Become a Creator today!Start creating today - Share your story with the world!
Start for free
00:00:00
00:00:01
Ep. 56: How Hard Can It Be? (Famous Last Words)
340 Plays1 month ago
In this episode of the Loan Machines Podcast, Jamie and Curt bounce between small wins and absolute disasters in the shop. Jamie dives into poking around a PLC “just to see how hard it could be,” accidentally saving himself hundreds of dollars and making his machine do exactly what he wants. Curt, meanwhile, declares war on an inkjet printer in the name of responsibility… and loses badly.
Along the way, they talk garage “statues” that never move, clearing mental clutter by throwing things out, fiber lasers and why they’re terrifyingly cool, and why some projects really should’ve gone in the bin years ago. It’s shop talk, light swearing, questionable decisions, and the kind of stories that only happen when you try to fix things yourself.
Links Discussed:
- Jet trains: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h4lLYmFtgY
- Slow Mo Guys - Virtual Boy: https://youtu.be/jW7M8H99x7Y?si=aw0EbklFztmt6S8b
- Brother horizontal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwvuYcKNcZ0
- GTEL Train: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXXi3siVA_Q
The Lone Machinist:
- Website: https://thelonemachinists.com/
- Bonus Content: https://thelonemachinists.com/#bonus-content
- Merch: https://www.jspeceng.com/online-store
- Patreon: https://patreon.com/TheLoneMachinists
Need Work Done? Check out Subtract Manufacturing at: https://subtractmanufacturing.com/
Want to try out Toolpath? Give it a go and get 10% off by using the code TLM10 at checkout: https://toolpath.com/
Jamie:
Curt:
Recommended
Transcript
Garage Tales and Tech Trials
00:00:00
jamie peacock
Welcome to the Loan Machines Podcast, where it's just you, your machines, and the work. What have you got going on today, Kurt?
00:00:07
Curt
ah Today I'm going to talk about removing statues from my garage, how fiber lasers, ah words, fiber lasers are neat, and how I fought an inkjet printer and lost. How about you?
00:00:18
jamie peacock
um We're going to talk about how I made the PLC on the LK, my bitch, im considering moving to Mint Linux.
00:00:22
Curt
Nice.
00:00:24
jamie peacock
And um yeah, USDs and Australian Ds are not the same.
00:00:30
Curt
Nice.
00:00:31
jamie peacock
Yeah, so how are you this fine day, Kurt?
00:00:34
Curt
Good, I'm assuming by D's you mean dollars.
00:00:36
jamie peacock
Yes, obviously.
00:00:37
Curt
Okay, just checking.
00:00:38
jamie peacock
i don't know, never compared the other type of knees.
00:00:42
Curt
ah
00:00:42
jamie peacock
See, we have to a strong start this morning.
00:00:43
Curt
ah
00:00:44
jamie peacock
oh this often
00:00:44
Curt
yeah Whatever it is, it's midday where we're splitting the world in half.
00:00:49
jamie peacock
Yes, pretty much. So yeah, are you doing this this fine day?
DIY PLC and Engineering Hacks
00:00:55
Curt
Good. Last week was good. Got my production back up to kind of square. Got my brain kind of settled back into its regular grooves again.
00:00:59
jamie peacock
Not so.
00:01:02
Curt
So yeah, feel a lot more like I have my feet under me as opposed to like the world running away from me. So that's nice. Yeah, I got everything out, which is nice.
00:01:08
jamie peacock
Yeah, that's always fun.
00:01:11
Curt
So I'm starting new production now.
00:01:12
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:01:13
Curt
That's always o ah a positive. But ah how about you? how did you ah How did you make your LK your bitch?
00:01:19
jamie peacock
Ah, yeah, I got bored on Thursday. um So I was waiting for material. i had whole bunch of material on orders waiting for them to deliver. So I was doing admin stuff and pottering around. And then I'm like, let me go poke at the PLC.
00:01:31
jamie peacock
Like, How hard can it be? So I've got the um the manuals for the machine and the electrical diagrams for the machines and all that. So I went through all of that, found where all the outputs are.
00:01:43
jamie peacock
um Allegedly, there should be a bunch of M codes for work clamp. So I went to the PLC and I was searching terms in the PLC and came across the M70...
00:01:57
jamie peacock
m71 m72 through m79 macros which are work clamp one through four clamp and unclamp
00:02:05
jamie peacock
So I found the logic for that and then proceeded to take a picture of all the outputs from that logic. So if you give the code, it basically sets a variable high or low. And then just made a few extra networks on the PLC that say a variable high, output high. If variable low, ver output low.
00:02:05
Curt
Nice.
00:02:24
jamie peacock
Fucking done. Literally six symbols that are added to the PLC. um
00:02:29
Curt
nice
00:02:30
jamie peacock
And I spoke to my mate last week from WJN. I'm hey, please give me a quote to have the guys come out and do this for me. And I spoke to him this morning.
00:02:35
Curt
Yeah.
00:02:36
jamie peacock
And I'm like, oh, you clearly didn't look at your WhatsApp over the weekend because, yeah, I made him a bitch it's done. But I want to see how much they want to charge. They wanted to charge me like $600 to come out for the day.
00:02:47
jamie peacock
Because they were making it like it's a huge endeavor. I'm like, bitches, it took me two hours. and like My machine was only on for two hours and 18 minutes that day. And the first 18 minutes were it warming up.
00:02:59
jamie peacock
So don't try to tell me this is a whole day if fucking can job. It's a couple lines of bloody code. Or not even, it's a couple freaking ladder diagrams.
00:03:06
Curt
Oh, OK, OK.
00:03:07
jamie peacock
So anyway, got my my inputs and outputs, or my outputs working for my gripper system. I'm waiting on a valve block and I'm waiting on Matt who listens to the podcast from Blackwell Engineering. We had a chat last week. He's got a product in the works for generating all the load and unload G code.
00:03:31
Curt
oh okay okay
00:03:32
jamie peacock
Yeah, really, really interesting chat with him last week. I'm not going to dive too deep into it, but basically he's developing a an app that you you go through a wizard, so that's spacing and whatnot, program name, and it outputs G-code for loading and unloading and external references your program, which also...
00:03:50
Curt
Oh, cool. I'm assuming for like array based, like loading and unloading.
00:03:53
jamie peacock
ah Yes, not only.
00:03:55
Curt
Okay.
00:03:55
jamie peacock
So array base and putting it back in its spot or putting it into a bin, there's a whole bunch of options.
00:04:01
Curt
Oh, cool. Nice.
00:04:02
jamie peacock
So really, really powerful.
00:04:02
Curt
Okay.
00:04:04
jamie peacock
I'm looking forward to to seeing it. um And then just the other thing. I forgot what I was going to say. damage
Garage Decluttering and CNC Projects
00:04:13
jamie peacock
But yeah, yeah that that's really cool cool looking.
00:04:16
jamie peacock
um And yeah, I got my external my external program calls fixed on my machine. know if i mentioned a while ago, I couldn't get ext call to work on my Siemens controller.
