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Ep. 31: Scaling Up
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Join Curt and Jamie as they discuss their week, including topics such as hydraulic holders, Ano upgrades, and thinking in terms of 10x production to find better ways of doing things.
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Unique Coffee Mugs and Workshop Mishaps
00:00:46
jamie peacock
Good morning, Kurt. are you doing this morning?
00:00:49
Curt
I'm doing fantastic. how are you doing, Jamie?
00:00:51
jamie peacock
Yeah, I'm good. ah yeah During the intro, I was showing Kurt by coffee cup. says, coffee is my favorite second C word.
00:00:56
Curt
I love...
00:01:01
jamie peacock
so your Second favorite to your deal.
00:01:02
Curt
You have, like, the best coffee mugs.
00:01:04
jamie peacock
ah Dude, no, no.
00:01:04
Curt
You have another really good one. Yeah.
00:01:05
jamie peacock
I got my mom to buy this for me for my birthday. Like, there's a there's a shop called Typo here, and I go there, and I look through their cups, and that is my Christmas presents and my birthday presents, and whenever there's cool cups, I just buy them.
00:01:18
jamie peacock
And, yeah, because they they don't always last, because some moron puts them on top of things and then knocks them off.
00:01:19
Curt
Thanks.
00:01:24
jamie peacock
So, yeah, the workshop life's a little hard on my mugs, but, yeah, I've had some classy ones.
00:01:30
Curt
Yeah, i I've seen a few pop up in Instagram stories.
00:01:31
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:01:32
Curt
I'm like, oh, that's a good mug. That's a real good one.
00:01:34
jamie peacock
Yeah, no.
00:01:35
Curt
Yeah.
00:01:35
jamie peacock
like Literally, Danica hates that we have so many mugs, but it's because they get left in the workshop. um And like birthdays, they're just do not buy me a mug. Because I'll just go buy three mugs because they aren't special.
00:01:47
jamie peacock
I'll buy three mugs and give one to her mom, one to her, and one to me for Christmas. And then I'll just commandeer them all after Christmas.
00:01:53
Curt
Exactly, yeah.
00:01:53
jamie peacock
It's great. Yeah. And they're all my mugs.
00:01:55
Curt
Awesome. Yeah, I know.
00:01:57
jamie peacock
No doubt. We got some...
00:01:59
Curt
We have the same thing. We have too many mugs, so we're like on a mug mugf freeze.
00:02:00
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:02:02
Curt
So anytime I find cool ones, I'm like, oh, okay.
00:02:05
jamie peacock
Well, I was told i' not allowed to use two of the mugs in the workshop.
00:02:05
Curt
I got enough of them.
00:02:09
jamie peacock
um I think one Danica's brother sister bought back from her when she was like a teenager, bought from overseas.
00:02:16
Curt
Hmm.
00:02:16
jamie peacock
The other one, her best friend bought her. So i I can use them in the house. They're forbidden from going to the workshop.
00:02:23
Curt
there
00:02:24
jamie peacock
Yeah. And then yeah I've got a bunch of other crappy mugs from over the years. And then a bunch of these mugs, which like. They're the right size and they say fun stuff.
00:02:32
Curt
Yeah, no doubt.
00:02:34
jamie peacock
it's kind of important
00:02:35
Curt
Oh, fun.
Titanium Polishing and Machining Challenges
00:02:36
jamie peacock
so yeah what you been up to this week
00:02:36
Curt
Anyways. A bunch of just production stuff, um which has kind of been fun. ah Nothing too out of the ordinary. just ah just It's so nice just focus on production and just put on audiobooks and just yeah just chill. it's i don't know I enjoy those sometimes like less thinking kind of weeks.
00:02:54
Curt
ah
00:02:54
jamie peacock
yeah yeah that looks sweet yes
00:02:54
Curt
Yeah, been doing that. I did some mirror polishing on titanium, which the internet loved. I Yeah, I posted some pictures of and people are like, oh, is that like a hands-off procedure?
00:03:06
Curt
I'm like, no, no, it's not gonna work.
00:03:07
jamie peacock
not a chance
00:03:09
Curt
It's like, it's so, and they're like, oh, they're like, I thought you found like some secret sauce. I'm like, no, no. And if I did, I definitely wouldn't tell people, but no, just a bunch of manual labor.
00:03:15
jamie peacock
yeah yeah i was a manual labouring this afternoon with polishing it's the best yeah uh some moulds again yeah the big the big ones the big ones so that that was an endeavor over the weekend
00:03:17
Curt
But it does it does look pretty slick, so.
00:03:23
Curt
Ooh, ooh, what were you polishing?
00:03:28
Curt
Oh, right, okay, the big aluminum jobbies. Yeah, Mm. The one.
00:03:36
jamie peacock
So it turns out that if you put an aluminum plate on a nicely flat aluminum vacuum jug, it doesn't create a perfect seal because the plate you brought in is not flat.
00:03:37
Curt
Okay.
00:03:45
Curt
Mm.
00:03:49
Curt
Oh, okay. Yeah, totally fair.
00:03:50
jamie peacock
And then you put coolant as a lubricant in your vacuum pump, which doesn't bode well for the vacuum pump because some lazy dick forgot to put a vacuum trap and or a coolant trap into his line because he was lazy.
00:03:57
Curt
Oh.
00:04:03
jamie peacock
So I was facing the first part and realized that I was sucking coolant in intoma into maul and into my vacuum pump.
00:04:04
Curt
ah Yeah, yeah. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:04:12
jamie peacock
So I stopped halfway through facing the first part and pulled the part off, readjusted the O-ring cord stuff and got it to seal a bit better. Also pulled the old reservoir out of my laser cutting PC because it's no longer water cooled.
00:04:26
jamie peacock
Used that as a coolant trap, which would fill up in the time it took to machine the Op1s.
00:04:33
Curt
ah Wow. Oh, wow.
00:04:33
jamie peacock
I also drained a bit of the coolant slash oil out of the ah drawn a of the ah vacuum pump so it wasn't overfilled. And then proceeded to run it like that for another 15 hours.
00:04:46
jamie peacock
Yeah. During those 15 hours, I went and got more oil, but the job was running and I couldn't stop. So then yeah so when i when I turned the plates over, I got a pretty good seal.
00:04:51
Curt
right, right.
00:04:55
jamie peacock
Didn't get any coolant coming through, so I just let it run. um
00:04:58
Curt
Hmm.
00:04:59
jamie peacock
I went and bought some more oil, then... That ran until 2 a.m. m on Sunday morning.
00:05:05
jamie peacock
I started the job at 9 o'clock on Saturday morning.
00:05:05
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:05:05
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:05:10
jamie peacock
We went for breakfast quickly, came back, set up the the table, did both op 1s, flipped it over, started with op 2. It took me a while to get it that it would clean up with a face mill. i was stepping down 50 microns at a time because I wanted to leave the plate as thick as possible.
00:05:25
jamie peacock
And then once that was done, it took about an hour to do all the roughing. and then four hours to do the rough finishing, and 12 hours to do the finished finishing.
00:05:36
jamie peacock
So by, I think, eight o'clock that evening, I was tired of being in the workshop, because now, while that's happening, I'm running anodals. And an hour into my finished pass, I overfilled my ceiling tank, and put a pot in, which proceeded to overflow, and trip my earth leakage on my power in the garage, which knocked the...
00:05:43
Curt
Right.
00:05:56
jamie peacock
the LK off.
00:05:56
Curt
Oh, no.
00:05:57
jamie peacock
Didn't turn the phase converter off because that's on a separate separate DB, but the fuck you, Eskombox tripped, which just straight up disconnects from power.
00:06:04
Curt
Oh, right, right, right. Right, yeah.
00:06:06
jamie peacock
So the machine sat there for five minutes going be spinning down because it was at 12K at the time.
00:06:12
Curt
Right.
00:06:13
jamie peacock
Fortunately, ah was in the cuts moving in the Y direction and moving down. But obviously I'm moving a lot faster in Y than I'm moving down because it's an aerofoil shape.
00:06:23
jamie peacock
So when the power tripped, it moved further in Y than it would move down in Z. So it didn't actually leave a dimple.
00:06:23
Curt
Sure, okay, yeah.
00:06:30
Curt
Oh, okay. Oh, wild, okay, that's weird.
00:06:34
jamie peacock
So I got everything turned back on, just unplugged the anode set up. I had some parts that had another 15 minutes in the acid tank, which we'll get to in a little while. But ah my old system was 45 minutes, not an hour.
00:06:47
jamie peacock
So I pulled those out quickly, rinsed them and just threw them in the sealing tank. The tank was still hot. I just threw it in there and let them seal without turning the power back on there, like unplugged it. Got the LK back up.
00:06:57
jamie peacock
That was an hour into the finishing pass. So we lost an hour. We were going to finish at 1 a.m. Got that running again. Let it run for about an hour. a I can see where the original was and where the second was only because the surface finish ever so s slightly changed.
00:07:12
jamie peacock
That's it. like You can see. like Perfect. You can't feel it. You can see it. You can't feel it.
00:07:12
Curt
right right, right, yeah.
Anodizing Adventures and Color Creations
00:07:19
Curt
Okay, well that works then, yeah.
00:07:20
jamie peacock
So yeah rehoed everything I and then let that carry on running. Set an alarm for 2 a.m., told the machine to notify me when it turns off. And woke up, I think it just on 2, went out to the garage,
00:07:34
jamie peacock
It was still running, had another like five or ten minutes to go, so I potted around for a bit. It finished up, I had a look, blew it off, auto power down, and then went to sleep. and then yesterday morning, woke up, warmed the machine up, slapped the second plate on, hit go, and it finished at one o'clock this morning.
00:07:43
Curt
Nice.
00:07:52
jamie peacock
No, midnight, midnight. um So I set an alarm for one minute to midnight. And I told the machine to let me know when it's going power down. And I estimated it's going to be around midnight.
00:08:04
jamie peacock
Two minutes to midnight. My phone goes, okay, stopped. because like, no, I wasn't able to sleep properly because I, come on, the machine's going to stop. So I was in there like, okay, machine stopped, jumped out of bed, went there.
00:08:13
Curt
Right.
00:08:16
jamie peacock
Everything's good. Blew it off, shut it down. And then this morning it stood because I'm waiting for an updated file before I can machine the next job that's got to go in on the vacuum chuck.
00:08:24
Curt
Mm, nice.
00:08:25
jamie peacock
So I don't want to break the vacuum chuck setup down until I'm done with the next job.
00:08:30
Curt
Well, I mean, at least you get to make use of the the most useless time to run those big jobs.
00:08:30
jamie peacock
So,
00:08:33
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:08:34
Curt
So, yeah.
00:08:35
jamie peacock
Well, 100%. So like today the machine stood, but today I ran more anodized. I ran anodized on Saturday, Sunday, and today because I had an order of mag bases that needed anodizing. And I have been struggling with black.
00:08:45
Curt
Hmm.
00:08:49
jamie peacock
Black and red. Been struggling.
00:08:50
Curt
Hmm.
00:08:50
jamie peacock
Cannot get black. I can get light gray. And the red is like just, it's maroony, shitty red. So I did some goggling and the I think the casual forum. So like, no, if the pore sizes aren't big enough, run your anodize for a bit longer.
00:09:08
jamie peacock
So I've been running mine as a cosmetic anodize 45 minutes in the tank.
00:09:09
Curt
Mm-hmm. Okay. Right. Mm-hmm.
00:09:13
jamie peacock
So it's a little bit higher on the amperage, but a little bit shorter on the time.
00:09:13
Curt
okay
00:09:18
jamie peacock
And it's worked. I mean, anodized probably close to 1,000 parts at this point.
00:09:23
Curt
right
00:09:23
jamie peacock
But inconsistency on red and black. So I was like, OK, let me do do an experiment. Instead of 45 minutes in the acid, we'll go for an hour in the acid and see what happens. Well, now I make black pots and I make red pots pretty well.
00:09:35
Curt
Oh, that's all it took. That's all it took was just just a little bit more.
00:09:37
jamie peacock
That's all it took. Yeah, it was just that.
00:09:39
Curt
That's nice.
00:09:39
jamie peacock
was just, yeah, that's all it was. um And then I did ah that anchor point body this morning. So that whole process you put in the acid, open up the pores, dye the first color, dry it, mask it with spray paint in this case.
00:09:58
jamie peacock
Then you strip it. Normally you just dip it in the acid for, I don't know, like 30 seconds, rinse it again and into the second color. And the red just would not take today.
00:10:07
Curt
Right.
00:10:10
jamie peacock
So I did that the first time, wouldn't take.
00:10:10
Curt
Right.
00:10:12
jamie peacock
Did it the second time? Still wouldn't take. Did it the third time, put it for 15 minutes in the acid, ah applying current, then it kind of took. I'm like, oh, shit. Okay. Strip it again for the fourth time, put it in the acid for an hour again ah with current applied, and then it took the red.
