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Ep. 77: Break Glass in Case of Feelings
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This week on the Lone Machinist Podcast, Jamie and Curt discover that modern machining is really just thousands of lines of code standing between you and catastrophic stupidity. After a mysterious edge case causes a surprise Z-crash, Jamie finds himself debugging macros, reading error logs, and remotely killing machines at three in the morning because apparently sleep is optional.
Meanwhile, the zero-point systems continue proving they're powered by black magic, fixtures are being swapped like Pokémon cards, and twenty microns of error is apparently close enough to inspire religious experiences.
The new shop is slowly coming together, although progress is competing with the minor inconvenience of actually having paying work to do. Somewhere between making a thousand parts, moving equipment, and planning the next automation project, Jamie decides that what the workshop really needs is labels, a talking stick behind bulletproof glass, and a toilet brush permanently marked "Not For Rectal Use."
There are discussions about knife automation, grippers with springs, flip stations, and the accidental addition of Bukaki Mode™, proving once again that software features should probably have adult supervision.
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Transcript
Introduction and Shop Updates
00:00:00
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?
00:00:06
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.
00:00:17
Curt
How about you?
00:00:17
jamie peacock
We're going to talk about a bit of the shop update.
00:00:18
Curt
What are you going to talk about?
00:00:21
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.
00:00:31
jamie peacock
and why I had to do so yeah so yeah how are you this fine day good
00:00:31
Curt
Ooh, interesting.
00:00:34
Curt
Ha ha.
00:00:37
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.
00:00:43
jamie peacock
yeah what are you what are you drinking today Oh fancy
00:00:46
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.
00:00:56
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.
00:01:11
jamie peacock
Yeah, so.
00:01:11
Curt
So it's kind of an unfit time to be drinking caffeine for me anyways.
00:01:15
jamie peacock
Yeah. Well, yeah, unless you're pulling all mine.
00:01:16
Curt
Anyway. Yeah.
Preparing for a Shop Move
00:01:19
Curt
How's your ah how's the ah the elephant in the room of your your shop moving coming along?
00:01:24
jamie peacock
Yeah, the riggers are booked. um Riggers are moving.
00:01:28
Curt
Cool.
00:01:28
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.
00:01:41
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.
00:01:49
Curt
yeah oh
00:01:53
Curt
oh
00:01:54
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.
00:02:08
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.
00:02:19
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.
00:02:31
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.
00:02:31
Curt
that ah Okay, that's a good idea.
00:02:46
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.
00:03:04
Curt
Yeah, for sure.
00:03:06
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.
00:03:20
Curt
Oh, that's not bad. Yeah, I mean, yeah.
00:03:21
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.
00:03:24
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:03:33
jamie peacock
So, yeah, not too bad.
00:03:34
Curt
Right, right, yeah.
00:03:35
jamie peacock
so that's Yeah. So that's all happening on Wednesday, which is just mildly stressful.
00:03:36
Curt
Oh.
00:03:42
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.
00:03:54
jamie peacock
I chose 10 square captar and captar is meant to be able to run direct on the wall.
00:03:55
Curt
Oh, yeah.
00:04:00
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.
00:04:09
Curt
Oh, okay.
00:04:11
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.
00:04:23
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.
00:04:35
Curt
Okay.
00:04:35
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.
00:04:47
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.
00:05:03
Curt
Okay.
00:05:06
jamie peacock
not that load balancing was critical.
00:05:06
Curt
I see.
00:05:06
Curt
Okay.
00:05:08
jamie peacock
Like, yeah. Looking at how
Machining and Fixtures
00:05:11
jamie peacock
the place was frickin wired, it is terrifying.
00:05:15
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.
00:05:15
Curt
Okay.
00:05:33
Curt
Oh, okay, cool.
00:05:34
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.
00:05:42
Curt
Yeah.
00:05:42
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.
00:05:50
Curt
Oh, wow.
00:05:53
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.
00:06:02
Curt
The geezer.
00:06:04
jamie peacock
But yeah, that's what we call them, geezers. don't know.
00:06:06
Curt
Water heater?
00:06:06
jamie peacock
They're in water heater.
00:06:06
Curt
Oh, cool.
00:06:07
jamie peacock
Yeah. It's called geezer, yeah.
00:06:08
Curt
Interesting.
00:06:09
jamie peacock
Don't know why. Just what it's called. Yeah.
00:06:12
Curt
Huh. Weird. Cool.
00:06:14
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.
00:06:15
Curt
Anyways, sorry.
00:06:23
Curt
Yeah.
00:06:26
jamie peacock
like Either here or on Instagram or whatever, like my word choice has changed over the years.
00:06:26
Curt
Yeah.
00:06:33
Curt
Yeah. Okay, so like, Weird.
00:06:37
jamie peacock
Yeah, they called geezers.
00:06:37
Curt
So it's it's the same as got or geyser, right?
00:06:40
jamie peacock
ah Gaza, we just call them geezers. Old fucking geezer.
00:06:41
Curt
Right, right. But yeah, it's a Germanic word for gray water or heat recovery systems.
00:06:45
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:06:48
Curt
Weird.
00:06:48
jamie peacock
Yeah. So yeah, we call them geezers.
00:06:50
Curt
Cool. Anyways, sorry.
00:06:51
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.
00:07:06
Curt
Fair. Okay.
00:07:07
jamie peacock
It's also way more efficient, like wildly so.
00:07:07
Curt
Yeah. Fair.
00:07:10
Curt
Sure. Yeah. yeahy Yeah. Yeah. Okay.
00:07:12
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.
00:07:22
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:07:23
jamie peacock
But yeah, the wiring in that place is dodgy as fuck.
00:07:24
Curt
Yeah.
00:07:25
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.
00:07:37
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.
00:07:48
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.
00:08:01
Curt
Okay, okay.
00:08:02
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...
00:08:14
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
00:08:26
Curt
ah Okay, cool.
00:08:34
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
00:08:57
Curt
Fair, yeah. I also saw your sketchy AF scaffolding on Instagram.
00:09:02
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.
00:09:11
Curt
I bet.
00:09:16
jamie peacock
But yeah, it's it's just over four meters to where the that subframe we put in for the cables is.
00:09:21
Curt
Okay, yeah.
00:09:22
jamie peacock
It's fucking hard.
00:09:23
Curt
and Right. Yeah.
00:09:24
jamie peacock
So like I'm trying to get everything there done before we move machines in.
00:09:29
Curt
Makes sense. Yeah. Oh,
00:09:31
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.
00:09:43
jamie peacock
Because they are 2.3 meters high.
00:09:43
Curt
okay.
00:09:46
Curt
Oh, big desks.
00:09:47
jamie peacock
Yeah, they take a full sheet of OSB on the back for shelves and racks and shit.
