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Ep. 25: Holy Shift, It’s SIEMENS!
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Join Curt and Jamie as they discuss their week, including topics such as Tungsten Carbide Flush Cutters, and more fancy fixtures on the Anchor Point.
Links Discussed:
- I Built Flappy Bird IRL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcKArylBdE0
- Tips and tricks for the SINUMERIK 828D and 840D: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZnkFvUAP0I
- Chris bohden: https://I Built Flappy Bird IRL (It's actually playable)www.youtube.com/@Physicsduck/videos
- Raspberry Pi Cinema Camera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK57H3mzQ_c
The Lone Machinist:
- Website: https://thelonemachinists.com/
- Merch: https://www.jspeceng.com/online-store
- Patreon: https://patreon.com/TheLoneMachinists
Jamie:
Curt:
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Transcript
Morning Greetings and South African Weather
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jamie peacock
Good morning, Kurt. How are you this fine morning?
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Curt
I'm ah'm doing fantastic, Jamie. How are you doing in sunny South Africa?
Impact of Youth Day on Work Plans
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jamie peacock
I'm good. Yeah, it was actually sunny today. It was quite nice. It a little chilly, but sunny.
00:00:58
Curt
Oh, nice.
00:00:59
jamie peacock
Yeah, but we had youth day today. Yet another public holiday.
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Curt
Mm-hmm.
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jamie peacock
And I had planned on working, but then, yeah, as i was telling you before the show, we kind of partied a bit last night and did not want to really get
Mishap with Coolant Tank and Shop Rearrangement
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jamie peacock
out of bed. And then, yeah, also yesterday...
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jamie peacock
Hang on, thinking back here now. Not yesterday, Saturday. I finally pulled Monica out and got her to work sucking out my coolant tank, which desperately needed it. Put it all back together, got the skimmer running, and then it proceeded to pump out half of my coolant onto my floor overnight.
00:01:35
Curt
How did that happen?
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jamie peacock
the return pipe got something stuck in it and I didn't catch it because I had emptied out my filter cloths into one of my bins that has holes in it. So I expected there to be some coolant on the driveway. Like it wasn't out of out the order for me to see some coolant there before went to bed.
00:01:53
jamie peacock
And yeah, went to a dog thing yesterday morning, came back and like why is there coolant there?
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Curt
right
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jamie peacock
It's not meant to be there. Open the door and my coolant tank's half empty.
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Curt
Oh, no.
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jamie peacock
And my floor is all coming So that was my that was the one work thing I did today was fix that and clean my floor little bit.
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Curt
Oh, fun.
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jamie peacock
Yeah, it was a little bit just a little bit tedious. But yeah, that tank needs to be pumped out on a two weekly basis like it was manky as hell.
00:02:24
Curt
Well, you do produce chips, so
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jamie peacock
Yeah, also rearranged. Yeah. ah It was also mixed chips and I needed it for a while. Monica was just in the back of the shop, so I couldn't get it out easily. So now Monica has been relocated to right next to the Emco so I can get it out easily.
Social Media Activity and Machining Challenges
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jamie peacock
I think I'll post a story about it tomorrow.
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Curt
Nice.
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jamie peacock
I've been a bit light on the Instagram stuff with all the all the shit going on and whatnot. So we'll get back into it tomorrow.
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Curt
Yeah, no fair.
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jamie peacock
But yeah, what have you been up to?
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Curt
Yeah. Oh, basically just production. finish Finishing off a bunch of that Ultim machining, doing a little bit of titanium machining.
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jamie peacock
ah
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Curt
Ultim is gross for chips. Like it's, it works nice, but like my chip little, I have those little cloth things that stuff and it looks disgusting because it's just like white or like yellowy and it's mixed with the coolant and it's just like, it's easy to clean.
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jamie peacock
yeah
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jamie peacock
i'm yeah i'm not uh one thing you need to watch out with that is it pulls out the defoamer out of your coolant yes so yeah i was chatting to my coolant because i had foaming issues a little while ago don't know
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Curt
Just, it's just plastic, but like, oh
00:03:18
Curt
Oh, interesting. Really?
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jamie peacock
brought up on the podcast.
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Curt
Yeah.
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jamie peacock
He came through gave Yeah, ah you're saying the aluminium chips chips I'm making with the face mill and with my rougher tend to the defoamer clings to it.
00:03:26
Curt
I think you did, yeah.
00:03:35
jamie peacock
So you tend to have carry out of your defoamer. So it's just something to be aware of.
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Curt
Good
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jamie peacock
Because
Production Plans and Material Pickup Issues
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Curt
to know.
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jamie peacock
I keep the machine.
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Curt
I am i'm getting more foaming, so yeah. Interesting.
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jamie peacock
I'm cleaning the machine in preparation for tufnel.
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Curt
Mm, okay, yeah, yeah.
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jamie peacock
yeah that the fixed ring material arrives hopefully tomorrow, either tomorrow or Wednesday. And then I'm going to phone the guy and say, this shit ain't touching my machine until the Tufnel's here.
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Curt
Mm.
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jamie peacock
Because my machine will get broken down. I'll do your job and put my machine back to how it was. so Because I've got other work to do that I can't do while his job is set up.
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Curt
Right.
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jamie peacock
So I've got to harass him on tomorrow, on our short week Monday.
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Curt
Right, right.
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Curt
Yeah, yeah.
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jamie peacock
Yeah, it's... The public holiday thing is killer. Tomorrow morning Danica's got to go pick up some material for some jobs because they, well, I couldn't get on like the guy's place to order at one o'clock on a Friday.
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jamie peacock
I can't get material. Everyone closes at
Innovative Machining Techniques and Efficiency
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jamie peacock
one o'clock on a Friday the engineering space.
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Curt
Hmm.
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jamie peacock
So I was like, cool. Went and visited a customer, hijacked some material from him for one of the components, but I've got to go buy that material tomorrow.
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jamie peacock
And then the emco can run off. I think it's like 60 parts.
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Curt
Hmm.
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Curt
That's a fair amount. Yeah.
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jamie peacock
And then I'm going to try a stupid. um
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Curt
Try stupid. but
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jamie peacock
I'm going try a stupid. I'm gonna go buy some hose clamps. I've got 34 lengths of eight millimeter hex bar that I need to cut into 500 mil long pieces.
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Curt
Okay. Okay.
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Curt
Okay.
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jamie peacock
And I don't want to feed them through the bandsaw one at a time.
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Curt
Oh, okay. Okay, i see what you're going to
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jamie peacock
Yes, those yeah I got to cut them. They are 10 foot. the They need to be 19.68 inches apparently. sixeight inches apparently um Yeah, so I'm going to them together nice and tight, put them in the bandsaw and just zip through them.
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jamie peacock
And then I have to sand the one end, unfortunately.
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Curt
Yeah, yeah.
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jamie peacock
And then Danica is going to have the lovely job of running one minute cycles, making it into short pieces for me. We literally face it off, part it, feed it, face off, part feed.
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Curt
Oh, bummer.
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jamie peacock
It's quicker than the bandsaw. And we load it the Emco and just let the Emco run. Now we've got to do a thousand Torx bits this month.
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Curt
Right. Yeah. Yeah. May as well.
00:05:43
Curt
Oh, I mean, good, but yeah. Tedious job. Yeah.
00:05:46
jamie peacock
Not really. I'll make Danica load it. We used to cut them with the bandsaw and that was horrid.
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Curt
but well
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jamie peacock
um
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Curt
Yeah.
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jamie peacock
And then we do 20 per cycle on the LK, so it's not too bad.
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Curt
and That works.
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jamie peacock
So, yeah, I'll zip through all of those probably in one day.
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Curt
Cool.
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jamie peacock
But that's now, i like, getting shoved in between other stuff. But, yeah. I did see... I assume you're not having burr issues on the Altum.
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jamie peacock
Like, burrs or anything.
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Curt
Uh, just drilling, just drilling.
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Curt
I'm having burr issues.
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jamie peacock
Okay. Okay.
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Curt
Everything else is fine, but yeah.
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jamie peacock
I saw, because I saw really cool video of someone sand, I don't know what exact flavor of sandblasting it was, but deburring plastic parts.
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Curt
So.
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jamie peacock
And I was like, oh, it's not damaging the surface, it's just taking the burrs off.
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Curt
Oh, I see. No, ah they're super burr free. Like even the
Client Relationships and Business Insights
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Curt
chamfers don't leave like a secondary burr, even under microscope.
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jamie peacock
Okay. That's nice.
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Curt
They look, I mean, all the tools are razor sharp in there right now, but, um, and it's Ultim, so they last for
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jamie peacock
Yeah.
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jamie peacock
Dedicated plastic tools.
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Curt
Totally, man. Totally. Just, yeah, stupid sharp tools and just take them out when I'm done.
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jamie peacock
Yeah.
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Curt
And but haven't been I've just been having bird nesting on the drills, but that's that's the only thing. So yeah, it's like, well, I've just been pissing around with the feeds and speeds trying to get it right.
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jamie peacock
Yeah, that's plastics for you.
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Curt
But it's like, it's close enough that I just every you know hour I walk past and pull off the nests and carry on.
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jamie peacock
Yeah. Okay. That's not too bad then. Because all those little...
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Curt
I'm not doing enough to care.
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jamie peacock
The packaging is looking really sweet on those guys.
00:07:06
Curt
Thanks, man. Yeah, no, it came out well. um' It's nice to have a product that like just like a stupid amount of work. to like I can just like finish it. It's off the machine. I put it together. Let's clean it, put it together, and it's like, okay, it's done.
00:07:15
jamie peacock
Yeah.
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Curt
It's not like, okay, I got another week of shit on this.
00:07:18
jamie peacock
Yeah, that that's quite sweet.
00:07:20
Curt
um Yeah.
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jamie peacock
Yeah, because have you started your next run of pens yet or not?
00:07:25
Curt
Yeah, I ah have, but it's going to be kind of for commercially clients. So it's a lot of stuff that isn't really.
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jamie peacock
Okay.
00:07:32
Curt
yeah it's like I haven't I don't deal with commercial clients anymore just because they're annoying. um This is a friend of a friend. And I yeah, they get they get a pass for a while.
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jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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Curt
They're super kind to me and they just basically give me free reign and they don't demand any kind of, you know, discount and they pay up front. And it's like, OK, I'll keep working with you guys.
00:07:49
jamie peacock
Okay. Oh, that's nice.
00:07:50
Curt
So, yeah. So everyone else I told them to pelt pound sound.
00:07:51
jamie peacock
Yeah, that's that's right on the customer.
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Curt
But yeah.
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jamie peacock
Yeah. Okay. so you're doing So you're doing a batch, and then after that, are you doing a release for for your lotto guys?
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Curt
Yeah, I'll probably do enough in this batch to like fulfill what he needs and then enough to fulfill.
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jamie peacock
And then some.
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Curt
ah Yeah, exactly. So ah want I'd have a few a little few weeks of lull time here.
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jamie peacock
Yeah.
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Curt
This is kind of why I put this product out so I could kind of fill that hole while I just push a bunch of work through. So it's, I think it'll work out. I mean, whoever hears this podcast is now going to know my secret plan.
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jamie peacock
Yeah.
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Curt
um But ah yeah, exactly.
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jamie peacock
Well, that's fun. We can't always convince Danica to edit it out.
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Curt
No one
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jamie peacock
You'll have to speak now.
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Curt
yeah
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jamie peacock
Yeah.
