Transcript
jamie peacock: Welcome to the Loan Machines Podcast, which is you, the work and the machines. What have you got going on today, Kurt?
Curt: ah This week, we're going to rant and rave and try not to spoil Dungeon Crawler Carl. ah Changing box sizes again for reasons. And taking days off. It's something I've finally done, and it's kind of fun.
Curt: How about you? What are you going to about?
jamie peacock: um Trying not to die, don't you call a call. um And I solved Anchor Point issue that I've been having. So yeah, it's going to be an interesting one.
Curt: Yay!
jamie peacock: Yeah, how are you this fine day, Kurt? Well, it's fine, evening.
Curt: I'm doing good. It's the land of a thousand suns, so it's like, I don't know. It doesn't get dark here. Like, it's still sunny. I can still go outside and read books. It's going to be like that til for another hour.
jamie peacock: Oh, geez.
Curt: Like, it doesn't the sun doesn't set until, like, 11. Well, actually, I think it already set, but yeah, it's super light this time of year.
jamie peacock: That's wild.
Curt: It's wild. Yeah, it's a bizarre time. So, anyway.
jamie peacock: Yeah, I was in Poland once and it was like that. where And there weren't decent blinds in the hotel. So it was still light at half past nine at night.
Curt: Oh, yeah.
jamie peacock: It was really difficult.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Like i was battling to go to sleep because we had been on site all day, got really drunk and then want to go to sleep and it's still fucking sunny.
Curt: Yeah, I tried putting together or try putting like a three-year-old and a four-year-old to bed at like, or two-year-old and four-year-old, whatever they are.
jamie peacock: Hmm.
Curt: At like, yeah, seven, eight o'clock when it's like blazing sun. It looks like it's, you know, one o'clock in the afternoon. It's like, no, I i promise you it's nighttime. It's like, it's the weather.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Yeah.
Curt: It's just weird. So anyway.
jamie peacock: That must be a fun challenge.
Curt: Yeah. Well, like you said, blackout curtains helps ton.
jamie peacock: I like your cup.
Curt: Oh, he's got a fuck ton of stickers on. It's my testing cup.
jamie peacock: Yes, but the pen club one was facing the camera.
Curt: so Oh, was it?
jamie peacock: As you lifted it, yes, it was great.
Curt: Oh, okay. Sick. I gotta to find out where it is again now. There's just so many fucking stickers on.
jamie peacock: On the top.
Curt: There we go. Okay.
jamie peacock: Yeah, there we go. Winning. a
Curt: So how's your death going?
jamie peacock: I'm a deaf as being successful by the sounds of us. um
Curt: Yeah, you sound rough.
jamie peacock: Yeah, dude. Yeah, I've been ah waking up in the middle like fucking seven eight times a night just fucking hacking to death. So yeah, I've got a bit of a cough going on. I'm actually gonna go today get fucking pneumonia test TB test to just see if it's one of those because it's been going on now for like three or four weeks.
Curt: cool Yeah, no fun.
jamie peacock: Yeah. So i know my dad had TB back in the day when he was, he was working in close proximity people. And technically speaking, everyone in South Africa, you already got TB.
jamie peacock: Uh, your body's just strong enough to kick it off and not let it take root.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: Like literally walk down the street and you've got in your lungs already. Like it's, it's super prevalent. It's just your body's normally strong enough to just not have an issue with it. Um,
Curt: Right.
jamie peacock: And with the move and the stress and all that shit, I think it may have decided to take root. I don't know. Not coughing up blood or any of that fun stuff yet. um So it's probably not TB. But we'll see. ah I'm going Danica's forcing me to go see a doctor today.
Curt: um It's not a bad idea. like Just even stress in general. It's fucking crazy the kind of shit it can pull up in you.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: where it's like Really?
jamie peacock: Oh no, 100%.
Curt: That's just caused by being...
jamie peacock: Like, and we've been, yeah, the move has been stressful as fuck.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So my body's just fine.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: chint Enough is enough. um But we, Dadek said to me yesterday, we don't work Sundays anymore. It's not actually optional. We do not work Sundays anymore.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: That's the whole point to the shop.
Curt: It's a good idea.
jamie peacock: So like yesterday, we, well, we worked at the house like a fucking assemble furniture and crap, but
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: It was spent day with family and friends and whatnot. And then this morning, we're going to work and do work things.
Curt: Yeah, it's ah it's a long-term, that's the way way more healthy option, for sure.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Definitely.
Curt: But...
jamie peacock: For now, we're running Saturdays still, but ideally, unless we have to, I don't want to be running Saturdays or Sundays.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah, no doubt.
jamie peacock: The problem is the number of hours in a day.
Curt: No doubt. Yeah, it's always a problem. I know, I hate it too.
jamie peacock: Yeah, versus the amount of parts we need to put out the door. ah Yeah, it's a bit of an issue.
Curt: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah.
jamie peacock: As we're busy now, quoting a job, we get the mute button ready, so I can die silently.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: We're busy quoting a 10,000 part right now, but we have to have custom extrusion made, aluminum extrusion.
Curt: Okay.
Curt: Jamie's just quietly dying. i'll just I'll just fill in his story as he as he dies.
jamie peacock: There we go. I like that plan. You can be the narrator. um Yeah, so we're getting 22 OD-10 ID extruded aluminium so we don't have to drill the hole.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Oh, okay, okay.
jamie peacock: Yeah, it' just a clearance all through the middle, but we have to drill the hole, it's not worth doing the parts.
Curt: Gotcha, gotcha, I see, okay.
jamie peacock: So we're going to speak to the supplier and we're making these parts for a customer and they're like, oh, they'll get an aluminium. I'm like, no, you fucking won't. I will get an aluminium, duh. so that I control the material supply.
Curt: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Like, that's nice.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I've got to buy half a ton of material. It is what it is. I'll buy half a ton of material and I'll own that die. That way I control the...
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: the flow of this order. So Carl and were discussing it and that can then run in the EMCO. And then one of the three of the part numbers use the same material.
jamie peacock: The other one uses 25 material and has to have an 8mm hole drilled through it. So that will actually drill. It's not worth having extrusion made for that one.
Curt: Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, but like the lightest part is 40 grams, the heaviest is 60 grams. And we need to make two thousand of each. So it's it's half a ton of material.
Curt: Yeah, that's enough.
jamie peacock: Like we can get it custom extruded.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: It's just case of what the lead time is going to be.
