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jamie peacock: Welcome to The Lone Machinist, where it's just you, the work, and the machines. What have you got going on today, Kurt?
Curt: ah This week, I'm going to talk about the fact that I cannot do math. Uh... Lathe work on the mill? question mark And up. Kindergarten field trip because that seems like way out in left field.
Curt: How about you, Mr.
jamie peacock: Yeah, that tracks.
Curt: Jamie? Yeah.
jamie peacock: that tracks for our topics um yeah we're going to discuss how don't let stock out screw you Um... my plans for moving the anno setup and a project where i'm building a gantry loader
Curt: Ooh. Okay.
jamie peacock: Ooh, yeah. How are you this fine day, Kurt?
Curt: I am doing... Fan -freaking -tastic. I've made you wait an extra hour because... We we can't do worldwide math.
jamie peacock: Because I can't read a clock.
Curt: Well, yeah, I didn't want to say that. but
jamie peacock: Yeah. It's fine. I wasn't sure so I didn't want to be late.
Curt: I appreciate it. That's very kind. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Um, Yeah. don't i just remember to think that we need to discuss.
Curt: oo
jamie peacock: Um,
Curt: Drag tumbler.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so I was up earlier than necessary. And ended up doing a bunch of useful stuff turns out no one locally sells gauge pins. It's not a thing in South Africa
Curt: Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: really fucking retarded so uh i was looking on my favorite store and i found a set from three to four four to five five to six six to seven seven to eight
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: And then I've got ball marks from eight up.
Curt: Oh, okay. Yeah, that would work then.
jamie peacock: So then I can gauge all my small stuff in there in 10 micron increments. So half a thou.
Curt: Oh damn, okay.
jamie peacock: Yeah, like I want...
Curt: Big size. or Big set.
jamie peacock: I want to be able to accurately measure things and dial in sizes. So yeah, I think I'm going to be very poor and just buy those. Um,
Curt: Mm.
jamie peacock: and then i've got them like because i have no way of measuring small diameter holes easily And a bunch of my products have 4mm dowel pins, so it would be nice to be able to accurately measure that. and know where I am Sazwa's on them.
Curt: Yeah, no. I have the same problem and I just. I've turned myself a bunch of pins that are important. And just like Mike them nine ways to Sunday and being like, okay, this is.
jamie peacock: exactly
Curt: This will be my truth.
jamie peacock: Yep. that's what we do we so we got uh We made a bunch of thread gauges for jobs just to check. every 10th part make sure the thread's still good uh based on the sample part because that's all we got was a sample part we had to model the parts
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: But also in my world, if. If. whole is big. I can just make pin bigger.
jamie peacock: yes
Curt: Like it doesn't, no one's gonna, it's not gonna depressurize a spaceship if I fuck something up.
jamie peacock: hundred percent
Curt: It's just like.
jamie peacock: Even...
Curt: No, no, no.
jamie peacock: even my four millimeter dials if they're a little bit loose oh no your dovetail vise is a little skew it's really not the end of the world
Curt: Yeah. Totally. Yeah, exactly.
jamie peacock: And obviously I want to try and hold decent. type tolerance and i want to want to try compensate for anodizing and all the fun stuff So like I overshoot them and then they... come back into size when I anodize them.
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: Um, and then on the stainless ones i want to be able to hold size off the bat i don't want to really ream it Redlock Remus. uh so i was going to interpret them so i want to be able to dial that That's awesome.
Curt: Yeah fair.
Curt: Yeah, makes sense.
jamie peacock: but that actually leads into one of my one of my topics they're being dumb about workflows for my products So I was like, okay, cool. I'm going to have called blank these things. Then I'm going to put them in dovetail and then hold them in a dovetail and machine the back slot.
jamie peacock: Why am I being an illiterate? I can hold the round. machine the bottom of the thing and then bolt it to a fixture which is how i'm doing it anyway And then just to... the remaining five sides in one go.
Curt: Oh, okay. You're just too excited to use your dovetail.
jamie peacock: Exactly.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: so yeah i'm gonna do them then i can do them four at a time on the on the palette it'll work perfectly um Ciao. don't be a dumb is the moral of the story also euro steel have no 25 millimeter 303 so we're going to be turning down 30 and blanking off blanks for the grip of things.
jamie peacock: on the Dovetail Bosses.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: Because they're only getting stock end of the month and I'm like I'm not waiting that long
Curt: Fair. Hmm.
jamie peacock: So we'll just...
Curt: That's not too bad then I guess.
jamie peacock: Moses was naive. No, and Carl's machine doesn't really run, so we may as well... Doop. like my products on it
Curt: Oh, okay. Well, yeah, then it's... It's not good to do a thousand, so.
jamie peacock: It's been... yeah it's been uh his machine's been standing we've been running the other two legs flat out
Curt: Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: Like, flat out.
Curt: Nice to have. yeah
jamie peacock: Yeah, I'm actually adding uptime monitoring to those machines.
Curt: Good.
jamie peacock: I want to try to get it done this week Um... Because I want to know how much they're running because I've Yeah. There's... yeah machines are on but not necessarily always running
Curt: Oh, okay. like
jamie peacock: It's something we're going to address address this week.
Curt: AJ. The AJ special? who
jamie peacock: It's something we're going to address this week is just prioritizing what runs. Um,
Curt: Mm.
jamie peacock: because I've noticed it's like okay cool and why is the machine standing here it's been standing for five minutes and a non -valuable task is being done while he's deburring pots while the machine is standing. Stop deburring.
Curt: Mm.
jamie peacock: get the machine running go back to deburring deburring is not a high brain power fucking task It doesn't need to be completed before you get the machine running. You just drop the shit. Go back to... get the machine running and then carry on deburring and it's small things like that that add up over the week.
jamie peacock: Like next thing you know, you've lost two hours of production because you were waiting five minutes to finish your handful of parts of Judy Buring. So...
Curt: Oh yeah.
jamie peacock: It's just...
Curt: Mm hmm.
jamie peacock: yeah it's just a prioritization switch that we need to need to make happen. And that'll... having uptime monitoring will help with that it'll also let me monitor how many hours are being run because That'll let me feed back more directly.
jamie peacock: into the the costing of these jobs because Yeah. Turns out we're running one of them for free.
Curt: Oh shit. That's not good.
jamie peacock: New. So I went to actually spoke to the guy yesterday.
Curt: okay
jamie peacock: I'm like, listen, yeah, this part's a fuck up. Um, I'm effectively running the lathe at a third of its hourly rate. And we're just going to ignore the fact that I still put these on the LK. We're just going to ignore that fact.
Curt: that
jamie peacock: We're running at a third of the rate on the mill. I mean on the lathes. um
Curt: Allah.
jamie peacock: Yep. But um I'll get quantities this week. if we look at it as a family of parts some of the other parts are way more lucrative than this one part and if the quantities are okay then that's fine It averages out over the family of pots that we're still getting a decent hourly rate.
jamie peacock: Just that part we make fuck all, but the others we make quite a lot of money on. so That's fine as long because it's batch quantities. As long as the batches make sense. It's okay. but we are going to push them to buy extruded material with a hole in it.
jamie peacock: because the drilling like this month i'm gonna spend 25 hours drilling holes on the lk
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: Fortunately, I can. leave that like i can set it up in the afternoon Have it run for 30 minutes. or an hour or whatever, like if I've got nothing in the machine, let it run for an hour. We drill 100 pots. In the morning, Carl comes and warms the machine up, loads trays, and by the time I get to work, we've drilled another 100 pots. And then I'll change the setup out to what I'm doing for the day.
jamie peacock: because it's all on the zero points. So it's not the end of the world.
Curt: Right, right
jamie peacock: like We can sneak that in when I'm not needing the machine. But, yeah, it's... ah I saw a bill from Eurosteel and I'm like... Why is it so hard? I thought this was like a 13 ,000 rand order?
jamie peacock: it's 28 000 minutes i went and looked into it Oh, we're actually paying 11 Rand per pot. for material. And the parts are 18 Rand part.
Curt: o
jamie peacock: So we are literally. paying them to run these bots.
Curt: Yeah. Rough.
jamie peacock: But it falls into a group of parts that this last month we invoiced like. Two hundred and twenty thousand Rand? So...
Curt: Okay, yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: I see.
jamie peacock: it The family of pots are worthwhile. Worth all running. So, yeah, we'll see. We'll find out this week. Otherwise, press. After this month, it'll be okay, so okay. you want this part from us price goes up or you need to have material extruded you choose
Curt: That's that seems fair like
jamie peacock: No. Yeah. I had a meeting with the guy yesterday.
Curt: Good.
jamie peacock: He's like, no, no, that that's fine. we'll like We'll look at it as a family of parts as well. If they want... 10 of those and one of each of the other components, then no. But if they want one of those and two of everything else or one of everything else.
jamie peacock: Then it evens out enough. that we can still run. Like one of the parts we're making. We're making 18 Rand on one of the parts. That runs really quickly. and this part runs really slowly but And we're making eight grand on it.
jamie peacock: So if we look at it as a family, it evens out. so that may just be the way we have to look at this family of parts and just make sure the orders are the correct volumes to make sense.
Curt: Yeah, yeah no That makes perfect sense.
jamie peacock: But job job shop work, it's great. We're now trying to fit. F. Third of the, so there's four part numbers. We're trying to fit a third one onto the good way because the good way just runs quicker than the M code.
Curt: Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, it it's got 20 meter rapids compared to three meter rapids three meets the rapids have never been a problem because the travel is literally this long but we're doing 260 parts a day.
jamie peacock: On the good way, we could probably push that up to 300.
Curt: Right. Yeah. Small enough where it starts to make sense. yeah Or sorry, high enough volume.
jamie peacock: It starts to make sense. like yeah
Curt: Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Um... yeah even though like i changed the guy about the m10 thread of things we do And we've now got really nice drills, really nice taps. We were... The pot is a 5 rand 60 pot.
jamie peacock: there's one random material she gives us four bucks to run a part that takes a minute So we're at a lower hourly rate already. you start breaking taps and all of a sudden you are hemorrhaging money. We've now seemed to have a good quality draw, a good quality tap.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: that's doing three to four thousand parts So it's like, okay, cool. It's now not as brutal on consumables. But I mean, we've... Spent money on taps and drills like a stupid amount of money on a port that doesn't really bring in that much money.
jamie peacock: um but yeah we we're getting a hell of a lot better at running them so
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: At some point, it'll be worthwhile running. Hopefully that point is soon.
Curt: That's the spirit. Yeah, like...
jamie peacock: Now, the thing is, we're doing 2 ,500 of them a month. So every time we run them, it's small improvements.
Curt: Right.
jamie peacock: We finally got the 8 .7 drills. Um, On an 8 .5 drill, we got 800 parts on a tap. On the 8 .7 we've done another 2000 parts and the tap is still fine.
