Transcript
jamie peacock: Welcome to the Loading Machinist podcast. In this episode, Jamie trials not to die. um Yeah, it's just you, the work and the machines. What have you got going on today? Good.
Curt: ah This week, I have boring-ass production to talk about, ah the monsoon, that has been the weather here, and ah number pad mice, because that was a genius idea that ah a viewer, listener, whatever, sent me.
Curt: How about you? What do you want to talk about?
jamie peacock: uh barnacle production anodizing i've got an issue with my apo my machine and uh kill clamps are back in stock and like fully lasered everything but yeah you're doing this fine day good
Curt: Ooh.
Curt: I'm doing good. I'm doing good. Hopefully the audio is okay. There's like a monster thunderstorm rolling through here right now and it was shaking my house right before we started the podcast. I'm in the garage, so it should be quite loud, but yeah, it's been quiet so far.
jamie peacock: fine well i haven't heard it yet but i think if anyone's going to ruin the audio it's going to be me today
Curt: so
Curt: Okay.
Curt: Just hacking up a lung. but ah we have a We have a cough button as I'm watching Jamie die.
jamie peacock: Pretty much.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yes, I'm going to attempt to mute when I cough to death on the podcast.
Curt: So you mean the stress of moving and all that bullshit has finally caught up with you and now you're not feeling the most fantastic?
jamie peacock: It'll be great.
jamie peacock: Yes, I'll finally, like as of tomorrow, I can take a fucking breather. It's month-end today, so yeah. Still chasing down some payments and things and doing bit of admin shit.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: and yeah But tomorrow is the new month and then it's... Back to the grindstone.
Curt: Nice. Oh, yeah, because you're...
jamie peacock: But today we, yeah, it's the 30th year still.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: um
Curt: Yeah, you're the future. Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: Yes. But yeah, we're not working today because there are some protest things going on.
Curt: Ooh, what is...
jamie peacock: I had a bit of a derogatory ah term in the doc, but yeah.
Curt: Ah, okay.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: This adds up.
jamie peacock: So, yeah, yeah. Very interesting. Basically, someone described South African... people as the rest of the world generally when you're stupid you're not entitled not in South Africa they're stupid and entitled there's a March today because no the foreigners are stealing all the jobs so they're going on a a rampage basically during the foreigners get the fuck out because you're stealing our jobs but actually we don't want jobs just want to sit and get money from the government
jamie peacock: um Yeah, so like we're not going to work today because there's going to be protest action. And if they hear you working, they'll just come burn your building down for you. So, yeah, my brother was were chatting on the weekend. He's like yeah, in the area where their company is, there's been a mob of like 20 to 40 people going around. We want to see who's in your business.
jamie peacock: Okay, cool. Two people go in, go see if there's any foreigners. And the first company that says no is going to be burnt down that night. Like, you know that's what's going to happen. So they're just letting these folks in to come and see how many foreigners you have.
Curt: Yikes.
jamie peacock: Because they're adamant the foreigners are the problem when it's actually the fucking government. Yeah. Yeah. It's wild. Absolutely fucking wild. So we just straight up not going in today. We're not risking it.
jamie peacock: They were already starting a bit of protesting shit last night when Cole went home. So fun and exciting times living in Africa.
Curt: I mean, I guess at least they know how to make a protest, but yikes.
jamie peacock: Well, the interesting thing now is that a customer yesterday and he said to me, no, he phoned his one customer normally takes like 5,000 mops um a week from them, like the the steel components. And he's like, hey, you haven't placed orders? He's we haven't had orders.
jamie peacock: All the guys buying mops were foreigners. Either hawkers who buy them and put them on their shoulder and walk around and sell them or guys who own little shops, things like that. Those all foreigners. So now he's going to have to tell us, sorry, guys, you're going on short time because we're not getting orders.
Curt: Huh.
jamie peacock: And then they say, but why, boss? because you chased away the customers.
Curt: Yeah. oh but
jamie peacock: Like, yeah, it's the xenophobia. Yeah, is freaking wild. So yeah, we're just gonna play it safe today and not go and do admin stuff, do anodizing at home because my ano setup is still at home.
Curt: Right. OK, well, like when I guess for that, but yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Yeah, I was gonna have to take a day this week to anodize anyway, because I need to send out a 47 millimeter riser for 52 millimeter zero points for the barnacle.
jamie peacock: So machine them up yesterday, they need to go through an O and some barnacles need to go through. and
Curt: Cool. All right.
jamie peacock: But yeah, Africa, and then I had no power last night, I actually nearly messaged you this morning, say, hey I don't think my power is back on yet. It was often I came on.
Curt: Oh, no.
jamie peacock: What time did it come
Curt: Cough, cough.
jamie peacock: I think it came on at about 9 o'clock for like two minutes, then went off again.
Curt: but
jamie peacock: Came on at like 10 o'clock for two minutes and went off again. And then it was off through the night because my fence alarm went off because the inverter died. and We drained the inverter.
Curt: Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: So then when I woke up this morning, my phone was charged and the power was back on. So it obviously came on through the night um at some point. But yeah, Africa, not for the faint of fucking heart.
Curt: but
Curt: yeah no no to you have like you have so many challenges that just no one else has to deal with just like it's yeah it's wild
jamie peacock: Yeah, my favorite and most annoying challenge is encrypted PDFs.
Curt: oh okay well suck regardless yeah yeah
jamie peacock: I have a statement. Dude, have a statement from the place that we rent from that I can't fucking open. I don't know what the fucking password is. I've got to phone them today and like, wait, cunts, what's the password? I want to pay you.
jamie peacock: Like, what the fuck? Who the fuck thought this was a good idea? I've got another another supplier that every time they send me one, they change the fucking password.
Curt: that
jamie peacock: I have to phone them for a password. I'm like, do you want my money or not?
Curt: Yeah, it seems ridiculous on something like that.
jamie peacock: I'm like,
Curt: That's like, what's the point? Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, like for fuck's sakes, I've got your banking details loaded. I'm not going to reload them if the statement says the banking details are different. And I haven't got a phone call and an official letter from you saying the bank banking details have changed. But there's a lot of fraud that goes around where they'll intercept that PDF changed banking details and then send it forward.
Curt: Right.
Curt: Ah, OK, I see.
jamie peacock: Yeah, fuck's sakes. I actually paid the wrong supplier yesterday. It's the first time I've actually fucked up making a payment.
Curt: who ah Oh, oh, good, I guess.
jamie peacock: Yeah, yesterday, Carl needed me to order the inserts. Got a quote from Midway Tools. um And they sent it through on my cool beans, meant to pay, paid Fastcut.
jamie peacock: My other tooling supply, I'm like, fuck, I send them proof payment, ah, this is for Fastcut, not Fastcut. Ah, fuck. Okay, no worries. Paid them the for the inserts, and then, they yeah, now I have credit with Fastcut.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: You know, I think I owed them money anyway for bandsaw blades, so it's fine, I'll have a credit with them, I don't mind.
Curt: ah
jamie peacock: I'll use the credits. I buy all my drills from them and I buy all my bandsaw blades from them. I think I'm going to move away from them for the six millimeter end balls that are like my go-to finisher.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Why is that?
jamie peacock: Because I got sent a sample Kyocera and it's moved like 200 kilograms of aluminum and it's still fine.
Curt: Okay.
Curt: nice Wow, okay.
jamie peacock: um Yeah, so, and I got a price that's cheaper. So I think I'm going to switch over it to Kyocera. I'm just going to buy like five of them and put them in the drawer and then I have Kyocera animals and why not?
Curt: i I used to run a ton of Kyocera endmills back in router days because they made great single flutes, but I haven't tried him since.
jamie peacock: These three flutes are fucking magic for aluminium. They sent the the one guy know they sent me like ah a range send me a bunch of taps bunch of drill carbide drills I'm running one carbide drills now as well.
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: um
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: So I'm like, your samples have worked friend, you have now got me to buy your stuff.
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: um So having a having a think about that, but we'll see now in the coming the coming weeks. ah That's what I forgot to add to the document. Um, yeah, yesterday was a total, like a fuck show of a day.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: So on, yeah, yeah.
Curt: Oh, I think I saw the story. Oops, sorry. Bumped my microphone.
jamie peacock: So on Saturday, when I was finishing up a run of parts, I think some coolant got into the tool setter. So it was just going beep. was like, fuck it. Normally you just power down.
jamie peacock: When you come back the next day, it's fine. Went in on Monday morning. be
jamie peacock: So I proceeded to strip the TS 27R, spent two hours cleaning, stripping, rebuilding, put it back in. It's not repeating properly. It's like varying more than it used to. It used to repeat within like a micron. Now it's like 10, 15 microns.
jamie peacock: And I'm like, nope, not good enough. So ill ordered one from China. It's in, it's the TS-27 is in and working. The one from China shipped last night while I was snoozing. I ordered it in the morning. It shipped in the afternoon.
jamie peacock: um I think it was 116 euros or something.
Curt: Okay, so not like a dirt cheap one, but yeah.
jamie peacock: No, two grand. 2,000 rands, so like $100.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: um
Curt: Right. Yeah.
jamie peacock: We'll see when it arrives. I'll get it integrated, and then I think just buy a spare.
Curt: ah Yeah. For that price. Why not?
jamie peacock: For that price, just buy a spare and throw in the cabinets.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: um Same five-way tool setter, so I can do diameter, not that I really do diameter. But yeah, we'll see. We'll see how it works. The TS-37R works really well until it doesn't.