00:09:52
Curt
Okay. Yeah, that that makes sense. know.
00:09:53
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.
00:10:07
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.
00:10:23
Curt
Oh. Convenient. Yeah, convenient for sure.
00:10:25
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.
00:10:33
Curt
Yeah, well, when your space gets big, the machines look smaller too, so yeah.
00:10:36
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.
00:10:37
Curt
Yeah.
00:10:42
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.
00:10:52
Curt
Cool. Cool, cool.
00:10:53
jamie peacock
But yeah anyway, um how's your machining of your bronze going?
00:10:57
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.
00:11:14
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:11:14
Curt
I love machining 954 bronze.
00:11:17
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.
00:11:28
jamie peacock
Yeah, nice.
00:11:28
Curt
So yeah, just so pretty.
00:11:31
jamie peacock
Yeah, how's going with the with the fidgets?
00:11:32
Curt
And yeah, I just,
00:11:35
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.
00:11:49
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.
00:12:13
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah. Ah, okay. Fair enough.
00:12:16
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.
00:12:29
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.
00:12:43
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.
00:12:55
jamie peacock
Yeah,
00:12:58
Curt
so yeah it's Like i said i've I've drank the i've dr the Kool-Aid now.
00:12:59
jamie peacock
the choice of zero points.
00:13:02
Curt
yeah
00:13:03
jamie peacock
Yeah, zero points of magic, like they really are.
00:13:05
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.
00:13:14
jamie peacock
Yeah, actually experiencing it makes, yeah, it makes the world a difference.
00:13:15
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.
00:13:27
Curt
I just put the models on and just carry on.
00:13:27
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:13:29
Curt
Like, yeah, it's, I see, I see why everybody moves to these.
00:13:31
jamie peacock
It's great.
00:13:33
Curt
Yeah.
00:13:33
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.
00:13:50
jamie peacock
I accidentally milled a slot in the wrong face on one of the bodies. So I built that one out.
00:13:55
Curt
okay
00:13:56
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.
00:14:23
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.
00:14:38
jamie peacock
Put the first fixture in and it's flat within like a couple tenths.
00:14:38
Curt
Sure.
00:14:43
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.
00:14:50
Curt
Nice, nice.
00:14:51
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.
00:15:05
jamie peacock
ah But this job is taking priority over everything else because I need this job out.
00:15:10
Curt
Yeah.
00:15:11
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.
00:15:20
Curt
Yeah, no doubt. Well, and I'm actually the one thing I didn't think about for zero points that is also magic.
00:15:22
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah.
00:15:26
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.
00:15:51
Curt
So, yeah.
00:15:52
jamie peacock
I think by nine o'clock in the morning, I'd had four different fixtures in mine.
00:15:57
Curt
Totally. Yeah, I i get it.
00:15:58
jamie peacock
Because why not?
00:15:58
Curt
Yeah.
00:15:59
jamie peacock
That's just, it's hot swappable, hot swap.
00:16:00
Curt
Yeah.
00:16:01
jamie peacock
I've got material arriving this week for some of my, stuff some of my flux utility knobs.
00:16:02
Curt
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:16:07
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.
00:16:19
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
00:16:30
Curt
Oh, sure.
00:16:34
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
00:16:41
Curt
Right.
00:16:45
Curt
Right, right, right.
00:17:01
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.
00:17:09
Curt
Ouch.
00:17:12
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.
00:17:18
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.
00:17:18
Curt
Yeah.
00:17:27
Curt
Oh, okay. Yeah. smart Just to flush it. Yeah.
00:17:30
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:17:30
Curt
Yeah.
00:17:31
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.
00:17:38
Curt
Right, right, right.
00:17:41
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.
00:17:54
Curt
Yeah, nice option for it, for sure.
00:17:56
jamie peacock
Yeah, I have it.
00:17:58
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.
00:17:58
Curt
Totally, yeah.
00:18:10
Curt
Oh, I see, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:18:11
jamie peacock
But the material is only 4.5mm thick.
00:18:14
Curt
I was going to say, yeah like, that's going be a tuning fork.
00:18:17
jamie peacock
Yeah, that's the issue.
00:18:18
Curt
Yeah.
00:18:19
jamie peacock
Because it needs to be 4mm when I'm done, so I ordered 4.5mm extruded bar.
00:18:26
Curt
i was I was actually just holding of your knives and looking. I'm like, i wonder how Jamie Machines is.
00:18:29
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:18:30
Curt
I was wondering if you soft-jawed it or fixed your data. Yeah, interesting.
00:18:33
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.
00:18:45
jamie peacock
So I would
00:18:49
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.
00:18:54
Curt
Yeah.
00:19:00
Curt
Okay.
00:19:00
jamie peacock
back when I did that one.
00:19:00
Curt
Okay.
00:19:01
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.
00:19:20
jamie peacock
And I would bolt down and then machine the perimeter on another fixture.
00:19:25
Curt
Oh, okay.
00:19:25
jamie peacock
Because I made yeah i made like 100 and some of those for IMTS last time.
00:19:26
Curt
Okay. I get you. Yeah, yeah.
00:19:29
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.
00:19:34
Curt
Right, yeah, yeah.
00:19:34
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.
00:19:42
Curt
Cool. Yeah, that's probably the way.
00:19:43
jamie peacock
So it's going to be fun.
00:19:47
Curt
Hmm.
00:19:47
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.
00:19:55
Curt
Hmm.
00:19:56
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.
00:20:12
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
00:20:19
Curt
That's so sick. That's awesome, dude.
00:20:20
jamie peacock
So should be able to burn through it relatively quickly.
00:20:24
jamie peacock
the part yeah The part that goes in today, goes when it's done, there's 94.6% less material.
00:20:25
Curt
That's so cool.
00:20:25
Curt
um
00:20:32
Curt
Wow. Cool.
00:20:33
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.
00:20:45
jamie peacock
I had 100 pounds of scrap from this job, from the same...
00:20:49
Curt
Wow. ah
00:20:50
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.
00:21:03
jamie peacock
There is 120 pounds worth of material that was on my shelf.
00:21:08
Curt
Wow. Nice. of Just scrap.
00:21:10
jamie peacock
Like, no, that that's just parts. Like, young yeah, yeah.
00:21:12
Curt
so Sorry. I mean, scrap material. Yeah. Yeah.
00:21:16
jamie peacock
Yeah. Well, no, that's full stuff. It still needs to be machine.
00:21:20
Curt
Oh, shit.
00:21:20
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:21:20
Curt
Okay. Okay.
00:21:22
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.
00:21:33
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.
00:21:43
jamie peacock
I'm shit, not got to order more material. But wait, I have barnacles.
00:21:47
Curt
Okay.