Curt: Okay. Yeah.
jamie peacock: And the 8 .7 drill. We got two for free. because uh The... Guys, we bought them from... Fucked around like... I spoke, I speak to the apps engineer. He's like, no, no, it'll ship tomorrow. So I messaged him the next day. Hey, where's our stuff? It's like, oh, it's still in Pantang. The driver will be there in 40 minutes with two drills.
jamie peacock: They're the longer ones. It's what we have in stock, but There you go. Get running, please. Like complimentary drills because they fucked us around.
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: Um, And we're going to see, like their drills seem to rarely do. do well. So we'll see how they how they hold out over the coming weeks.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: but That's it. That's it. Guy's going the extra mile there.
Curt: Exactly. Yeah, no, not...
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: That helps for sure.
jamie peacock: It helps a hell of a lot. but job Anyway, why can't you do maths?
Curt: oh i just fucking i can't add i went through all my orders and it breaks down how many like pens i had to make and i wrote it down i have my little book here and i wrote it down in my book to like add everything up. And I just.
Curt: misjudged it by a hundred. i like it's like a hundred ah like all these numbers and i'm adding them up i'm like oh that's That's less than I thought.
jamie peacock: esh
Curt: I'm like, so when I did the backwards math, like how much I got to produce a month, I'm like, that's that's reasonable to hit my three -month timeline here. And then i was like And then i I didn't notice it at all because I just...
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Completely. carried on with life and then i put um my order ah sheet I stripped out all the customer information. in a like a csv File. And then I gave it to Claude because I'm like, hey, can you like.
Curt: can you parse this because i have like the pen styles and then different finishes and i'm like can you because my stupid sales channel doesn't give me that information easy it shall tells me which product i sold but For the variants?
jamie peacock: okay
Curt: it doesn't show me the quantity of each variant so it's like it's really annoying um but it gives me a csv value so i'm like can you parse this just so i can like human read it a lot easier and it's yeah no sweat so it parsed it for me and then it's like this total works out to this many pens i'm like Why is that? More than.
Curt: my number shows so i was gonna yell at claude be like you're doing your math wrong and i looked i'm like oh i'm just an idiot i just can't add and it was just simple numbers it was literally like 100 plus 200 plus like 86 plus something plus and i was just like i missed one of the hundreds and i was like
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: fuck ah
Curt: I'm an idiot. So anyway.
jamie peacock: Did we? We asked. chat to count something we took a picture said how many bars are they here
Curt: Oh yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: I estimate 200. I didn't ask you to fucking estimate. I asked you to count. Oh, I i estimate 150.
Curt: you
jamie peacock: I'm like. I'll ask you to fucking count, robots. And eventually we just canceled them and we loaded them because it just was wildly off. It's like, it's 187.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I'm like, no. There should be just over 200. Ah, God. and useless. Um, Bye y 'all.
Curt: it
jamie peacock: Yeah, you need to learn to do maths, Kurt.
Curt: well just like and i was already ready because i know like i know those most of those things don't work good they they weren't great for like doing like solid math but like when you're trying to do something like image analysis and then determine how many are It's not great at that because it's the way it's been taught, but like.
Curt: <unk> just like I'm like, no, I'm the idiot in this fucking equation. I'm like... Whatever. So anyways, excuse all my numbers um for the worse. But that's... is what it is. like
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Buck up.
jamie peacock: it's
Curt: So.
jamie peacock: Yep. Gotta get back to work, Kurt.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: No weekends for you.
Curt: Yeah, no doubt yeah yeah well son this is the end of the podcast now i have to go back to work
jamie peacock: Yeah. yeah Uh...
Curt: It's a good time, son.
jamie peacock: Yeah, that's... Yeah. Little things like that creep in every now and again. It's kind of tedious.
Curt: yeah yeah but it yeah whatever it'll be it'll be okay that's what i'm telling myself It'll be fine.
jamie peacock: It'll be fun. It'll be fine.
Curt: It'll be fine.
jamie peacock: Just going to make it through this week.
Curt: Exactly. I'm assuming you'll see that post. Down here.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: mr rudolph what's up
jamie peacock: Danny Rudolph first, yeah. Just gotta get through this week. Just gotta get through this week.
Curt: Just got to get through this just gotta get through this week.
jamie peacock: oh
Curt: just gotta get through this week
jamie peacock: Yeah. Nah, fuck enemies.
Curt: Uh...
jamie peacock: ah joe Which one do you want to... Do you want to go through that?
Curt: Tell me about... Ooh, tell me about your, ah let's let's do our. early hit. to get brand sponsors and... Tell me about How you shouldn't let stockouts screw you.
jamie peacock: to
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Dude. So this week went to assemble anchor points
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: And the big O -ring on the top. I had two in stock.
Curt: Oh yeah, yeah. Hmm. Heh.
jamie peacock: because the same o -ring that the mechanicals use So I'd been stealing them as I've been... making anchor points are not checking the stock level and we need to assemble four and oh shit But it doesn't end there.
Curt: ah Bummer.
jamie peacock: Then I went to package. Oh no, some smart dick cut up all his fucking cardboard. and took all his boxes to IMTS with him with stuff inside.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: So I'm waiting on friggin boxes. I get the orders packed up and shipped out Um, But yeah, I'm busy. I'm in the process of implementing order at the moment in the shop. Um,
Curt: Makes it fair.
jamie peacock: so we use i mean yeah a little li we call them linbons i think the company makes me me as linval or something it's like a little thing that clips onto the wall It's a little storage moving. thing um i made a insert for the back that's printed in red and takes one of the like credit card size auto cards And then you throw your stock, your mint order behind that.
jamie peacock: So when you start taking from the red, it triggers the reorder.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: So...
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: Yeah, I need to upload that. uh to printables and then I need to chat to Ariel. uh i reckon what to do is any any order related prints you just upload to printables with the tag order and then anyone looking for it can just search order on principles and get them because like all their printed stuff he wants to put them out there But.
jamie peacock: doesn't know how to do it easily i'm like dude printables with a tag and then if anyone wants them you can just sort for all the artist stuff Um,
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: yeah i think kind of useful to have a little bin in the back because my my little bins don't have dividers at least back to front of others.
Curt: ah Yeah. Gotcha. ya ya ya Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah. So I designed a little bin for sorting that out. And then...
Curt: I like that. yeah saw I saw that.
jamie peacock: yeah
Curt: I was like, oh, that's clever.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: because I need to get on top of the stuff. Even like now, the the reason I'm pushing to get the office done is so I can move packaging and assembly into that office. Because currently my desk is covered in boxes. Under my desk is covered in boxes.
jamie peacock: I need that. in a dedicated space that when i need to pack an order i can just go pack an order when we run line on boxes It triggers a reorder, we reorder. i Don't want to be... Last minute rushing everything.
Curt: totally Totally.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: And then...
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: a a workflow that I discussed when I was at IMTS with Ariel and Ben. was to... I went and bought... Here it's ours. Broccoli -colored handsaws. So any end mills, like my minimum quantum end mills, get a brightly colored hair tie around them.
jamie peacock: and then they'll have a QR on the bottom.
Curt: Oh yeah.
jamie peacock: When you take one out of that, you scan the QR and puts it in the order queue. That way your minimum quantity is separate from your other stock. And you don't need to have special bins and stuff like that in your tooling drawer.
Curt: that's funny because that's exactly what i do i have little bins of end mills and i mean mine are tiny so it's easy but i just i put a rubber band around like
jamie peacock: yeah
Curt: a bulk of like as soon as i pull one out of this rubber band i'm like i gotta to order another batch because like i'm down to whatever three left or something like that so
jamie peacock: You need to order.
jamie peacock: So that's, I went and bought, I tried to buy like the little rubber band, the brightly colored rubber bands, but they didn't have them, it was just red. So I ended up buying.
Curt: Mm.
jamie peacock: Some little hair ties. and they've got all sorts of bright colors so networks. So that when you take it, you know, hey, I need to reorder this.
Curt: Perfect. Yeah.
Curt: Yeah, exactly. yes it's
jamie peacock: Yeah. So in the process of implementing odd on everything. um It's not an overnight process. Like there's a lot of a lot of weird shit like you've got a carl's gonna add all of his inserts all his lathe inserts and stuff and then i'll go and do all the value add to it so i just wanted to add everything.
Curt: Yeah, but...
jamie peacock: Just the the number? and the quantities you want and then i'll go in and add the image and add the supplier and all that shit
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: so that it can also generate emails.
Curt: That's... That's my old job. I started implementing that too. like I just put cards. And same thing. like I'm like, I don't have time to do this, but i'm like I'll just jam a card in here. with a bag of whatever, 100 screws behind it.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: And I'll just put. 500 on the card no other fucking information other than the number 500 i'm like okay when i get to it I'll know like, okay.
jamie peacock: yes
Curt: 500 of these and then maybe that time I'll throw a fucking... QR code on it or something and just like it. Incremental. So it worked out.
jamie peacock: What's really what's really cool with the artist stuff is say you always Say you're a train enthusiast and you always order the exact same shit tickets.
Curt: Yep.
jamie peacock: You can put a closed bag of shit tickets. scan the UPC on it, entire two... order so when you open that bag you scan the upc on it and it triggers a reorder
Curt: That's smart.
jamie peacock: Like, that's really cool.
Curt: That's cool.
jamie peacock: Like, all the animals have got... either barcodes or qr codes on them now so you can literally just scan the end mill box and it will put it in the order queue. It's really, really cool. But yeah, I ran into an issue.
Curt: That's a smart acquisition, yeah.
jamie peacock: this week with auto where i would create uh new card And at the top, there's an option for supplier. And I would go there to i would start typing the name into Autofill. and then it wouldn't save.
jamie peacock: And if you scroll down to the supply section and add the supply there, then it was fine. So I ended up on a call with Ariel trying to like, I spent a bit of time trying to figure out exactly what the issue was before I reported it. Like.
Curt: Right.
jamie peacock: And I want a lot of things for us to know. It doesn't work here. It works here. He's like, okay, cool. Now he'll give it to the dev team and have them fix it. um but you're trying to be useful when i give feedback
Curt: Yeah, totally. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Like, not, it's just fucked. Like, no, actually give some some feedback that's useful. But yeah, we now... or and I need to go buy screws this morning. So this morning I've got to go visit my mate Dave um Let's go drop stuff off that we bought them in America.
jamie peacock: and go have a cup of coffee then we're shooting through gotta go past galma which does screws and handles and crap go buy some screws because we ran out of screws to finish the office. This week the ceiling boards for the office will arrive. The ceiling I've just bought 30mm expanded foam.
jamie peacock: or extruded foam
Curt: Yeah. yeah
jamie peacock: And that's... slot in as the roof uh because i want it to be uh That's proof pretty much.