00:04:28
jamie peacock
So I got shown I got shown how to do it at IMTS would not work.
00:04:28
Curt
Oh, okay. Yeah.
00:04:33
jamie peacock
Like I looked at the pictures that I took, could not get it to work. Turns out my machine, the previous owner had set the external call folder to be on the flash drive that's not in my machine.
00:04:45
jamie peacock
because he was using a flash drive or a thumbstick to move his stuff around. And if you take it out of there, if you leave that blank, best I can tell from the documentation, it searches the current folder and then proceeds to search every other available folder for your external call.
00:05:00
Curt
Oh, okay.
00:05:01
jamie peacock
Yeah, so I now have external call working because i would export to the same folder. I'd export my code I'm running and then the code that's going to do the pick and put out the load and unload.
00:05:13
jamie peacock
So I need them to, if they're the same folder, I just say external call and call that program. If it's a subroutine, I can just call the the short the shorthand for it and it will go find it in my subroutine folder.
00:05:24
Curt
Oh, nice, nice, nice.
00:05:25
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:05:28
jamie peacock
I assume you can hear my dogs in the background.
00:05:30
Curt
Oh, the... world rural
00:05:31
jamie peacock
Yes, okay, now they've shot up. i was about to shout at them. Sorry, Danica's not here, so they're not in the house this evening. um
00:05:37
Curt
Aw.
00:05:37
jamie peacock
They are moaning at somebody walking down the road because my dog thinks that he is a husky.
00:05:40
Curt
Well, that's...
00:05:43
jamie peacock
He is not.
00:05:44
Curt
Aw.
00:05:44
jamie peacock
He's a rottweiler.
00:05:46
jamie peacock
But yeah, so we got, yeah, to annoy me is his job. Yes, we got that that whole thing sorted out. I'm very, very, very curious about removing statues from your garage.
00:05:46
Curt
it's his It's his job.
00:05:58
Curt
that's like a thing that I don't...
00:06:02
Curt
i'm like Okay, you guys can't see it, but Jamie just muted himself and yelled at his dogs, but I just i just see like your mouth moving with no sound coming out, and he says it's just...
00:06:06
jamie peacock
Pretty much. Yeah.
00:06:11
Curt
Anyway, um so yeah, statues from your garage. just like There's so many things that I feel like my bench was a perfect example. I set things on it, and then you're like, I'm going to deal with this like next week, and the next week comes, you're like, going to deal with it next week, and then six months pass, and you're like, this hasn't moved in six months, and I haven't needed it, and like I can't throw it away because that I do actually need it, but like,
00:06:33
Curt
There's just so many statues that I noticed. what I call statues. um That I just like find around.
00:06:37
jamie peacock
uh yep
00:06:37
Curt
And I'm just like, get these out of here. So I i cleared out a whole bunch on the weekend because was just in one of those moods where you like you're looking at everything. You're like, can I throw this? I'll throw it out. And you get in that throwout mood and you start throwing everything out.
00:06:50
Curt
You're like, I use this, but... fuck it i'll throw it away i'll buy a new one if i need it and like it was a good mood to be in um so anyways i got rid of a ton of them and then my brain just feels so much lighter like i come in here and i'm like ah my brain feels light like it's one of those like death by death by a thousand cuts kind of deals where you don't notice it till you notice it and then you're like oh what was i doing so anyway go yeah
00:07:08
jamie peacock
Yeah, i was very curious because i saw this over the weekend that you had updated the dock and I was so curious.
00:07:13
jamie peacock
um But yeah, speaking of garage statues, I got rid of, i think I mentioned last we were making a tapimotron where I said, no, I've got a motor, I've got a linear guard, like just come take it.
00:07:13
Curt
yeah yeah
00:07:23
Curt
Yeah. Yeah. Mm-hmm.
Fiber Laser Fascinations
00:07:25
jamie peacock
um I ordered the drive for him. had a power supply who would have guessed um actually for a project that i was going to do with him before holding bertha and this driver arrives it's uh i think a dm860a stepper driver just like stepper nothing fancy no closed loop any of that reading it's like io mode so i pulled up a manual because it obviously didn't come with one um build up a manual, if you put it into IO mode and you take your step or pulse in your direction, it runs clockwise one way, counterclockwise the other way if you pull them half.
00:08:04
Curt
Oh, nice. Okay.
00:08:05
jamie peacock
Yeah, oh,
00:08:06
Curt
its just Super dumb logic to make it go.
00:08:08
jamie peacock
Superdome logic, you can set the speed with the dip switches on the thing.
00:08:12
jamie peacock
So instead of setting your pulses per revolution, it sets the RPM that the stepper motor runs at. And for what we needed it for, perfect.
00:08:12
Curt
Okay.
00:08:18
Curt
Oh, nice. Yeah.
00:08:20
jamie peacock
Basically, there's a reset button that opens the relay. It runs forward until it hits the proximity switch. It latches the relay so that runs backwards until you load a new part and it reset then runs forward again.
00:08:32
Curt
Nice. Nice.
00:08:32
jamie peacock
like perfect its like I was offloading crap because again, statues, things, I can't throw them in the bin because they have value, but they need to not be in my workshop either.
00:08:41
Curt
Yeah.
00:08:44
jamie peacock
Like my injection molding machine that I was building in during COVID.
00:08:44
Curt
Absolutely.
00:08:48
jamie peacock
So seven years ago, that needs to go in the bin.
00:08:52
Curt
Jeez. Seven years.
00:08:54
jamie peacock
I need to just use it in the bin, but it's also like, I machined all those parts. They're really cool.
00:08:59
Curt
Yeah. Yeah. No, I get it.
00:09:01
jamie peacock
That's the, yeah, the problem. Is, yeah.
00:09:05
Curt
Yeah, I... I know I need like a, I need like a portal where I could just put things in and then was like, go into like, ah like another dimension.
00:09:12
jamie peacock
The future.
00:09:12
Curt
And then what, yeah, when I need them back, it's like, and they come back and then I could, cause I would fill that thing. I have so much shit where it's like, like my shrinker, I have a little shrinker for my tools.
00:09:18
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:09:21
Curt
And i'm like, I use this. So like, cause I just populated my thread. I'm not buying any more shrink tooling, but I use it to hold my thread mill, which lasts for like,
00:09:26
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:09:29
Curt
a year like and never changing it so i'm like well i use it once a year now so i'm like well i don't want it sitting out but like if i put it in a box and it's just gonna so yeah it's yeah
00:09:30
jamie peacock
Ever.
00:09:40
jamie peacock
No, I've got i've got like today was packing out. So when we did the Goodway and Karlslaith, I bought a bunch of buttons and stuff. I put on the counter as we're using them. We're using them. They were left on the counter.
00:09:50
jamie peacock
So today I pulled out the electronics box, dumped all the buttons and wire and all that crap into the box that it needs to be in so it can go back on the shelf.
00:09:51
Curt
mm-hmm
00:09:59
jamie peacock
When I need it, I know where it is.
00:10:01
jamie peacock
um But it doesn't need to be on the workbench. I want to use that workbench for other things. And yeah, just being disciplined.
