Transcript
jamie peacock: Welcome to the Learned Machines podcast, it's just you, the work, and the machine. What have you got going on today, Kurt?
Curt: ah Today I'm going to talk about machining 954 bronze, lasering rubber, and geeking out on your products or services. It's super important.
Curt: How about you?
jamie peacock: We're going to talk about a bit of the shop update.
Curt: What are you going to talk about?
jamie peacock: We're going to discuss how the barnacles are available. And we're going to discuss how swap one of my anchor points out on my harbor setup.
Curt: Ooh, interesting.
jamie peacock: and why I had to do so yeah so yeah how are you this fine day good
Curt: Ha ha.
Curt: I'm doing good, doing good. the yeah The evening is upon us, rolling into the nighttime and rolling into the morning for you. So yeah, that's always fun.
jamie peacock: yeah what are you what are you drinking today Oh fancy
Curt: o Today we have brownie caramel cream root beer, which is, I know, it's all right. Kind of little sweet for me, but it's okay.
Curt: ah I'm running out of like drinks that aren't like caffeinated to drink. There's so many that are on my list, but they're all caffeinated. don't want to be drinking at it. i Like, you know, we finished recording at my time about move one o'clock ish in the morning.
Curt: So it's kind of an unfit time to be drinking caffeine for me anyways.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Well, yeah, unless you're pulling all mine.
Curt: Anyway. Yeah. How's your ah how's the ah the elephant in the room of your your shop moving coming along?
jamie peacock: Yeah, the riggers are booked. um Riggers are moving.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: Kohl's, Kohl'slave moves on Monday morning. Tuesday's a public holiday here because we have the most of those in the world. And then Wednesday morning, the riggers pitch up here and move all my machines.
jamie peacock: It is mildly stressful considering I still have about 20 something hours was a machining to do between now and Tuesday evening when I decommissioned the LK.
Curt: yeah oh
Curt: oh
jamie peacock: Yeah, so I spoke to the, other there we go, tractor turned off. My PC, this one fan was noisy. um Yeah, so I spoke to WD Hearn. I've got them potentially booked for Thursday. need actually confirm on Monday.
jamie peacock: And then I go, do you need to decommission? I'm like, dude, bitch, please. I've got all the stra the shipping brackets. It's not fucking hard. Like, it's disconnect everything and come pick it up the fucking forklift.
jamie peacock: So I'm going to do that on Tuesday afternoon. Pull tools, pull, put the shipping brackets in, pull the way covers back. Gives me chance to pull the way covers back. I'm kind of a week past when I was meant to do that.
Curt: that ah Okay, that's a good idea.
jamie peacock: was inside the, if you open where the controller is, there's a note when last I pulled the wave way covers back to inspect. and just clean. I do that annually. So yeah, we're a few weeks past that, but I figured, fuck it, we're going to be moving. So we'll just do it then.
jamie peacock: um But yeah, riggers are booked. That ended up being, a getting insurance on that ended up being a bit more than I wanted, but whatever. There's no way they're moving my machine without insurance, without rigging insurance. Because if they put a fork through the electrical cabinet or something stupid, it needs to be covered.
Curt: Yeah, for sure.
jamie peacock: Like, it's fine when you're rigging a cheapy machine, but no, that is my main bread and butter machine that needs to be insured. So yeah, we got that all dealt with. It wasn't even expensive. It was like $1,500 to rig all machines.
Curt: Oh, that's not bad. Yeah, I mean, yeah.
jamie peacock: No, with seven-ton forklift and a crew of riggers like, yeah, and 12-ton trailer on the back of the truck to obviously move the forklift as well.
Curt: Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: So, yeah, not too bad.
Curt: Right, right, yeah.
jamie peacock: so that's Yeah. So that's all happening on Wednesday, which is just mildly stressful.
Curt: Oh.
jamie peacock: And then, yo we busy yeah, we're busy pulling wire and airlines and all that shit in the workshop currently. We were there yesterday. The... choice of wire that I made, I do regret.
jamie peacock: I chose 10 square captar and captar is meant to be able to run direct on the wall.
Curt: Oh, yeah.
jamie peacock: But the installation on it, ah it's got an aluminium foil and then an insulation and oh my fuck it is the worst thing to have to strip. Like it is horrible to strip.
Curt: Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: um So I've pulled it into the two sub panels, I still need to pull it into the main panel. But the main panel, there are three different um DIN rail is the newest standard.
jamie peacock: There's two prior standards and I can't figure out the adapters. So I'm just going to screw piece of DIN rail into my DB board. That way I can mount my new breakers and not have to stress about this.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: because i'm basically adding two four pole breakers into the existing panel. And then each one of those feeds the three phase plus neutral to the sub panels. And then I've got the sub panels.
jamie peacock: I've got the good way on phase one. I've got the EMCO on phase three. And then the compressors and the slow wheel and the workbench will be on phase two for for their 220 volt legs to try and spread the load as evenly as possible.
Curt: Okay.
Curt: I see.
jamie peacock: not that load balancing was critical.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: Like, yeah. Looking at how the place was frickin wired, it is terrifying.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: Definitely don't go hold a light bulb because there's no GFC on the lights like generally speaking. um South African house wiring, you have a earth leakage or ground faults thingy, which actually also triggers if the power is off, and you touch live in neutral, the breaker still drops.
Curt: Oh, okay, cool.
jamie peacock: like we are our electrical and we have the dumbest people. So we have like the tightest safety shit on our our electrical standards.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: um But generally speaking, everything is downstream from the GFC are in our distribution box in the house. So any fault, any plug trips that straight away.
Curt: Oh, wow.
jamie peacock: And I was looking in the panel, the lights on phase one, the gears on phase two, or the water heater and phase three goes through the earth leakage for the plugs.
Curt: The geezer.
jamie peacock: But yeah, that's what we call them, geezers. don't know.
Curt: Water heater?
jamie peacock: They're in water heater.
Curt: Oh, cool.
jamie peacock: Yeah. It's called geezer, yeah.
Curt: Interesting.
jamie peacock: Don't know why. Just what it's called. Yeah.
Curt: Huh. Weird. Cool.
jamie peacock: Dude, Danik and I were chatting about this and the amount of words that I use that are not the normal South African word that I've just adapted because I know the audience is listening.
Curt: Anyways, sorry.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: like Either here or on Instagram or whatever, like my word choice has changed over the years.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah. Okay, so like, Weird.
jamie peacock: Yeah, they called geezers.
Curt: So it's it's the same as got or geyser, right?
jamie peacock: ah Gaza, we just call them geezers. Old fucking geezer.
Curt: Right, right. But yeah, it's a Germanic word for gray water or heat recovery systems.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Weird.
jamie peacock: Yeah. So yeah, we call them geezers.
Curt: Cool. Anyways, sorry.
jamie peacock: I've got one behind that wall over there is a 150 liter one that's been disconnected. um Electric geezer. And then I put in gas heaters when that one died. I put in a gas one because then guess what, when we wake up in the morning, and there's been load shedding, I still have a hot shower.
Curt: Fair. Okay.
jamie peacock: It's also way more efficient, like wildly so.
Curt: Yeah. Fair.
Curt: Sure. Yeah. yeahy Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
jamie peacock: So yeah, we've got gas, water heating in our house. So i've got a unit by bathroom, so my mother-in-law's got a unit by her cottage, and that's the way to go.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: But yeah, the wiring in that place is dodgy as fuck.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: um there was a plug plug box above the sink seems safe. So I opened it the wires have been terminated and I'm like there's a stick going through the wall.
jamie peacock: And I wanted to put a plug on the other side because figured there were wires there. I need a plug on the other side for our little kitchenette. So see the sticks I just grabbed a hammer and I hit the stick and the other side of the wall went open and now there's a hole on the other side of the wall.
jamie peacock: So I screwed on a plug box, put a plug on that side ran wires through put a plug by the sink because I want to put the ultrasonic there. But the plug wouldn't go in the correct orientation. I hadd to put it 90 degrees because the hole in the wall wasn't big enough.
Curt: Okay, okay.
jamie peacock: Yeah, like just dumb shit. But yeah, we're getting there with the shop. The airlines are mostly run. I'm short of two fittings to close up the airline. We've got a big-ass loop that's going to run...
jamie peacock: like right right it runs around the whole shop but it it's a loop then it goes to with two lines to the late the department which has its own loop so it's one big fucking like figure eight shape yeah but that's all run we still don't have our one piece of cable tracking that we're waiting for so
Curt: ah Okay, cool.
jamie peacock: mildly frustrating but yeah we we carry on we can't wait anymore so we carrying on I need to go and buy lots today while LK is running to shoot out to the shop buy some light fittings because the lights above the LK need to go in before we move and the lights above Cole's machine need to go in before we move because once we once the machines on the way we can't get the scaffolding anymore yeah
Curt: Fair, yeah. I also saw your sketchy AF scaffolding on Instagram.
jamie peacock: Free scaffolding. Yeah, Timu scaffolding. We got it we borrowed it from a friend. He's like, oh, no, he doesn't have any planks or whatever. My legs are so stiff from basically having a leg on each side and like hooking in so that I can work up at heart.
Curt: I bet.
jamie peacock: But yeah, it's it's just over four meters to where the that subframe we put in for the cables is.
Curt: Okay, yeah.
jamie peacock: It's fucking hard.
Curt: and Right. Yeah.
jamie peacock: So like I'm trying to get everything there done before we move machines in.
Curt: Makes sense. Yeah. Oh,
jamie peacock: And then our desks, we painted our desks yesterday. So yeah, it's the desks don't go out the back door. They don't fit through a normal hot door. We have to go through the roto door.
jamie peacock: Because they are 2.3 meters high.
Curt: okay.
Curt: Oh, big desks.
jamie peacock: Yeah, they take a full sheet of OSB on the back for shelves and racks and shit.
Curt: Okay. Yeah, that that makes sense. know.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Yeah, a fucking big, big desk. um But yeah, those got painted yesterday. we can i need to go by screws and then I can screw the the tops on and they can get put in place. But we actually have enough space because we put all the drip trays down.
jamie peacock: um I had half millimeter gel steel guillotine to make drip trays for all the lathes. And looks like have enough space that we could actually pull the LK out of the area that it's in with a pallet jack without moving any other machines if we need to do any maintenance or anything.