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Curt
and No, no.
Material Order Mistakes and Adjustments
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Curt
Honesty works.
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jamie peacock
No, it's the easiest thing You don't have to remember what stories you've told.
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Curt
Yeah.
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jamie peacock
Yeah.
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Curt
Totally. Yeah. I did kind of fuck up a little bit is I, um, I bought titanium and I need to buy some half inch titanium for all these little products.
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jamie peacock
Yeah.
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Curt
And I couldn't get half inch, but I could get point like 508. And I'm like, what the hell is 508? And I'm like, oh, it's 13 mil. Um, so I'm like, oh, 13 mil will probably totally fit in a half inch. Call it. I'm like, I'll just buy my 13 mil.
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Curt
Nope. It definitely does not fit in a half inch. Call it. So, I was like, oh, I could drive across town and get a half in or 13 mil collet for the 5C for the lathe.
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jamie peacock
Yeah.
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Curt
I'm like, or I could just turn, you know, four thou off the diameter of these. so that's what I did. I just popped them all into the manual lathe and peeled off. They're only like two foot bars. So I was like, by the time I drive ah across town, was like, yeah.
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jamie peacock
Don't you? Yeah, you would have done it already. But don't you normally turn odies? Or is that after you've done them in the iron lung?
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Curt
Oh, sorry, this is just um for the new the little yeah little mechanism thing.
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jamie peacock
Oh, for the for the new things? Okay. Yeah.
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Curt
Yeah, so it just takes raw stock in the in the machine.
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jamie peacock
yeah
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Curt
So I thought I could get a half inch or a 13 in there, but no bueno.
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jamie peacock
like um
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jamie peacock
I wish I could buy a half inch collet here because the 12 millimeter PTFE I get in is 12, well, anywhere from 12 to 12.6 millimeters, and I'm running it in a 13 collet.
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Curt
Yeah.
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Curt
Oh, OK. Yeah.
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jamie peacock
So it pulls back quite a lot, but doesn't really matter making too short on the part. So it doesn't make a difference.
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Curt
yeah
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jamie peacock
Oh, yeah, it was.
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Curt
Yeah.
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jamie peacock
Yeah, I've been dealing with stupid customers still. It's my favorite game. um
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Curt
Yeah.
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jamie peacock
Yeah, they placed the order. I'm like, cool, what am I going to do with that? ah
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Curt
do
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jamie peacock
I eat more food than that in a week. or What the fuck am I going to do with that order? You guys are meant to be doing literally like
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Curt
Yeah.
Stock Management and Client Expectations
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jamie peacock
20x this.
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jamie peacock
What the hell? And then I was looking through, i was looking for a price that I'd given them previously. So I was looking through their things. They haven't placed a real order since November.
00:10:21
Curt
Yeah.
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jamie peacock
Yeah, like it's getting old now, but anyway, I've been bitching about this forever.
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Curt
well
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jamie peacock
I'll just do other work to pick up the slack and read that place order.
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Curt
yeah
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jamie peacock
They can get told ah you can wait in the queue now.
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Curt
what's
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Curt
that's
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Curt
I find that's what like a lot of distributors, I mean, in this instance, you you're like the manufacturer and they're like the distributor.
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jamie peacock
Yeah.
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Curt
I find a lot of distributors do that. they like They're like, well, why are we going to hold the stock for the customers when we can just push it onto the manufacturer? and like and Seeing it now from the other end, it's like they're pushing it onto you.
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jamie peacock
Well.
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Curt
be like You hold the stock and you build it and we'll buy from you in onesie-twosies.
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jamie peacock
No. so they the only reason they've actually been buying from me for the last couple of months they're building up their stock so they have a two-month reserve of stock if they get a order they're not waiting on supplies so they're sitting with a thousand two hundred parts so they've been buying up stock so it's not like that that's not it's their sales person needs to be fired and they need to get a new one because they're not selling systems currently um i was chatting to their lead of manufacturing
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Curt
Oh, OK.
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Curt
Oh, OK. OK. Well, that's nice.
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Curt
I got you. OK.
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jamie peacock
And he was saying they're having an issue.
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Curt
Mm-hmm.
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jamie peacock
But because it's not their electronics on the unit, it's a system they're buying from another company, they are getting a alarm or an error that can be one of five different things.
00:11:30
jamie peacock
So they're trying to track down what the actual cause
Product Development and Supply Chain Control
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jamie peacock
is, but they're not getting enough granular feedback to know which direction to go in. So I think that's also causing a little bit of issues.
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Curt
um
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jamie peacock
i' They're busy making that thing in-house now so that they can control it a bit better. like That's how i've got in there, three... three years ago was on that project. And because they couldn't get when the war in Ukraine broke out because it's a Ukrainian sensor.
00:11:53
jamie peacock
So they looked at making it locally. And then all of a sudden they could
Interest in Documentaries and Technological Failures
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jamie peacock
get again. So like, it's fine shelve it. And now they're having to unshalve it because as Gabe from Slant 3D says, you can't build a business around someone else's machine.
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jamie peacock
Like they've got the job.
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Curt
Yeah.
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jamie peacock
I don't know if you know about Slant 3D.
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Curt
Yeah, I think you mentioned it last time because I have it written on my board.
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jamie peacock
Yeah, I think I've met. Yeah. He's a his whole thing was when bamboo did their last update that was a bit sketchy that this is why we don't run bamboo printers. We built own printer.
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jamie peacock
We control everything on it because if you're running a print farm with bamboos and all of a sudden they change something so you can't use your API or the API to connect to the machines.
00:12:35
Curt
Mm-hmm.
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jamie peacock
you're dead in the water. You are at the whim of those guys not controlling your your own destiny. And I was like, No, that's a very valid point. Not exactly on point for CNC machines.
00:12:47
jamie peacock
But I mean, you look at the DMG machines, you move DMG and you have to have them unlock the machine again, because it's detected it's been moved on their five axis machines like it.
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Curt
Yeah.
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Curt
And I, I get it on one sense and it, that, that kind of stuff just infuriates me on another sense. Like I.
00:13:04
jamie peacock
Well, weaver Danik and I have gone on a bit of a deep dive on documentaries the last few days. So I assume you know about the Titan submarine.
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Curt
Oh, 100%. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
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jamie peacock
the red Yeah, the Red Mistmaker.
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jamie peacock
um
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Curt
yeah
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Curt
yeah
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jamie peacock
So the the Netflix documentary dropped, so I wanted to watch that because I've been following the story the whole time. We watched that and then we watched the downfall, the story of the Boeing 737 MAX.
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Curt
Okay.
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jamie peacock
And we watched them back to back.
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Curt
Yeah.
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jamie peacock
And the the through line on that is greed and hubris is what caused all those issues. And then today we watched the again Netflix documentary on MH370.
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Curt
Mm.
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jamie peacock
Very interesting.
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Curt
Mm.
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jamie peacock
They outlined like three major theories on what happened. And by the end of it, you kind of know what happened.
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Curt
Mm.
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jamie peacock
um But yeah let's not rile up the the main section of the audience. But yeah, also very good, like very, very, very good.
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Curt
Yeah, I love those. I've been meaning to watch the Titan ah documentary because it seems like I geeked out over that just because same thing.
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jamie peacock
Yeah.
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jamie peacock
Yeah.
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Curt
It's just like there's so many cool aspects of like, yeah, just one human being oversight and everything.
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jamie peacock
It's very interesting. Yeah.
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Curt
Yeah.
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jamie peacock
Like that. Yeah, it was very it was eye opening to watch like, I knew quite a bit of what was gonna, we know how it's gonna end.
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Curt
Yeah.
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jamie peacock
Like, but very like, so I follow one of the YouTubers, uh, who was in the Titan submarine like three days before it imploded and they went underwater and they had a fault that came out and they got out.
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Curt
Yeah.
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Curt
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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jamie peacock
And he's like, if they had died, he would have been the red mist man.
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Curt
Mm-hmm.
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jamie peacock
Like, yeah, he's like, he, he was in the dog, he was really crying.
00:14:42
Curt
Oh, yeah.
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jamie peacock
He's like, he saw them pull the, the dome on. He's like, my feet were touching that. Like we were ready to dive and there was a technical problem, so they resurfaced.
00:14:51
Curt
Yeah.
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jamie peacock
It's insane.
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jamie peacock
But yeah, very interesting. I've got some very interesting information on their acoustic monitoring systems. And on the last full depth dive, on the way up, there was stuff that happened.
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Curt
Yeah, path.
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jamie peacock
And the next full depth dive is when it imploded. Their acoustic monitoring worked. It just worked.
00:15:13
Curt
yeah yeah well yeah yeah yeah that's yeah I know
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jamie peacock
They just ignored it.
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jamie peacock
But very interesting, like very much worth a watch.
00:15:22
Curt
that's cool that's cool ah I like that just because it slightly frightens me like I'm not I'm not like claustrophobic but and you put me in a tube and put me that far like yeah I'm gonna be a little bit um bit ray I'm I'm gonna be I'm gonna be
00:15:23
jamie peacock
Yeah. because
00:15:28
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:15:31
jamie peacock
No, come on. Yeah. Yeah, but I mean, the last season that they actually did dives to the final dive,
00:15:36
Curt
sir
00:15:43
jamie peacock
yeah Yeah, the advice that was given by the or not advice, the rules that were outlined by the lead engineer was basically do not let it freeze. and Under no circumstances, let it freeze.
00:15:57
jamie peacock
And they parked it outside through the winter.
00:16:00
Curt
um Yeah, that might cause problems.
00:16:01
jamie peacock
There you go.
00:16:01
Curt
Yeah.
00:16:02
jamie peacock
There's your problem. but job Very, ah yeah very interesting. Let me not spoil too much of it for you.
00:16:07
Curt
No, yeah, please don't.
00:16:07
jamie peacock
But yeah, back to back to the machining things.
00:16:08
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:16:11
jamie peacock
ah Jeez, Kurt.
Hand Coding on CNC Machines
00:16:13
jamie peacock
Sorry, I see you added a thing there.
00:16:14
Curt
What's it?
00:16:15
jamie peacock
ah what did you What did you hand code on your lathe?
00:16:15
Curt
ah
00:16:18
Curt
ah Everything, because I hand code everything on that lathe. Like, for the most part, I post everything out of Fusion. um I get all the operations I want. But like like you said, sometimes...
00:16:25
jamie peacock
And then you edit.
00:16:27
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:16:27
Curt
Yeah, sometimes there's planes that I want to shift, like especially for production.
00:16:30
Curt
um
00:16:31
jamie peacock
It's a Linux CNC lathe.
00:16:31
Curt
And I'm always... yeah exactly so Exactly. So I'm like, you know what? I want to make this. It doesn't have to move this far. It can switch change here. like And some of these parts, you know you can shave a minute off a five-minute cycle, and that's significant when you 1,000-odd parts.
00:16:45
Curt
um But in this instance, I deleted ah one of the special lines that was G43. So after did a tool change, it didn't bringing the tool offset. Actually, i copy and pasted it from another section of code and that section didn't have it. So yeah, the problem is even if I would have took my time, like I was rushing, of course, that's when all the mistakes happen.
00:17:03
Curt
um So on a Friday, that's when I crashed it.
00:17:03
jamie peacock
That's Hogwarts.
00:17:05
Curt
But the problem is even if I did it on a Monday, I don't think I would have caught it because I assumed that bit of code had ran and was happy.