Curt: Sure.
jamie peacock: Like I don't want whatever the fuck's going on the workshop to contaminate my my finished stock And then I need to put plugs, put aircon. And Danica can paint the fucking walls. and be happy.
jamie peacock: um because that's her office as well so it'll be her office where she does all that son of an admin shit and then it'll be the finished component storage, assembly, and packaging. in that office
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: and yeah so we went i cut all the wood everything's now fucking fitted I think I'm done cutting. Um... Almost done cutting. wood in my workshop I've cut another piece of plywood to screw to the wall. so I assume you've seen where the pallets are on the wall.
Curt: ah Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: Pellet racks on the wall, yeah, yeah. I'm extending another piece sideways for tools. So the bottom will be for palettes, for like my double or my my harbor palettes. we'll hook onto hooks at the bottom, and in the top, there'll be a row of tooling.
jamie peacock: that is specific for jobs. So when I've got tooling that is job specific, it goes on that rack.
Curt: Oh okay.
jamie peacock: when i put it in the machine it goes in the machine otherwise it goes back in the rack Um,
Curt: Mm.
jamie peacock: So that's going to go down the side of the machine there And then I need to just build tables for anodizing. and I'm done cutting wood in my workshop.
Curt: Sick. Nice.
jamie peacock: Yes, because the floor has had a sheet of plywood on it for three months. like the main area in the workshop so now like everything got cut up yesterday
Curt: Ho ho ho ho. No.
jamie peacock: uh had to cut a wedge to fit in the one spot because just that's how it worked out Um, But yeah, all the wall panels are cut. I just need to screw some of them in now. And then there's a big 1 .9 meter bar.
jamie peacock: uh four foot wide yes all the units um removable section of the wall because there's another like two meters on the mezzanine but the roof comes down so I'm using it for storage.
jamie peacock: because you can't actually just walk there so the wall panel and the whole wall panel comes out So I need to just go by or find a threaded insert and just put a thumbscrew that holds it in place. and then if you need to open it you can open it to get through there.
Curt: Perfect. Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Sorry. all these all these little things like we're putting a magnetic lock on the front door on the front gate so when we have a delivery You can hit the button, open the gate. You don't have to get the keys. And then all of our keys have a remote on it so that if you see someone you know at the door, you can just hit the button and the door unlocks.
jamie peacock: They put her clothes behind them. um small things like that so
Curt: this space.
jamie peacock: the magnetic locks been there for two months i just haven't installed it yet
Curt: Yeah. Exactly.
jamie peacock: Kids.
Curt: Yeah, the dumb things.
jamie peacock: y 'all
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: Finding time to work on the business, not in the business.
Curt: All right. Some of that stuff can make like such, heat like for, like I have a. security system at home and i have like the big control panel inside and it doesn't tie in with home assistant but it was free so i was like fuck it whatever but the nice thing is It points like at one location where the delivery drivers always drive up.
Curt: um when I get orders here, and I don't... I don't see that camera until they're like they're moving up to my door and then notifications happen in here. But I never use the panel inside. And I asked my wife, i like do you ever use this? She's like, I... literally never use it and i don't like where it is she's like it's just an eyesore i'm like sick I'm like, I'm just going to put it right under my computer. So it's sitting right here. It's a little screen.
Curt: And now I can see like, I'm like, oh, if some there's a weird noise outside, I look, I'm like, oh, it's the delivery driver. I'm like, now it's just like.
jamie peacock: Wow.
Curt: Why didn't I do this forever ago?
jamie peacock: I've got...
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: My old camera system, one of the cameras is a alive or four. It looks... out my front gate so when i'm sitting at this computer i can look and i can see straight what's happening in the road
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: And that was because they stole my car radio on a Thursday while I was working in here. Um,
Curt: Oh shitty.
jamie peacock: When the garden service was here, the gate was open. Someone literally came into the yard, opened the car door, ripped the radio out and ran away with it.
Curt: <unk> a Bummer.
jamie peacock: But I didn't. I didn't see it until I only discovered it the next day when I went to get in the car.
Curt: Right.
jamie peacock: Um, So I'll put the cameras up and then my home assistant cameras all go through the tappo app my home assistant is currently wrecked I need to unfuck that. Um, But yeah, like I've got the tapper cameras. They're all over the show there in the workshop But. I've got them everywhere.
jamie peacock: But yeah, this is super convenient like you can just look over and at a glance and see what's happening Which is kind of... kind of important.
Curt: yeah Yeah exactly.
jamie peacock: but yeah the small improvements make a huge difference it's just a case of finding time to work on, not in. That's the tricky bit. and like
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: i was chatting to someone this week and i'm like i'm finding myself wanting to work on more than in Like just trying to get these things implemented that life is easier.
Curt: m
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: because of small things like it's going to take me half an hour to do.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: And then I'm never going to have to worry about it again.
Curt: Totally.
jamie peacock: But finding that half an hour is... not always the easiest of tasks.
Curt: Yeah, one. That actually segues decently well into one of my topics of... it's Good printers are magic.
jamie peacock: My dude.
Curt: Um, tip Like. Okay, this little weird looking thing, this little wishbone looking thing.
jamie peacock: short butt plug
Curt: is just... It's just a little, it wouldn't be a pretty tiny butt plug, but I mean, I guess for beginners.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Starter mode.
Curt: It's a starter one. Yeah, exactly. um All it is, is it's just a more... ergonomic way for me to hold a pocket clip. Um. it's got nice chamfers and it just like it for what it is it looks like a milk bone like a dog treat it looks like a bone and it holds my pocket clips under it so that when i put a satin finish on the top face i don't have to hold it with my little fingers which cramp up after i do like a gajillion of them
jamie peacock: Yep.
Curt: So this is just comfortable to hold. And the thing is like. I should have printed this. a year ago but my printer was just a pain in the ass and now that i have this one it just I just, I send something to it and then I just.
Curt: Stop thinking about it because it handles everything like it heats itself up. It cleans the nozzles. It picks the right material. It prints it. it makes a little beep beep when it's done and then i walk past i'm like oh you're finished And there it is.
Curt: pop it out and like I didn't realize how big a difference that makes to my little world of like.
jamie peacock: Dude. tus Yeah.
Curt: And i don't I don't compensate for anything. This one, I gave it a... I think I gave it. Like. I don't know uh Point one of our... yeah 0 .1 of a millimeter of just clearance because i just wanted to like a drop in fit And it came out perfect.
Curt: like i don't have to
jamie peacock: Dude, it's wild.
Curt: It's like...
jamie peacock: It's wild.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah, it's like.
jamie peacock: yeah I'm used to this thing where I come point three. to make shit fit, like...
Curt: that Yeah. Same, same.
jamie peacock: And y 'all just...
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: Just not interested anymore. like This thing probably will never get turned on again.
Curt: I know it's like, it's, it's, I, I really underestimated like. The ease of of use and how that affects your workflow when you don't have to think about that, when that's not a project anymore to make a like.
Curt: I queued up. 18 hours worth of prints. and they all came out flawless i'm like i would never have ran my little printer for 18 hours like my old one because i'm like it
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I left a four -hour print yesterday when I left the workshop. I put a four -hour print on, I left it. When I go in on Monday, it'll be done.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: luck.
Curt: Yeah, it's like...
jamie peacock: don't have to think about it it's like i've got a little filament dryer i set that to four hours
Curt: Exactly.
jamie peacock: Started the printer to fill out those little bins. I'm printing them out of red and y 'all. Let it print. It prints six at a time.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Like, it's it's a tool, not a project.
Curt: It just...
Curt: And that's exactly what I've noticed. I'm like, holy shit. I'm like, I've cranked out in this last. week that I've had it I've done more of the printed projects I wanted to finish than I did all last year just because
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: It's...
jamie peacock: It's easy.
Curt: No barrier. Yeah, no barrier.
jamie peacock: Yeah. That's freaking great.
Curt: So.
jamie peacock: that that yeahll I want a bigger one now. That's the next thing. I need a slightly bigger printer.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So P2S.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: is what i'm aiming at
Curt: Mm -mm.
jamie peacock: I'm waiting for them to come into stock. They should be coming in stock in like the next couple days. Then I'm going to be like.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: Pulse. and pick one up i don't know if i'm gonna go ams i don't think i'm gonna go with an ams But...
Curt: Uh... Yeah, it depends what you need it for, I guess. yeah Like.
jamie peacock: The auto color change would be cool, but... I don't know that it's entirely necessary.
Curt: I think the AMS is nice just because it keeps it keeps it dry and keeps them ready. Like. But.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so I've got a two spool dryer So I keep two spools ready to go at all times.
Curt: Oh.
jamie peacock: yeah and then i just say i'll pause the print i'll swap the color and i hit go
Curt: Perfect. yeah
jamie peacock: Um, But it might be easier to just do IMS, but we'll see. I can always add AMS later.
Curt: Yeah. I'd say it's not a yeah, it's not a make or break right off the gate.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Yeah.
Curt: so
jamie peacock: Nah. 100%.
Curt: Sweet.
jamie peacock: um But yeah, dude good printers are literal magic.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Oh, it just like, yeah, just. I just very underestimated how much I would use it um and like what is actually possible nowadays. but Like... uh
jamie peacock: It's insane.
Curt: Like I printed these very simple ultrasonic racks. I just hold pen bodies and a couple of magnetic like baskets that clip on.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: um But I just came, I was trying to, I'm holding this the this pen tip. And I want to hold it in a way that it. if i put it in a basket and it vibrates around you get scuffs on it Um, And if you put it if you put it near any parts, you definitely get scuffs on it.
Curt: And if I hold it by like the center. Ultrasonics aren't going to get into it. So anyways, I was trying to like, how the fuck am I going to hold this little thing? But I realized I can print little fingers now. Like tiny fingers or maybe a millimeter wide.
Curt: that will go in between the bearing groove and hold hold it at an angle so that the ultrasonic waves will like they'll hit all the threads they'll hit all the boards they'll hit all the critical parts Yet I can still put like.
Curt: i could put 50 in really fast and it'll hold them i need to hold them um in like a grid or an array because I match parts, not tips, but like end caps are matched.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: So I need to keep track of them. but Yeah, I was like. Once again, I would never have printed that in the past because it's a very difficult print. well you know 45 little flanges kind of hanging up but now it's like Bridger has no issue doing it. And I'm like, This makes my...
Curt: the way I think different. So it's like, oh.
jamie peacock: Well up I designed that box initially with a radius on the back.
Curt: that's way better
jamie peacock: I started printing, I'm like, no, fuck the radius, it doesn't look nice. Change it to a chamfer. Perfect. You've still got to take some things into account. Like radiuses always print shitty, especially if they're big radiuses.
Curt: Sure.
jamie peacock: um
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: so i changed it to a chamfer there you go problem solved like you still have to be a little bit cognizant but nowhere near what it used to be
Curt: Well, and it's like it's like me you and it's how like how for our machines, like for CNC machines too, where it's like. It's like, oh, don't interpolate shit because our machines are so sloppy. You're not going to get an interpolation. Whereas nowadays, like we have both have good machines.