00:21:48
jamie peacock
So I'm going to dovetail the material, hold it with a million and a half underneath, machine it away.
00:21:49
Curt
Oh, okay.
00:21:53
jamie peacock
got free access around the sides and then slitting saw it off and have like a five millimeter remnants.
00:22:00
Curt
Oh, cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:22:01
jamie peacock
Yeah, so that's, I need to now make a barnacle palette for my anchor point.
00:22:01
Curt
Nice.
00:22:08
jamie peacock
Because reasons. ah Yeah, so I was, at least I can use a barnacle for that and like use the material.
00:22:08
Curt
That's awesome.
00:22:15
Curt
Yeah, yeah. ah I like the stack up of all the things you make. Totally.
00:22:20
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.
00:22:24
Curt
Totally.
00:22:30
Curt
m
00:22:30
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.
00:22:44
Curt
sick Okay.
00:22:46
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.
00:22:46
Curt
Cool.
00:23:01
Curt
Sure. Yeah.
00:23:03
jamie peacock
So I'm going to explore that workflow.
00:23:07
jamie peacock
which going to be fun.
00:23:08
Curt
Cool.
00:23:09
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.
00:23:10
Curt
yeah
00:23:21
Curt
so yeah Yeah, I suppose. Yeah.
00:23:23
jamie peacock
And poor man's five axis, you've now gotten you can access the other two sides.
00:23:27
Curt
Yeah. Yeah. yeah
00:23:30
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.
00:23:40
Curt
Okay, so you go forward, backward.
00:23:40
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.
00:23:50
Curt
and Okay, yeah.
00:23:51
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.
00:23:57
Curt
Yeah.
00:24:02
Curt
Yeah, yeah, fair, fair.
00:24:04
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.
00:24:12
Curt
Right.
00:24:14
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.
00:24:27
Curt
Oh. was...
00:24:31
jamie peacock
Yeah.
Passion, Products, and Customer Support
00:24:32
jamie peacock
So um I should probably add a thing 179 degrees or something.
00:24:32
Curt
as
00:24:40
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
00:25:05
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.
00:25:13
Curt
I
00:25:20
Curt
like this.
00:25:21
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.
00:25:31
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.
00:25:41
Curt
yeah
00:25:41
jamie peacock
Like the yeah the dumbest you are.
00:25:42
Curt
like
00:25:44
jamie peacock
Well, the smartest you are, but the worst user interface, like worst user experience.
00:25:49
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?
00:25:54
jamie peacock
Dude, I love them.
00:25:56
Curt
Dude, I love those.
00:25:57
jamie peacock
Yeah, complete this equation or the catapult or lean that tilt the thing and stop it.
00:25:57
Curt
Yeah, they're my favorite. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
00:26:03
jamie peacock
I'm leveling. Oh, they're so good.
00:26:06
Curt
Yeah. and i is
00:26:07
jamie peacock
i love them. Yeah, I know. They're really, really good. Okay, tell me about geeking out of about your products.
00:26:12
Curt
Let's see. Let's say I pick what you want.
00:26:17
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.
00:26:30
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.
00:26:41
Curt
I'm like well, I want to make it go. So yeah, like I'm into it.
00:26:44
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:26:44
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.
00:27:05
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.
00:27:17
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.
00:27:19
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah.
00:27:30
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.
00:27:40
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.
00:27:50
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:27:50
Curt
Like building one of something is wildly different than building a hundred of something or a thousand or something.
00:27:55
jamie peacock
No, exactly.
00:27:55
Curt
And, uh,
00:27:55
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.
00:28:06
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.
00:28:13
Curt
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:28:16
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.
00:28:25
Curt
yeah
00:28:27
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.
00:28:38
jamie peacock
And I tend to be very, very pedantic about my setups, my work holding.
00:28:43
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.
00:28:51
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:28:54
jamie peacock
Who cares?
00:28:55
Curt
like
00:28:55
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:28:56
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,
00:29:36
Curt
you're you're into what you make. well We've talked about a million times.
00:29:38
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:29:38
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.
00:29:48
Curt
So, yeah.
00:29:50
jamie peacock
You enjoy what you do, so you put in the extra effort.
00:29:53
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.
00:30:06
jamie peacock
Yeah. Speaking about a lot of people, we have Patreons, and they make the wheels on the train go round and round.
00:30:07
Curt
Ooh.
00:30:11
Curt
Ooh.
00:30:14
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.
00:30:30
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.
00:30:41
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.
00:30:42
Curt
hey
00:30:54
jamie peacock
Yeah, thank you guys, and looking forward to seeing you at IMTS with my emotional support, Kurt.
00:31:01
Curt
I will look through the eyes of the emotional support Kurt.
00:31:01
jamie peacock
We actually... We are busy planning the trip now ah of what shenanigans we planning.
00:31:07
Curt
Sick. Sick.
00:31:09
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:31:10
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.
00:31:13
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.
00:31:20
Curt
Yeah.
00:31:24
Curt
Ooh.
00:31:25
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.
00:31:33
Curt
Yep.
00:31:38
Curt
Good idea.
00:31:38
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.
00:31:47
Curt
Yeah, good idea.
00:31:48
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.
00:31:48
Curt
I vote that.
00:31:51
Curt
Yeah.
00:31:53
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.
00:32:00
Curt
Cool. Yeah, no doubt.
00:32:01
jamie peacock
So yeah, a bunch of shop tours and things planned.
00:32:01
Curt
Yeah.
00:32:05
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.
00:32:12
Curt
Ooh.
00:32:13
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:32:14
Curt
Yeah. That would be a bummer.
00:32:15
jamie peacock
She will drag you by your fucking ear IMTS.
00:32:19
Curt
ah
00:32:21
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.
00:32:33
Curt
Yeah.
00:32:34
jamie peacock
I found a secret place last time.
00:32:35
Curt
Oh. Oh.
00:32:37
jamie peacock
So yeah, i'm lunchtime.
00:32:38
Curt
ah
00:32:39
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.
00:32:46
Curt
Oh.
00:32:50
jamie peacock
You could go and just get out of the noise for a bit. So there is some way you can do that.
00:32:53
Curt
Totally. Yeah.
00:32:55
jamie peacock
um Yeah, we will discuss that at the meetup. Now people are incentivized to come to the meetup.
00:33:01
Curt
Ooh. Now I want to come to the meetup.
00:33:02
jamie peacock
Yes. ah By the way, that'll be on the Monday at 2 o'clock.
00:33:04
Curt
yeah
00:33:05
jamie peacock
I should probably speak to Toolbox and get that all lined up.
00:33:10
Curt
I gotcha. Yeah.
00:33:10
jamie peacock
Or was just going to descend on a random booth.
00:33:10
Curt
yeah
00:33:13
Curt
i like that idea better. Just yeah pick the most.