00:10:28
jamie peacock
And then when I stripped it, I didn't strip it enough to to pull all the red out of the and of the gray, but it is what it is. So, it's yeah, it's interesting.
00:10:36
Curt
Yeah, so that's... And for the for the listeners, what did you what did that what did that make? Because you just described what you're coloring.
00:10:42
jamie peacock
Oh, it made, yeah, it made a French flag.
00:10:43
Curt
but
00:10:46
jamie peacock
So yeah, America, fuck yeah. Red, white, and blue. Well, red, pink, and blue.
00:10:50
Curt
Nice.
00:10:51
jamie peacock
But yeah, red, white, and blue on that one.
00:10:52
Curt
Yeah.
00:10:53
jamie peacock
Yeah, the gray's just got a bit of a red tinge to it. But yeah, I've been experimenting with all those. going to a bunch of pictures tomorrow out on the sun where that purple can actually pop because true that purple is beautiful.
00:11:06
jamie peacock
It makes the the batch one purple that I had done externally look like hot garbage.
00:11:07
Curt
Yeah.
00:11:11
Curt
Yeah. Well, don't say that.
00:11:12
jamie peacock
Like, no.
00:11:13
Curt
People have those that are listening to the show.
00:11:16
jamie peacock
They're perfectly functional.
00:11:17
Curt
who
00:11:18
jamie peacock
They just ah ah look like hot shit compared to this purple. Like this purple, the only way to describe it is orgasmic purple.
00:11:22
Curt
Yeah.
00:11:26
jamie peacock
No, yeah, it's like, it's called Violent. It's not Violent Violet. I call it valet vi Violent Violet because it's, yeah, it's beautiful. So yeah, I did some samples. I'll post pictures of those tomorrow.
00:11:39
jamie peacock
Did a gray one, which looks kind of lame. um
00:11:42
jamie peacock
Did an orange splatter, blue splatter, a purple, and the, there was another one. Anyway, yeah, and the dark gray.
00:11:42
Curt
I will.
00:11:52
Curt
I like the orange splatter. Like, honestly, if I had anything in my world that was purple, I would pick purple because I love purple.
00:11:55
jamie peacock
Hmm.
00:11:59
Curt
But everything in here is like either gray or there's a little bit of blue, I guess, blue lights.
00:11:59
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:12:04
Curt
and And that's, I can turn the lights purple.
00:12:04
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:12:06
Curt
Then maybe it'd match. I could do that.
00:12:07
jamie peacock
There we go.
00:12:08
jamie peacock
Problem solved.
00:12:08
Curt
But yeah, no, I do love that purple, but I do like the splatter orange.
00:12:11
Curt
The splatter orange and and gray black is, yeah, it looks cool.
00:12:12
jamie peacock
Split orange looks really nice.
00:12:14
Curt
It looks good.
00:12:15
jamie peacock
Yeah, so i'm I'm messing with different ways to to mask it.
Time Management and Automation in the Workshop
00:12:18
jamie peacock
Because if you go a little bit ham, it's just the whole thing's orange. Like the blue one, the whole top is blue. And I ah went to a little ham on the masking.
00:12:27
jamie peacock
So I'm figuring that out as I go. But yeah, they're an art piece at this point, a functional art piece.
00:12:33
Curt
Yeah, toothbrushes.
00:12:33
jamie peacock
And then the...
00:12:33
Curt
i used to use toothbrushes that work pretty good.
00:12:35
jamie peacock
Oh, yeah.
00:12:36
Curt
and Dip in paint to whatever and go like, you get big like fat drops or nail polish and just flick it.
00:12:36
jamie peacock
Okay. Yeah.
00:12:41
jamie peacock
Yeah, I've seen guys using the masking lacquer from Caswell, where they just flick it with like a stick.
00:12:41
Curt
All kinds of different ways. so
00:12:45
Curt
Hmm, yeah.
00:12:46
jamie peacock
But yeah, I'm looking for the easiest solution, and a rattle can works pretty fucking well.
00:12:47
Curt
yeah
00:12:52
Curt
That's kind of what I figured.
00:12:53
jamie peacock
fuck
00:12:53
Curt
I'm like, hey probably just trying to find something that's just easy to do in batch as opposed to pissing around.
00:12:55
jamie peacock
Yeah, that's what I used to do on the knives as well. Just hit it with a rattle can. Don't use clear paint, because you can't see clear paint.
00:13:04
Curt
Right. Yeah.
00:13:04
jamie peacock
I learned this when I made a whole bunch of knives that were just of the color. with no none of the second color because you couldn't see it, so you thought there wasn't any. Because even the white paint, um it masks with a bit of a, like you can still see through it in some sections. It's kind of weird.
00:13:15
Curt
Yeah.
00:13:23
jamie peacock
Because like the blue one was not white across the whole top, but obviously the white pigment's in a clear carrier. And if you haven't shaken it properly, you get the clear carrier coming through.
00:13:29
Curt
Oh, I see.
00:13:32
jamie peacock
So you've got to be very like sparse with how you spray it.
00:13:35
Curt
I get you. I get you.
00:13:36
jamie peacock
But yeah, been fun messing with the Anno setup.
00:13:36
Curt
That makes sense.
00:13:39
jamie peacock
I bought a timer, which you cannot buy in South Africa. So it's a commercial kitchen timer.
00:13:43
Curt
How you like? Okay.
00:13:47
jamie peacock
So i know AJ had one for his powder coat setup.
00:13:50
Curt
Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:13:50
jamie peacock
That's where i first saw them.
00:13:51
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's just a bunch of, yeah cannot find them in South Africa.
00:13:51
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:13:51
Curt
The big wall jobbies. Yeah, yeah.
00:13:56
jamie peacock
I know why I can't find them in South Africa.
00:13:57
Curt
Huh.
00:13:59
jamie peacock
It's because all of our fast food restaurants, their cookers have built-in timers. Because our people here, to call them stupid, it's a compliment.
00:14:07
Curt
Oh, I see. Yeah.
00:14:08
jamie peacock
So, like, even if you go, if you go KFC or chicken licking or whatever, you'll see on the display, it'll say 27 wings or 27 thighs or whatever, 27 pieces.
00:14:18
Curt
yeah
00:14:19
jamie peacock
They put a tray of 27 pieces in, they close the door, they had to go. It's got a built-in timer.
00:14:23
Curt
Right, yeah, yeah,
00:14:24
jamie peacock
They drop fries into the fry cooking thingy, they push the button, fries, and it goes beep, beep, beep when it's done. So, like, there's no real use for it yet, so no one imports them.
00:14:31
Curt
yeah.
00:14:35
jamie peacock
Because my little timer setup, I dropped two of those timers into the wash tank over the weekend.
00:14:35
Curt
Fair, yeah.
00:14:42
jamie peacock
So then you pull them out, blow them off, let them sit for a day, plug them back in, and they work. But I want something that's a bit louder and a bit easier to see from across the shop. So I'm going to position that one on the wall where I can see it from other places so that if I'm running anode, it's a little bit less of a mental load because that's the problem is I'm running anode.
00:14:51
Curt
Fair, yeah.
00:15:00
jamie peacock
It's always in the back of my head. What's the time left on the timer? Can I get involved with this or am I going to have to drop it to go to anode?
00:15:03
Curt
Yeah.
00:15:06
jamie peacock
So yeah, it eats up mental capacity for no real reason.
00:15:10
Curt
You need to build like, you need like a conveyor belt and like those, you know, those little tea timers that like you put a tea bag on and then like you set it for like four minutes and it goes, but it just like lifts a tea bag up or whatever. You need like a giant one of those.
00:15:20
jamie peacock
so yeah
00:15:22
Curt
So you just like lift all your parts up and then conveyor belt can run and it can dunk them back in the next.
00:15:25
jamie peacock
So someone said to me, why don't I make an automated anno setup?
00:15:26
Curt
Yeah.
00:15:29
jamie peacock
And I'm like, that is how runs happen.
00:15:32
jamie peacock
It's because you're not caring enough about washing out all the threaded holes, and that's how you get runs. ah
00:15:33
Curt
Oh yeah.
00:15:39
Curt
and
00:15:40
jamie peacock
Yeah, i'm the amount of water that was on my face.
00:15:41
Curt
But you could probably... I see you could probably... ah Yeah.
00:15:43
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:15:46
Curt
You could probably automate it to the point where like you could just at least like pull him out of the die, and then I don't know if you can just dip him in something, just to keep him at a Oh.
00:15:49
jamie peacock
Yeah. Well, yeah, it goes straight from DA into the SEAL. So that could happen. But it's and not the end of the world. like ah Most of the cycles are 15 minutes plus.
00:16:02
jamie peacock
It's just the initial it's the initial wash and etch.
00:16:02
Curt
Oh, okay. Yeah.
00:16:05
jamie peacock
So it goes in acetone for a few minutes, comes out of acetone, gets hand scrubbed and in warm Simple Green. Then it gets rinsed, then put into caustic soda for three minutes, then rinsed, put back into the Simple Green for a minute, then into ah rinsed again, then into the wash tank, and it sits there until it's ready to go into acid.
00:16:13
Curt
Gotcha. Yeah.
00:16:26
jamie peacock
Then normally I do that in the last like 15 minutes left in the cycle.
00:16:27
Curt
gotcha
00:16:30
jamie peacock
And then as soon as the acid is done, it comes out, goes on the rack.
00:16:30
Curt
yeah
00:16:33
jamie peacock
New parts into the acid, get that going. Then I rinse the parts that have come out. They go into the wash tank for a minute and then they go into their dye. And then after the dyeing process, like on some of the colors, it's four minutes. On other colors, it's 25 minutes.
00:16:46
jamie peacock
um If it's a long cycle, I dump it in there and I go do something else. And I'll check on it maybe once or twice, just agitate it. It's pretty hands off other than the initial racking.
00:16:57
Curt
So I will enable you in this case, because this is very similar to my world of like, like how I do my titanium. Titanium anodizes way easier, obviously, but the cleaning process is super involved.
00:17:05
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:17:07
Curt
And this is like, I ultrasonic clean and you know, whatever my alkaline cleaner, then I ultrasonic degrease in water and then I degrease again in a different tank of water and then I put it in the etch and then it comes out of the etch and it goes in a rinse tank and then it goes out of the rinse tank into a distilled tank and distilled tank into the anodized tank the anodized tank back in the neutralizer like there's a million stages so what I'm gonna do and it's all like my thank you my pens are just like all on a grid I array array I'm in a grid so I'm like all I'm doing is pulling
00:17:25
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:17:33
Curt
one pen out of this grid, going through all the processes, putting it back, moving to the next one. I'm like, this is a perfect job for a robot arm.
00:17:40
jamie peacock
Kurt,
00:17:41
Curt
It's not, it's not high precision.
00:17:43
jamie peacock
no No.
00:17:44
Curt
I could, it can be done over and over again.
00:17:45
jamie peacock
ah can see what's in the document.
00:17:48
Curt
So i've I've always been looking at that. um And in robotics. his like AR4 arm. And I was like, I've been just itching to pull the trigger on that. Cause it's like, I don't know. You can get like a decent arm, a whole kit made.
00:18:00
Curt
Like i could I would just buy the machine parts. I wouldn't even machine them. It's not worth my time for what they cost.
00:18:03
jamie peacock
Yeah, not worth it.
00:18:04
Curt
And it's like, don't know. It's like four grand or something like that. Three grand for like every single part to make this six axis robot arm.
00:18:09
jamie peacock
I have a better suggestion.
00:18:12
Curt
I want to, I want to, I'm not going to, but I want to.
00:18:13
jamie peacock
No, I have a better suggestion. Come to the dark side.
00:18:16
Curt
What's that?
00:18:16
jamie peacock
i have a better suggestion. Build a washing robot. So not a robot arm.
00:18:20
Curt
yeah Yeah, sure.
00:18:21
jamie peacock
Robot arms are cool. Robot arms are cool. Woohoo. But you are taking a thing from a point, putting it in another point. Build a gantry.
00:18:29
Curt
Yeah.
00:18:31
jamie peacock
Build gantry, write a LinuxCNC macro, problem solved.
00:18:31
Curt
Yeah, totally.
00:18:35
jamie peacock
There's no funny kinematics.
00:18:35
Curt
Yeah.
00:18:36
jamie peacock
It's going to be way more accurate because it's a proper motion system, not an arm fucking flailing.
00:18:43
Curt
Yeah, but this one can like rub my back when it's not doing that.
00:18:46
jamie peacock
And your front.
00:18:48
Curt
And my front.
00:18:51
jamie peacock
ah Yeah, I know, like, robot arms are great, but, like, in that an application, like, come on, build a fucking gantry.
00:18:51
Curt
Yeah. They're so cool.
00:18:56
jamie peacock
It's going to be way more accurate than a robot arm will ever be.
00:18:57
Curt
Oh!