Curt: Fair. Fair. Yeah. Yeah. I've, I've had actually pretty good luck with the pioneer and you know, like all those, uh, cause I think that's so what style was shipping with was the pioneer. think I've since switched. Cause think Tormach was doing the same.
Curt: I wouldn't be surprised if all of those like secondary manufacturers are just coming out of the same factory with different branding from different like QC lines of the same product.
jamie peacock: Yeah. 100%.
Curt: Like they got to all be the same.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So.
jamie peacock: How's your your tool set have been since you put the pakaki shield on it?
Curt: It's been fine as long as it gets like a little bit of coolant on it, like during warmup, which it always does. um It's like if it dries with coolant on it, it can sometimes stick just slightly.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: But soon as coolant hits it again, boom, it's it's been fine since. I haven't had a single issue.
jamie peacock: It's fine, yeah.
Curt: So yeah.
jamie peacock: Because mine's been really, really good since I angled it a little bit. So it used to sit 90 degrees facing the spindle and I angled it when I put the fourth axis on and that solved a lot of the problems.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Oh, nice.
jamie peacock: That and the Bukkake shield, like it doesn't actually get full face, full facial from the coolant.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: It's protected from where the coolant is. that made a huge difference.
Curt: yeah Same with mine. Yeah, I just got it from...
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah, exactly. Now it just gets... Whatever hits it is not just being, like you said, blasted into the seals.
jamie peacock: It's not being monsooned.
Curt: So, yeah. Monsoon! Yeah, exactly.
jamie peacock: Yes, because mine, the actual active air purge wasn't really flowing. So I turned that up yesterday as well, because I added an air purge to mine.
Curt: Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: I also opened the kinematic coupling in the Renish one. oh my word, it's fucking awesome.
Curt: Oh, yeah?
jamie peacock: It's all like injection molded, looks like Altum, injection molded Altum components.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: And a it's so clever. like it's So the whole mechanism clicks together, and then it's got a flexible PCB that goes against the stainless steel housing in the front.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: And the balls touch the flexible PCB, and the stainless has like a little detent, so it makes good contact. And that's how it transforms. connected. It's so freaking clever. it's never meant to be opened.
jamie peacock: I just put it in the lathe and turned off because they swaged the end closed. I just turned it off.
Curt: Oh. Okay.
jamie peacock: um
Curt: Sure.
jamie peacock: But yeah, ah and that's because I accidentally pushed some voltage through it and melted one of the pogo pins.
Curt: Right, right. I think you were telling me this back in the day. Yeah, yeah,
jamie peacock: Right now has a piece of masking tape where the pogo pins touch to just give the PCB a little bit more push to touch them.
Curt: yeah. Yeah, okay. So probably not...
jamie peacock: But it works.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: It works. When it works, it works. And it's been really reliable probably for the last six months.
Curt: and Okay, that's good then.
jamie peacock: But yeah, I had enough of it yesterday. And then ah yeah then my wife phoned me. So yesterday was the last day of the month that we could actually work at the shop. So I had shit to do. Get a phone call.
jamie peacock: In the morning, she was like she's feeling a bit dizzy. It's not ideal. But anyway, she fucked off to work. She was going to leave at lunchtime anyway. She phones me at 11. I'm throwing up. I'm not feeling well. Please come fetch me.
Curt: ah
jamie peacock: i'm like okay who's close by like i'm trying to now get out of fetching eventually got in my truck and fucking drove there an hour and a half of my day gone but yeah i can got back to work and then we worked till like six last night to just get stuff done get enough done that i could anodize and carry on today ah yeah but enough of my bullshit let's hear what's happening in your world kurt
Curt: Yeah. Yeah. No. Fair.
Curt: Dude, so like, I mean, nothing much other than like standard production, all that jazz. ah look at The weather here has been insane. We are going to be setting records. I think this weekend we may have broken the record for the most rain in, i don't know if it's my province.
Curt: I think it's my province. um Anyways, of all time, we had ah in two in two days, we had 100 millimeters of rain and then
jamie peacock: Oh well.
jamie peacock: That's cute.
Curt: Yeah, and then, well, yeah, for our for our land, it's ton. And then the next, like, few days, whatever, we had another 70 millimeters.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: um So just just a shit ton of rain. um For the other minded folks out there, that's like four and a half inches of rain plus another three inches of rain or something like that. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah. It's had lot of rain.
Curt: A decent amount of rain. um Yeah, which is also a lovely reason to like, when you when you have a machine shop, like in my base, I don't know if it's common.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: It's probably common in your area too, if you have a ton of rain. You have like like submersible pumps, like some pumps in your basement that just like, you don't have those? Okay.
jamie peacock: No, we don't, we don't dig into the ground. We have enough space that we just go up.
Curt: Oh, fair enough. Okay. So yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So for for most basements here and probably most North American homes,
jamie peacock: In the US, similar, yeah.
Curt: Yeah, you'll have a pump and you're just takes all the groundwater and moves it away from the basement foundation of your home.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So I have I belt suspenders. So I have two of them staggered in the the well that they sit um so that if one ever craps out, the other one takes up the slack and no problem.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Every spring I check them. um so Anyways, I checked it because my guys are getting pretty serious. So if one of them fails... that's okay. I have a secondary, but if the secondary fails, then you're, you're right. Fucked.
jamie peacock: Swimming, yeah.
Curt: So I always check this. Yeah. I check the secondary.
jamie peacock: Oh, shit. Yeah. Yeah, no.
Curt: Anyways, it was seized. Um, so I took it all apart and just, yeah.
jamie peacock: ah shows
Curt: Cause I'm like, well, if the first one fails, now the second one doesn't turn on, then you flood your house. And yeah. Yeah. Actually, my my buddy has failed a few summers ago, and he had a single one.
Curt: And some houses are better than others, but like then you can't even bail water out of them fast enough because by the time you go downstairs, whatever, fill a bucket, run back upstairs, throw it outside, run back down.
jamie peacock: yeah
Curt: like you're You're just going to do that perpetually until you die. So so um anyways, just it's just nice having a mechanical. every I just kind of forget that because like some of my neighbors I talk to, like they'll come over to me like, oh, do you have a whatever wrench or something?
Curt: And I'm like, how do you make how do you make it through life without having just some like basic to like this is overkill.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Like we have way too much shit. We can do everything, but it's what we like. um
jamie peacock: Well, yeah.
Curt: But it just blows my mind that some people have nothing.
jamie peacock: Well, now with the workshop, it's like, fuck, okay, I need to mount a TV. Shit, now my drill's at work. So yesterday, before I left, I'm like, okay, drill, concrete drill, all the drill bits, everything I think I'm going to need to mount fucking TV because it's not here anymore.
Curt: Right. Yeah.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah. yeah
jamie peacock: Because, yeah, i got a I got a free TV over the weekend.
Curt: Ooh, like leak legal ear.
jamie peacock: And a couch. And a table. No, my brother-in-law's moving to Madagascar, so he's like, anything you want, call dibs. like, a TV, couch, office table, fucking workbench.
Curt: Oh, nice.
jamie peacock: So, yeah, I ended up having to help him move on Saturday. That's probably why I'm fucking sick. um
Curt: and Yeah.
jamie peacock: I was feeling a bit shitty and then was going to go home and sleep and ended up there till four o'clock in the afternoon loading and unloading trailers of crap. But yeah anyway, I got a 65 inch TV from him.
Curt: Wow.
jamie peacock: That is literally the width of the wall that I want to put it on. So there's a wall in my lounge. We're spinning our lounge around. There's been a picture on the wall for 100 years.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: um I bought paint, we're gonna paint the wall a dark color. The TV is literally the width of the wall. There's a window on one side and a fish tank on the other side. So we're gonna put the big ass fucking TV up there. so we're gonna paint the wall today.
jamie peacock: And then move the lounge around a bit and mount the TV when I when I fetch my truck from Danica's work because the TV mounting bracket is in my truck.
Curt: Isn't that weird that everything in the world has gotten more expensive, bread, milk, whatever, but TVs have gotten so much cheaper. Like, it's that's insane.
jamie peacock: It's ridiculous.
Curt: Yeah. I'm like,
jamie peacock: Yeah, no, it's freaking wild. But you also got a sound bar and a sub a whole bunch of other cool shit from my brother and more. And then a workbench and the table and a whole patio set that I need to reassemble.
jamie peacock: yeah Got a bunch crap from him.
Curt: Wow.
jamie peacock: yeah He's going he's du just turfing shit. He's like, I've got two, we call them trommels, like a steel box full of power tools, like drills, sanders, another jigsaw, because I need five of them, that are just now at the workshop. Like, hey, Carl, do you want some tools? Take fucking tools. I don't want them.
jamie peacock: I have all these things already. a
Curt: Nice. Nice.
jamie peacock: But he's not going to put it he's not going to pay to put it in a container and send it to Madagascar. So, like, even if he had a radial arm saw, and he's like, do you want the radial arm saw?
Curt: Okay, yeah.
jamie peacock: I'm like, not a fuck. Like those things are death machines. Because what do you think I'm going cut with it? I'm going cut fucking aluminium with it. And it's going to catch and throw the saw at me.
Curt: Sure, yeah.
jamie peacock: um
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: So he put it on the honest community group. And within two minutes, it was gone. And it went to an animal shelter to go and not for chopping animals to help with building cages and shit for the animals or enclosures.
Curt: Wow.
Curt: Oh. oh oh okay
Curt: Okay. the That makes sense. yes like just getting murder
jamie peacock: Like some German dude thought knew exactly what it was. was guess you'll take it. So it's now gone, but it was his dad.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: So it's like, it was a very sentimental thing for him. I don't want it. Like I straight up do not want that fucking thing. So yeah, I'm like, dude, it's the best outcome.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: It's going to an animal shelter to chop animals up like fucking what else? What better thing could it do?