00:33:15
jamie peacock
that's way more fun.
00:33:17
Curt
Pick whoever's is not popular.
00:33:17
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:33:18
Curt
We'll be like, okay, we're going to bring us four people to your booth. so
00:33:24
jamie peacock
Oh, yeah. I had an evil thought, but I will keep that evil thought to myself for now.
00:33:26
Curt
Yeah.
00:33:30
jamie peacock
Yeah, so.
00:33:31
jamie peacock
um Yeah, look at my second topic.
00:33:31
Curt
I
00:33:34
Curt
yeah i was just going to say, crashing the LK, that doesn't sound promising.
Machinery Challenges and Solutions
00:33:41
jamie peacock
In the last week and a half, I've crashed the LK three times.
00:33:45
Curt
Really? That's not good.
00:33:47
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.
00:33:59
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.
00:34:11
jamie peacock
I loaded in a tool. It had the correct tool offset, but the value was wrong.
00:34:13
Curt
Yeah.
00:34:17
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
00:34:48
Curt
Yeah.
00:35:11
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.
00:35:27
Curt
Oh,
00:35:28
jamie peacock
It came into a piece of tool steel at 24 meters a minute.
00:35:33
jamie peacock
Yeah, it plunged. It was fine. The machine's okay. But yeah, it hurt my soul. a lot.
00:35:33
Curt
no.
00:35:39
Curt
Oh, yeah, those those are brutal.
00:35:39
jamie peacock
Because it's it should not be a fucking thing. It shouldn't be a thing. And it is.
00:35:44
Curt
Yeah, well, that's that's the worst, is if you don't know why it happened, that's waste scarier.
00:35:49
jamie peacock
Yeah, like I looked at offset.
00:35:50
Curt
Yeah.
00:35:50
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.
00:36:04
Curt
Huh.
00:36:04
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.
00:36:18
jamie peacock
If I want a tool break check in the middle of a tool,
00:36:18
Curt
Okay.
00:36:21
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.
00:36:25
Curt
Right.
00:36:34
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.
00:36:46
Curt
Fair. Yeah. Okay.
00:36:47
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.
00:36:54
Curt
o Oh,
00:36:59
Curt
yeah, yeah.
00:37:00
jamie peacock
That was at nine o'clock at night, I was setting up to let the thing finish surfacing for three hours.
00:37:00
Curt
Oh.
00:37:05
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.
00:37:06
Curt
Oh.
00:37:10
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.
00:37:23
Curt
Oh, bummer.
00:37:24
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
00:37:31
Curt
Yeah.
00:37:41
Curt
Sure. Yeah.
00:37:52
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:37:53
jamie peacock
But yeah, um it was a bit annoying. And now only have one more of those end mills.
00:38:00
Curt
Are those?
00:38:00
jamie peacock
Because it's a two two millimeter with a 22 millimeter reach. Like a reduced neck end mill, yeah.
00:38:05
Curt
Okay. Okay.
00:38:07
jamie peacock
But anyway, it is what it is, I guess.
00:38:08
Curt
At least, I mean, yeah.
00:38:11
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.
00:38:13
jamie peacock
Yeah, exactly. But it won't happen again because we have now fixed that macro.
00:38:15
Curt
Yeah.
00:38:21
Curt
That's, yeah, that's good.
00:38:22
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.
00:38:27
Curt
Right.
00:38:38
jamie peacock
Because the same thing would happen if you
00:38:38
Curt
Yeah, yeah,
00:38:42
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.
00:38:54
Curt
yeah fair
00:38:54
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:38:57
Curt
Yeah, that's, well, yeah, i did that's a problem.
00:38:58
jamie peacock
Stupid things. But...
00:39:02
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.
00:39:04
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:39:09
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.
00:39:10
jamie peacock
That's fine, yeah.
00:39:16
Curt
it's just like, bad news bears.
00:39:18
jamie peacock
Yeah. But yeah, luckily the LK's B-stander didn't really notice that any of that happened. So,
00:39:25
Curt
That's good, yeah. ah Z crashes are always scary, so.
00:39:28
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.
00:39:42
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.
00:39:53
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.
00:40:02
Curt
oh
00:40:08
Curt
Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah
00:40:09
jamie peacock
I'm going to say the Siemens is really good at not murdering itself to death.
00:40:14
Curt
yeah. Yeah, that's good.
00:40:15
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.
00:40:22
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.
00:40:29
jamie peacock
And let's do so.
00:40:33
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:40:33
Curt
Boom, another tool.
00:40:34
Curt
You're like, oh, and just watching watching the replay after it happened on the camera.
00:40:38
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:40:38
Curt
It's like, no.
00:40:40
jamie peacock
Yeah, the tool break that getting the tool break working properly is critical for not for running unattended.
00:40:41
Curt
oh
00:40:45
jamie peacock
Like, you need to know that if there's a problem, the machine is going to stop.
00:40:46
Curt
Yeah.
00:40:50
Curt
Yeah.
00:40:50
jamie peacock
And kind of important.
00:40:50
Curt
yeah Yeah. He's super important. Yeah.
00:40:57
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.
00:41:10
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.
00:41:24
Curt
Yeah, totally.
00:41:25
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
00:41:32
Curt
Yeah, that'd be useful. Yeah.
00:41:41
Curt
that'd be pretty sick. Yeah, that'd be really cool.
00:41:49
Curt
Yeah.
00:41:57
Curt
Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:41:58
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.
00:42:05
Curt
I
00:42:05
jamie peacock
That's on the agenda for this coming week after the move.
00:42:08
jamie peacock
Well, after the move and then and the retrofit and all the other crap that's going on.
00:42:08
Curt
was going say, yeah, just throw it on your key
00:42:14
Curt
yeah
00:42:14
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.
00:42:27
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.
00:42:43
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.
00:42:55
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.
00:43:08
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.
00:43:15
Curt
Yeah, no sweat. No sweat.
00:43:17
jamie peacock
I don't know my internet connection will be like there.
00:43:20
Curt
Yeah, no sweat. let me know. Not an issue.
00:43:21
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.
00:43:30
Curt
Yeah, these retrofits sound like they can go bye-bye. I don't think they're the...
00:43:34
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:43:35
Curt
I don't think you're ever happy when you're talking about them.
00:43:38
jamie peacock
There's a decent amount of money in it. That's why I still tolerate it.
00:43:41
Curt
I figured, but yeah.
00:43:42
jamie peacock
But yeah, if I can kind of over it at this point.
00:43:43
Curt
Yeah.
00:43:46
jamie peacock
Like, I'm trying to make sure there's no surprises on this one.
00:43:46
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:43:49
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.
00:44:10
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.
00:44:23
Curt
Nice.
00:44:23
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.
