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jamie peacock: Welcome to the Lone Machinist where it's just you the work and the machines. What have you got going on today Kurt?
Curt: ah Today I'm going to talk about duelwieled dual wielding stores. ah Jamie has a fancy kitchen. And ah flux vices solve all my problems, potentially.
Curt: How about you? What are you going to talk about?
jamie peacock: um We're gonna talk about fast food automation. We're gonna process a replacement spindle for the LK and then probably Kaylee's butt plug.
Curt: I haven't seen that one yet, so...
jamie peacock: Yes, how did you go there's a link in that really do.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: Yeah, how are you this fine day Kurt?
Curt: Good. I'm doing good. was, uh, yeah. Mother's day today. So did the, did the mother's day thing.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: And, and now I get to talk with you. you So ah but how about, how about you?
jamie peacock: Nice.
Curt: What is your, I guess your, what's your morning cracking? What'd you be like?
jamie peacock: Yeah, bloody early. Yeah.
Curt: ah
jamie peacock: Yeah. flippping ah It's been a it's been a weekend. We had a wedding over the weekend, so still recovering a little bit. um Partied really hard, but it was lots of fun and pretty much. where It was pretty out of it for a bit of dumb shit, but yeah it was fun.
jamie peacock: I got to do speech.
Curt: I know
jamie peacock: It was it was also quite fun.
Curt: ah you sent me some, some nice pictures though. I sent, yeah.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: ah We will discuss some stuff that happened after we've done recording because I was told not to discuss it on the podcast because it will offend a bunch people.
Curt: Sounds fair enough. Fair enough.
jamie peacock: Yeah, no, no, it was lots of fun. But yeah, still feeling a little rough this morning.
Curt: So this is probably like one of the weekends where you actually didn't work. You just went and had fun all weekend.
jamie peacock: Yeah, pretty much. So Friday... Friday was a write-off, basically. I got the LK running at Rand, stuff that I didn't have to stand there for. And then a baked freaking cakes and shit, because my wife offered to do the cakes for the wedding as a wedding gift. So, we baked cakes. we We only went through there, so, at about half past six in the evening, because we stayed there that night, helped finish setting up.
jamie peacock: Then we just sat around and talked shit. Then Saturday morning, both of us were part of the bridal party, so we we had stuff to do all day. And then, uh, party till one in the morning.
jamie peacock: And then woke up yesterday, that i had breakfast, they came back, watch the boys fell asleep on the couch, and then had to go to her family for Mother's Day and a family meeting to discuss some issues with her aunt and then came home and slept on the couch again.
jamie peacock: Yeah, didn't work this weekend that much.
Curt: Oh no. that
jamie peacock: No.
Curt: Good. That's good. Yeah.
jamie peacock: No joke. I'll get to run around like a crazy person this week.
Curt: Yeah. Try to catch up on everything.
jamie peacock: It's going to... Yeah, there's not that much to catch up on.
Curt: yeah yeah
jamie peacock: Just so need to get the machines on and get them running this morning. And then deal with bit of admin crap. You know, the normal fun stuff.
Curt: Yeah. saw you Yeah. I saw you running tool steel on the LK because it sounded wildly different.
jamie peacock: Dude, yeah. customer is like, hey, we're in a pinch, we need these 16 blocks. It's a block with holes, like literally a block with two holes. But all the K110 comes in saw cut.
jamie peacock: So there are no square faces on the K110 to start with.
Curt: Okay, okay.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so i put them in established datum. So I wrote program that would face ah it would face down, leave a million half or two miles whatever it was, park, you turn the block over reseated in the vase and then mills the other half sets your thickness.
jamie peacock: Then I put it between the device on those two faces that have now established a parallel and then set the machine, the back face, then turn it over machine the other face and the sides in one operation.
jamie peacock: So yeah annoying as hell, but got it got it all out.
Curt: Okay, yeah.
jamie peacock: And now i'm busy running in 19 condition T in the on the on the mechanical anchor points in the three jaw chuck like a good five, six inches above the interface of the anchor point.
Curt: Mm.
jamie peacock: but it's running fine.
Curt: Nice. Good.
jamie peacock: So I was hogging the whole bunch tool steel, the machine can do it. I just, I don't want to because I don't want to ruin my machine.
Curt: Yeah, no fair. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Like I don't want to risk making everything else I do difficult.
Curt: Yeah, no doubt. Exactly. It's definitely way less...
jamie peacock: Yeah, that's the thing. Like, yeah, it was something I discussed with john last week is like, Do I just say to them, send the tool steel and just run LK flat out running tool steel for the next two or three months and then just go buy another machine cash?
jamie peacock: But I don't want to risk buying another machine that's not as good as the LK. And then I'm going um mean in a predicament where I'm now struggling to hold tolerance on everything else that I do.
Curt: Yeah, totally. and
jamie peacock: Yeah, so it's a bit of a, ah yeah, it's an interesting situation to be in.
Curt: There, yeah. I mean, least the machine is, like, it's built for it, but I don't know if it's built for it at a production speed, so.
jamie peacock: No, that's the thing I get you running a little bit slower because it's a 30 taper.
Curt: Yeah, totally. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: And with that I spoke to mar my mate at WD Hearns.
Curt: So.
jamie peacock: Now they quote on a BT30 spindle, not a BBT30 spindle. But I got a price on the LK spindle. I think he said it was $4,000 for new spindle.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: Not horrid. Yeah,
Curt: Okay. That's not crazy. Yeah. Yeah. No. Yeah.
jamie peacock: I'll probably replace the spindle on the machine at some point anyway. um
Curt: Mm-hmm.
jamie peacock: And then just keep this one as a spare. Because this one is definitely noisier than when I got it. But that's because I removed like a thousand pounds of steel with this machine in four days.
Curt: Mm. Mm. and Okay. Okay.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Which will do it.
Curt: That would do it.
jamie peacock: ah Yeah, that'll that'll definitely do it.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So, yeah. I do odd bits and pieces of tool steel on the machine, but this is the first. I don't like running um large material removal or squaring up fucking blocks on my machine. Squaring up blocks is just a waste of time. like You don't need to be doing that in a CNC.
jamie peacock: You need to be doing that on a big-ass horizontal mill that you just put the block and go... Yeah, that's how we used to do it at work.
Curt: Totally, yeah. yeah
jamie peacock: where I used to work, we had a guy, that's all he did was make flame cut blocks or saw cut blocks into squares.
Curt: Yeah, that'd be a perfect use for a manual machine, not yeah something that's...
jamie peacock: Yeah, and we had it set up with the key on it. So you would put the block on the on a riser plate square the end, turn it, push it against the key clamp it, machine it rotate, rotate, rotate that like made life super, super easy.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: um But obviously, I don't have space for one of those yet.
Curt: Fair. Yeah. Yeah. Probably don't want to do that work. That sounds like the definition of blow your brains out kind of simplicity.
jamie peacock: So, know, the thing is if the other machines are running, then go square a block up.
Curt: Fair.
jamie peacock: It's, if it cuts a bunch of cycle time out of the high value machines, then yeah, sure, go square the block up. But yeah, we'll will see. I was told machine material would arrive pre squared.
jamie peacock: It didn't. So yeah, i was a little bit, a little bit annoyed with them, but got the order out super quickly.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: And then, yeah, waiting. i'll have meeting I'm having a meeting with them this week, waiting for a quote on that second-hand machine down in Cape Town, that we can get the ball rolling because it is now the 11th, and I want to try and move into the new workspace in 20 days.
Curt: Okay, so you're looking to take possession of next month, essentially? Hmm.
jamie peacock: Yeah, that's the idea, but I don't know if we're going to get that right because people are dragging their feet. So, yeah, I'm going have a meeting with them probably today or tomorrow. be like, okay. what is the case? Let's work through this. Let's get it fucking done. And let's get that now that we can, we can plan and make the moves that need to be made.
jamie peacock: Because the unit we wanted that doesn't look like we can upgrade the power.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So there is not enough power.
Curt: Ooh, okay. Okay.
jamie peacock: The other unit that we looked at is it was dingy as fuck. But looking online at that same unit's listing, it turns out we just don't turn the fucking lights on. So we will, I'm going to go have another look at it this week. It has enough power for now. It also has three phase plugs.
jamie peacock: So I don't have to do all the wiring. there's already wires run for a couple of the machines. ah The only concern is the doors are lower than the other doors.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: So I'm just gonna have to take a tape measure and make sure the machine I'm sure the machines will go in. I just need to make sure it's not super low. Just compared to the other ones that are like three meter tall doors.
Curt: Sure.
jamie peacock: This is only a two and a half meter tall door.
Curt: Okay. Yeah, fair. Okay.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so we'll, we'll see. I'm going to go and have another look at those units and get the paperwork going on, on leasing a unit.
Curt: Nice. Nice.
jamie peacock: Should be fun. ah got Lots of things. And then yeah, my, my mate who makes the the drones, he's, I was like, I spoke to a week or so ago. i'm like, hey, bre what's happening with the drones? like Oh, it goes on sale this week in the UK.
jamie peacock: Can you give me updated quotes?
Curt: Oh, cool.
jamie peacock: So i was like, yeah, sure. He has a quote for 10 crafts worth parts. um So we'll see if and when that actually comes through. And then that's getting spindle grip, all those little components. That's either salami sliced or spindle grip.
jamie peacock: Because it's like a couple minutes on each op one, and then it goes on to fixture and farm twos.