Curt: exactly Yeah, exactly.
jamie peacock: Like Sunday was it's been interesting having them move out like they have accumulated a lot of shit over the years.
Curt: Exactly. yeah
Curt: Yeah, I mean, that's almost that's almost a nice thing about moving.
jamie peacock: I mean...
Curt: Like, if you move every, like, five, ten years, you kind of just don't collect a bunch of shit because then you're always moving it, but then you find a home and screws.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Well, they moved into that house six seven months six or seven months ago.
Curt: Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: but and they yeah And they had moved... Fuck, they moved to Durban. Ah,
jamie peacock: death. moved to Durban, then he decided to get a brain tumor. They moved back up to Joburg, that a bunch of stuff in storage, it came out of storage, went into his old house, then they moved from there to this new house. So they've been getting rid of shit, but they still have a boatload of it.
Curt: o
jamie peacock: So young they they leaving on the 21st, they off to Madagascar permanently.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so interesting.
Curt: I think. i don't know.
jamie peacock: Yeah, well, fuck interesting. time It's something that, so his wife's a helicopter pilot as well. um But the only job she could get here was flying for a car tracking company. And then she's in the helicopter by herself at night flying after people who are literally shooting back at you.
jamie peacock: So she stopped flying. So they're landing in Madagascar.
Curt: Okay, fair.
jamie peacock: She's got a gig lined up to ferry people between the islands by helicopter.
Curt: that's kind of more fun. Yeah, that sounds better.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so and then she'll fly them and then he'll load their bags on the boat and drive the bags over to the island. It's like a 30 minute boat ride. So the people can fly because you can't load 300 kilos of luggage onto a little helicopter.
jamie peacock: It ain't going to really cut it. So then they'll load that on the boat.
Curt: Sure, sure.
jamie peacock: He'll drive the boat over as like a value added service.
Curt: That's kind of cool.
jamie peacock: and also deliver hookers with the boat.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: and have a delivery service.
Curt: yeah Hey, do what you got to do.
jamie peacock: So if you're out fishing, whatever, decide you want hookers, you find, hey, I want hookers or beer or food or whatever. He loads on the boat and brings it to you.
Curt: Or you pay a premium and you get them an airdrop.
jamie peacock: So a lot of the the chartered boats, if you don't have a passport, you're not allowed on the boat. So the hookers aren't allowed on the boats.
Curt: Oh, okay. Oh
jamie peacock: So, but if you get a delivery at sea, no one's going to know.
Curt: but boy. Oh boy.
jamie peacock: Yeah, brother was a wild one. But yeah, that's a whole very interesting situation of them buggering off to Madagascar.
Curt: Hmm. That's cool. Yeah.
jamie peacock: kind of Kind of cool. um yeah Pick one from the the list of topics there because I dumped whole bunch of shit in there yesterday.
Curt: Um,
Curt: Yeah, let's go with ah another retrofit. Tell me, but or is that the one that you're, the duplicate of the one you already did?
jamie peacock: so it's not quite a duplicate it's close uh i charged extra because i have to lay on the floor to wire the cabinets um it has your scour drives
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: sorry death um yeah dying on the podcast fucking we need a new song jacob jacob jacob um so i took down the part number on the drives oh there we go kurt's dying on the podcast too um
Curt: Dying on the podcast. Okay.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: took down the partner up on the drives on a cool it's every these drives maybe they'll work with step in direction looked into it nope they make a link or whatever only there's no IO you have to use mechalink I'm like so okay mr. Claude can I just put replacement drives on this just like a generic has the manual for the generic drive can I put these onto these scour motors no your scour uses a proprietary encoder communication protocol
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: So you can't you have to buy your Skyward drive. Well, fuck. So I'm going to leave the motors um three phase wiring in the encoder cables that are there are four core, not six core. So I have to pull a new encoder wires.
jamie peacock: For the new. Yeah. you're going to buy 60 meters of encoder wire and then fish it through the fucking and energy chain and put in new drives, basically.
Curt: Ugh.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Well.
jamie peacock: And then the Masso cable kits, I reached out to Masso. I'm like, listen, you only go up to a five meter. I need like an eight meters hit. They're like, yeah, no, you can just daisy chain them. It should be fine. So $80 for two cables.
Curt: Oh, cool.
jamie peacock: um But don' I'm not paying so I don't really care. Because the problem is the electrical cabinet on this machine is on the opposite side of the user console. So i need eight meters. If I use a five meter, either the guy's going to stand on the CNC when it runs or he's gonna have to stand on the wrong side.
Curt: Right, right, right.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so I'm waiting.
Curt: OK.
jamie peacock: I need to phone those guys. Oh, he can't. Where's my money? ah Your machine's running. Pay me. like It actually came in. It came in about $60 cheaper than the original quote.
jamie peacock: After adjusting for the actual price. it's a time and material one. So whatever I actually paid for the the hardware plus 10% and then labor.
jamie peacock: And that i did it in less time. So it came out a little bit cheaper, like a thousand rand cheaper than the initial quote.
Curt: Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: The next one's way more expensive because the price of servos has gone up.
Curt: Right, right.
jamie peacock: So it's what it is. um And yeah, i think I'll do it in a lot less time, so I'll get paid less. But yeah anyway, I'll just make shit up. They haven't queried my hours yet, but I'm like, you had me work there on the weekend, friends.
Curt: Well, I mean...
jamie peacock: That's time and a half on Saturday and double time on Sunday.
Curt: Yeah, but then at least you won't like horribly screw yourself either of being like, I...
jamie peacock: Exactly. Because I i fucking burned my fingers hard on the previous Maso retrofit.
Curt: no
jamie peacock: where uh yeah we are miscalculated pricing and ended up eating shit luckily i didn't eat enough shit to go out of business i just ate the tip um but that's why it's time and material on retrofits
Curt: Right. Right.
Curt: Is it the purple tip or the blue tip?
jamie peacock: yeah on that one i ate both i'm very curious see if who watches the video it yeah
Curt: ah Anyway. and Nobody watches the video. That's why I'm laughing because I just see jiggling in the background. But anyways.
jamie peacock: Yep. People are going to now want to watch the video.
Curt: her okay yeah
jamie peacock: That was the the purpose. So yeah, we're going to another retrofit there. And then there might be another one at their neighbor.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: Because their neighbor's got like six machines that are dead because the guys who were supporting these machines no longer support them. So we might just go in and retrofit a whole bunch of machines there as well.
jamie peacock: Also, the problem with the Maso is it's fucking touchscreen. So I try and touchscreen all my Linux CNC machines now.
Curt: Fair yeah.
jamie peacock: It's really annoying. I went set up the EMCO and I'm like poking the screen.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: but so
Curt: Gotta get a touch screen there.
jamie peacock: But yeah, literally that that Maso was running for five minutes and they were starting production on it already.
Curt: Oh shit. Nice.
jamie peacock: Like I got the spindle running and they were like, cool, let's go.
Curt: Okay. That's awesome.
jamie peacock: We were behind on production. Let's run. And then I discovered another canvas pneumatic block to switch the vacuum sections on and off.
jamie peacock: So I proceeded to just bypass that fucking thing so that they're all just on all the time.
Curt: Oh, okay. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, I couldn't be fucking bothered.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: I need to make an adapter to adapt to the SMC valve block to just IO, not a canvas module. So it looks like it's got a 34-pin header out the side of it that effectively just connects to all the different solenoids.
Curt: Mm-hmm.
jamie peacock: I need to just open the one I have and have a look. And then I'm just going to get a PCB made that breaks that out to headers that I can then switch with a relay from the Masso.
Curt: ah yeah Gotcha.
jamie peacock: then I don't need to put a new valve block into the machines.
Curt: Gotcha.
jamie peacock: I can reuse their valve block.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So yeah, we'll see.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: Fun times. Yeah, build machines, they said.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: it'll be fun, they said.
Curt: I'm surprised they they controlled that digitally, not just with like valves.
jamie peacock: ah So they've got, yeah, they've got, it's a valve block, and then it's got a CAN bus module on the side that then connects to, oh yeah, no, it's a smart machine.
Curt: But I mean like just just physically valves, like all the gancher machines. Oh, okay. Fair. Smart.
jamie peacock: Yeah, it's got smarts.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: It has six fucking sections on the table. I just saw as like fuck I hope these aren't double acting valves. So I got the guy to I think I popped the hose and it had pressure but cool just swapped all the hoses run so that the valve is by default open.
Curt: Sure. Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, they got problem solved disconnect the canvas line and call it a day.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So I don't like I don't like this whole bus story.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: It makes it very difficult to do simple shit.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: But all anyway, um tell me about your numpad mouse quest.
Curt: Let's see.
Curt: Okay, so that was actually, um so I have this ah this, like I said, this lovely keyboard from Not Suspicious, which I think Mr. Ken is now making full-size keyboards.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: um But I'm starting to really love this 60% or 65%, whatever it is, or sixty five percent whatever it is ah just because everything can be so much more compact. And I was actually talking with a guy on Instagram. for forgot his name right now. um I will try to find it later.
Curt: um But he said he worked with a guy, ah like a guy that did CAD. And like later on in life, he had like shoulder issues. Because oddly enough, um my my wife for for her job, or in the past, she had like, they do an assessment because she did a lot of computer work.
Curt: So they wanted like... ah it's for the government too. there's lots of weird like health things. Anyways, they want to make sure that you're set up comfortably. Um, and you're not, so like a mouse way out to the side on like a full size keyboard is like not good for your posture.