00:44:36
Curt
it's All one color a wire. Yeah, the Jamie special.
00:44:39
jamie peacock
100% go with the fucking multimeter dickhead and figure out what the fuck's happening.
00:44:39
Curt
ah
00:44:42
jamie peacock
Like, zero fucks killing.
00:44:45
Curt
Yeah. Yeah, a good way to marry yourself to the project.
00:44:46
jamie peacock
Like, if you can't figure it out, if you can't figure it out, you shouldn't be poking at it.
00:44:47
Curt
Yeah.
00:44:52
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.
00:44:52
Curt
Yeah, fair.
00:45:01
Curt
Yeah.
00:45:01
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.
00:45:09
jamie peacock
It's a Masso.
00:45:09
Curt
Yeah.
00:45:09
Curt
Well, that helps.
00:45:09
jamie peacock
It's not hard. Yeah.
00:45:11
Curt
Yeah, that helps.
00:45:12
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.
00:45:13
Curt
Yeah.
00:45:19
jamie peacock
Like, it's not fucking hard.
00:45:22
Curt
Yeah.
00:45:22
jamie peacock
like, yeah there's the skyward drive, which I probably could reuse.
00:45:22
Curt
Yeah. But fair.
00:45:26
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.
Retrofitting and Eye Health
00:45:51
jamie peacock
it's It's fucking wild.
00:45:52
Curt
Sick. All right. ah
00:45:53
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.
00:45:56
Curt
Yeah.
00:46:03
jamie peacock
Fucking done.
00:46:05
Curt
Yeah. No, way to go. For sure.
00:46:06
jamie peacock
Yeah, easy mode. Yeah. But yeah, that's next weekend's endeavor, and then I will swear a lot.
00:46:13
jamie peacock
It's going to be great. ah yeah so when are you, why are you getting your eyes checked?
00:46:16
Curt
Good luck.
00:46:17
jamie peacock
Did you get coolants in your eyes, Kurt?
00:46:20
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.
00:46:37
Curt
I can't do my work, just like if I don't have my fingers.
00:46:37
jamie peacock
Yeah, perfect.
00:46:38
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,
00:46:59
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?
00:47:06
jamie peacock
You might as well, yeah.
00:47:06
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.
00:47:18
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
00:47:43
jamie peacock
dude
00:47:55
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.
00:48:04
jamie peacock
Yeah. So I went with Danica when she got goggles because ah she used to have glasses.
00:48:08
Curt
Okay.
00:48:08
jamie peacock
She refused to wear them because that's told her she looks like Harry Potter. um
00:48:12
Curt
Good idea.
00:48:12
jamie peacock
And it's strange as she's near sorted.
00:48:13
Curt
Yeah.
00:48:16
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.
00:48:27
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.
00:48:29
Curt
It's not good, yeah.
00:48:35
Curt
Oh, yeah, okay.
00:48:36
jamie peacock
Yeah, so but I know both my parents had glasses.
00:48:37
Curt
Yeah, that's...
00:48:39
jamie peacock
So I'm gonna probably need goggles at some point.
00:48:43
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.
00:48:56
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.
00:49:06
jamie peacock
getting old man glasses guaranteed when I need glasses they're gonna be the big fucking old man glasses
00:49:06
Curt
You don't got to sell me on this.
00:49:11
Curt
Oh, yeah. Sick.
00:49:12
jamie peacock
100%.
00:49:12
jamie peacock
If I want to wear those things, they must work as safety glasses as well.
00:49:12
Curt
That's
00:49:16
jamie peacock
Because the J-Suite policy has blinked a lot.
00:49:16
Curt
what I was thinking too. was like...
00:49:19
jamie peacock
I fucking hate safety glasses.
00:49:22
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.
00:49:30
jamie peacock
100%. Eh, it's fine. Get a van. Fucking win it.
00:49:36
Curt
Yeah, exactly. Exactly. already live by a school. Problem solved.
00:49:39
jamie peacock
Well, there we go.
00:49:39
Curt
Yeah.
00:49:39
jamie peacock
Yeah. yeah Get a van, put free candy on the side, go pick your daughters up from school with that.
00:49:40
Curt
Oh, super creepy.
00:49:45
Curt
It's a great idea. Yeah. And the neighborhood is going to love me.
00:49:48
jamie peacock
You're the neighborhood will love that.
00:49:48
Curt
um So ah ah how, why, are why are you embracing the unicorn vomit in your PC case?
00:49:56
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.
00:50:08
Curt
Yeah.
00:50:10
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
00:50:33
Curt
Heck yeah. yeah
00:50:37
Curt
Works better.
00:50:41
Curt
Yeah. Oh, exactly. Yeah.
00:50:47
Curt
Oh, nice.
00:50:47
jamie peacock
I was going get him to build it and then I'm like, I'm fucking bored.
00:50:48
Curt
Cool.
00:50:50
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,
00:51:02
Curt
Ah, fair, yeah. hey bi
00:51:03
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.
00:51:18
Curt
Fair. Yeah, totally.
00:51:19
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.
00:51:23
Curt
Right. Yeah.
00:51:36
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:51:37
jamie peacock
So yeah, I think that's what we'll both end up doing.
00:51:37
Curt
That's probably ideal. Yeah.
00:51:40
jamie peacock
But yeah, we're gonna finish our desks first.
00:51:43
Curt
Yeah. Then LAN parties at lunch.
00:51:46
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.
00:51:54
Curt
That's nice. Yeah, that feels good.
00:51:55
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.
00:52:03
Curt
ah Sick. I like this.
00:52:04
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.
00:52:26
Curt
It's awesome.
00:52:27
jamie peacock
Yeah, because we we not moved in yet.
00:52:27
Curt
yeah
00:52:29
jamie peacock
So it's like we haven't taken through cutlery and shit. We've just taken what needs to be there.
00:52:32
Curt
I get it, yeah.
00:52:33
jamie peacock
My cousin actually had ah the panini press delivered to us yesterday with the checker 6060.
00:52:38
Curt
the
00:52:39
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.
00:52:42
Curt
Nice. but
00:52:51
Curt
Okay, yeah.
00:52:52
jamie peacock
So we are actively avoiding them because we're going get fat as fuck.
00:52:53
Curt
Hmm.
00:52:57
Curt
Fair. Fair, yeah. They're cheap and close.
00:52:59
jamie peacock
So we're avoiding them.
00:53:00
Curt
Yeah.
00:53:00
jamie peacock
Yes, it's a problem.
00:53:01
Curt
Yeah.
00:53:02
jamie peacock
And then, you put the doorbell in um and we're playing with different
Creative Shop Ideas and Technology
00:53:06
Curt
Oh, I heard this. I heard this.
00:53:06
jamie peacock
tones.
00:53:08
jamie peacock
I was told I need to now make it whale noises or something because it's nautical work holding.