Curt: Oh. Convenient. Yeah, convenient for sure.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so we got quite a lot of space. um I was worried we wouldn't have enough space, but the machines are actually quite small.
Curt: Yeah, well, when your space gets big, the machines look smaller too, so yeah.
jamie peacock: Yes. Yeah, so we went to pick up all the drip trays yesterday, which took us like an because I didn't know where the hell they were.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: ah But yeah, are just guillotined plate for the slow EO and for all the lathes. The LK doesn't need a drip tray, it doesn't leak, mostly.
Curt: Cool. Cool, cool.
jamie peacock: But yeah anyway, um how's your machining of your bronze going?
Curt: Dude, I only ever machined titanium. So ah for this little fidget thing I'm working on, I want to first try an all-metal version because I think it might solve some of my problems. um So I had some 954 bronze from the coins, and I bought it with the sizing, assuming I would use it for this as well.
Curt: I love machining 954 bronze.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: It is like, it is, it's like machining brass, but it looks pretty and it's like more durable. And yeah, I i love the material. I will, I would make everything out of it if I could, because it's, it's spendy, but it's super cool.
jamie peacock: Yeah, nice.
Curt: So yeah, just so pretty.
jamie peacock: Yeah, how's going with the with the fidgets?
Curt: And yeah, I just,
Curt: good. think, uh, it was here and where went now. Anyways, um, Good. like All the little changes I made to make my life easier worked. um Now I just have to dial in like the tolerances.
Curt: i This whole time, i was kind of debating if I was going use my old fixtures and machine in my vices, or if I was going to use like the zero point and machine new fixtures for it, which kind of seems stupid to like machine a whole new production set of fixtures if like it doesn't work out. But At the same time, I'm like, if I don't do that and it works, then I still have to build the fixtures and still kind of double check to see if if that carries over.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Yeah. Ah, okay. Fair enough.
Curt: Because like everything is fairly tight tolerance. um So i'm like, well, the fixtures are going to play a point. I'm like, screw it. I'm like, I'll just machine the fixtures as I go, like the new production fixtures. And I'm like, that way I know for certain if it works once, I can do it again.
Curt: has a downstream side effect of me being able to like put parts back in nice and repeated. Um, so I was able to like sneak up on a few depths for springs and bearing fits and everything. And so, think i I think i have I have to do a little bit more dialing.
Curt: I'm kind of a little bit out of time, so I'm going to start production next week. Once again, the magic of the zero point is I'm going start production, and then when I have all the CAD ready to test a piece, I can quickly swap the zero point out, run the 30 seconds I need to drill a couple holes, swap them back in, and carry on with production.
jamie peacock: Yeah,
Curt: so yeah it's Like i said i've I've drank the i've dr the Kool-Aid now.
jamie peacock: the choice of zero points.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: Yeah, zero points of magic, like they really are.
Curt: Dude. I just, I like, I knew like my brain knew what they would do, but like actually using them, you're like, ah yeah, this makes so much more sense.
jamie peacock: Yeah, actually experiencing it makes, yeah, it makes the world a difference.
Curt: I'm like, yeah. And like, and everything in CAD is like, I just draw it. And like, I don't even think about the, like um the, where the origin is. i'm like, oh yeah, the origin never changes.
Curt: I just put the models on and just carry on.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Like, yeah, it's, I see, I see why everybody moves to these.
jamie peacock: It's great.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Yeah. So I'm running those big ass rings again. So I made fixtures that fit across the harbor. When I, so I had to, I had to take one of the anchor points off because it was not unclamping and it doesn't have it. Yeah. It was a plan that I put together out of luck.
jamie peacock: I accidentally milled a slot in the wrong face on one of the bodies. So I built that one out.
Curt: okay
jamie peacock: But every every now and again, it wouldn't unclamp. And then it started getting more and more regular. So I tried to take it apart to, like I pulled it off, tried to take it a apart to service that can't get of the screws out. So was like, screw it. I've got the green one that I accidentally put a faceable 10 millimeters deep into um in the one locating foot. So I put that one on, but I used my little linking plates, put it in, put the fixtures in for what I'm doing now.
jamie peacock: they're pretty much where they were. Like I sweep the bore, so they've got a a locating bore. I don't run them off the zero. I find the zero on them because I'm taking parts, I'm flipping, I'm rotating, I'm doing all sorts of funny shit to make them fit in my machine. It needs to be exactly, exactly.
jamie peacock: Put the first fixture in and it's flat within like a couple tenths.
Curt: Sure.
jamie peacock: And when I probed the bore, I was off by 20 microns of where it was last time. Like when I indicated the ball, like, fuck, good enough.
Curt: Nice, nice.
jamie peacock: Like, so I've been running, been running that shit. But yeah, the the zero points are full of magic. a I've got to switch out to the next fixture now. And then I've got to do a brass job as well at some point over, well, the next two days.
jamie peacock: ah But this job is taking priority over everything else because I need this job out.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Like, I don't want to leave this until we move and then have problems and now we're making scrap or some shit and then unforeseen problems.
Curt: Yeah, no doubt. Well, and I'm actually the one thing I didn't think about for zero points that is also magic.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Yeah.
Curt: And this applies to like anyone, not just, not we're not just blowing smoke up your, to make you happy. um But like the fact of like, I don't have to like hang my head in the machine with like a loop to look at the part and be like, Oh, is this right? I'm like, Oh wait, I'm like, I don't have to like, I do that a few times and I'm like, wait, I don't have to get cool until my head. And i was like, unclamp it, pull it out, look at it standing upright like a human. i'm like, oh okay. Put it back in, carry on. i'm like, this is so much better.
Curt: So, yeah.
jamie peacock: I think by nine o'clock in the morning, I'd had four different fixtures in mine.
Curt: Totally. Yeah, I i get it.
jamie peacock: Because why not?
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: That's just, it's hot swappable, hot swap.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I've got material arriving this week for some of my, stuff some of my flux utility knobs.
Curt: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
jamie peacock: Um, Now I've got to figure out how to do two ops reliably in my pneumatic vase, because I have to face the material to the correct thickness. But I want machine faces of both sides.
jamie peacock: So i'm thinking of having it that it just loads them into the vase, I deck the one side, I then turn all the parts over in the tray and run a separate piece of code that picks them up, and then machines them, like does all the all the op one machining, because I was previously decking
Curt: Oh, sure.
jamie peacock: putting some locating holes and it was going on a fixture but I want to have it auto load the knives for op 1 and then put them into a fixture for op 2 so I'm going to try to figure that out I have some thoughts on how to do it I think what I'm going to do is I might put some springs in my gripper so make an option in the software I built so it will grip the part and
Curt: Right.
Curt: Right, right, right.
jamie peacock: ah release the gripper, release the part, grip the part again, and then have springs pushing down in the gripper so that it makes it sit, seats it nice and flat on the thing.
Curt: Ouch.
jamie peacock: But I'll probably just chat to some friends and see what their thoughts on that ah that idea are. And then go from there.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I also added the Bukaki mode to the thing so that it runs the coolant while it's placing the parts in the vase, while it's picking up the part from the vase and placing the part in the vase to blast any chips away.
Curt: Oh, okay. Yeah. smart Just to flush it. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so I've added that to the code. Yeah, that's ah it's getting features as I go now. As I discover I need stuff, I can add features because there options to add a flip station.
Curt: Right, right, right.
jamie peacock: But yeah, I have a way to do that. But my fourth is currently out of the machine because it's moving. So yeah, was thinking of using the fourth axis as a rope as a flip station.
Curt: Yeah, nice option for it, for sure.
jamie peacock: Yeah, I have it.
Curt: Totally, yeah.
jamie peacock: The other option is to make even smaller dovetail vice and dovetail the material on the end and then hold it in the fourth-hand machine, both sides of the knife in one go.
Curt: Oh, I see, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: But the material is only 4.5mm thick.
Curt: I was going to say, yeah like, that's going be a tuning fork.
jamie peacock: Yeah, that's the issue.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Because it needs to be 4mm when I'm done, so I ordered 4.5mm extruded bar.
Curt: i was I was actually just holding of your knives and looking. I'm like, i wonder how Jamie Machines is.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: I was wondering if you soft-jawed it or fixed your data. Yeah, interesting.
jamie peacock: fixtures always been fixtures on that are your one. I'm trying to think. um Go on the tar one that would have been machined guide clamps.
jamie peacock: So I would
jamie peacock: Yeah, I would hold it from the sides, machine out all the internal features, then clamp it from the through those internal features and then machine the outside.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: back when I did that one.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: Now the um the gen twos are was facing and putting dowel holes in the end, then that would flip over onto a fixture located with shoulder bolts, and then I'd machine all the internal features, and that would flip over and internal features would face down.
jamie peacock: And I would bolt down and then machine the perimeter on another fixture.
Curt: Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: Because I made yeah i made like 100 and some of those for IMTS last time.
Curt: Okay. I get you. Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: So I'm going to run a batch of 150 so now. It depends on how many pieces I get out of the bar.
Curt: Right, yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: And then probably make a mooring fixture so I can have a whole strip of them and it can run for a fair amount of time unattended.
Curt: Cool. Yeah, that's probably the way.
jamie peacock: So it's going to be fun.
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: Yeah, I need to... yeah I'm enjoying the spindle gripping side of things. It's just like now my machine is literally busy for almost a week on this one job.
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: I started with the parts for the material, well the material I had on hand, was like a 55 minute cycle. Then I went to the longest cycle, which is an hour and 45 minutes per part. That finished on Friday, Friday nights, I ran the last one of those.
jamie peacock: And then now I'm setting up for an hour and 20 minute cycle for nine parts and then 45 minutes for nine parts. so
Curt: That's so sick. That's awesome, dude.
jamie peacock: So should be able to burn through it relatively quickly.
Curt: That's so cool.
jamie peacock: the part yeah The part that goes in today, goes when it's done, there's 94.6% less material.