00:17:05
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah.
00:17:11
Curt
So I just kind of did a copy paste. So yeah, I mean, for the amount of crashes I've had on that machine,
00:17:13
jamie peacock
yeah
00:17:16
Curt
i'm I'm definitely ahead. Like for the amount of hand edits I do and the amount of oopsies I've had, um I usually like, if I do a hand edit, I'll run the rapids super slow. I don't care if the cycle takes me like, if it's five minutes and it takes 15 to finish it, that's that's cool.
00:17:25
jamie peacock
yeah
00:17:28
Curt
I'll just watch it carefully. And then once I know it goes full speed, off we go and full send. And yeah, this time I was, yeah, just oopsie daisy. So just,
00:17:37
jamie peacock
Yeah, that the shit happens. ah Okay, sorry. I just, while I remembered, I sent you something for the after show discussion. um It's continuing on last week's topic, but anyway.
00:17:48
jamie peacock
No, no, no, no. Look at it at the after show. Don't stress.
00:17:50
Curt
Oh, okay, okay.
00:17:51
jamie peacock
it's from lu It's from Luke. Yeah, no, it's from Luke.
00:17:53
Curt
Oh, so exciting. Okay.
00:17:54
jamie peacock
Fantastic. Yes.
00:17:56
Curt
Yeah.
00:17:56
jamie peacock
yeah It's got to do with the little, the shitty Swiss Nano. um
00:18:00
Curt
Ooh, yay.
00:18:01
jamie peacock
Yeah, ah your hand editing on Linux CNC lathes, it's what happens. Like, you have to.
00:18:07
Curt
Yeah.
00:18:07
jamie peacock
um I'm not going to, especially on gang tooling, on there's no ways I'm going to bother setting that Even on the the turret, I will post it out and then I hand edit all my clearance plates because then I know if I'm using my facing tool, I need to go back like 60 millimeters.
00:18:07
Curt
Yeah.
00:18:18
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:18:22
jamie peacock
But if I'm using a drill, I can go back 10 mils, do my tool change and come back in. I don't have to waste a month of Sundays. on dumb stuff.
00:18:30
Curt
Yeah.
00:18:31
jamie peacock
But yeah, every programmer on my latest is hand edited.
00:18:35
Curt
Yeah. i want to and And lathe code is simple. like You can read through it and just see all the position.
00:18:39
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:18:39
Curt
like it's not It's not like mill code where you're going to have a bunch of interpolation where it's like, where am I?
00:18:40
jamie peacock
Well, yeah.
00:18:43
Curt
It's just like lathe code iss super basic.
00:18:43
jamie peacock
So Linux CNC, as well, you can click on, if you're in auto mode, you can click on it it literally jumps to that line of code, which is great.
00:18:47
Curt
Yeah.
00:18:51
Curt
Totally, yeah. And it it visualizes it
00:18:52
jamie peacock
Yeah, I was, yeah.
Machining Tool Steels and Production Challenges
00:18:54
Curt
nicely so you can see if you all sudden carried a zero or didn't.
00:18:54
jamie peacock
yeah if It's going to China by accident, yeah.
00:18:59
Curt
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
00:18:59
jamie peacock
yeah So I've machined some k 110. I don't know if you saw that last week, that small piece of k 110 and Bertha.
00:19:05
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:19:08
Curt
Okay, and it worked out well.
00:19:09
jamie peacock
i It worked. um
00:19:11
Curt
Yeah.
00:19:12
jamie peacock
I was hand editing code. So okay, so for some reason, I can't remember why got into this habit. But I programmed my lads with feed per millimeter.
00:19:22
Curt
OK.
00:19:22
jamie peacock
I think it was it was because when I built Bertha, I couldn't run constant constant surface speed because the motor was a little underpowered. So it couldn't ramp up fast enough.
00:19:30
Curt
OK.
00:19:31
jamie peacock
And if you took a cut while it was ramping, it would overload the motor. Because it was, ah basically looked at the Tormach 15L.
00:19:35
Curt
Sure.
00:19:37
jamie peacock
I was like, 2.2 kilowatt motor. It can do, from what my research, 50 millimeter steel, no problem. That's as big as I plan on going. Except my spindle weighs 10 times more than their spindle.
00:19:50
Curt
Right, yeah.
00:19:50
jamie peacock
because my spindle is a good couple hundred kilos. um So 2.2 kilowatt mode is kind of on the limit. And customer phones, I need your help. Can you machine this for me urgently? I promised my customer tomorrow, 10am.
00:20:04
jamie peacock
It's been with the guy for the week. He hasn't done it. I'm getting the material this afternoon. Can you do it this evening for me? and like I can't do it this evening, but I can do it first thing for you in the morning. Like first, I tried not to do the work and he's desperate. So I just bring it. I'll make a plan for you.
00:20:17
jamie peacock
And he brought it through. ah programmed it. And then i had to drop my spindle speed because I was melting inserts. Because K110. And can't go slow. I run out of torque. I've got a 2.2 kilowatt three-phase motor.
00:20:30
jamie peacock
When I come down to like 500 RPM, there's no torque left.
00:20:30
Curt
yeah
00:20:33
jamie peacock
Because it's direct coupled.
00:20:34
Curt
One for the list.
00:20:35
jamie peacock
Yeah, direct coupled to spindle.
00:20:36
Curt
For the listener, this this is like a a very large, like a very adventurous looking butt plug.
00:20:39
jamie peacock
The four inch.
00:20:42
jamie peacock
Yes, yes.
00:20:43
Curt
Like it's very wide.
00:20:44
jamie peacock
And, well, depending on the way you use it, it doesn't have a flange. um Yeah, it's, what's it, it's not four inches, it's a bit bigger. um It's 4.3 inches in diameter and four inches long.
00:20:58
jamie peacock
So, like, the lathe was, yeah, yeah the lathe was never specced to run that.
00:20:59
Curt
Yeah, so a lot love of your life, yeah.
00:21:02
jamie peacock
I've done one or two things bigger than that, but it wasn't specced to do that.
00:21:07
Curt
Yeah.
00:21:07
jamie peacock
Anyway, got it running, and then I was having to drop RPM, and then I was trying to have to, in my head, calculate, okay, what must the feed come down to? So I roughed down, burned through the first corner of an insert, stopped, changed insert, just sped through the code, and then the second time, I'm like, no.
00:21:26
jamie peacock
Went back to the computer, posted out with feed per rev. That way, when i adjust my RPM, it adjusts my feed rate accordingly. Because the feed rate was fine.
00:21:32
Curt
yeah
00:21:33
jamie peacock
was light enough cuts. It was just an RPM thing, keeping it within the right surface footage.
00:21:38
Curt
Right.
00:21:38
jamie peacock
And eventually, after eight corners, I managed to finish the job.
00:21:42
Curt
oh
00:21:42
jamie peacock
because I literally just couldn't get my SFM low enough that it wouldn't melt the insert because I just, I run out of torque.
00:21:46
Curt
Yeah. Totally.
00:21:49
jamie peacock
So like five or six passes, and then as it retracts to go back, pause the machine, turn off the spindle, turn off coolant, turn the insert, hit go, continue.
00:21:58
Curt
Oh, rough.
00:21:59
jamie peacock
yeah It took me an hour and a half to do that, to rough that part out and finish it.
00:22:05
jamie peacock
It was a little annoying. Yeah, it looked pretty. The guy was happy. I'm like, yeah, I do an nice work. I just, I like doing it.
00:22:05
Curt
It looks nice.
00:22:10
Curt
That's good.
00:22:11
jamie peacock
Like, but yeah, helping him out of a, out of a bond because he tends to get himself in stupid fucking bonds.
00:22:15
Curt
Yeah. Well, that helps too.
00:22:19
Curt
Yeah.
00:22:19
jamie peacock
But yeah, yeah.
00:22:20
Curt
I didn't realize that was K-1-10. I thought that was... ah Yeah. That makes it harder.
00:22:24
jamie peacock
No, no, I don't, I don't do easy work.
00:22:25
Curt
Yeah.
00:22:26
jamie peacock
Why would I do easy work?
00:22:28
Curt
Yeah. Which is...
00:22:29
jamie peacock
um I've got my feet and speeds pretty dialed for K110 if it's under 50 diameter.
00:22:29
Curt
As far as I know...
00:22:32
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:22:34
jamie peacock
like I'll rough with one insert all day, but when it's bigger diameters, it doesn't go well.
00:22:37
Curt
Right. Right.
00:22:41
Curt
Oh, yeah. That's D1 as far as I know. So that's it's a tool steal.
00:22:44
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:22:45
Curt
It's it's yeah ragged ragged to work with.
00:22:46
jamie peacock
Yeah. It's not fun stuff. I've got some stuff coming in now.
International Shipping and Logistics Improvements
00:22:50
jamie peacock
we're going to make some press tools out of mild steel that they're literally consumable.
00:22:54
Curt
Nice.
00:22:55
jamie peacock
So we're discussing it.
00:22:55
Curt
Nice. That'll work.
00:22:56
jamie peacock
The guy wants to do it like 400 by 400. So like foot and half by a foot and a half plate.
00:23:00
Curt
Oh, OK, big.
00:23:02
jamie peacock
I'm like, hang on.
00:23:02
Curt
ah
00:23:03
jamie peacock
The parts are smaller than 80 diamonds. So let's get 80 by 50 BMS. We machine them out of those. Then it's one piece at a time.
00:23:12
Curt
Yeah.
00:23:13
jamie peacock
I can throw one in every evening and I can blank these things out for you. So yeah, i've gone I'm waiting for the design to come through tomorrow and then I'm going to start on those.
00:23:17
Curt
Yeah.
00:23:21
jamie peacock
In between all the other dumb shit that I do.
00:23:24
Curt
Yeah, you always have just a handful of fun stuff going on.
00:23:25
jamie peacock
because yeah it's always always fun things going on um trying to remember last week oh yeah finished the the automation on the ground i don't know if we spoke about that i don't think so because that would have been last week yeah i need to do you know
00:23:39
Curt
I don't think I think you threw you yeah had two sensors on it last time.
00:23:45
jamie peacock
Yeah, put ah two cents on it's now working and finished. I ground and assembled all the anchor points. They are all now assembled.
00:23:50
Curt
Nice.
00:23:52
jamie peacock
um And I shipped Jacob his one. It left here at 4.30 on Wednesday and arrived at like, i don't know what time that's hot, but in the evening here on Friday, it was 51 hours of transit.
00:24:04
Curt
That's nuts. That's nuts.
00:24:06
jamie peacock
It was insane. Yeah. 51 hours of transit from South Africa to somewhere in the US.
00:24:12
Curt
That's impressive. That's very impressive.
00:24:13
jamie peacock
Now I was I was expecting to be delivered today and got delivered on Friday.
00:24:18
jamie peacock
was like, that's awesome. Yeah, you got the custom serial number.
00:24:18
Curt
Cool.
00:24:21
Curt
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's awesome.
00:24:23
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:24:24
Curt
i'm I'm glad that shipping works out well for you because that's a, yeah.
00:24:24
jamie peacock
um Yeah, it's a huge relief that I've got shipping sorted out now.
00:24:30
Curt
No doubt, yeah.
00:24:30
jamie peacock
Because that was the biggest, the biggest
Safety Concerns in South Africa
00:24:32
jamie peacock
limit for me selling stuff was shipping it out of this lovely place that I live in.