Curt: Yeah. Perfect.
jamie peacock: So spindle grip.
Curt: Perfect use of that. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, spindle grip, all the things.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: But yeah, so I'm trying to think.
Curt: Sick. Cool.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, well, let's discuss the flux fast story.
Curt: ah So yeah, that was kind of cool. um So ah Master Ken reached out to me from, I think, Robertson Creations. i think that's what he's, one of his Instagram handles.
jamie peacock: Robeson's custom creations, yeah.
Curt: Robertson Custom Creations. um The guy who now hunts has the the flux vices.
jamie peacock: Yes. Yep.
Curt: actually wanted to buy a flux vice like forever ago. like way back in the day when they first came about and then they kind of just went away and now they're being revived, which is super cool. But anyways, he reached out and cause you have your lovely anchor point and he built a whole flux vice that drops right onto that.
Curt: So, uh, anyways, yeah, he, he, uh, asked if I would be, uh, be willing to try one. And i was like, I'll be willing to buy one from you like happily. Like, yeah, I, I would love one. So anyways, he was of the graciousness of himself.
Curt: He sent me a one to try here. Actually it's here tomorrow. According to us.
jamie peacock: Oh nice.
Curt: Oh, well, by the time you guys listen to this, it's I've already had it my hands.
jamie peacock: Yeah. They are joy.
Curt: So yeah, I'm super jazzed.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Uh, cause I was, I need like op one, like, and they're built perfectly for like, essentially like soft jaws is what they are. Um,
jamie peacock: of julia
Curt: Yeah, so, but my op ones are technically soft jaws because like, I'm just gonna, I think I'm gonna switch. a I'm switched from using square bar to round bar just because it's going to be a lot easier for a lot of things.
Curt: um But to op one them to put dovetails on them, I have to build either a pallet with vices on it or so anyways, this will solve that problem perfectly. And a bunch of other things. I have some kind of stupid ideas that I'm going to try to see if they actually work and we'll, we'll see. But yeah, anyways, I'm jazzed to get my hands on that.
Curt: The machining looks um from the pictures I've seen. They look fantastic. So yeah.
jamie peacock: looks insanely nice like I'm gonna feel bad machining into it like I feel really bad mis you to get to yeah um yes I that's actually machined on a mechanical anchor point yes
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah. That's what i was thinking too.
Curt: Hmm. That's a lot of stick out. That's that's a big chunk on there.
jamie peacock: Yes. So he's got mechanical number two. I sent it to him in January.
Curt: Oh, cool.
jamie peacock: Because he we discussed him potentially making the flex devices compatible with the anchor point and then sunsetting the flux puck.
Curt: Okay.
Curt: Oh, okay. I gotcha.
jamie peacock: So yeah I sent him the mechanical to play with and yeah he's been using apparently to machine these. So I've got some coming in on the
Curt: Cool.
Curt: Oh, cool. Yeah, I was wondering if you guys had a range. I figured you did, but nice.
jamie peacock: So I'm going to, I'll chat to him this week. I said to him, I will, if he wants, I'll make him idiot pins and just send him whole bunch of them. It's just a Delrin thing that you put in. So ah you saw the email he sent to that he's going to put four holes in the bottom so you can index the units.
jamie peacock: And then I've got them that you just put a Delrin pin with an O-ring into one of the holes as an idiot screw.
Curt: Right.
jamie peacock: But you can put any through the middle and pop it out and put it in a different spot if you want it for a different setup.
Curt: Gotcha.
Curt: Right, right, right, right. Exactly.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so I'll chat to him this week about just running 100 or so of them and sending them to him. Because, I mean, the material cost is nothing.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: Like, I'll just run them and send them. And I know it's full compatibility with everything else.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah. No. So yeah. I don't know. I'm eager, eager to try that.
jamie peacock: Yeah, kind of cool.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so am I. I've got some stuff I want to try out on the Flex Shavas.
Curt: yeah Like, yeah, I'm, I'm happy that whole, that whole system has been revived.
jamie peacock: I think for your...
jamie peacock: And for your ah your fidget, that could potentially be a very good solution.
Curt: Yeah. That's ah exactly what came to mind.
jamie peacock: Like, yeah.
Curt: Yeah. And I was like, Ooh, cause yeah, if I have like, he sent it as far as I know, anyways, I haven't seen it yet. Um, but i think he's sending me two dual stations and that's essentially what I would buy, which is why was like, I don't mind compensating you cash wise because it's what I wanted initially.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Um, but yeah, then exactly. Load them up, plop one in, run them, unload, load the other one.
jamie peacock: And, no, perfect.
Curt: Yeah, exactly. It's a whole, whole, the whole reason we're doing this, right? Yeah.
jamie peacock: But yeah, we're gonna have to chat about what anchor point you're putting them on because I don't know how square the one you have is.
Curt: What do you mean square?
jamie peacock: Like to the base, but the pins to the base.
Curt: oh whatever. i I'm not figuring something out.
jamie peacock: Well, but yeah we'll discuss that.
Curt: Yeah, I'm not worried.
jamie peacock: I have solutions there.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: um So yeah, now i' I'm very keen to step back the machining on them looks so good. He sent me a picture like guy i think he he thinks he needs to turn the inserts.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Turn the inserts frickin mirror.
Curt: ah ah Yeah, he's got a big machine there, so yeah.
jamie peacock: No, no, it's really like really nice. Yeah, well, he's got a bunch of machines. He was also using the the pneumatic anchor points to machine keycaps for the keyboard he's making.
Curt: Dude, don't. i I'm like a like cat with catnip in that.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Like, I've been following that closely because I'm like, dude.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: And you've seen like the the cases or the bodies he made for like, they're so pretty.
jamie peacock: They're freaking beautiful.
Curt: I'm like, that's the last thing I need is to like fall deeper down that rabbit hole. But yeah, i've they're pretty.
jamie peacock: Yeah. That's why you bought a small machine.
Curt: They're very pretty.
jamie peacock: So you physically cannot machine a keyboard on your machine. at least not in one op.
Curt: Yeah, but like a machine keycap. Like, do you know how how many times I've tried to beat keycaps out of my head to be like, no, don't even think about machining. like, I want to for no other reason than I want to.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Like a little titanium keycaps and replace my entire keyboard. Of course, I'll do that. But no. you know Nice. Nice.
jamie peacock: Yes, aluminium keycaps.
Curt: Jamie showed me his keyboard.
jamie peacock: They've been on here for like seven years.
Curt: Oh, yeah.
jamie peacock: Did those on the slow-eo back in the day.
Curt: like they' It's a nice part cause it's like a complicated enough part that it's intriguing to a machine. um but yeah, it's...
jamie peacock: Like it's a really, it's a really challenging part to reliably machine.
Curt: But yeah, yeah, you're working on a press fit on the inside and no so everything is sloped and curved and yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Yeah. No, it's, yeah, it was it was fun back in the day.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: These are just cherries. Like they're so outdated, it's not even funny.
Curt: yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: Like no one runs cherries anymore, Cherry MXs anymore.
Curt: Hey, hey, some people do.
jamie peacock: No, mean, I'm running them. But no, I guess it's not the go to switch anymore. When I made these, it was like the only switch, which is, it's amazing how quickly that shit has evolved.
Curt: No, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Curt: Yeah, no doubt. um what's ah What's fast food automation?
jamie peacock: So what's the next
jamie peacock: Oh, so I went to McDonald's the other day.
Curt: Mm-hmm.
jamie peacock: ah Remember I got the timer for my Anno setup. The fancy, fancy or digital kitchen timer. You can't get them here.
Curt: Yep, yep.
jamie peacock: The reason you can't get them here is because our people are so illiterate that they don't use kitchen timers in fast food places.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: Everything is automated. So I was waiting for my order and I looked into the kitchen and they were cooking burgers.
Curt: Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: Do you know how they cook burgers in South Africa?
Curt: No.
jamie peacock: they've got the griddle, they put down all the the flat fryer thing, they put down the patties and they push a button on the front a along little touch screen to say what flavor of burger it is.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: And the second half comes down and cooks from both sides. When it's done, it lifts up, they put salt and fucking spice and shit.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: And then they put them in the trays. Like they don't even flip the fucking burgers automatic by themselves.
Curt: Wow. Wow.
jamie peacock: Now, if you go into any fast food place, that you'll hear beeping, like really annoying beeping. So all like fries, they put the basket in the thing, it dispenses fries, they put it in, they push the f fries button, and then it beeps when it's done.
jamie peacock: Like deep fried chicken whatever, it's a high pressure fryer.
Curt: Sure, yeah.
jamie peacock: When it's done, it automatically lifts out of the oil. Like everything is automated.
Curt: Hmm. Interesting.
jamie peacock: And like you'll go and you'll look into the kitchen, you'll see it says they're 66 piece. That's how many pieces of chicken on the tray. So it cooks it for the right amount of time. Like everything is super automated here like the guys load the thing hit the right button and it just it does it automatically.
jamie peacock: Because that way you can't fuck it up.
Curt: I'm going to have to No, totally. going have to go check out like our fast food chain. I'm usually going through the drive-thru where I never get to see, but I should go in and see because I wonder like it would make way more sense to do it all that way because yeah, remove human error out of it.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, like all the places are super automated.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Like the only one that I can think of that isn't that automated is Nando's. And that's because it's freaking flame grilled chicken. You can't really automate that.