Curt: um
Curt: Wow. Cool.
jamie peacock: It's frigging nuts, yeah. um I think last time I sold off the scrap, like the the remnants. um I've actually got more remnants now because I threw away some of the pieces that I wasn't going to use.
jamie peacock: I had 100 pounds of scrap from this job, from the same...
Curt: Wow. ah
jamie peacock: Like, it's a significant amount of scrap. and then Oh, and then we packed, you so obviously we're packing up the workshop. All the material that I have on hand that has been bought for specific parts or jobs or whatever, we put in a box.
jamie peacock: There is 120 pounds worth of material that was on my shelf.
Curt: Wow. Nice. of Just scrap.
jamie peacock: Like, no, that that's just parts. Like, young yeah, yeah.
Curt: so Sorry. I mean, scrap material. Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Well, no, that's full stuff. It still needs to be machine.
Curt: Oh, shit.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Okay. Okay.
jamie peacock: And then, so I ordered, I make a thumb rest for, I think it's an STI competition gun. It's a big ass thumb rest. And I looked at it, I'm like, oh, it in 30 millimeter thick piece of material.
jamie peacock: Went to run it, nearly crashed into my vase. No, I had programmed it out of a 40 piece of material because I was slitting saw it off when I'm done. And I actually machined down 30 millimeters.
jamie peacock: I'm shit, not got to order more material. But wait, I have barnacles.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: So I'm going to dovetail the material, hold it with a million and a half underneath, machine it away.
Curt: Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: got free access around the sides and then slitting saw it off and have like a five millimeter remnants.
Curt: Oh, cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so that's, I need to now make a barnacle palette for my anchor point.
Curt: Nice.
Curt: That's awesome.
jamie peacock: Because reasons. ah Yeah, so I was, at least I can use a barnacle for that and like use the material.
Curt: Yeah, yeah. ah I like the stack up of all the things you make. Totally.
jamie peacock: Yeah, that's why I make them is so that I can do that. So I ordered material to make feet for the good way because it's currently resting on some two muffles.
Curt: Totally.
Curt: m
jamie peacock: So we're making we're making aluminium feet for it. So I ordered a four inch diameter, five inch long. And I ordered an extra two to make myself a like an L plate for that for the fourth axis with the barnacle on end of it.
Curt: sick Okay.
jamie peacock: because i've got one or two things I do where actually made dovetail vases for initially, where it would be really convenient if I could hit, if I could hold it, roate ninety rotate 90, rotate 90, I could hit all the features in one go, and then slidding saw the part off, instead of having to hold it for another op.
Curt: Cool.
Curt: Sure. Yeah.
jamie peacock: So I'm going to explore that workflow.
jamie peacock: which going to be fun.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: Yeah. And then because the because the barnacles body is tight a tolerance as it is, in theory, you could unbolted and rotate it 90 degrees.
Curt: yeah
Curt: so yeah Yeah, I suppose. Yeah.
jamie peacock: And poor man's five axis, you've now gotten you can access the other two sides.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah. yeah
jamie peacock: But yeah, on the list, on the ever-growing list of shit to do, I want to upgrade the fourth axis controller built to support bi-directional.
Curt: Okay, so you go forward, backward.
jamie peacock: So currently it only supports one direction, but I have a chip conveyor forward and a chip conveyor backwards button. So I'm thinking of making it bi-directional.
Curt: and Okay, yeah.
jamie peacock: It'll be set increments in either direction, but would be very useful to be able to run backwards. I just don't know what the backlash looks like on it because I only run in one direction.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah, yeah, fair, fair.
jamie peacock: So it becomes a bit of a bit of a thing. I also kind of want to put an MPG on it so that I can zero it easily because currently zeroing it is an absolute nightmare.
Curt: Right.
jamie peacock: You've got to go around, so 120, 120, 90, 20, 10, 1 degree, 1 degree, 1 degree, 1 degree, 0.1, 0.1, 0.1, nate twenty ten one degree one degree one degree one degree point one point one point one point solar indicator sweeps And then you overshoot it and you're like, fuck, now you're gonna go around again.
Curt: Oh. was...
jamie peacock: Yeah. So um I should probably add a thing 179 degrees or something.
Curt: as
Curt: yeah I was just going to say it reminds me of, I have a really old alarm clock that I just love and I don't get rid of. um But same thing to set the minutes on it. You can to hold the minute button. It doesn't go any faster. Like it only goes, it goes one, one, one, one. So, but same thing, you get up to like, you're like 58, 59. I like round numbers. I'm like, I want my alarm at like six o'clock or whatever. And you go six and you double hits and you go 601. You're like, no, I got to go around the horse again. like
jamie peacock: My little truck, the battery connector was just sort of reset. It's got to reset the time. It has one button. It resets your tripodometer or you hold it in and then it cycles through the 24 hour clock.
Curt: I
Curt: like this.
jamie peacock: But if you hold it, and you keep holding it, it speeds up. So like you hold it, it goes into the clock setting mode. Every time you push it it goes one minute. But if you hold it, it starts to go faster and faster.
jamie peacock: And then I overshot and i'm like, fuck this noise. So my clock was like 15 minutes fast in my car for like six months. I was like, fuck it. I'll be early for everything.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: Like the yeah the dumbest you are.
Curt: like
jamie peacock: Well, the smartest you are, but the worst user interface, like worst user experience.
Curt: My favorite is when you come across those Reddit threads of like, what is the worst UI for like a volume control? Have you ever seen those?
jamie peacock: Dude, I love them.
Curt: Dude, I love those.
jamie peacock: Yeah, complete this equation or the catapult or lean that tilt the thing and stop it.
Curt: Yeah, they're my favorite. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
jamie peacock: I'm leveling. Oh, they're so good.
Curt: Yeah. and i is
jamie peacock: i love them. Yeah, I know. They're really, really good. Okay, tell me about geeking out of about your products.
Curt: Let's see. Let's say I pick what you want.
Curt: Okay, so that's like, actually, I've had a few conversations with people this last week. Because I'll post like a so i post a super nerdy video on this fidget. um And like I'll get into his like some nitty gritty.
Curt: I don't post a ton of stories on it. I'm just busy. um But whenever I do, I always get like a ton of people that chime in. They're like, oh, they're they're like it's so cool like how like in-depth and how into it you are.
Curt: I'm like well, I want to make it go. So yeah, like I'm into it.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah. But they like more than one person was talking to me and saying like they love like they love supporting like whatever ah company, person, whatever, that like is just like into what they're doing. like Especially if like you're in the manufacturing realm of it. and that's like And then I ended up talking with... Actually, talked with a fidget things about it.
Curt: We were chatting about... um like make verse, I know my time to another thing. Yeah. Like making everything yourself verse, like outsourcing it and just how that's like, it's two different kinds of dichotomies.
Curt: Like I can talk to somebody like you or like, um, fidget things or, uh, like Titan ring or like someone that's building what they sell and they're building like every element, like within reason they're building every element of it.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Yeah.
Curt: is different than talking with somebody that like design something and then outsources it for manufacturing. It's like, you don't, I can't talk to you on the same level because you don't understand the same.
Curt: You understand how it's made and how it's machined. And like but some of these people are machinists too, but it's like, you, so you don't understand, you really don't understand the intricacies of everything.
Curt: Like building one of something is wildly different than building a hundred of something or a thousand or something.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: No, exactly.
Curt: And, uh,
jamie peacock: Well, I was on Friday, I had to go out to go buy electrical panels and stuff. So Carl was here running the good way. And I ran I ran apart finished on the LK.
jamie peacock: I'm like, dude, that I'm not leaving you to run this thing because one chip and that's it an hour and a half down the drain scrapped like literally one chip under the part and the part is scrap.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Like the thought of me handing milling over to somebody. I'm like, i don't know that I'll ever be able to do that. Like, I tend to be very pedantic about my setups.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: And yeah, sure, on certain things, it doesn't matter. But the problem is on certain things, it doesn't matter, then that creeps into things that do matter. So everything matters.
jamie peacock: And I tend to be very, very pedantic about my setups, my work holding.
Curt: Well, and like and I get it. For like a job shop, like there's certain things like in certain world like in certain job shop worlds. like Yeah, you want to build something great, but also also like if it's to print, it's good.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Who cares?
Curt: like
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: Whereas like so like for like my world, for instance, is like, yeah, I'm yeahm building something and I don't have to build it to a print, but like people are are paying me because they know I'll i'll go like above and beyond for the for the stupidness of it. And I can do that because I can justify it with price. like You couldn't do that in jobs. You can't go in the job shop world and be like, I'm going to make this better than you want it to because you're going to pay me more for it. Like they don't care. So that doesn't translate. It does in some instances. Like I'm sure you have some customers that are like, yeah, if you just blow them away there, it works. But like, anyways, it was just like, it was just kind of cool to see how many people are, how many people will like support a business or like support a make or something like that or whomever is just, just because like,
Curt: you're you're into what you make. well We've talked about a million times.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: If you like what you make, you're just going to do it better. Like, if you're even if you're just just into machining, if you just like machining parts, you're going to make better parts just because you would literally enjoy doing it.
Curt: So, yeah.
jamie peacock: You enjoy what you do, so you put in the extra effort.
Curt: Totally, yeah. And it's exactly, it takes you less. Yeah, anyways. So, it was fun. It's funny, like, getting that, like, confirmation from, like, a bunch of people. Be like, oh, okay, cool. here You like this nonsense.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Speaking about a lot of people, we have Patreons, and they make the wheels on the train go round and round.
Curt: Ooh.
Curt: Ooh.
jamie peacock: Choo-choo. Thank to all the Patreons. You guys do make the wheels on the train go round and round. um all the Patreons on the $5 and above tier get the access to the after show, where Kurt and discuss super secret things, or whatever we feel like talking about on the day.
jamie peacock: All the top tier Patreons, they get a shout out every week. And that list consists of Jade from Benchmark20, Luke from Fabtastic, AJ from Subtract Manufacturing, and 69 other companies.
jamie peacock: Jason S, EJ from Nocturnal Welding, The Ozzy Machinist, Christian Olson, Charles Watt, Kyle from Cursed Machine, Matt from Off-Wheel Gear, Alex B, John from Tursium Performance and Engine Tricks, Matt from Modern Fuel, and Josh from Leighton Machine.