00:24:35
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:24:39
jamie peacock
I was gonna use some creative language for it. But I thought, let me be nice about it today. Yeah, Danica, I sent Danica to pick up material for me and she witnessed someone getting hijacked. So then I got a phone call.
00:24:49
jamie peacock
She was in tears because she got held up at gunpoint in CBD, in Joburg CBD a few years ago.
00:24:49
Curt
Ooh.
00:24:54
Curt
Ooh.
00:24:55
jamie peacock
And she's like, she felt so bad. that She didn't stop and help. I'm like, yeah, you stop. You're going to get shot. Like, just leave the dude.
00:25:00
Curt
Yeah.
00:25:01
jamie peacock
Phone the police, pretend to be KFC and they'll be there quickly. Like, yeah. So when she went back past, the police were there helping the guy and whatnot. So she felt a bit less bad. But yeah, Africa, not for the faint of heart.
00:25:13
Curt
Yeah, no doubt. Yeah. Yeah, different worlds for sure.
00:25:15
jamie peacock
Like, 100%. Like, yeah, that's not even out of the ordinary for us, seeing someone get hijacked.
00:25:20
Curt
Wow.
00:25:20
jamie peacock
It's like, you've got to be ever vigilant here.
00:25:24
Curt
Yeah. Yeah, that's crazy.
00:25:26
jamie peacock
But yeah, it's just, it's got its perks. Like, literally no laws.
00:25:30
Curt
Yeah, yeah, for sure.
00:25:32
jamie peacock
It's great.
00:25:34
jamie peacock
Well, there's lots of laws, they just can't enforce them because they're busy at KFC.
00:25:35
Curt
Yeah.
00:25:40
jamie peacock
Now, yeah, my mother-in-law's invigilating, um, for some new online college thing or whatever. um The police were literally writing an exam and cribbing.
00:25:52
jamie peacock
And she went to reports like no, but you can't you're gonna make them lose their job. I'm like no fucking shit.
00:25:57
Curt
Yeah.
00:25:57
jamie peacock
You are meant to be held to a higher standard if you are a police officer. But no, they need to know no, you can't do that.
00:26:02
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:26:05
jamie peacock
but um Like I would throw those eggs under the bus so hard.
00:26:12
jamie peacock
But that's the problem is the yu the corruption here is right through from the top.
00:26:17
Curt
yeah
00:26:17
jamie peacock
And if the top don't follow the rules, the bottom aren't going to follow the rules.
00:26:21
Curt
ye
00:26:21
jamie peacock
that's...
00:26:21
Curt
no
Troubleshooting CNC Tool Change Errors
00:26:22
jamie peacock
Anyway, enough political bullshit.
00:26:22
Curt
that's
00:26:24
jamie peacock
Tell me about your cell.
00:26:25
Curt
is
00:26:25
jamie peacock
What are you fixing on the cell now?
00:26:28
Curt
So for the last little while, it's been doing, like when it does a tool change, it'll occasionally go up and like when it wraps up to its Z height and it'll say soft limit error.
00:26:39
Curt
Cause just the way these machines work, they, they change tool by basically just moving the Z axis.
00:26:41
jamie peacock
Well, yeah...
00:26:44
Curt
Cause there's a cam system and it just, that's when launches a draw bar.
00:26:45
jamie peacock
Yes. Mm-hmm.
00:26:48
Curt
So it wrap it up and it gives me a soft limit error and I'm looking and it's not near its soft limits. It's like, so I looked at all the program steps and everything and I'm trying to figure out what the hell's going on. I'm like, is it a, is a sensor? I'm like, well, there's, there's not even a sensor in it. Like there's, they they just go off the encoders of the motor. There's not an actual switch.
00:27:03
Curt
So I trying to been figured out. I basically contacted my dealer. He's completely useless. So I just totally to circumvent him now, um, talk to Sile. They looked at my, like, uh, my, my tool change program. They're like, everything is, everything is in place. Like everything is good.
00:27:15
Curt
They checked everything. There's all kinds of cool things i didn't know you could do on the Siemens control that they kind of just walked me through. You can output weird weird commands and stuff for them to just like check stuff over. And then I found there's screenshots in my machine and I could see all the like, remember I told you about those circularity tests?
00:27:29
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:27:30
Curt
um So I could find all, they screenshotted all of them from the factory so I can see all the stock ones, which is kind of nice to see.
00:27:34
jamie peacock
Okay.
00:27:35
Curt
So if I do it again, I can see if there's any, you know, deviation.
00:27:37
jamie peacock
Yeah, compare it.
00:27:38
jamie peacock
Yeah, we need to discuss that because I want to know where those are on the machine.
00:27:38
Curt
Yeah.
00:27:42
Curt
Yeah, I can tell you where they are I haven't figured out how to do the circularity test yet, but at least i know where they are.
00:27:45
jamie peacock
That's just want to see what they look like.
00:27:47
Curt
Yeah.
00:27:47
jamie peacock
Yeah, okay.
00:27:47
Curt
And so anyways, i was like, you know what? I'm like, ah so I tweaked with the the soft limit settings. That didn't really do much. And then I so i slowed the machine down so i figured that would help. That didn't do much. And then I started reading into the macros. And I'm like, you know what?
00:27:59
Curt
Me slowing the machine down with FeedVeat Overrider isn't really doing much when it comes to the macros because the macros kind of ignore a lot of this stuff.
00:28:06
jamie peacock
Yeah, that is.
00:28:06
Curt
And it just kind of goes, yeah, it goes through as its own at its own speed.
00:28:09
jamie peacock
Yeah, that's...
00:28:11
Curt
And um so I was like, you know what? if What if I go into the macro and just slow it down? Like, I bet you it's just because it's coming within half a millimeter of the soft limit and then slowing down, going from a G0 to a G1.
00:28:19
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:28:21
Curt
So i was like, you know what? I'm going to stop like five millimeters away and then just slowly come into it.
00:28:26
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:28:26
Curt
And that fixed it. Like, that solved the issue.
00:28:29
jamie peacock
Yeah, that make things.
00:28:29
Curt
It was just slamming slamming in so fast that the machine, either there was a detune or I don't know exactly what was happening or if it was...
00:28:35
jamie peacock
It could be could be a detune as it's run in.
00:28:39
Curt
Yeah.
00:28:40
jamie peacock
It's got a bit looser and yeah, it's now overshooting its position.
00:28:40
Curt
Like I, that's what I'm, that's what I'm thinking is the Z axis maybe is out of tune.
00:28:45
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:28:46
Curt
So when it comes in that fast, it's, it's oscillating before it hits, it's its point. um
00:28:49
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:28:50
Curt
And then it had the side benefit of now when it does a tool change, it comes like flying in at full speed, slows down, does a nice smooth tool change and it flies back out. So i'm like, Why wouldn't you program it like this from the factory?
00:29:01
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:29:01
Curt
It sounds better. It moves smoother. i I sent it to Sil. I'm like, hey, is this cool? it's like I don't see any reason why I can't do that. They're like, no, you could totally do that. They're like, you'll add like whatever, a tenth of a second to your tool change. I'm like, yeah, I don't give a shit.
00:29:12
jamie peacock
Yeah, who cares?
00:29:13
Curt
It's like it's way easier on the machine.
00:29:13
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:29:15
Curt
like Do this. um But I'm assuming they're just going for the like, now we have a 1.1 second tool change as opposed to a one second tool change.
00:29:16
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:29:19
jamie peacock
Fast.
00:29:22
Curt
It's like, who cares?
00:29:23
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:29:24
Curt
Yeah.
00:29:24
jamie peacock
So, have you jogged your Z axis up? Just with push the Z axis up arrow and then it gives you a softball before unclamps the tools.
00:29:29
Curt
yep
00:29:33
jamie peacock
And then when it goes through the tool change, it moves the Z limits up.
00:29:33
Curt
Yep, yep, yep.
00:29:34
Curt
Yep, that'll...
00:29:37
jamie peacock
Or it actually, mine flashes and says Z over travel, Z over travel, Z over travel until it comes back down.
00:29:42
Curt
Oh, really? Yeah, I don't know.
00:29:43
jamie peacock
Yeah, so it disables that limits in software.
00:29:44
Curt
but
00:29:46
Curt
Yeah.
00:29:47
jamie peacock
Literally, my red light flashes while it does a tool change.
00:29:49
Curt
Yeah.
00:29:50
jamie peacock
when it kind As it comes to the tool again, then that alarm clears.
00:29:51
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:29:54
Curt
Interesting. Yeah, mine doesn't alarm, so I don't know if it's just completely deactivating the limits, but I couldn't see the code doing that.
00:29:57
jamie peacock
Well, mine, not like an alarm. Yeah, not like an alarm as the machine stops, but the light flash is red it's got the little things ye over travel on the screen and until it comes back down.
00:30:00
Curt
Right, yeah, yeah,
00:30:05
Curt
Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:30:08
Curt
Yeah, yeah. Like if I take the jog wheel and just like pound it into the Z, it just, yeah, it stops at the soft limit.
00:30:08
jamie peacock
So, yeah. It goes like half a mile up and then stops and won't actually let you go.
00:30:13
Curt
That's what Yeah. I mean, tech technically there's two soft limits. It hits one and then it starts to decelerate and then it hits the other one.
00:30:18
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:30:20
Curt
But yeah, it's just like, I don't know why the change was pissing it off.
00:30:21
jamie peacock
So as far as I know, there is also a mode you can enable that'll let you jog up and unclamp a tool from the spindle directly.
00:30:23
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:30:32
Curt
Ooh, that would be useful.
00:30:33
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:30:34
Curt
That would be useful.
00:30:35
jamie peacock
If your tool umbrella is not on there, your tool turret isn't there, then yes, but
00:30:40
jamie peacock
There is apparently a way to do it, yeah. There's apparently a way to do it, but I don't know what that way is.
00:30:40
Curt
I guess, yeah, it's in the way.
00:30:47
Curt
I'm just hacking. I'll just move, like, I'll just unload tools from either side. Like, there's that cutout where you can unload it, but it's at, like, the 3 o'clock position.
00:30:51
jamie peacock
Yeah. um
00:30:53
jamie peacock
You can do it that, yeah, one off of the spindle.
00:30:54
Curt
It's super...
00:30:56
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:30:57
jamie peacock
Yeah, I do that.
00:30:58
jamie peacock
I have been known to do that.
00:30:58
Curt
I do, like, 5 and 7 o'clock.
00:31:00
Curt
Yeah. Yeah, that's where i do mine, too.
00:31:00
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:31:02
Curt
Yeah, it's not meant for it.
00:31:02
jamie peacock
Normally I do mine on the side because my door's offset to that side because my machine's fucking huge.
00:31:03
Curt
but
00:31:08
Curt
Right.
00:31:08
jamie peacock
yours isn't. Yeah, so mine, if I stand, yeah, if I stand in front of the machine, mine monitor is to the same side as yours.
00:31:10
Curt
No, mine's offset to the other side.
00:31:15
jamie peacock
But if I stand in front of the machine, it's right in front of me where offload the tool.
00:31:16
Curt
Right.
00:31:19
jamie peacock
So it's a bit more convenient.
00:31:19
Curt
Smart, yeah.
00:31:20
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:31:21
Curt
Yeah, mine's completely like dark side of the moon, can't see shit.
00:31:21
jamie peacock
ah
00:31:24
Curt
So I'm like, oh, it's unload right by the spindle.
00:31:24
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:31:26
Curt
Yeah, so...