00:18:59
Curt
honestly, if I'm, if I'm going, if I would I'm, we're, um we're kind of just mentally masturbating.
00:19:03
jamie peacock
when you do this, yes.
00:19:05
Curt
Yeah. We're, this is mental masturbation of what we want to do. But if I was actually going to proceed and do this, like automated, I would just pull the whole rack. Like I'd pull the whole array of pens out of each tank and go into all the baths.
00:19:13
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:19:15
Curt
It'd be, that's the faster way. And honestly, at that point, don't automate it. Just do it with your hand. Cause like I could do like 50 at a time.
00:19:20
jamie peacock
Yeah. Well, that's the thing. That's, yeah, that's the mental gymnastics you've got to do with, okay, cool.
00:19:22
Curt
Like,
00:19:27
jamie peacock
You now need to move a thing across six tanks 10 times a month. Just do it yourself.
00:19:33
Curt
Right.
00:19:33
jamie peacock
You're never going to have an ROI on it. Like, never, ever.
00:19:36
Curt
Exactly. Exactly.
00:19:37
jamie peacock
i could yeah
00:19:37
Curt
Exactly.
00:19:38
jamie peacock
As cool as is to build a robot. We don't need a robot, Kurt.
00:19:40
Curt
Yeah. No, I, and I probably will never build it unless it's just a pet project to play with. Cause like I, I don't actually have like once, yeah, once I sit down and start writing it on paper, I'm like, I actually don't have any need for this.
00:19:45
jamie peacock
Yeah. That's a different situation.
00:19:52
Curt
and if I do have a need for this, it's not solved by that. It's solved by, like you said, a million other different reasons.
00:19:56
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:19:58
Curt
But they are so cool.
00:19:58
jamie peacock
No, 100%. But they are pretty cool. Like, they are pretty cool.
00:20:02
Curt
They're so cool.
00:20:02
jamie peacock
So yeah, don't know. But yeah, so I'll just quickly read through it. Yeah, figured out that.
Tooling Innovations and Audiobook Recommendations
00:20:08
jamie peacock
Okay, cool. I just want to make sure got all the... Yeah. So the anchor point's available with custom adder. I added options to the website.
00:20:14
jamie peacock
um um
00:20:14
Curt
Yeah, that's probably what I'll go with. They're pretty.
00:20:18
jamie peacock
Anyway, my hydraulic holder came in, Kurt.
00:20:18
Curt
but
00:20:21
Curt
Oh, yeah. The the one for um for the mirror maker.
00:20:25
jamie peacock
No, for the Chinese one, didn't buy the mirror maker cutter. I think it was fucking expensive.
00:20:28
Curt
Oh.
00:20:29
jamie peacock
costs the same as the bloody tool holder. So I'm using a Chinese animal.
00:20:31
Curt
Oh, I thought that was ah thought that was one. Okay. Oh, the the one that the one that looks like a mirror, like all rainbow-y.
00:20:33
jamie peacock
Yo, it makes mirrors.
00:20:36
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:20:37
Curt
and Yeah, yeah.
00:20:37
jamie peacock
Yeah, that one.
00:20:38
Curt
Okay, I didn't know that. I thought that was a fancy one.
00:20:39
jamie peacock
Dude. So I was reminded why I used chip breaker end mills for roughing.
00:20:45
Curt
Right?
00:20:46
jamie peacock
I had to rough down three parts. They had a 41 millimeter length of cut.
00:20:48
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:20:51
jamie peacock
And they were, I think, about 10 mils wider than they needed to be and about 10 mils longer. Getting those shavings out of my machine was a freaking nightmare. I dropped straight down with the and a 45 length of cut. Just plowed around it and made him a mirror.
00:21:07
Curt
Nice.
00:21:08
jamie peacock
I needed to material prep it.
00:21:08
Curt
Nice.
00:21:09
jamie peacock
So I just used the fancy cutter.
00:21:13
Curt
Yeah.
00:21:13
jamie peacock
Like it, yeah, it's a beast. Even the anchor points, the finish I'm getting off, there's a little bit of tweaking I can do to get it just a little better. But I'm very happy with how it's coming off on the anchor points.
00:21:21
Curt
Yeah.
00:21:24
Curt
It's like, noticeably but notice it be better than the yeah ER or whatever you're using.
00:21:25
jamie peacock
Now, yeah.
00:21:27
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:21:29
Curt
Yeah.
00:21:29
jamie peacock
100%.
00:21:30
jamie peacock
Notice, like, yeah, just, it dampens so much better.
00:21:30
Curt
Ooh.
00:21:35
jamie peacock
Like, i was doing, think, a 2 or 3 millimeter step over, 45 deep.
00:21:35
Curt
That's nice.
00:21:40
Curt
Okay.
00:21:41
jamie peacock
Yeah, it didn't care.
00:21:41
Curt
Ooh, that's but's a meaty cut, yeah.
00:21:43
jamie peacock
Like, I had to drop my feet a bit because I was running out of, out of horsepower. But it does the thing and it does it well. Yeah, i' pretty happy with that.
00:21:52
Curt
Cool.
00:21:53
jamie peacock
Expensive, but pretty happy with it. Only problem, I can't fit my normal length 12mm cutters into it.
00:21:55
Curt
Cool.
00:22:00
Curt
All right, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because of the grip length, yeah.
00:22:02
jamie peacock
It's got a 36mm or 38mm minimum clamping length. And they've got like 2mm short of that.
00:22:12
Curt
um
00:22:12
jamie peacock
And obviously I'm not going to let the flutes go into the freaking holder. um
00:22:16
Curt
Sure, yeah
00:22:16
jamie peacock
So now I'm questing to find some. For now, it's fine. It can be my long roughing tool. I would like to use it for all one um my 12 mils, but I will make due for now and try find a new end mill to meet my normal requirements.
00:22:32
Curt
yeah. Yeah. That's a lot of grab.
00:22:35
jamie peacock
It is.
00:22:36
Curt
But I mean, i guess it's
00:22:36
jamie peacock
It's a bit long, but if I look at all the hydraulics, they're all like that. They've got a long required minimum length.
00:22:40
Curt
Yeah.
00:22:43
Curt
I guess that's 12 mil too, so like you can you can get after it pretty good, so I get it.
00:22:45
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah, I use all my horsepower with a 12-mall. um But yeah, we cranked on stuff last week.
00:22:50
Curt
Right.
00:22:53
jamie peacock
I think after we chatted, yeah, because the hydraulic, I picked up the hydraulic in the morning. I then ran through 10 anchor point bodies quickly.
00:22:58
Curt
Right.
00:23:01
jamie peacock
After that, I ran through, the following day, ran through 60 mag bases so that I could anodize them over the weekend and they shipped today. And then I did another bunch of something else in between as well.
00:23:09
Curt
Wow.
00:23:12
jamie peacock
I grew up cranking out parts for like two or three days. And then we so we finished all that up, finished up the ah three, four, and five on the hang point bodies, and then put in the vacuum chuck into machine so that I could do this mold job over the weekend.
00:23:27
Curt
Nice. Nice.
00:23:28
jamie peacock
Yeah, it was a busy week.
00:23:29
Curt
Well, I'm glad it worked out. mean, I assume the hydraulic would work out, but it's still nice to have actual evidence that it did.
00:23:30
jamie peacock
Yeah, busy week last week. Yeah. Now, it...
00:23:36
Curt
Sick.
00:23:37
jamie peacock
It works really, really well. I like it.
00:23:39
jamie peacock
It's going probably go into my regular rotation.
00:23:39
Curt
Sick.
00:23:40
Curt
yeah
00:23:41
jamie peacock
As soon as I can find a 12mm cutter that's not stupidly long. ra Generally, I need 30mm of reach for 99% of what I do.
00:23:49
Curt
Yeah.
00:23:50
jamie peacock
so I want to find something like that because that I use my 12mm cutter a hell of a lot for just finishing things that are longer than... longer than 14 millimeters, I go to my 12mm cutter.
00:24:02
jamie peacock
So my 6mm will do 14 length of cuts. Anything longer, straight to the 12mm for the the finishing cuts. Like it's part of my core tool setup and even the mag bases I made last week.
00:24:08
Curt
yeah
00:24:12
jamie peacock
It reaches perfectly. I've got to make some AR-15 mag bases this coming week. So I've still got another, sorry, maths is hard here, another 80 mag bases to machine because I'm just making stock at this point.
00:24:25
jamie peacock
um And then a bunch of water flingers for the mines. whole bunch of aluminium parts coming in this week that'll go in hopefully by Wednesday.
00:24:34
Curt
Cool.
00:24:35
jamie peacock
Yeah, I've got the phase two of the Tufnel job as I'm waiting on the that updated model.
00:24:35
Curt
Cool.
00:24:40
jamie peacock
The guy doing the FEA realized there was a problem, so they're updating the model. I should get it by lunchtime tomorrow. um Because tomorrow I've got to go be an apps engineer.
00:24:51
jamie peacock
How exciting. For a Chinese router. The guys want to get it running on fusion.
00:24:56
Curt
and
00:24:56
jamie peacock
And want a hand. So I get to spend an hour in my car driving there. And an hour in my car driving back. Which they get built for. So I don't really care. um yeah So i was pushing to get stuff out today.
00:25:06
Curt
yeah
00:25:11
Curt
I gotcha. I gotcha.
00:25:11
jamie peacock
yeah Even tomorrow morning.
00:25:11
Curt
Well, at least you got some
00:25:13
jamie peacock
I'm going to be polishing a mold before I go.
00:25:17
jamie peacock
So that at least that's all that's done.
00:25:18
Curt
quiet, quiet reflection time.
00:25:20
jamie peacock
Yeah. Well no.
00:25:20
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:25:21
jamie peacock
Listening to the Martian time.
00:25:23
Curt
Oh yeah. That's such a good book. Such a good book.
00:25:25
jamie peacock
Dude, I started the book yesterday. ah finished it this morning.
00:25:29
Curt
Yep.
00:25:30
jamie peacock
It's only 10 hours.
00:25:30
Curt
I believe it.
00:25:31
jamie peacock
Like, yeah.
00:25:33
Curt
Have you you've never listened to it before?
00:25:34
jamie peacock
No, dude. It's so much better than the movie.
00:25:36
Curt
Oh. Oh, dude. Yeah. A hundred percent.
00:25:38
jamie peacock
Dude, look.
00:25:39
Curt
Yeah.
00:25:40
jamie peacock
Yeah, ah I loved it.
00:25:40
Curt
Yeah. It's a thousand times better than the movie.
00:25:41
jamie peacock
I was giggling my ass off in the workshop.
00:25:42
Curt
Yeah.
00:25:44
jamie peacock
It's frigging great. So, yeah, Danica's on a quest to get some some books for me.
00:25:46
Curt
If you.
00:25:50
jamie peacock
Because, yeah, I mean, normally it's podcasts, but I actually really enjoyed listening to a fiction thing that I don't actually have to think too hard about.
00:25:50
Curt
Yeah.
00:25:52
Curt
Right.
00:25:58
Curt
if you If you like The Martian, Project Hail Mary, that's his other book.
00:26:02
jamie peacock
Okay.
00:26:02
Curt
So good. It's exact same vein, kind of same humory, same super like quote unquote hard sci-fi.
00:26:05
jamie peacock
Yeah. ah Okay, sweet.
00:26:08
Curt
I listened to both those probably five, six times already. Like they're my favorites.
00:26:11
jamie peacock
Okay, awesome.
00:26:12
Curt
I love them. Yeah.
00:26:13
jamie peacock
Okay, cool. We'll chat about that off after the podcast and make some arrangements because i want a read list I want to redo Seven Eves.
00:26:16
Curt
Definitely.
00:26:19
jamie peacock
I read Seven Eves.
00:26:20
Curt
Oh, yeah.
00:26:20
jamie peacock
It's the last proper book I read when I was traveling a lot.
00:26:22
Curt
Okay. Yeah.
00:26:23
jamie peacock
I had a, well, I didn't read a physical book. i had a tablet. I remember getting on a plane because I used to get on the plane, read for about 45 minutes, and then I'd be kind of sleepy and go to sleep.
00:26:26
Curt
That's good book. Yeah.
00:26:33
jamie peacock
I sat on a six-hour plane. playing flat or playing right reading because the book was that interesting i didn't want to put it down it was trying to remember which part it was i think it was towards the end of uh the second third yeah spoiler towards the end of the second third of the book yeah i doubt because you know what happened it's a 700 and something pages it was great um yeah
00:26:36
Curt
yeah yeah
00:26:46
Curt
spoiler alert okay yeah that's a long book it's a long book oh
00:26:58
Curt
but Yeah, that book is so good. I just love when you hit that one part, that one chapter, and just like, and then all of sudden there's a something, and you're like, whoa, what? And then you it's like a whole new story.
00:27:05
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:27:07
Curt
Yeah, that's a good book.
00:27:08
jamie peacock
Yeah, that that that confused me a bit, to be honest. Like, I haven't read many books in my days.