Curt: Um, so anyways, that's what this guy was saying. He's like, if you have a small keyboard and like you, you can have your mouse closer and like everything is more in line. And I'm like, yeah, but like I need a number pad. He's like, Oh dude, he's like, I bought a, like a gaming mouse years and years ago that had like a 12, 12 button map on the side.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: He's like, and I just remapped that to a number pad. i'm like, Oh, Why didn't I ever think of that? I'm like, that is so... Because when you're doing CAD, you can click on something and then punch the number, like punch the dimension in with your thumb without ever leaving the keyboard.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: With your thumb. Yeah.
Curt: And I'm like, this is...
jamie peacock: feel like that would take a bit of effort to learn, but...
Curt: i Yeah, I feel like you're going to take like probably ah it's just like a space mouse or something, right? Like it's going to take a while to like kind of get the muscle memory happy.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: But then I'm like, that's brilliant because then like I don't ever have to move my hand. Like 90% of the work I do in CAD is clicking and number entry. It's not like typing words.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So yeah.
jamie peacock: 100%.
Curt: Anyways. ah Corsair Scimitar, I think is the most I'm looking at.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: It looks like about the best one you can buy for that. So yeah, I think I'm going down that road because that sounds just freaking sick. So yeah.
jamie peacock: I had a friend with one of those who used to play World of Warcraft and used to assign all of his spells and shit to it. Yeah.
Curt: Well, that too, right? If you game, you can just assign your macros to it and like you can, yeah, you can have one button that just changes the macros and like, ah, you can geek out hard. So yeah, that's way I'm going.
jamie peacock: Oh, yes.
Curt: I'm going to try it.
jamie peacock: You got properly hard on that. I'm interested to see how that goes.
Curt: Yeah, like i think like you said, I think it's going be a steep learning curve to try to get my thumb. But I mean, your your finger is so like so much you're so much are so much precise. Your finger is so precision.
jamie peacock: Yes, that's it.
Curt: And those will those little numpads have their tactile so you can feel where like you know the center is and move around.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So anyways, I'll try it. maybe they'll fuck like Maybe I'll hate it, but maybe it'll be awesome.
jamie peacock: Yeah, well, worth try.
Curt: We'll see. yeah Well, yeah, totally.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: It's like 80 bucks for a really fancy mouse. So i'm like, sure, I'll try it.
jamie peacock: It's worth a bash.
Curt: Or the bash, exactly, something to do
jamie peacock: You know what else is worth a bash?
Curt: What?
jamie peacock: Our Patreons. They make the wheels on train go round and round.
Curt: Woo!
Curt: Wee!
jamie peacock: The Patreons are helping contribute towards going to IMTS with the cardboard cutout of Kurt. um All the top tier Patreons get shout out every week and anyone on the $5 tier and above get access to the after show.
jamie peacock: Our top tier Patreons are Jade from Benchmark20, Luke from Fabtastic, AJ from Strat Manufacturing, Jason S, EJ from Octurnal Welding, The Aussie Machinist, Christian Olsen, Charles White,
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: Kyle from Curse Machine, Matt from Morphoil Gear, Alex B, John from 2SM Performance and Engine Tricks, Matt from Modern Fuel, Josh from Leighton Machine, Greg from Tabletop Machine Shop, and we have a new Patreon this week, Joshua from Firmworks.
jamie peacock: Thank you, Patreons, for making the wheels on the train go around and around.
Curt: That's so wild, yeah.
jamie peacock: Speaking of Joshua, I don't know if you've seen his Instagram lately.
Curt: About
jamie peacock: No,
Curt: how he's melting or what are what are we looking at?
jamie peacock: he's posting a lot more.
Curt: Oh yeah, no, I've been enjoying it. Yeah, I i messaged him a ah few times.
jamie peacock: Yeah, they're
Curt: ask Mainly asking him if he's dying because all the poor UK guys are just getting absolutely cooked right now.
jamie peacock: melting.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, the world is on fire. The world is broken is the term I used the other day. um
Curt: Oh,
jamie peacock: On the way to work, I needed breakfast, so I stopped at McDonald's. Very healthy. And the lady at the thing said, no, no, Bafana Bafana won.
Curt: I...
jamie peacock: Our soccer team. I'm like, fuck me. And then there was a police car in the McDonald's. i'm like, the world is fucked. The police don't come to McDonald's.
Curt: ah
jamie peacock: They've a KFC here. That is where they live. Like, what the fuck? The world is broken. But yeah, quick you guys have rain.
Curt: oh i
jamie peacock: They're melting. We having fucking frost and shit. um Yeah, the world is Yes, we probably lost.
Curt: Well, it looks like, because i think we had, ah I think you, and you South Africa was playing Canada in the World Cup. Yeah. Yeah, you did lose. I'm pretty, yeah, I'm pretty sure you lost.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: but
jamie peacock: I don't actually know him.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: don't fucking...
Curt: I wasn't following it either. I'm just looking it up right now and it looks like we beat you one to nothing, which I don't know.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Shock and awe. Bufana Bufana lost. Who the fuck would have guessed?
Curt: I don't know. We're not really known for soccer either, but I shouldn't say that. Maybe we're a great soccer team. I just don't know.
jamie peacock: Well, you're playing Morocco.
Curt: So.
jamie peacock: Good fucking luck. Um...
Curt: Well, was arts we're not we're good we're good on ice. I think we're less good with soccer balls. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Well, yeah, we made it. This is like the first time we've actually made it to the round of 32. Like the fact that the Fana made it into the World Cup without hosting the World Cup is shocking. Like I didn't even... We made the World Cup. Woohoo. um the The quiz night we go to the guys in Arsenal fans. Every time there's a soccer question, the only appropriate answer is Arsenal. Because we don't actually know.
jamie peacock: So we just loudly shout Arsenal.
Curt: Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: what does What does that mean?
jamie peacock: It's a soccer club in the US.
Curt: Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: In the UK, sorry. From the Premier League. um
Curt: Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: So yeah. I know fuck all about soccer. It's either Arsenal is answer or Kiki McBalball is the answer.
Curt: and see
jamie peacock: The Arsenal player.
Curt: I like Kiki McBall Ball.
jamie peacock: i Yeah, Yeah, don't give a shit about that.
Curt: ball okay ah
jamie peacock: Sports rounds are a fuck up. Our whole team doesn't really...
Curt: i
jamie peacock: like Unless it's rugby related and about the rules of the game, we fucked.
Curt: Yeah, not a huge
jamie peacock: Does Danica know all the
Curt: I'm not a huge sports guy, but I would be a sports guy. if like I told my wife, i'm like if if the teams that played, like if only the ones that won are the ones that got paid, i'm like like soccer, hockey, everything would get so much more interesting and like because people would just be just playing because their life depended on it.
jamie peacock: Oh yeah, then it would be awesome.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Oh,
jamie peacock: Danica wants to take her mom and her one friend to the boy aquarium to go watch arse hockey game. Boy aquarium.
Curt: the boy acquiring me a nice. Yeah.
jamie peacock: I had go watch arse hockey game because apparently it's really interesting.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: I'm like, cool, enjoy watching the boy aquarium. I'm not going to watch a sport. Like, I have no desire to be around people, especially sport people.
Curt: ah
jamie peacock: Like, yeah. Limp Bizkit is actually coming to South Africa for the first time ever.
Curt: but
jamie peacock: And I'm like, I want tickets, but it's expensive.
Curt: Oh, nice.
jamie peacock: And I'm like, let me be a responsible adult because I need to find money so that I can go to the summit next year.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Oh, so you're planning to go?
jamie peacock: We're going to see how IMTS goes and how poor we are afterwards and then make a make a decision. But i would like I would like to go to the summit.
Curt: Sure.
jamie peacock: um yeah It's not the cheapest endeavor in the world.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: The flights cost less than the summit. um But yeah, I think it would be worth going.
Curt: Ooh.
Curt: Yeah, it'd be, it looked like a lot of fun.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: It looked like a lot of fun.
jamie peacock: There's actually something we need to, well, we'll discuss after.
Curt: So.
jamie peacock: I'm just going to note here.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: We will know about stuff. But anyway, problem for another day. Yeah, so I've been running into an issue with my fancy Siemens machine.
Curt: Why?
jamie peacock: the auto power off is broken so i was running a spindle gripping program and it would finish the sub program and then switch the fucking machine off
Curt: What's the problem?
Curt: Okay. What does it do then?
Curt: Oh, I think... Did you have a story about that? I remember you like filming something and then it was just like...
jamie peacock: yes yeah fucking infuriating
Curt: but I'm like, oh I don't think that was planned. to
jamie peacock: Can't figure out what. Change it from M30 to M02. Still doing the same thing. um
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: It ran. the problem is it ran before. I haven't changed anything. It is the same code that ran before.
Curt: Hmm.
Curt: Weird.
jamie peacock: So I don't know. yeah I don't know what the fuck. So I just ran it while I was there. um
Curt: I'm just opening.
jamie peacock: But yeah, really, really weird.
Curt: yeah Are you are using an, at the end of the sub program, how are you exit?
jamie peacock: What's that point?
jamie peacock: was It was an M30. It's a sub-program. It's actually calling a main program, not a sub-program. But it worked before. That's the frustrating bit.
Curt: How weird. How weird.
jamie peacock: I didn't change the code that's actually running has not changed.
Curt: Okay.
Curt: Because I know at the end of all my subs, I have to call an M17. Okay, like an MPF file. Okay.
jamie peacock: Okay.