00:31:27
jamie peacock
Yeah. It's not, who is it? and who's It's going to annoy me if I can't remember now. It's not Lone Wolf. It's one of the guys that makes a utility knife.
00:31:40
jamie peacock
Iron Fogged. Iron...
00:31:43
Curt
Black Fox or Iron...
00:31:44
jamie peacock
No, no.
00:31:45
jamie peacock
Iron... It's not Iron Fogged.
00:31:45
Curt
la It's right here.
00:31:47
Curt
His knife is they've sitting right in front
Podcast Growth and Community Support
00:31:49
Curt
of me. Iron Forest.
00:31:49
jamie peacock
well Yeah, Iron Forest. That's where learned about the next to the spindle unload from his X5.
00:31:56
Curt
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:31:57
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah, Small World.
00:32:00
Curt
Yeah. Yeah, no with that no doubt.
00:32:00
jamie peacock
ah Speaking of small worlds, we're coming up on 3,100 listens now.
00:32:06
Curt
Ooh.
00:32:06
jamie peacock
Yeah, turns it's just more than your mom listening to the podcast.
00:32:09
Curt
Nice. Well, thank you to the all the other 3,000 people that aren't my mom.
00:32:10
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:32:14
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's it's quite impressive. I'm pretty stoked.
00:32:18
Curt
That's awesome.
00:32:18
jamie peacock
And that's just Zencaster.
00:32:18
Curt
Yeah.
00:32:19
jamie peacock
That's not the rest of the things.
00:32:22
Curt
ah Oh, that's cool. That's cool.
00:32:24
jamie peacock
And there's also bonus content. And speaking of, thank you to our Patreons who support the podcast and make the wheels on the bus go round and round. Thank you to Jade from Benchmark20 and Luke from Fabtastic, who's going to get yet another shout out in the after show later when we discuss his...
00:32:33
Curt
yay
00:32:40
jamie peacock
what is APX something Swiss Nano machine in great detail and I'll judge you about it.
00:32:43
Curt
Oh,
00:32:46
jamie peacock
um yeah if you After Show is available for like, I think a dollar or two or something. Danica makes them available as one-time purchases as well. But for all the paid Patreons, you can get the After Show where Kurt and I are ah usually somewhat not tame and discuss interesting things.
00:32:55
Curt
ah cool.
00:33:03
jamie peacock
Also, can check out the Loan Machinist's
00:33:04
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:33:08
jamie peacock
blow machine ah dot com. That's got a link through to the merch store for Loan Machinist merch and the fancy shirt that Kurt is wearing.
00:33:16
jamie peacock
um
00:33:16
Curt
Mm-hmm.
Shop Air System Enhancements
00:33:17
jamie peacock
He's wearing the Chip Fans shirt, which I wore yesterday to a memorial because I'm classy as hell.
00:33:17
Curt
Good job, Danica.
00:33:21
Curt
Mm-hmm. Oh, that's a pick.
00:33:27
jamie peacock
yeah I told my cousin I can be on time or I can be there well dressed.
00:33:27
Curt
That's a rough pick.
00:33:30
jamie peacock
Pick one because we' we're running late. So she got on time. But yeah, anyway.
00:33:36
Curt
Oh, boy.
00:33:37
jamie peacock
um
00:33:38
Curt
So, you're putting you're putting air through your TS-27R?
00:33:38
jamie peacock
What?
00:33:42
jamie peacock
Yes, I went. When did do that? feel like that was Friday. don't know, the week the week is confusing to me at this point uh yeah anyway i plumbed up the ts27r because it's uh when i rebuilt it i used the airline to run the uh the wires down to the unit so i just put a t piece on that hot glued the shit out of the one end where the cable came out and then plugged the air into the top of the t and i've got a regulator running at like two bar with a flow controller so it's super minimal but if you spray coolant on it you see it bubbling
00:33:49
Curt
Yeah.
00:34:10
Curt
Nice.
00:34:15
Curt
Cool.
00:34:16
jamie peacock
So I think I need to take it apart one more time because some coolant definitely did get into it again.
00:34:16
Curt
Cool.
00:34:19
Curt
Yeah.
00:34:21
jamie peacock
Clean it properly. And then if my shop air is on, that thing's getting purged.
Video Editing and Production Workflow
00:34:25
Curt
That's good.
00:34:26
jamie peacock
Yeah, so that...
00:34:27
Curt
I guess, assuming your shop air is dry, ah that's good.
00:34:29
jamie peacock
ah Yeah, that is pretty it is pretty good. That's also off... Actually, wait, is it? Yeah, my air is pretty dry. I've got a car pipe thingy, my bobby and a water separator.
00:34:38
Curt
Hmm.
00:34:39
jamie peacock
Like i don't really get too much air.
00:34:40
Curt
Hmm.
00:34:41
jamie peacock
ah I need to move it to a different section of the plumbing on the machine. I just actually teed it into the line that runs the anchor point. um
00:34:50
Curt
Hmm.
00:34:50
jamie peacock
I need to tee it into one of the actual air supply lines in the machine now so that it will go after the regulator after the filter regulator on the machine just as an extra precaution.
00:35:03
Curt
cool yeah yeah oh yeah
00:35:04
jamie peacock
Yeah. But yeah, then, yeah, Resolve is interesting, by the way. So I've been doing video editing. Yeah, i've got I've got a workflow that's not entirely horrible.
00:35:14
jamie peacock
i was chatting to Jacob about it.
Complex Machining Projects and Fixture Design
00:35:17
jamie peacock
And he was thinking, like, there's so many different ways to do the same thing in that software. So I shot another video on making a palette for something.
00:35:21
Curt
totally
00:35:25
jamie peacock
I've got another one in the works for the worst mag base I've ever made. It is. Yeah, so normally, normally mag bases in my workshop are two operations. Op one in my self centerings, op two, if it's only like 20 parts, op two will be in a vase with soft jaws, like just with parallel soft jaws and a stopper.
00:35:42
Curt
Okay.
00:35:44
jamie peacock
No, not these. These have four operations and a custom pin that I had to make.
00:35:49
Curt
Oh, I saw a bit of that, yeah.
00:35:49
jamie peacock
And when I quoted them, yeah, when I quoted them, was like, eh, same price, it's fine. Like, I buy quite a bit of stuff from me. like, it'll be fine.
00:35:55
Curt
Okay.
00:35:56
jamie peacock
day and a half's worth work to make 20 mag bases i was a little bit annoyed but is what it is yeah i'm not gonna find like he's probably not gonna buy another 20 from me so it doesn't really matter um just get them out the door but yeah you know had to do op one in the fixed uh in the self-centered rings op two at an angle
00:36:00
Curt
o
00:36:07
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:36:15
jamie peacock
which cost me my lovely little animal that has removed 400 kilos of material. um Because the part moved, when i was I was trying to rough it because I was having, when I was top hatting it, the one piece was throwing and I was getting a bit worried. So I'm going to let me just zip around it instead.
00:36:30
jamie peacock
And it moved. So I went to just lighter cuts for the for the facing down. Let it take a little bit longer. Then it goes to another op where I machine the pocket in, parallel to the face-to-face, and then side op where I do a stupid side hole at a stupid angle with a stupid counterball.
00:36:39
Curt
um
00:36:46
jamie peacock
As you can tell, I enjoyed doing this job.
00:36:49
Curt
Yeah, I don't know. It sounds like.
00:36:50
jamie peacock
Yeah. And then I anodized them on a day. i don't know which day I did it on, but I anodized 20 pots.
00:36:55
Curt
Hmm.
00:36:57
jamie peacock
And then, yeah, they went. That would have been Thursday that I did that because he picked up on Friday at like 10 a.m.
00:37:03
Curt
Hmm. Hmm.
00:37:05
jamie peacock
So I got those knocked out quickly, got the magwells knocked out. Turns out if you design your fixture properly, you don't have to worry about stupid ship. I put literally been putting them off since January. You're putting off putting the side holes in because worried they're going to be in the wrong place.
00:37:17
jamie peacock
And then the parts wouldn't fit and I would have scrapped them all. But first attempt got it right.
00:37:24
Curt
nice
00:37:24
jamie peacock
And I made a stupid little fixture and then realized I don't have a grip to test the other ones. yeah This is one of the ones. So it's got these side holes.
00:37:32
Curt
yeah they look like they came oh that's pretty yeah oh shiny yeah it looks good
00:37:33
jamie peacock
So this isn't my one. This is the one I knocked off. um And then I tumbled one shiny. yeah So I tumbled, I rough tumbled the the ones
Cultural Stereotypes and Humor
00:37:43
jamie peacock
I made. And then I put two of them in my um lineman cyclone with the little stainless pins that I make and some magical polishing fluid and just let that thing go for like two hours.
00:37:44
Curt
yeah
00:37:50
Curt
and Yeah, yeah.
00:37:54
jamie peacock
And they came out shiny.
00:37:56
Curt
Yeah, that looks like the golden gun from 007. Mm-hmm.
00:37:59
jamie peacock
So the guy that I saw these two is a Muslim guy. And he's like, no, he's not from Durban. He doesn't want it to be golden shiny. He's not that kind of Indian. I'm like, wow, dude.
00:38:11
Curt
That's rough. Yeah.
00:38:13
jamie peacock
No, but that yeah, there's different different kinds of Indians. Yeah. You got the ones who are like shiny shit. They're down in Durban.
00:38:21
jamie peacock
No, it's a car show on Sunday, and there was like a ah city golf Mach one, Mach one. I'm like, Yep, that thing is OEM collector's item. My mother knows like why is that there? i'm Like, because that is the first generation collector's item.
00:38:32
jamie peacock
That thing is worth more money than your frickin house. like Yeah, but there's some some stupid people with stupid cars that were loud. My wife was making fun of her mom and I saying you guys are definitely not autistic bitching about the loud music.
00:38:41
Curt
That's cool.
00:38:48
jamie peacock
yeah
00:38:49
Curt
Exactly.
00:38:49
jamie peacock
said you think there might be a shirt in the works i'm not uh i'm not struggling with autistic i'm not struggling with autism today i'm great at it
00:39:01
Curt
Yeah, we're probably all on the spectrum.
00:39:01
jamie peacock
like yeah it's yeah yeah oh geez but yeah i still haven't read that manual you sent me um
00:39:03
Curt
Yeah, for sure. For sure.
00:39:09
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:39:12
Curt
Yeah, Norvi. Norvi. So we're we're in the same boat.
00:39:14
jamie peacock
Okay, that's fine. Just making sure i'm not forgetting to do things.
00:39:19
jamie peacock
And then what else did I?
00:39:19
Curt
No.
00:39:20
Curt
No.
00:39:21
jamie peacock
Oh, yes, the stupid pots. So I spoke to Crab Man, my mate who sold me the LK.
00:39:24
Curt
Yeah.
00:39:28
jamie peacock
And I spoke to him because I need to CMM some pots. got an RFQ from one of my, one of the guys in the five, five guys in the garage group.
00:39:33
Curt
Okay.
00:39:37
jamie peacock
So there's two industrial designers, the guy does fabrication, an architect and myself. And if stuff comes up that's in each other's wheelhouses, we just pass the work around. And He phoned he's like, I've sent you a drawing, just have a look at it, please tell me if it's something you can assist with.
00:39:51
jamie peacock
So I have a look the wear plates. I was out at the time, so i just ignored it. And then he phoned me the next day, he's like, these wear plates, they want phosphor bronze, but they'll accept brass. So I'm like, okay, no worries, let me get a price on material.