Curt: It was like, yeah, you can interpolate a press fit.
jamie peacock: send it
Curt: like Yeah, exactly.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: It's just like, oh.
jamie peacock: like I regularly do.
Curt: it's a different way of thinking Yeah, us.
jamie peacock: It's great.
Curt: Same. And it's just like.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah. Same.
jamie peacock: Yeah, it changes the way you think when you have good equipment
Curt: Yeah, anyways, look at Bamboo's dick out of my mouth now.
jamie peacock: yeah You're choking on it a bit there.
Curt: then it's
jamie peacock: Um, What?
Curt: They're good units.
jamie peacock: How are you drawing your filament? Because I see you've got a thing there, Bart.
Curt: Uh...
jamie peacock: dry filament makes a difference.
Curt: Oh. Well, that was the thing with my old printer. It printed so shittily. no so No shade on my little printer. It did. it was like 15 years old so it's it's behind the times um But I didn't i'd never noticed the difference of like...
Curt: like pet g i'd be like oh it just strings that's what it does and And then. So I ran some wet filament through the bamboo and I'm like, ah, it kind of strings a little bit. It's way better. And then I dried it and I'm like, oh. It's like night and day.
Curt: It's like. Oh, it's perfect now.
jamie peacock: So...
Curt: I was like, okay, I should.
jamie peacock: There's my filament dryers behind me.
Curt: just do that. Nice. Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: Each one of those is a different flavor of filament with descant in the bottom.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Um, End. i would buy a roll of even a pla the pla the silver pla i used to buy You is a bubble.
Curt: Mm hmm.
jamie peacock: And then you'll put it in the bucket for two days and then it'll be fine.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: The PETG. If it was in the bucket. Come out, print. You're good. after a day of it being out of the bucket it would start printing like again and stringing.
Curt: Mm.
jamie peacock: and then my mate dave was doing the same and he's like no he bought a filament dryer night and day
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: An absolute nonsense day.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I'm feeding my filament in at 60 degrees and it just prints. flawlessly.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I don't think I've printed anything other than PETG and TPU on the A1 Mini. I don't think it's seen PLA.
Curt: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah
jamie peacock: No need for that shit. Yeah.
Curt: Yeah. I know.
jamie peacock: like i need to buy i might have to buy a roll of brown pla for tool tags specifically for the tufnil job because I want to color code them.
Curt: Oh yeah, sure.
jamie peacock: And I don't think we can get brown PETG. Um, Bye, John. i bought another two rolls of ptg this week i'm gonna plow through that shit I don't. care sending a half a kilogram print to the machine now.
jamie peacock: Because it's just going to work.
Curt: Well, some people were giving me shit. They're like, why did you buy the H2C? I'm like, I print at... I print an and like an engineering material and support. That's literally all I'll ever really print because I'm using it for like. functional part so like
jamie peacock: That's it. Like the beefcake was set up with a 0 .6 nozzle.
Curt: I'm really.
jamie peacock: it could spew out a kg of filament every day. Like at one point I was printing a kilogram a day.
Curt: Heh, nice.
jamie peacock: for production stuff. making racks like i don't care if it looks pretty it needs to be a rack to hold parts
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: And that's sort like I'm not printing this. ornate crap i'm printing ah a production part or a mechanical part
Curt: Yeah, exactly. yeah like Will I print some ridiculous?
jamie peacock: No.
Curt: full -color thing probably like but like Am I doing on the daily?
jamie peacock: Probably. Thought.
Curt: No, like on the daily, I'm printing.
jamie peacock: It's not what you bought it for.
Curt: yeah like i bought a bunch of abs uh abs glass fiber which i quite like um
jamie peacock: oo
Curt: And I just run run that stuff because I like the finish on it. It's kind of like a... a centered Feeling finish? And. robust little parts stand up to a high temperature that's basically all i need them for so
jamie peacock: You don't need it for more than that.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Like I'm looking at. Uh... P -E -G -C -F as what was recommended for gripper fingers.
Curt: Yep.
jamie peacock: I just haven't bought a roll yet. I need to buy a roll of it. My mate, Prince City, reckons it's great. He was actually having issues when he was detaching from the bed. He was getting white marks. Um,
Curt: Mm -mm.
jamie peacock: Yeah, he just grabbed them quite vulgarly.
Curt: it
jamie peacock: i'm like yeah that's your material sticking too well because you're on a textured bed that's what abs does like when you used to detach the raft it used to leave white marks because that's where the stress was a stress riser in the material as it broke away and then you just hit it with a heat gun and it goes away.
Curt: Right. Yeah, yeah
jamie peacock: But he's a guy who thought he was speaking to the right person.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: ah i'm going so I'm going to see him today. He's got like, I think he's got three, two or three A1 minis. And he's production printing on them.
Curt: Oh shit.
jamie peacock: Yeah. he's printing uh Gay bags for Fluffishmen. folding their flowers.
Curt: Okay, gay bags?
jamie peacock: Yeah. Because... Fly fishing's gay. Um, little chest pack you don't want to get in the way when you're getting shafted um now he makes a little he makes a little chest pack for your flies and stuff he um
Curt: Okay.
Curt: but
jamie peacock: He fishes I think he's trying to get on the South African team for fly fishing. I'm like, cool, go be gay in a river.
Curt: Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: Have fun.
Curt: for that
jamie peacock: Um... Bad job, he's printing little...
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: little chest packs for your flowers.
Curt: Oh, clever. Okay. Interesting.
jamie peacock: So quite like we were discussing he's having alignment issues she's printing two parts when they go together they're twisting And I'm like, dude, you are chasing silly tolerances in plastic, yeah. Fuck.
Curt: Yeah, yeah
jamie peacock: Very silly tolerances. So I'm going to go visit him. And I bought some Swedish fish for him because he's like, buy something we've both never had. that we can try together.
Curt: mean
jamie peacock: when I was overseas. I've never had Swedish fresh. And then I bought him a tin of Altoids.
Curt: Oh, they're my favorite. Yeah.
jamie peacock: because uh... the as far as i remember it the arduino uno is based on that tin size.
Curt: Yep.
jamie peacock: Because everyone used it for electronics projects, which I thought was freaking cute.
Curt: Yep.
Curt: Yep.
jamie peacock: So I bought him a ton of Altoids.
Curt: I have a ton of those tens flow. I have a ten. with Literally two feet from my...
jamie peacock: Dude.
Curt: Deskrit now.
jamie peacock: There's a tin downstairs that I bought while I was in the US and I was munching them.
Curt: Yep.
jamie peacock: But yeah, I was like...
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: This is kind of cool. after The story behind the shape of the Arduino is freaking cool.
Curt: Yeah, that is cool.
jamie peacock: So I bought him a tin of Altoids and then we bought his missus a whole bunch of Harry Potter crap because she's really into Harry Potter
Curt: Oh, nice. Okay, cool.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so gonna go see her and She stitched my hand up. my finger before I went IMTS.
Curt: oh nice girl
jamie peacock: Yeah. It's a good friend to have. They're now moving. They're selling the house and moving to the other side of Joburg. But that's one.
Curt: Mm.
jamie peacock: It's about the same distance drive, so not the end of the world.
Curt: oh speaking of swedish swedish fish when i went to the state like years ago i went down to the states and
jamie peacock: Um. Yes.
Curt: I like s sweetedish ri Swedish. Fish. And. I went to a store and like me and my wife, just ble I was like, I was like, I'm buying this for the road trip back. It was like three kilos or something like that of Swedish fish.
Curt: and i just i plopped out of my lap and drove and ate swedish fish until i was fucking sick and like It was delicious.
jamie peacock: it's
jamie peacock: like That's great.
Curt: Heh.
jamie peacock: Oh shit.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Um.
Curt: They know how to do quantity down there.
jamie peacock: They do. And speaking of quantity... We have Patreons.
Curt: Ooh.
jamie peacock: uh yeah the patreons make well this time it's trains damage trains again Make the wheels on the train go round and round.
Curt: Hell yeah.
Curt: chik
jamie peacock: ah yeah Thank you to all the patrons. You guys made IMTS 2026 happen. um And... The patronage from now until 2028 is going to go towards going to IMTS 2028.
Curt: ah
jamie peacock: uh Yeah, all the all the patrons at $6 and above get access to the after show, where Kurt and I normally ramble about random shit. And all the top tier patrons get a shout out every week.
jamie peacock: And that list is Luke from Fabtastic. AJ from Strack Manufacturing, Jason. Jason S. EJ from Nocturnal Welding, The Aussie Machinist, Christian Olsen, Charles Watt, Carl from Cursed Machine, Matt from Offworld Gear, Alex B, John from Turson Performance and Engine Tricks, Matt from Modern Fuel, Josh from Latent Machine, Greg from Tabletop Machine Shop, Ben from Prickly Bear Prototypes. and jesse from data pro and this week we have a new patreon sam from dss engineering Thank you all for your patronage. It makes the wheels.
jamie peacock: on the minecart go around That's...
Curt: Oh, we got both of them today.
jamie peacock: Got both of them today.
Curt: Ooh.
jamie peacock: ah But yeah, thank you guys. It is greatly appreciated. It makes the trip to IMTS a hell of a lot easier. And Kurt and I are already discussing plans for 2028.
Curt: Yes.
jamie peacock: for IMTS because it's going to be a blast.
Curt: Yes.
jamie peacock: Um,
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah. I'm kind of curious to see. what changes because in my experience 2024 to 2026 there wasn't that much change in the show itself the community side was a lot bigger this time but Most of it was the same shit as last time.
jamie peacock: so
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: And with this AR, which was quite cool.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah, I think people are, yeah.
jamie peacock: Like there was very little talk of AR. at 2026.
Curt: Well, I think it's almost coming like a taboo subject of people being like Don't. bring that shit around here not until it's like
jamie peacock: Yeah, 100%.
Curt: something that's of use. yeah
jamie peacock: Exactly. But yeah, there was a lot less of it this time. it's It's been interesting listening to everyone's recaps of IMTS and that was one of the main takeaways is there was very little mention of AR.
Curt: Yeah. Wow.
jamie peacock: which is good. Uh, cause...
Curt: Yeah, totally.
jamie peacock: Can't be trusted. um but yeah I saw you made a YouTube video this week. dan And I watched it.
Curt: i I did. Oh, that's... always weird it's always weird when i know that people that i know watch
jamie peacock: Dude, it pops up in my feet, like...
Curt: I know I appreciate it.
jamie peacock: Okay.
Curt: um yeah no i was having fun i was i'm gonna try to do one every week um just because
jamie peacock: Let's be a show.
Curt: People. Ooh, what you got there?
jamie peacock: um man
Curt: Ooh.
jamie peacock: It's just Walter and the BS9.
Curt: It looks... Oh, okay. I was like, that looks delicious. Um,
jamie peacock: It is, it's tasty water. Yes, you did a video.