00:53:08
Curt
Yeah.
00:53:13
jamie peacock
So I'm to see, I'm going open it and see if I can flash different, different audio to it.
00:53:13
Curt
yeah
00:53:19
Curt
Yeah, perfect. Good thing to do to with your spare time.
00:53:20
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:53:21
Curt
Yeah.
00:53:22
jamie peacock
100% perfectly good use of my time. Fucking everything needs to be meme tactical.
00:53:24
Curt
Exactly.
00:53:26
jamie peacock
Meme tech.
00:53:27
Curt
Yeah.
00:53:28
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.
00:53:40
Curt
oh Awesome. I love that.
00:53:43
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.
00:53:47
Curt
I keep...
00:53:51
Curt
so yeah Yeah, exactly. exactly
00:53:55
jamie peacock
So still need to go get the talking stick. But I'll just order that online.
00:53:59
Curt
I told my wife about the talking stick. She was she very much enjoyed it.
00:54:00
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:54:03
jamie peacock
It's going be great.
00:54:04
Curt
She enjoyed the concept, not the stick. but maybe the stick to I don't know.
00:54:07
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.
00:54:07
Curt
Who knows?
00:54:14
jamie peacock
Feeling stick.
00:54:14
Curt
It's nice.
00:54:14
jamie peacock
Break glass in case of emergency. Caution. Bulletproof glass.
00:54:18
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.
00:54:23
jamie peacock
Oh, jeez.
00:54:24
Curt
people can be like, wait, what? Like you better wail on it.
00:54:27
jamie peacock
no no feelings yeah bitches
00:54:27
Curt
Yeah. like Yeah, exactly.
00:54:32
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
00:54:33
Curt
Sick.
00:54:42
Curt
Sure.
00:54:49
Curt
Yeah, well, that's...
00:54:49
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.
00:55:02
Curt
Yeah.
00:55:06
Curt
ah Yeah, it's a lot. Yeah, exactly.
00:55:08
jamie peacock
Yeah. So tell me about these, the rubber that you are trying to machine.
00:55:11
Curt
Cool.
00:55:15
jamie peacock
Oh, not machine, lazy.
00:55:16
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.
00:55:30
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.
00:55:54
Curt
Like when you start lasering rubber.
00:55:55
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:55:55
Curt
So you could definitely do on like a diode did it just fine.
00:55:55
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:55:58
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.
00:56:09
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.
00:56:16
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.
00:56:27
Curt
Oh, okay.
00:56:31
Curt
Oh, wild.
00:56:35
Curt
Sure. Yeah.
00:56:36
jamie peacock
So the whole machine is like a foot by foot, but fucking tall.
00:56:36
Curt
Yeah. yeah
00:56:39
jamie peacock
And then you put your part in, it's go it goes, chiji chiji chi it does the thing.
00:56:42
Curt
Yeah.
00:56:43
jamie peacock
It's really fucking cool.
00:56:45
Curt
That's kind of a cool ah concept. Yeah.
00:56:46
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.
00:56:54
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.
00:56:57
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:56:59
Curt
That's why their table is so weird on them.
00:57:00
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:57:01
Curt
But still, they're they're monsters compared to the little one foot square foot. So, yeah.
00:57:06
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:57:06
Curt
Cool.
00:57:07
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.
00:57:13
Curt
Hmm.
00:57:17
Curt
Oh, OK. You are going to bring it instead of just leave it here.
00:57:17
jamie peacock
Yes. yeah I'm going to bring I need it.
00:57:19
Curt
Yeah.
00:57:20
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.
00:57:26
Curt
Perfect.
00:57:30
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.
00:57:40
Curt
Nice.
00:57:42
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:57:42
Curt
I like this.
00:57:43
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.
00:57:53
Curt
Well,
00:57:55
Curt
So the bathroom might not be the best place if you want to avoid it being covered in shit.
00:57:57
jamie peacock
Well, yeah, fair enough. But yeah, I think it's the best place that's got actual small windows for ventilation.
00:58:07
Curt
Fair. Yeah.
00:58:07
jamie peacock
Because ventilation is kind of important and I don't want it in the anodizing room because that generates hydrogen.
00:58:14
Curt
Ooh. Yeah. Those are a scary combo. Yeah.
00:58:16
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.
00:58:30
jamie peacock
Probably just scrap the acid and mix a new batch when I get to the new place. um
00:58:35
Curt
Yeah, otherwise.
00:58:36
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.
00:58:43
Curt
Oh, okay.
00:58:49
Curt
Right, i remember when that I remember that happened to you, yeah.
00:58:51
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.
00:59:01
Curt
so okay, yeah, yeah.
00:59:02
jamie peacock
to But that's a whole there's a problem for another day.
00:59:06
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.
00:59:08
jamie peacock
No. Yeah.
00:59:13
Curt
so
00:59:14
jamie peacock
your whole your whole Tupperware.
00:59:16
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.
00:59:21
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:59:25
Curt
and just like Yeah, I just want a better system.
00:59:26
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:59:27
Curt
so Yeah.
00:59:28
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.
00:59:35
Curt
Hmm.
00:59:39
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:59:39
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.
00:59:46
Curt
Yeah.
00:59:46
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.
00:59:53
Curt
Yeah.
00:59:54
jamie peacock
And then i think I might put a bigger fan as well.
00:59:58
Curt
What acid is it? Ooh, yes.
01:00:00
jamie peacock
Sulfuric. No? Yes, sulfuric, I think.
01:00:06
jamie peacock
Natriacin, yeah, sulfuric.
01:00:06
Curt
Yeah, so the a bad one for a machine shop.
01:00:08
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
01:00:09
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
01:00:09
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
01:00:23
Curt
Hmm.
01:00:31
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.
01:00:41
Curt
Oh, I see. Okay.
01:00:42
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.
01:00:55
Curt
Yeah. Yep, yep, yep.
01:00:56
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.
01:01:10
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
01:01:11
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:01:11
Curt
It's probably a wise idea.
01:01:12
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.
01:01:25
Curt
Yeah.
01:01:25
jamie peacock
because anodizers can't be trusted.
01:01:26
Curt
Yeah.
01:01:28
jamie peacock
Fact of science.
01:01:30
Curt
Yeah. I think that's universal across the world.
01:01:32
jamie peacock
Yep. Oh, yeah, I guess we covered that topic.
Production and Pricing Strategies
01:01:36
jamie peacock
ah Yeah, I'm busy making lots of aluminum rings, and they are coming out fucking dead nuts on SARS.
01:01:40
Curt
Sick.
01:01:41
jamie peacock
It's great.
01:01:42
Curt
That's awesome. Yeah, because that's big.
01:01:43
jamie peacock
Like on thickness, we would, yeah.