00:40:04
jamie peacock
So I get a price material, like, it's freaking expensive. It's like $450 worth of material. So i'm like, dude, just just take it, double it, send the quote. Like, screw it, I don't actually want to do it, just double the price.
00:40:14
Curt
Mm.
00:40:17
jamie peacock
So he sends it off because I can't buy it's the material thickness is six.
00:40:17
Curt
Mm.
00:40:23
jamie peacock
i The tolerance is six millimeters plus point five minus zero. So they want it between six and 6.5. There's one tolerance with the one measurement with the tolerance on it.
00:40:34
jamie peacock
And that's like 50 microns, easy enough to hit. There's a
00:40:40
jamie peacock
parallelism and perpendicular caller call out of comma one. It's like cool, I can literally do it with a file. And then there's one of the dimension that's got to the third decimal point, but no tolerance. So I looked at this like, it's a weird place, it's not gonna be that difficult.
00:40:55
jamie peacock
Then the guys came back, the engineers like, does that include a material certificate and a measurement report?
00:41:03
jamie peacock
So I said, dude, hold on, I need to make some phone calls. So I phone crab man. they've got a little um optical measuring machine from an actual brand of optical measuring machine with a touch probe.
00:41:03
Curt
o
00:41:17
jamie peacock
Effectively, you've got a 200 by 300 by 200 cm.
00:41:21
jamie peacock
So I'm like, hey, dude, can I fly to Cape Town and come measure some parts if I get this order? He's like, No, because the machines in Johannesburg, he'll be up here for work. And I just come visit him and we'll measure the things and we'll go to dinner afterwards.
00:41:21
Curt
Right, yeah, yeah.
00:41:32
jamie peacock
So i was like, cool, just add another $450 to the price because I don't want this work. But if comes through, it'll be nice. It looks like it's coming through.
00:41:32
Curt
Oh, cool.
00:41:42
Curt
Oh, nice. That's nice.
00:41:42
jamie peacock
Yeah, I have to buy 10 millimeter thick material and machine it away. Which is a little little annoying, but it's fine.
00:41:47
Curt
yeah Yeah.
00:41:50
jamie peacock
I can live with that. Make a bunch of brass shavings and sell them back to the scrap people.
00:41:54
Curt
I say at least the scraps were something. Yeah, for sure.
00:41:56
jamie peacock
Yeah, I mean, and holding that tolerance is the brass, firstly. And secondly, holding the the width tolerance is bugger all. It's easy.
00:42:02
Curt
Yeah, yeah,
00:42:03
jamie peacock
I'll dial it in with wear comp and we off to the races.
00:42:06
Curt
yeah. Yeah, it's always nice when a no-quote comes back.
00:42:07
jamie peacock
like
00:42:10
jamie peacock
ah Yes, because I tend to be a real dick about those ones.
00:42:15
jamie peacock
I don't want to deal with the extra paperwork, but if it's for that much money, I'll deal the extra paperwork.
00:42:15
Curt
Yeah.
00:42:22
Curt
Yeah.
00:42:22
jamie peacock
Considering it's probably take me less than a day to machine all the parts, it's well worth the effort. So yeah, we had some stupid, stupid part. I see a lot of ah see a lot of things in my thing this week is stupid.
00:42:32
Curt
That's cool.
00:42:37
jamie peacock
How's your PC spec-ing outgoing?
00:42:37
Curt
Yeah.
00:42:41
Curt
ah Lots of fun. It's been, I'm just slowly.
00:42:43
jamie peacock
I see you need some extra RAM.
00:42:45
Curt
Yeah, so I need 60 gigs of RAM now. um ah So i found out I found out you can, i think it's the DeepSeq AI, so like a large language model or whatever.
00:42:54
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:42:55
Curt
You can run them locally and it's not big. It's like a 45 gig download. um But the problem is you need like 50, I think 52 58 gigs
00:43:00
jamie peacock
Okay.
00:43:05
Curt
of ram just to run it
00:43:06
jamie peacock
Yeah, gotta push it all into memory.
00:43:08
Curt
you got to push it all into RAM. So i was like, okay.
00:43:09
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:43:10
Curt
um I mean, RAM is dirt cheap nowadays. So I'm like, you know, if I build a PC, I'm going to want to run like a local AI.
00:43:13
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:43:16
Curt
I think it'd be really cool. I think that's going to be the next dork thing that you know, like, you know, there's dorks building 3D printers and there's dorks building CNC machines and there's dorks building whatever their own
00:43:23
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:43:25
Curt
lidar systems i think the next dork thing is going to be running your own like local ai and uh so that's kind of what i want to do so i'm like you know what f it i'm going to build it so i can run 60 gigs of ram if i want or 100 get like i'll just make it so i have enough room to run say 64 gigs of ram um which should be enough so i've kind of because ram is cheap nowadays like even ddr5 ram is cheap and like fast ddr5 is it's not in comparison to like graphics cards and other things it's it's the cheap part of a pc so
00:43:39
jamie peacock
yeah that should be enough for now yeah
00:43:52
jamie peacock
yeah the thing the thing you need to just watch out there for because you're gonna go ryzen uh ryzen apparently is not the biggest fan of having all four memory channels full if you're gonna go for ultimate speed
00:44:03
Curt
Mm, okay.
00:44:06
jamie peacock
you're better off...
00:44:06
Curt
Mm, yeah.
00:44:07
jamie peacock
If you wanted to look full, you buy two dummy modules and you buy two 64GB modules because it's... yeah I don't know, there's something about the timing or whatever or the frequency.
00:44:16
Curt
Interesting, okay.
00:44:17
jamie peacock
I know they ran into that... Linus from LTT ran into that with their build they had done in Taiwan where the guys wanted four sticks in there, but they ended up sacrificing memory speed to make it stable.
00:44:24
Curt
Okay.
00:44:31
jamie peacock
It's just one of the quirks...
00:44:31
Curt
Oh, I think I read that.
00:44:32
Curt
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, they had to drop it down.
00:44:33
jamie peacock
It's one of the quirks with the new Ryzen setups.
00:44:34
Curt
Yeah.
00:44:37
jamie peacock
i'm Yeah.
00:44:37
Curt
Still, like, yeah, you're not going to be pushed.
00:44:39
Curt
Like, it's fast. It's fast enough.
00:44:40
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:44:41
Curt
Even downgrading it.
00:44:42
jamie peacock
Speaking of nerd things, do you watch Chris, I think it's Chris Bowden or something, or Physics Duck on YouTube? You want to see something cool?
00:44:50
Curt
I don't know. Yeah, for sure.
00:44:52
jamie peacock
The electrician dude, yeah.
00:44:53
Curt
Of course I do.
00:44:54
jamie peacock
No, no, that that's how you start those things. Want to see something cool?
00:44:57
Curt
Oh, yeah yes, yes.
00:44:57
jamie peacock
and I'm sure, yeah.
00:44:59
Curt
i've seen his I've seen his shorts. Yeah, I've seen his shorts for sure.
00:45:01
jamie peacock
Yes, okay. need to You need to go watch his his story of how he went to prison.
00:45:08
Curt
Okay. Oh, yeah, I watch that guy all time. Yeah, I see a ton of his shorts.
00:45:10
jamie peacock
Yeah, yeah.
00:45:11
Curt
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:45:11
jamie peacock
Yeah, watch his long-form stuff about why and how he went to jail. We were watching it last night because also Carl watches him a lot.
00:45:17
Curt
Okay. Yeah, yeah.
00:45:22
jamie peacock
and I'm like, no, no, go watch his story. It's really interesting. In a nutshell, he was...
00:45:25
Curt
Okay.
00:45:28
jamie peacock
Into Bitcoin. Like, he heard about Bitcoin, and 10 minutes later, he was teaching people about but Bitcoin. And he was, basically, you could come to him and buy Bitcoin off, like, bring him, he get had a conversion chart, so whatever, how much have you bought, that's what the percentage commission he got, just, like, service fees and stuff.
00:45:34
Curt
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:45:44
jamie peacock
He wasn't making money off of it. But, yeah, basically, he... he ended up getting stung by the FBI because they thought he was this crypto drug money laundering kingpin.
00:45:57
jamie peacock
Meanwhile, they they like basically set him up. And the second, so that he did a tri transaction with this one guy for like $15,000. A few months later, a guy came back, told him it was for cocaine. He's like, I don't really care. um I'm not selling the drugs.
00:45:57
Curt
Ha, ha, ha, ha.
00:46:11
Curt
Oh no.
00:46:13
jamie peacock
Literally did the transaction, sent his wife with a check to go pay the mortgage for their science center on time for the first time in like months because it was science center. It was like struggling.
00:46:25
jamie peacock
Not even five minutes later, multiple vans pitch raid, confiscate everything. They basically threw the book at him.
00:46:33
Curt
oh no
00:46:33
jamie peacock
put him away for two years. Yeah, very, very interesting story. Now he's making content because, like, he's on a list. Like, he can do nothing.
00:46:41
Curt
Yeah, for sure.
00:46:42
jamie peacock
Like, so he's making science content.
00:46:43
Curt
Wow.
00:46:44
jamie peacock
And, you his stuff's awesome. I love that. Even Danica enjoys watching him.
00:46:49
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:46:49
jamie peacock
Like, his jokes are the best.
00:46:50
Curt
like
00:46:52
jamie peacock
Like, the dirty jokes and shit.
00:46:53
Curt
for so For some reason, his stuff seems to always come into my feed when I'm searching. like No matter what I'm searching out, one of his videos will pop up because it's always like pertaining to something I'm working on, which is kind of cool.
00:47:01
jamie peacock
But that's... yeah But that's also he puts out a video a day. And that's why like he's in the algorithm like that is what he's building an audience.
00:47:06
Curt
Oh, that would do it.
00:47:10
jamie peacock
He's coming up on a million subscribers now.
00:47:12
jamie peacock
But he's spent the last year building that because he got out ah in August 2023. So since then, he's been building it and he's focusing on the short side of things.
00:47:12
Curt
Wow.
00:47:19
Curt
Wow.
00:47:27
jamie peacock
um very interesting very interesting fellow a lot of interesting knowledge like while he was in jail he stayed employed and got a promotion from the company you worked at he worked he works he works at a um hydro small hydroelectric plant so like they go into they had one of their one of the bearings and one of the um oh no one of the windings fail
00:47:30
Curt
let's That's cool.
00:47:43
Curt
Oh, okay, okay, yeah,
00:47:50
jamie peacock
in the generator. So they're going through the process of removing this thing out of the out of the plant so that it's like 120 years old, they can have it rewound, and they'll probably run for another 120 years.
00:48:03
Curt
Right, yeah, cool.
00:48:03
jamie peacock
ah yeah Very, very interesting channel. We'll definite definitely have a link for that.
00:48:07
Curt
um
00:48:08
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:48:09
Curt
Yeah, for sure.
00:48:10
jamie peacock
I'll look up his actual name in this channel because that's really funny.
00:48:13
Curt
Oh, I have right here. I opened it so I could see it. So I may as well just copy and paste it in there for you.
00:48:16
jamie peacock
Yeah. What is the YouTube link you popped in there?
00:48:20
Curt
ah So I just have a few lead to blink YouTube links for super dorks. um This one is, ah I just stumbled across it. It's the tips and tricks for the Cinematic 828D and the 840D control.