00:10:01
Curt
Totally.
00:10:05
Curt
totally
00:10:07
jamie peacock
It's not fun.
00:10:08
Curt
Yeah, I know. I think this summer I'm going to have ah have a nerd garage sale.
00:10:09
jamie peacock
No, I
00:10:12
Curt
I'm just going to like put out all my stupid stuff that a normal garage sale people wouldn't like, but a nerd garage sale be like, oh, do you guys want just like a box of various transformers?
00:10:17
jamie peacock
Yeah. No.
00:10:20
Curt
Or like, here's a bunch of neon sign transformers that I was going to make Tesla coils out of. I have a gang of them because I bought a gang of them because some guy was decommissioning a restaurant. And it's just like dumb stuff I've collected over the years where I don't need like six neon sign transformers.
00:10:33
Curt
I can keep one and the rest can go away. and like Yeah. Yeah.
00:10:36
jamie peacock
No, exactly. like I've got a lot of stuff like that where I've got i've got the industrial Lego box, which is all sensors and crap.
00:10:42
jamie peacock
A lot of it's crap that i'm never going to use, but I like having it for when I need it. um And I've got the electronics box and like the motion control box.
00:10:42
Curt
Yeah.
00:10:46
Curt
Yeah.
00:10:49
jamie peacock
i've I've got a whole box with basically an entire a CNC machine in it in pieces.
00:10:53
Curt
Right.
00:10:53
jamie peacock
um That's going now, we're going to pull some of the bits and pieces out of that to CNC the grinders.
00:10:54
Curt
Right.
00:10:59
jamie peacock
Because the guy who bought Bertha sold me his surface grinder so I could sell it to my customer.
00:11:00
Curt
Cool.
00:11:06
jamie peacock
And now my customer wants to go full CNC on it
Printer Troubles and Tech Evolution
00:11:09
jamie peacock
because he wants to somewhat automatically grind harmonica reeds.
00:11:14
Curt
Right. I think you briefly talked about that last week.
00:11:15
jamie peacock
I briefly mentioned this. So he was here today. He's like, cool, just let me know what the controller costs. And I'm like, cool, I'm going to make two of every bracket and your machine gets retrofitted, mine gets retrofitted, done. um I've got some stupid ways around how plan on dealing with positioning the machines. I want to be able to use it manually, but also so so manually, except the Z is always powered. The Z is always a CNC axis.
00:11:38
jamie peacock
X and Y, I want to be able to turn the motors off. So that I can like just quickly hand grind something to establish a datum. Then tell the machine what it's Z is. Then what I'll do is I'm going to set, I'm going make little flags. Like, yeah, I think your machine's got them as well.
00:11:50
jamie peacock
The little arrows that point at each other. So you just jog.
00:11:53
Curt
Oh, yeah.
00:11:53
jamie peacock
So those are somewhat in line. Repower the drive, 0x and y, and you sorted. The machine now knows where it is.
00:11:59
Curt
Right.
00:12:00
jamie peacock
And then your programs can all reference that. So that that's my lazy ass work around for for handling that. But i think I think it will work somewhat reliably.
00:12:11
Curt
Yeah, yeah, I would think so.
00:12:11
jamie peacock
because ah um yeah I need to grind anchor point pads and I don't want to snap that.
00:12:12
Curt
Yeah.
00:12:15
jamie peacock
So we're going to make the CNC do it.
00:12:16
Curt
Yeah. Well, and you're like XY, or no, I guess it's not XY on a grinder, but whatever. XY, because it's easy to say, is not super critical on a grinder.
00:12:22
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:12:23
jamie peacock
No, and the Z or wah, whatever the fuck flavor, the spindle going up and down is going to go into double nut ball screws because I have a few of them kicking around.
00:12:23
Curt
Like if you're out by a whatever, it's not big deal.
00:12:30
Curt
Yeah.
00:12:33
jamie peacock
So we're just going to put it on a double nut ball screw and the motor will always be enabled.
00:12:34
Curt
Nice.
00:12:37
jamie peacock
That way it never goes wee down. um I'm going look for some motors with brakes just for shits and giggles.
00:12:40
Curt
Right.
00:12:44
jamie peacock
So if we do d like lose power and you're grinding, it's not going to slam the wheel into the pot. That's the only thing I want to maybe look at replacing that motor with a braked stepper. It's going to be a closed-loop stepper just because I'm lazy.
00:12:59
jamie peacock
And I have six of them from other projects. Because I buy things for projects that I shouldn't.
00:13:06
Curt
Dude, I think we all do. think we all do.
00:13:08
jamie peacock
Dude, I have so much crap laying around. Ball screws with end units. are Just an enormous amount of crap laying around. And it's useful when you need it.
00:13:16
Curt
Hey.
00:13:17
jamie peacock
Super useful when you need it in a pinch. But until then, it takes up space.
00:13:20
Curt
Yeah. Yeah, when the world ends, it'll be useful.
00:13:24
jamie peacock
Yeah, exactly.
00:13:24
Curt
Yeah, exactly.
00:13:26
jamie peacock
And that seems to be coming sooner rather than later.
00:13:29
Curt
No doubt. No doubt.
00:13:30
jamie peacock
Yeah. But yeah, the CNC grinder project is happening sooner rather than later. um Yeah, so let me see what else is interesting. want know how you lost the fight the printer. Was it an HP out of curiosity?
00:13:43
Curt
ah No, it was a brother, which is the reason I was trying to repair it, because I want to make sure that i can tell people I have a brother.
00:13:45
jamie peacock
Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah.
00:13:48
Curt
But... but yeah it Sweet. Okay. Yeah. um And ah anyways, it's it's nice. It's like an ah it's a wide format printer. It's the only reason I wanted to fix it And it's an inkjet and the head was kind of going garbage on it.
00:14:00
Curt
It's ancient. So i was like, ah instead of buying a new printer and creating more e-waste in the world, I'm going to be responsible. So I bought like a ah inkjet cleaning kit um and I was like, I'll just flush it and I bet you that'll fix the head.
00:14:13
Curt
And it's it's a like a remote reservoir.
00:14:13
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:14:15
Curt
So it's got like a bunch of tubes that lead to the head.
00:14:17
jamie peacock
OK. Uh-huh.
00:14:17
jamie peacock
yeah.
00:14:17
Curt
And yeah, so I flushed it and oh, it's going so well.
00:14:21
Curt
i was watching the tubes and like all the ink is flowing through. I'm like, ah, that was the problem. It was all jammed up. And I had like a little blotter under the head. It's collecting all the ink. I'm like, oh, gross. I'm doing such a good job. And I'm like, wow, this thing is taking a lot of flushing fluid.
00:14:31
Curt
So I like flushed all the colors. and then like And then I was doing it on my kitchen floor because I'm like, you know, if I spill something, at least it's a floor that I can clean.
00:14:39
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:14:40
Curt
And then I like move the printer. And as I lift it, just like ink is pouring out of it and i was like oh no i've done something wrong and then i look in the track and like somehow it's like i had too much pressure when i it was back feeding there was this ink everywhere it's just like oh no i opened the paper tray it's just full full of ink i was like oh And then anyways, I cleaned it all up and I was like, okay, i've I have gone this far.