Curt: hey
jamie peacock: Yeah, thank you guys, and looking forward to seeing you at IMTS with my emotional support, Kurt.
Curt: I will look through the eyes of the emotional support Kurt.
jamie peacock: We actually... We are busy planning the trip now ah of what shenanigans we planning.
Curt: Sick. Sick.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Cool, yeah, because you're doing a bit of like ah like a milk run when you come here, of like all kinds of old places.
jamie peacock: So we I think think the current plan is to fly to New York and then Danica wants to rent an RV, which I think is a stupid idea, or rent a car, and then drive through.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Ooh.
jamie peacock: I'm thinking, actually, why don't we catch a train? So spend a day two in New York, catch a train direct to Chicago, pick up a rental car there, and then head back towards Ohio.
Curt: Yep.
Curt: Good idea.
jamie peacock: and then come back to Chicago the weekend before dump the car because I'm not having a car in Chicago and we use public transport in Chicago.
Curt: Yeah, good idea.
jamie peacock: Because then we only rents your car for like four five days as well, not for a week and a half and dumping it in two different places.
Curt: I vote that.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: so yeah, she's busy planning that trip. um It's going to be fun. It's be lots of lots of fun.
Curt: Cool. Yeah, no doubt.
jamie peacock: So yeah, a bunch of shop tours and things planned.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: um Also, I wonder if Mr. Gray listens this. hope he does. You better be at IMTS. You're making my wife upset, saying you might not be there.
Curt: Ooh.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: Yeah. That would be a bummer.
jamie peacock: She will drag you by your fucking ear IMTS.
Curt: ah
jamie peacock: But yeah, there's... IMTS is going to be a blast. I'm quite excited. I have a plan because lunch at IMTS is now going to be ridiculous. So, and there's not going to anywhere to just chill, but there is.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I found a secret place last time.
Curt: Oh. Oh.
jamie peacock: So yeah, i'm lunchtime.
Curt: ah
jamie peacock: i I want to take a break, I'm just going go chill there. There's couches and stuff and a pretty view. You just walk up, go up the escalator and sit there for a bit. Because I know a lot of guys were like, the Toolpath booth was a bit of a refuge.
Curt: Oh.
jamie peacock: You could go and just get out of the noise for a bit. So there is some way you can do that.
Curt: Totally. Yeah.
jamie peacock: um Yeah, we will discuss that at the meetup. Now people are incentivized to come to the meetup.
Curt: Ooh. Now I want to come to the meetup.
jamie peacock: Yes. ah By the way, that'll be on the Monday at 2 o'clock.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: I should probably speak to Toolbox and get that all lined up.
Curt: I gotcha. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Or was just going to descend on a random booth.
Curt: yeah
Curt: i like that idea better. Just yeah pick the most.
jamie peacock: that's way more fun.
Curt: Pick whoever's is not popular.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: We'll be like, okay, we're going to bring us four people to your booth. so
jamie peacock: Oh, yeah. I had an evil thought, but I will keep that evil thought to myself for now.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so.
Curt: I
jamie peacock: um Yeah, look at my second topic.
Curt: yeah i was just going to say, crashing the LK, that doesn't sound promising.
jamie peacock: In the last week and a half, I've crashed the LK three times.
Curt: Really? That's not good.
jamie peacock: No, not at all. But yeah, I've got so much shit on the mind with the move. The first time i I just totally forgot to set the work ordinance. Luckily, i had done something in that vice previously. It was just a different heart.
jamie peacock: um It was fine. I just mushed a bit of aluminum. I then, and ah honestly can't tell you why I crashed into a piece of brass on Thursday night.
jamie peacock: I loaded in a tool. It had the correct tool offset, but the value was wrong.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: and there's no reason that like that is the tool so i don't know what the fuck happened there if i touched with the wrong tool yeah i don't know it was like 50 millimeters shorter and ended up scrapping a 40 piece of brass which i was a little pissed about um but again i think that it comes down to i didn't my tool tag for that tool had broken and i can't i couldn't get orange filaments so i haven't printed new tool tags because i want them to be color-coded so yeah um and then i crashed into oh wait that one oh no sorry that that that one was a tool break detector issue which we'll discuss shortly um and then crashed into a piece of tool steel where the the tool offset was wrong and i don't know why i literally can't tell you why um it's tool 403 it's a four millimeter end mill it's always been that in that specific end mill
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Don't have any idea why the fuck it was 70 mils set up in the machine, a 70, not 120. Like, I have no fucking idea. I literally smoked a holder and a collet. The ER11 collet shattered in the tool holder.
Curt: Oh,
jamie peacock: It came into a piece of tool steel at 24 meters a minute.
Curt: no.
jamie peacock: Yeah, it plunged. It was fine. The machine's okay. But yeah, it hurt my soul. a lot.
Curt: Oh, yeah, those those are brutal.
jamie peacock: Because it's it should not be a fucking thing. It shouldn't be a thing. And it is.
Curt: Yeah, well, that's that's the worst, is if you don't know why it happened, that's waste scarier.
jamie peacock: Yeah, like I looked at offset.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I'm like, what the fuck just happened? Looked at the offset. I'm like, this makes absolutely no sense. That tool has never been in the short holder. Like, ah I don't know why it is a shorter tool.
Curt: Huh.
jamie peacock: Like, yeah, fucking wild. So yeah, don't know. But anyway, the the piece of brass that I scrapped, my tool break macro works beautifully if it's the at the end of a tool in my program.
jamie peacock: If I want a tool break check in the middle of a tool,
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: So my tool break macro disables the tool offset retracts home, then does the tool break detect, and then reloads the offset and hit all reloads the work offset and it's go doesn't load the tool offset.
Curt: Right.
jamie peacock: And fusion by default, doesn't know that you've done anything because it's the same tool. So I added in a single line saying D1. And now that is solved.
Curt: Fair. Yeah. Okay.
jamie peacock: Yeah, I was like, Oh, cool. To the past two minutes, let it carry on. Started walking to my office and and then there were a few swear words and a few things thrown and you know, the normal stuff.
Curt: o Oh,
Curt: yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: That was at nine o'clock at night, I was setting up to let the thing finish surfacing for three hours.
Curt: Oh.
jamie peacock: And yeah let it surface for an hour and do the rough surfacing and went to bed and was like, fuck this noise.
Curt: Oh.
jamie peacock: Had a look in the morning and I'd actually broken the brass away from an inside feature and like indented it. So it's now scrap. And yeah, let's order another piece of brass to do the job.
Curt: Oh, bummer.
jamie peacock: very very annoying and like yeah could have been avoided but my tool break macro worked i was confident in it but i don't normally tool break detect because it was a long tool i didn't want to spend another 15 minutes um finishing the outside of the part if the tool wasn't there so i threw a tool break to detect on it and uh yeah then crashed but getting all these stupid things figured out and uh yeah at some point everything will be fixed
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Sure. Yeah.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: But yeah, um it was a bit annoying. And now only have one more of those end mills.
Curt: Are those?
jamie peacock: Because it's a two two millimeter with a 22 millimeter reach. Like a reduced neck end mill, yeah.
Curt: Okay. Okay.
jamie peacock: But anyway, it is what it is, I guess.
Curt: At least, I mean, yeah.
Curt: Yeah, like, well, yeah, I can't go back in time. Yeah, I can't control Z at as much as we want to.
jamie peacock: Yeah, exactly. But it won't happen again because we have now fixed that macro.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: That's, yeah, that's good.
jamie peacock: And the problem is the macro was fine until this weird edge case. And this is the edge case that are addressed by having my tool break macro when it's called infusion, it calls the TBD sub program and then puts it to the current work offset afterwards.
Curt: Right.
jamie peacock: Because the same thing would happen if you
Curt: Yeah, yeah,
jamie peacock: If you did it in the middle of ah of and ah of the same tool, or two operations with the same tool, it wouldn't go back into the correct work offset. So now fixed that, but I didn't think to call the fucking tool offset.
Curt: yeah fair
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah, that's, well, yeah, i did that's a problem.
jamie peacock: Stupid things. But...
Curt: It's like, that's that's our whole world. It's like, everything has to be perfect or, I mean, yeah, you can mess up and like crash, like by like going high.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: That's not not a scary crash, but like, that's the thing is like out of the thousands and thousands of lines of code, you have one, you delete one wrong thing.
jamie peacock: That's fine, yeah.
Curt: it's just like, bad news bears.
jamie peacock: Yeah. But yeah, luckily the LK's B-stander didn't really notice that any of that happened. So,
Curt: That's good, yeah. ah Z crashes are always scary, so.
jamie peacock: yeah. So I looked at the the error log because... What was I doing? came in in the morning. wow I was doing something through the night. And I think it was that brass part. I left it to run.
jamie peacock: And it was meant to turn off at like 11 or 12 o'clock at night. I woke up at 3 in the morning. Let me just check the machines off. machine was still on. fuck So I just remotely killed the power.
jamie peacock: Went in in the morning, opened the error logs. And you could see where that Z crash was, where the the spindle overloaded and the machine went into e-stop. So like you can see all in the aerologues, the machine will detect something's not right and it'll just kill the drives.
Curt: oh
Curt: Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah
jamie peacock: I'm going to say the Siemens is really good at not murdering itself to death.
Curt: yeah. Yeah, that's good.
jamie peacock: ah job It's pretty good at that. You don't really want to be doing that, but it's pretty good at it.
Curt: Yeah, I know. i remember when Harrison was talking about just absolutely murking tools on his, when he said like the one, yeah, we're just like, boom, tool broke.
jamie peacock: And let's do so.
Curt: Boom, another tool.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: You're like, oh, and just watching watching the replay after it happened on the camera.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: It's like, no.
jamie peacock: Yeah, the tool break that getting the tool break working properly is critical for not for running unattended.
Curt: oh
jamie peacock: Like, you need to know that if there's a problem, the machine is going to stop.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: And kind of important.