00:48:31
Curt
And it's an hour and 40 minutes long.
00:48:32
jamie peacock
oh
00:48:34
Curt
And there's so many little greasy tips in there um for a Siemens control that I had no idea you could do. And the guy has it like as a s spread, like as a PowerPoint and just like rattles through them.
00:48:45
Curt
I'm like 21 minutes in and there's probably a dozen things I've already learned. So, uh, yeah, I'll link it there for the one and a half people that are going to actually watch it. Um, I just, I've never come across it and, uh, it doesn't have, I mean, it's got 28,000 views.
00:48:58
Curt
Um, but yeah, it's a, it's good video, super dry for anybody else.
00:49:01
jamie peacock
Yeah, I think we're gonna, yeah, but I think we're gonna, think gonna have to name this episode Kurt and Jamie gush over Siemens.
00:49:02
Curt
But if you're into it, if you're into the back control, uh,
00:49:12
Curt
I know I was playing that in my head too.
00:49:12
jamie peacock
Um, yeah, the link I posted there was for a guy who built a mechanical Flappy Birds game.
00:49:14
Curt
I was like, hmm, this semen podcast.
00:49:26
Curt
I saw that. Yeah, yeah. I just opened it really quick.
00:49:27
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:49:27
Curt
i was like, oh, I'm not going to watch this until Jamie tells me about it.
00:49:29
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's, it was quite entertaining. Like he had some quite, so I've seen some of his shorts somewhere where was going about the rail system. And then you're actually seeing how he put it together was quite interesting. Like some of the challenges he faced on it.
00:49:40
Curt
That's cool.
00:49:42
jamie peacock
Like it's, I'm never gonna build one, but I enjoy watching people build things and seeing the struggles they go through, because you never know what's gonna end up sticking.
00:49:51
Curt
Yeah, yeah, no, exactly.
00:49:51
jamie peacock
No, no, it's gonna end up staying your head and coming back to be useful at a later stage.
00:49:53
Curt
Yeah. Oh, that's cool.
00:49:58
Curt
Right, yeah. No, that's why I love. I love watching all the YouTubers for that stuff. Yeah, tons of stuff I won't ever do. It's just like, it's super, super interesting to kind of.
00:50:03
jamie peacock
Yeah. I'd rather be, I'd rather have something interesting on in the background than some dumb shit on in the background.
00:50:10
Curt
Yeah.
00:50:12
jamie peacock
Because you never know when you're going to put something useful up.
00:50:12
Curt
Yep.
00:50:15
Curt
Yeah, I know I kind of geeked out a while ago over the, there's like DIY cine cameras, like cinema cameras built over on Raspberry Pis.
00:50:16
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:50:24
Curt
um So guys are building these like little little, they look kind of heinous. um I'll link that video too.
00:50:29
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:50:30
Curt
I think it was like computing, some daily computer, some, I don't know, some guy, he does a bunch of super nerd content.
00:50:34
jamie peacock
Okay, interesting.
00:50:36
Curt
But yeah, they build these little cinema cameras um and they're, was kind of,
00:50:38
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:50:40
Curt
geeking out about that because they're so inexpensive and like the quality is decent out of them and like if you want to shoot like cinema kind of like 24 frames per second kind of stuff it's i don't know it's interesting I really like that stuff like said am I going to build one probably not but still fun to watch
00:50:46
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:50:48
jamie peacock
It's fine, yeah. Yeah, I've...
00:50:53
jamie peacock
Yeah, I've still got my the Ozbot OBSBOT Meet SE sitting in my my open tabs here, because I do want to pick one up because my camera is a hot piece of garbage.
00:51:02
Curt
oh yeah yeah yeah
00:51:08
jamie peacock
It's a shitty smartphone and yeah it's not not super great. And there was something else I wanted to ask you and I've forgotten what it was. So the story of my life.
00:51:20
jamie peacock
i'm
00:51:20
Curt
Yeah.
00:51:23
jamie peacock
Oh well, couldn't have been that important.
00:51:23
Curt
Let's see.
00:51:26
jamie peacock
ah
00:51:29
jamie peacock
Damn it.
00:51:29
Curt
I'll just Google on a podcast.
00:51:29
jamie peacock
Hang on. Thinking music. Thinking music while I think about it.
00:51:35
jamie peacock
Shit.
00:51:35
Curt
ah
00:51:36
Curt
so the um the youtube channel is ah So the YouTube channel is explaining computers.
00:51:37
jamie peacock
Oh yes, sorry. Yeah,
00:51:42
Curt
um And I'll link the... ah we hopefully don't ah Sorry, started playing.
00:51:44
jamie peacock
yeah I'll pop it in the...
00:51:46
Curt
um I'll link it here.
00:51:47
jamie peacock
Oh, mouse.
00:51:48
Curt
But yeah, explaining computers.
00:51:48
jamie peacock
Yeah, I learned...
00:51:49
Curt
If you're into super dork content, the guy puts out a ton of super, super nerd computer content.
00:51:55
jamie peacock
Doesn't he have ah some old, old analog computer? Big blue thing?
00:52:00
Curt
i but Maybe. maybe um I'm not entirely sure.
00:52:03
jamie peacock
Might be the same channel, who knows?
00:52:04
Curt
I'll link it here.
00:52:05
jamie peacock
um Anyway, my 24-volt SSRs arrived today.
00:52:11
Curt
Oh, cool. What are you using those for?
00:52:12
jamie peacock
Yeah, so 5-volt to 24-volt signal isolating relays for the TS-27R if my optic coupling story shits the bed again.
00:52:17
Curt
Okay.
00:52:22
Curt
Ah, I see. I see.
00:52:23
jamie peacock
I bought them off Aliexpress.
00:52:23
Curt
Those the ones you had on order. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
00:52:24
jamie peacock
yeah They arrived today and then hopefully tomorrow my new headphones arrive. ma
00:52:30
Curt
yeah. Ooh. Ooh.
00:52:31
jamie peacock
It's... it's... E-Armor? Ear-Mor? I don't know.
00:52:38
jamie peacock
don't know how to pronounce it. But yeah, they hopefully arrive tomorrow. Apparently they're active noise cancelling, which is going to be annoying as hell. um So hopefully I can disable that when then I read the manual. But they allege up to 40 hours of battery life.
00:52:38
Curt
Okay.
00:52:51
Curt
That's impressive.
00:52:52
jamie peacock
if, well, 8,000 milliampere battery, I fucking hope so. I'm need a crane to hold my head up.
00:52:55
Curt
Oh, yes. was going to say, you can have a backpack holding that thing.
00:52:57
jamie peacock
um and Yeah, so we'll see when they arrive. They weren't expensive. They were like all of, I think, $45 or $50. So we'll see how they work.
00:53:05
Curt
Okay. Okay.
00:53:06
jamie peacock
Because my ones, did I tell you how you increased the volume on mine?
00:53:10
Curt
Uh, no.
00:53:11
jamie peacock
So mine were like $15. They're super cheap. They've been dropped a few times. You increase the volume by doing this. You put your head sideways and jiggle around until the speaker falls back into its pocket. Then the volume goes up.
00:53:23
jamie peacock
It's also really annoying when you walk because it goes tick, tick, tick, tick.
00:53:24
Curt
Yeah, yeah,
00:53:26
jamie peacock
So they've been on their last leg for a while. And the annoying thing is like on a Friday, when I want to listen to a bunch of podcasts, I get two podcasts in and the battery dies.
00:53:36
Curt
yeah.
00:53:37
jamie peacock
Like it's getting worse and worse. So massive battery. Also, the new ones have a boom mark. So hopefully the audio will be a bit better on stories and things.
00:53:46
Curt
Oh, fair. Yeah.
00:53:46
jamie peacock
Or if I want to chat on Discord or whatever while I'm in the shop, hopefully it'll be a bit better.
00:53:46
Curt
yeah
00:53:50
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:53:51
jamie peacock
as I've been. Yeah, I also discovered that my OBS was recording my PCs audio. When I was doing a voiceover, I was in a discord chat waiting for my mate to come online. He came online said how's it and then realized what I was doing and kept quiet.
00:54:05
jamie peacock
But I had to try and edit that out of a video which was less than pleasant. Because I didn't want to reshoot the video because I'm lazy. So I just dealt with it being in there.
00:54:12
Curt
yep
00:54:16
jamie peacock
But yeah, yeah, I learned a thing.
00:54:16
Curt
Oh, fun.
00:54:18
jamie peacock
Because your OBS
00:54:19
Curt
Yeah, exactly.
00:54:21
jamie peacock
yeah you live and you learn i've been making the shorter a couple minute videos on how to power program a fixture and yeah tips and tricks and things like that we've a couple more in the works but yeah it's also
00:54:34
Curt
have to ah I have to jump back into YouTube. i've watched I think I watched one video last week. I've just been doing a million things. So I'll have to go search your stuff.
00:54:41
jamie peacock
i normally watch a lot of youtube on saturday nights because that's when all luck the the maker channels and things drop their videos. I didn't look at my phone until this morning, since Saturday evening.
00:54:47
Curt
Right.
00:54:51
jamie peacock
I can actually sit down and watch YouTube.
00:54:52
Curt
Right, yeah.
00:54:53
jamie peacock
Obviously, I looked at my phone, but like I was busy.
00:54:54
Curt
but know Yeah.
00:54:55
jamie peacock
I woke up late on Sunday to go to a dog thing. Went to the dog thing, then we went to the memorial, then it was out jawling. So, yeah.
00:55:05
Curt
Yeah.
00:55:05
jamie peacock
This morning, at quarter past midnight, I realized, shit, I didn't do Wordle yesterday.
00:55:11
Curt
Oh, no. sorry from this Start from the top.
00:55:12
jamie peacock
I know, I
00:55:13
Curt
Nice. Nice. Yeah,
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00:55:14
jamie peacock
Uh, yeah, I should have just stopped at 69. But anyway, like I'd still send a picture to my brother and hey, bro, think I'm goingnna stop at 69. He's like, no, carry on. So anyway.
00:55:16
Curt
man.
00:55:25
Curt
ah nice nice
00:55:27
jamie peacock
Uh, Kurt, um, wait, where are the things?
00:55:28
Curt
but ye and
00:55:29
jamie peacock
All right, there we go. What have you been searching this week?
00:55:33
Curt
ah So I have been spending a ton of time searching up. Actually, the one thing I took up a ton of time to search was I'm looking for some really like for flush cutters that'll cut hardened wire, um but are micro, like the same size as a regular pair of flush cutters.
00:55:49
Curt
So I have a pair of snips that I use um made by and NWS, who are one of my favorite like pliers, snips, whatever company.
00:55:54
jamie peacock
Okay.
00:55:56
Curt
Stupid expensive, but they'll cut hard and steal all day. No issues. They don't make it small enough one that I want.
00:56:02
jamie peacock
okay
00:56:02
Curt
um I found it and another company called like Lindstrom, and they make hardened side cutters or like hardened flesh cutters. um Rather expensive. Takes forever to get. They're made in Germany. um They would just take a long time to get here.
00:56:12
jamie peacock
okay
00:56:13
Curt
No local distributors. so um Came across actually some a beading company here. um It's called like Beadsmith. They make um hardened carbide-edged flesh cutters. I bought a pair of those. They were like $40. They weren't that expensive.
00:56:26
Curt
I'm quite...
00:56:26
jamie peacock
I'm glad you think that's not expensive. I literally pay like 40 bucks in rands for a set of flush cutters.
