop here and, like, this is like, eh.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: No, that's the thing. Yeah.
Curt: I'm like, I could buy a comfy chair, but i'm like, i still don't want to do that. I just want something where i can just, you know, just piss around with it. and
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: yeah.
jamie peacock: Well, you've been a bad influence with the audiobooks.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I am...
Curt: Oh, yeah. That's.
jamie peacock: Yes, I'm busy with Seven Eaves. Like said, I read Seven Eaves back in the day.
Curt: Oh.
jamie peacock: um
Curt: Mm-hmm.
jamie peacock: am currently 19 hours into it. I have 13 hours left. And I'm now listening to it in bed before i go to sleep because it's at the interesting part.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: It's like, yeah, I'm burning through that at a hella pace. And then I've got a bunch of other stuff lined up after that. But yeah, thoroughly, thoroughly enjoying it. And it yeah, walk around the making dinner, listening to Seven Eves.
jamie peacock: Waiting for Danica, and you need to go somewhere, waiting for her, listening to Seven Eves for two minutes quickly. It's a bit of a problem.
Curt: i um I re-listened to that Artemis that I told you about last week just to see if it holds up.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: It's actually pretty good. I enjoyed it.
jamie peacock: Okay, cool.
Curt: I listened to it in like less than, I think less than two days. I pounded through because I'm like, i forgot I like this one.
jamie peacock: Nice.
Curt: It's same thing. It's Andy Weir. So it's still, it's not as hard, hard details.
jamie peacock: Yes. So it's going to be great.
Curt: This is like Martian and Project Hail Mary, but it's still, it's still a really good listen.
jamie peacock: And yeah.
Curt: And the audio, the, the, ah the reader's pretty, pretty decent.
jamie peacock: Okay.
Curt: Well, so I dug it.
jamie peacock: Okay. Yeah, Danica's got some ways to get me audiobooks now. um
Curt: Ooh. well
jamie peacock: Yeah, because like with all TV shows and things, they're not available where they used to be available, which is really frustrating.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Like we were trying to watch Rick and Morty the other day. It used to be on South African Netflix. They've got season seven. They don't have the new season. I'm like, cool.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: To the pirate bay. Speaking of Pirate Bay, South Park, have you seen the two episodes that are out from season 27? Dude!
Curt: I've seen cliffs, but I haven't i haven't seen them full through. They're so good.
jamie peacock: They're great. They are amazing. Yeah, no, thoroughly entertaining.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So we're watching that at the moment, downloading those as they come out. Because, again, can't watch it locally.
Curt: yeah
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: We wanted to watch Jurassic World Rebirth. So last night was like, hey, where can I watch this? Amazon Prime. Cool. Click on it. We've got Amazon Prime. Not available in your country. The Pirate Bay.
Curt: Yeah. VPN.
jamie peacock: fuck Fuck VPN.
Curt: Oh, then at least you can get whatever you want.
jamie peacock: I live in Africa. Fucking can throw throw a fucking chicken wing at the oak and you sort it.
Curt: guess.
jamie peacock: Fuck sakes.
Curt: I get it.
jamie peacock: Yeah. No, dude. Fucking no law order in this place. um
Curt: Oh, just I mean, just so you can access from different countries, because then it's probably available.
jamie peacock: But yeah. Oh no, fuck that shit. i'll just torrent it. And then I'll put it on my NAS.
Curt: Oh, whatever's easier, I guess.
jamie peacock: Fuck. Yeah.
Curt: Whatever's easier.
jamie peacock: Yeah, no, we've, no, the problem is if you VPN in, it's not our Amazon Prime, it's Danica's friend's Amazon Prime. So if we VPN in, then she, then we have to re-login and get a code from her.
Curt: Oh.
jamie peacock: So no, screw that shit.
Curt: I gotcha.
jamie peacock: Although I should probably VPN into my Netflix so my mother-in-law can't use it.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Because then we're too far away from her.