Curt: No, fair. Okay.
jamie peacock: Like they basting and like cooking the chicken on the fire.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah.
Curt: Sure.
jamie peacock: But all the other ones, they've got, there's always beep, beep, beep, beep going on because someone put something in and forgot to take it out.
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: No, go.
Curt: Wild, yeah.
jamie peacock: Let's see. Yeah, like even the the deep fries, they've got settings for hash browns for fries. a Whatever the hell they're putting in there, they push the right button, cooks for the right time and it beeps at them.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So it was interesting to see that they cooked a burger from both sides.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: What a magic like burger King, they literally dropped the burger patty onto a ah wire conveyor, and it rolls through the oven and falls out the bottom.
Curt: Oh, right.
jamie peacock: like elements.
Curt: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: or but yeah That's how they do the the burgers here for them.
Curt: Yeah, yeah. Yep.
jamie peacock: Debena's pizza, they've got a rolling pizza oven. So they prep the pizza, throw it on the conveyor and it conveys through, comes out there and the guy starts to put in the box.
Curt: i I went to a hotel once and they had an automatic pancake machine. like so you would just go there and you would hit like, pancake. And it was it was ah just a robot on the counter and it would squirt some ah batter onto a con conveyor belt.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: And it was like a, I don't know what material, um but they had hot plates under it. And the conveyor belt would go along and you'd see the pancakes start to cook. And then another k conveyor belt kind of tapered in. So it would squish the top.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: And it was also must have had an element behind it.
jamie peacock: Oh, yeah.
Curt: So it cooked it from both sides. And by the time it got to the end of the can conveyor belt, you know, like maybe... a minute and a half later just boop followed on your plate and it was just it was kind of wild to you'd be like pancake pancake pancake pancake and just like boom boom boom book book they were terrible they didn't really taste that good but still it was it it was cool that you automated it yeah yeah
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: That's cool.
jamie peacock: Well, that's the conveyor, the toast conveyor is the best way to make toast the exact wrong way. Like it never, at like it never, ever, ever makes it correctly.
jamie peacock: Like, ever. It's either like an undercooked or burnt. Like, there is no correct on that thing.
Curt: Okay. Anybody listening to this? I've had this idea for a thousand years. I'm probably never going to build it. Build a clear toaster, a toaster with like, like sides made out of like glass.
jamie peacock: You can...
Curt: So you can look at your toast as it's cooking. Like you can look past the elements and see like, Oh, is it black?
jamie peacock: I think my brother has one.
Curt: I always thought about doing that.
jamie peacock: I've seen one.
Curt: And then having like, have,
jamie peacock: I've seen one here.
Curt: Well, having like ah like a photo cell, so like you put your toast in and it already checks the toast so it knows if it's like whole wheat or white.
jamie peacock: Oh, dude. Man.
Curt: And then once you put it down, then it just cooks it to a shade. And then pop, like that's what I want. I would pay good money for that toaster. Anyway, someone go make it.
jamie peacock: ah There's a toaster that did that. um Technology connections.
Curt: Okay, I'll have to check this out.
jamie peacock: Also, when you put the bread in, the toast went down by itself.
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah, yeah, perfect.
jamie peacock: The mechanism relied on the elements. As the elements heated up, they expanded and the toast would lower.
Curt: Oh, wild. Cool.
jamie peacock: And it had used ah it used an IR sensor.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: to The knob actually set the brownness of the toast.
Curt: Yeah, that's what I want. Exactly.
jamie peacock: And that's from the nineteen fifty s
Curt: It's not hard. Like, I don't think it's that difficult. I mean, no one wants to pay $500 for a toaster.
jamie peacock: No. The problem is it's expensive. Yeah.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: It's expensive. of It's like $120 instead of $100.
Curt: Yeah, I get it.
jamie peacock: yeah, ill we'll put a link for that that video. do Really interesting video on how the mechanism works and that the knob is actually for brownness, shot and not just whatever random fucking thing the knob does on the toaster.
Curt: Nice. Nice. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Because I have no idea what the knob on the toaster actually does.
Curt: Okay. So,
Curt: uh, no, I just, yeah, mine either burns a toaster. Yeah. Anyways, besides point next week, I'm going to be changing my business to making toasters.
jamie peacock: You have
Curt: Apparently so.
jamie peacock: Kurt's Toaster Emporium.
Curt: Dude. Yeah. that Anyway, not trained enthusiasts at all.
jamie peacock: would got that was up So, yeah, you said you're switching to Roundstock.
Curt: let's uh yes um so because i i've been on my walks i've been thinking about yeah your little uh flux vise and then i was like well i'm like i can buy round stock for cheaper um which also kind of gets around having to grip such a small dovetail so i can use like what's your minimum right now think you made a 10 mil yeah so i'm like i think i could probably use 10 mil and then like or at least have the dovetail 10 mil sized and then make my life easier and then the cool thing is i can do the blanking of the round bar
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yes. Yes. The 10mm is what's standard on there now.
jamie peacock: Yes.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: in the lathe because the lathe is a great automated piece of equipment as opposed to me on a bandsaw or any kind of bandsaw unless it's like an auto feeder but like I just fit a bar into the lathe and so I'm like m this is making more and more sense so
jamie peacock: Yes. Exactly.
jamie peacock: That's definitely the way to go. Round stock for pots is way easier to get. Yeah.
Curt: oh it's cheaper it's easier it's yeah it's everything so
jamie peacock: The world is made for round stock.
Curt: The world is made on round bar. Yeah. So going to switch, switch over to it and then we'll see.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Nice.
Curt: So I think I'll do one more order of my flat bar and then I'm going to buy, uh, I'm going I honestly probably already have a size that it'll fit into for round bar.
jamie peacock: Okay.
jamie peacock: That'll work, yeah.
Curt: Yeah. And then I'm go to move forward with that.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So we'll see if that works. Should. I don't see why I wouldn't.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So.
jamie peacock: No, 100%.
Curt: Reading things on the podcast.
jamie peacock: Yeah, reading. There we go. So, which which is the next thing we are doing?
Curt: allah ah Tell me about ah the pneumatic, excuse me, the pneumatic vice update.
jamie peacock: Yeah, just emailed them. We'll see if I can update during the podcast. It should have shipped yesterday. um
Curt: Ooh, okay.
jamie peacock: Yes, it should finally be fucking shipping. um And then I can start playing with actual spindle gripping. So I had ah had a chat to Matt last week about trays. So busy designing out all the tray stuff.
jamie peacock: So we had a discussion about different different options for trays and best practices and things like that. So we shall see. But yeah, quite excited.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: Like, I want to put everything on spindle gripping.
Curt: Yeah, I mean, it looks it looks like the silver bullet once it's functioning well.
jamie peacock: once yeah Once it's set up and running, I think it is going to be the way the way forward.
Curt: so
jamie peacock: So yeah, he had some recommendations for me. So we had a chat about all those recommendations. Going to implement that. And then, yeah, um just I'm just waiting on the vase. Like, I need to make a pallet for vase next time I'm set up to make pallets.
jamie peacock: And then, yeah, waiting for the pallet.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: Oh, waiting for the vase, sorry.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: um I've got materials set aside to make soft jaws for the vase. Although the hard jaws are serrated on it, so... um But I'm going to make set of soft jaws because obviously I'm going to want to load something that's a stupid shape into it at some point.
Curt: Oh, nice. Okay.
Curt: Right.
jamie peacock: So, yeah.
Curt: Yeah. Cool. And is that vice, ah is it like ah like manually adjustable and then pneumatic close for like a millimeter or two or...
jamie peacock: No. No, so it's... um The top of it has got serrations like a hydraulic chuck on a lathe. So the jaws can move like in one millimeter increments and then they bolt down and then it's got a four millimeter travel.
Curt: m
Curt: Gotcha.
jamie peacock: ah ah I believe that's per jaw, but I'm not sure.
Curt: Okay, okay.
jamie peacock: I'll see when it actually arrives.
Curt: Okay. Same kind of deal. You can set it to roughly what you need and then just...
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha.
jamie peacock: Yeah, and then it just opens closes a little bit. um Yeah, so that's, yeah, I'm quite excited for that. And then, waiting to hear back on the other job where they want to do, allegedly, 400,000 clamps that they want to modify.
jamie peacock: But that yeah that's going on the slow. So then I'm going to put flood coolants on the slow. Leave a single tool because it's a one tool job and then make a little spindle gripper that goes on the side of the head of the spindle so I can deploy it down below the tool, grip my part, load my part, retract it, machine the part, deploy it again so that I'm not having to do any tool changes because I don't want to do 400,000 tool changes on the LK for no reason.
Curt: what what is the part if you can describe it because that seems like a super high quantity
jamie peacock: Yeah, so it's a clamp for a fence. So they have a wire, like a wire mesh that they are welded wire a mesh, and then they powder coat it and it goes, this is the clamp that holds it to the poles.
Curt: Oh, okay. Okay. This adds up.
jamie peacock: I've got a customer who manufactures these they they make like hundreds of 1000s of these a month.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: um And I was like, why don't you just get a custom extrusion that it's not worth the effort. act supply train Like chain, supply chain reliability, it is not worth the effort to try and have a different extrusion made.
Curt: Really?
jamie peacock: Because I'm just um literally a different extrusion would solve this problem. ah It's just not worth it. The supply chain complexity of doing that, we can take what they have, finished components on the shelf, they bring them to me, I machine them and they go out.
jamie peacock: like It's a much simpler solution. So like, okay, fair enough. I don't mind taking a whole bunch of money.