Curt: yeah Yeah. He's super important. Yeah.
jamie peacock: So I was actually I was speaking to the guys, the the first job that I ran on the spindle gripper. um I spoke to them, they need like another 84 parts. i'm like, okay, fuck, I'm not gonna bother automating it to the degree I was going to.
jamie peacock: Because in another 80 parts, I'll just run the same way I ran I made 80 parts, I was making another eight, I think they need another 84. I'll just run it the same way. Like there's no point in adding fourth axis complexity to it to tilt the parts so I can do just fucking yeah.
Curt: Yeah, totally.
jamie peacock: not worth the effort but i do want to get my fourth axis indexing my vase at some point that'd be cool because then i can hit three sides with a single spindle gripping operation which would be would be kind cool would actually be very useful for the um for the barnacles then i could put in all critical well almost all critical geometry in one operation
Curt: Yeah, that'd be useful. Yeah.
Curt: that'd be pretty sick. Yeah, that'd be really cool.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: Then it's just the top. So then I'd bolt to a fixture just to the tops. But I need to rework my workflow there anyway.
Curt: I
jamie peacock: That's on the agenda for this coming week after the move.
Curt: was going say, yeah, just throw it on your key
jamie peacock: Well, after the move and then and the retrofit and all the other crap that's going on.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: Because I got an email from a customer last week Saturday and restrained myself from responding immediately. Because if I'd responded immediately, we wouldn't have a customer anymore.
jamie peacock: because they irked me that much. So I then typed a response on like Wednesday and put it through Claude and like, please do a tone check on this. And it's like, this is a firm and assertive. I'm like, no, want it to be angry and fuck you-ish, but okay.
jamie peacock: And just clarifying a few things with them because their interdepartment communication is not great. So they're like oh we've paid you in full for the retrofit. Why are you dragging your feet? like, no, dickheads. You paid for the parts. You have not paid a cent in fucking labor.
jamie peacock: Like, I'm telling you when I can schedule it in, you dragged your feet for three months on this job, and now you want it done in a week, get fucked. In that time, other shit has happened, and I have stuff to do that isn't your dumb shit.
jamie peacock: So, yeah. Trying to be nice about it, but that's my next weekend, which might we might have to push recording a day, because I'm going to be in hearties.
Curt: Yeah, no sweat. No sweat.
jamie peacock: I don't know my internet connection will be like there.
Curt: Yeah, no sweat. let me know. Not an issue.
jamie peacock: I get to go wire up a machine in hopefully less than 40 hours so I can still build them all 60 because they wanted me to work over the weekend. So it's time and half.
Curt: Yeah, these retrofits sound like they can go bye-bye. I don't think they're the...
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: I don't think you're ever happy when you're talking about them.
jamie peacock: There's a decent amount of money in it. That's why I still tolerate it.
Curt: I figured, but yeah.
jamie peacock: But yeah, if I can kind of over it at this point.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Like, I'm trying to make sure there's no surprises on this one.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Like, no unforeseen shit, but... There will be we know this. um Like I bought the electrical cabinet for it this week, I need to throw the drives into the cabinets, and they get all that prepped so that I can go screw the cabinets of fucking machine, run all the cabling and get the master put in, I'm just going to eat everything out there's a there's a your scour server that I want to keep.
jamie peacock: There's other servers that I'm just going to bin the fucking things because there's some weird communication protocol, dude, these machines, every one of them has like six different communication protocols. That's fucking wild.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: Like, it's absolutely wild what these people have done on these machines. So I'm just going to go gut the fucking thing and get it working. And then good luck if you ever need to service it. Because I ain't documenting shit.
Curt: it's All one color a wire. Yeah, the Jamie special.
jamie peacock: 100% go with the fucking multimeter dickhead and figure out what the fuck's happening.
Curt: ah
jamie peacock: Like, zero fucks killing.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah, a good way to marry yourself to the project.
jamie peacock: Like, if you can't figure it out, if you can't figure it out, you shouldn't be poking at it.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah, fair.
jamie peacock: I don't have electrical drawings when I start poking at it. So if you don't have electrical drawings, figure it the fuck out. a yeah Jamie special.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: but john Also, fortunately, I can just want to get fucked afterwards and figure it out. Find someone else to figure it out.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: It's a Masso.
Curt: Well, that helps.
jamie peacock: It's not hard. Yeah.
Curt: Yeah, that helps.
jamie peacock: It's a Masso. The Masso talks to the four drives that are all the same fucking brand and the same communication protocol.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Like, it's not fucking hard.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: like, yeah there's the skyward drive, which I probably could reuse.
Curt: Yeah. But fair.
jamie peacock: But I've now got to go through the parameters and change it to work on a different protocol. But if I can use it, I could deal with that later. um The Yeah, that runs on motion link, I think, then other stuff is on a can some variants of canvas, the spindle VFD is communicating over profibus, and then there's IO link for the pneumatics.
jamie peacock: it's It's fucking wild.
Curt: Sick. All right. ah
jamie peacock: So, yeet all that shit, and just throw a simple valve block in that works with relays, and everything is step in direction because it's a maso.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Fucking done.
Curt: Yeah. No, way to go. For sure.
jamie peacock: Yeah, easy mode. Yeah. But yeah, that's next weekend's endeavor, and then I will swear a lot.
jamie peacock: It's going to be great. ah yeah so when are you, why are you getting your eyes checked?
Curt: Good luck.
jamie peacock: Did you get coolants in your eyes, Kurt?
Curt: No, but this is like a ah good public service to anybody listening. um if you If you don't have your eyes checked, go do it. ah We rely on our eyes, kind of forget that they're really important. If I like no ah not have good eyes, that's perfect English.
Curt: I can't do my work, just like if I don't have my fingers.
jamie peacock: Yeah, perfect.
Curt: like actually a total aside, that's how I was going to build the fence. And then I started weighing the risks. I'm like, Hey, I'm like, I kind of forget like when I do things like stupid manual labor, like building a fence, I'm like, I'm putting my hands at risk and my hands are like crucial to the work I do. I'm like, if I F up my hands, I F up my livelihood. So I'm like, anyways, um,
Curt: Aside from that, I went and got my eyes checked because I haven't been to an eye doctor in like decades. And it's covered here. So it's like, why don't I just go?
jamie peacock: You might as well, yeah.
Curt: It's like it's paid for. Yeah. um So anyways, I went um because my my littlest one, she has some like just envision issues um and she has little glasses and I try to put them on. They're tiny.
Curt: And I'm like, oh, I'm like, everything is so crisp. And then my wife's like, um maybe you should go to the eye doctor. i'm like, OK. ah So it's got an eye exam. And yeah, I'm farsighted. I'm 38 i think um it's pretty common to start getting farsighted i'm not farsighted enough to require glasses um but yeah it's kind of cool and also um i haven't been to doctor in forever the shit they have the technology that they have nowadays is mind-blowing like had these like they it's a machine and i like everybody probably knows this but like you look into it and they have like lasers that scan your eyes and then cameras that image the back of your retinas and like
jamie peacock: dude
Curt: they could show like the lens shape of my eye and show like how ah just the coolest shit. i'm like, wow, technology has jumped a lot since I've last been here. So anyways.
jamie peacock: Yeah. So I went with Danica when she got goggles because ah she used to have glasses.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: She refused to wear them because that's told her she looks like Harry Potter. um
Curt: Good idea.
jamie peacock: And it's strange as she's near sorted.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So like reading here is not a problem. But yeah, that's not great. So we went to go class on like that technology is cool. And then my site was going a little while ago.
jamie peacock: But I kept getting coolant in my eyes. And as soon as I stopped doing that, my vision back within two weeks was back to what it was.
Curt: It's not good, yeah.
Curt: Oh, yeah, okay.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so but I know both my parents had glasses.
Curt: Yeah, that's...
jamie peacock: So I'm gonna probably need goggles at some point.
Curt: Yeah. Well, like, it's funny. The doctor was like super like, he's like, oh, he's like, well, you might need glasses. I'm like, okay, fuck it. Like, I'll get glasses. He's like, well, he's like, why are you so like not opposed to getting glasses? I'm like, I wear goggles. Like I wear safety glasses all day.
Curt: I'm like, if it's a different form of glass on my face, I don't care. I'm like, if I could, if it's better, I'm fine with it. he's like oh He's like, oh, okay. Like, I don't know.
Curt: You don't got to sell me on this.
jamie peacock: getting old man glasses guaranteed when I need glasses they're gonna be the big fucking old man glasses
Curt: Oh, yeah. Sick.
jamie peacock: 100%.
jamie peacock: If I want to wear those things, they must work as safety glasses as well.
Curt: That's
jamie peacock: Because the J-Suite policy has blinked a lot.
Curt: what I was thinking too. was like...
jamie peacock: I fucking hate safety glasses.
Curt: Yeah, yeah. I just... I mean, I've gotten used to wearing them, but yeah, it's the same thing. i was like, I need monster ones so I can just use them as safety glasses, but... Then you start looking like a rapist, but hey, whatever.
jamie peacock: 100%. Eh, it's fine. Get a van. Fucking win it.
Curt: Yeah, exactly. Exactly. already live by a school. Problem solved.
jamie peacock: Well, there we go.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah. yeah Get a van, put free candy on the side, go pick your daughters up from school with that.
Curt: Oh, super creepy.
Curt: It's a great idea. Yeah. And the neighborhood is going to love me.
jamie peacock: You're the neighborhood will love that.
Curt: um So ah ah how, why, are why are you embracing the unicorn vomit in your PC case?
jamie peacock: So I finally ah finally got a new PC case because I had that little Lee and Lee case that had a very proprietary power supply that died. So I had an ATX power supply next to my RTX case on my shelf.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: And with the move, i don't want to leave the PCs at the workshop just because they will get liberated. um So I bought... deep cool something or other like really compact little um mini mini atx case for myself and for call and then i put in a fan and it's a rainbow vomit fan so i enabled rainbow rainbow vomit mode so yeah i came to the dark side yeah so it's rgb fan with rgb controller so i was like why the fuck not and then i was i was bored so i built cole's pc as well
Curt: Heck yeah. yeah
Curt: Works better.
Curt: Yeah. Oh, exactly. Yeah.