00:27:12
Curt
Yeah.
00:27:14
jamie peacock
And yeah, that threw me for a bit of a loop.
00:27:16
Curt
Yeah, me too. Me too.
00:27:17
jamie peacock
But yeah, it was it was great.
00:27:17
Curt
Yeah.
00:27:19
jamie peacock
But yeah, audiobooks. Interesting. I haven't listened to an audiobook since I listened to the, um want to say, the fourth Game of Thrones book. back when season 3 had only come out, and I listened to the audiobook because I wanted to know what was going to happen, and yeah, that did not go well.
00:27:31
Curt
Yeah.
00:27:34
jamie peacock
um
00:27:35
Curt
was
00:27:36
jamie peacock
I think it's the last time that and the E-Myth Revisited, listen to that every now and again.
00:27:41
Curt
Nice.
00:27:41
jamie peacock
And it hits hard every single time.
00:27:41
Curt
Well...
00:27:45
Curt
Audiobooks are so good. Like they're out of all things that I've bought for myself. They're the one investment where I'm like, I like, I will sell my body if I don't have enough money just to afford to be able to buy audiobooks.
00:27:49
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:27:55
Curt
Cause like, they're so beneficial. Like I just, I like reading.
00:27:57
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:27:58
Curt
I just don't have time to sit down and read like, you know, for, I'm i'm not a super fast reader. Like I can crank through a 40 hour audio book and like, you know, no time at all.
00:28:03
jamie peacock
yeah yeah i mean it goes on in the background i was getting annoyed because people kept phoning me today while i'm trying to finish the book it's like go away i don't want to talk to you it's like go away customer but yeah
00:28:07
Curt
So yeah.
00:28:11
Curt
Totally.
00:28:14
Curt
Yeah. Well, to have
00:28:19
Curt
to, you're going to have to like speed listen or not. Yeah. They won't speed listen, but I know they make, they're making project hail Mary into a movie as well. And they're probably going to butcher it. Um, but I'm going to watch it anyways.
00:28:27
jamie peacock
uh okay
00:28:29
Curt
Um, but yeah, i think it's going to
00:28:29
jamie peacock
100%. I kind of want to re-watch The Martian now just to see how many things I get wrong.
00:28:34
jamie peacock
um
00:28:34
Curt
Yeah, I know.
00:28:35
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:28:35
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's... I mean, we watched... Danik and I watched The Martian when it came out. We went and saw it in cinemas and thoroughly enjoyed it.
00:28:43
Curt
Yep.
00:28:44
jamie peacock
And, yeah, I'll just... Audiobooks haven't really been my my jam. But, yeah, I'm thoroughly enjoying getting back into audiobooks.
00:28:49
Curt
Yeah.
00:28:53
Curt
Yeah.
00:28:53
jamie peacock
It gives you something to listen to that isn't the same thing again and again and again.
00:28:53
Curt
Yeah.
00:28:58
jamie peacock
Because podcasts, they're all the same, but different.
00:28:58
Curt
Totally.
00:28:59
Curt
Yeah.
00:29:02
jamie peacock
ah And I keep running out of stuff to watch or listen to.
00:29:02
Curt
Yeah, exactly.
00:29:07
jamie peacock
i keep running out. So, yeah, audiobooks going to fill in the gap for me there.
00:29:11
Curt
Yeah, so people out there, make podcasts. Make podcasts to entertain us.
00:29:15
jamie peacock
Yes. Dance. Okay.
00:29:18
Curt
Dance monkeys.
00:29:18
jamie peacock
um
00:29:18
Curt
Yeah.
00:29:20
jamie peacock
Okay, there is a thing that I have questions about. Sorry, just reading through all the stuff.
00:29:23
Curt
Yeah, man.
00:29:24
jamie peacock
Okay, cool. um basically almost done on my side.
Scaling Production and Managing Growth
00:29:28
jamie peacock
Now on to your side of the things. um I have questions about topic number two. Lotteries are closed.
00:29:35
Curt
Yeah. So um all my pen lotteries are closed right now. If you go to my website and try to enter into the lotteries, they're all closed. um Just because I have, thankfully, I have too many entries right now. um So I want to try to bring the odds back down.
00:29:47
Curt
It's just, I get too many emails late. Like I just noticed they're starting to trend up where people being like, Hey, I've been in the lottery for, you know, X amount of days. Like, am I ever going to win something? And um my reply is always like, I'm sorry. There's a crap ton of people in the lotteries. Like,
00:29:59
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:29:59
Curt
ah just it just it's growing at a rate that i can't catch which is nothing but a fantastic problem but it's still it's an annoying problem for people trying to buy and like i get it because i go to someone's website which actually i have a link oh we'll talk about that later but like i want to buy something and i'm like oh i can't get it it's like well why not like like but i'm me and i want it so i'm like i i understand the frustration so uh
00:30:07
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:30:20
jamie peacock
Yeah, you understand where...
00:30:23
Curt
Yeah, and i I might actually do a thing where I send every single person. I mean, it's easy to do. Send everybody an email and be like, hey, if you're still interested, in double opt in. Like, are you still interested?
00:30:33
jamie peacock
yeah
00:30:34
Curt
Kind of a yes, no, Delio. That way I can really pare down the list. ah So i might I might do that.
00:30:37
jamie peacock
Okay, so give them a second ah second entry into the same lottery, or basically if you don't if you don't reply yes, then you kicked off the list kind of story.
00:30:48
Curt
Precisely, yeah. Because there's probably a ton of emails where people either are no longer interested or they gave me a made-up email that I wasn't able to screen out or whatever, an email from their family member that they don't check or an old email.
00:30:49
jamie peacock
Okay. Yeah.
00:30:52
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:30:59
Curt
Like, I guarantee there's probably hundreds of those.
00:31:00
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:31:01
Curt
So I'm like, well, I could probably kill a huge portion of my list that way.
00:31:04
jamie peacock
Yeah, it would also mean when you do a sale, you're not taking five or six days to move a pen because it's going to people who aren't active anymore.
00:31:04
Curt
So...
00:31:12
Curt
Totally. And was trying to balance it because I'm like, is that going to be a pain in the ass to people that I'm like, I didn't check my email and now I'm removed? or is this going to be a benefit to the people that are? I'm like, manh I don't know. I mean, if I give people a long enough time horizon, like if you haven't checked in this day and age, if you haven't checked your email in like a week, I don't feel I don't feel for you.
00:31:28
jamie peacock
yeah What the hell are you dead?
00:31:30
jamie peacock
know. yeah
00:31:30
Curt
Yeah, I don't feel for you.
00:31:31
Curt
So especially if it's something that you're interested in, like set up an alert. Welcome to the 21st century.
00:31:36
jamie peacock
Yeah, exactly.
00:31:37
Curt
So I don't might do that.
00:31:39
jamie peacock
Okay.
00:31:40
Curt
but
00:31:40
jamie peacock
Now, was wondering, because I was chatting to Roger, who listens. Hello, Roger, ah today, because he's the guy doing the mold de designs and the tufnel stuff. He's the industrial designer behind that.
00:31:51
jamie peacock
So I phoned him because they sent me another mold that I need to machine. i'm like, hey, there's a sharp, or not a sharp corner, it's a 1.5 radius that goes 50 millimeters down a part. I'm like, i can't machine that.
00:32:04
jamie peacock
Well, I can, but I don't want to.
00:32:04
Curt
Yeah.
00:32:06
jamie peacock
He's like, oh, no, that can be whatever you can whatever you can use to nibble that out.
00:32:06
Curt
Totally.
00:32:10
jamie peacock
I'm like, okay, cool. It's going to be a 3.2 radius.
00:32:12
Curt
Yeah.
00:32:13
jamie peacock
I'm going to nibble it out with 6mm cutter. He's like, okay, no, that's fine. It's just he can't change it because his model explodes when he changes it.
00:32:17
Curt
yeah
00:32:20
jamie peacock
Because surfaces, yeah, I can't, Fusion won't let me delete it, the fillet, to put a new fillet in.
00:32:21
Curt
Oh, nice. Right, yeah.
00:32:26
jamie peacock
So I'm like, it is what it is.
00:32:27
Curt
Yeah.
00:32:28
jamie peacock
I'll just, I'll drop down and do an adaptive or yeahall whatever, contour to finish there and it'll be what it is. The part gets cut back like 10 mils from that.
00:32:39
jamie peacock
So he wants me to try and engrave a line. So when they mold the part, they have a line to cut to.
00:32:44
Curt
Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.
00:32:45
jamie peacock
Yeah, so yeah I was chatting to Amanda.
00:32:45
Curt
Yeah, makes sense.
00:32:47
jamie peacock
Yeah, we're discussing the list because I was checking the document this morning. And like, ooh, lottery's closed. Interesting. So we're discussing what this could possibly mean.
00:32:53
Curt
Yeah.
00:32:56
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:32:57
jamie peacock
and
00:32:57
Curt
I just try to pare it down.
00:32:59
jamie peacock
I assume that leads into your next topic.
00:33:03
Curt
Ah, yes. The topic. i mean, Jamie, like, write each other lists so we can kind of remember what we're doing.
00:33:08
jamie peacock
Oh, yeah, we have a topic list so we don't forget things because a week is a long time.
00:33:11
Curt
Yeah. So. Yeah, totally. Or we'll just like rant about something like the Martian book.
00:33:15
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:33:17
Curt
um So the one is ah thinking in terms of 10x production um just to find better ways. So like not that I plan on or not that I'm able to 10x my production, but just thinking about like how so I can like quickly find bottlenecks to be like, okay, could I make 10 times as amount and many pens on my lathe?
00:33:25
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:33:28
jamie peacock
Sure.
00:33:34
Curt
Certain parts? Yes, it's not an issue. Certain parts? Absolutely not. So it's like it really kind of helps. me find a path where I'm like okay well what's going to be the answer to that is it going to be a Swiss because like right now if I knew everybody on my list would buy a pen and a large portion would of course I would I would probably buy would at least buy one Swiss and if I was a really savvy business person I would probably hire people and I would just go but like I don't want to hire people because that has a whole different host of problems but it's like and it's not as easy as just buying a Swiss like I don't have the capital to buy it banks laugh at me because I don't have enough like
00:33:39
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:33:47
jamie peacock
Your boss was. Yeah. Yeah.
00:33:59
jamie peacock
Yeah, you, yeah. Exactly.
00:34:08
Curt
business credit and like they're willing to give you money once you make money which is like oh thanks like which yeah like now they're probably more um in line but like it's just yeah so anyways it's it's not just silver button it's but it's something just to think about it helps me be like okay how about this process how about my cleaning like we talked about earlier it's like is that my bottlenecks like no not at all like like you said it's a day a month and i'm done it's like okay well don't focus on that focus on focus on all the low-hanging fruit so
00:34:11
jamie peacock
Yeah. Kind of pointless.
00:34:26
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:34:35
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:34:35
Curt
I've been spending spend the last week just thinking about that kind of stuff. Just trying to make it more better.
00:34:38
jamie peacock
Okay.
00:34:41
Curt
and that's yeah Once again, it goes hand in hand with closing the lottery so I can bring those bring those down so I'm not just so'm not just getting emails every day of frustrated people because that's going to not work so well.
00:34:41
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:34:49
jamie peacock
sure Yeah, that's going to, in the long run.
00:34:51
Curt
and
00:34:54
Curt
In the long run, yeah, people be like, he makes great stuff, but you can't get it.
00:34:55
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:34:56
Curt
and i'm just like well That can drive sales away too. and like That can be a negative. I've got to try balance this. so
00:35:03
jamie peacock
Okay. No, fair enough.
00:35:04
Curt
Yeah.
00:35:05
jamie peacock
Because looking at the 10X production, that makes sense.
00:35:05
Curt
Yeah.
00:35:09
jamie peacock
Like even now with with the Anno, bringing it in-house, I literally anodize faster than I can manufacture the bodies. Okay.
00:35:17
Curt
Right. Right. Yeah. So don't worry about it.
00:35:19
jamie peacock
So I was worried about it from a point of it limiting my capacity to do other things.
00:35:19
Curt
Like, don't worry about it right now. Yeah.
00:35:24
jamie peacock
But in reality, it's anodized. It's not that complicated. I get my processes dialed, it can happen it in the background.
00:35:29
Curt
Yeah.
00:35:32
jamie peacock
i
00:35:32
Curt
Yeah.
00:35:32
jamie peacock
But yeah, looking at how how you would 10x a good way to look at it. Obviously, you and i both don't want staff because people suck. Yeah.
00:35:41
Curt
They can. Yeah, they can.
00:35:42
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:35:43
Curt
Or can water down your product, your quality.
00:35:43
jamie peacock
yeah
00:35:46
Curt
and like yeah
00:35:47
jamie peacock
Well, that's the thing. you You end up having to... yeah it's a It's not the road you and I want to take, basically. I have no desire to have staff. Like, not even remotely.