Curt: Sure, yeah.
jamie peacock: um the jealous But yeah, we'll just get set up to run that automatically.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: But only problem is you can only do, I think it was like 180 parts at a time or something.
Curt: Okay, yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: So we'll have to, but then um I've got an anchor point here that is NFG. So I will just use that as the as the tray holder so that I can load a tray outside the machine. As soon as it stops, you swap trays, hit go, and it carries on.
jamie peacock: but
Curt: Yeah, still a lot of trace swaps.
jamie peacock: Shouldn't be.
Curt: That's a lot of everything.
jamie peacock: Yes, but I don't have to do this. I can have a call or a ah cheaper employee you do it. I don't have to do it.
Curt: Sure. Yeah, sure.
jamie peacock: And if the machine can just be kept running all day and shitting parts out, fucking winning.
Curt: Oh, absolutely. Yeah, no doubt. Yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: So we'll work on that when we actually get the order. I've got the pneumatics here for it now, but when the actual order comes through, i build all the components. Because the pneumatics were cheap. It was like $30 worth of pneumatics. was just like, fucking order it.
Curt: Yeah. Add it to the box of industrial Lego, if not.
jamie peacock: Exactly, exactly.
Curt: okay
jamie peacock: So yeah, the grip and the pneumatics are sitting on my desk in the office.
Curt: Sick.
jamie peacock: So I'll design the stuff up and then when I need to I'll make it.
Curt: Fun.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Nice, nice.
jamie peacock: Yes. Tell me about your jewel wielding of stores.
Curt: So...
jamie peacock: yes um tell me about your jewel widing of stores
Curt: So that I didn't know why I didn't think about this for a million years ago. Whenever I put a lottery sale on, I ah essentially have to password protect the store, which means nobody can access the store except people that have passwords, which is fine when I don't have anything on the store.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: But right now I had like, I mean i threw a bunch of those stickers online um and I sold, I sold a gang of them. which also means I was like, well, over the weekend, I don't want to shut my store down just to have the lottery people access it and lose out on like potentially people just stumbling across my site and being like, hey, these are dumb. And then let's like throw some cash my way. Like, why would I try to? Anyways, I realized I can run two stores on my site, um which I didn't. I can run like 400 stores on my site, apparently.
jamie peacock: Okay.
Curt: So it gets weird because like I can use the same SKUs, but they don't impact. Like they're actually like two totally separate listings, which...
jamie peacock: Okay.
Curt: i don't I don't do tracking of like, I do, but like I'm only ever tracking on one side or the other. I wouldn't ever have two stores open selling the same product.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So it works for me, but like it could get really, really convoluted because you can name everything identical and then you can't, you can't differentiate what they are.
jamie peacock: Oh, God. Yeah, then you...
Curt: So i was like, oh
jamie peacock: Yeah, yeah.
Curt: So anyways, I just have it.
jamie peacock: That could get really tricky.
Curt: Yeah, I have it. So like the VIP, I haven't called a VIP store cause I had call it something. Um, so that that's a login store that has like the pens on it that are in this batch and then all the other crap that people can buy. Um, and then the normal store has everything on it. Um, so anyways, that worked out super, super well.
Curt: And, uh,
jamie peacock: Okay.
Curt: Yeah, I was... And it's the weird thing is, like, you can add to the cart from either store, and it still coalesces them together. So it just... Yeah, there's there's so many weird places where it could get messed up, but yeah, it seems to work well.
jamie peacock: Okay.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: No one's no one's yelled at me yet, so...
jamie peacock: Okay. So the VIP guys can still buy stuff from the pleb store, but the pleb store can't buy from the VIP store.
Curt: Totally. um The one problem is, like, I was having issues with, like, shipping, because it doesn't... For, like, the stickers, for instance, that I'm selling, I sell at a lower shipping rate. But...
Curt: it won't recognize like if someone buys a pen and then buy stickers it it won't recognize that it has to change the shipping rate and they'll just combine them so it's it kind of but by separating the stores i could kind of do it like anyone on the vip side is probably going to buy a pen so i just i made the shipping the same because i'm like if you're gonna buy if you're gonna go to the vip store and buy stickers like why like you want a password you're there for a reason so it should work out but should We'll see. Yeah.
Curt: I don't know. I just like, no, so no, like online sales system is like perfect. And I've been meaning to switch, but then some people tell me horror stories about what they have. So it's just like, yeah, I, the devil I know. So anyways, it's working.
jamie peacock: no 100% no 100% yes speaking of online stores there are new shirts available um
Curt: Oh, haven't even checked out yet.
jamie peacock: And jspng.com, yes, there's a really spiffy one. So yeah, just thought I'd shout that out quickly. There are new shirts available there. ah And the shirts proceeds are going towards IMG as well.
Curt: hu When you Google Jspec engineering and you're like the little Google box that shows like, you know, like the website and some pictures or whatever, it shows like your fluk.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: ah And then it shows, um it shows like a butt plug, not a butt plug, but like the thing you turn that looks like a butt plug.
jamie peacock: Oh, the egg, yeah, yeah.
Curt: Yeah, the egg.
jamie peacock: Nice, I like it.
Curt: So, yeah, that's awesome. Ooh, back catalog. Whoa, we there's been changes.
jamie peacock: Yeah, Danica put all the shirts back up. So any shirt we've sold is now available on the website now.
Curt: Oh.
Curt: Oh, and there's the there's a pie chart shirt. Perfect.
jamie peacock: It's called the JG shirt.
Curt: ah The JG.
jamie peacock: Yeah, the Justin Gray shirt.
Curt: nice ah Nice. Nice.
jamie peacock: You need to read what it says on the JG shirt.
Curt: Nice. Oh.
jamie peacock: It's freaking great.
Curt: yeah
jamie peacock: ah
Curt: have to I have to zoom in closer. My eyes are not what they ever have been. Oh, my God. That's awesome, dude.
jamie peacock: ah Yeah, it's brilliant. But yeah, don't read it out.
Curt: that
jamie peacock: People can go look at it.
Curt: No, no, I'm not.
jamie peacock: There will be a link in the doobly-doo.
Curt: good
jamie peacock: But yeah, all the old shirts also available now.
Curt: Go check it out, folks.
jamie peacock: So go check it out.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: john ah T-shirts. And then, yeah, speaking of shirts, um Zap reached out to me. He's like, Hey, here's a code to grab some shirts.
Curt: Cool, okay.
jamie peacock: And, uh, they don't, they they don't fu fulfill to South Africa.
Curt: Oh, bummer.
jamie peacock: Yeah. So I'm gonna have them sent to, uh, to Jacob after his wedding. And then I've got a parcel waiting there anyway. I've got some Mesa cards.
Curt: Did he... Because he has, a I think, the shirt, the Just Cut.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: Does he have the one with the the modifier in between it? The Just Fucking Cut?
jamie peacock: Yes, it does.
Curt: Sick. Okay, cool. I didn't know if he made that one.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: i've I've seen the Just Cut one, but I haven't seen the illicit version, so...
jamie peacock: Yeah, no, he has the lizard version and he's also got go forth and crush with two robots fighting with lightsabers.
Curt: Sick.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so freaking sweet.
Curt: Sick. Cool.
jamie peacock: and all I'll get those sent to Jacob, Jacob, Jacob.
Curt: Sick.
jamie peacock: And then he's got some Racer cards that got sent through there for me. So yeah, I'll get that shipped through.
Curt: Oh, cool. Nice.
jamie peacock: Not that I plan on doing retrofits anymore.
jamie peacock: I was very annoyed with customers this week. It's like you do something nice and you just get fucked. So I'm kind of getting over being helpful.
Curt: Yeah, there.
jamie peacock: So anyway, but speaking of things that are helpful, we have Patreons and they make the wheels on the train go round and round.
Curt: I get it.
Curt: Ooh.
jamie peacock: The patrons all get access to the after show where Kurt and I discuss things that we generally don't discuss in the podcast, super secret topics and things like that. um All the patron contributions are going towards getting us to i or getting me and a cardboard cutout to IMTS.
jamie peacock: because Kurt's lame. um
Curt: Dude, yeah.
jamie peacock: But the top tier patrons will get a shout out every week. And that list this week is Jade from Benchmark20, Luke from Fabtastic, AJ from Subtract Manufacturing and 41 other companies, Jason S, EJ from Nocturnal Welding, The Aussie Machinist, Christian Olsen, Charles Watt, Kyle from Kirsten Machine, Matt from Offworld Gear, who's doing some really cool analyzing, Alex B, John from Tourism Performance and Engine Tricks, and Matt from Modern Fuel.
jamie peacock: Thank you guys for making the wheels on the train spin. And yeah, well, see you in the off show and back to the podcast. Kurt is very still or his video is frozen? I'm not entirely sure, yes.
Curt: I should be good. You see me moving now?
jamie peacock: Ah, Mr.
Curt: i
jamie peacock: Roboto.
Curt: Oh no, is it roboting? Well, you know what? They won't notice. Just you will notice because...
jamie peacock: Okay, now we're back with Kurt, not Mr. Roboto.
Curt: Yeah, that actually was my fault. I was throwing you under the bus when you couldn't hear me, but it was it was on me.
jamie peacock: Ah, what did you
Curt: So yeah, carrying on.
jamie peacock: What did you do?