Curt: I did a video.
jamie peacock: which was entertaining.
Curt: Yeah, I... Yeah, I'm going to try to do one each week.
jamie peacock: I like your shirt selection
Curt: I don't even remember what I wore for shirts.
jamie peacock: Gonna... Uh... I'm going to G84 until she M8s.
Curt: Oh! Did I have that one on?
jamie peacock: You had that one on and some of the B -roll.
Curt: Okay. i I can't remember.
jamie peacock: I was like, Dad, I can't check the shirt.
Curt: but I tried it, I tried it plug our i think yeah in your comments or in the comments i think our shirts are plugged in there too but um
jamie peacock: i awesome
Curt: yeah no anyways yeah it did well it's fun fun sharing videos i just i forget how much i like that aspect of it um and yeah so i'm gonna try to do one per week because Half of the reason that...
Curt: people are interested in my shit is because of that in the past they can follow along everybody wants to follow along and feel
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: like they belong so without Knowing it, that's like that's great marketing for me.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: 100%.
Curt: Even though i need I need less of the marketing, I still want the community. And the community has always been fantastic. so
jamie peacock: The, yeah. the community side of things I think gets undervalued as people grow. Fuck.
Curt: Oh, 100%.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: India.
Curt: Dude.
jamie peacock: but also taking the time.
Curt: There's a couple.
jamie peacock: to do the videos also it's time you could be making pens, but you also enjoy it, so. It's... Yeah.
Curt: Yeah, I like...
jamie peacock: You can't just make pens all day.
Curt: No, and like, it's the same thing. Like, when you... when i eventually die like i don't want to Like... there's certain things you can do that are just enjoyable and the fact too like i'm literally making it like i bought one of those osmo pocket fours that is life -changing for how easy they are to use like everything how they pair like that whole ecosystem
jamie peacock: na
Curt: um I don't. I don't like them for the drone world because... week. whatever but now i like i see the draw why they're so popular because everything they do is just seamless It's just like bamboo printers, right?
Curt: Like likech what?
jamie peacock: Exactly. DJI engineers started bamboo.
Curt: like or don't like them. a Right?
jamie peacock: You can tell.
Curt: Yeah. like
jamie peacock: you can still bother you are.
Curt: You can.
jamie peacock: No.
Curt: yeah you turn them on everything works everything is designed to just it it reminds me of early apple like i was an early to apple adopter i switched now but like i remember being like oh shit like i had an iMac and i had an Apple phone and i'm like they just they all link together it's just like this is insane how seamless this is And it was wonderful.
jamie peacock: I had iPhone 5 and it just, it worked. It's just. and well till it fell off the bed but it worked beautifully and then i dropped it and i was like now i'm not buying another one of these i'll go back to android ah But I went to an iPhone because I threw my Android at the wall because it was a siemens Samsung.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: but like a low like a mid -low class one i think it was the four mini and the tracking.
Curt: Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: so it would automatically adjust the gain of the touchscreen. It was the first one to do it.
Curt: Oh.
jamie peacock: And it did it really badly.
Curt: Weird.
jamie peacock: So you'd be tapping and it would think your hand was a kilometer that way.
Curt: Oh bummer.
jamie peacock: and the one not about the movie like really frustrated with internet flow and then it died um Yeah, men. I got an iPhone because I needed a phone. um I locked my iPhone right up until it slipped off the bedroom. and we took That was it. Fucking dead.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: No, but the the ecosystem, that's thing it it was a closed ecosystem, but it worked, so you didn't mind.
Curt: so exactly that exactly that like it was just like whatever but and then
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah, but all those all those things.
jamie peacock: Amen. yaman the apple.
Curt: they They work so well. like i i get why I get why people do it. and yeah So anyways, that just. ah makes shooting videos so much easier when it's just like oh this is i don't have to worry about this i don't have to worry about this i'm like Yeah.
jamie peacock: it makes it too like the footage coming off my pocket three is amazing i was looking at the footage earlier it's really really good and you just get a bit better about being a little more steady and then the footage will be really good
Curt: Yeah, it's it's nuts what they can do with... I mean, ah yeah like the like the... I have the... about that pocket four P and like, 17 stops of dynamic range if you're shooting on the big camera with and you're shooting in their log 2 which is nuts like you could compare that to like i was looking at like an fx3 sony fx3 And like...
Curt: 17 stops on any camera is... pretty bonkers and like is it true 17 stops i don't know who's gonna really test it but like It's. for all the reviews i watch it's insane for anyways for the camera dorks out there
jamie peacock: Yeah, but they also... DJI went and bought up all of the lens manufacturing. And I...
Curt: Yeah, exactly.
jamie peacock: the the sensor manufacturer they own all that that's all in -house they can do shit that other people could never have dreamed of doing
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah, no exactly.
jamie peacock: No.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah. They've, yeah. They kind of monopolized that whole camera section.
Curt: Yeah, I mean, it's fine. It's just kind of a thing to almost just like... mentally jerk off about because we're all going to end up watching it on a 4 -inch screen. 10 inches from our face or six inches from our face like it doesn't it almost doesn't matter but it's still It's...
jamie peacock: yeah
jamie peacock: Don't worry, I'll put you on a 1080p screen, a big fucking TV.
Curt: Have fun.
Curt: but
jamie peacock: And it's only 1080p because that's the graphics card I put on the computer. That's all it can handle. Um,
Curt: Well... I fucked up my export. It only exported it. 1080p anyway so No one.
jamie peacock: Yeah, I actually want to turn the frame rates up on the Osmo Pocket 3. It's running at 30 FPS currently. and I want to turn it up to 60 and see if it makes the motion a bit smoother.
Curt: Oh yeah, yeah.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: Yeah, because I'm...
Curt: Change your, ah change your. Your bitrate too is probably at standard. Change it to high. You get it.
jamie peacock: Okay.
Curt: Better image.
jamie peacock: I need to buy some better SD cards. So I had a... sandisk ultra sitting on my desk as i throw it in and see start recording this is a slow sd card i'm like i what drugs are you on robots so yeah i need to buy some really high -end sd cards for it Um,
jamie peacock: But yeah, weve we shot a bunch of footage yesterday of us fucking around building an office
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: It's on charge at the moment at the workshop and then I'll probably shoot some stuff if I'm in there today for the Anno setup and what I have planned for there.
Curt: Are you going to put it on are you can put on YouTube so we can all enjoy it? Hell yeah.
jamie peacock: that's the plan yeah that's the plan um
Curt: Hell yeah.
jamie peacock: I did speak to Jacob, tall Jacob, about potentially editing for me as well.
Curt: Ooh, okay, cool.
jamie peacock: Because I like the style he's doing for AJ and yeah. Mott. I might reach out there if Danica fucks me around.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: so We'll see.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Um, But yeah, we are in the throes now that the office is officed.
Curt: Yep.
jamie peacock: I am planning the Anno move. and what I want to do there.
Curt: Mmm. Okay. Okay.
jamie peacock: So one thing I'm doing is I'm putting the rinsing sink low. So when I spray shit, it doesn't blow in my fucking eyes. Because right now my wash tank is... Well, my rinse setup's pretty high. So I'm putting that a bit lower. Now I'm thinking I'm just going to build a table that has my ceiling.
jamie peacock: Bye. acid tank and my dars on it And potentially my itch as well. that's getting fume extracted and then like the rinse and stuff can be off to the side where there's no real fumes coming off of it.
jamie peacock: anything with fumes I want extracted. but it's going to literally just be the corner of that that room, then I'm gonna put a shelf to hold all my doors. that I could just move them in and out of the tank. Like, there's not... That much to a nano setup.
jamie peacock: but i am considering building a platform on the floor that all leads down to like just with a couple degrees to the corner and putting a Basically a little sump and a sump pump that will pump. so if i rinse parts or i drip on the floor it just runs there and gets pumped into the drain just to try and keep it somewhat
Curt: Okay, yeah.
jamie peacock: cleaner.
Curt: Well, it's only a matter of time before you drop a container of dye. Yeah.
jamie peacock: no Not planning on doing that ever.
Curt: No.
jamie peacock: um
Curt: Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: I've never done that and I have no intention of doing it but the problem is when I go from da tank to seal it gets carried over the floor so i don't want to stain the floor either
Curt: Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Because the yeah, i don't I don't want to repaint the floor before I leave
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So busy trying to get...
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: get that finalized what i actually want to do i'm probably just going to go in and fucking yolo it build an OSB desk and then just go buy some polyester resin and paint the f***ing thing with resin so it's waterproof.
Curt: Huh. Yeah, that'd work.
jamie peacock: Because inevitably the table gets wet and then like my current table's plowed and I just varnished the ever -living shit out of it And it's held up pretty well Over the last... three years or so Um,
Curt: Mm hmm.
jamie peacock: but i also want to build this build it once
Curt: Yeah. Fair.
jamie peacock: and be done with it, luck. so it's it's in the it's now moving to the top of the list to should as soon as the office is done then ano can happen Because having the Anno at home is a real fucking ball ache.
Curt: Oh yeah.
jamie peacock: Because I have to now leave work, come home and stand and run Anno at home. Nah. This needs to move to the workshop.
Curt: Yeah, well especially like Anno's some of those things where it's like... A little bit of work and then waiting. and a little bit of work and then like a perfect thing to do
jamie peacock: Little bit of work awaits. i literally did ano during quiz on wednesday i was running ano I would run back out for 10 minutes and then go back there for 45 minutes.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Come back for 10 minutes, go there for 45 minutes.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So. it it'll fit into the workflow work the only problem is i won't be able to look at the timer so i think i'm gonna put a camera in that room that looks at the timer
Curt: Nice, nice.
jamie peacock: that when I'm running and I can just have it open on a screen on my computer.
Curt: Yeah, yeah fair.
jamie peacock: So that I can, because that being able to see the clock takes a lot of mental pressure off.
Curt: so Oh, totally. Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: Because you now know okay, I've got 45 minutes still.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I don't have to I'm not like, ooh, is it about to run out? so we'll see either that or i've got a clock like you uh timer like you've got on the side of your lathe one of the round ones
Curt: Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: I may just take that up there and then you just, suck okay, cool.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I've got 47 minutes to go. You said it's a 45 -minute hit. Go in there and you bring it downstairs with you. and carry on. When it goes beep, beep, beep, you go upstairs and you've got two minutes till you're needed.
Curt: Yeah, exactly. That's I thought I was do at lunch like i'll I'll set a cycle running and then I'm like, okay I got 17 minutes before I have to change a part set it to 16 and then just go in and have lunch and you can eat at your leisure you're like oh Goes off, just casually walk out.
jamie peacock: yeah Still got some time. yeah
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: No, that's what I was doing at Quiznachts on Wednesday.
Curt: Don't feel like you're losing time.
jamie peacock: I had a phone timer on my phone. And then we'll go beep, beep, beep. And I'd get up and I'd walk out by the time I got home. I had another two minutes and then... i could quickly change the parts over and then head back.