00:14:55
jamie peacock
Ink everywhere. Hello.
00:15:04
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:15:05
Curt
um And then I realized by cleaning the lines, I basically made it so that like it can't pull the ink. Like i basically created like a ah vacuum block or air block in the lines.
00:15:12
jamie peacock
Yes. Yeah.
00:15:15
Curt
So i was like, so now I have to take all the lines and flush them with ink. And I'm like, I'm like, I don't even know if this is going to fix it. Like, I'm like, the head still might be screwed. And at this point, I already spent hours. So I'm like, I just, I tidied it back up.
00:15:26
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:15:27
Curt
I mopped up all the ink and I set it on a box and it's going to go on its merry way. It has done its service.
00:15:32
jamie peacock
It's going to go to eBay as slightly used.
00:15:32
Curt
Yeah. yeah So, yeah, I was just like, oh.
00:15:37
jamie peacock
Yeah, my my Epson ink tank that I bought for the office and then Danica stole.
00:15:43
jamie peacock
She doesn't use it enough. So the ink is a problem. And like, yeah, might have just go buy another one.
00:15:43
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:15:47
Curt
Yeah.
00:15:50
jamie peacock
Because I think the she's done a head clean and it's still printing stripes.
00:15:54
Curt
Yeah.
00:15:54
jamie peacock
um And then, yeah, so last, don't know mentioned that I sent her to go print stuff at the the local printing store. And it's like super cheap and really good quality.
00:16:02
Curt
i don't know.
00:16:06
Curt
Yeah, that's...
00:16:06
jamie peacock
Like not worth doing it yet.
00:16:09
Curt
And that was why i was like, I'm just going to clean this because I don't need a good printer.
00:16:11
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:16:12
Curt
I found a stick Canadian sticker company. actually they's sending me a whole bag of samples right now um for all my labeling, like everything that I, so i don't have to do any printing and like die cut, whatever.
00:16:16
jamie peacock
Oh, nice. Yes.
00:16:21
Curt
It's just like, I looked at the pricing. I'm like, I will never compete trying to do this.
00:16:24
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:16:25
Curt
um Anyway, so that's why was like, I'll just revive this so I don't have to buy another printer.
00:16:28
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:16:29
Curt
But it's just like now I'm factoring in my time. i was like, nah, not.
00:16:32
jamie peacock
I've got a mono ah mono printer and a laser printer. I love that thing.
00:16:37
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:16:37
jamie peacock
I feel nothing to print 500 pages of manual because the toner is so cheap.
00:16:40
Curt
totally Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:16:43
jamie peacock
It's a black and white. Who cares? ah yeah It's for printing office documents. And I had one when I started Jspec, and then I couldn't get knockoff toner cartridges, and the toner cartridge was twice the price of the printer.
00:16:55
jamie peacock
So I ended up with two of them.
00:16:55
Curt
yeah
00:16:57
jamie peacock
And now the toner cartridges have actually become available at a reasonable price.
00:16:57
Curt
yeah
00:17:01
jamie peacock
So now i literally don't give a shit about printing pages.
00:17:05
Curt
Yeah, was like same thing my old job, in they had a laser and it was cheaper just to buy a brand new laser every time the corner ran out. So we had a gang of them. And it's just like, what what kind of world are we living in? Like now it's changed.
00:17:13
jamie peacock
Don't poke around in the back of them.
00:17:14
Curt
thanks
00:17:15
jamie peacock
They're quite shocking. I know.
00:17:18
Curt
Yeah, yeah, no, it's it's better now. If you if you if you're running an antiquated printer like I was, like an inkjet, go look online because you can buy like the reservoirs that just take like bottled ink now.
00:17:22
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:17:29
jamie peacock
Yeah, that's the way to go.
00:17:29
Curt
Ink's not expensive like it was 10 years ago.
00:17:30
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:17:31
Curt
Yeah, anyways.
00:17:31
jamie peacock
Now I've got an Epson one. I friggin love it. The Epson Ink 10 system.
00:17:34
Curt
Yeah, the eco tanks. Yeah.
00:17:36
jamie peacock
But yeah, speaking of brothers, have you seen the Brother H550?
Machine Discoveries and Production Updates
00:17:41
jamie peacock
I
00:17:43
Curt
No, but I'm going to open it right now.
00:17:44
jamie peacock
put a link in the doobly doo.
00:17:46
jamie peacock
um
00:17:46
Curt
Oh, you did?
00:17:46
Curt
oh look at you go.
00:17:47
jamie peacock
Yes, it's a frickin horizontal five axis.
00:17:48
Curt
Oh, horizontal.
00:17:52
jamie peacock
It's a seriously impressive machine.
00:17:55
Curt
OK, I'm just going open this and hopefully nothing bad happens.
00:17:59
jamie peacock
No, nothing bad should happen. It literally got copied out of my YouTube feed.
00:18:01
Curt
Nope. i
00:18:02
jamie peacock
Someone else shared it this week on Instagram and then I went and looked it up.
00:18:07
Curt
Okay.
00:18:07
jamie peacock
And yeah, what a beast. I saw some of the horizontals at IMTS, but holy cow, that thing is yeah pushing a 40mm uterall. It's tiny. Yes.
00:18:17
Curt
It is so tight. I mean, it's tight. Like, it's a brother form factor, but it's is a long.
00:18:20
jamie peacock
tawny
00:18:23
jamie peacock
yes
00:18:24
Curt
it's like It's like their phone booth machine, but deep.
00:18:26
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's 650 travel. So I decided it's a whole moving ah moving gantry setup.
00:18:29
Curt
Oh, that is... That is cute.
00:18:34
jamie peacock
It's really, really cool.
00:18:36
Curt
Yeah, that is cute.
00:18:37
jamie peacock
Lightning-fast tool changes, as usual.
00:18:39
Curt
Of course, yeah.
00:18:40
jamie peacock
okay Yeah, it's really cool.
00:18:41
Curt
Oh, neat.
00:18:42
jamie peacock
i was actually chatting to to Matt from Blackwell Engineering, and we were looking through his stuff, and it's got G100 for tool change. So, like okay, what the hell? Do they not use the M6? He's like, no, no, g one hundred looks ahead to where your code wants the table positioned and does that while it's doing a tool change.
00:18:59
Curt
course that's Of course, that's what they would do, yeah.
00:19:00
jamie peacock
So that saves an extra 0.2 of a second because it's a brother.
00:19:04
Curt
Yeah. Oh yeah. Oh, that is cool.
00:19:07
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:19:08
jamie peacock
It's a really, really cool tool.
00:19:08
Curt
Go watch the video folks.
00:19:09
Curt
it's It's in the, it's in the description.
00:19:09
jamie peacock
Yeah, go to the video link. We'll be in the description for sure. It's a really, really cool tool.