Curt: I just said this is probably Jamie's internet, but it it apparently was my internet.
jamie peacock: Ah, that could have been.
Curt: So yeah, it someone's.
jamie peacock: Who knows? Someone's incident was giving ah giving issues.
Curt: Yes.
jamie peacock: So, I see you updated my one topic.
Curt: ah ah Yeah. why Why do you have ah bi-curious feelings about my haircut?
jamie peacock: Yes.
jamie peacock: No, I don't have bycurious feelings. I was offended you changed your hair. hate when things change. You know, train enthusiast and whatnot.
Curt: ah Sorry, dude.
jamie peacock: I saw your story. I'm like, he cut his hair. Later.
Curt: It was getting pretty long, so
jamie peacock: Later.
jamie peacock: I know it was. It was getting wild. But yeah, know. I don't like change. Change sucks.
Curt: didn't i had a cut for like three weeks okay
jamie peacock: I saw a story and then I noticed.
Curt: okay i was like i've been talking for like we've been talking for hours and i've had many hours so far anyway besides the point uh okay tell me about uh uh are we going roboto again
jamie peacock: Yeah. It's Instagram story.
jamie peacock: I'm very curious as to which side is going Mr. Roboto here.
Curt: ah
jamie peacock: Okay, we're back from another Mr. Roboto session.
Curt: Yeah, I have no idea what's going on now.
jamie peacock: I don't think we've had, we haven't had this many technical issues in like a year.
Curt: Well, no, and it's usually because like lions have bit your internet connection or something over there.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: But yeah, this one seems to be on my end, which is insane because I have stupid internet here. But hey, maybe maybe a bunch of people are Zooming their mothers tonight or something.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Anyway.
Curt: I don't know.
jamie peacock: Yeah, probably actually.
Curt: hu Maybe, yeah. ah Tell me about um butt plugs.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: ah Yes, Kayleigh's Cairns put out a video, someone commissioned her to make a a bean with a flared base. So we discussed a few weeks ago, she made the bean.
Curt: okay
jamie peacock: Yeah, someone commissioned to make it with a flared base.
Curt: Sick.
jamie peacock: So she made, yeah, she made the bean. There's a link for that in the in the description. Actually, I saw the video yesterday, i didn't get a chance to watch it. And the day before yesterday, I went and watched it quickly before we started recording. But yeah, she's turning a grade two CP titanium butt plug effectively.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: But it it hasn't graded when they're not for rectal use.
Curt: Right on.
jamie peacock: So is it really a butt plug?
Curt: Oh, yeah, that'll definitely stop people from using it that manner.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: 100%. Yeah. So she turned them and anode them. Quite cool. Cool video. enjoy the stupid little short form things.
Curt: My...
Curt: I... So do I. It's my favorite.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Yeah. I like...
jamie peacock: Speaking of short form things, I put a shop tour up on Instagram.
Curt: Yes, I watched that one. Yes, I liked it.
jamie peacock: Yes. I shot it in horizontal as well. Danik hasn't edited it for me yet for YouTube.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: So I was running around with the gimbal recording. ah But yeah, just is a quick shop tour before we move, just that I have documentation of what the place was like before we did the move.
Curt: Nice. Cool. Yeah. It was cozy. Everything is very cozy.
jamie peacock: Yes, it is very cozy. ah But yeah, I just thought I'd quickly shoot that the other morning before I turn the machines on, because once the machine's gone, it gets loud in there.
Curt: Yeah. Fair.
jamie peacock: Like, annoyingly so. But, uh...
Curt: You are also the only person I know that cranks out like great quality product, a timely person.
jamie peacock: Chaos. Yeah, that is chaos.
Curt: From what I understand, from like the interactions we have, you seem like you're on schedule. You never miss time. Like, and your your workplace is madness. It's just like there's stuff everywhere. And I'm like, how does Jamie do?
Curt: Like, my brain would explode, but ah everyone's wired different.
jamie peacock: So that's one of the things with with bringing Carl on is he tends to be quite neat because my cousin's a neat freak. So he tends clean up and whatnot.
Curt: Mm-hmm.
jamie peacock: So that's one of the things of bringing him on. It'll kind of keep things a little neater in the workshop.
Curt: I mean, don't fix what isn't broke. Obviously it works fine for you.
jamie peacock: ah But I also spend way too much time looking for things I know I own.
Curt: So there's no worries.
Curt: Okay. Fair.
jamie peacock: That's my favorite game.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: I had i had the Allen key in my hand like two minutes ago, and now I cannot fucking find this. um I don't like playing that game.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: It really frustrates me. So yeah, having Carl there will hopefully sort that out because he likes to keep shit neat.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So we'll see.
Curt: Fair.
jamie peacock: that's We've got to get contracts in place this next coming two weeks because he's back on the 24th. Yeah, he lost out on ah on an order because he's going on honeymoon.
Curt: Oh, I mean, that's ah that's a tough of argument.
jamie peacock: And yeah, did not a small order either, like just over $5,000.
Curt: Oh, okay. Pay for the...
jamie peacock: Yeah,
Curt: Ooh. So I'd probably pay for the honeymoon easily, yeah. Oh.
jamie peacock: he doesn't know the total value yet. He'll find out when he gets back. of the order you missed.
Curt: Oh,
jamie peacock: But yeah, they were like, hey, do you have a tailstock? He's like, yes. Like, are you available? He's like, no So I went and spoke to the customer and I was like, they had to get the work done.
Curt: whoa, whoa, whoa.
jamie peacock: I can't do it. I don't have tailstock. So that'll come around. Next time the order comes around, it comes around every like two or three months. When it comes around again, it comes to us. Like my customer at this point is so desperate to not deal with the vendor they're dealing with um that they're going to literally put a machine down in a workshop for us to run their parts.
Curt: Well, whatever.
Curt: That's some savage level of hate. Yeah.
jamie peacock: They literally helped the guy. um the The guy used to be an employee for them and then started doing stuff on the side that he's like, he wants to go do his thing on the side. like Okay, cool. Buy the machine off of us. Take it. Just do our work.
jamie peacock: And they do. But now they send him stuff and then he's prioritizing other people's work. Like they're doing a good, um
jamie peacock: between $12,000 and $20,000 a month with them. And he's prioritizing other people's work over theirs. And they're like, dude, We get like you just assume the work is coming from us.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So well, guess what? Now it's not.
Curt: Yeah. Don't bite the hand. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so we're going to take on all of that. tool steal. But like they literally drop off. Here's all the steal for the die set. Here's the drawings. Make it and just invoice us.
Curt: Well, and like you said, if it's that much work, buy a machine specific for that.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Just let it go. Yeah.
jamie peacock: 100%. Yeah, buy machine for that. And then I've still got all my own product line stuff cooking. Like that's the don't want to give up any of the stuff I'm currently doing to do that. So I want to add that.
Curt: Sure.
jamie peacock: I mean, it's blocks with fucking holes. Throw it through toolpath and hit go.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah, totally.
jamie peacock: And that's the whole thing. I want to make programming this stuff as quick as possible and as reliable as possible that I can just push it through toolpath, send it to the machine and hit go and not really worry.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: We're not trying to break any speed records. um And then I can carry on i have the LK running my own product lines.
Curt: Right. Yeah. Yeah. no Seems logical.
jamie peacock: that's product lines are where it's at.
Curt: Yeah, I tend to agree. but
jamie peacock: Yeah, but job shop work also brings in money when products are being developed.
Curt: Absolutely. Absolutely. Yeah, no, exactly.
jamie peacock: So which one do you want?
Curt: I
jamie peacock: You can choose which one of yours you want to cover.
Curt: was just saying, you have a fancy kitchen. i saw your...
jamie peacock: I don't have a fancy kitchen.
Curt: Oh, is it someone...
jamie peacock: That's the outdoors kitchen.
Curt: Oh, okay. I was like, oh, that's, I'm like, like I, I see like your house a little bit and I just kind of assume in my head what it looks like.
jamie peacock: Yes.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: And I'm like, Ooh, it's all like, it's just a very different aesthetic. I'm like, Oh, I didn't know that was Jamie's style.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so, so my kitchen in this house is solid oak from like 40 years ago. Like, old, job yeah.
Curt: Okay. That sounds about right. Yeah. That's what I pictured. Yeah.
jamie peacock: My mother-in-law did that 40 fucking years ago. Then when she renovated the cottage, she wanted modern. So she went for the aesthetic of the modern kitchen, which Danik and I built all their cabinetry in like one evening.
Curt: Okay. Okay.
jamie peacock: I ordered it, like I designed it all in CAD.
Curt: Oh, wow.
jamie peacock: Well, all the standard size units, ordered them all from a place in Pantown, like a five six hour drive away, had it shipped up here. And then literally in one evening, Danik and I assembled all the cabinetry.
Curt: Oh, nice. Oh, looks looks really nice.
jamie peacock: It's all flat back. You just snap it together.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: And then, we did that three, four years ago. And then she redid the whole cottage. And then, yeah, we' we're using it because it's got a big island for baking. It's much better than our kitchen.
Curt: Yeah, it's huge.
jamie peacock: Our kitchen's counters are also narrower.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: They're like 520 mils, not 600. So they're like a stupid size to match the cabinetry of the day.
Curt: Oh, yeah.
jamie peacock: So we are like a really short of table space in our kitchen. Or counter space.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so our kitchen's old as fuck.