Curt: Nice, yeah
jamie peacock: So, the Anno move needs to needs to happen somewhat...
Curt: Thanks.
jamie peacock: somewhat soon. Um, Yeah.
Curt: Probably a good idea.
jamie peacock: Tell me about ah your material delay.
Curt: oh so and my supplier has never been uh delayed on material like i just ask them for material and they're like yep we have it uh this time i put in a pretty big order um because i was like oh i'm like well i may as well order all the material like What's the sense of? like i've already been paid so i'm like i just order everything i'll need and pay shipping once uh so anyways i gave him all the flexibility i'm like i need this over the next like three months if you want to break it up that's fine too and they're like no we'll just ship it to you one go but they're like it's going to be a like a week delay before we get um The rest of your material.
jamie peacock: Oh no.
Curt: in i was like oh i'm like i didn't no sweat like i have a thousand things to do which actually worked out really good because uh my i'm single parenting this next week here so i might My week is going to be shot to shit because I have. So I have one, one, one of my girls is just in daycare and one of them is in kindergarten now.
Curt: So. The amount of driving I do in a day is fucking bonkers. so Yeah, I'm going to get like eight minutes a day to actually work. So it's ah the best time to have a material delay. because I'm just going to prep all the shipping. I did all like. half of the lasering for all the packing.
Curt: Uh, stickers. boxes, just the dumb.
jamie peacock: yeah
Curt: Braindead stuff. Just run that.
jamie peacock: The dumb shit that adds up.
Curt: And... The dumb shit you don't think about that you're like, oh shit. This is actually A week of. work. That you didn't think about. And you're like. Fuck, now I'm way behind.
jamie peacock: Meow.
Curt: so yeah Let's do it now.
jamie peacock: Well, we were chatting, I was chatting to a customer yesterday and he's like, yeah. We're going through our monthly costs and stuff. He's like, yeah, he gets a 25 ,000 Rand bill for packaging every month.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Lock.
Curt: yeah Yeah.
jamie peacock: that's not a accounted for in the like it's accounted in their running costs but not in their actual job costs like it adds up very quickly all the packaging stuff and then the time for guys to count pots
Curt: Mm hmm.
jamie peacock: because we're delivering batches we're just giving them a bag they count them into bags of 100. And they're paying somebody to do that.
Curt: Mm.
jamie peacock: like that shit adds up. So. very interesting When you look at it... from a bit of a higher view.
Curt: well yeah like you said the cost you don't even think like same thing i get like everyone pays shipping for their order but it just gets bulked in so i get all the cash And then I pay that. So I set it aside. Cause I'm like, okay, like you work out and you're like, oh, I'm going to be spending.
Curt: thousands and thousands of dollars on shipping and it's it's just ridiculous but you're like yeah it's
jamie peacock: Exactly. Yeah.
Curt: It's money that's been paid. It's just, it adds up. so
jamie peacock: it adds up all these little things add up and yeah you've got to kind of stay on top of it otherwise ah
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Shit goes awry.
Curt: Yeah, speaking of staying on top of things and things that help you, what's this ah gantry loader project you're talking about?
jamie peacock: That's not for me.
Curt: Ooh.
jamie peacock: That's for a customer. so
Curt: Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: they Yeah, they do the... I've been on my desk. No, shit, where'd they go? They do mops. Same customer. that does mops.
Curt: Mm hmm. Mm hmm.
jamie peacock: They've currently got a guy sitting in front of a press, assembling pot, put in press, push buttons. They want to... basically do a two by four sheet With holes in it the guys fill the sheets up close the door hit go and the gantry loads it in the press presses it unloads it loads and and just through the whole table so the guy loads the table hits go walks away for 40 minutes and loads the next table and the next table, so they want to build one to start.
jamie peacock: uh that'll basically just it's a pick and play system that It's based back, it's a gantry picking place. And we're discussing like... he can get a robot for 125 000 rand I'm like cool.
jamie peacock: You press sing 100 ,000 parts a month. When one of those gearboxes on that robot goes out, what's your plan?
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: Or when the electronics on the car, what's your plan?
Curt: Yeah, it totally.
jamie peacock: i'm like the gantry i'm going to sell you it's going to come with a spare belt and when you break the first belt you order a second belt and you put the new one in If a linear guide goes, it's a 600 Rand linear guide. It's a cheap Chinese linear guide. You can swap it. You don't need to phone me to come and swap a linear guard.
jamie peacock: Like, let's make it out of shit that's replaceable. This thing's going to do... over a million cycles a year. So, yeah. we I need to work out a costing for him and...
jamie peacock: put a proposal together. and I want to use EtherCAT servos. so that I have an excuse to get EtherCAT working on LinuxCNC.
Curt: Fair.
jamie peacock: For my own endeavors. Yeah, so we're gonna go eat the cats on there
Curt: Sure. yeah
jamie peacock: probably on like a four to one gearbox. And then belt drive. actuators effectively.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So we should be able to go ahead and literally mock Jesus around and then load parts really quickly. And then we'll just put a light curtain up or a door. or an interlock some interlock we're discussing what options we've got they're probably going to close the area off and if you open the door all the machines pause because we're starting with one but then they're going to put one opposite is
Curt: Mm.
jamie peacock: and then we can put because like that thing will slap the shit out of you
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: if it's moving around at 20 or 30 meters a minute that's gonna pimp slap you one solid shot
Curt: You should.
jamie peacock: yeah so i'm looking at ethercat servos now and getting that all working with linux cnc and then generating the g -code is straightforward i'll i'll fork a version of my pick and play stuff although i probably don't even need to I can probably just make it work with.
jamie peacock: What I have. So when it runs the sub program, the sub program is literally. It's all the press to press. Has the press pressed? Yes it has. Unload the port. And dump it in the... um And dump it into the bed Fuck it.
jamie peacock: pretty straightforward. So we'll see. I'm going to mess around with that. but yeah should be a fun should be a fun project it's going to be a three meter long gantry with one and a half meter cross travel
Curt: Oh, okay. So sizable. Yeah.
jamie peacock: sizeable they want to use a 2x4 sheet uh of plywood as the base that way they can run so we'll make different end effectors they can run the one part or they swap the end effects and then they can run a different part And then they just take that sheet of plywood, go to a friend, have them route the pattern into it. bolt it down and load parts and hit go.
Curt: Gotcha.
jamie peacock: So they're looking to have one guy loading these things instead of sitting in front of a press, because if the press comes down and smashes the end effector.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: That's fun. No one's lost a finger.
Curt: Yeah. Exactly.
jamie peacock: No.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: That's the thing. that the yeah the risk of losing a finger in that workshop is significant.
Curt: Yeah, that's not that's not good
jamie peacock: It's time. Yeah, want to try? Tron. get away from that but yeah it should be a fun should be a fun project
Curt: Yeah, sounds cool.
jamie peacock: I do enjoy building random pieces of equipment. What stupid shit are you doing on your mill?
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Okay, well, I have...
jamie peacock: And which Mo is the more important Christian?
Curt: It's the the the proper one, the big one, the style here.
jamie peacock: Okay.
Curt: um But I was, ah our our good friend, Mr. Gray. Um, pie chart enthusiast he was He reached out to me. uh laura didn't reach out why don't we were just chatting on instagram and he's like oh I was talking about drilling or raging about drilling or with something.
Curt: And he's like he's like, oh, you should. Dude, like you could do it on the mill. And I was like. And immediately I'm like, eh. Um, i'm like I used to do it on the mill my little one when my lathe couldn't drill This is drilling pen body. So drilling about a two and a half inch deep hole um from either side is basically how I do it.
Curt: And so I kind of just I was like, yeah, it's not my favorite. I do like. I do like the kind of self -centering nature of a lathe where like... Uh, a drill kind of tends to want to be on until it gets long but like it wants to start on center at least Um,
Curt: But that same thing, that's me thinking. of a hobby grade machine where it's like I'm like, well, I could put a pen body in the, in the mill and. have the machine position itself like dead nuts on center. Like I could probe it and and be dead nuts on center.
Curt: And as long as the tube is held perpendicular to the axe the axle, like I'm going to get probably just as straight as a hole as I will on the lathe. And. the Right now, i did a I ran a cycle on the lathe. So drilling the drilling cycle takes five minutes. to go two and a half.
Curt: inches deep into titanium with a quarter inch drill. Um, And I was like, oh, I'm just not pushing the feed very hard. So I pushed the feed harder. And the time went down like. I think I pushed the feed like...
Curt: 30 % or 40 % harder, and the time went down by like 15 seconds. Because... All the time is spent. coming out of the hole and then going back in the hole.
jamie peacock: retracting yeah
Curt: and like i have a wrap it out and then wrap it in within like within 10 thou
jamie peacock: Yeah but what are your rapids on that machine?
Curt: like 300 so they're barely moving and the acceleration is slow because it's going You. Whereas. the x5 is like this this like and it can do it at like 1200 inches per minute with insane acceleration So... I was like, you know what? If I drill it. So anyways, a long story short.
Curt: I'm going to put, um so anyways, thank you, Justin, for making me think in a different way. um I'm going to put, I've already had a fixture built that just holds broad. I'm going to put it in there and I'm going to drill one out and just see what it looks like, see what kind of finish I can get out of it.
Curt: Because if I can get a good finish, I can eliminate reaming as well. And then that ah that negates the whole like... me having to put high pressure on the on the lathe. Because I have everything.
jamie peacock: you can also just Remus in the mole.
Curt: I don't have to build anything.
Curt: i yeah I totally could, but like at that point I would rather it like the reaming doesn't take long on the hard inch and like reaming. five inches of titanium.
jamie peacock: With oil. Yep.
Curt: Is a fucking challenge. um
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: And I don't know if I'd be able to do it. except the way I'm doing it on the Hardenge where I can push oil backwards. um through the tube as it's reaming.
jamie peacock: yes
Curt: And I can't do that on the mill. easily i could plumb coolant lines sure but like Anyways, the goal, with the plan would be to like. first drill one on the on the x5 see how that works and if that works i could very easily build an array Um,
jamie peacock: yes
Curt: And then. It can run for an hour just doing the drilling and that frees up time on the lathe. And yeah, it's a win all around. So I'm going to try it for sure.
jamie peacock: Okay. Worth a try.
Curt: Ciao.
jamie peacock: Eat ya!
Curt: Yeah, I just...
jamie peacock: Mr. Grey making people think outside boxes.
Curt: that's just a nice thing about this whole community sometimes someone will throw like an offhand comment that i like and i'll immediately like even when he said it to me i like i immediately ruled it out i'm like dumb i won't do that i've done that and then i went for a walk that night i'm like No, I'm like.
Curt: That's... that's probably That's workable. Like that's workable and it's a different way to do it. And it solves a monster issue for me. so
jamie peacock: you You're not RPM limited in any way because you're drilling titanium.