00:36:00
Curt
Yeah, and like I worked at an old job where my job was to manage people and try to produce a quality product that basically, like when we started the company, this company that I worked for, essentially was a startup.
00:36:03
jamie peacock
Hmm.
00:36:10
Curt
And we were all invested in it together. We all had a stake in the company. So like we all cared a ton.
00:36:14
jamie peacock
Hmm.
00:36:15
Curt
So when you hire people to try to try to push that care onto them, it's never going to work. like
00:36:21
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:36:21
Curt
people People work a job to make money to go enjoy their life. They don't work a job because they want the job to succeed. like
00:36:28
jamie peacock
yeah Employees will, yeah, employees will never care as much about your business as you do.
00:36:29
Curt
You're foolish if you think that way.
00:36:34
Curt
Never. No.
00:36:35
jamie peacock
And if you think that will, you're foolish, like, yeah, 100%.
00:36:35
Curt
No. Unless... Unless you want to give them some skin. Like, let them put some skin in the game. Like, if they invest into it, okay, now they're going to care differently.
00:36:41
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:36:43
Curt
And it's like, but, yeah.
00:36:44
jamie peacock
No, but that was the same the same situation i used to work. There were promises of taking over and whatnot, and nothing ever came of that. And eventually, I just lost interest.
00:36:53
Curt
Totally.
00:36:54
jamie peacock
Like, sorry, you guys are giving me hollow promises here. I'm kind of over it now. I want to actually be in the country for my own wedding, and you can't guarantee that.
00:36:59
Curt
Yeah.
00:37:02
jamie peacock
So, sorry. My priorities lie elsewhere.
00:37:04
Curt
Yeah.
00:37:05
jamie peacock
I gave you more than was required for five years. Didn't see any major benefit from it, so... not not going to keep doing it like my mate dave he uh he worked at a startup doing a uh an automatic launching uh drone like ah i think it was a just on a two meter flying wing that they guaranteed it would launch guaranteed launch so it had a catapult you'd load it on fuel it up it would take off and go and it could run for freaking hours when he started up there came out of uni aeronautical engineer
00:37:13
Curt
Okay.
00:37:29
Curt
okay
00:37:41
jamie peacock
Boss said to him, Shwido, come work for us for a year. We'll get you um shares in the company after a year. And he worked there, gave it his all, was working stupid hours.
00:37:53
jamie peacock
And after a year, said, hey, what's happening with this? Oh, no, this story, that story. He's like, okay, cool, no worries. And then he worked his nine to five until he left.
00:37:59
Curt
Yeah.
00:38:01
jamie peacock
He gave nothing extra.
00:38:02
Curt
yeah
00:38:03
jamie peacock
He spun up his own company on the side. And it's like, nope, you've got me here nine five. will do my nine to five. And that is all I will do. because that's all you're paying me to do.
00:38:10
Curt
Yeah.
00:38:12
jamie peacock
And that's the problem. You, yeah, people take advantage when you give more than is required, and then they assume that that is going to be the standard going forward.
00:38:21
Curt
Yeah.
00:38:21
jamie peacock
And it never is.
00:38:21
Curt
yeah
00:38:23
jamie peacock
I find I tend to work way too many hours, but I also like working, so.
00:38:24
Curt
yeah
00:38:27
Curt
Yeah, well, and that's that's the problem with a lot of us is I think where people are like, oh, you're a workaholic.
00:38:30
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:38:31
Curt
It's like, no, I've just made my hobby my job and it doesn't drive me nuts. Like, I still like it.
00:38:35
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:38:36
Curt
And so many people in my life have been like, oh, once you make your hobby your job, you're going to hate it. It's like, you might, I don't. And I still like it.
00:38:43
jamie peacock
yeah yeah
00:38:43
Curt
So like, what are you talking about? Like, go away. Like, you hate your job right now. You actively hate your job. i I have a chance of possibly hating mine. and So I'm already ahead of you. like Don't talk.
00:38:52
jamie peacock
yeah no that's exactly it like um um my machine ran all weekend like the entire week i'm like i planned to run over the weekend because i know on the weekend no one's gonna phone me say our machine broke can you come and help us
00:38:53
Curt
Just like...
00:38:57
Curt
Right.
00:39:05
jamie peacock
They're leave me alone to do my thing. Like um I finished installing my doors. ah Stuffed around. I ground all the anchor point pads. Turns out when you only leave comma one over mil, super easy to grind.
00:39:05
Curt
Yeah.
00:39:16
Curt
Right, yeah.
00:39:17
jamie peacock
Can literally grind three of them every time you have to dress the stone. it It took me like three hours to grind all of them instead of like two days.
00:39:24
Curt
Yeah.
00:39:25
jamie peacock
But like parted around.
00:39:26
Curt
But like,
00:39:26
jamie peacock
Machines running. I'm doing other stuff. Like I was doing anode tests all weekend. But I had fun doing it.
00:39:30
Curt
Yeah.
00:39:31
jamie peacock
And I will take some time in the week to take a break.
00:39:35
Curt
Well, that's like it's fine.
00:39:36
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:39:37
Curt
like you you You, me, probably a ton of people that kind of start these... The reason we do it is we like making stuff. like It doesn't matter what...
00:39:43
jamie peacock
yeah
00:39:44
Curt
like It doesn't matter. like if If I had to go... Whatever. War breaks out and I have to just machine blank. I'm still going to... I still like making things. like i don't Obviously, I want to be able to choose what I make, but the fact of just producing something is what lights my brain up.
00:39:53
jamie peacock
yes
00:39:58
Curt
So that's why we excel at this. That's why we do it. That's why we slag away.
00:40:00
jamie peacock
yeah
00:40:01
Curt
It's not because we're like... trying to like it's not like because we have this crazy reservoir of like motivation it's like we just actually enjoy it it's like if you really enjoyed pumping gas you'd be super good at pumping gas it's like it's no different
00:40:08
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:40:14
jamie peacock
I think it's something, so I know I got chat to John every every week, actually, the message, but I want to try to postpone it to Wednesdays from now on. um But I can chat to John, and John works late, so he'll only get into the workshop at, like, 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and then he works till, like, 1, 2 in the morning, goes to bed, wakes up at, like, 12 o'clock,
00:40:29
Curt
okay
00:40:34
jamie peacock
And that works for him.
00:40:34
Curt
Sure, yeah.
00:40:36
jamie peacock
The issue I ran into with trying to pull that shit is half past seven in the morning, my phone starts going because I do a bit more B2B work.
00:40:37
Curt
That's fine.
00:40:43
jamie peacock
So business to business, not just online sales. And then business to business, if it's their business hours, it's my business hours. So you yeahll get harassed.
00:40:51
Curt
Right, yeah, yeah.
00:40:53
jamie peacock
like I'll probably be harassed tomorrow morning. um um've got a yeah I've got to go out to be an apps engineer. And then I've got to go pick stuff up. but i um yeah Tomorrow's a write-off.
00:41:04
jamie peacock
basically the whole day. I'm going to be apps engineering and then I'm going to be picking stuff up and welding and cocking about and then come back and try run Tufnel in the evening.
00:41:06
Curt
Yeah.
00:41:15
jamie peacock
I was actually thinking I need to moniker my machine out at some point before I start the Tufnel job because the tank is full of shavings.
00:41:15
Curt
Yeah. Right,
00:41:23
jamie peacock
You know,
00:41:24
Curt
right and then going have to clean it right after the tufnil anyways,
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00:41:27
Curt
so yeah, yeah.
00:41:27
jamie peacock
Yeah, so I may as well just pull all the all the shavings are of the tank quickly, get it all prepped for tufnil, and then run the tufnil over a day or two. But yeah, that's a not pleasant job to run.
00:41:37
Curt
Yeah.
00:41:41
Curt
Yeah, well, that's...
00:41:41
jamie peacock
But at least, it is what it is.
00:41:43
Curt
That's actually a good segue into another topic of being annoyed.
00:41:46
jamie peacock
Yes. Yes.
00:41:46
Curt
um And it actually also ties in with a 10 times production is I realize the amount of time that I piss away on social media is significant. Like go on your phone.
00:41:57
Curt
I mean, this is a challenge for a ton of people that are listening and go look at your like time spent in whatever app, you know, you spend too much time in. And like a ton of people won't because it's like really, it's eyeopening. And you'd be like, what? I sunk that many hours into whatever, Reddit, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok. like YouTube whatever your vice is and uh so I just know I just noticed like oh I'll I'll and I I feel like I'm using it in ah a good sense like Instagram for instance I'll get cycles working on the machines I'm like ah I'll just scroll Instagram for a minute see what's up and like but you do that multiple times a day also and you're like wow I've spent hours on Instagram but I could have yeah it's only five minutes here and there but I'm like I have put that five minutes towards something a little bit more productive um
00:42:37
Curt
So I put this, I found this, there's an app. It's like on a, you'd probably get advertised for it. It's called minimalist phone. And I was like, I was kind of, was like, I don't need that. I have enough motivation to not. I was like, you know what? just going to try it. um So I bought it and threw it on my phone.
00:42:49
Curt
It's amazing. It's like, it's so fantastic. it like Like my phone is just, I'll show Jamie, you can't see anything.
00:42:55
jamie peacock
It's now a dumb phone.
00:42:56
Curt
Like, it's just this. That's like, that's my phone. It's just a bunch of like, those are the apps. They're just text on a black screen. And like every time.
00:43:03
jamie peacock
Nice.
00:43:05
Curt
So I link some of my apps like Instagram, for instance, when I click Instagram, it opens it up and it asks me right there. It says, do you want to spend one minute in this app? Five minutes in this app? 10 minutes, 15, whatever I want. And I'm like, oh, you know what?
00:43:15
jamie peacock
Okay.
00:43:16
Curt
I'm just going I want to check the messages. I want to spend five minutes, let's say, i whatever. I'm in between cycles, five minutes. And it's, you know, scroll, check my apps or check my messages.
00:43:22
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:43:25
Curt
And then maybe I get sidetracked and I start reading something else. And then it reminds me, it's like, hey, five minutes is up. You want to get out of here? I'm like, yeah, yeah, I do. Let me, get me out here. So it's like,
00:43:32
jamie peacock
I can doom scrolling.
00:43:34
Curt
do And like Reddit, I told it, Reddit, like whenever I open Reddit, desaturate it, make it black and white. Cause I'm like, it's so much less. and And I go to Reddit for news. It doesn't, I don't need it in color.
00:43:41
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:43:42
Curt
So I'm like, okay, I can read it. And it's like, same thing, whatever. Two minutes. Remind me to get out of here. It's like, Hey, do you want to get out of here? Yeah. Yeah, I do. And like, but it's just, yeah, something dumb, but it's crazy how much that helps me anyways.
00:43:50
jamie peacock
Interesting. Okay.
00:43:54
Curt
Maybe not everybody, but I'm, I'm willing bet it helps everybody.
00:43:55
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:43:57
jamie peacock
Because I are tend to find myself frigging doom scrolling on Instagram way too much.
00:43:58
Curt
think.
00:44:02
Curt
Totally. And it doesn't make you feel any better and you don't learn any Like once I've caught up with...
00:44:03
jamie peacock
Yeah. No, it really doesn't. I found some funny shit, but like, it's not enough.
00:44:08
Curt
Totally. Yeah. But like when I ah catch up... Yeah, I catch up with you. I catch up with a few people that I like. I want to watch their stories.
00:44:14
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:44:15
Curt
And that takes me whatever, maybe 10, 15 minutes to catch up with all the people I want to follow.
00:44:18
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:44:19
Curt
And I'm like... And the rest is just like, okay.
00:44:21
jamie peacock
And then you start doomscrolling.
00:44:21
Curt
I guess why... Yeah. And you're just like... and um It's sometimes it's valuable, but nine times out of 10, I'm just like, I'm just... It's not helpful for me. So...
00:44:30
jamie peacock
Yeah. No, that's good point.
00:44:31
Curt
don't know.
00:44:32
jamie peacock
Like, ah yeah, I mean, i've thirteen seen I find myself often on Instagram just doom scrolling. YouTube, not so much because everything is now an 80-minute video.
00:44:38
Curt
Yeah.
00:44:41
jamie peacock
It's really annoying.
00:44:41
Curt
Yeah.
00:44:41
Curt
Yeah.
00:44:42
jamie peacock
Like, I've been trying to watch an Alex Steele video for two days. I just can't cut out 17 minutes. I want to watch it and focus on it. And I'm trying to carve out 17 minutes to just sit and watch.
00:44:49
Curt
Right.
00:44:52
jamie peacock
Like, I don't want to go when I get in bed and watch it because I'm going to fall asleep. Like, I want to carve out time. I wanted to watch it this evening. We were having dinner and Dan was like, I was making dinner so she set up the PC and she's like, okay, going watch Kim's Convenience. I'm like, okay, fine.