Curt: Oh, nice.
jamie peacock: I was going get him to build it and then I'm like, I'm fucking bored.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: Let me build it. Because I had hour long cycle times. So I quickly put it together, put Windows 10 on it, bought a key. I'm now waiting for it to prompt us to upgrade to Windows 11. Yeah,
Curt: Ah, fair, yeah. hey bi
jamie peacock: that way you get a legitimate version of Windows 11. But yeah, he took it home, installed Fusion, so it's ready to go. Ended up buying him a motherboard with Wi-Fi on it so that we don't have to plug it. It's one less cable to plug in every day.
Curt: Fair. Yeah, totally.
jamie peacock: because obviously with it with it coming and going we needed to be yeah, so I'm thinking of just buying a USB three hub and then having the hub mounts to the desk you plug your flash drives should it to today it's one plug for the hub one plug for the screen and one plug for the power and you you set up for the day.
Curt: Right. Yeah.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: So yeah, I think that's what we'll both end up doing.
Curt: That's probably ideal. Yeah.
jamie peacock: But yeah, we're gonna finish our desks first.
Curt: Yeah. Then LAN parties at lunch.
jamie peacock: I actually want to get a picnic table to put off the back so that we can go outside the workshop to have lunch.
Curt: That's nice. Yeah, that feels good.
jamie peacock: Yeah, because we've got quite a lot of space at the back. So it's either that or it's going to be AstroTurf with a little kiddies pool and a deck chair and an umbrella.
Curt: ah Sick. I like this.
jamie peacock: I'm good with that too. Yeah. So I like our little kitchenette now. We've got a little panini press. We've got a coffee machine. We've got microwave, kettle, all these things. We're building out our thing. We don't have any teaspoons, though. So take the the thing of instant coffee, like into your cup with sugar, put milk and then go grab a random socket extension and stir it with socket extension.
Curt: It's awesome.
jamie peacock: Yeah, because we we not moved in yet.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: So it's like we haven't taken through cutlery and shit. We've just taken what needs to be there.
Curt: I get it, yeah.
jamie peacock: My cousin actually had ah the panini press delivered to us yesterday with the checker 6060.
Curt: the
jamie peacock: She ordered one for us. So we could have toasted sandwiches for lunch because we discovered there's a Pakistani store on the corner that makes hot chips like fries and they're delicious and cheap.
Curt: Nice. but
Curt: Okay, yeah.
jamie peacock: So we are actively avoiding them because we're going get fat as fuck.
Curt: Hmm.
Curt: Fair. Fair, yeah. They're cheap and close.
jamie peacock: So we're avoiding them.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yes, it's a problem.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: And then, you put the doorbell in um and we're playing with different tones.
Curt: Oh, I heard this. I heard this.
jamie peacock: I was told I need to now make it whale noises or something because it's nautical work holding.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So I'm to see, I'm going open it and see if I can flash different, different audio to it.
Curt: yeah
Curt: Yeah, perfect. Good thing to do to with your spare time.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: 100% perfectly good use of my time. Fucking everything needs to be meme tactical.
Curt: Exactly.
jamie peacock: Meme tech.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: mean tech Fuck words are hard. Okay, I'm not gonna try to say that anymore because I can't actually figure it out. But yeah, I have a label maker. So the toilet brush is getting not for rectal use put on it.
Curt: oh Awesome. I love that.
jamie peacock: Yeah, the the workshop is going to be wild with the the labels and shit. Because obviously when machines are running, you have time to do dumb shit.
Curt: I keep...
Curt: so yeah Yeah, exactly. exactly
jamie peacock: So still need to go get the talking stick. But I'll just order that online.
Curt: I told my wife about the talking stick. She was she very much enjoyed it.
jamie peacock: Yes.
jamie peacock: It's going be great.
Curt: She enjoyed the concept, not the stick. but maybe the stick to I don't know.
jamie peacock: Well, I'm thinking of putting it and then using a piece of polycarb so you can't actually get to the feeling stick.
Curt: Who knows?
jamie peacock: Feeling stick.
Curt: It's nice.
jamie peacock: Break glass in case of emergency. Caution. Bulletproof glass.
Curt: You got to get like one of those old like ah like float glass, like just ah like an inch thick piece of glass over the top of it.
jamie peacock: Oh, jeez.
Curt: people can be like, wait, what? Like you better wail on it.
jamie peacock: no no feelings yeah bitches
Curt: Yeah. like Yeah, exactly.
jamie peacock: either the shop is uh the shop move is becoming a it's coming together finally like it's been i mean we've only had the shop for 14 days like since we since we've had access to it and shit has happened it just it's happening slower than i would like
Curt: Sick.
Curt: Sure.
Curt: Yeah, well, that's...
jamie peacock: But we've also been busy, like though the good ways made close on a thousand parts in the last couple of days with Carl running it. So it's not like we're doing nothing. It's just, yeah, trying to squeeze in the shop stuff between and after and whatnot.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: ah Yeah, it's a lot. Yeah, exactly.
jamie peacock: Yeah. So tell me about these, the rubber that you are trying to machine.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: Oh, not machine, lazy.
Curt: So I... Yeah, I still to some videos for this ah laser pecker laser here. So i was like, you know what? A really easy one. Like I need to replace my stamp. My stamp is stamped thousands and thousands of boxes. So like, I'm going to just re-laser I can laser it on my CO2.
Curt: um But i was like, I'll laser on this and I can film some content and boom, that's done. um So it's as because has a diode. It's a fiber, but it also has a diode base in it. So I tried just using the diode and I tweaked with it for an after, like I don't maybe an hour or two trying to get settings that worked. And like I got settings that worked. um But then I started looking at like the frequencies and yeah, like CO2s are just, they just act absolutely stomp all over everything when it comes to rubber.
Curt: Like when you start lasering rubber.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So you could definitely do on like a diode did it just fine.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Like if you were, if this is all you had, you could absolutely make stamps with it. um But when you have a CO2, it's just like, oh, the frequency is just so much better, so much more well suited to like be absorbed by rubber.
Curt: was like, yeah, I'm not even gonna, not even gonna mess with this anymore. Like I've messed with it enough and it's just like, yeah, it doesn't, it doesn't hold a candle.
jamie peacock: So there's a company locally, well, locally they're bringing shit from China. They do a stamp laser machine where they've got a 40 watt tube vertical and then the lens just below the end and the table moves like a milling machine because it only needs to be able to do like a four inch by four inch area.
Curt: Oh, okay.
Curt: Oh, wild.
Curt: Sure. Yeah.
jamie peacock: So the whole machine is like a foot by foot, but fucking tall.
Curt: Yeah. yeah
jamie peacock: And then you put your part in, it's go it goes, chiji chiji chi it does the thing.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: It's really fucking cool.
Curt: That's kind of a cool ah concept. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, like a much smaller than ah than a normal CO2 laser. So you can have a really small shop making custom snaps.
Curt: That's interesting. Well, yeah, like as I said, everyone buys like the cheap K40 lasers and that's what they're built for is stamps.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: That's why their table is so weird on them.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: But still, they're they're monsters compared to the little one foot square foot. So, yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: Yeah, it's a really cool idea. I saw them on their site once before. i don't know if this will do that. Oh, we also figured out where to put the laser in the new shop.
Curt: Hmm.
Curt: Oh, OK. You are going to bring it instead of just leave it here.
jamie peacock: Yes. yeah I'm going to bring I need it.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I use it on a very regular basis. It's going to go in the kitchenette slash bathroom. There's a section against the wall that I'm going run an exhaust straight out the window.
Curt: Perfect.
jamie peacock: So with a pretty big blower, so we shouldn't have too much smoke in there. And then if you make a really stinky poo, turn on the laser and it'll extract as well.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: I like this.
jamie peacock: No, I'm, I'm trying to figure where we can put it that it's not going to be in the way it's not going to get covered in shit like I'm just trying to trying to figure out where the best place to put these things is.
Curt: Well,
Curt: So the bathroom might not be the best place if you want to avoid it being covered in shit.
jamie peacock: Well, yeah, fair enough. But yeah, I think it's the best place that's got actual small windows for ventilation.
Curt: Fair. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Because ventilation is kind of important and I don't want it in the anodizing room because that generates hydrogen.
Curt: Ooh. Yeah. Those are a scary combo. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, that would be a really, really bad combo. So, yeah, I need to still plan on moving the Anno setup. That I haven't even given any thought to moving that yet. Like, I want to get the main stuff moved and then, okay, cool, today we're moving Anno. And then drain everything.
jamie peacock: Probably just scrap the acid and mix a new batch when I get to the new place. um
Curt: Yeah, otherwise.
jamie peacock: Get, like, change all the fittings on the chillers and stuff because they get eaten, the nylon gets degraded by the acid fumes. to the point that after about a year, the fitting breaks off and contaminates your acid with cooling water.
Curt: Oh, okay.
Curt: Right, i remember when that I remember that happened to you, yeah.
jamie peacock: Yes. So I want to get out ahead of that now, and then i think I'm just gonna build an actual workbench, just a twobar four workbench that the ammo stuff sits on. So I can pull it away from the walls if I want.
Curt: so okay, yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: to But that's a whole there's a problem for another day.
Curt: Yeah, yeah. I know I want to i want to redo my Anno setup too for the same kind of dumb reasons just to make life easier.
jamie peacock: No. Yeah.
Curt: so
jamie peacock: your whole your whole Tupperware.
Curt: Dude, yeah, my whole top world, it's not it's not hard, but i want like I want better fume extraction. that there's fumes coming off it, but like I also do that Entropic and there's nasty fumes for that.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: and just like Yeah, I just want a better system.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: so Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so I've got I've got um a little weed growing fan that runs 24 seven above the ano setup to prevent acid fumes from getting everywhere.
Curt: Hmm.
Curt: Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: Like, that wasn't on yesterday, which concerns me a little bit, but I'm sure it'll be fine. um The tank was closed.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: But, yeah, like, when I move to the new place, there's a few changes i want to make. Like, that acid tank is going to be right under the window. that That gets extracted out.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: And then i think I might put a bigger fan as well.
Curt: What acid is it? Ooh, yes.
jamie peacock: Sulfuric. No? Yes, sulfuric, I think.
Curt: Yeah, so the a bad one for a machine shop.
jamie peacock: Natriacin, yeah, sulfuric.