Curt: It's nice.
jamie peacock: But...
Curt: Totally, yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah. But the feeds in and out make a big difference.
Curt: Like I said, I had i cranked the... the cutting feed but i wasn't able to do anything with the the rapid speed and it just it's negligible because all my time is spent moving in and out of the hole. so Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, that's weird. through uh three drill coolant would help But yeah.
Curt: totally but that means i have to buy the pump and i have to install it and get it working and tweak it and adjust it and like it's not going to be a one day thing it's going to take me a fucking a week of ticking or dicking around to figure it out so
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Not 100%.
Curt: this i have I have everything. I could do it tomorrow. It's ready to go.
jamie peacock: Yep.
Curt: so I'm gonna do that and see how it is.
jamie peacock: I'm curious too. I'm very curious to see how much quicker it is.
Curt: it'd be real and i'm gonna run just the stock feeds that i that i know work uh just to see
jamie peacock: Let you know work.
Curt: Yeah, and be like, oh, it can do it in... Whatever. A minute and ten seconds, and then... you add that up over you know thousands of pens you're like oh that's a monster chain and that's per side folks so like It's 10 minutes of drilling per pen tube.
jamie peacock: That's a lot of drilling.
Curt: is what I'm doing. It's a lot of fucking drilling.
jamie peacock: Yep. So, oh no, no, definitely worth.
Curt: So.
jamie peacock: worth pursuing. there
Curt: Yeah. So. We're going to fuck with that. See what happens.
jamie peacock: Kind of curious.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Uh,
Curt: So. Oh, and that.
jamie peacock: Um...
Curt: segues perfectly into because i also need this now more tool holders
jamie peacock: Yes, so I bought another 11 tool holders last night.
Curt: the
jamie peacock: but Not for lost.
Curt: oo
jamie peacock: ah Yeah, the tough ones are just EOS, EOS 16 and 20s.
Curt: What kind?
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: Um, for the Tufnel job. Like it's just. Like, cheapest chips. I'm just gonna buy a bunch.
Curt: Mm.
jamie peacock: Load them up. They are dedicated to the job. I'll probably need eight of them for the job. So I'll have a few extras. But now I'm just setting tools up and just leaving them set up.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: That's what I've been doing for a while. The only problem is now I'm going to have... i think it's 80 something tools that are gonna have to get touched off when i a bench leading move artifacts for setting my toolsetter
Curt: m
jamie peacock: So a little annoying but is what it is. I don't have to do them all at once I can do them as I put them in the machine Uh, But yeah, about what to hold us, cuz... I don't know. They're going to hold drills and shit. Machine toughen them. doesn't have to be super super accurate so just generic cheap tool holders do the trick I've got like 40 of them already.
jamie peacock: And I can't really say.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: anything bad about them some of them run i run Act your shit on them. and the runouts not. Not bad. So. Another, another batch of tool holders.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: now i've literally got all my standard size like drilling uh tapping drills from m4 through M12. permanently set up different tools for steel and aluminium.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: and then my thread mills and like now i'm going to dedicate thread mills to the toughenall job though that is the thread more for the job that is the end more for the job that once i dial them in i don't have to redial them in when i go to setup again and i'm not stuffing up my good tools on tough
Curt: Good night. I never really realized that of like how. the same thing like breaking down tool holders like same thing now like if i need a new tool i just buy a new tool holder i'm like i'm never i'm never not gonna like i'm never gonna break down a tool unless it's gone out of production i'm like no we'll just keep me we'll just keep buying two holders it's way better
jamie peacock: Exactly. Yeah, I mean, I've got a 14 mil Rima that lives set up. for running anchor point bodies.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: like it's just it's permanently set up i'm not breaking it down it's touched off everything is good to go and When I need it, I load it, otherwise it sits on the rack.
Curt: Yeah, 100%.
jamie peacock: And that's the way that's the way to go. It's the cheapest form of automation.
Curt: Exactly. Yeah. And error correction or error prevention. Like ah it's got a bunch of great. Great. ah artifacts of.
jamie peacock: yeah
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: like i need to now add a tool 421 to my tool library which is the steel six millimeter ball nose because i've been using tool 21 but that is my aluminum Uh, Paul Mill.
jamie peacock: so i need to now separate A dedicated one for Steel. and those are in the 400 series on my controller. So like there is some... some rhyme and reason to my tool tool numbering.
jamie peacock: But y 'all.
Curt: Yeah, we got to beat that.
jamie peacock: I'm the only one at that answered.
Curt: We got to beat that tool numbering under your head.
jamie peacock: Nah.
Curt: i
jamie peacock: Till that brings fun.
Curt: Names dude, humans read names.
jamie peacock: No, fuck. No, I read numbers.
Curt: Your controller does it.
jamie peacock: Bye. i read numbers i know my controller does it but if i get something with a shitty controller then i've got to go back to numbers so i'm just sticking with numbers
Curt: Well. Don't get something with a shitty controller problem solved
jamie peacock: yes
Curt: I know what you mean
jamie peacock: Yeah, expensive problem solved.
Curt: I get it.
jamie peacock: yeah
Curt: I get you, yeah.
jamie peacock: Um, Yeah, I'm waiting to find out where that Zoppo machine is. It should be in the country. I want to go down to Cape Town and have a look at it. I spoke to my mates because I'm trying to get instructions on how to set up the probe.
jamie peacock: From WD Hood.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: Um, I got those instructions you sent me. I read through them. um But yeah, I'm trying to get from WD Turn what I need to do.
Curt: Sure.
jamie peacock: So I spoke to my mates, I'm like, what's happening with that machine?
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: He's like, yeah, he thinks it's at the riggers. He'll speak to us once we've found out where it's at.
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: um Because I want to go have a look at it and see. See what it looks like.
Curt: Yeah, looks like it might be a great fit for you.
jamie peacock: We will. See ya.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: yeah the problem is fitting it into my workshop
Curt: Is it that big? or
jamie peacock: It's...
Curt: Just have enough shitter in there
jamie peacock: Very similar size to the LK. it's a little bit narrower than that okay um yeah the problem is fitting it in and still having good chip management and a decent work cell
Curt: Oh, okay. Okay.
jamie peacock: it becomes a a challenge. So I have some thoughts and plans. We'll see what... what we do May have to turn the LK around. But then we lose a meter behind the LK because now...
jamie peacock: they you need to be able to get the coolant tank out.
Curt: Right, right, right.
jamie peacock: So yeah, the thought would be to spin the LK around on that same pad
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: And then... put my table the other side of the lk and then put the other machine So the doors face each other. But then the whole workshop was taken up.
Curt: Yeah, yeah. Fair.
jamie peacock: So then, maybe it's just get another workshop that has all the leads in it.
Curt: Fancy. Lathe Division.
jamie peacock: Yes. I will just lay complaints until my neighbours kicked out and then take over his unit.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah.
Curt: Yeah. sounds great.
jamie peacock: like quite literally. Well, when you park a forklift with the forks at knee -hot sticking out the door into the...
Curt: but
jamie peacock: into the Um... into the road, you deserve to be kicked the fuck out.
Curt: Yeah fair. That's a dumb one.
jamie peacock: Like, what the fuck?
Curt: Yeah
jamie peacock: Yeah. I was rather annoyed by that one. um But yeah, I have come up with a new standard. Harbour spacing.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: 125. millimeters between centers
Curt: Oh. That's nice Yeah.
jamie peacock: It's about as compact as you can go. um
Curt: Mm -hmm.
jamie peacock: The old Razor I drew for you was 128. but i want one i went 125
Curt: Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: uh because i was chatting to john and he wants to potentially move his clutch covers onto there
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: So we want to make it as compact as possible so that your pallet cost is as low as possible as well
Curt: That's...
Curt: Fair enough. And for all you heathens out there, that rounds over to a beautiful 4 .92126 inches.
jamie peacock: so
Curt: So.
jamie peacock: Yes, I refuse to make a bench slice. Um,
Curt: that one.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so I've got i some risers designed I need to send through for you to have a look at in your machine. uh yours will be just two units and then this is a four unit that i designed
Curt: Yes.
Curt: Ooh. Tough guy.
jamie peacock: and then your one i've got a current design that has got the air bar pass through the bottom so you unclamp the front one and they both unclamp
Curt: Uh, yeah. that would be probably completely fine.
jamie peacock: because i didn't want to put them sideways because then clearance has become an issue with your um
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: With your kin. vassals.
Curt: ah
jamie peacock: Because that's something you also need to think about. uh you'll only be able to use one canvas at a time on the anchor point as well
Curt: right
Curt: That'll be fine.
jamie peacock: because they're so close together. But then...
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I'm gonna probably make a bunch of blanking pucks. at some point that go on the but on the one that you're not using that clamp down with a pull stud
Curt: Gotcha. That makes sense.
jamie peacock: so you don't get ingress of shit because currently i've got a magnetic one and i hate it
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Oh, fair. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so I'm andnna i'm probably just going to order a bunch of um He has 62 diameter aluminium. Throw it in the machine.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: machine around put some grips or whatever in it uh draw thread more than clamp them and just deck them off. Okay, then I might set them out for ammo for shits and giggles.
Curt: Mm.
Curt: Ooh, pretty.
jamie peacock: Yeah, then you can see that they're there. Make them a bright color. Get them to make them hot pink for me.
Curt: That's kind of a smart idea. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: dead Definitely keep on track with my color coding. Bright pink this time. um
Curt: but
jamie peacock: But yeah, I got Anno back. last week Yeah, maybe I'll go back after we spoke. Uh... Out of 90 parts, three of them went in the bin.
Curt: Okay, that's better.
jamie peacock: Much better.
Curt: That's better.
jamie peacock: Much, much better.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Um,
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So yeah, they seem to be getting their shit together. I've got another 60 pieces of material on order for Glock 19s because... We are out of blue because I scrapped most of the blues. So I'm going to run those. But yeah, I'm running those with the new workflow that Mr. Gray has forced me to adopt.
Curt: Oh, okay. he's
jamie peacock: So we know.
Curt: forcing us to do all kinds of things.
jamie peacock: Yeah, we're now using the zero point as a zero point. Um, So I made the chick palette for my chick vase.
Curt: Good.
jamie peacock: i need to make the clamps and i've designed the clamps to be Machined... Op 1 of my old workflow, just probe fucking block in. Up to... is programmed off of the zero point on one of my zendai palettes uh zendai vases So load the soft jaws, machine the soft jaws.
jamie peacock: off of that zero point down here somewhere and then run the part so we'll see how that works I don't see why it wouldn't work.
Curt: I'll be good.
jamie peacock: But yeah.
Curt: Probably great. That's that's how I do everything so yeah
jamie peacock: Yeah. Yeah. So moving on to the zero point world. uh considering our ourselves zero points should probably use them as zero points
Curt: I thought you were already were. So that's, yeah, that's.
jamie peacock: i do on pellets not on my vices so now i'm moving on to it on the vices
Curt: Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Okay. Well, I'll almost give you a pass then. If you're doing it on the pallets, that works.
jamie peacock: Yeah. So like any palettes, any palettes is zero pointed.