Curt: Yeah, I guess. Yeah, and if you don't have an insane die cost, then yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, I think the die cost is like a joke. um It's really, I think it was like $400 or $500.
Curt: okay.
Curt: Oh, wow. Okay. Yeah. Then totally worth it. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, you just have to order half a ton at a time, which is not a lot of material.
Curt: Sure. Sure. Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: It's a lot to offload off the truck, but it's not a lot of material.
Curt: Totally. Yeah. Yeah. yeah Yeah.
jamie peacock: So I'm going through my one of my existing suppliers to see if they can arrange this whole thing so don't have to deal directly with the mill.
Curt: I.
Curt: Right. Okay. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: I have to like, I have to, look I used to do a lot of like extrusion, um, like aluminum extrusions and like the, the things you could get extruded.
jamie peacock: Hmm.
Curt: You're like, how the hell is this die? Like, I would love to see how this die operates. Cause you're like, like, this makes no sense to me.
jamie peacock: It's insane.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So.
jamie peacock: No, they really aren't saying was explaining to Carl how the extrusion actually works. And it's like, ah that's a fucking chunk of material that they heat up and just fucking ram through the door.
Curt: Right. Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, it's freaking wild.
Curt: Well, like you,
jamie peacock: We went to the one local plant where they wanted us to make a flying cutoff for them. that would move with the speed of the material and they could just run the saw across the material as it was at length and then run the saw back as it's feeding they could cut as it fed.
Curt: Okay.
Curt: Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: I don't think we'll never get the job but it was cool to see the line.
Curt: cool. Yeah. Yeah. That'd be cool. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, I've seen a Yeah.
Curt: I don't know. just
Curt: yeah i say It just it is like blows my mind. like To like extrude like a C, that makes perfect sense to me. But to like extrude like a D, where you have like a central like pot, it's like, how does that work now?
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: it's like That's cool.
jamie peacock: Yeah, it's freaking wild.
Curt: Yeah, i should I should YouTube that.
jamie peacock: Yeah, no, those stars are... Dude, it's really cool. Like, literally, they force the aluminum around the... It's really freaking cool.
Curt: That's cool. Yeah, that's cool.
jamie peacock: um yeah i also saw a roll forming line with a flying cut off so they roll forming door frames and as it's going it's notching all the things comes to the end flying cut off so the line doesn't stop to chunk door frame out the end the guys fold the door frame into a door frame and bend some tabs and then they weld it afterwards like steel door frames which is wild because a lot of the the lower end housing here is uh steel door frames
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Wow. Huh.
Curt: That's cool.
Curt: Okay, I gotcha. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: because we all do brick brick buildings so steel door frame you just brick it in it's fine yeah we're discussing we're discussing building things with wood the other day my mate Dave came to visit I've got OSB with all my pallets on it and he was asking about OSB I'm like yeah this is America wood like yours houses are built with this shit
Curt: Sure.
Curt: Mm-hmm.
Curt: Yeah. yeah
jamie peacock: like our shit's all bricks like literally bricks and fucking concrete
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: It's the way to do it. Honestly, if you want to build it's going last like a billion years. Yeah. It's probably the way to do it. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Well, we're considering filling in our lounge. So our lounge has got two steps. It's a sunken-in lounge. And we're considering filling one of the steps because our couch doesn't fit.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: It intersects one of the steps.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: And I don't want to break the step away. I'm thinking of just filling the lounge one one step layer.
Curt: Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: Literally order a cement truck and have a guy come with a fucking wheelbarrow back and forth.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: Fill the whole fucking thing.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Concrete.
Curt: i I guess, yeah.
jamie peacock: No. No.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Fill it with concrete, put underfloor heating, and fact and then I'll have a nice warm lounge.
Curt: Yeah, I guess if concrete's cheap in your line, kind of spendy up here, so.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: No, it's relatively cheap here. So I might get a costing to do that for damn reasons.
Curt: Hmm.
Curt: Well, I guess and we have one, like a sunken lounge too, but like if I fill mine with concrete, it's going to crush my basement. So, but you don't have that problem.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: so
jamie peacock: No, my house is multi-level because there are rocks that couldn't move.
Curt: Oh, real cool.
jamie peacock: Like that is why the lounge is sunken because they couldn't make the whole thing the same level because there's a giant rock in my entrance hall. So they built over the wall.
Curt: Oh, cool.
jamie peacock: And then yeah, no, we're like gonna fuck we're on an until and there's lots of big rocks.
Curt: Oh, weird. Cool.
jamie peacock: Yeah, no, good fucking giant giant rocks.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: Yeah, there's a bunch of spots around the house. Like there's a little island out the back door. I've posted there with the doggos that island is over a rock. They couldn't remove the rocks. They built back a little island.
Curt: That's neat. ah That's cool.
jamie peacock: Yeah, there's some big rocks around here. It's interesting, like the construction method, I don't know what the what the workshop's built out of, because when I drill ah troll to anchor something, the wall's like an inch thick and then it's fucking hollow.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Oh, weird. Okay.
jamie peacock: Like the dividing wall between our unit and the neighbor's unit.
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: It's really weird.
Curt: Okay. So like, is it, is it like those, um, like just, like just masonry bricks or whatever? Like, uh, uh, yeah, yeah,
jamie peacock: I think so. think it's just concrete blocks. um It drills pretty easily. I ended up gluing the one distribution board on. I anchored it to the wall and the anchors pulled out. I just put a bunch of acrylic sealant behind it, pushed onto the wall, and it is now attached.
jamie peacock: Like, yeah, full savage mode.
Curt: Perfect. Yeah.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: I also ordered two more racks for my anchor point pallets.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: the The ones that go on the wall, I've got space for two more, so ordered two more when I did my laser cutting order.
Curt: Oh. Yeah.
Curt: Ooh, it's going to look pretty. going have a whole wackadoo now.
jamie peacock: It is.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: They feel like I've got 45 slots and they feel Yeah, and it doesn't even have one set of my fixtures on there yet.
Curt: That's crazy. That's crazy.
jamie peacock: The one job has got eight fixtures.
Curt: Oh, wow.
jamie peacock: Yeah, I made new fixtures ran the job once and I've never run it again.
Curt: That's a lot.
jamie peacock: It's like I'm winning.
Curt: Perfect. Yeah. At least they're cheap, cheap pallets.
jamie peacock: Yes. Yeah. Yeah, it's a fucking those were not those were a chunk of material, but it's fine. They're allegedly the job is coming back.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I'll believe it when I see it.
Curt: Ah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah, I see that. Yeah.
jamie peacock: It's the Torx bits that I've made like 15,000 or 16,000 of.