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: Maybe I'm going to try that. but yeah it's not It's not actually calling a sub-program. It's calling an external program call.
Curt: okay like and look at and like
jamie peacock: And that's how it's like an X.
Curt: like an npf file
jamie peacock: Yes. Yeah.
Curt: okay
jamie peacock: It's calling a full program file. um And it worked before. That's the fucking bit that's annoying me, is it worked before.
Curt: Hmm. Yeah, that's weird.
jamie peacock: So I can change it call a subprogram. got a subprogram post that just changes the ah file name. But before I do that, I need to just do a merge because I've made changes to the...
Curt: Right.
jamie peacock: to the main post. So I need to just push the sub post to get into a compare.
Curt: Yeah, good idea. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Also putting your posts on get is the greatest fucking thing ever.
Curt: Yeah, I gotta do that. i know.
jamie peacock: Dude.
Curt: I gotta do that. okay
jamie peacock: Yeah, Justin's gonna listen to this be angry with me but the best thing ever. um Because now all my latest version of the posts except for one I made a change call doesn't like sequence numbers.
jamie peacock: So I renamed add sequence numbers to calls a little bit doesn't like sequence numbers in one of my posts.
Curt: good thanks
jamie peacock: took me all of two minutes um but yeah because he was whining that i use sequence numbers i'm like dude who gives a fuck they don't have to stay in sequence you can just add lines and delete shit but at least when it tells you this number is a problem you can easily find it
Curt: Oh, I see. Yeah, i hate sequence numbers too. I'd turn them off, but I could see that being useful.
jamie peacock: i don't give a memory is free
Curt: Yeah. that That is true. Yeah, that is true.
jamie peacock: Yeah, we're not programming in an old ass for Nook.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I've also converted him over to programming his Udrill's not like a savage. um He was touching something off and then he was like, no, he zeroed cut se the zeroed the Udrill, was measuring the size and then was going to go to zero. I'm like, dude, drill hole, measure hole.
jamie peacock: Udrill is that size now. end of conversation, there's no maths involved. So he's now moved over to the smart side of things. um Because we don't run the usuals on zero, we run them at the diameter, you're going to draw the hole that way when you use it for a boring bar, it's already set up.
Curt: Oh, okay. Okay.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: I kind of see what you mean.
jamie peacock: So you just when you post your code, you just have to make a minor tweak ah to say instead of x zero to whatever your drill sizes.
Curt: Yeah, yeah.
Curt: Sure. Sure, for sure, sure.
jamie peacock: like And that's a minor edits on the machines. So I might try to figure out how to put that into the post. um But it's also most of our usual stuff is production code. So once it's edited, it's edited.
jamie peacock: And we run production code. We freeze the code and run the same thing every time.
Curt: Right. Yeah.
jamie peacock: We've also tapped 1,000 M10 holes with a single tap so far.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Oh, nice. Wow.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: That's impressive.
jamie peacock: I'm going to see how long the tap lasts. It's a it's a growing tap. It's a decent quality tap. We need to do two and a thousand parts a month.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So I'm to see if I can stretch that tap to two and a thousand.
Curt: Just going into aluminum.
jamie peacock: I know to mild steel.
Curt: Oh, sorry. Miles steel. Oh, yeah okay.
jamie peacock: Yeah, not still unfortunately, the cyclism minutes and five seconds, which is a little bit on the long side, but it runs reliably calls gonna switch to it tomorrow and just let it keep running with your 500 parts today.
Curt: That's impressive then. Yeah. That's impressive.
Curt: Why is the tap so long?
jamie peacock: I don't know the the whole cycles that long, the drilling, chamfering, tapping, parting, pulling is a minute of five.
Curt: Oh, okay. Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: ah
Curt: Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: We're tapping at 500 RPM. So we have quite low RPM.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: But it lets us
Curt: I, I, I, yeah.
jamie peacock: It's a reliable process. So I can probably go to 1000 RPM, but then I've only got to tap five mil deep, not 17, because it's going over-travel while the spindle slows down.
Curt: Yep.
jamie peacock: So rather we do 500, it's a bit more of a controlled controlled thing.
Curt: Right.
jamie peacock: But yeah, it just runs. It took just fucking runs. So yeah, we've got standing orders for those that need to chase up for POs today for 5,000 parts a month between two-part numbers.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: And then we got an aluminium job that's going to go on the Emco and the good way that is also going to be like a couple thousand parts a month.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: Which is the dream. Yeah, make lots of money while I while i don't have to touch it.
Curt: Yeah, that's awesome. If you can get like little work like that, that's perfect.
jamie peacock: Yeah. And then Carl's lathe, we need to put a hydraulic chuck on at some point because his stupid chuck is dumb.
Curt: Oh, we still has just a manual shotgun?
jamie peacock: Still got a manual chuck, yeah. So we're going to, it's literally cheaper to buy a hydraulic chuck locally than to import one.
Curt: Really?
jamie peacock: and we know what we're getting here. So if I import one that's about 15,000 Rand, because it's a heavy item, and we're going to send it with FedEx.
Curt: Right, right, right.
jamie peacock: And then there's going to be import duties. I can buy one with an adapter plate for just on 20,000 Rand.
Curt: Oh, okay. Yeah, that's not heinous.
jamie peacock: I can literally get in my truck, drive there, fetch it, and drive home.
Curt: Yeah, yeah, that's nice.
jamie peacock: And it's a Chandox. It's a decent quality truck. We can get jaws easily for it. Like, yeah, don't want to fuck her around if we can avoid us
Curt: Totally.
jamie peacock: So I'll go chat to them and see see what we can do there.
Curt: I get that.
jamie peacock: But for now, manual chuck is fine. He's busy actually turning the feet for the good way. I ordered a four-inch diameter, five inches long, that he's turning feet.
Curt: Oh, nice. Okay.
jamie peacock: Nice high feet for the good way because it's currently on some two-by-fours.
Curt: wo Yeah. No. Yeah.
jamie peacock: So I want to put it on proper feet and level it nicely. Actually lean it a bit so that the coolant doesn't drip off the back. It drips back into the main machining area. Because i think my 2x4s are not the same length.
Curt: Oh, they're standing upright? Okay.
jamie peacock: um yeah There's two 2x4s like this and then one on top and a piece of plywood on the bottom.
Curt: Okay, yeah, yeah, good.
jamie peacock: I needed it to be high enough that the pallet jack could get under it.
Curt: Fair, yeah, okay. yeah Yeah, put some good feet on there.
jamie peacock: So, yeah, I'm going to put some decent feet on there.
Curt: That would help.
jamie peacock: Then we need to do feet for all the other machines still.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: But, yeah, I finally got my teepees for the cable track in the in the workshop.
Curt: Okay, so that's all tied up now, are all finished?
jamie peacock: And then it was a different size to what I expected. So I then had to disconnect the airlines, move the tracks around a bit, and then bolt it all in. But it's all in. The wiring is nowhere near done, but the track is in.
Curt: Cool.
Curt: that's That's good. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Progress.
jamie peacock: Progress. I just haven't had time to pull wire there. So that's this week's this coming back later in the week. Maybe next week I'll carry on pulling wire. I need internet before I can fucking get all the home assistant stuff set up.
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: We've been hotspotting our cell phones um because I needed a certified copy of my ID to get the fucking internet. and I now have that. I'm ordering the internet today. ah
Curt: uncle Oh
jamie peacock: We should have it by the end of the week because yeah I've burned through like 20 gigs of mobile data. because Microsoft's like updates. I'm like, fuck you and die. Like, what the fuck?
Curt: Oh, okay. Okay,
jamie peacock: I turn my computer on. Next thing I look, I've used a gig of data. I'm like, what the fuck?
Curt: fair. i was like, what are you what are you watching?
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: No, it's freaking really, really tedious. So yeah, we'll have internet end of the week. And then we can at least ah get the network fully set up because right now I have to disconnect from my hotspot, connect to my Wi-Fi so that I can post to my NAS, then connect back to my hotspot so that I can save in Fusion.
Curt: Okay, okay, okay.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so the internet infrastructure will be in this week. Also, I bought pass through Ethernet jacks. Never do that. They are shit. um So it's the ones you can push the wires through and then crimp and then cut the wires off.
jamie peacock: Not the ones where you know what happens when you crimp them too hard.
Curt: Oh, okay. Yeah.
Curt: No, they cut the wires?
jamie peacock: don't make They don't make fucking connection in your Ethernet port because the pins go too deep.
Curt: okay. Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so I'm just gonna throw those in the fucking bin and buy normal people ones. um Like I've literally haven't had an Ethernet jack fail a test in fucking 10 years.
jamie peacock: Like I used to crimp all the stuff for our machines at work. Eight years ago when I left there and I haven't crimped a faulty connector since and I cannot get these ones to work reliably.
Curt: Yeah,
Curt: that's probably why that's the way they are made normally. It's because they just work.
jamie peacock: So yeah, I'm to, I'll just go to the shop and go to the China shop and just buy some cheap fucking RJ45s and then that'll solve that problem.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: And then I've still got put it in my new router, router bought or switch. I bought a 16 port switch so everything can go on the network like all the machines, any other shit I want to put on can just go into a wired port.
jamie peacock: I've managed to get my PC to require um power, single USB and a HDMI cable and I need a one for my speakers.
jamie peacock: So four plugs to plug my PC in and out now. Because my PC comes home with me everywhere.
Curt: Right, yeah, so it is important for that, yeah.
jamie peacock: Yep.
Curt: You need, like, you need like the old, ah like, 1990s-style, like, ah docking trays.
jamie peacock: Yep.