Curt: Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: very bad run for a machine job so that that extraction helps a hell of a lot um yeah there's a lid on the mostly closed lid on the tank uh it doesn't close because there's a heat uh heat exchanger sticking out the top of it but yeah here's what it i will move it to the new shop build custom tables and all that shit um
Curt: Yeah, yeah.
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: Yeah, I'm looking forward to moving. The only issue I have with moving the Anno set up there is my really nice timer. I can't just glance at it anymore because the Anno is going to be in a room.
Curt: Oh, I see. Okay.
jamie peacock: Yeah, that's not only the only really annoying fucking bit with it. ah might well What I do now is if I'm running Anno and i want to come inside, I just see, okay, cool, it's got 25 minutes left, set a 22-minute timer on my phone.
Curt: Yeah. Yep, yep, yep.
jamie peacock: And then it goes beep beep beep and I can go back. So I might just do something similar or buy a little timer that I can just walk with. Or walk down to my desk, set for 20 minutes, hit go, and then know that when that thing goes beep beep beep, I need fuck off back upstairs.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: It's probably a wise idea.
jamie peacock: Because, yeah, i don't want to send Anno out. It scares me. I'm sending Anno out. I've got two trays of parts have to go to Anno, but nothing on them is critical, so it's fine.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: because anodizers can't be trusted.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Fact of science.
Curt: Yeah. I think that's universal across the world.
jamie peacock: Yep. Oh, yeah, I guess we covered that topic. ah Yeah, I'm busy making lots of aluminum rings, and they are coming out fucking dead nuts on SARS.
Curt: Sick.
jamie peacock: It's great.
Curt: That's awesome. Yeah, because that's big.
jamie peacock: Like on thickness, we would, yeah.
Curt: those are You say aluminum ring, or yeah ah but they're not like they're big. They're not rings.
jamie peacock: ah Yeah, they have 499 diameter on the one, on the biggest one.
Curt: They're like the huge.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: And then it's 375, 420, and 350, I think. Yeah, they're not small.
Curt: Yeah, so big rings. yeah Yeah.
jamie peacock: Making diameter ring on travel machine.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: yeah Right, yeah, yeah. A ship in a bottle. Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, fucking winning.
Curt: Sick.
jamie peacock: But I've got that. That actually works really, really well. um The way I index it with the holes and what not a fucking, you can barely see where the, where the joint is and it's getting bonded into a carbon fiber fiberglass thing anyway. So it doesn't matter.
Curt: Sick. Sick.
jamie peacock: because I've got all the assembly drawings as well. So was having a look and making sure because one part picked up a small thing and I'm like, where's this on the part? Like, don't know. It's getting bonded and it'll be fine.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I didn't want to remake it.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: Because, yeah, i get 10 pieces out of a sheet of aluminium and I have nine more pieces to deliver. So I want to make sure I can get them out of one more sheet and don't end up with an additional sheet of material that I have no use for.
Curt: Right. Right. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah. So try to just try to be on it with that.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: And then, ah yeah, last thing there, the barnacles are available on the website along with the risers for a ROWA and fifty two milliere
Curt: Sick.
Curt: Those are very economically priced too.
jamie peacock: Yeah, they are pretty well priced. um I felt bad charging more than that, so we'll see.
Curt: I, I think you could, like, I don't, I don't want to, I don't want you to tell you what to do, but I think you could charge more.
jamie peacock: Yes, but
jamie peacock: yeah, but also looked at cycle time and all the other factors and i'm like, yeah.
Curt: But
Curt: yeah.
jamie peacock: I'd rather have them cheaper than more people can get them, like that people can, because the shipping is also not the cheapest, but
Curt: No, it's,
Curt: Fair, fair, fair.
jamie peacock: shipping is $30. It's not the end of the world. um We'll see on the first batch that goes out if I eat shit on shipping, then I'm gonna have to adjust to shipping.
Curt: Oh, that's reasonable.
jamie peacock: um But I'm willing to roll the dice on it. And a ideally, I want someone that's got a little tall mark in the garage to not not think twice about buying one and trying to dovetail work on.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: And if, yeah, if that's the angle you're going for, your price hits it because it's a very non...
jamie peacock: It's it. Yeah.
Curt: Yeah, like it's enough where you're going to be I'll buy a handful of them, not just like one.
jamie peacock: Well, yeah, I've got options about one, two or three as a as a drop down.
Curt: Okay, nice.
jamie peacock: The price gets better if you buy three.
Curt: Oh, wow. Jesus.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so if you buy three, d they come down by five, $5 per unit, I think.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: So it's actually a lot of pricing is. um I set it up like a week ago and I forgot.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: So I give you about one. It's I want to say $50 $45 each three each.
Curt: That's ridiculous. and For what it is. Like, they're nice too.
jamie peacock: It's a fucking tiny block of element. Yeah, they look pretty too.
Curt: Oh, I can't spell apparently. I'm trying to spell. No, not night call work holding.
jamie peacock: Well.
Curt: Whatever. I will type this later.
jamie peacock: That's fucking great.
Curt: I have a dumb project I kind of want to get him for, but we'll see.
jamie peacock: There will be a...
Curt: We'll see.
jamie peacock: Come to the dark side.
Curt: I'm just trying to avoid the dumb project, but it's enticing me. So...
jamie peacock: I'll outcompete... Yeah, $50. And then if you buy two, it's $90. If you buy three, it's $120.
Curt: Yeah, that's a good deal. That's good deal. Go buy them, folks.
jamie peacock: And I've made it that when you buy them, the CAD models get emailed to you the same time.
Curt: Ooh.
jamie peacock: So that you've got the CAD model for if you want to put it into your ah custom work holding story and also the material prep model gets sent.
Curt: Nice. Nice.
jamie peacock: Yeah. And then I've got that riser, the 47 millimeter high riser that's going that got to make some of those again quickly because I put them for sale.
Curt: Cool. Cool.
jamie peacock: I have material. I haven't made any of them yet. because I've been making rings. So that gets made before the machine gets decommissioned because that needs to ship out on Wednesday.
Curt: as
Curt: Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha Cool
jamie peacock: Yeah, so I don't know what color I'm gonna do. I might do orange and blue combo there or gray and blue combo. The barnacles blue but the ones are yeah, don't know.
Curt: ah Those look good Yeah Cool Cool, cool Yeah, that sucks That sucks
jamie peacock: And then yeah, I've got a whole bunch of particles that are going in the bin because my setup was stupid.
jamie peacock: yeah i was marking them and it's a bunch of them basically didn't push them flat enough when i tarted the flux fast so now i'm gonna i'm actually gonna bolt them to a pallet and then machine them that way i know they are correct so just need to make that palette and then we'll be good
Curt: that's That's probably ideal. That's probably the best way. Yeah.
jamie peacock: but it's the way they're going to be mounted then they're held in the way they're going to be mounted and i know it's going to be decently reliable so
Curt: That's the thing I noticed too with this like this vice of these fuck vices I'm using. i use them for all the production on the fidget. is like They're fantastic for repeating. They hold work great, but I can also clamp work not like not set.
Curt: It's basically a soft job functioning it as. I can clamp the work and it not be in there.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: All the way down, yeah.
Curt: but just be yeah we're like You can't quite see it, but enough that it's like, oh, this is a useless part now. and just like All I had to do was tap it in. but yeah
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Anyway.
jamie peacock: So, I know it's just the same thing, but yeah, it is what it is I will tweak. I'm still going use the flux fast for up three and four for the side holes because if they're out all layouts, it really doesn't matter.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: um so for the and also there's no sharp corner because of the fast got the chamfers the big chamfers it'll seat really nicely yeah so i think i have a ah workaround for that and then yeah it turns out my pneumatic vice is only being fed four bar not uh or five bar not the eight bar of the system pressure
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Fair.
jamie peacock: Because of where I tapped it, it's after the regulator for the machine.
Curt: Oh, why's that?
jamie peacock: So I'm going to just re-tap where it gets tapped from, and then that'll solve that problem.
Curt: Gotcha.
jamie peacock: But I'll do that when I move. I'll have a bit better access there, and then I can re-plumb it, and then I'll have more holding force. But I also want to put a regulator in line so that I can adjust the clamping pressure, um so that if I want to fuck with it, I can turn the pressure down or turn it up or do whatever I need to do.
Curt: Nice. Nice.
jamie peacock: So I'm trying to find a regulator that fits in a 22mm cutout for like a button because I've got a bunch of punch outs in the front of the machine. So I wanted to put a gauge and a knob there, but finding them small enough is really not super easy.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah. I wonder looking a car or a car, um, like people, cause I noticed they have, they have tons of gauges for like tiny gauges for that, but I don't know if it would be a nice in your range of pressure.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Well, the other option is to put ah an inline pressure regulator in just next to the bus with a little gauge.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I can buy one off of AliExpress for next to FACO. So might just do that.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: And then I can adjust it right there.
Curt: Yeah. Fair.
jamie peacock: Because I was thinking I actually want to move my vacuum gauge from above the machine to right next to my vacuum chuck or to the manifold. Because the if I have an open line, I still pull negative 0.6.
jamie peacock: just due to restrictions in the mines and whatever.
Curt: Sure. Yeah.
jamie peacock: So if it's right at the vacuum chuck, it'll give me an indication very accurately if there's a leak or not.
Curt: Oh, I see. Okay. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So I might just put one there instead.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: um Or replumb. Yeah. I don't really want to run another airline into the machine. I already have six of them.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: yeah yeah you got your fair share yeah yeah
jamie peacock: Yeah. I've got a bunch of airlines going into my machine. And then also the tool break the detect one. So yeah, lots of shit running in.
Curt: yeah cool dude oh yeah okay Kyle Kirk yeah
jamie peacock: Cool. And then ah lastly, what's your weight update, Carl? Carl? Kurt. Sorry. Yeah.
Curt: So, because I know AJ is also fighting his bus.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: He's going, he's he's trying to go down. I'm trying to go up. So yeah, I was like stagnant for a long ass time. And then I started to realize that I probably should just eat more again. because that seems to be, yeah, yeah, exactly.
jamie peacock: Eat more shit less.