Curt: Okay. yeah They should come back then, i would assume.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so I've got i've got eight anchor point fixtures so I can literally load up. I think it's 64 every time I hit go.
jamie peacock: so i load I've got four in the machine, four outside the machine. I reload the one, quick change over, hit go. um i made them for the last batch that I did and then I haven't run since.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: It is what it is, I guess.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Um, are you ready to, uh, to spoil Dungeon Crawler Call?
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Well, I don't like, I don't even know if I want to spoil it and I'm not very far into it. So like literally everything we talk, Oh, I'm, so I'm just like ah maybe an hour or two into book one, but it's just, it's such just a tip.
jamie peacock: You're still on book one.
jamie peacock: Oh, just tip in book one. Okay.
Curt: Yeah. It's such a cool, like I, I dig it. I see why you recommended it.
jamie peacock: Dude, I'm on book six.
Curt: I'm not, I'm not like a huge fan of the narration and folks, we won't spoil it. So just chill. Um,
jamie peacock: Speak for yourself.
Curt: Okay, I won't spoil it. I can't speak for Jamie. um And if he starts talking, going to whip my headphones off because I don't want it ruined. But yeah, it's like... i don' like i don't I don't know if I love the narration, but I got to carry on with it.
Curt: like ah the The amount of voices they use, fantastic. That's perfect. I just don't know if I'm a huge fan of Carl's voice, but it's growing on me with time.
jamie peacock: Yes.
jamie peacock: I don't know. you
Curt: so
jamie peacock: It'll grow on you with time. Yeah, the narration is fucking wild. My favorite part of the books is the end note.
jamie peacock: Like, where the where he does a thing promoting soundproof theater.
Curt: The N...
jamie peacock: It's fucking wild.
Curt: Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: Like, I think the one from book two is the best.
Curt: Okay. Yeah.
jamie peacock: But yeah, dude, yeah.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: My Instagram is now ruined. It's just Dungeon Crawl Coal stuff.
Curt: Oh, nice. Nice.
jamie peacock: Like, there's ah I had a clip of the guy who does most of the voices recording. That oak is so talented.
Curt: Oh, yeah? is it Is it one guy doing all those voices?
jamie peacock: It's... not all but most so um yes they're no he does most of them um they have guests in to do think for a book two um guests play certain roles but most of them is the same guy
Curt: Okay, because like, there's a lot of change in the voices.
Curt: Okay.
Curt: Impressive. Impressive.
jamie peacock: yeah very good i mean yeah you still right in the beginning it gets so unhinged it's lovely
Curt: Yeah. Yeah. it's it's yeah it's the premise is The premise is cool, and like I've played enough like just various video games um that it yeah it works out well.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: And like table tabletop.
jamie peacock: I'm trying to get Danica to listen to it.
Curt: and
Curt: Yeah. I i told...
jamie peacock: She will thoroughly enjoy it. She enjoys D&D.
Curt: I told my wife, like, that would help.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Like, my wife loved Project Hail Mary, but she liked it, obviously because it has such a great story, like, between two characters, whereas this one's good, but I'm like, unless you, like, either played, like, a ton of, like, tabletop games or you play a ton of, like, video games that follow that same, like, hit points and all that kind of jazz, I'm like, you're probably not going to be super.
jamie peacock: Yes.
jamie peacock: Yeah, I think that but as you get further on, it becomes less, not less about that, but that's less focused on like, ah sure, there's still the spells and all that shit.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: But the storyline that develops like was thinking about it the other day, the amount you know about a universe like a book universe is frickin wild when you five or six books and the amount of law that you know, it's
Curt: Totally. Totally.
jamie peacock: a shitload of lore. um And by the time you get to book four and five, you the crawl is still important, but there's bigger storylines at play.
Curt: Interesting. Okay, cool.
jamie peacock: Yes. could
Curt: i'll probably I'll probably fall more into it and for that reason then, yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, it's really freaking good. yeah I finished my magical not coughing suite, and now I'm straight away fucking coughing.
Curt: Well, we'll probably keep it a little shorter today, so...
jamie peacock: It's a conspiracy, I tell you.
Curt: Yeah. i feel I feel like... ah You're coughing so well. I feel like I'm going to get it through the microphone from across the world.
jamie peacock: I have skills.
Curt: That would be...
jamie peacock: Not Bluetooth. um
Curt: no
jamie peacock: So Carl's also listening to Dungeon Crawler Carl. He started ah week ago, ah think.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: knee's on He's on book four.
Curt: Holy, he's motoring. Yeah.
jamie peacock: He's motoring through. He's going to have a take-me soon.
Curt: Yeah, I like, ah I do, and like I do, when I come to a story that I like, like I do listen to slowly, like I don't power through, but at the same time, like I'm not listening to any podcast or anything right now. It's like the only thing I'm listening to.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So, yeah.
jamie peacock: So I tend to listen to it. I find it requires more brain power than a podcast to listen to us because you've got to track what's going on.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: um That was even with the Bobiverse. Cole finished all those books and it's like you stop you stop tracking it by the Bob's name and you start tracking it by the story that's happening.
Curt: oh
Curt: Absolutely. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Because there's so many Bobs going on.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: I know for a while I was like trying to keep it in my head and then I was like, I tap, like I tap, there's way too many storylines.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Like i just have to follow the storylines. I can't follow the names anymore.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: There's too many.
jamie peacock: I got there in like book two or three, I think.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Where I'm just like, fuck it. ah can't I can't keep track of who's who. It will go by the storyline. I can pick up the context and then know which storyline we're doing.
Curt: I think on Reddit, I found a Bobaverse, like a star chart of like showing like the directions, all the bobs went and like all, yeah, I was like, Ooh, is this is cool.
jamie peacock: cool. Yeah.
Curt: So yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, that's really cool. um
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: But anyway, enough book nerding. i
Curt: Totally. Yeah. Especially.
jamie peacock: Why are you changing your box sizes?
Curt: Hmm.
Curt: So I mainly ship air. Like 75% of my shit I ship is just air. And I pick my box size for reasons because I would pack a ton of pens into them.
Curt: Like I could potentially pack I think up to five pens in a box.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: But with all the like tariff bullshit and everything. um For me, for the carrier that I use, in order to have easy clearance through like CUSMA, which that's a whole different clusterfuck now.