01:01:44
Curt
those are You say aluminum ring, or yeah ah but they're not like they're big. They're not rings.
01:01:51
jamie peacock
ah Yeah, they have 499 diameter on the one, on the biggest one.
01:01:51
Curt
They're like the huge.
01:01:55
Curt
Yeah.
01:01:55
jamie peacock
And then it's 375, 420, and 350, I think. Yeah, they're not small.
01:02:04
Curt
Yeah, so big rings. yeah Yeah.
01:02:07
jamie peacock
Making diameter ring on travel machine.
01:02:07
Curt
Yeah.
01:02:11
Curt
yeah Right, yeah, yeah. A ship in a bottle. Yeah, yeah.
01:02:14
jamie peacock
Yeah, fucking winning.
01:02:14
Curt
Sick.
01:02:15
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.
01:02:29
Curt
Sick. Sick.
01:02:30
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.
01:02:40
Curt
Yeah.
01:02:41
jamie peacock
I didn't want to remake it.
01:02:42
Curt
Cool.
01:02:43
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.
01:02:56
Curt
Right. Right. Yeah.
01:02:57
jamie peacock
Yeah. So try to just try to be on it with that.
01:02:59
Curt
Yeah.
01:03:01
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
01:03:02
Curt
Sick.
01:03:11
Curt
Those are very economically priced too.
01:03:15
jamie peacock
Yeah, they are pretty well priced. um I felt bad charging more than that, so we'll see.
01:03:22
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.
01:03:24
jamie peacock
Yes, but
01:03:28
jamie peacock
yeah, but also looked at cycle time and all the other factors and i'm like, yeah.
01:03:29
Curt
But
01:03:32
Curt
yeah.
01:03:34
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
01:03:35
Curt
No, it's,
01:03:41
Curt
Fair, fair, fair.
01:03:42
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.
01:03:46
Curt
Oh, that's reasonable.
01:03:50
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.
01:04:01
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:04:03
Curt
And if, yeah, if that's the angle you're going for, your price hits it because it's a very non...
01:04:07
jamie peacock
It's it. Yeah.
01:04:08
Curt
Yeah, like it's enough where you're going to be I'll buy a handful of them, not just like one.
01:04:13
jamie peacock
Well, yeah, I've got options about one, two or three as a as a drop down.
01:04:16
Curt
Okay, nice.
01:04:16
jamie peacock
The price gets better if you buy three.
01:04:19
Curt
Oh, wow. Jesus.
01:04:20
jamie peacock
Yeah, so if you buy three, d they come down by five, $5 per unit, I think.
01:04:20
Curt
Okay.
01:04:25
jamie peacock
So it's actually a lot of pricing is. um I set it up like a week ago and I forgot.
01:04:29
Curt
Okay.
01:04:30
jamie peacock
So I give you about one. It's I want to say $50 $45 each three each.
01:04:39
Curt
That's ridiculous. and For what it is. Like, they're nice too.
01:04:43
jamie peacock
It's a fucking tiny block of element. Yeah, they look pretty too.
01:04:45
Curt
Oh, I can't spell apparently. I'm trying to spell. No, not night call work holding.
01:04:48
jamie peacock
Well.
01:04:50
Curt
Whatever. I will type this later.
01:04:51
jamie peacock
That's fucking great.
01:04:53
Curt
I have a dumb project I kind of want to get him for, but we'll see.
01:04:54
jamie peacock
There will be a...
01:04:57
Curt
We'll see.
01:04:57
jamie peacock
Come to the dark side.
01:04:59
Curt
I'm just trying to avoid the dumb project, but it's enticing me. So...
01:05:05
jamie peacock
I'll outcompete... Yeah, $50. And then if you buy two, it's $90. If you buy three, it's $120.
01:05:11
Curt
Yeah, that's a good deal. That's good deal. Go buy them, folks.
01:05:14
jamie peacock
And I've made it that when you buy them, the CAD models get emailed to you the same time.
01:05:19
Curt
Ooh.
01:05:19
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.
01:05:30
Curt
Nice. Nice.
01:05:31
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.
01:05:39
Curt
Cool. Cool.
01:05:40
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.
01:05:45
Curt
as
01:05:52
Curt
Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha Cool
01:05:52
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.
01:06:01
Curt
ah Those look good Yeah Cool Cool, cool Yeah, that sucks That sucks
01:06:06
jamie peacock
And then yeah, I've got a whole bunch of particles that are going in the bin because my setup was stupid.
01:06:14
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
01:06:28
Curt
that's That's probably ideal. That's probably the best way. Yeah.
01:06:34
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
01:06:41
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.
01:06:55
Curt
It's basically a soft job functioning it as. I can clamp the work and it not be in there.
01:06:57
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:07:00
jamie peacock
All the way down, yeah.
01:07:00
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
01:07:09
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:07:09
Curt
Anyway.
01:07:10
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.
01:07:18
Curt
Yeah.
01:07:20
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
01:07:22
Curt
Yeah.
01:07:31
Curt
Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Fair.
01:07:46
jamie peacock
Because of where I tapped it, it's after the regulator for the machine.
01:07:46
Curt
Oh, why's that?
01:07:51
jamie peacock
So I'm going to just re-tap where it gets tapped from, and then that'll solve that problem.
01:07:51
Curt
Gotcha.
01:07:55
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.
01:08:12
Curt
Nice. Nice.
01:08:13
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.
01:08:24
Curt
Yeah.
01:08:28
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.
01:08:36
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.
01:08:43
Curt
Yeah.
01:08:44
jamie peacock
I can buy one off of AliExpress for next to FACO. So might just do that.
01:08:47
Curt
Yeah.
01:08:49
jamie peacock
And then I can adjust it right there.
01:08:49
Curt
Yeah. Fair.
01:08:50
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.
01:09:07
jamie peacock
just due to restrictions in the mines and whatever.
01:09:11
Curt
Sure. Yeah.
01:09:12
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.
Personal Stories and Fun Anecdotes
01:09:18
Curt
Oh, I see. Okay. Yeah.
01:09:20
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:09:20
Curt
Yeah.
01:09:20
jamie peacock
So I might just put one there instead.
01:09:24
jamie peacock
um Or replumb. Yeah. I don't really want to run another airline into the machine. I already have six of them.
01:09:24
Curt
Yeah.
01:09:31
Curt
yeah
01:09:31
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:09:32
Curt
yeah yeah you got your fair share yeah yeah
01:09:33
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.
01:09:41
Curt
yeah cool dude oh yeah okay Kyle Kirk yeah
01:09:42
jamie peacock
Cool. And then ah lastly, what's your weight update, Carl? Carl? Kurt. Sorry. Yeah.
01:09:51
Curt
So, because I know AJ is also fighting his bus.