00:19:14
Curt
That tool changer is kind of wild. It kind of comes up. It's just, I mean, of course it's like their style, but
00:19:18
jamie peacock
It's, yeah, it's the same lever activated and it just goes up and it's got a chain of tools ah above.
00:19:22
Curt
yeah.
00:19:26
Curt
Interesting.
00:19:26
jamie peacock
It's really, there was another video I saw where you actually saw the tool changer a little bit.
00:19:27
Curt
That is really cool.
00:19:30
Curt
Yeah. Cool. Oh, that's cool.
00:19:31
jamie peacock
Yeah, really, really cool. um Yeah, like really, really cool. I've also got pricing. I don't know if, I'm trying remember when, like what we've discussed and what we haven't. um spoke to WD Hearn about their Sino drill tap machines.
00:19:49
jamie peacock
And I'm waiting for Sino to come back. I don't know if mentioned, it's got the same size motors as the LK, except it's a 15 kVA machine.
00:19:56
jamie peacock
So I'm like, are you running heaters in the thing? Like, what the fuck? Why you telling me it uses more power when it has the same size motors? Like, it should only actually be like a seven kVA machine. But I think again, over speccing for safety.
00:19:56
Curt
Yeah, we did talk about that, yeah.
00:20:10
Curt
yeah or yeah Yeah, exactly. We're just trying to ah outshine a close competing product or something.
00:20:17
jamie peacock
Yeah, like, weird, but yeah, waiting on that still. um
00:20:21
Curt
Cool. Okay.
00:20:22
jamie peacock
Yeah, which one would you like me to dive into?
00:20:23
Curt
Let's I want to hear about um robots in four days.
00:20:29
jamie peacock
Yeah, our first robot tournament of the year is in four days, well, five days today, but four days from tomorrow, I know.
00:20:31
Curt
oh cool. Okay.
00:20:33
jamie peacock
I need to still design and build my new robots, because all my robots are fucked. um
00:20:38
Curt
Okay.
00:20:39
jamie peacock
Like with Danica having been away, I'm like, just postpone it. She's like, no, we can't. oak that Because it's being hosted at like some event place. And this dude is super keen to host it and try and grow it.
00:20:46
Curt
Hmm.
00:20:49
jamie peacock
And I'm like, dude, you are fighting against Thunder.
00:20:53
jamie peacock
The Australians took six or seven years to get the to the point that they've got more than seven competitors. What makes you think we're going to get lots of competitors in South Africa? Like, let's be realistic.
00:20:53
Curt
Yeah,
00:21:02
Curt
yeah.
00:21:03
jamie peacock
The guys we have, they're happy to compete. It doesn't need to grow, it's not going to grow much bigger. it There's a quite severe barrier to entry.
00:21:14
jamie peacock
So we'll see.
00:21:14
Curt
Yeah.
00:21:14
Curt
Yeah, fair.
00:21:15
jamie peacock
We're going to do our first tournament of the year on the weekend, among all the other crap that we're doing. So yeah, should be fun. Get to drive all the stuff out to Randberg. Yay. I was driving my stupid little Bucky that doesn't have aircon.
00:21:28
jamie peacock
I now hate my little, I hate my little truck.
00:21:30
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:21:31
jamie peacock
I'm like my Land Rover.
00:21:32
Curt
Yeah.
00:21:32
jamie peacock
I drove the Land Rover this weekend on when we went away.
00:21:36
jamie peacock
I was doing I was slightly speed. I actually caught air at one stage um on the dirt road.
00:21:36
Curt
o
00:21:39
Curt
oh
00:21:40
jamie peacock
i was whoo.
00:21:41
Curt
well
00:21:42
jamie peacock
I was sending it like when we left, I said to everyone because they were all there in cars. i'm like, I'm leaving first so I don't have to sit behind you bitches. Because I went through the first section of the road where actual four by four.
00:21:49
Curt
isn
00:21:52
jamie peacock
I was just cruising. And then we got onto the onto the dust road and I just stomped my foot down and went like cruising down the 100 k's an hour down the dust road. it was yeah It was lots of fun.
00:22:04
jamie peacock
But traction controlling gives zero shits.
00:22:07
Curt
yeah
00:22:08
jamie peacock
I don't know. It was lots of fun. um
00:22:10
Curt
That's awesome.
00:22:12
jamie peacock
Which one was I, a robot?
00:22:13
Curt
Okay. Yes.
Laser Projects and Community Insights
00:22:14
Curt
So,
00:22:14
jamie peacock
and So I saw you got your fiber laser.
00:22:17
Curt
yes yes so
00:22:18
jamie peacock
Yes. Thoughts and opinions on fiber lasers in general, or not necessarily the one you got.
00:22:21
Curt
ah
00:22:24
Curt
Dude, fiber lasers are freaking cool. They're so cool. Like, even, i have a low power one.
00:22:28
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:22:30
Curt
It's 20 watts. um And it's a dual, it's a 20 watt diode, 20 watt fiber.
00:22:31
jamie peacock
So do I.
00:22:35
Curt
and Yeah, like, i'm not going to use the diode. Actually, i might use the diode um for doing some raster work on cardstock, just because it's probably going to be faster than my CO2. um But, it's, yeah, fibers are so freaking cool.
00:22:47
Curt
And, personal like, I was in impressed at how, like, precise they can be.
00:22:49
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:22:51
Curt
Like, I'm going to do, like,
00:22:52
jamie peacock
I did a coin today. I did two coins.
00:22:53
Curt
Oh, cool. Okay.
00:22:54
jamie peacock
Point two deep in aluminium.
00:22:55
Curt
Okay.
00:22:56
jamie peacock
Took an hour and a half. 60 diamonds a coin.
00:22:57
Curt
Yeah, it's...
00:22:59
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:22:59
Curt
This probably takes forever, but, like... Yeah, ah I've just... I barely have touched... Like, I've played with it for maybe an hour, and they're cool. They're so cool. Like...
00:23:09
jamie peacock
No, they really are. I like my fiber laser. I actually want to a fixture plate for it.
00:23:12
Curt
Yeah, I just...
00:23:15
Curt
I wasn't expecting like as good of results with like it's I mean I say it's a cheap unit it's still like I forgot like the package I have is like seven grand or something like it's not cheap but it's cheap so yeah
00:23:26
jamie peacock
The galvos are all made in the same factory. The saucers are all made in the same factory. The software or control boards all made in the same factory. It's just different labels on them.
00:23:36
Curt
That's exactly how i was looking at it. And there's a channel on YouTube that I watched where he did a disassembly of one of the like, pick your brand name, doesn't matter.
00:23:43
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:23:44
Curt
um And he showed how they work. Cause I didn't know how fiber lasers work, but now I know like they're just, they're basically just like a bunch of diode lasers pumping into a fiber and then they have, yeah.
00:23:52
jamie peacock
And amplified. Yeah.
00:23:54
Curt
And and it works kind of like a capacitor bank and then just like fire a seed laser into it and it lets that loose. I mean, we're talking like billions of a second and then it's bam. And that's how you get like kilowatts of power out of like a,
00:24:02
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:24:05
Curt
you know, 10, 20, 30 watt power unit.