Curt: You're like, i don't know if you're, if you're losing weight, like diet, if you're not, if you're trying to gain weight, diet, it's always diet. It's never like effort. Anyways. um So yeah, going back up now, started eating more again and then just yeah hitting the gym hard again.
Curt: And yeah. what do you know? It ah it works out. Just like ah like I said, the magic secret. It's just effort and diet. so
jamie peacock: Yep.
Curt: Anyways, so I think a lot of...
jamie peacock: Yep. Kurt's on his bulking trip.
Curt: Dude, i what like I said, i have I have two young girls. They're two and four now. I have like another, what, maybe... twelve if I'm lucky, 10 to 12 years before they're probably going to be dating somebody.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: And like high school kids are getting bigger.
jamie peacock: You need to be intimidated.
Curt: And like, I'm not a big dude. Like if you've watched of my YouTube videos, I'm a skinny ass dude. I've been skinny my entire life. So it's like trying to change it. It's working good. It's working good. i've I think I've gained like, i don't know, like 35 pounds since I've started this whole rendezvous.
Curt: So yeah, it's going. I still want to gain like another 40, but ah halfway there. So, but and and then I'll be like,
jamie peacock: Uh, it's gonna get ripped. Yeah.
Curt: Dude, I got to be like a little bit more intimate. I don't know. I just want to be, I want to be healthy too and strong. And like a lot of us stand in front of machines and a lot of us are probably either skinny, creepy little machinist guys like me or a little bit bigger on the side.
Curt: And like, yeah, anyways, yeah, you got one, you got one, one body feet folks, right?
jamie peacock: Robust, yes.
Curt: Like you gotta take care of that too. Or else,
jamie peacock: Yeah. Yep, unfortunately you only have them. For now.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Dun, dun, dun.
Curt: For now. Exactly.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: Anyway.
jamie peacock: Oh, yeah. Oh, cool.
Curt: Want to do the...
jamie peacock: So what's, yeah, what's in your Google box?
Curt: ah
jamie peacock: Good. I'm picking up my phone. I don't need to.
Curt: Okay. ah My Google box. Some lawn care info. Because now, like I said, there are no more people running around my yard building fences and stuff. So I can actually work on my yard again. ah Marketplace. Because I'm an addict. And I have to stay off Marketplace.
Curt: Keycaps. For...
jamie peacock: Because not suspicious, yes.
Curt: reasons, because not suspicious, that cocaine dealer of a man, go follow him. I'll link him in the show notes.
jamie peacock: Yeah, definitely.
Curt: That's a good friend, Ken, making some sick product. um So anyways, looking up some key caps that I'm goingnna populate.
jamie peacock: Yeah. And then it looks like somebody caught the tism in the next couple there.
Curt: yeah okay i can explain so ah the list jamie's talking about uh it says komodo dragon anaconda whale shark and alaskan king crab um was in my google searches and that's just because ah my four-year-old i was taking her to bed and she's like can you look under my bed if there's monsters i said there's no such thing as monsters she's like oh okay she's like well why isn't there monsters i'm like well they're just not real and i'm like but
jamie peacock: right.
Curt: she was kind of disappointed. Honestly, she wasn't upset. Like she wasn't happy. She was like, Oh, bummer. I want monsters. I'm like, tell you what I'm like, there are scary things on this earth that are like monsters and they're actually real. And I thought that freaked her out.
Curt: She's like, let's look at pictures. I'm like, it's nighttime. Let's look at pictures in the morning.
jamie peacock: Nightmares.
Curt: Cause you're going to get fricking. So anyways, in the morning, she's like, show me, show me these monsters. I was just trying to think of things that are look like monsters. And like, I i picked, pulled up the, um, the angler fish and a bunch of other dumb ones.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Okay, yeah.
Curt: Yeah. But yeah, those are,
jamie peacock: Anglerfish very much looks like a monster. Yeah.
Curt: It very much does. And yeah, like Alaskan...
jamie peacock: Kimono dragons are cool. Just don't get bitten by one of them because you'll die.
Curt: Come on, Yeah, she thought it was cool.
jamie peacock: Okay. from a bacterial infection.
Curt: she She thought the whale shark was cool. She thought the anaconda...
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: None of these things scared her. The Alaskan king crab was the closest thing to scaring her. That one's little freaky looking, but anyways.
jamie peacock: Yeah, that creepy.
Curt: yeah So I got to find more now.
jamie peacock: Yeah, that looks like my YouTube feed.
Curt: Yeah, I see how that would happen, yeah.
jamie peacock: I went down the the deep ocean rabbit hole a little while ago and then it was fucking giant squid and sperm whales and sharks and yeah.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Dude, that's my 24-7.
jamie peacock: Danica was like, yeah.
Curt: That's always there. The 10 deepest holes. Yeah, like I'm i'm all about that. Anyway, what's in your box?
jamie peacock: For
jamie peacock: Um, yeah, plastic, uh, plastic drip trays for geezers. Um, because I need a way to dump out the new chip tray for the LK at the shop. So i'm going to buy a plastic drip tray with the drain on the end, put it on a stand, and then I can just pick up the whole tray and dump it on there and it can drain.
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: Um, Danica thought she blew eardrum, blowing her nose because she's sick.
Curt: Hmm.
Curt: Oh, shit.
jamie peacock: Um, looking up U-drills because Carl is the U-drill destroyer.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Um,
Curt: Ouch.
jamie peacock: Yeah, looking up Uni Twist piping system, which is what we did our airlines out of. Dude, it's freaking wicked, like hand tight and good enough.
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: We bought their pipe as well.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: And then reading up on Siemens tool offsets because, well, I munched a piece of brass.
Curt: Right, right.
jamie peacock: Yes, so just looking up what the DE actually calls out.
Curt: Oh,
jamie peacock: so as far as i understand it, when it comes to sister tools, whatever, you can set different d values, which are edge values for different tools. So you could have six of the same tool with the same number, just with a different d offsets, you could hot swap them in and just call a separate d offset.
Curt: Right. Yeah, totally.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so yeah, that's about my my Google box.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: um
Curt: It's cool.
jamie peacock: Then for the next one, where can people find you and your thing? See, we didn't skip it this week. Ben distracted me last week.
Curt: No. were Yeah. Well, we almost totally didn't call out Ben's anything last week.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Nice.
Curt: Sorry. ah you can find me and my things at confoundedmachine.com. I will post more information when I have the fidget things ah fidget fidget things as well. You can go look up his Instagram. He builds cool shit too. um But when I have these fidget devices figured out, I'll have more info up there for certain.
Curt: How about you? Where can people find your wares?
jamie peacock: ah You can find me at jspickeng.com. There's a link there. It's an article workholding to the Instagram and to something else. I can't remember what it was, but there are three linky links. Oh, to the store. Also, the Framelock utility knives are coming back to South Africa. So they're currently in the yeah UK with my friend who shipped them for me. It is cheaper for me to ship it with Tunnel than it is for me to ship it with Royal Mail.
Curt: Oh cool, that's good. That's nice.
jamie peacock: Like literally I shipped a brass one out and I'm charging $5 for shipping. It cost me $15 to ship that knife tracked. I can send it with, um, I can send it with tunnel for like just on $10.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Wow. Okay. That's, that's great.
jamie peacock: So I'm going to bring it back here, all the stock, and then I've got all the stock here.
Curt: Right? Yeah.
jamie peacock: I'm going to be restocking and then they'll be available and be shipping from South Africa.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Um, but yeah, what are you, what are you up to tomorrow? i could,
Curt: Uh, tomorrow how am I gonna do tomorrow? Um, I would really like to, sorry, what?
jamie peacock: Fix your lawn assume Fix your lawn okay nice
Curt: yeah Yeah, that's going to be just handled by, thankfully it's been like a monsoon here for the last two weeks, like literally raining every single day. um So I don't have to do much in that regard. Tomorrow I would like to run those some of those fidget parts just to see if I can dial them in because they're kind of just eating my brain right now to see because they're so close. I just have to tweak a couple holes and so I just ran out a time on Friday. So I might do that tomorrow.
Curt: We'll see what my day entails.
jamie peacock: Okay. Nice.
Curt: Yeah. What are you doing?
jamie peacock: I'm going to go run rings.
Curt: Ooh, fun.
jamie peacock: That is my day. I want to try and power through the the last one with our plus cycle time. Because once those are done, then it's it's literally like nine hours left after that that I can power through tomorrow.
jamie peacock: And then decommission machine on Tuesday because we need to pump out the LK and the M Co before we pump out the Goodway. Because the Goodway's coolant is fucked.
jamie peacock: So I want to pump out and store the coolant for the LK and for the M Co. because that is still it's a fresh fill it can get put back in. So we're going to pump it into 25 liter containers, then cart them off to the workshop.
jamie peacock: And then the coolant in the good way can just stay in Monica for a little while while I empty out the coolant in those drums, then put the coolant in those drums and then pay the coolant people to come take away my old coolant.
Curt: Fair. yeah okay
jamie peacock: Yeah, overcomplicating life. um So yeah, we're going to get the rings done. And then I've got one or two other jobs that need to quickly go through the machine before I decommission on Tuesday. and My plan is Tuesday afternoon.
jamie peacock: That's it. Okay, it's done in this in this place. We start decommissioning. could Put all the shipping straps in, jog the table onto a job, jog the head onto a plank, which is going to have to be like this fucking thick because you can't get very close.
Curt: nice
jamie peacock: But I've got some big, big planks. Not that I have a saw to cut them.
jamie peacock: the saws at the workshop. So I might go past the workshop and pick up the saw. Because obviously, we've been moving tools over as we've been doing craft projects there. So like my circular saws there, my chop saws there, all my drills are there.
jamie peacock: It's a bit of a bit of an issue.
Curt: Take care all.
jamie peacock: But yeah, we're Yeah, it's going to be it's goingnna be a fun one. um But yeah, anyway, thank you everybody for listening to us ramble this fine day. If you enjoyed the podcast, please consider liking, subscribing, and doing those things. If you really enjoyed it, consider sharing with someone who you think will enjoy the podcast.
jamie peacock: And yeah, we will see you guys next week.
Curt: take carolll