Curt: Like, I had a laptop that had a whole docking set, and you just, clunk, pull out, clunk, put it in.
jamie peacock: So my old Dell laptop had a Type-C port and i had a Type-C dock that had my screen, my keyboard, my mouse, everything plugged in. So I'd literally put the laptop down, plug in the Type-C and plug in the power. That was it.
jamie peacock: But my laptop, my PC doesn't have a Type-C port.
Curt: Nice.
Curt: Oh, okay, okay.
jamie peacock: Yeah, when I bought the motherboard, the one with Type C was like significantly more expensive. So i'm like, nah, fuck that. I don't think calls us Type C. So now I've just got a USB hub there. I'm probably going to buy really like a decent powered USB 3 hub and then just plug everything into that under my desk.
jamie peacock: And then I've got like 20 ports to play with because like now the fiber laser is plugged into the USB hub on my screen because my monitor's got a USB hub and my screen plugs into the computer.
Curt: Right. Right.
jamie peacock: And then the other USB port goes to a hub for my keyboard and mouse and for my printer. So I'm trying to make it reasonable. Also, the, well, that's in my Google box. But yeah, my laser, the CO2 laser, I put in a...
jamie peacock: DLS32 board when the comp controller shut the bed. Apparently, with a little bit of fuckery, I can use a virtual serial port and send file, run it from Lightburn over Wi-Fi.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: So I don't need to run on a long-ass USB cable to it.
Curt: Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: Yeah, which, um because it's not going to be right next to the PC.
Curt: All right, yeah.
jamie peacock: It's going to be in the kitchen. Kitchen slash shitter.
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: So I need a, yeah.
Curt: Right. Right.
jamie peacock: I need a I need a way to not have to run a long fucking cable to it. So what I'll probably do is edit the, uh, the config and light burn, like I had it in web laser web where it would output with a pause. So you'd start the program and just pause. Then you press the start button and then it would run.
Curt: Gotcha. Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Cause it's going to be a little bit of a ball leg to try and fucking align stuff. going to be like is it aligned i don't actually know um yeah i'm gonna have to figure out
Curt: the It's good. Like walkie talkies. Yeah.
jamie peacock: yeah i can hey god is it aligned yeah fuck um i mean i have got danica's laptop that's up here that i could take with and it could just be dedicated to that uh but i don't want to be wanting to laser something oh fuck we don't have the laptop yet today we can't laser anything
Curt: Left, left, left. Yeah. Left. Hmm. laugh
Curt: Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: So I need to just make usefulness.
jamie peacock: Yeah, never fucking dull moment.
Curt: Fair.
jamie peacock: um
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: We'll just leave that topic alone for now.
Curt: See.
jamie peacock: um
Curt: Sure.
jamie peacock: Oh, fuck. Ouch. So did you know that I have anchor points in my machine?
Curt: I did. Yeah, I think you have a few of them.
jamie peacock: Yes, there are quite a few.
Curt: Yep.
jamie peacock: I'm actually unclamping issues on some of them. i need to figure out what the fuck's going on. um
Curt: Mm hmm.
jamie peacock: ah No, i replaced i replaced the one that was being faulty and now the new replacement is faulty. And I'm like, what the fuck is going on here? So I'm going to put it off and have a look.
Curt: Oh,
jamie peacock: Yeah, it's a bit concerning. um But it's only when I have big, when I have spanning pallets and they span all all four, it's only then that it's a problem.
Curt: yeah?
jamie peacock: Spans two, it's not a problem.
Curt: Weird.
jamie peacock: Yeah, really, really weird. Anyway, I was making pallets yesterday because I needed pallet for the 52mm risers. I needed a pallet for barnacles. So now the barnacles get Op 1 in the pneumatic vase.
Curt: Mm-hmm.
jamie peacock: Op 2 into a pallet 4 at a time. That they bolt down. They are now fucking dead nuts, flat and square and everything the way they need to be. And then flux vase for Op 3 and 4.
Curt: yeah Okay, that's what i saw. Yeah, I saw a story for that.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: so Sick.
jamie peacock: So yeah, those are now, ran off a bunch yesterday. I'm going to anodize some tomorrow ah and anodize the riser that needs to be anodized and then that can go off. And I'm sending out, yeah, keel clamps I finished lasering yesterday.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: I need to make a better solution for that.
Curt: For lasering them?
jamie peacock: So I want to make a tray that you just stack them all in and then I want to make that every time you you like pull a lever or something, it kicks the one out and the rest just slide forward.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So you just go...
Curt: Oh, like like a Pez dispenser kind of deal. Yeah, yeah,
jamie peacock: Kind of thing that the yeah it just feeds it forward to the to the lasering point. um
Curt: yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, lasered like 100 of them yesterday. And they get lasered on two sides.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: um
Curt: I know I saw your little setup of like one, two, three blocks or whatever and just a big stack of them.
jamie peacock: But now I've stock. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, it works.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: But yeah, now I have stock of M4, M5, M6 machinables, and M8s.
Curt: Cool. Nice.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so lots of stock. EJ ordered some M8s, so I'm throwing some extras in there for him to play with.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: Yeah, they were meant to ship yesterday, but now, yeah, I'm see if I can ship them from home today. Because, uh, yeah, I just need to see if that fucking student printer will actually print a page because i need to print the label.
Curt: yeah. Fair, fair.
jamie peacock: Otherwise I'm gonna have to book it today for collection at the workshop tomorrow morning and it is what it is.
Curt: Yeah, I know. i was looking at my week for shipping and it's like, it's going to be all shot full of holes because like we're like ah July 1st, we're down for holiday, whatever.
Curt: And then ah Canada Day and all that stuff.
jamie peacock: Oh yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: And then ah July. And then like if I do get any packages, though so then everything opens back up again on whatever Thursday, Friday. So if I do get any packages, they're good for a little bit until they hit the US because they're fourth.
jamie peacock: And then it's July 4th. Yeah.
Curt: And I think they get ah in lieu of so then Monday is probably shut down for them. Or maybe they do it in lieu on Friday. I don't know. Either way, like it's just for about a week here, shipping gets slow. So that's OK, though.
jamie peacock: Becomes a shit joke.
Curt: Yeah, exactly. Still better than driving it there. So I guess I'll just deal.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Yeah, no, 100%. Yeah, we got doggo FedEx parcels going out. I need to find, oh, need buy O-rings. I managed to order and buy the wrong O-rings like three times last week. So I needed 32 ID.
Curt: not Nice.
jamie peacock: I ordered 64 ID. Went there, I'm like, no, those those look wrong. It's 32 Then I ordered... then are ordered 8 ID when they needed to be 8 OD and then I ordered 8 ID when they needed to be 6 ID and those I need to go fetch tomorrow because I need to get them shipped to again I'm sending them a bunch of idiot pins
Curt: Ah, cool.
Curt: Oh, right. Okay. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Well, yeah, so can go into the fluxes.
Curt: Yeah. yeah
jamie peacock: um But yeah, those all turned, I just don't have the right O-ring. It's fucking lovely. And yeah, never ah ever a dull moment. And then I get to drive around like a loon to go fetch things.
jamie peacock: Kind of looking forward to Danica being done where she's working so I can send her to drive around for me. It's going to be lovely.
Curt: That would help, yeah.
jamie peacock: What dull. Yeah, that'll help a lot.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, i still need to move my anno setup to the new shop. I need to build benches and move the anno setup. But again, now, once we're through month-end madness, I can then spend a bit of time on actually getting that sorted.
Curt: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
jamie peacock: It goes, yeah, month-end madness. It's great.
Curt: Dude, it i don't know how the months always catch up, but yeah, anyways.
jamie peacock: So...
jamie peacock: Yeah, you blink and you're the middle of the month. At least now, going into the new month, like I need to, Carl needs to get all the national steel tomorrow. They're going to pre-cut our bar for us. we need that We need to order that tomorrow.
jamie peacock: that i can just I know the material's coming. He's running those parts. He's got another three days of production, three, four days of production. Hopefully we can get the balance of the steel there by the time he's done.
jamie peacock: So we can just straight up change over, just carry on running it for the next eight days. Or he's have to change over setups to run the other part number because we have bar for that already.
Curt: Mm.
jamie peacock: But I want to try to get that out by like the 10th or the 11th, the 5,000 parts we need to get out for the month.
Curt: Mm, okay, yeah
Curt: yeah. Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: Then the rest of the month is free for others. I've got to change over to run aluminium stuff. um to break our setup down to run an aluminium job quickly, a 200-part run, which he finished yesterday. is's gonna change over to the tapped stuff again to tomorrow and carry on running.
Curt: Mm, I gotcha, yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: But at least we're now just dedicating tools. Like, hey, we need another reducer. need another one of this, another one of that. i'm like, fucking whatever. Buy it. Put it on a shelf. It's production. Let's not share tools between different production production jobs.
jamie peacock: Let's just buy tools for the production jobs that we're not fucking around when we need to have stuff going out the door.
Curt: Yep.
Curt: Yeah, no, exactly.
jamie peacock: So, yeah.
Curt: Yeah, just the way to go.
jamie peacock: How's your boring ass production? Why are you producing asses?
Curt: I wish I could produce asses. um I mean, I guess I technically can produce asses. Well, I can't. I can help with it. and
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Besides what? It's like that's all I've done. that's Unfortunately, i don't have a ton of interesting things to talk about because I'm trying to i'm going on vacation in like a few weeks here. and So I just want to get like everything done.