00:24:06
jamie peacock
What is truly What is truly, truly terrifying is when you see the size of the fiber optic cable that goes to a 7.5 kilowatt fiber laser, and it's the thickness of a human hair, and it's channeling 7.5 kilowatts of metal-cutting fury a couple like a couple meters.
00:24:17
Curt
Oh yeah.
00:24:19
Curt
Right. Like,
00:24:25
Curt
yeah.
00:24:27
jamie peacock
it is insane.
00:24:29
Curt
Well, and that's like some of those big like metal cutting ones that are like actually operating at kilowatt ranges are probably outputting like hundreds of kilowatts of like point source power.
00:24:39
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:24:40
Curt
Like if you measured it, if you could measure at that, and not an average time, but like the the millisecond time or nanosecond time, just like mind boggling, mind boggling.
00:24:46
jamie peacock
Yeah. Well, I mean, that's the that's the good old trick with CO2 lasering of dittering, where your initial pulse is like 10 or 20 times more powerful than your sustained um your sustained power.
00:25:01
jamie peacock
So the guys wrote a bunch stuff back in the day to pulse the laser, and you got you could cut way thicker stuff by pulsing the laser on and off really quickly. Because when it because it builds up and then discharges, and they build up when it discharges is much higher than once it's discharging, it levels out to its power level.
00:25:10
Curt
Okay.
00:25:19
Curt
Right.
00:25:20
jamie peacock
Yeah, I'm reading a hackaday article about it or a Instructables article about it.
00:25:20
Curt
Right.
00:25:25
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:25:26
Curt
I might be reading the same one that you are reading. Cause i yeah I started geeking out on it. I was like, Oh, this is really cool. So now I know why they're called fiber lasers. Cause they have a giant fiber coil in them.
00:25:36
jamie peacock
yep they uh they amplified through the fiber coil yeah i opened mine up to see what was on the inside when i got it as one does yeah
00:25:36
Curt
Yeah.
00:25:42
Curt
Yeah, same game i'm going to play yeah once ah Once I've shot all the video that I have to shoot by like contract agreements, then I'm going to start taking it apart and pissing around and looking inside and just for my own curiosity.
00:25:51
jamie peacock
yep that's uh that doesn't seem out of character at all
00:25:52
Curt
so
00:25:56
Curt
No, you've got to see how it goes.
00:25:56
jamie peacock
oh It's kind of expected.
00:25:57
Curt
yeah
00:25:57
jamie peacock
Yeah, want to see what's inside. Like, I wanted to see that everything was working because it took me a while to get it actually working because the way they labeled the focal distance was really fucking stupid on my unit. you know how figured out the focal distance?
00:26:10
Curt
How?
00:26:11
jamie peacock
I made engraved something, took a piece of plastic and moved it up until it started burning and then I roughly knew where I was.
00:26:11
Curt
With it like?
00:26:17
Curt
Right, yeah, okay yeah,
00:26:17
jamie peacock
And then I could adjust from there and then figure out what they referenced as, because they wrote the focal distance. To fucking what? it wasn't the bottom of the lens. It was halfway up the bloody housing. So I then figured out where it was, then I cut a T out of acrylic.
00:26:32
jamie peacock
So I just put the T on top of my parts, and I wind the head up to a little slide under the the lens, and then it's focused, yeah.
00:26:38
Curt
Nice.
00:26:39
jamie peacock
But I do want to put – I need to rebuild the Z assembly because if you're doing stuff at the level of the bed, it's at the end of the travel, I think one of the rollers comes off, so doesn't repeat if you're doing shallow things.
00:26:40
Curt
Okay.
00:26:52
jamie peacock
Like if you wind up, wind down, it it's not necessarily where it was.
00:26:52
Curt
Oh,
00:26:56
Curt
I got you. Okay. Okay.
00:26:57
jamie peacock
Yeah, so I need to play around. Although if i put a fixture plate on that'll solve that problem.
00:27:02
Curt
Yeah. Well, was kind of impressed.
00:27:02
jamie peacock
And I was looking at a very spiffy one.
00:27:02
Curt
like
00:27:06
Curt
this ah This unit I have, it does double lasers. So let's like that's how they do the focusing with the cross beams you just...
00:27:09
jamie peacock
Yes. Mine's got that too. I just don't bother with it.
00:27:14
Curt
Oh, yeah. i I find it works pretty good.
00:27:15
jamie peacock
use my little stick of justice. I prefer the stick of justice.
00:27:19
Curt
Fair, fair, fair.
00:27:19
jamie peacock
um Yeah, I think um you've got the what is your brand again?
00:27:25
Curt
That's like a Laserpecker LP5, which is the worst brand name possible, but hey.
00:27:26
jamie peacock
LaserPay VR. I don't think so. I think it's great.
00:27:31
Curt
ah
00:27:31
jamie peacock
He does for Xtools.
00:27:35
Curt
yeah The Xtools ones, they have some more gutsy ones.
00:27:35
jamie peacock
I know it was one.
00:27:38
Curt
but
00:27:38
jamie peacock
Yeah, because I'm looking at a generic 250x250 fixture plate for Blackwell Engineering.
00:27:45
Curt
Oh, cool. Okay, cool.
00:27:46
jamie peacock
He does really cool fixture plates. like I could make one, but I'd rather support him.
00:27:50
jamie peacock
look
00:27:50
Curt
Totally.
00:27:51
Curt
Yeah,
00:27:51
jamie peacock
He was saying the fiber-lazy market, it's so expensive. And then you the machinists are like, how do you make it so cheap? He's like, I can tap 1,500 holes in an hour, like in an hour.
00:27:58
Curt
yeah.
00:28:01
jamie peacock
I've got speedy, zoom in and out.
00:28:01
Curt
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:28:04
jamie peacock
Like, it's not a problem. Yeah, was looking at his stuff.
00:28:06
Curt
Yeah.
00:28:07
jamie peacock
I need to get my hands on of those for engraving anchor points and whatnot.
00:28:11
Curt
Yeah, no, it's, it's cool.
00:28:12
jamie peacock
And all the stupid shit I have planned.
00:28:13
Curt
And actually,
00:28:16
Curt
Actually, a really, ah really cool thing is once again, Instagram and just networking with people is I posted that little video of me pissing out my fiber. And I had I think his name is Mike. I'm not entirely sure from Keybar.
00:28:26
Curt
ah He reached out to me and just basically sent me a video on like, hey, if you need help with like any titanium like lasering, just hit me up.
00:28:26
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:28:32
Curt
Like and he showed me like the crazy color and because he's doing some pretty incredible like color anodizing.
00:28:33
jamie peacock
Did you just do some insane stuff? Yeah.
00:28:37
Curt
And I was like, oh, I didn't know you could. And he basically was like, you can color up to here and he it just kind of divulged a few secrets. Um, where i was just like, oh, that's so kind of you. Like, just to like, be like, Hey, you want help? Just hit me up.
00:28:48
Curt
And just like, I just, I love the community that just like want to help everybody else.
00:28:49
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, that's awesome.