01:09:54
jamie peacock
Yes.
01:09:54
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.
01:10:03
jamie peacock
Eat more shit less.
01:10:07
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.
01:10:19
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
01:10:27
jamie peacock
Yep.
01:10:28
Curt
Anyways, so I think a lot of...
01:10:28
jamie peacock
Yep. Kurt's on his bulking trip.
01:10:32
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.
01:10:42
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:10:46
Curt
And like high school kids are getting bigger.
01:10:47
jamie peacock
You need to be intimidated.
01:10:48
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.
01:11:00
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,
01:11:07
jamie peacock
Uh, it's gonna get ripped. Yeah.
01:11:10
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.
01:11:23
Curt
And like, yeah, anyways, yeah, you got one, you got one, one body feet folks, right?
01:11:23
jamie peacock
Robust, yes.
01:11:28
Curt
Like you gotta take care of that too. Or else,
01:11:30
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yep, unfortunately you only have them. For now.
01:11:33
Curt
Yeah.
01:11:33
jamie peacock
Dun, dun, dun.
01:11:35
Curt
For now. Exactly.
01:11:36
jamie peacock
Yes.
01:11:38
Curt
Anyway.
01:11:38
jamie peacock
Oh, yeah. Oh, cool.
01:11:39
Curt
Want to do the...
01:11:39
jamie peacock
So what's, yeah, what's in your Google box?
01:11:40
Curt
ah
01:11:41
jamie peacock
Good. I'm picking up my phone. I don't need to.
01:11:45
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.
01:12:00
Curt
Keycaps. For...
01:12:02
jamie peacock
Because not suspicious, yes.
01:12:03
Curt
reasons, because not suspicious, that cocaine dealer of a man, go follow him. I'll link him in the show notes.
01:12:08
jamie peacock
Yeah, definitely.
01:12:10
Curt
That's a good friend, Ken, making some sick product. um So anyways, looking up some key caps that I'm goingnna populate.
01:12:15
jamie peacock
Yeah. And then it looks like somebody caught the tism in the next couple there.
01:12:21
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
01:12:25
jamie peacock
right.
01:12:45
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.
01:12:56
Curt
She's like, let's look at pictures. I'm like, it's nighttime. Let's look at pictures in the morning.
01:12:59
jamie peacock
Nightmares.
01:13:00
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.
01:13:07
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:13:11
jamie peacock
Okay, yeah.
01:13:11
Curt
Yeah. But yeah, those are,
01:13:13
jamie peacock
Anglerfish very much looks like a monster. Yeah.
01:13:16
Curt
It very much does. And yeah, like Alaskan...
01:13:18
jamie peacock
Kimono dragons are cool. Just don't get bitten by one of them because you'll die.
01:13:20
Curt
Come on, Yeah, she thought it was cool.
01:13:21
jamie peacock
Okay. from a bacterial infection.
01:13:23
Curt
she She thought the whale shark was cool. She thought the anaconda...
01:13:27
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:13:27
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.
01:13:31
jamie peacock
Yeah, that creepy.
01:13:34
Curt
yeah So I got to find more now.
01:13:34
jamie peacock
Yeah, that looks like my YouTube feed.
01:13:36
Curt
Yeah, I see how that would happen, yeah.
01:13:37
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.
01:13:39
Curt
Yeah.
01:13:45
Curt
Dude, that's my 24-7.
01:13:46
jamie peacock
Danica was like, yeah.
01:13:47
Curt
That's always there. The 10 deepest holes. Yeah, like I'm i'm all about that. Anyway, what's in your box?
01:13:53
jamie peacock
For
01:13:55
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.
01:14:06
Curt
Hmm.
01:14:13
jamie peacock
Um, Danica thought she blew eardrum, blowing her nose because she's sick.
01:14:14
Curt
Hmm.
01:14:17
Curt
Oh, shit.
01:14:17
jamie peacock
Um, looking up U-drills because Carl is the U-drill destroyer.
01:14:18
Curt
Yeah.
01:14:22
jamie peacock
Um,
01:14:24
Curt
Ouch.
01:14:24
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.
01:14:30
Curt
Hmm.
01:14:33
jamie peacock
We bought their pipe as well.
01:14:33
Curt
Nice.
01:14:35
jamie peacock
And then reading up on Siemens tool offsets because, well, I munched a piece of brass.
01:14:41
Curt
Right, right.
01:14:42
jamie peacock
Yes, so just looking up what the DE actually calls out.
01:14:44
Curt
Oh,
01:14:45
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.
01:15:01
Curt
Right. Yeah, totally.
01:15:02
jamie peacock
Yeah, so yeah, that's about my my Google box.
01:15:03
Curt
Yeah.
01:15:07
jamie peacock
um
01:15:08
Curt
It's cool.
01:15:09
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.
01:15:13
Curt
No. were Yeah. Well, we almost totally didn't call out Ben's anything last week.
01:15:19
jamie peacock
Yeah. Nice.
01:15:20
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.
01:15:41
Curt
How about you? Where can people find your wares?
01:15:43
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.
01:16:07
Curt
Oh cool, that's good. That's nice.
01:16:08
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.
01:16:17
Curt
Nice.
01:16:21
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:16:23
Curt
Wow. Okay. That's, that's great.
01:16:25
jamie peacock
So I'm going to bring it back here, all the stock, and then I've got all the stock here.
01:16:25
Curt
Right? Yeah.
01:16:28
jamie peacock
I'm going to be restocking and then they'll be available and be shipping from South Africa.
01:16:33
Curt
Cool.
01:16:33
jamie peacock
Yeah. Um, but yeah, what are you, what are you up to tomorrow? i could,
01:16:39
Curt
Uh, tomorrow how am I gonna do tomorrow? Um, I would really like to, sorry, what?
01:16:43
jamie peacock
Fix your lawn assume Fix your lawn okay nice
01:16:48
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.
Closing Remarks and Future Plans
01:16:57
Curt
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.
01:17:14
Curt
We'll see what my day entails.
01:17:14
jamie peacock
Okay. Nice.
01:17:16
Curt
Yeah. What are you doing?
01:17:18
jamie peacock
I'm going to go run rings.
01:17:21
Curt
Ooh, fun.
01:17:21
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.
01:17:34
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.
01:17:45
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.
01:17:58
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.
01:18:09
Curt
Fair. yeah okay
01:18:10
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.
01:18:22
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.
01:18:28
Curt
nice
01:18:36
jamie peacock
But I've got some big, big planks. Not that I have a saw to cut them.
01:18:42
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.
01:18:55
jamie peacock
It's a bit of a bit of an issue.
01:18:58
Curt
Take care all.
01:18:58
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.
01:19:15
jamie peacock
And yeah, we will see you guys next week.
01:19:19
Curt
take carolll