Curt: um Anyways, to have easy clearance through that, i have a there's still the $800 cap where they'll clear it without issue as long as it's under that for me.
jamie peacock: Yes Yes Yes, send it
Curt: And if I want to go more than that, I still can like use CUSMA, but I have to go through like a private broker and it's just like everything slows down. ah So I typically, if someone orders like a big order, I'm just like, hey,
Curt: I will eat your other cost of shipping and I'll just ship you two boxes because it's way, way easier. um So in that case, I'm like, well, i don't need a bigger box now. Like a smaller box is more robust. It doesn't break. as easy, easier to buy. Like everything is better. And ah I have to ship like anyways, just the way I designed it, like shipping label on top, packing list on the bottom, everything just fits more cleanly. So i think I'm gonna switch my boxes again. um And then yeah, everything should be happy.
jamie peacock: Were you using your shipping label to seal it, to seal the box?
Curt: no i no No, I just use ah tape to seal it. I mean, I could, but like it's i i like to seal them up pretty good because if they open, then that's a bummer. but
jamie peacock: Yeah, 100%.
Curt: So...
jamie peacock: I've been sending bubble mailers and I told the FedEx man, give me your flyer bag thing so that when I put my past ma um mailer in, I can fold it over and make it smaller because I've always got charged extra when it goes through the automatic scanning Matron and it's now this fucking big or the one edge folds up and out this big and this thick.
jamie peacock: I'm like, no, no. like You give me the envelope, I will pack it in the envelope and then I'll give it to you because I've got two parcels in transit now.
Curt: Totally. Yeah. Yep.
Curt: Oh, nice.
jamie peacock: Yes, EJ is getting some keel clamps. He ordered some M8s. That may not be the wool that's in the box.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: um
Curt: Ooh.
jamie peacock: And then are sent in idiot pins.
Curt: Oh, perfect. Cool. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah. the new flex devices.
Curt: Yeah. Sick.
jamie peacock: Speaking of 10, he solved my anchor point issues.
Curt: Ooh. Okay. How?
jamie peacock: So I've had that back. The back anchor point was not releasing every now and again. and I couldn't figure it out.
Curt: Right.
jamie peacock: So i swapped it. And the new one does the exact same thing.
Curt: Hmm, okay.
jamie peacock: And then I had just a filler pallet on there. And it got stuck. Interesting. Started rocking it back and forth. It's getting stuck on the pin. So my ball size is too tight.
jamie peacock: It's 10 plus 15 ish microns, whereas Ken's doing as vast as 10 plus 50.
Curt: Hmm.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: So they go on and off super easy, but they still repeat pretty damn fucking well. So I think I'm going update the drawing and increase that spec from plus 10 to 20 microns to plus 30 to 40 microns on the bores.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: and then it yeah So what was happening, the anchor points, when they release, the piston comes up, hits the the bottom of the pull stud and starts lifting the pallet.
Curt: You could. Yeah, it'd be better.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: But the front ones come up first, so it was tilting.
Curt: Gotcha.
jamie peacock: and jamming on the round pin.
Curt: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Gotcha.
jamie peacock: And yeah, it took me forever to figure out because what happens if it hits the pull stud, the piston tilts and starts bypassing.
Curt: Gotcha.
Curt: i Right, right, right, right.
jamie peacock: So I actually had, because there's tolerances everywhere, a customer in France, this one was doing the same thing. I'm like, how much pressure are you putting on it? He was only putting four bars. So I need to also engrave on the front six to eight bar.
Curt: Right, yeah,
jamie peacock: Just to clarify that, because you need six to eight bar to unclamp. So he was running on the low end and then it wouldn't unclamp.
Curt: yeah. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: It would hit in bypass. As soon as he turned the pressure up, he also helped solve this fucking issue.
Curt: Mm.
jamie peacock: Because like it's a brand new anchor point to see something like what is your unclamp pressure was the first question. And yeah, as soon as he turned it up, problem went away.
Curt: Right.
Curt: that's nice. Okay. Well, that's that's an easy fix then.
jamie peacock: Yeah, because I've been chasing this for a while to figure it out. because it never happens on my two slot pallets my mooring pallets it only happens on the big ones and on that one single pallet
Curt: Okay. Okay. Okay.
jamie peacock: so yeah at least i now know what's causing it um and i'm just gonna whore up the tolerances and that'll solve the problem and i think on i'm gonna update the spec for any harbor pallets you're actually engaging on like two millimeters of the pin not six miles of the of the pin that'll also help a hell of a lot it'll still be accurate but it'll prevent jamming
Curt: Oh.
Curt: Well, and then...
Curt: sure
Curt: yeah no it's awesome i mean and it's good that it's on the the pallets not the actual device because then it's like it's way easier to correct for
jamie peacock: yeah not the actual units yeah yeah no much much easier to fix but yeah at least i found the issue and have solved the freaking issue um But yeah, anchor points are full of magic.
jamie peacock: I like them.
Curt: Yeah. i've I've drank the Kool-Aid. I agree with you. but Yeah.
jamie peacock: Like, um I'm now using the Zulzendai Vases a hell of a lot.
Curt: Okay, yeah.
jamie peacock: Speaking of the little Zendai Vases, new products, soft jaws for Zendai Vases.
Curt: Oh, yeah? Cool. That could be useful. Yeah, I can see people wanting those for sure. He's just dying, so I'm just going fill the dead air with talking.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I'm back and dying. Yeah, so what I did is um I made some a while ago, and then I made another batch. They're only 16 millimeters thick, so they're quite skinny, so you're not a million miles away from the vise, because a lot of guys will do like a two-inch thick vise drawer, and I'm like, that's just fucking done.
jamie peacock: was just adding leverage.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: um
Curt: Totally.
jamie peacock: But what I did is where it slots in, i put a little tab. So if you s slide it in, it stops against the edge of the vise drawer carrier.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: So it repeats in not your opening and closing axis, the half axis. Your position repeats.
Curt: Right.
jamie peacock: And you put it this way and and you put it the other way, you can machine both sides.
Curt: Nice. Okay.
jamie peacock: When you put them back in, they should should be aligned with each other.
Curt: Right, right, right. Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: So if you machine a pocket, you should be able to put them back in with relatively high accuracy.
Curt: Nice. Nice.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So those I will probably list on the website by the time this podcast comes out.
Curt: Ooh, quick.
jamie peacock: I have very limited stock but I will list them and see. I can always make more.
Curt: Yeah, totally. Well, like you said, and it's it's always, it's always good to get something out there quick and then realize like, oh, okay, this is what people are doing with it and i need to change this or it's, it's good or whatever or whatever.
jamie peacock: So you can machine a deep pocket into these before you start hitting the screws.