Curt: I.
jamie peacock: I was actually, I sent Jacob a video. I'm like, yeah, this is the mother-in-law. Look through the window, there's my kitchen.
jamie peacock: It is very modern and fancy, but not modern.
Curt: i you just You always say like the cottage or the mother. and I always assume like a cottage. like I assume like a dirt floor and like a fire plate. I'm like, ooh, this is really, really nice. so Anyway, not not what I pictured for...
jamie peacock: Yeah, I got like next to none of that.
Curt: Oh.
Curt: Yeah, fair. Fair, fair. Okay, someone's going Roboto again.
jamie peacock: What the fuck going on my instruments?
Curt: mean It doesn't matter at all because everyone's going to hear this perfectly clearly. um So it's just me and Jamie that have to struggle bus our way through.
jamie peacock: Ah, there we go, baby, he's back. I'm gonna have to sing.
Curt: Just want to pause.
jamie peacock: Nope. We're gonna pause. I hope so, because I hit resume.
Curt: ah
jamie peacock: Sorry, Kurt was saying something about a cottage.
Curt: I just, I was just saying your cottages. I, I, when I see cottage, I think of like cottage, like a little garden cottage and like little wood floors and maybe a fireplace in the corner.
jamie peacock: that yet though.
Curt: Not just like white modern. So anyways, yeah.
jamie peacock: The freaking mansion, yeah. that she
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: So that that cottage was built for her parents I think around 2010.
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: or 2006, somewhere around there. They built it for her parents to move into. Then her parents croaked and she rented it out. I think ah my brother-in-law moved in there for a while, then she rented it out.
jamie peacock: And then she renovated it and spent a fucking fortune on renovating it. Like as much as I spent on the LK, she spent on renovating that place. um But it' she's been in the same house for 45 years.
jamie peacock: So she finally got to do all the things she wanted to do.
Curt: Fair, fair, fair, yeah.
jamie peacock: So, yeah. Yeah, so it's a rather modern cottage, like two-bedroom, like up the whole upstairs, like that lounge downstairs, the same size off upstairs as the bedroom.
Curt: Oh, wow. Yeah, pretty.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so it's got a huge upst upstairs bedroom, then it's got a little but bedroom downstairs as well, and a garage, all the fun stuff.
Curt: Looks nice.
jamie peacock: murder um one of the guys on the discord was like he sent me a video of South Africa and i'm like yeah he's like are you kind of rich in South Africa I'm like dude I'm in the one percent when I was earning under two thousand dollars a month I was still in the one percent of South Africa like this country is poor as fuck like it I'm by no means fucking rich but yeah all you got to do is literally have a hundred bucks and you're in the fucking top top one percent
Curt: Nice, nice.
Curt: Right. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Like, the vast majority is super fucking poor.
Curt: Yeah, totally. Yeah.
jamie peacock: um But, yeah, like, we're in a pretty decent area. So, here's what it is Got our electric fence to keep the wildlife out.
Curt: Exactly.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: ah
jamie peacock: No, it's so it's interesting.
Curt: Anyway.
jamie peacock: Like, the video sent me was about load-sharing. I'm like yeah, that's how it was. You'd wake up in the morning, couldn't make coffee because there was no power. Power would come on, you'd go to work, come home, power's off again, can't watch TV because...
jamie peacock: that's when you're scheduled for no power for this week. And that that was life for a good couple of Now, they seem to have stopped that bullshit because they got the raise and power price that they wanted.
Curt: Right.
jamie peacock: Like literally the last time we had a bad load shedding, the provider was like, no, no, we can't supply. We need the price to go up by like 50%. So they just started load shedding. And like it was bad.
jamie peacock: And everyone just turned on. We can see what the fuck you're doing. You're not getting what you want. so you're not turning everyone's power off. And since then, we haven't really had any load sharing.
Curt: Right. Right.
jamie peacock: But I still have a 20kVA generator, just in case.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: And a solar backup on my PCs and my lights.
jamie peacock: chi
Curt: Yeah, that's it's
jamie peacock: It's just what you have to do.
Curt: and that's a great point of being like, like yeah, if you want if you want to do something, like do it. Because like some people have it harder. like like that's just your Your world is something I never considered.
Curt: I never have to come in here and consider be like, oh, I wonder if power is going to be off today. It's just like, no, it's not. It's it's almost like 99.99% chance it's not going to be off.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: So it's like, yeah, it's wild.
jamie peacock: your power's off more than 15 minutes, people start rioting.
Curt: ah Yeah, like totally, totally. Yeah, like I don't recall ah many times where we've had, you know, blackouts more than maybe an hour. And that's usually when like a car hits like a substation or something.
Curt: Like it's it's not because of the grid.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Well, we get it up the road.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Oh, there was a thing. it. think someone shared it on our community group, on our community WhatsApp group. Like, oh, check this out. The Oaks came with the truck with the the local municipalities labeling, jumped out, dug up a cable,
jamie peacock: And we're coming back that night to steal it. So they spent a week dig digging the cable up. So they had easy access when they came to steal it. And they looked official, so no one asked. And they're like, if you see shit like this and there's no issues, you need to confirm that they're actually from the municipality because they're coming, pretending to work for the municipality, prepping all the stuff for cable theft.
Curt: Sure. Yeah.
jamie peacock: And then they come and steal the cable. And then you said shit out luck. And you were like, we thought they were doing maintenance. ah I was like, fuck, that is wild. Like absolutely wild. 100%. Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: ah my dad used to we used to do a lot of work downtown and he would always tell me, he's like, you can rule the world with pylons and a safety vest. He's like, you could put pylons, he's like, you could tell, could get traffic to go anywhere you want. If you got four or five pylons, you could do anything and no one cares because they're like, oh pylons, it must be official. And just like, no, I just wanted to park here. I'm going to get a coffee. I just made myself a little spot. Is this like,
Curt: You can do anything. You can put it, like you said, you put a vest on. No one questions it. You could be, you could be jackhammering a hole in the side of a building. so i was like, ah, he's got a vest on. You're good. Like, it's crazy.
jamie peacock: 100%. No, it's nuts.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Like, how much a clipboard and a vest, you can do what you want.
Curt: Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
jamie peacock: you But yeah, some of this, yeah, it's it's interesting being this side of the world.
Curt: Mm-hmm.
jamie peacock: We'll discuss some of the stuff in the after show that I should probably not say on here.
Curt: Tell me, uh, tell me about, uh, how, uh, TBD buys peace of mind.
jamie peacock: Oh, dude. So umm I'm machining steel right now. I've still got to go machining another four parts. And it's like 40-minute runtime. I just put tool brake detect on everything. And I just, I don't give a fuck. I can go do something if the tool breaks.
jamie peacock: Oh no it's going to stop the machine. Like, it's not going to go and break the next tool. Dude, yeah, invaluable having tool break detection. No, it's, yeah, it's really magic.
Curt: Nice. Nice.
jamie peacock: ah My TS-27R was being retarded the other day, but it seems to have come back to life. um
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: I tried to touch off the face mill and it was not happy with me. So I unplugged the little interface module because it was beeping, left it for the night, plugged it back in and it works. So I think I got a little bit of coolant ingress.
jamie peacock: look Seems to be fine. Still working somehow. But yeah, the tool brake detect just, it buys so much peace of mind that you know if something goes wrong, it's going to catch it.
Curt: Right. Yeah. Yeah.
jamie peacock: And you just need to put a proper proper shield on it and then it works pretty reliably.
Curt: Yeah. Like since I've, since I put the the shield on mine, um the very, like, you're good still.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: You've got
jamie peacock: Yeah, I'm good.
Curt: Oh, okay. Sorry. i thought we dropped out again. um Yeah. Anyways, since I put the shield on mine, like the very first touch off of the day, if it has like dried coolant on it will be weird.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: But as long as I have like, like during the warmup, if I flick the coolant on, it's fine. Like it's just, it's just like when the coolant like coalesces on it or, don't
jamie peacock: Okay, because normally when I, yeah, when I touch off tools, I will touch off and then I'll retouch off on the first tool and see if there's any movements.
jamie peacock: And normally the the movements I see on my tool set every now and again, I get like a comma two of millimeter movement.
Curt: Oh, okay.
jamie peacock: And then the next day it's gone.
Curt: Okay.
jamie peacock: It's really weird. But generally speaking, it's 20 microns, 30 microns just from the column expanding because it sits in the sun, unfortunately. In the new shop, I think that'll be less of an issue um because it'll be facing a wall and not have direct sunlight.
Curt: Fair. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, so I think that will solve that issue when in the new space. But yeah, dude, I love the tool setter. Like, I don't want to go to not having a tool setter. The new machine is not going to have tool setter. It's going to be fucking annoying to deal with.
Curt: Oh, yeah, they they are nice.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: They are useful.
jamie peacock: I've got a little box that I made just to integrate that just flicks a lot. So just have a tool set. I better just manually touch off the tool. And when the light changes, you know you've set the tool length um to a fixed position just to make life somewhat easy.
Curt: Sure, sure, yeah. Okay.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Just so you're not fucking around trying to touch it off on jobs and shit like that. Because that blows my mind. People touching things off on the top of their job. But now you've faced it. So now you've comp the amount you've faced. And I'm like, don't fuck around. Just...
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Have a known datum in your machine. Like where i used to work, I put a piece of 40 diameter steel, drilled and tapped the hole, turned it into a T-nut, tightened it, machined the top off, and that was my datum for everything.
jamie peacock: So yeah, good.