00:45:06
jamie peacock
We'll watch that. It's funny.
00:45:07
Curt
Yeah.
00:45:08
jamie peacock
I don't mind. So, yeah, we watched that instead of my Alex Steele video.
00:45:09
Curt
Sure, yeah.
00:45:11
jamie peacock
But, yeah, I've been trying to carve time.
00:45:12
Curt
Yeah, YouTube. Well, YouTube is kind of the weird one for me, too. Like, it's it's gone the kind of the other way, where I like i spend less time, because it's not like it's not just five-second little serotonin hits. It's like, oh well, this is what, I want to watch this, but it's a 42-minute video, so I guess I'll start it, and I'll like, churn 20 minutes into it.
00:45:21
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:45:26
jamie peacock
I've, I've turned, so I watch a bit, quite a bit of YouTube while machines are running, but then it's, um I'll have my phone unlocked in some way where if I want to look at it, I can see it, but I'm not watching the whole video.
00:45:27
Curt
and Yeah, it's like...
00:45:38
jamie peacock
I'm doing something else and listening. And if it sounds interesting, I'll turn around and have a look.
00:45:40
Curt
Right.
00:45:42
jamie peacock
ah Because everything is 20, 30 minute videos now.
00:45:42
Curt
Yeah.
00:45:44
jamie peacock
It's flipping insane. I want a five minute video.
00:45:46
Curt
Yeah.
00:45:47
jamie peacock
Like, come on. i see yeah i saw the your next one there about the Amazon cruise missile.
00:45:49
Curt
Yeah.
00:45:55
jamie peacock
I saw that video and I haven't watched it yet.
00:45:55
Curt
Oh, yeah.
00:45:58
Curt
Oh, okay.
00:45:58
jamie peacock
I'm assuming it was good.
00:46:00
Curt
Yeah, it is it was edited together. i It is kind of my humor style, like the way he edited it. um
00:46:06
jamie peacock
Okay.
00:46:06
Curt
It was it was done was done well. I and i enjoyed it. It's just a comic relief kind of video. ah The video we're talking about is ah it's a guy called Sunday sunday Nobody.
00:46:12
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:46:15
Curt
ah We'll link it the show notes. um Or if you just go on YouTube and just
00:46:17
jamie peacock
Okay, you've already done it.
00:46:19
Curt
Yeah, if you just go on YouTube and search up Amazon cruise missile, you'll come across his video.
00:46:19
jamie peacock
Nice.
00:46:23
Curt
and And he actually made cruise missiles to like, quote, deliver Amazon products. And he sold them. So the first one he sold was $30. And the next one he sold was $60.
00:46:35
Curt
The next one he sold was $90. The next one he sold was $120. watched it because I wanted to try to get in and I i wanted to buy one of these cruise missiles. um But they were already quite expensive by the time I got there.
00:46:41
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:46:44
Curt
ah But nonetheless, it was a cool story. And he built like, like he's commissioning them. So he has like hundreds to make. And it's just, it's, it's interesting in the machining aspect of it. Cause there's like, how do you make, you know, hundreds of these things and ship them around the world, like shipping cruise missiles around world, like, or what looked like, yeah, what looked like cruise missiles.
00:46:54
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:46:57
jamie peacock
Yeah, that's going to be entertaining.
00:47:00
Curt
I'm like, huh? Okay. And um yeah, anyways, worth it, worth the watch.
00:47:02
jamie peacock
Yeah, I'll flip.
00:47:05
Curt
And same thing. It's an 18 minute video or something like that. You can watch, you know, time and a half and cut it down a bit, but I, it was entertaining.
00:47:10
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:47:11
Curt
I liked it.
00:47:12
jamie peacock
I tend to watch... um ah Cloud 42 at one and a half time speed.
00:47:16
Curt
yep
00:47:17
jamie peacock
Because good God that I can go into detail on stupid shit. Holy cow.
00:47:21
Curt
ah
00:47:23
jamie peacock
It's like, fuck, like 10 minutes explaining a connector. i'm like, dude, put wire plug in.
00:47:27
Curt
and
00:47:27
jamie peacock
It's a fucking connector.
00:47:28
Curt
yeah A little little bit of the pot calling the kettle black here, but...
00:47:30
jamie peacock
Bye-bye.
00:47:32
Curt
Yeah.
00:47:34
jamie peacock
Nah, I do thoroughly enjoy his stuff. He's busy with that Masso conversion on his Precision Matthews machine. But again, like, so over the top on that conversion. It's, yeah, hilarious.
00:47:46
Curt
Yeah. Well, same thing. And I'll push everybody, like all the podcasts I listen to, I'll push a time and a half.
00:47:47
jamie peacock
But...
00:47:50
Curt
um I tried to push.
00:47:51
jamie peacock
I generally don't.
00:47:53
Curt
Oh no, I, I, I can't take slow talkers.
00:47:54
jamie peacock
No.
00:47:56
Curt
So I just, everything I push as fast as possible.
00:47:57
jamie peacock
um
00:47:59
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, generally i listen one time. That way it takes as long as possible. um And yeah, i just let play in the background. Our podcast from last week, if you listened to it.
00:48:09
Curt
I'm like 80% the way through.
00:48:10
jamie peacock
Okay, I thoroughly enjoyed it. ah one The week before that, i actually also thoroughly enjoyed.
00:48:13
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:48:16
Curt
We should also... i also us Sorry, Jacob. We didn't like plug anything for you live on the show. I mean, hopefully we titled it, People Know Who You Are.
00:48:23
jamie peacock
Yes, I forgot about that, yeah.
00:48:24
Curt
But like we didn't plug your Instagram.
00:48:25
jamie peacock
I realized after.
00:48:26
Curt
We didn't plug anything. yeah, it was Jacob from Zonam Precision.
00:48:28
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:48:30
Curt
zoum precision Also from Subtract. He's the producer with... ah ah The guys over at Taps and Patients, AJ and Harrison.
00:48:36
jamie peacock
AJ and Harrison.
00:48:38
Curt
Yeah, super cool guy.
00:48:39
jamie peacock
Yep.
00:48:40
Curt
Sorry we didn't plug you, but you know it's just sorry our ah just our moms listening anyways.
00:48:42
jamie peacock
Yep. Totally forgot.
00:48:45
Curt
It's not a huge loss, but...
00:48:45
jamie peacock
Yeah, exactly. Apparently we have 150 moms. um Speaking of people who listen to our podcast, we need try to shout out our Patreons.
00:48:51
Curt
Oh.
00:48:56
jamie peacock
Thank you to all our Patreons. You make the wheels on the podcast go round and round. We did get a new one this week. Norman. Norman.
00:49:02
Curt
Oh. oh
00:49:04
jamie peacock
from Torvok. ah Yeah, he threw us five bucks a month there.
00:49:05
Curt
Oh, thanks, Norman.
00:49:07
jamie peacock
Thanks, Norman. um And then shout out to Jade from Benchmark20 and Luke from Fabtastic at the higher tiers of the Patreon. All the Patreons get the after show as well as other things that I don't think we've done like Q&A things.
00:49:18
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:49:24
jamie peacock
Generally, we just throw them on on Instagram, but I think we might put one out there to the Patreons for next week.
00:49:27
Curt
Yeah. That's
00:49:30
jamie peacock
I will add a note quickly to the lovely wife who does our producing.
00:49:31
Curt
good idea.
00:49:37
jamie peacock
Patreon Q&A. Yep, this is top quality. Where the hell's the episode? Top quality podcast production here at The Lone Machinists.
00:49:49
jamie peacock
So yeah, thanks again to all the Patreons. Hopefully I'll be getting a webcam at some point. I know Danica was waiting to withdraw the funds from the Patreon because there's fees up till a certain amount. Then there's no more fees after that or something. Or it gets capped.
00:50:04
Curt
Oh, interesting.
00:50:04
jamie peacock
It's a percent up to that point. Then it gets capped. But yeah, we'll chat about that between the main show and the after show. good
00:50:10
Curt
Ooh.
00:50:10
jamie peacock
um you And then, cool. So, I need to keep you away from robot arms. It's the last thing on your list.
00:50:20
Curt
Yeah, we kind of touched on that, so it's...
00:50:21
jamie peacock
And yeah, we did kind of touch on that. I'm just reading through here. Oh yes, making mini anvils.
Creative Projects and Workholding Challenges
00:50:28
Curt
Yeah, what's that?
00:50:28
jamie peacock
So I had the knife making supply guy come past, I think last week, Sunday.
00:50:29
Curt
what Why are you making anvils?
00:50:36
jamie peacock
um
00:50:37
Curt
Hmm.
00:50:37
jamie peacock
He hadn't visited the shop yet. So he's now visited the shop.
00:50:40
Curt
Okay.
00:50:41
jamie peacock
He now realizes what I can do. So he wants me to make little aluminum anvils as flipping decorations.
00:50:47
jamie peacock
So I think I might build my fourth axis indexer
00:50:47
Curt
Oh, cute.
00:50:47
Curt
Okay.
00:50:51
jamie peacock
I've got a harmonic gearbox, and I ah just need to buy motor and some alley.
00:50:51
Curt
Oh, nice. Yeah, yeah.
00:50:55
jamie peacock
I'm literally going to make it drop onto the mirroring point. So it'll be facing me, so it'll be a B-axis in theory.
00:51:00
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:51:04
jamie peacock
And then I'm just going to program. I can then index at 90 degrees at a time or however many degrees I want. I've got a controller that I've built for that.
00:51:10
Curt
Right.
00:51:12
jamie peacock
And then I can have the machine go boop the button. So in my code, I'll just write a subroutine called rotate or whatever, a rot.
00:51:16
Curt
Oh, okay. Sure. Yeah, yeah.
00:51:20
jamie peacock
And then when I run it, the machine just goes, boop, boop the button, and it'll index a set number of degrees, and then I can carry on with my program. um
00:51:27
Curt
Right.
00:51:27
jamie peacock
That way I can program all four rotationals in one program to machine these stupid little anvils.
00:51:31
Curt
Totally, yeah.
00:51:34
jamie peacock
So I need to look at that and figure out costings and whatnot for them. But it's literally just a decorative anvil.
00:51:39
Curt
Oh, nice. Okay, well that's that's more fun then.
00:51:40
jamie peacock
I'm kind of curious. yeah I'm kind of curious see how rigid that fourth would be. um Because it is a proper harmonic drive. like I want to drop in with a 12 millimeter 45 length of cut and do the foot of the anvil from the side.
00:51:54
Curt
Mm-mm.
00:51:55
jamie peacock
Because then it's easy.
00:51:55
Curt
Mm.
00:51:56
jamie peacock
There's no surfacing. It's just index, index, index, surface out the horn. And then I'll probably bolt it down flat and do the top of the anvil and be done with it.
00:52:02
Curt
Yeah.
00:52:06
Curt
Yeah.
00:52:06
jamie peacock
So like I've got some ideas on how to make them as easily as possible.
00:52:07
Curt
Yeah.
00:52:10
jamie peacock
And then screws, Kurt. How's your screw manufacturing going?
00:52:15
Curt
ah Fantastic. I made a shit ton, so I don't have to think about it now for like another month or so.
00:52:18
jamie peacock
Oh, nice.
00:52:19
Curt
Yeah.
00:52:20
jamie peacock
And yeah, I need to find out about making, well, actually, don't need to make racking.
00:52:20
Curt
Yeah.
00:52:25
jamie peacock
I should probably make racking. I need to make some M5 threaded studs out of titanium. So I'm trying to find material, then I'm going to need to chat to you about feeds and speeds.
00:52:32
Curt
Oh, okay.
00:52:36
Curt
Oh, yeah.
00:52:36
jamie peacock
Because I figure you've got that pretty dialed.
00:52:37
Curt
Treated like stainless. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. yeah i don't know.
00:52:41
jamie peacock
Okay, cool.
00:52:42
Curt
out Thou chip per tooth for finishing. three thousand to or Six thou chip per tooth roughing. Or six thou feed per rev.
00:52:49
jamie peacock
Make me do maths
00:52:50
Curt
Yeah. Sorry. Six thou is whatever. Point...
00:52:54
jamie peacock
here. 0,006.
00:52:57
Curt
Eight point nine.
00:52:57
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:52:58
Curt
Oh my god.
00:53:01
jamie peacock
we go. Okay, cool. Yeah, 1.5. Okay, cool. That's that's not exactly fast for roughing. It's kind of sluggish.
00:53:06
Curt
Nah, I don't and't honk on it too hard, but I'm also an oil...
00:53:07
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah. but that's fine.
00:53:12
Curt
It's an oil lathe, so I'm a little frightened of getting too much heat into the part.
00:53:12
jamie peacock
Yeah, so you don't want to make... Yeah. So i've got I've got some inserts on order 0.5 full form pitch. So M3.
00:53:23
Curt
ah Okay, yeah.
00:53:24
jamie peacock
I'm going to make M3 screws.