Curt: Okay, that's reasonable. Yeah.
jamie peacock: that's across the whole jaw. If you want to just do the ends, you can machine like 12 millimeters deep, I think, and it's a non issue or 10 millimeters deep.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: So you Yeah.
Curt: I say reasonable in my world is that, but the like that would cover all my parts. So this is probably a very biased opinion, but.
jamie peacock: So I've got a set, I've got a set that I've got a two millimeter step in that I use for doing counter balls on pallets.
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: So I've got one of the longer vases because what happens is machine a pallet and I need to put the counter balls in the back. Now I've got to put my big vase pallets in. fact, that long little Zendai vase with jaws that can take a hundred mil square, pop it in there, grips like two millimeters, probe it in quickly and bore counter balls.
Curt: Nice. Yeah, that works.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so those are those will be on the websites. um I need to just confirm some stuff about the pneumatic vases. My model that I got from Silver and my actual vase are not the same.
Curt: Ooh, bummer.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so I was chatting to Justin. He's got a Warwick one. um I got him to check some dimensions. His is correct to the model. So now I'm like, do I make myself more jaws or do I make jaws for the Warwick ones and have someone test with them for me?
Curt: Hmm, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: Mine are five and a half, has got six millimeters keys. It's really weird.
Curt: Hmm, weird.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so I bought material to make a bunch of soft jaws for that. i was hoping mine would be the same as everyone else and I could just list them. But yeah, I will probably, I've got two sets that I'll probably finish up and send overseas for testing.
jamie peacock: And then we can see from there.
Curt: Yeah, fair.
jamie peacock: Because yeah, all the soft jaws.
Curt: dice Nice, nice.
jamie peacock: also made big jaws for my four inch fast, but I'm not going to, I'm not going to cut into Joshua's market.
Curt: Oh, yeah yeah. Fair, yeah. yeah
jamie peacock: Now let them make soft jaws. Yeah, I need for my own use. I made them 48 millimeters. I said fucking tall. Because I ordered 50 wide materials. I'm like, why not make them as big as I can?
jamie peacock: Like why take all the material off?
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So I now have like five sets of weird size jaws.
Curt: Totally.
Curt: Nice. Nice.
jamie peacock: Yeah, lots of lots of fun work holding stuff.
Curt: That's cool. I mean, it goes with the goes with the territory, so why not?
jamie peacock: Yeah. Well, exactly. Yeah, and then having the laser, the fiber laser attached to my work PC is a lot of fun.
Curt: Oh, yeah? What are you using it for?
jamie peacock: It makes the barrier to engrave shit a lot lower. So I have started switching over my tool tags to be ISO color coded.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: So green for the aluminium tools, something that's blue for the steel tools. So I'm phasing out the orange and replacing it with colour specific because I'm now putting in a bunch of drills or doing steel.
Curt: Okay, that makes sense.
jamie peacock: So then I want to tag them and I want to tag them. don't want it to be ambiguous as to what this what this tool is run.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Because if you run thread mills and tool steel, they tend to get very fucking blunt.
Curt: Yeah, fair. Fair, fair, fair.
jamie peacock: compared running in aluminium. So I want to start separating out my dedicated tools.
Curt: Nice. Yeah, that's smart.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so colour coding my tool tags, I like the orange, but whatever. I re-tagged all my drills because half my drills tags are broken. So I had a bunch of green ones, I actually need to check in the buckets over there whether I have filament to print another couple trays of tool tags, or I have to order filament for it.
Curt: Hmm.
Curt: Hmm. Okay. Yeah.
jamie peacock: to be uh yeah and yeah there's also another product in the in the works somebody sent me a youtube uh instagram story or reel of a guy who made a bt30 um pot on his lathe turret
Curt: Nice.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: so bt30 is really cheap tool holder
Curt: Sure.
jamie peacock: So you can put a bunch of drills and shit in them and have them preset because they repeat in Z. And you can them preset for your machine.
Curt: Oh, I see what you mean.
jamie peacock: a chunk So I'm going to design one up for Carl for his lathe.
Curt: I see what you mean. Okay, yeah.
jamie peacock: And we might end up with one on the good way as well. I'm thinking of just selling. So we're going to sell the call. So you would buy the core and then put it into a tool holder.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: So I'm going to see if I can get it to fit into like a 40 diameter um tool holder. So you would then just put it in your 40mm tool holder and you've got a quick change set of things for drills.
Curt: Gotcha.
Curt: Sure, sure, sure. I get you now.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: Okay. Yeah. ah
jamie peacock: So for Carl, that'll be super useful where he needs to quickly put in a center drill, then a drill or whatever in his lathe.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: So we're going start there and then move on.
Curt: I know that's. That's been on my list forever because the hard inch, I think it has ah like one inch hardened blocks that just take just a one inch.
Curt: And same thing, I've been like, I should just build up a bunch of my own like quick change tool blocks because I'm always changing out drills.
jamie peacock: yeah
Curt: And it works, but then I would never never have to touch them off anymore. Just like clunk and they're set.
jamie peacock: yes something think you're making just like the the core cartridge then you can make your own holder for like in carl's case we'll pour out one of his gang blocks and put it in a gang block and in the goodway's case we would make a custom gang block for it but yeah making the the difficult bits
Curt: So yeah, it's probably...
Curt: Totally. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: so yeah and then i was thinking of not using a pull stud so i was using a threaded m12 fastener in the back so that you know it's it's tight and but i'd have a ah lock nuts on it so when you spin it out it releases the tape as well yeah so yeah that's uh another thing in the freaking works because i don't have enough irons in the fire
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Oh, gotcha. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pops it out. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Curt: I was gonna say, you got a lot harder of shit going on.
jamie peacock: yeah but again that kind of falls into work holding so i can justify it so i think it'll be kind of kind of cool yeah
Curt: Yeah, no fair. Why not? Yeah. and it's not...
Curt: I see, it's not like you're not completing your other irons, too. It's like, you have... Like, I have irons in the fire that are just fucking half-baked. You have a lot of shit that's, like, thought up, done, and then, like, in the wild.
Curt: So, yeah.
jamie peacock: yeah get it to get it to the wildest force as possible
Curt: Props to that. Yeah, for sure. Yeah.
Curt: Absolutely. Absolutely.
jamie peacock: That is the key.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: But yeah, but your lasers are fucking cool.
Curt: Cool.