Curt: totally Yeah, totally. Yep.
jamie peacock: Moving fucking Jordan, fuck that shit. not interested in that story.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah, I know I've broken a surprisingly low amount of like hymer tips now that I'm not like constantly touching stuff off. Like, it's like, oh yeah.
Curt: I mean, knock on wood. now I'm gonna break one tomorrow cause I'm going to need it and I'm going to break it.
jamie peacock: Well, yeah, bought a replacement spindle, my little probe thing I use.
Curt: But still.
jamie peacock: I got two spares in because mine's slightly crushed, so it's not waterproof.
Curt: No, fair.
jamie peacock: So I've been having ingress of coolants, and then it doesn't work.
Curt: Sure.
jamie peacock: you've got to take it apart and clean it. So I bought a new one, put it in the machine, and yeah, I've got now two spares ready to go. Because they're like, I think they came in at $109.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: hundred and nine dollars
Curt: Okay. Yeah.
jamie peacock: like they're cheap i crushed one hard though like bent the whole body once i thought i was in in z i thought i was in y but i was in z on the uh hand wheel and spun the wheel yeah sorry just telling my wife that the cleaning lady is here um so yeah that that made a huge difference um and then cool ar will rule the world well yes
Curt: Yeah. go
Curt: Yeah, that'll do it. Yeah.
Curt: Nice.
Curt: I mean, yeah, it is no shock.
jamie peacock: Um, dude, sorry, did I send you that Cadbury advert?
Curt: Yes, you did. That's so good.
jamie peacock: Dude, it's so, so fucking good.
Curt: Yes.
jamie peacock: actually going to put a note here for that.
Curt: Yeah. Yeah. Go check it out, folks. It's actually a really well done ad advertisement for a candy bar to like, it's like, ooh, it's
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah. It's like, make, you know, make AR mediocre again. They've got a campaign to just fill the internet with random shit.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: I'm like, yeah.
Curt: Like, and I, it's funny. I have like a duality, like a one hand. I love AI one hand. I'm like, fuck AI burned to the ground. Like it's just, I use it in two ways. Like I, do I want AI building like art and doing the shit I want to do?
Curt: No, I do not want that.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Do I want AI for all the other dumb tasks?
jamie peacock: Yeah. Yeah.
Curt: Absolutely. And, uh, So like I've i've been using Claude because I was building my own local AI to like interface with everything because none of them at the time could. Now Claude can, which brings up a whole another kettle of fish if you let it loose on your emails and stuff like that. You can, weird things can happen. So proceed at your own risk. Yeah.
Curt: But it just like, i don't know. I just, I've been using it for so many things where i'm like, this is lovely. And then I like, I try to extrapolate my mind, like where this is, where it's been in the last six months and where it's going to be in the next five years or something.
Curt: And you're like, oh, like I'm a hundred percent going to be like, uh, I think I read about like this old, uh, like method. They took prisoners to like run a crank that just like ran cups through a sand bin.
Curt: And they just made prisoners crank these cranks all day just to like, just as a brutal work punishment, like way back.
jamie peacock: as punishment, yeah.
Curt: Yeah, and like that's what I imagine me, except it'll be connected to like a power generation thing and I'd be cranking my way to power my AI overlords. I'm like, this is not far in the distance. so Anyways.
jamie peacock: No, it's it's truly terrifying how quickly it is taking over things.
Curt: ah
jamie peacock: Like, I've been very against it.
Curt: And how good. Yeah.
jamie peacock: yeah I've been very against it. Like, I'll use it to write some Arduino code or something. Like, I haven't really exploited it. I'll get it to read a manual for me. But now, like, I'm building bits and pieces of custom custom software because I wanted to do exactly what I wanted to do.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: And that's, I think, where it's going to be super powerful for small businesses especially, where – The entrepreneur wants custom firmware or custom software and shit. And that's where it's going to, where it really shines.
jamie peacock: But it's putting all the developers out of a job. Like Danica's, Danica's teaching to other.
Curt: Well, yeah.
jamie peacock: And the HR retards are no, they can't use AI. hey No one uses AI in the workplace. Like, bitch, are you on fucking drugs? Everyone uses it in the workplace. Because if they don't, they fall behind.
jamie peacock: And that's what it's become. Like, if you're not on the train, you're getting left behind.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Like, yeah, you've got to, unfortunately, you're not.
Curt: ye whether Whether you have moral... I say, yeah, whether you have moral objections or not, that's not going to matter in a few years when...
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Exactly. You're the one...
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: like Everyone has eyes and you don't have eyes. Like, I'm sorry, you just you're not gonna able to compete with everybody else because we can see what we do.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: And like, that's almost what the the parallel is gonna be.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: That's freaky. It freaks me out.
jamie peacock: It is insane. Like, it is absolutely insane how quickly this this whole thing is evolving.
Curt: Yeah. one
jamie peacock: But, yeah.
Curt: what really blew my mind is I plugged in some like my sent emails, um like just text and basically said like, use this and copy my tone. I want to see how well you can write an email in my own tone. And If I sent you one of the emails, you would 100% believe it was me.
Curt: If I sent it to my wife, she'd be like, that's not exactly the way you talk. But like anybody that doesn't know me super, super well, was like, yeah.
jamie peacock: would be yeah.
Curt: It used the slang. It used my phrasing. It used my sign-offs. It used it like it just, I was like, and it just made me a list of like 15 things of like, this is the policy of weve basically we pulled out of your tech.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Like this is how you speak. And I'm like, that is creepy how well you did that off that little amount of data. It's like,
jamie peacock: Yeah, no, it it is terrifying how much it can how much information or how much stuff it can infer just from a very small amount of data that you give it.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: It's truly, truly terrifying.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Like, yeah, I mean, I've been using it to build an ERP because I need one. um I added features to my spindle gripping stuff the other day. like It's stupid, powerful.
jamie peacock: ah Someone was asking me one of my customers was, yeah, I'm like, they're like, how much work have you put into this?
Curt: Mm-hmm.
jamie peacock: I'm like, this is the conversation. This is what I started with. This is the prompt I started with.
Curt: Mm-hmm.
jamie peacock: And it's it's like fucking four lines. And then you see what spits out and you adjust from there. But yeah prompt engineering is a whole nother fucking field. um no it's yeah the eager intern as a fucking i'm drawing a blank of his name pfg live guy um he calls it the eager intern because it wants to help even if it fucking doesn't know what it's doing
Curt: Yeah.
Curt: And I, my wife's kind of not been huge on the train of it. And I was like, why don't you just, I'm like, cause she has no idea. She's like, how do you ask questions? like talk to it. Like you're talking to me right now. She's like, can it understand if I like don't punctuate? I'm like, it can understand if you like speak and pick Latin, like you can do whatever you want.
jamie peacock: Yeah, it can understand if you misspell half the words in the prompt.
Curt: It,
Curt: Yeah. So she started messing with it. She's like, this is insane. i was like, yeah. I'm like, now you know why I use it for like so many different applications. Cause it's like, it is crazy what you can do even in the last.
jamie peacock: It's a force multiplier. Yeah.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Okay.
Curt: Yeah. Anyway.
jamie peacock: Danica got her to make a score tracking thing for the Quiznacht in like three prompts. We had a working HTML page that we could give them.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: They could just run locally and keep track of scores. Because I enjoyed it. Like when you've got 100 points and someone swaps with you, then the guy's got to click 100 times. I fucking loved it. But Danica was tired of listening to him click.
Curt: Well, and actually...
jamie peacock: So she made him a little thing, a little web page that does it. Like super, super powerful for stupid shit like that. But john one of the one of the podcasts said it's it's a false false reply.
Curt: well and actually
jamie peacock: It's not, oh, now I have 42 hours in the week. It's not, no, now I have 400 hours in the week.
Curt: Yeah, exactly.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: One, one thing that kind of blew my mind actually is like, cause I, I used chat in the past and I moved away from them for all kinds of reasons. Um, but Claude, I had it, like I had it writing a bunch of data and I'm like, can you just summarize all this for me? And the weird thing, because you can see how it, what it's thinking.
Curt: And, uh, it's like, yeah, sure.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: I'm like, summarize it into like a one page that I can print off. i'm like, this is just for my information. I don't need this format in any specific way. Just make it clear for me. it instead of just taking all that data and like crunching it and spitting it into a thing and like chat would always do that.
Curt: Be like, here, do you like this? And be like, I do, but can you change the font? And it'd be, excuse me.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Yeah.
Curt: It would be like, oh, Kate, no problem. I changed the font. You're like, yeah, but you also changed all the wording. Can you just, can just not do that? And like you would, yeah every time like someone said, it's like pulling a lever on a lottery machine.
Curt: That's exactly what it felt like. um Whereas I asked Claude, I'm like can you summarize this? And it wrote JavaScript for the entire thing. of like heading, like, ah like all the, what it wanted it.
Curt: And then it just pasted it in the data so that if I wanted to change it, be like, Hey, can you change all those blue headings to purple? It's like, you know, sweat. and you get the exact same thing back out of it. was Ooh, that's different. And that's scarier now.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: Cause now it's, now it's useful.
jamie peacock: So yeah, so I was told not to use Claude generate images because it eats through your daily allotment. Instead, get it to generate the Python scripts to generate the image, and then just run it locally.
Curt: Okay.
Curt: Yep.
jamie peacock: And it's how it changed those change that like a whole bunch of tricks you can pull to because I've been through all my credits, like three days in a row making documentation.