Curt: Yeah. Okay.
jamie peacock: My vast workflow was not zero pointed because generally speaking. It just wasn't.
Curt: Yay.
jamie peacock: I'd just probe the block in and then hit go.
Curt: you weren't You probably weren't drawing up every single setup.
jamie peacock: no so like now i've got setups that are like it's in a folder called being fancy that i can just drag into my model
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Position my port and hit go.
Curt: yeah Yeah, yeah, okay.
jamie peacock: Yep.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So getting that workflow dialed in. but john
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: Tell me about your color grading.
Curt: Oh, color grading. That's fun. ah that's just a two minute thing of just. I've never shot in log before, so now I'm shooting in log because I'm realizing the massive benefit of shooting your video in... some kind of log if you have the availability and uh i'm learning color grading which is fucking dark art um so then i just gave up and i'm using luts doing minor color grading with a lot that i like and that's it And this makes no sense to anybody unless you're into. Videography.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Kurt being a nerd.
Curt: I think you're. I think your pocket three will support. I think it shoots in log as well.
jamie peacock: Get us.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yep.
Curt: So.
jamie peacock: Uh, Microsoft wanted me to pay for a... a codec and i laughed at them and installed vlc
Curt: Oh, yeah, fair. I yeah i wouldn't. Yeah. yeah
jamie peacock: I'm not paying you for a fucking codec, don't be stupid
Curt: Go VLC. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Um, But yeah, one of the guys on the Taps on Patience Discord suggested you look into drag tumbling.
Curt: I think I've heard of this.
jamie peacock: Yes, so basically the pen spins.
Curt: I think Grimsmo talked about it.
jamie peacock: and goes into the tumbler and then that spins and yeah apparently gives like wicked finishes
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Yes. i've heard ah I've heard about drag tumbling. I know very little about it, but it's a weird process.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: You probably know more than me about it. I know nothing about it. I thought I would just mention it.
Curt: Yeah, it would work for some parts for sure.
jamie peacock: and throw it into your brain.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Um,
Curt: I will look into it.
jamie peacock: as an option
Curt: i will look into it yeah
jamie peacock: Like apparently it's really quick as well
Curt: Wouldn't work. i That I have heard about, yeah. it's because yeah you're you can you can force a part through the media like
jamie peacock: yes
Curt: way harder than it just having to go through at its own you know volition so
jamie peacock: a lot harder than gravity.
Curt: Totally, yeah it's like yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mmm.
jamie peacock: So it might be something to to look into.
Curt: Interesting.
jamie peacock: And then he wins on a field trip.
Curt: Yeah fair enough. yeah so like i said uh my littlest one it's her first year of kindergarten And, um or sorry, my oldest one.
Curt: And they took the kindergartners, a bunch of them. to the corn maze here.
jamie peacock: Oh.
Curt: which i I thought, and it's a big.
jamie peacock: fun. That seems like a bad plan.
Curt: it's a big fucking corn like i've gotten lost in it it's a big corn maze um So anyways, I was like, how's this? And I was a volunteer like. uh, they they asked for volunteers like hell yeah so anyways i got to go and so they gave me a look a little clan of children.
Curt: And they're like, And the teacher's like, ask wherever you want. And I was like. Bye. you're brave bringing fucking children to a corn maze anyways we were fine the kids went in for like four minutes they' like we're bored they ran out and then they jumped on these big like bouncy trampolines for two hours.
Curt: and Didn't give a shit about the corn maze.
jamie peacock: That tracks.
Curt: But yeah I was.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: i was glad because i didn't want to lose someone's kid and be like sorry i lost him in the corn like But...
jamie peacock: ah Yeah, that would be Microsoft is losing them in the corn.
Curt: Yeah. Anyway. Oh, it's just like herding cats. like They're hilarious.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: They're so wild when they're a little.
jamie peacock: No, no, dude.
Curt: but yeah
jamie peacock: dwarfs are very entertaining.
Curt: they're they're so entertaining just like me and the parents were just frazzled as fuck trying to keep track of everybody but they were all well behaved and it was great but Anyways. Just one of the benefits of... doing the shit me and you are doing is you can you can do like i talked about i talked about a year ago of like wanted to do that and now like That's something I'm doing, which is which is.
Curt: I'm fucking buried in work, but still, that shit's important.
jamie peacock: But you can take that time to go and...
Curt: so
jamie peacock: Spend it with your kids.
Curt: exactly and like yeah whatever you want to do in life it's just kind of nice to Kind of nice to have the flexibility.
jamie peacock: Exactly.
Curt: So.
jamie peacock: Yeah, 100%. So, what is in your Google box?
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: ah Well, you were calling fly fishermen um homosexuals. So... You'll love this. I don't know if you ever looked at... uh for drone flying um at like uh mr steele he has a company ethics
jamie peacock: is a little chesty
Curt: Yeah. The mini chesty, like it's like a fanny pack for your chest. You look. like a monster turbo nerd but i kind of want one for uh my little it's mainly for my little uh my little boop to fly indoors because i can keep everything in there and it's but like you look it's like a cross it's like a bag that sits on your chest with like suspenders that go over your back and you just can't look cool and it's a tactical looking bag but man you look like a monster dork wearing it
jamie peacock: of
Curt: Anyways. Kind of want one, but...
jamie peacock: Fuck.
Curt: There was one on sale in Canada. they The supplier, they have a bunch on sale. I was like, I don't think I can buy it. It's pretty dorky. Um, logs and LUTs. bioshock because i kind of want to dress up as is it called the big daddy i can't remember what it is in bioshock the big dude And then the little girl, I kind of want to dress up being my... My daughter is one of those.
Curt: And I'm not. ah I think it'd be fun. ah Firmware downgrade. Oh yeah. Anyone who has an H2D bamboo or an H2C, if you're print... Or if your printer is knocking and it sounds like a pulley is loose, like the Z pulley.
Curt: ah It's not. yeah They tuned the acceleration too hard. and it makes a clunking noise on z rapids and if you downgrade your firmware it goes away And apparently it's a known issue. And yeah, I almost tore mine apart because I was like, what the fuck? And it's a firmware issue. so Hot tip.
Curt: and millimeter to inches, because once again, I can't do math.
jamie peacock: millimeters of superior
Curt: How about you?
jamie peacock: Um.
Curt: There are they are they are
jamie peacock: Yep. my google box is kind of empty it's got otter because i was loading things into otter Uh, firm. Firmworks, because he needs to sort his website out and he needs to release the frickin' minivars. He's giving me blue balls.
Curt: a
jamie peacock: um Look at my gas supply because we ran out of gas.
Curt: ah
jamie peacock: uh midway tools because i was looking at tools and gal marcus i need to buy screws for the office I want to see when that opened. I think they're open today till like 11 or 12. So we'll make a swing pass and go buy some screws so I can finish screwing on the OSP.
jamie peacock: for the office
Curt: Sick. Sick.
jamie peacock: No. Very, very late. Yeah, where can people find you and your things?
Curt: Cool. Find me and my things at confoundedmachine .com. All roads point. somewhere there media points to our site and you can buy shirts or join the patreon which is something you folks might want to do And hint for the next little bit.
Curt: Um,
jamie peacock: Yes, there will be an announcement next week about that.
Curt: oh so yeah get on it before we jack the price up to reap reap the rewards We won't do that but maybe we will.
jamie peacock: Mmm.
jamie peacock: on Billion. Yeah. Mostly.
Curt: Um, And yeah, anyways, foundermachine .com. How about you, Mr. Jamie?
jamie peacock: Yeah, you can find me at josephkeang .com. It's got links to everything else. Regarding nautical workholding. ah Tabs and Patients no longer links there. um
Curt: Sorry.
jamie peacock: But the spelling, I have clarification on the spelling of nautical.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: So. The reason it's spelt this way.
Curt: Ooh.
jamie peacock: It's because it's a zero -point system. naught. Tickle.
Curt: Oh, that makes sense. Yeah. Okay.
jamie peacock: Yes, it makes it, Danica clarified this for me. It makes sense. So yeah, you can find the workholding products at nauticalwh .com. You can find the dates to happenings at jspec underscore engineering. on Instagram.
jamie peacock: And then y 'all. Jspec ENG, there are some flux on there. which I have no stock of because they're with my dad's ah friend's dad. somewhere on the south coast. I need to... Get them picked up.
Curt: Go.
jamie peacock: um But yeah, I need to message guy ordered one and be like, hey, do you mind waiting like a week? And then I'll send you an anodized one. because currently I have no stock and I need to run them. so I ordered material I just need to run a bunch of the knobs
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: But yeah. Uh... That's the website thingies. uh what do you have to today slash tomorrow because tomorrow is when you're gonna be alive again
Curt: ah Yeah, I'm gonna go to sleep and then tomorrow I'm oh, yeah, I'm i'm single parenting it so Hell if I know. Probably. Going to just.
Curt: Dude. little children stuff. color
jamie peacock: colour in unicorns.
Curt: Play in the park. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Nice.
Curt: Try not to pee our pants Spot it.
jamie peacock: Yep, that's always fun.
Curt: Yeah. How about you?
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: What are you up to today?
jamie peacock: Um... i need to go visit dave i think i'm gonna go buy screws i might go past the workshop i don't know how' feel about that. Um, And then I want to watch V for Vendetta, which I have never watched, apparently.
Curt: oh You...
jamie peacock: i downloaded it yesterday yeah no apparently i've never watched it
Curt: What?
Curt: You have watched... you Oh, stop the podcast right now. Go watch it. That is a...
jamie peacock: So.
Curt: Bang, especially right now. It is timely.
jamie peacock: Yeah. It's on my. It's on my PC downstairs.
Curt: ah
jamie peacock: I'm going to go. I wanted to watch it last night and then I just wasn't list for a movie. So I think we'll watch it this afternoon. Um,
Curt: m
jamie peacock: and just take a bit of a chill day and then back into the swing of things full force tomorrow
Curt: nice
jamie peacock: Yeah. I need to, yeah, I'm busy CNCing the ground a bit. We'll talk about that next week. I'm finally getting around to it because I really don't want to grind anchor point pads by hand.
Curt: ooh
Curt: Yep. Fair.
jamie peacock: It takes like 10 minutes to freaking pad.
Curt: Amen.
jamie peacock: it needs to be automated.
Curt: Yeah, that sounds like one
jamie peacock: We have the technology. Uh, yeah.
Curt: We can rebuild him.
jamie peacock: That's it.
Curt: Stronger. Better.
jamie peacock: Exactly. but yeah Anyway, thank you, for everybody, for listening.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: um If you enjoyed the show, please consider liking, sharing, subscribing, all those fun things. And yeah, we'll see you guys next week.
Curt: Take care.