Curt: Yeah, well, especially, like you said, when you make it easy to, like, just use.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Absolutely.
jamie peacock: It was always on another PC in my office. And then that PC doesn't like to boot because it's 15 years old now.
Curt: oh
jamie peacock: Yeah. It's old Phenom X6. It ah like really hates booting. So i pulled all my configs, put them on my work PC, and yeah And now it's super easy.
Curt: I'm just laughing at like it it's just a rough way to speak I can tell your fight you're fighting a cough the entire time you're talking
jamie peacock: Finger up and pause. Oh, fuck.
jamie peacock: Um. thanks Let me go dark quickly.
Curt: Yeah, no sweat. but Yes, this is a... it's I told Jamie we didn't have to do this, but he does it for...
jamie peacock: commitment.
Curt: You know what he does it for? He does it for our wild Patreons that support us.
jamie peacock: There we go, speaking of, yeah, it's Patreon time. um Yes, the Patreons make the wheels on the train go round and round, even though the train is dying today.
jamie peacock: Kurt, you can never read because I'm fucking dying.
Curt: I say I'm happy to do the read if you want. So our lovely Patreons, we have Jade from Benchmark20, Luke from Fabtastic, AJ from Subtract Manufacturing, and I don't know, 49 other companies.
Curt: Jason S. EJ from Nocturnal Welding. the Aussie Machinist, Christian Olson, Charles White, Kyle from Cursed Machine, Matt from Offworld Gear, Alex B, John from 2SM Performance and Engine Tricks, Matt from Modern Fuel, Josh from Leighton Machine, Greg from Tabletop Machine Shop, and Joshua for from Firmworks.
Curt: don't know if we have any more, but that's what my list says.
jamie peacock: And also Matt from Blackwell Engineering joined this week. Thank you very much, guys.
Curt: Ooh, I'm Beautiful. Thank you all. Yeah, i we very much appreciate it.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: like I love talking to Jamie every week, and it's super cool that you guys throw us a few shekels. It it does make a huge difference. I appreciate it ton. Thank you all for everybody.
jamie peacock: It definitely does because it's going towards the IMTS accommodation.
Curt: Oh, yeah. Like, it it adds up massively. Like, I just... it kind of blows my mind when I look... I went to our website ah where we have, like, all our Patreons listed. um Like, even just the lower tiers and whatnot. And I'm like, there's a shit ton of people just throwing us a few bucks every month, which is...
jamie peacock: um Yeah.
Curt: It's super cool. It's very much appreciated.
jamie peacock: And enjoying the show, which is f freaking cool.
Curt: so
Curt: That blows my mind. Yeah. It it blows my mind.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: I'm like, i I wouldn't listen to this. No, I'm kidding. I do like i do like it.
jamie peacock: I do listen to this. I need to know what I said in the podcast.
Curt: i ah Dude, I listen to podcast every week, not because I'm a narcissist, a little bit of a narcissist, but mainly because like, I will always pick up something like when you're when I'm talking to you, like yeah I listen, but at the same time, you're kind of like, you're mentally like gearing up what's next in your head.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So you can keep the conversation flowing.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: Like it's not a super relaxing conversation. Like if I was just sitting on the couch with you, because we want to minimize like the amount of time we have just like completely dead air.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: And like, sometimes you're already, i'm I'm trying to drum something up my head as you're talking. So I'm missing points, but yeah, anytime I let's do it, I'm like, ah that's what Jamie, like I'm an idiot. That's what he was talking about.
Curt: Or like, yeah, absolutely.
jamie peacock: That happens to me like nearly weekly, where I listen to it again, and I get a whole bunch of different stuff from the from the podcast.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Death.
Curt: Dude. Oh, Well, and you know what?
jamie peacock: Speaking of death, taking days off.
Curt: That curtail... Go ahead. I'd say that curtails perfectly into my last topic here is just like taking days off. Like my wife, every couple of weeks, she has a day off just the way she works with compressed schedule and whatnot. um So she ah has like a Friday off.
Curt: And i was like, you know what? Fuck it. Let's let's take Friday off together. like let's The little people, they go to daycare. They love that. they don't like if If we tell them they can stay home, they're like, oh, I want to go see my friends. So like I don't even feel guilty about that.
Curt: So I'm like, you know what? Let's just go do something. Me and you don't hang out. We don't have date nights. Like it just, it's been, it's been a, ah i shouldn't say a struggle bus because it's like, it's been joyous, but like, we just don't have a lot of time with each other because we're always hanging out with little people.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So yeah, we just took Friday, Friday morning off. She's like, let's just do the morning. um She's like, that way you can go back to work. You're not all stressed out about it. I'm like, okay, appreciate it. I would say I went grabbed coffee, went to like, you want to go to a thrift shop?
Curt: She's like, what do you want to do? I'm like, I don't give fuck. Like, I do not care. I'm like, if you want to go to a thrift shop, let's do that. I will walk around and look at the wall and count floor tiles.
jamie peacock: Not
Curt: Like if it's something the where I don't have to do anything,
jamie peacock: autistic at all.
Curt: it's It's just relaxing. like i don't i but I'll look at the weird shit.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: I'll look at the weird people. like I'll just stroll around. I'll be happy as a little clam. Anyways, it was nice. yeah like i do definitely think I'm like, oh I got to do this. I got to do this. I'm like, no, no, I don't. like it'll It'll be there in a few hours. like Just chill and just try to like yeah enjoy it. I don't know.
Curt: It was nice. I just got to do it more.
jamie peacock: I think that's something most guys in the garage battle with is disconnecting.
Curt: 100%. ah hundred percent Yeah, it's so hard not to.
jamie peacock: Like, I know I've battled. Even now with my shop splits, I'm battling. Like, more that I don't have any tools here.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: It's really frustrating. I want to quickly do this. Ah, fuck, I don't have any tools. um
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: But yeah, it is very difficult to switch off.
Curt: Totally. And...
jamie peacock: Yesterday was about the best done in a while.
Curt: Yeah, and like my wife was actually talking to me and like ah years ago, actually when I was in the working in the little shed in my in my backyard, like that was a like a rough time for just like me and her relationship. like we weird We got long fine. I don't want to paint it as a weird picture.
Curt: but like I would get off work and then I would spend most of it working again. And she was like, I never get to see you. And she's like, I get it. But she's like, I also never get to see you. She's like, so we have to change something. And I'm like, Oh, I completely understand. And now it's way better. Cause like I have a day that I work. And then I'm like, by the end of the day, I'm like, okay, like I,
Curt: I don't want to be in here any longer. Like it's fun, but like, I also want to like do the things that are, I'm really going to remember in life.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So yeah. Anyways, it's just, I, it's a fucking, it's a weird struggle.
jamie peacock: Yeah. No, 100%. Finding that balance is a challenge.