00:28:52
Curt
So it's really cool.
00:28:52
jamie peacock
yeah yeah i know the the instagram community is really really awesome like yeah
00:28:54
Curt
So
00:28:58
Curt
yeah, we just, everyone wants to get better.
00:28:58
jamie peacock
child Everyone wants to help everyone. it's It's awesome. Like I've had a lot of people reach out about my Anno setup. And I was shooting a video. I did shoot a video. And then some smart dick forgot to switch his lav mark on.
00:29:09
jamie peacock
So you've a whole bunch of video clips that have no audio.
00:29:10
Curt
yeah
00:29:13
jamie peacock
And unfortunately, it's not just a case of dub over it because it's going look stupid because I'm going, and this is where the thing is and pointing shit out. So it's going to really tricky to not seem AI-ish.
00:29:24
jamie peacock
So I'm just going to reshoot the video next time I Anno.
00:29:25
Curt
Oh, yeah. No. Get Danica. Get Danica ah to dub over you in a voice and, like, and and pretend, like, she doesn't speak English.
00:29:31
jamie peacock
God. No, thank you.
00:29:35
Curt
So, like, get her to talk with, like, the thickest accent that she can muster.
00:29:37
jamie peacock
Get her to speak with the awesome CNC freak accent.
00:29:42
Curt
Totally. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:29:42
jamie peacock
and yeah Have you seen that channel?
00:29:44
Curt
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:29:46
jamie peacock
Danik is like, turn that shit off. I'm like, no. want to see what he's building. Yeah, he's he's done some interesting things.
00:29:50
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:29:52
jamie peacock
But yeah, ah I kind of want it to be a decent video, so I'll just reshoot the whole thing. It'll take all of a day.
00:29:57
Curt
Fair. Yeah.
00:29:59
jamie peacock
When I run anodizing again, I haven't run anything in the last week since I discovered that all my audio was missing.
00:30:07
Curt
That's a bummer. That's a bummer.
00:30:08
jamie peacock
Yeah. It's really tedious. But shit happens. Could be worse. Yeah.
00:30:13
Curt
Yeah.
00:30:14
jamie peacock
But yeah, let me tick that off. andov but I have got some really good clips. If anyone wants information like immediately, just DM me. I've got three videos that I'll shot for someone else that I can send you that just run through the basic ANO process.
00:30:27
jamie peacock
And then I'll do them a more formal video in the coming weeks. As soon as my wife is back from her not holiday, then I can actually get to doing that.
00:30:37
Curt
Cool.
00:30:38
jamie peacock
ah talk So yeah, you've been you've been done doing a lot of interesting things.
00:30:39
Curt
So.
00:30:43
Curt
As of you, um, I want to let's hit me up with the, uh, tell me about your, uh, I want to hear about your, uh, anchor point of the low mechanical anchor point, the testing, and then your pre-order.
00:30:46
jamie peacock
you can go first.
Anchor Points Strategy and Collaboration
00:30:58
jamie peacock
Yeah. so pre-order is going live for the, it's probably going to go live tomorrow. It's, it's a, it's a spot reservation. Basically you, it's $50 gets your $50 coupon for the store valid anywhere in the store.
00:31:11
jamie peacock
So even if you decide, I don't want to anchor point now, I will buy a t-shirt.
00:31:12
Curt
Hmm.
00:31:14
jamie peacock
You get $50 off. um
00:31:16
Curt
Oh, cool.
00:31:16
jamie peacock
Yeah, so that that way it gives us an indication of how many people actually want the things without them without taking all their money up front. i Also, we can get the money out of PayPal because we've effectively delivered a coupon.
00:31:25
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:31:29
jamie peacock
um Because PayPal is weird like that.
00:31:30
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:31:31
jamie peacock
So yeah, that's going to probably go live tomorrow, or today, for the when this comes out.
00:31:32
Curt
That's a good idea.
00:31:37
jamie peacock
I'll probably have pushed live already. And then we'll send out an Anchor Point email as well. And then though the... They'll be available for sale on the 14th. So if guys have pre-ordered, we'll probably let them know as soon as they're ready to go into Anno. And be like, okay, cool.
00:31:53
jamie peacock
Place your order now, and we'll process, we'll ship as soon as it's ready. But we're targeting the 14th of next month for when they are going to be shipping.
00:32:01
Curt
Okay, okay.
00:32:02
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:32:02
Curt
Nice.
00:32:03
jamie peacock
And then we did some testing. um Yeah, it's rigid as hell. Like, yeah.
00:32:08
Curt
It looks it, yeah.
00:32:09
jamie peacock
i pushed ah So I pushed a drill into it at... I updated my Imperializer today to be correct. 20, 23 inches a minute.
00:32:24
Curt
Okay, yeah, yeah.
00:32:25
jamie peacock
Yeah, 1,000 feet. And yeah, it did not give a shit. I stopped before i was going hit pull stud. I just manually fed it down. And I made a little reel about that on Instagram, which has got a few thousand views on it.
00:32:33
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:32:37
jamie peacock
um But yeah, significantly more rigid than the the spring-loaded ones spring-loaded ones are great if you want to quickly change things in and out but if you want to use it as a more rigid zero point then the mechanical is definitely the way to go like i've got it on my fourth axis now and yeah i dig it on the fourth axis i haven't really done anything stupid on it yet um i've been machining water flingers all day for the bonds
00:33:02
Curt
look
00:33:06
Curt
oh okay yeah yeah yeah
00:33:07
jamie peacock
well so they haven't been using it but yeah it's uh i like the mechanical anchor point it's i think it's a it's also going to be a bit cheaper i actually need to add that to the pre the pre-order tomorrow what the actual sale price is going to be which for anyone interested is going to be 400 for the starter kit and then i need to just check what the tariffs are going to be but it's 70 shipping and then whatever the tariffs are think it'll be about 120 like the tariffs are just yeah so it's
00:33:30
Curt
that's that's That's so insanely inexpensive.
00:33:35
jamie peacock
Yeah, I think all it will be around $600 with shipping and tariffs. And that comes with two pallets.
00:33:40
Curt
That's ridiculous.
00:33:41
jamie peacock
And turns out I don't need to send it with ah with a hex driver because one of the imperial sizes is like 7.94 millimeter.
00:33:53
Curt
Oh, OK.
00:33:53
jamie peacock
So I'm going to engrave 8mm or I think it's 5 16ths or something, 5 16th inch driver.
00:33:54
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:33:59
jamie peacock
I'll just engrave it on the side the anchor point so that there's no questions about what size it is.
00:34:00
Curt
OK, yeah, yeah.
00:34:04
jamie peacock
But yeah it yeah, it does the thing. Ken's got his one. He's going to do a bit of testing on it. I'll probably get messages from him tonight as I'm trying to go to bed. um That's when he wakes up.
00:34:16
jamie peacock
But yeah, he put it under his little key on scanning Matron.
00:34:16
Curt
Nice.
00:34:19
jamie peacock
And very interesting, like the fatness and what it was quite insightful to see ah just how accurate the everything is.