Curt: So i'm just like just i was like I just come in and I work and then i leave. And I come in and I work and I leave. And like set that is... boring but at the same time that's like that's a lovely thing what i know like everything is just so like lined up now and like i used to have like production boards and i knew and like ah i've just done it so often now that i have a pretty good idea of how things flow through the shop um so i've kind of abandoned all those like pretty uh what were they called like the piercing boards whatever
jamie peacock: Yep, here's some boats.
jamie peacock: years and boards
Curt: Yeah, I used those for a while. Then I just got to the point where like everything was so just... And this is dumb talking. If you have an employee or if you have anybody else that relies on... like You can't just have the brain the knowledge in your brain. It doesn't work. But for me, I just come in here in the morning. I'm like, oh, I know the next three stages are this. And I can double team both machines and just keep cranking. And then ah I was freaking killing myself last week because it was like I was running all the grip machining. So the style would just like... I'd wake up in the morning. I would warm it up.
Curt: um like workout whatever and then it would just run like basically continuously at like rpm all day and by the end of the day it was like 30 degrees and like 90 humidity in here every single day and it was like so annoying just like i was like this is so hot like i get so useless when it gets hot and humid i'm just like i don't want to be in here anymore when it's that hot so anyways uh
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: this week now oddly enough that was the week that there wasn't any monsoons with you know it being nice cool weather when I could have used it and now all the machining is done and I'm just doing the final finishing cleaning assembly pack up where it doesn't generate any heat and it's cool outside so I'm like well that's how it works so anyways just yeah boring production so it's lovely
jamie peacock: Yeah, no, it's...
jamie peacock: Yeah, that's how the world works. um Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, your... I have thoughts on...
jamie peacock: automating your milling, but you know we'll discuss that later. That can be discussed offline.
Curt: yeah i'm uh i'm all ears like i was actually planning uh the one thing is i i ordered i was low on titanium i was like okay i'm gonna put a big order in for titanium and then it'll be here in a few days and then like i can ah like i can casually work this through and then the titanium will come in then i can move the next like it will be nice and smooth but the problem is like my titanium supplier is awesome and i deal with them enough now that i think they just know like every month or so i'm going to be placing an order around this time
jamie peacock: da da
Curt: um
jamie peacock: Yeah. it should go
Curt: So they're getting they're getting good at shipping my order really fast.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Yeah.
Curt: And unfortunately, I think they also sent it like overnight, which cost me because they just use my FedEx account. but So I looked at the bill. I'm like, holy Christ, that shipping is expensive. So ah but yeah, then it kind of totally messes my flow up because now I'm like, shit, all the materials here. Like I could start all these new parts now as opposed to like I thought I'd have a few days of like lull time.
Curt: Which is a good thing. Like, I love having a supplier that gets me stuff instantly, but i was just like, oh, but now I'm, now I feel stressed because like, I didn't, yeah.
jamie peacock: We actually, um my cousin was giving us a bit of shit because she doesn't want everyone to know that she's my cousin and calls her husband. But they promised delivery on Friday.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: I'm like, p please. I phoned her at like four o'clock. Hey, are we getting delivery today? She's like, no, it's for Monday. I'm like, ah you said today. We need to run it over the weekend. So I'm like, please do you mind like grabbing it and taking it home?
Curt: Mm-hmm.
jamie peacock: Fuck. And then they wanted to phone the big boss. And like she's like, just fucking bring it to me. Like, I will sign the documents, call and Jamie called cause my son Jamie's my fucking cousin, I need to take the machine and the material so they can work this weekend. Like, was told it would be delivered today.
jamie peacock: So yeah, we're like, please don't ask for preferential treatment. They're starting to ask questions. Oh my god, for fuck's sake, needy bastards.
Curt: yeah
Curt: nothing think Yeah. Fair. Just do what you say you're going to do. That's all that's all i have to do.
jamie peacock: Exactly. Yeah, fuck's sakes.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: But yeah, there's delays. like we expect Actually, that fucking reminds were meant to get a delivery yesterday. A fucking tube. And they didn't deliver, the bastards.
Curt: The bastards.
jamie peacock: Yeah, fuck's sake.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: They were meant to deliver our tube for those assemblies. Because those have got... They paid for them this morning. So I kind of need to actually deliver them this week.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I figured they would pay. like It took them a week to give us a PO. But once the PO is in the system, it gets loaded for payments at the end of the month. So the parts are mostly machined. I need to just finish machining and assemble them.
jamie peacock: But obviously we can't work today because Africa. So now we're doing admin stuff. My bean counter actually just messaged me about our sales tax bill. As I said to him, I'd refer back to him on Monday um because he's loaded the sales tax from a order that hasn't fully been paid yet. And he's like, I'm like, can we kick it down the road? He's like,
jamie peacock: Preferably not. So I'm like, fuck it, just load it, I'll pay it, and I'll just be poor. It's fine.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Now, the thing is then when the balance that order gets paid, the tax has been paid already, that money is fucking mine. So
Curt: Yeah, you're exactly. you're you Yeah, it's a better way. Yeah.
jamie peacock: nots yeah it's not all bad because yeah the sales tax thing is going to become a problem now because our turnover is going to go up. Yay.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: That's joys businessing.
Curt: it's
Curt: Yep. Yep. I know it's, it's, yeah, there's, I don't know. I talk to people all the time too. So like, they're like, are you going to like, are you gonna scale up and get like a bunch of people and a bunch? I'm like, no, no, I'm not.
Curt: I'm going to get to a point where I'm just like, I can, I can make a great living and I can do what I want. And I have a um yeah amount of stress that I can deal with. And that's as much as I want.
Curt: I don't want more money, more problems.
jamie peacock: That's it.
Curt: Like, yeah.
jamie peacock: As it is, we've got Carl. He's running the late department for me. Samo the Mamo. We're getting a press put down in the next week or two. He's going to be running press parts for me. That's it. I don't want more than that. Samo the Mamo, he's called that because he fuck his name's Simon. He pitches up and he's fucking quiet.
jamie peacock: He just works. Samo the Mamo.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: We've got press work for him. Ideally, Carl and were discussing we actually want to upskill him a bit. He was running the saw for us. ah Saw cutting material. bro Fucking perfect.
jamie peacock: um potentially upskill him to be an operator over time um he's got a bit of a retorted situation he was in school about to get his um a trick certificate they wouldn't give it to him because he doesn't have id document so his mom refused to go to the home affairs to get him an id document yeah so because he was born in a fucking shack
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Oh.
jamie peacock: So that he never got an ID document.
Curt: Right, right.
jamie peacock: um And it's a bit of a problem. Like I said to him, he needs to sort it out because if he's working there with me and we get an inspection and they're looking for fucking undocumented workers, it's a fuck up. But we get fined.
jamie peacock: So he's busy trying to sort it out now.
Curt: Right, right.
jamie peacock: He's now big enough that he can just force his mom to go to the fucking home affairs, just drag her there. um because the parent has to register the child you can't as a child you can't just go register yourself so it's a total fuckup um but yeah he's he works fucking hard he was there like running bandsaw if he's got nothing to do he starts fucking cleaning carl's machine had a chip conveyor every time the machine stops he opened the door there's simon scraping all the shavings out because there was nothing else for him to do so yeah
Curt: interesting
Curt: Oh,
jamie peacock: We'll look at upskilling having him run presses and stuff. um Yeah, we're getting a 20 ton hydraulic press put in.
Curt: oh nice. OK, for that. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, for the things that he was assembling, he's not gonna bend and then assemble.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so I'm um happy to take on that kind of shit like get the tool running and fucking let him run.
Curt: Good.
jamie peacock: Keep an eye make sure shit isn't fucked.
Curt: It sounds like he's a good person. like Just like just wants wants to be productive, wants to advance in the world.
jamie peacock: Yes.
jamie peacock: once yeah Wants to work and make a fucking living. Doesn't want to just sit and get shit for free. Like most of the South Africans, yeah.
Curt: Totally. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: So ya's yeah, I don't mind having him around.
Curt: Exactly.
jamie peacock: i can When he comes around, my cousin packs extra. If I say he's coming on Wednesday, calls his missus, pack extra lunch for Samo, so he gets fucking lunch when he comes there.
Curt: Aw, that's cool.
jamie peacock: Yeah. going to look after that. He gets paid really well, and you look after the guy, he's not generally not going to rob you.
Curt: Well, yeah, totally.
jamie peacock: Because that's the issue. You got someone in your space like right if I can get very many opportunities to steal your shit. So you look after them and then they don't.
Curt: It was actually funny. my My old place at work, we had like big dumpsters behind our place. We'd store aluminum and whatnot. And we always had... It was a really rough area. And we had a lot of like transient people just kind of flow through.
Curt: And ah we went out once cause they would like, they would go look in our aluminum bin and just like leave it in shambles. Cause they, they're on bikes.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So they can't take the, you know, 400 pound bin. So they try to find the biggest pieces and leave. Anyways, we found one guy one night, uh, he was out there and my boss just went out there and he's like, Hey, like, what are you doing? He's like Oh, i just like, you know, just like looking first. He's like, okay. He's like, tell you what, he's like, pick all the aluminum you ever want out of that bin. He's like, go nuts. Do what you like. Um,
Curt: He's like, just just don't leave it like a huge mess. He's like, I won't like lock it.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: I won't leave it. I'll make it nice for you guys. Take what you need. Just don't make a huge mess. And he's like, and then he came back out and he gave him a can of pop and some like chips and some chocolate bars and stuff like that. He's like, just do us do us a favor. He's like, if you see yes anybody like you know causing problems here, just just you know maybe maybe let us know. Anyways, that popped. chocolate bar chips whatever was the best insurance policy we had for the next few years we were there because he kept an eye out for us and like if people were caus causing shit in his like little world he'd be like no no don't like that anyways it was all our neighbors their bins would get broken into ah like they would get trashed like things would be and ours was always pristine and my boss would always be like dude he's like that was the best like 15 bucks or i think he maybe gave him
Curt: I think we had a little ah change jar too where we all put money in and we'd buy pop. And I think he gave that to him as well. So like maybe 10, 15 bucks. He's like, that was the best money we ever spent.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: He's like, we have like a security system. Yeah.
jamie peacock: So like we've got so we got drums out back we little back area and cause I don't keep the drums and someone if someone jumps over and steals the shavings good for them, like the solid rims stay in the building.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Like, because those are 20 rand a kilo, whereas the scrap is like fucking seven rand a kilo.