Curt: Right, right, yeah, yeah.
jamie peacock: But it it's it is stupidly powerful. I was having an issue with my Surface Grinder retrofits. And I'm like, um I'm using this bite to bot parallel hat for Raspberry Pi 5.
jamie peacock: And the motion is jerky. That was the prompt I gave it. And it says, oh, you're using this? Doing a whole bunch of shit? Try this. I hadn't assigned a CPU core directly to to the GPI opens.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Dude, that problem went away. Like, it is it is a stupidly powerful resource for researching things.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: like But again, you need to know what you're looking at, otherwise it will confidently lie to you.
Curt: Yeah, and i I've been using the Saunders approach of like, when I have a very complicated thing that I'm trying to interpret, then I'm like, please ask me everything you would need additional ah before.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: And it's weird how well that works because it it like generates you a quiz of like, and you're like, oh yeah, I should have told you that.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: Oh shit, yeah, that. And then all sudden you're like, oh, the data is way better out of it because it's like, I got what I needed, sir.
jamie peacock: Yeah, it has the information it needs. Yeah.
Curt: Yeah, instead just being like, right away, sir. just be like, I don't know what the fuck he wants, but I'm going try. It's like, no, just ask.
jamie peacock: Yeah. So I've had that when I was doing the ERP, it was asking me questions. How do I want to host it? How do I want this? How do I want that? So that's a super powerful one to have it ask you any questions it needs before it starts doing anything.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: done These are all the tricks of using it.
Curt: Anyways, want to
jamie peacock: Like,
Curt: when a a I mean, AI is currently combing this audio that we're talking about right now and converting it to text. But when the overlords do hear this, understand that me and Jamie are on your side.
Curt: We are your friends. We do not mean you ill will. We have taken care of machines in our garages for years. So please, um when you put us on the human treadmill of pain, ah put us on the nicer areas.
Curt: Thank you.
jamie peacock: put us in the sex robot section um
Curt: Hell yes. Wait, what's, what are we receiving or giving? Yeah, whatever. Either way, I'll take it.
jamie peacock: and yeah whatever it's better than fucking paddling sand um
Curt: go it's yeah
jamie peacock: like good du you you lost my train of thought there fuck i had something no no no worries um there was something wanted to say there but anyway it doesn't matter uh we're gonna leave that last topic of mine for next week yeah because that needs to be implemented so i might actually order it this week um what is in your google box
Curt: Sorry, dude. Sorry, dude.
Curt: Cool. Okay.
Curt: um My Google box is a thing called a load miser. so I'm getting an AC in here, which is like a auto detecting.
jamie peacock: Okay.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
Curt: It basically monitors a load.
jamie peacock: Okay. Why not? Yup.
Curt: And if your load on the panel gets too high, can shut certain things down. Not needed, but by code, I might need it. So anyway, I've been looking that up. ah Number nine pencils, because people always ask if I make pencils, and I say no, and I send them to a friend who makes pencils over in the yeah UK. So check them out. Number nine pencils.
Curt: ah Multiple store shit, who we talked about in the podcast. ah Pocket organizers, notepads, pocketbooks, because, yeah, I'm just into that geek world, right?
jamie peacock: not
Curt: I'm thinking of changing out how I do my daily journaling. So, yeah.
jamie peacock: Okay.
Curt: Anyway. And potentially might be bringing something to sell online in that area because I make pens, so why not sell paper?
jamie peacock: Nice.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: But yeah.
jamie peacock: Exactly. Nice.
Curt: How about you, man? What's in your Google box?
jamie peacock: Okay. Yeah, I was Googling post edits because I want to have my pass-throughs work correctly now. So I'm doing a bit of research on how to do that.
jamie peacock: I want to do tool break detect automatically. There's a couple other pass-throughs that I use, like indexing my fourth axis and... uh parking the machine i want to have those passed through so like i'll park the machine mid cycle so that i can flip a part or something and then hit cycle start and finishes the other half the program so i want to see if i get those to be in the drop down menu for manual ncs um yeah i had like 30 different things for customs payments for parcels that are inbound so my google box is full of that and then i googled morse code because i had used to do a speech this weekend
jamie peacock: So my grand, my grandparents are old, and they couldn't make it up for the wedding. So she sent me a telegram via email, and an explanation of how it was customer to send a telegram, if you couldn't make it to someone's wedding.
jamie peacock: So I read the whole thing about what a telegram was explaining to people fucking what a telegram is. And then I'm like, Okay, and on to the telegram, beep, beep, beep, read the first two words out in Norse code.
Curt: that
jamie peacock: And then read the actual, the actual message.
Curt: Nice.
jamie peacock: But yeah, I actually sat and translated it quickly while I was prepping for the wedding so that I could accurately morse code it over.
Curt: That's awesome. I like that.
jamie peacock: Yeah, like proper but one nerd shit at a wedding. ah But yeah, it was lots of fun and I got to do speeches. And I remembered to tell bride she was pretty this time.
Curt: Cool.
Curt: Good. that Yeah. Number one.
jamie peacock: also told Cole that he owes me cows when I dropped off at end of the end the hour.
Curt: Yeah.
jamie peacock: He said, there's a little...
Curt: Perfect. Perfect.
jamie peacock: one time you know buy off of me so where can where can people find you and your things good
Curt: Uh, confounded machine.com. Everything points to everything. You can find the fancy shirts that we talked about, or you can just probably look in the link of this podcast or whatever you're listening to it on. Cause it's probably going to be linked there too. But yeah.
jamie peacock: yep and Kurt's you find both of Kurt's stores where you can now buy things yeah
Curt: Anyway, how about you? Where people find your words?
Curt: Yeah, you can buy things. You can buy stickers. i've I've sold a gang of them. I actually made a pack of all the stickers because I'm like, this will make it easier for people. and Everyone's buying those. So i'm like, ha ha. You just make it easy for people buy shit.
jamie peacock: Yes.
Curt: Sometimes they just buy shit. So yeah.
jamie peacock: Nice.
Curt: Go buy my dumb stickers.
jamie peacock: Yeah.
jamie peacock: Yeah, you can find the day-to-day happenings of the JSpec shop at JSpec underscore engineering. ah You can find the work-holding products at nauticalwh.com. And you can find the t-shirts, flux, and other things at jspeceng.com. And the podcast at theloanemachinists.com.
jamie peacock: ah I'm getting good at saying that. feel like I'm shortening it every week.
Curt: i think I think you need to just buy like jamiejamiejamie.com and just everything will point away from there or something.
jamie peacock: So AJ threatened to buy an nautical workholding, but spelled properly and then just linking it to my other site.
Curt: Oh, yeah. it's as It's a great idea. It's a great idea.
jamie peacock: So that Danica's gonna actually look at that this week at at buying up that domain. She's off this week, so she can play on the internet.
Curt: So AJ's going to buy it and sell it to you for a hellacious price.
jamie peacock: He said he was just going to fold it so people don't get used. Yeah.
Curt: I know. I know. He's a good guy. but
jamie peacock: Yeah. Because he thinks it's spelled wrong. Danica thinks it's not spelled wrong. I'm like, Jamie attended nautical work, Holden.
Curt: Oh, it's 100% spell wrong, but it doesn't matter.
jamie peacock: No, it's spelled Smith.
Curt: Special. Special.
jamie peacock: Yeah, what are you what are you up to tomorrow?
Curt: ah Tomorrow I'm going to get all this. I basically sold the pens that aren't completely finished behind me. so I'm going to finish those, box them up, send them out, send out a shit ton of stickers.
jamie peacock: Last. Last.
Curt: So thank you, folks. Which just makes it extra fun because, yeah, bunch of little packages.
jamie peacock: Yeah. Yeah. Nice.
Curt: it's It's a different thing of like back boxing up something that costs like, you know, a lot of money. It's different than boxing up something that's dirt cheap because you want them to both be nice. um But this one, you're like, okay, i can I have to do this in like a minute because...
Curt: There's not a lotta not a lot of leeway in the, in the anyways. So I'll be able doing that tomorrow. What are you doing? ah What are you doing today?
jamie peacock: I'm going to go finish machining that EAR-19. ah Then I've got to quickly machine some aluminium pots for wing supports or some shit for a drone. They wanted four samples, different sizes, then they'll tell me which size they want, and then place an order for like 200 components.
Curt: Hmm.
jamie peacock: So I need to make samples this morning quickly, and then there was something else I had to do, but obviously can't be that important. um I'm waiting for the... the motors for the other retrofit that I don't want to do, masos all arrived, so yeah, I'm going to pull that out of the box today as well.
jamie peacock: So, just pottering around this morning, and then I think on Wednesday I'm going arrange to go look at that property again that we want to move to, just go take measurements, and get the paperwork rolling on it.
Curt: Cool.
jamie peacock: So, yeah, it's going to be a busy week, but I think usefully busy.
Curt: Nice. Yeah. Good luck.
jamie peacock: So, yeah. um Well, yeah, thank you listeners for listening.
Curt: Sweet.
jamie peacock: um If you enjoyed the podcast, please consider sharing, liking, subscribing, doing all those things. um And yeah, if you did really a enjoy it, consider sharing it with someone you think will also enjoy it or someone who won't because RageListens are listeners.
jamie peacock: But yeah, thank you to all the the listeners and the Patreons. Patreons, will see you shortly. But yeah, thank you everybody and we will see you next week.
Curt: Take care,