Curt: Great idea.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: That's a weird world we live in where it's like, as long as someone makes like whatever content easily accessible and not a hellacious amount of cash, I'll probably just pay the cash.
jamie peacock: boom Yeah.
Curt: So I don't have to go through the annoyance of like trying to borrow it from the internet.
jamie peacock: 100%.
jamie peacock: Dude, that's Steam.
Curt: It's like, absolutely.
jamie peacock: Like, Steam-made video games. You stopped pirating games because you could just get them.
Curt: A hundred percent.
jamie peacock: And they weren't retardedly expensive.
Curt: Yep. Absolutely.
jamie peacock: Same thing with Netflix. Netflix killed piracy.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: And then all their contracts started expiring and everyone else had their own streaming thing. And now you've got to have eight different streaming services, so piracy's on the uptick again.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah, we've just rebuilt cable with stupid streaming services. 100%.
jamie peacock: and Yeah, that is exactly it.
Curt: I know. de as Steam is...
jamie peacock: Like...
Curt: Steam is... And you know what Steam does in the spring? they have their Steam sale and then everybody's wallet cries.
jamie peacock: Dude, four times a year. Dude, four times a year.
Curt: Or four times...
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: I know. And I always get the email.
jamie peacock: Like, it's...
Curt: This title on your wish list is 90% off. You're like, what?
jamie peacock: Yeah. My one mate's my inmates really excited for GTA 6.
Curt: Go away.
jamie peacock: I'm like, yeah, dude, when I can get GTA 6 for like $50, then sure. I'm not paying $500 for the game.
Curt: Sure, yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: It's never, ever happening.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Like, when I get it for basically free and everyone's found all the exploits, then I will do it.
Curt: Fair enough.
jamie peacock: And even then, I probably won't because I but look don't really want to sit and play games. like i can I'll tell you now. they yeah They're in the chat. My mate Seabass and Dr. Farkov are busy playing...
jamie peacock: I don't know. They're just talking. But yeah, like every night my mates who still play games are on high school guys that I went to high school with. ah We used to drop into PUBG.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: We used to try and get matched, so like get onto the same server and then all change into the same clothing so we could recognize each other and then play as two teams. Like I'm used to have all sorts of dumb shit in that game.
Curt: Cool.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I doubt that's super, super not legit. Anyway, I think we're going And there where can people find find your things?
Curt: You can find my lack of any way to purchase my product at confoundedmachine.com because you can't even sign up for lotteries. So that's annoying, but ah it's what it's got to be right now until I get things on our order.
jamie peacock: Yeah, i wanted to ask you about that. But we'll chat about that between the shows.
Curt: Yeah, I haven't got a ton of hate mail yet, but and it's, yeah. Anyways, I appreciate appreciate you all who do support me.
jamie peacock: It's coming.
Curt: And yeah, don't know. Send me an email if you're outraged, but most 99% of the people that follow me are super kind.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So anyways, confoundedmachine.com, all the weird stuff there. How about you, Jamie?
jamie peacock: ah Yeah, you can find us at jspeceng.com. We've got the anchor point on there. We've got some t-shirts. You can also find the podcast at theloanemachinists.com. It's bunch of merch over there that goes to giving my wife money and also making me not stay in South Chicago if the U.S. exists next year.
jamie peacock: um And then on Instagram, you can find me at jspec underscore engineering. You check out the fancy shenanigans, including the very fancy green anchor point that we did that is probably going to be removed from the internet so because I ruined it.
jamie peacock: um Yeah, that'll probably be, it'll be in my stories until, well, like a few hours from now when this podcast comes out and then we'll probably fall into the ether until I'm mounted on something where you can't see what I did to it.
jamie peacock: But yeah, that's, yeah, that's about it.
Curt: okay
jamie peacock: And yeah, if you enjoyed the podcast, please ah give us a like, subscribe, all those things. The video, if you're on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, video is available on YouTube and Zencaster.
jamie peacock: And yeah, go check out, go look at Igly Faces, and we will see you next week.
Curt: I even shaved for this podcast so anyways
jamie peacock: That's my plan for this week.
Curt: take care all