Curt: Yeah. yeah
jamie peacock: And you've got to carry shavings, not blocks. So like all the the big block remnants should just gets thrown in a bucket, and we sell the bucket when we do when we do scrap. ah But the shavings, they can go in drums outside. That's not going to be the end of the world.
Curt: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
jamie peacock: Now, he filled a drum up in under a day with steel shavings.
Curt: ah Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: And we now, the guys are happy with the parts. Apparently we're going to be getting that order on an ongoing basis.
Curt: Sick, that's nice.
jamie peacock: Not the most lucrative order, but fucking, it's fine. It runs on Carl's machine. I don't really care.
Curt: Yeah, exactly.
jamie peacock: It comes as hollow bar. He pulls the ID, balls the turns the OD and fucking done.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: He did a hundred parts in a day and a half.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: So, yeah.
Curt: Sick.
jamie peacock: It hits his hourly rate, so that's fine. Like the machine's hourly rate. So, that's all it has to do.
Curt: Awesome. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, that is it.
Curt: Awesome.
jamie peacock: um So what is in your Google box?
Curt: Cool, dude.
Curt: uh not a shit ton of stuff um text-to-speech because i had some documents i wanted to read and i didn't want to read them uh just wanted to listen to them and with the advance of ai now there's like there's great models that you could just use plug your document into it and it reads it like a human as opposed to like the cat jumped over the fence and went to the it's like it's It's got inflection. You can pick your voices. I picked a nice, pretty girl voice or I assume pretty girl, a nice, pretty sounding girl voice because it just sounds pleasing to me.
Curt: um And yeah, anyways, that's cool stuff. ah Mice, or, uh, mice we were talking about earlier in the show and, uh, 3D printer.
jamie peacock: Yeah, you're starting a lab.
Curt: Yeah, yeah, exactly. ah three d printer, because mine is dying, and I don't use it enough to really care, but I kind of want a printer, and then kind of Bamboo's going through some pretty kind of hellacious stuff right now, so they're not really on my radar, so anyways, just kind of seeing who I want to go with, but we'll see.
jamie peacock: I'm gonna buy an A1 Mini for the workshop.
Curt: Aria? Aria?
jamie peacock: I need a printer for the workshop. This thing's a little bit fucking Jamie a fight like I can make it work cool but call these bills.
Curt: That's the thing is I don't want to.
jamie peacock: Richard look
Curt: Yeah, I don't I don't want a project anymore. I just want a printer to I just want my three d printer to be like my 2D printer, like just work.
jamie peacock: exactly.
Curt: Just do it. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Well as's long it's not Yeah. Yeah. I'm also
Curt: Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: ah yeah i'm also
Curt: How it's what's in yours.
jamie peacock: So, Justin Gray, labs.com, but with an E.
Curt: Yes.
jamie peacock: It's fucking hilarious. It was in my thing still a while.
Curt: the
jamie peacock: That's brilliant. Flatbed scanners, because I don't want to buy another fucking printer just to have a scanner, but it's literally cheaper to just buy another printer to have a scanner. um How to turn optional stop off on a masso.
jamie peacock: um trying to look into the 828D's APO settings, there is fuck all information on that. Looking up Wi-Fi for the laser and looking up for draw sets for my desk at work.
jamie peacock: I want to put draws underneath so that I can stash shit that ist doesn't need to be on my desk.
Curt: Gotcha.
jamie peacock: Because as it is, I'm putting a set of shelves that has all my rack and stacks in it for ongoing projects.
Curt: Sure. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Because I have a million of those.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: As one does.
Curt: Yeah. Don't we all?
jamie peacock: But, so, where can people find you at?
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: can find me and all my things at confoundedmachine.com, which also points to the podcast, which also points to YouTube channels and Instagram and mailing lists and everything you would ever need to contact me and a contact form if you just want to send me a message.
jamie peacock: Everywhere.
Curt: How about you, Mr. Jamie? Where can people find your wares? Mm-hmm.
jamie peacock: You can find the day-to-day happenings of the shop at jspeceng.com. If you're looking for workholding stuff, you can check it out at tapsandpatients.com. um The podcast is at theloadmachinists.com.
jamie peacock: But yeah, so if you're looking for nautical workholding, it's now at tapsandpatients.com because, well, that yeah URL was available.
Curt: i
jamie peacock: Apparently, right now, only working on desktop, according to Kurt.
Curt: ah
jamie peacock: It doesn't really work on mobile. But yeah, you can also find it at nauticalwh.com. But yeah, we decided to join the yeah URL wars here.
Curt: I don't know what I have so much power now with that URL I don't know what to do with it
jamie peacock: I still want to buy AJ AJ AJ so think that'll be funny
Curt: I had, I was, I was trying to buy, I was going try by like everything. I i was going to buy their whole names, like all their names. And i was like, no, that's, I don't need this. And then I was like, you know what? Subtract.
Curt: So I went through every variation of subtract manufacturing I could find. I'm like, i wonder if they left a hole. They did leave a bunch of holes, but like no one wants it. No one cares about a dot IO site or a dot whatever site, like dot coms.
jamie peacock: Well, there is a.io site that we're going to discuss later, um but that'll have to wait until next week when we have some confirmation. But we'll discuss it between shows.
Curt: Just join the dot-com crew. that's That's where all the cool kids are.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah. 100%. That's, like you want to look professional, get it.com.
Curt: Totally. Yeah, exactly. No one cares about your...
jamie peacock: You've got to look hippie. Get a doc and make. There's actually, there was a really good video from Zach Friedman, the guy who invented Goodfinity. It was as talk from Murph or M-Murph or one of the printing things.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: He did a speech, like a talk, and he put it on on YouTube.
Curt: Sure.
jamie peacock: And it's... said fuck ah making things makers will make and make better to make more makers make or something was the title of his talk it was really good like how to make a project that will be more than just your contribution yeah it was actually a really a really good talk all his videos are really good but it was a really good talk um like goodfinity is he made goodfinity as a fucking as april fool's joke
Curt: no that
Curt: sure sure yeah
Curt: I like his oh really haha
jamie peacock: Like, that's how it started. It was an April Fool's video, and then he kind of got carried away a little bit, and then released it, and then it just fucking exploded.
Curt: Yeah, that's what happens when you do something cool and you release into the world.
jamie peacock: Like, yeah.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Exactly. But, yeah, the way, like, he goes into detail on how and why, and the way he went about releasing it, and why it took off so much. So, yeah, a very, very interesting video. It's like a 36-minute video.
jamie peacock: But, yeah, really, really good.
Curt: Check it out.
jamie peacock: watched it last month.
Curt: Yeah, I like i like that dude.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: like his little eyepiece.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Yes. as ah He references it in the video. It's quite funny. um
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: yeah What are you up to tomorrow, Kurt? Considering it's not a Sunday tomorrow.
Curt: ah Tomorrow, ah yeah, tomorrow I'm going to do surprise, surprise, production. I'm just going to throw headphones on and I'm going to produce big asses.
jamie peacock: Nice. Going to produce big asses.
Curt: No, I'm going to just, i don't know, clean parts, assemble, trying to get the, this like I told you last week, I wanted to get the pens out by Friday. That was so optimistic. They will probably be ready for like being popped in the mail for this Friday.
Curt: So yeah, just, that's That's what I'm going to what are you What are you up to today?
jamie peacock: I'm going to anodize and then clean my driveway because it's still as it was when the machines moved. So I'm going get anode running and then start just making a pile of shit to be turfed and cleaning the garage and organizing, getting stuff ready to move to the to the new shop.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: Like I have to take my desk off the wall to be able to get the fridge out of my office.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: Yes. So that desk needs to go to the workshop anyway, it's going to become the RT desk. So we'll RT infrastructure is going to set it's going to be on that. um And then it was mentioned to me that I should probably secure the home assistance on put them into us into a box, like a steel box on the bottom of the table.
jamie peacock: So that if we do have a burglary, I still have all the footage from the cameras.
Curt: Good point. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: so because i'm not going to back it up off site it'll just be on the on the par but i'll just put in steel box and bolts to the wall um so yeah i'm gonna clean up and do science and hope you feel less sick and yeah just general general things snort some hydrogen always helps yes yeah 100 um but there's a
Curt: That helps, yeah. Clear sinuses, for sure. but
jamie peacock: Yeah, we'll discuss. There's some stuff we need to discuss between shows, and then there's some stuff for the after show today as well. But anyway, I'll just like a leaving mysteries.
Curt: Excite.
Curt: Mysteries.
jamie peacock: But yeah, thank you everybody for listening. If you watch the video, which I would highly recommend, um we will appreciate a like, subscribe, all those fun things.
Curt: ah
jamie peacock: If you've just had audio on your podcast player, enjoy if you enjoyed the show and want to share it with someone you think will enjoy it as well please do and uh yeah we will see you guys next week
Curt: Take care all.