00:56:28
Curt
and
00:56:31
Curt
Well, sorry, I have a pair of $11 flush cutters that use for electronics, but these are like for carbide car edges.
00:56:36
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:56:37
Curt
It's a lot more money um ah because I'm cutting a ton of little little stainless springs um and it just nukes everything.
00:56:39
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:56:43
Curt
And I need them flushed. Anyways, I don't want to mess the spring up. So yeah, I just have my like my Google search is just full of companies that, and a ton of like ah jewelry companies actually is what I've been looking at.
00:56:54
Curt
And some of them are like, oh, these McMaster sells a pair of ah carbide edged flush cutters that are the exact size I want.
00:56:54
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:57:00
Curt
I think they're 240. I mean, there's big master tax in there, but like for a pair of, you know like four inch little flush cutters, it's like, that's a little spendy, but yeah.
00:57:02
jamie peacock
Oh wow.
00:57:07
jamie peacock
Yeah, know that's a but that's a bit rough.
00:57:10
Curt
So yeah, my, ah my Google search is filled with a, with a ton of those and whoa I don't want AI. No, why? I'm trying to open Google here, but it's just telling me all the AI things.
00:57:21
Curt
What else do we have?
00:57:21
jamie peacock
Well, Maui is short this week.
00:57:23
Curt
Shoot, man. Shoot. I'll keep opening mine.
00:57:24
jamie peacock
I've got a streak of one in Wordle. um
00:57:28
Curt
Oh,
00:57:28
jamie peacock
I've got the Rand dollar, which is making me a bit less sad. um
00:57:33
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:57:33
jamie peacock
Either the dollar is strengthening or the Rand
Robot League Ideas and Retro Discoveries
00:57:37
jamie peacock
is weakening. Not sure which one it is.
00:57:39
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:57:41
jamie peacock
And then I've got NCS Resins because we drove past them and I wanted to drive the same one I knew from Durban. And Micro Robotics because I'm trying to buy a flipping servo for my robot because our robot tournament got postponed from this weekend to two weeks time.
00:57:47
Curt
Hmm.
00:57:53
jamie peacock
So I have time to get Fondler working properly, except there's no stock.
00:57:56
Curt
Buncher.
00:57:56
jamie peacock
Yeah, I got the best names. The previous champion was Groper. um So your Fonda, I want to buy another server so I can run two servers, but they haven't had stock in like two months.
00:58:08
jamie peacock
So if they left stock before then so that I can have the two arms to Fonda people with.
00:58:13
Curt
Nice. That's cool.
00:58:15
jamie peacock
yeah Now the idea there is that I can go one up one down or both up or both down. So it gives me options to on how i want to engage. So I can either have them up and then I'm a pushing robot drop them down and get under and flip or have them like that go under hold them down and lift them up.
00:58:29
Curt
Sure.
00:58:32
jamie peacock
So a little bit of programming on the remote.
00:58:34
Curt
Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:58:35
jamie peacock
And I've got different options so that I can change up my strategy mid fight.
00:58:39
Curt
That's good idea. That's cool. Yeah.
00:58:40
jamie peacock
Although the robot league is beginning to annoy me. So that's probably going to become a backyard league in the near future. Just every time we try and do something, the guys aren't keen. So it's going to be, guys, the box is in my backyard on this day. Come play, have a bra afterwards whatever.
00:58:56
jamie peacock
Like, I'm not getting in my, I'm not carrying the box myself to my truck, driving an hour, setting it up so we can have a tournament, packing it back, driving an hour home, and then unpacking it myself.
00:58:57
Curt
yeah
00:59:08
jamie peacock
I'm kind of over that.
00:59:08
Curt
Yeah.
00:59:09
jamie peacock
Like, it's just not working
00:59:09
Curt
Yeah. Fair.
00:59:11
jamie peacock
I got other shit to do.
00:59:13
Curt
Yeah.
00:59:13
jamie peacock
Like make anchor points.
00:59:18
jamie peacock
But yeah. So, ah yeah, where can people find you and your things, Kurt?
00:59:20
Curt
Cool.
00:59:24
Curt
um Well, actually, before that, i also came across a YouTube video and someone if if anybody out there is into like mechanical dorkness like I am, um there's a company called Sanco, S-A-N-K-Y-O, a Japanese company way back in the day.
00:59:37
Curt
And they made these retro clocks. I mean, they weren't retro at the time. They made them like the 70s. So they look like clocks from the seventy s But this one clock in particular, it's a flip roll mechanical clock. It looks like kind of like a can of pop laying on its side.
00:59:50
Curt
And it just has a big dial on the side to adjust it. It's all mechanical, like just a motor that runs the clock. It runs off the like whatever 60 hertz frequency. um The alarm is mechanical. ah Like it just it was a super cool clock. And I saw a YouTuber who just like tore it apart because it's broken and fixed it. i'm like, oh, I want one of these. I'm going to buy one of these. And I looked them up on YouTube or on eBay.
01:00:08
Curt
They're not cheap. They're like 500 bucks. was like, damn it. So anyways, that that was in my search history. But go check them out. They're kind of the really cool clocks if you're into that kind of mechanical flip clock counter kind of dealio.
01:00:19
Curt
i just
01:00:20
jamie peacock
So the the other link that I sent through the guys that same guy is the engine easy made flip displays
01:00:20
Curt
I want one.
Online Presence and Machining Challenges
01:00:28
jamie peacock
3d printed flip displays.
01:00:28
Curt
Oh, love those.
01:00:30
jamie peacock
Yeah, so he put them into his flappy birds game.
01:00:31
Curt
Yeah.
01:00:33
jamie peacock
They're quite sweet.
01:00:34
Curt
Oh, yeah.
01:00:35
jamie peacock
So check up the checkup, but not really worth checking out. So where can people find you and your fun things?
01:00:38
Curt
Central.
01:00:41
Curt
I mean, my fun thing is confoundedmachine.com. and There's a whatever you want there. Media page, contact page. It'll put your little email in the box. I'll email you when things come up for sale or whatnot, so you don't have to follow me on whatever channels.
01:00:56
Curt
How about you, Jamie? Where can people find your wares?
01:00:58
jamie peacock
um you can find me at jspeceng.com or jspec underscore jspec underscore engineering on instagram uh we have the anchor point on the website and on instagram um still two of those left in batch one well technically four the guy did the pre-order hasn't bought them but anyway hopefully you'll buy them soon uh and we're busy starting with batch two of those so there should be stock in the coming weeks uh also got a bunch of blank pallets arriving because apparently my pallets are cheap
01:01:06
Curt
Hmm.
01:01:26
jamie peacock
ah Yeah, you can find us there. We've got a bunch of shirts, bunch of other odds and ends on the website. You can go check those out. And you can find the podcast at theloanemachinist.com. Again, shirts and things. The links there will link through to the JSPG&G store. We've got a bunch of merch for the podcast.
01:01:42
jamie peacock
It's also the Patreon. Thank you again to all our Patreons make the wheels on the bus go round and round. Yeah, that's where you can find all of our things. What are you up to today, Kurt?
01:01:52
Curt
Nice. Today, I'm going to finish running some lathe parts. Once those are done, going warm up the mill, finish running some mill parts for these little mechanisms, and then those are done.
01:02:03
Curt
and Then I'm going to flip over and start machining pens while I then go and do all the hand assembly kind of fun stuff for the ah mechanisms. And yeah, that's about all I got planned.
01:02:13
Curt
So what's your what's your week looking like?
01:02:13
jamie peacock
OK. ah Yeah, tomorrow I've got to put the filters back into my machine and top up the coolant. Hopefully i have enough coolant on hand. i
01:02:23
Curt
Mm-hmm.
01:02:24
jamie peacock
And then I need to, I've a bunch of things i want to quickly knock out tomorrow because material arrives for the tuftal fixture. And then I want to climb into that and get that out this week as well. So it's going to be a very busy week. I've also got a thousand torx bits to squeeze in somewhere.
01:02:38
jamie peacock
And another thousand little things to squeeze in as well on the LK. So it's going to be a very, very busy week. But I think I've got a fixture in mind for holding these little four millimeter diameter pins so that I can slitting saw, drill a hole and rigid tap them.
01:02:53
jamie peacock
So...
01:02:53
Curt
OK.
01:02:54
jamie peacock
Yeah, I want to do them like 20 at a time. i don't want to do them four at a time or eight at a time like I did last time. I have some ideas on like I can do things much more accurately now on the LK than I could on the slow year.
01:03:07
jamie peacock
So I can literally make a block, put it in my vase, mill out pockets, turn it sideways, probe it again, and I'm pretty much there. I can just carry on. So that's going to be, yeah, that's on the on the list of things to program tomorrow morning because normally I sit on a Tuesday with John and I do a bunch of programming.
01:03:15
Curt
Right, yeah.
01:03:25
jamie peacock
coined I'm sitting talking shit in front the computer, so I may as well do programming. So that's tomorrow morning's endeavors.
01:03:31
Curt
ah Fun. Sounds sounds like fun.
01:03:32
jamie peacock
But yeah, that's, yeah, that's the
Coolant Issues and Customer Invoicing Frustrations
01:03:35
jamie peacock
plan for the week. And then I need to pump out the other machines because they're they need the coolant cycled as well. The coolant in the EMCO is now green.
01:03:41
Curt
ah
01:03:44
Curt
oh
01:03:45
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's the brass shavings.
01:03:46
Curt
Oh, brass.
01:03:46
jamie peacock
react yeah
01:03:46
Curt
Yeah. Okay. Fair. Yeah.
01:03:47
jamie peacock
that It's meant to not, but it does. hit the guys out like now it's kind of expected so i'm like okay whatever but i don't mind green coolants it doesn't affect me um yeah we're gonna set up to run a whole bunch of fun stuff there and then must harass another customer um i realized i didn't invoice him for something but i haven't delivered it either so i don't really mind so i'll harass him yeah i'll harass because i've got to go buy material for something he wants tomorrow i'm going to be there so can as well buy the material um
01:03:53
Curt
yeah
01:04:17
jamie peacock
He messaged me this afternoon for an invoice, and then it took me like 30 minutes to send it because I use SlowBooks. It's like QuickBooks, but slower.
01:04:28
Curt
I hate that software.
01:04:28
jamie peacock
It was unbelievably frustrating to try and just print an invoice that was already made. But yeah, anyway, my bean counter says i must use it, so I use it because I don't want to go to jail.
01:04:39
Curt
Yeah. Yeah. That software can go die a fiery death. As far as I'm concerned, I spent way too many years fighting it. Yeah.
01:04:46
jamie peacock
yeah, like we use Sage, I like Sage, and we read QuickBooks, and it is what it is, it does the thing, most of the time it doesn't frustrate me, because I don't use it any more than I absolutely have to, so that's fine, but yeah, anyway, i yeah, I guess time touch everyone, thank you for listening,
01:04:52
Curt
Totally. Yeah.
01:04:58
Curt
Yeah. Cool, man.
01:05:05
jamie peacock
um
01:05:06
Curt
Mm-hmm.
01:05:07
jamie peacock
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01:05:21
jamie peacock
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01:05:31
Curt
Exactly.
01:05:32
jamie peacock
But yeah, anyway, guys, thank you very much for listening, and we will see you next week. Now we're going to go talk about this the shitty Swiss Nano.
01:05:40
Curt
o excited, excited. Dick Errol.