00:53:26
Curt
Yeah.
00:53:27
jamie peacock
we We discussed the screws in the after show last week.
00:53:30
Curt
Yeah.
00:53:30
jamie peacock
I'm going to be getting those inserts this week, I hope. Waiting for a payment so i can order tools. um a deposit from another job that I need to order a bunch of special stuff for and just threw the inserts into that order then I can make some M3 blanks and then make an anchor point pallet let's see who can make a screw pallet first Kurt
00:53:48
Curt
You're going to win. i can almost guarantee you're going to win.
00:53:52
jamie peacock
well I don't know because it's not the highest priority in my life making those things but yeah I'm going I'll get around to that at some point and then do some fancy decorative screws for the knife making guys
00:54:03
Curt
That'd be nice. ah be nice
00:54:04
jamie peacock
But yeah, I'm also going to be ordering material for five-inch pallets, blank pallets.
00:54:10
Curt
Sick. Nice.
00:54:11
jamie peacock
So I think I'll do four, five. I wouldn't stretch it up to a six-inch pallet on that system. It's a bit big.
00:54:16
Curt
That seems like a lot. Yeah, that seems like a lot.
00:54:17
jamie peacock
Yeah, even five-inch, you've got to be careful. If you've got a blunt drill, but you're have bad day.
00:54:22
Curt
Yeah.
00:54:22
jamie peacock
Like, I know, I drilled into one of the locating pins, and I was tilting the whole pallet.
00:54:23
Curt
yeah
00:54:27
Curt
Ooh.
00:54:30
Curt
Ooh.
00:54:30
jamie peacock
Obviously, I ruined the drill. um
00:54:33
Curt
Right.
00:54:33
jamie peacock
But yeah, it is something to just to bear in mind. But yeah, working on that and then working on making the rest of the anchor points and things.
00:54:43
jamie peacock
so So chugging through things.
00:54:43
Curt
Yeah, I know I've been...
00:54:46
Curt
I've been slowly designing your, or basically a base here, aluminum base, so I can pluck a couple of your, because I'm getting, I'm just getting tired.
00:54:50
jamie peacock
Ooh.
00:54:53
Curt
of i mean, the vices are lovely. Like, I'm going to make it so that I can use vices, because so much of my work is still going to need vices, but I'm just like, I am so done with just swapping.
00:54:55
jamie peacock
yeah
00:55:02
Curt
Even though I've made it easy to, like, swap soft jaws and stuff, just like, I'm done with soft jaws. I'm so done with soft jaws.
00:55:06
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:55:07
Curt
I just want, like, just a pallet and a zero point.
00:55:07
jamie peacock
Yeah, no.
00:55:10
Curt
Just like, that's the way to go.
00:55:12
jamie peacock
It is definitely the way to go.
00:55:12
Curt
So, yeah, that's like,
00:55:14
jamie peacock
Or a bunch of self-centering vices on things for op 1s.
00:55:18
Curt
Yeah, that's what I was like. I could just put, like, yeah.
00:55:19
jamie peacock
Like, that that is my my workflow. The two self-centrings, drop them on the mooring point, zip around, blank out all the op 1s, and then I've got pallets for my op 2s.
00:55:21
Curt
Yeah.
00:55:28
jamie peacock
And that works really well because don't trust pitbulls as far as I can throw them.
00:55:29
Curt
Yeah.
00:55:32
jamie peacock
Fucking hate those things.
00:55:32
Curt
Yeah. oh
00:55:33
jamie peacock
They never hold properly. Probably operator error and the fact that I made my own pit bulls, but not the point.
00:55:36
Curt
yeah
00:55:41
Curt
but yeah yeah
00:55:41
jamie peacock
No, I just, I can't.
00:55:42
Curt
yeah
00:55:43
jamie peacock
I don't trust those things. I was actually discussing with Carl this week.
00:55:45
Curt
yeah
00:55:47
jamie peacock
ah Just because the part fits into the piece of material doesn't mean that's the piece of material you should buy for the job. I'd made some of CZ Shadow 2 mag bases.
00:56:00
jamie peacock
And obviously brass is expensive, so I was trying to find the smallest bar cross-section I could use, not realizing i had nowhere to hold it.
00:56:00
Curt
Okay.
00:56:10
Curt
Right, yeah,
00:56:10
jamie peacock
So I ended up putting the blanks into the mill, putting a one-and-a-half-millimeter dovetail on them so I could hold them by the dovetail, machine the sides and the top, turn them around, and machine a three-millimeter chamfer on the bottom to take off the dovetail.
00:56:24
jamie peacock
Now, yeah, sneaky maneuvers, but if it's dumb and it works, it isn't dumb. so I was explaining to Carl Dovetail Workholding because he's working through all the Titan parts.
00:56:24
Curt
Yeah, that works.
00:56:29
Curt
Right, yeah, yeah.
00:56:33
jamie peacock
The Slowio was surfacing the hell out of a part. um Yeah, it did admirably. We didn't exactly go slowly either, which didn't help.
00:56:44
jamie peacock
um But the part is parted. So now we've got to make all the... I think we've got one more part to do. We've got the isogrid part to do. from, I think it's a Titan 9M or something.
00:56:52
Curt
ah cool.
00:56:55
jamie peacock
So he's going to draw it up. I think I'm going to put it on the LK for shits and giggles.
00:57:00
Curt
Oh, yeah? Just to see.
00:57:01
jamie peacock
It's going to be like 20 minute part.
00:57:01
Curt
Yeah.
00:57:03
jamie peacock
It's really not complicated.
00:57:04
Curt
yeah
00:57:05
jamie peacock
Like, yeah, just I want one because it looks cool.
00:57:08
Curt
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:57:09
jamie peacock
So i was actually saying to him what we might do is just program it. And then instead of running it on the slow wear, we'll just run it on the LK. um Because it's going to be easier to just work hold it with a Mourinhoen pallet.
00:57:16
Curt
Sure.
00:57:21
Curt
Right, yeah.
00:57:23
jamie peacock
It's going to be easier to just ah do the op 1 and then pop it on a pallet, drop the pallets in machine and hit go, then make soft jaws, especially on that machine where the part is longer than the travel of the machine in the wire, which is the orientation my voice is in, so it's a bit of a ball egg.
00:57:36
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:57:39
Curt
Yeah, that gets super annoying to try to yeah match it.
00:57:42
jamie peacock
There's ways to work around it, but I don't want to.
00:57:45
Curt
Yep, I get that. Especially when you have when you have a bigger hammer.
00:57:47
jamie peacock
Yeah, like, yeah. Yeah. Use it, yeah. Well, even the the round parts, I got him to do the material prep at work ah because he bought material that was just long enough. So here's a piece of material.
00:57:59
jamie peacock
Turn the OD down. Put a chamfer. Face Chamfer Part it off. Face Chamfer it.
00:58:04
jamie peacock
Part it Make all three blanks. We don't need to machine the second side of this. We drop it into soft jaws. Everything is from one side. So then we drop it in soft draws, you machine the one, you machine the next, all three done in like 20 or 30 minutes.
00:58:04
Curt
Yeah.
00:58:10
Curt
Yeah.
00:58:15
jamie peacock
There's no need to to machine both sides in the mill. Like he knows how to drive a lathe, so use that knowledge.
00:58:21
Curt
Right, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
00:58:23
jamie peacock
no Speaking lathes, I need to fix the plumbing on the Emco. It has a minor air leak to the point that my LK doesn't appreciate it.
00:58:30
Curt
Mm.
00:58:36
Curt
Oh, yeah, well, that's something needs to be fixed then.
00:58:37
jamie peacock
I put a slide valve on it so I can just cut the air off to it. um
00:58:40
Curt
ah
00:58:41
jamie peacock
one One of the fittings is not lacquer, and it hasn't been that good for a while.
00:58:41
Curt
That works.
00:58:46
jamie peacock
But to get it, it's a bit of a problem. So I will just suck it the fuck up and climb in the back of the machine and pull the valve out so that it can stop leaking air.
00:58:56
Curt
There.
00:58:56
jamie peacock
I'm also waiting for the if the local EMCO agent to come back to me about going and tracking down that EMCO 140.
00:58:57
Curt
Yeah.
00:59:03
Curt
Right. Yeah. Yeah. So no updates on that yet.
00:59:06
jamie peacock
Because that guy still hasn't responded on Facebook.
00:59:08
Curt
Oh, okay.
00:59:09
jamie peacock
So yeah, I'm now just going around that shit. Fuck that noise. I will i'll speak to the agent, get him to give me the guy's contact details and just pitch up at the workshop Hi there, I believe you have AMCO 140. Do you want money?
00:59:21
Curt
I'm in it. I'm a creepy internet man that found you a different way.
00:59:24
jamie peacock
Yeah, I'm an internet man. Give me your machine. Give me your machine.
00:59:27
Curt
yeah
00:59:27
jamie peacock
I'll give you $500. I can start lowballing the oak and see if I can pick it up for a good price.
00:59:34
Curt
Nice.
Workshop Footwear and Ozzy Osbourne Tribute
00:59:35
Curt
Nice.
00:59:35
jamie peacock
Yeah, it'll make life a lot easier.
00:59:36
Curt
Cool.
00:59:37
jamie peacock
Yeah, so what no no no what have you been goggling?
00:59:38
Curt
Well,
00:59:42
jamie peacock
Yeah,
00:59:43
Curt
Goggling, obviously that Sunday, sundaynobody.com that we link in the show notes. I will open my goggle box, um the robotic thing and in robotics because I just like to look at that kind of stuff.
00:59:54
Curt
um a New pair of new pair of Crocs because, well, I need to get some new Crocs.
00:59:55
jamie peacock
I actively avoid that.
00:59:59
jamie peacock
Safety crocs.
01:00:01
Curt
Safety Crocs. They're like the I haven't found a better shoe for the workshop yet. They're super light. and They're super comfy.
01:00:04
jamie peacock
So I had, there's a place Johnson Workwear locally. They do, it's like a croc. It's a, it's a kitchen shoe. So it's like a croc, but made for working kitchens.
01:00:12
Curt
Okay. Yeah.
01:00:14
jamie peacock
The first pair lasted me about six or seven months. And then the bottom cracked.
01:00:18
Curt
Oh,
01:00:19
jamie peacock
Second pair lasted me like two months. They got oil on them and got stiff.
01:00:22
Curt
wow. Hmm.
01:00:25
jamie peacock
So I stopped wearing them.
01:00:26
Curt
Hmm.
01:00:26
jamie peacock
bought slip-on safety boots. I bought safety boots. Then I bought slip-on safety boots. And the slip-on boots, are they're okay. You've just got to wear thick socks. And Danica wanted to go for a walk. other I'm like, no, I'm not wearing the right socks.
01:00:38
jamie peacock
I can't walk 5Ks in these if I'm not wearing the right socks.
01:00:39
Curt
Hmm.
01:00:41
jamie peacock
mine My insoles are a bit short. need to put new insoles in so that the boots are nice and tight again.
01:00:46
Curt
Yeah.
01:00:47
jamie peacock
But yeah.
01:00:48
Curt
Well, I found they they make my favorite croc now with like a proper rubber sole, like an overmold rubber sole.
01:00:53
jamie peacock
Ooh.
01:00:53
Curt
So going to buy those.
01:00:54
jamie peacock
Okay.
01:00:55
Curt
So that'd be kind of cool.
01:00:55
jamie peacock
Nice.
01:00:56
Curt
So the soles just kind of get cooked, stepping on chips and stuff like that, but the shoe itself is fine.
01:00:58
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:01:00
Curt
So yeah, that's...
01:01:01
jamie peacock
Yeah, my slippers took a beating the last two nights because I went to the workshop. I had my slippers next to me. fuck this shit, just put my slippers on to go to the workshop. And I looked at them this morning. and I'm like, oh, they are full of shavings.
01:01:13
jamie peacock
My washing machine is now full of shavings because they got thrown in the washing machine.
01:01:13
Curt
Oh, poor... Poor little pink bunny slippers.
01:01:17
jamie peacock
ah No, no, I got different ones. They were grippy bottoms.
01:01:19
Curt
Oh, like...
01:01:20
jamie peacock
um Because the the big the big rainbow unicorn ones, I love them because they mess with my fucking dogs, but they hook on things and i'll just they keep coming off at the back.
01:01:21
Curt
Like gorilla feet, or...
01:01:25
Curt
Yeah, yeah,
01:01:31
Curt
yeah.
01:01:31
jamie peacock
The foam's collapsed at the back. So they keep coming off my feet. so I bought other ones throughou the other day that all but are a bit more subtle.
01:01:37
Curt
Uh...
01:01:41
Curt
Nice.
01:01:42
jamie peacock
but yeah So what is your Google box?
01:01:42
Curt
And yeah, that's basically my Google, my Google bot.
01:01:44
jamie peacock
google box
01:01:45
Curt
And then rocket ice cream, just because I was telling you that your, your anchor point looks like those rockets.