Curt: Yeah. Dude, it's such a challenge.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: It's special, especially when you're starting off and you got like a full-time job and a side hustle and you're just like, all your time is consumed.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Yeah.
Curt: And especially if you're like us, where it's just like, it's easy to be like, oh, I could work for like, I, like I joke with her. I'm like, if like, if, if you like, whatever, went on a trip for a week and like I didn't have any commitments like yeah i would just work continuously like I would just I would literally wake up and work until I went to sleep because I like it and it's yeah it's a problem yeah yeah
jamie peacock: Well, I mean, I found myself at the shop now until like six o'clock because i want to finish what I'm doing before I go home. And yeah, but also we don't work Sundays anymore. So at least I have one day off.
Curt: it's a good idea yeah it's good idea do a little it's like said start as small as you can like if
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: But that's also the point of the workshop is that I don't feel the need to work every fucking day to make ends meet. We've got Carl there running, like when I get there this morning, the good way we'll be running parts already.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah. No, totally. And and like we we said, like if you're starting something out and you work seven days a week, 26 hours a day, yeah, you probably have to do that.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: But if you're also two, three years in and you're still doing that, but are you doing it because you want to?
jamie peacock: but do you mean? Eight years in and you're still doing it.
Curt: Yeah, it's like, are you doing because you have to?
jamie peacock: i had I had much better work-life balance up until I got the LK.
Curt: Is that the only...
jamie peacock: And then the requirements every month went through the fucking roof. And I had to work more and more and more. And then, yeah, I had issues where customers, oh, come see us.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: We to have meeting. And you fucking go there and you've lost half your fucking day and haven't billed anyone for it.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Like...
Curt: Yeah. yeah yeah
jamie peacock: yeah I was chatting to my mate Dave about this.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: He had a customer, no, come for a meeting. like Okay, this will be a bill, like I'm billing you for travel and time. Went to the meeting, came back, sent them a bill.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Oh, what do you mean this was billed? He's like, I told you this at the time, but he told them he didn't put it in writing. I'm like, yeah, dude.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: People are dickheads and like wasting time. Like, it doesn't cost them anything.
Curt: Yeah. It gets bendy super...
jamie peacock: They don't care. Like, yeah.
Curt: Yeah, when I sometimes crunch, like I know how much an hour costs me or or like how much I can make, how much it costs. And yeah you just factor in something silly like, hey, let's say you go out for, you just go for lunch. You're like, okay, this cheeseburger cost me a hell of a lot more than the cheese.
Curt: Like, because you're like, oh, I don't want to order like a delivery service because it's spendy. I'll go out and get it It's like, what are you doing, you idiot? Like, get someone to bring it to you if you really want it because it's way cheaper.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So, yeah.
jamie peacock: No, definitely. Yeah, but the call is a very diligent at taking his lunch break. We'll give him that. Also, hello, Carl, because I know you're listening.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: No, like when it comes to lunchtime, he stops, he's his sits and eats his fucking lunch. Whereas I tend to eat my lunch while I'm still working. I always have.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: Even when I used to work, i used to eat my lunch while carrying on with CAD work. um But I'm going to try and take more lunch break because stop, reset, and then carry on.
Curt: It's, I do the same.
jamie peacock: Healthy.
Curt: I'm like, sometimes I'm like, I'll bring something in here just to like, just to munch it while I'm working or I'll scarf it down like an absolute shark. And like, especially right now, it's easy because it's summer and like the back of my deck just faces like trees and birds and there's squirrels and it's sunny and I can take my food out there and I sit down there for like five, 10 minutes and enjoy the sun. i'm like, this is much better.
Curt: When the winter comes, I'm much less likely to do that. But yeah, just like just a little itty bitty breaks. It just helps your brain case.
jamie peacock: well the only time in the last two years that I would actually stop and take a lunch break was on a Wednesday when the boys was coming out I would go make myself lunch and i'll come and sit and watch the episode of the boys and then go back to work but otherwise I would scoff quickly and carry on working
Curt: Nice. Yeah, okay. Okay, fair.
Curt: Yeah, I know exactly.
jamie peacock: work.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: But yeah, that's also not the healthiest of things.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: No, no, no.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: But that's the joys of working for oneself.
Curt: Yeah, exactly. So it's a balance.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Have a job in both hands. It's balanced.
Curt: Exactly. Yeah, exactly.
jamie peacock: Oh, sweet. Well, let's ah let's move on to the Google boxes.
Curt: Cool. Yeah.
jamie peacock: What is in your Google box?
Curt: ah My Google box is full of nothing too, too crazy.
jamie peacock: Interesting stuff.
Curt: ah Yeah. So I have CloudFair in there because like said, after last week, I couldn't figure out why that domain I had wasn't ah like porting over like ah that I it was that I now have held hostage. um Anyways, it was because it's going to a it's trying to access the HTTPS.
Curt: And when you do like when you do simple forwarding through like a ah like I use i use Namecheap to buy my domains, um but their their forwarding doesn't factor in like secure sites.
jamie peacock: Okay.
Curt: uh so anyways i plugged it into cloud fair um and it just port forwards with a security add-on to it so then it works on mobile now because your mobile will always try to access the secure usually and your desktop doesn't care as much so that's why it worked on desktop not on mobile
jamie peacock: Okay.
jamie peacock: Yes. Oh, okay. Yeah.
Curt: um Fahrenheit to Celsius because I wanted to see how much the people in New York were bitching about temperature. and yeah're reasonable. yeah i just I can't do the Fahrenheit to Celsius.
Curt: I can do like most ah imperial metric conversions, but temperatures always...
jamie peacock: Now that one's retarded.
Curt: It eludes to me. I'm like, what standard is this? This one is so fucked.
jamie peacock: It's not a standard.
Curt: ah I know, i know, i know. it's it's so Anyways, now makes sense in my head a little bit more. And then ah we were talking about the mice from last week. I'm looking at the Corsair Cimitar, which is like a $100 mouse.
Curt: But there's a really cheap Red Dragon M980 that also has like a 9 or 12 button.
jamie peacock: Okay. Yeah.
Curt: It's just, it gets, a lot of people buy It's just not as nice. so i think I'm just going to go with the Cimitar, even though it's way more spendy. But anyway How about you? What's in your Google box?
jamie peacock: looking up TB symptoms and tests, looking up VDR, VDR turrets to have a look at potentially making compatibility things.
Curt: Oh, no.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: um Trying to find a plastic supplier because ah went to buy 16 mil PTFE. The customers now hasn't been ordering so there's no stock in the country.
Curt: oh oh no
jamie peacock: so They used to carry like 20 meters of stock at this branch.
jamie peacock: Sorry, busy dying. I haven't been ordering, so they haven't been replenishing.
Curt: Oh, bummer.
jamie peacock: So we had to run off 200 parts out of remnants. Thank goodness I have remnants from because we would always program the bar. Rather leave a longer remnants and have a reliable process than try and squeeze every part out of the bar and then have an unreliable process.
jamie peacock: So we managed to make the 200 parts out of remnants. And then I was looking at tapsandpatients.com where you can find nautical work-hopping products. It's lovely.
jamie peacock: um john When I had my Google box open, and I was checking if it worked.
Curt: Cool. yeah
jamie peacock: One well
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: So yeah, right now it points to Jamie's site, but I think it's going to point to like, don't know. don't know where point soon. well We'll just keep pointing it to fun places.
jamie peacock: Probably a tap supplier.
Curt: ah Maybe like us yeah, a tap supplier. Yes. That's exactly what it'll be.
jamie peacock: I think about it. should It should be... yes we We'll discuss in the after show exactly where we should point it. Because I have an idea.
jamie peacock: ah
Curt: When they hand over yours, I'll hand over theirs.
jamie peacock: That works. um
Curt: Or just point it back to their site.
jamie peacock: Sorry, just...
Curt: i don't if Maybe they don't even want it, but at this point, it's someplace.
jamie peacock: They don't have a site anymore as far as I know.
Curt: I'll just point it to their Patreon or something then.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Yeah. So just pasting a link here quickly. Where can people find you and your things Kurt?
Curt: Find me and my things at confoundedmachine.com. If you're listening to this, it might be the right time. I think I'm going to do a first come first serve sale for the remaining batch of these pens because I have enough of them that that would be reasonable as opposed to sending up more lottery passwords. But I'm going to send the password only to people that are in the lotteries. So it's it's slightly more smaller of a number as opposed to just a general populace. So anyways, if you're listening to this, ah check your email. You might have a password and a time saying when the first come first serve sale is going live. And if not, I'm sorry. um Anyways, how would you, Master Jamie? Where can people find your wares?
jamie peacock: Where's the mute button?
Curt: Besides tapsandpatients.com, you can find Jamie's wares at nauticalworkholding.com.
jamie peacock: s p e and g dot com
Curt: there you go okay
jamie peacock: you can find yeah You can find everything at jspeceng.com. There's links there through to Nautical Work Holding, to my Instagram, jspec underscore engineering, and to both of my stores. The one on jspeceng.com does the t-shirts, all the machinist-themed ones, and the NARVs, which I should probably unlist considering they're somewhere in South Africa currently.
jamie peacock: um I haven't got them back yet. And then you can find all the workholding products at tapsandpatients.com.
Curt: Perfect. but
jamie peacock: I know, it's the best. ah Yeah, nauticalwh.com. But yeah, we have something to discuss after show because of that.
Curt: Sick. Cool.
jamie peacock: Yeah, what do you what are you up to tomorrow?
Curt: Oh, exciting. Excite. Tomorrow I'm going to finish cleaning products and pack orders and get them sent out and then send out emails. So yeah, it's a pretty clean day tomorrow.
jamie peacock: Nice.
Curt: How about you? What are you going to
jamie peacock: Um... go to work, go to the doctor.
Curt: Or today, I guess.
jamie peacock: Yeah, today.
Curt: Yeah, fair.
jamie peacock: Yeah, it's like seven, and seven a.m. Yeah, gonna go go to work, go to the doctor, to get some admin shit done today, chase down some money. I need to go machine hexes onto to bolts, it's gonna be super pleasant.
jamie peacock: of But I think that's all that I actually have planned on the machine right now. ah then got some like I've got other stuff that I can put on there, but job and and yeah, I think I might actually do that because I've got a lovely dovetail vise riser that I'm going to put on an anchor point to be able to machine up one the products.
Curt: well, it's not ridiculous, so...
jamie peacock: I need some machinery. ordered the wrong size material.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: But if I can hold it with a million and a half of material, I'll be fine.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: So we're going to abuse a little dovetail vise today.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: Yeah, it should be quite fun.
Curt: nice
Curt: Cool. Well, yeah.
jamie peacock: I still haven't got my fourth access on the machine yet. Like plugged in or anything. It's integrated, but I haven't got it plugged in.
Curt: Okay. Okay.
jamie peacock: I am considering, I have got a Yaskawa server. I'm considering putting it onto that with using their Metrolink, whatever their fucking stupid protocol is. um Because then I can have the s server handle homing and backlash comp.
Curt: Ooh, okay, that would be nice.
jamie peacock: And then I can signal it to say index, index, index, return to home. or return to zero, back to zero.
Curt: Right.
jamie peacock: So yeah, I don't know, we will we will see. I might have another four of those drives that I can play with.
jamie peacock: So yeah, we shall see.
Curt: I see.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: Sick, cool.
jamie peacock: Yeah, single axis is easy, it sounds great. When it comes to multiple axis, becomes a shit show with that protocol. But with one of them, we should be able to do it with an ESP-C3.
Curt: Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah.
jamie peacock: And then I might get one those little dial, the ones that have the screen and the dial built in.
Curt: Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes.
jamie peacock: And then you set the angle, click, lock the angle in.
Curt: That'd be cool. That'd be cute.
jamie peacock: That'll be really fucking sweet.
Curt: That'd be cute.
jamie peacock: and So I think i might I might go.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: But then that drive's getting put into the electrical cabinet of the LK because it needs three phase.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: So then it'll be like actually properly integrated into the back of the machine.
Curt: ah be nice.
jamie peacock: So yeah, it'll be a proper proper-ish install.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Proper-ish.
jamie peacock: Proper-ish. Still Jamie in store.
Curt: Sick.
jamie peacock: Anyway. um
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: Thank you everybody for listening. If you enjoyed the podcast, please consider sharing it with someone who you think will enjoy it. um If you've seen our faces, it's probably been on YouTube. If you've just heard our lovely voices, um then you've probably been listening on on a podcast player. But yeah, thank you everybody and we'll see you next week.
Curt: Take care, all.