01:01:49
jamie peacock
Oh, yes. That my French flag anchor point looks like that.
01:01:53
Curt
you Yeah, yeah, you exactly.
01:01:54
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:01:55
Curt
It looks like an ice cream cone. So that's it. That's been my Google. How about you? have you been, what have you been Googling that you can share with us?
01:01:58
jamie peacock
Um, well, Wordle's at, Wordle's at 43. Um, yeah.
01:02:02
jamie peacock
um yeah Looking up kitchen timers, trying to buy one locally. The number of morons who dropship, will build a website just to dropship stuff in South Africa is insane.
01:02:02
Curt
Ooh, climbing.
01:02:14
jamie peacock
A new one pops up every couple months.
01:02:14
Curt
Yeah.
01:02:17
jamie peacock
Uh, checking, looking up Hulk Hogan, because he died, along with Ozzy Osbourne this week.
01:02:20
Curt
Oh, yeah. Yeah. RIP to the greats.
01:02:21
jamie peacock
Dude.
01:02:23
Curt
Yeah.
01:02:23
jamie peacock
Yeah, Ozzy Osbourne, that makes me sad.
01:02:25
Curt
Me too.
01:02:25
jamie peacock
Um, yeah, that's,
01:02:26
Curt
That's Yeah. I was listening to some Black Sabbath just for that reason.
01:02:30
jamie peacock
Yeah, I've been listening to a bunch this week. Like, it's... Like, you look at his interactions with the fans and all, and was like, gee, yeah, he was a lack of... Looking up Oregon for the time zone.
01:02:37
Curt
No doubt.
01:02:39
jamie peacock
Looking up Ardendorf to see when they closed. Looking up a recipe for a mug cake, because my wife doesn't love me and refuses to make me mug cakes anymore. Um...
01:02:47
Curt
Sounds horrible.
01:02:48
jamie peacock
I know, looking up seven eaves and looking up early and small because I had to go fit get, I sent the courier to just go fetch stuff for me this morning. I was going to send Danica and I'm like, screw that. For $6, they can just fetch it this morning and deliver it this afternoon.
01:03:03
jamie peacock
Like it's not worth getting, it's not even worth turning my car on.
01:03:03
Curt
yeah
01:03:06
Curt
Yeah. Yeah, I know. I know. I always forget that we have that.
01:03:08
jamie peacock
So I just phoned them like, hey, can I send, can I send a courier please? And they're yeah, no problem. So they put an envelope and the courier went through fetched it for me.
01:03:16
Curt
I don' know. Even here, i think it cost me $9 to send them anywhere in the city. And I was like, why do I not leverage this more often?
01:03:21
jamie peacock
Yeah, hundred percent.
01:03:22
Curt
Because it's not worth my time to go anywhere.
01:03:22
jamie peacock
I think I've done. I think I've done six or seven parcels in the last week. I sent out a thing to like, to the, to Underburg, to airport.
01:03:34
jamie peacock
I made a bracket. I sent stuff to Durban today. That'll be there tomorrow morning. I had stuff from the other side of Joburg brought here for 250 bucks.
01:03:38
Curt
Yeah.
01:03:42
jamie peacock
So like $12 or $15.
01:03:44
Curt
Yeah.
01:03:44
jamie peacock
um It's not worth even getting a third of the way there. I'm like, sorry, not a chance.
01:03:48
Curt
Totally.
01:03:49
jamie peacock
Just send the courier.
01:03:49
Curt
Yeah.
01:03:50
jamie peacock
um Yeah, cart stuff all the way, all around with them because it's just super cheap and super convenient. so and much easier than driving them myself.
01:03:56
Curt
Mm-hmm.
01:03:58
jamie peacock
But yeah.
01:03:59
Curt
Mm-hmm. Yep. 100%.
01:04:00
jamie peacock
So, where can people find your things and stuff?
01:04:01
Curt
Cool.
01:04:05
Curt
You can find my lack of any way to buy my product at confoundedmachine.com.
01:04:10
jamie peacock
yeah
01:04:10
Curt
Hopefully we'll have that changed soon because that's going to make a lot of people... a't Not a lot of people. That sounds a little... don't know. braggadocious um anyways uh confoundemachine.com search around send me hate mail send me nice mail whatever i get it all so i appreciate it and that links also to the wonderful podcast where you can buy t-shirts like the one i'm wearing gonna have to buy a bunch more of them um at the loan machinists podcast.com wait is that the website i think that's the website the loan machinist.com i haven't been there in a bit so
01:04:33
jamie peacock
Nice.
01:04:36
jamie peacock
It's theloanemachinist.com.
01:04:39
jamie peacock
Anyway, it's in the description. du Well, this isn't video, but I'm going to point down below anyway. um Yeah, it's in the it's in the description. The link to the Loan Machinist's website, loanmachinist.com. You can get the wi the shirts, water bottles, all sorts of funny stuff.
01:04:54
jamie peacock
I don't know. Danica loaded a bunch of things on there. But yeah, the shirts. The shirts are cool. um And I think there's some more ones on the way. One of which is something to the effect of, I speak before I think.
01:05:05
jamie peacock
That way, I'm also surprised.
Website Updates and Podcast Support
01:05:08
jamie peacock
Because that is generally me.
01:05:08
Curt
Are you going to do, well, I was going to ask you one, but we'll, that one has to be saved for the after show.
01:05:13
Curt
So I will talk to you later about that.
01:05:14
jamie peacock
Okay, that's fine. Ooh, yeah. Speaking of the After Show, After Show can be found on our Patreon, The Loan Machinists. As far as I know, all the podcasts are available for single-time purchase, or, which is kind of stupid, you may as well just become a Patreon at same price.
01:05:30
jamie peacock
But yeah, you get like a little snippet, and then all the Patreons get it for free. You can find, well, get it for being a Patreon. um You can find me at jspeceng.com where you can find the anchor points.
01:05:43
jamie peacock
We have got them for sale again. going update the quantity after this to be... a bunch. There are custom anode options, so there's about a three-day lead time on those for us to anodize and assemble to match whatever your weird requests are.
01:05:57
jamie peacock
um And then there's also the one that is labeled, please contact us first for super special anodizing jobs. But yeah, happy to accommodate special anode jobs. ae I think that, yeah.
01:06:12
Curt
ah
01:06:13
jamie peacock
Oh, and jspec underscore engineering on Instagram if you want to find me.
01:06:18
Curt
I also didn't realize that there is now a bonus content little blurb on the website where Danica just posted a picture of me just talking into the ether when I got disconnected from you guys or when I disconnected myself oh okay good I just oh she's oh no okay oh okay gotta watch my I gotta watch
01:06:24
jamie peacock
Oh, yes.
01:06:30
jamie peacock
I know both of us. No, no, this is from a few weeks ago. There's both of us. Yes. Yes. So go check that on the website. There's some bonus content. It's really good.
01:06:42
jamie peacock
Kurtz and I got disconnected and both of us carried on talking until we reconnected.
01:06:42
Curt
ah
01:06:46
jamie peacock
And she went and cut that out of the video and made a bonus content of it. It's great.
01:06:50
Curt
what ah what a nice What a nice lady.
01:06:52
jamie peacock
So i't I thought I told you about that one.
01:06:54
Curt
No, i thought I just stumbled upon it. i was like, what the hell am I doing on this?
01:06:57
jamie peacock
but
01:06:58
Curt
and All right, good to know.
01:06:58
jamie peacock
oh
01:07:00
Curt
Watch my P's and Q's from now on.
01:07:00
jamie peacock
Yeah. so
01:07:03
jamie peacock
So what are you up to today, Kurt?
01:07:05
Curt
Today I'm going to load a crap ton of parts into the fourth, still on the load Grizzly fourth axis iso grip parts because i haven't I just don't have them behaving I want them on the sile. So it's going to just churn away and do those. And I'm going to probably polish the inside of tubes and ah listen to more audiobooks.
01:07:25
Curt
Someone told me to listen to Red red Rising, so i'm like three quarters the through Red Rising.
01:07:25
jamie peacock
Nice. Yes, that's very good.
01:07:29
Curt
I thought it was going to be like sci-fi. So I was kind of for the first half it. I'm like, what is this? And I'm like, okay, this is more like hunger games esque. So now, now I'm kind of into it.
01:07:37
jamie peacock
Yeah, Danica made me listen to it on a drive down to Durban. And then I was like, okay, I can't, I'm busy driving, i can't actually focus on this.
01:07:42
Curt
Okay.
01:07:46
jamie peacock
Because, yeah, there were morons on the road.
01:07:49
Curt
It's good.
01:07:49
jamie peacock
But yeah, it it was pretty good.
01:07:50
Curt
I'm digging it. Yeah.
01:07:51
jamie peacock
Yeah, I'm going to probably listen to that now that I'm an audiobook person again.
01:07:51
Curt
Yeah.
01:07:56
Curt
to the fold.
01:07:56
jamie peacock
okay yeah uh i'm polished well yeah sleeping and then polishing a mold and then going to be an apps engineer yay speaking of i need to update my laptop tonight or tomorrow morning uh so there's the latest version of fusion because i don't use it all the time so it gets out of date and i might end up having to do some post editing so chat gpt and i will crash the machine for them
01:07:58
Curt
How about you? what are you up to? Besides sleeping.
01:08:06
Curt
Fun. i
01:08:18
Curt
Exciting.
01:08:22
jamie peacock
Although i must say, like these Chinese routers, you just search the controller and there's generally a pretty good post for it for Fusion.
01:08:22
Curt
Sick.
01:08:30
Curt
Wow.
01:08:30
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:08:31
Curt
That's good.
01:08:31
jamie peacock
Like I've had that happen on two or three occasions where guys have got these routers. I'm like, cool. Send me a picture of the controller, please. They open the cabinet, send me a picture of everything because they don't know what a controller is. I'll say, oh, cool.
01:08:41
Curt
yeah it's
01:08:41
jamie peacock
There's the main controller. Google it or search the post library and there's a post that works. Like 95% of the way there.
01:08:49
Curt
It's hilarious how many these massive companies that have like... front like huge machines like brand name machines and have the absolute most shitty posts possible it's like really it's like okay whatever
01:08:58
jamie peacock
yep well know my one customer hotlander they put a hell of a lot of work into getting their posts with fusion to post out how they wanted them to on their two scm scm yeah scm routers speaking of scm routers don't they're horrible um made yeah let me offend all the people made by italians and they should stay in fucking italy No, no, you need to take a 8mm Allen key, cut it about an inch long, put that into the end the cap screw, then put a socket onto that, then put a short extension onto that.
01:09:35
jamie peacock
Can't put the short extension and the socket at the same time, they have to be done separately, because there's that little space.
01:09:36
Curt
oh
01:09:41
jamie peacock
Then take a long extension through a hole under the machine into there, another long extension through another hole into the other extension, and then bar on the outside to loosen the bolts on the linear guards.
01:09:52
Curt
At least it matches her cars.
01:09:55
jamie peacock
Those machines are horrible to work on. um And I retrofitted one last year as well. They actually, that guy phoned me and said, okay, we're having some power surges. We blew one of our fans. like, keep your machine off. Go get a giant um
01:10:07
Curt
Yeah.
01:10:08
jamie peacock
ah giant
01:10:12
jamie peacock
surge protector for it. Otherwise, you blow up your drives and that's straight up going to be $1,200 spares on the cheap end. on the cheap end
01:10:19
Curt
yeah
01:10:20
jamie peacock
Like, and that's if your spindle hasn't blown. That's just your servos. Like, that's putting cheap Chinese cock in to replace what the Ascowers that are in there. So, yeah, they but job they had a fan.
01:10:32
jamie peacock
And then they had a fan stop working. They phoned the armature winders. The guy's like, oh, no cool. Good thing you phoned us now. We've got a bunch of stuff coming from your area that they just voltage sparks on the three phase and just popping motors left, right, and center.
01:10:47
Curt
Oh, wonderful. Well, that sounds lovely.
01:10:48
jamie peacock
Yeah, was like, that is terrifying. But yeah, anyway, let's wrap it up there.
01:10:53
Curt
Cool.
01:10:54
jamie peacock
Thank you, everybody, for for listening. If you enjoyed the podcast, please consider sharing it with someone else that you think might enjoy it. or giving us a rate, like, or subscribe, whatever it is on the platform you are listening on.
01:11:08
jamie peacock
If you're on an audio platform like Spotify or Apple Podcasts, we're also on YouTube. um only the video Only the guest episodes go up in full video on YouTube. But yeah, you can watch us all look stupid while we talked to Jacob last week.
01:11:19
Curt
yeah
01:11:22
jamie peacock
um If you are looking for that, it's on my channel, which is Jamie DCO on on YouTube. But yeah, you can go check us and look how dumb we look. It'll be great fun. And on that one, thank you everybody for listening and we will see you next week.
01:11:37
Curt
Take care all.