00:34:29
Curt
Yeah, Ken's a cool dude. I watched his story where he was mentioning it, and it's like, for a dude that is also making workholding in, like, a zero-pointy-ish kind of world...
00:34:37
jamie peacock
Yes. 100%.
00:34:38
Curt
It's pretty cool for him to be like, let's all boost each other up. Like, I don't know. it He's got good internals, that dude.
00:34:45
jamie peacock
Yeah, 100%. So like we're busy discussing, so there's ah potentially a small issue with think pointss where the where the holes for the laying studs are moving. We're trying to figure how exactly they're moving. So it's either thermally related, so putting an aircon in my workshop. um That'll give us a positional error of about 25 microns with a 10 degree delta. When he measured it, we were 14 microns off maximum.
00:35:12
jamie peacock
um
00:35:13
Curt
It's still pretty tight.
00:35:13
jamie peacock
on the whole panel. That's pretty freaking tight. rock lock callout is seven microns positional tolerance on the bores, which technically means from the datum that it is calling, we are on tolerance because there's potentially seven microns either way on the two bores, technically within tolerance.
00:35:33
Curt
Okay.
00:35:36
jamie peacock
But what i think we're going to do is we're going change the process.
00:35:36
Curt
Okay.
00:35:37
jamie peacock
so I've been using the lang stud holes for work holding. in my process i think i'm going to bore them uh in op one i'm going to go a millimeter undersize make all my fixturing a millimeter undersize that way i can still locate and use them as a locating feature and as the final operation on deck the bottom i'm going to go from my face mill to like an eight or a 12 millimeter end mill face it off and then bore those balls and then i'll know where they are in relation to the round pin because i'll clock everything off the round pin on my fixture
00:36:09
Curt
Okay. Okay. I see what you mean.
00:36:10
jamie peacock
so i'll face so i'll find the location of the round pin face my fixture pop it in don't do any tool changes like i'm currently doing to keep that accuracy and then face off bore the balls and i know the balls are the size and where they need to be at the final once all the stresses are in the assembly and everything yeah because we got i think the issue that we're having is the balls are done and off one
00:36:11
Curt
Yeah.
00:36:27
Curt
Right, right, right, right. Yeah.
00:36:35
jamie peacock
And then it goes through the whole process. And the way the process is designed, if there's any non-parallel tolerance stack-up, we clamp it upside down as the final op and deck the back in relation to the pad.
00:36:48
jamie peacock
So it is coplanar, but potentially it could have been at an angle when we did that.
00:36:49
Curt
Right.
00:36:53
jamie peacock
And now the bores are not perpendicular to the plane. And that would cause it to not go into the receivers.
00:36:58
Curt
Oh, I see. Yeah. I see.
00:37:01
jamie peacock
The engravings on the bottom are 0.25
00:37:01
Curt
I see. Yes.
00:37:05
jamie peacock
so the error we're talking about is like you would machine through them if it was that far off yeah because there's the the vents lines in the bottom so it doesn't suction to the langs plates um and those are only 0.25 deep so you would think they would go away if we were out enough to cause a problem so know we're busy trying to figure it out i know for instance mass studs that i've got here
00:37:11
Curt
Right. Right.
00:37:17
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:37:21
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:37:30
jamie peacock
I put them in finger tight, put it in the receiver, give it a tap, pull it out, and then tighten them. And then they it goes in and out. But if I just tighten them, they don't go it doesn't go in and out. So just trying to figure out where the where the actual issue is.
00:37:44
jamie peacock
But for anyone with a that's going on T-slot table or going onto their own riser, it's a non-issue. It's just the Lang stud stuff that I'm trying to figure out on it.
00:37:52
Curt
Totally. Yeah, yeah.
00:37:57
Curt
That's essential interesting. I didn't know it was that tight.
00:37:57
jamie peacock
And yeah.
00:37:59
Curt
That's kind of cool.
00:37:59
jamie peacock
Yeah. And also was chatting to Subtract Manufacturing um about potentially manufacturing the Saunders compatible compatible mooring point plates for me in the US.
00:38:10
Curt
Ooh, that'd be cool.
00:38:11
jamie peacock
Yes, because that takes, yeah, it takes a third of the price off.
00:38:11
Curt
Yeah, that would help.
00:38:16
Curt
Totally. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:38:16
jamie peacock
when you account for shipping and stuff. So I had a chat to Jacob. We just need to figure out a way forward on that, how we want to handle doing a batch, having them hold stock, and then either pay for them up front or and then we sell off. So it's just figuring out the logistics of it.
00:38:31
jamie peacock
And that will do in the in the coming weeks.
00:38:32
Curt
Right, yeah, yeah
00:38:33
jamie peacock
There's a whole bunch of actually of accessories and things coming for the anchor point, including a go no go gauge because John's a whiny little bitch.
00:38:37
Curt
yeah.
00:38:41
jamie peacock
Um, yes, John calling you out on the fucking podcast.
00:38:42
Curt
Ooh.
00:38:44
jamie peacock
So now he was asking me how to gauge the, the holes he was using his anchor point as a gauge. So I'm like, okay, fair enough. Maybe i should make a go, no, go gauge. So I'm thinking bamboo printer so that I can do color changes without this piece of shit giving me trouble.
00:38:58
jamie peacock
um I'm going print a red and green go no go, press a dial pin in one side, which is 10.02, and press one of the spare locating pins, I'll also make extra locating pins, the round ones, which is 9.995 in the other side. So when you're boring them, you have a go no go gauge.
00:39:14
Curt
Oh, for making palace. Yeah. Okay.
00:39:15
jamie peacock
for making your own blank pallets yeah so gonna probably add that to the store i've got a dust cover that i'm pretty happy with i'll add that to the store and then also those files are just available they're in the the cad pack if anyone wants the cad package just go to the store add to your cart check out it emails you all the files yeah that's got the dummy mooring uh the dummy anchor points it's got all the mooring point plates
00:39:15
Curt
Okay. Yeah. Right, right, right, right.
00:39:24
Curt
Oh,
00:39:33
Curt
oh that's cool. That's nice.
00:39:40
jamie peacock
All the different flavor blank palettes that I've drawn up. like it's It's got a shitload of stuff in there. So, yeah. If anyone wants those resources, please go grab them. Because I had some questions and I just point to people. Go look there. There's a download.
00:39:51
jamie peacock
Go add it to your cart checkout and get it.
00:39:52
Curt
That's nice.
00:39:53
jamie peacock
It's freely available. It's also on the resources page on the website. But yeah, trying to make it easy to get.
00:39:57
Curt
Nice. Nice.
00:39:59
jamie peacock
But yeah, speaking of subtract manufacturing, um we have Patreons.
Patreon Thanks and Production Challenges
00:40:04
jamie peacock
And they make...
00:40:04
Curt
Trains?
00:40:05
jamie peacock
Wait, wait. There we go. Train noises.
00:40:08
Curt
um
00:40:08
jamie peacock
They make the wheels on the train go round and round.
00:40:12
Curt
but
00:40:12
jamie peacock
um Yeah, all our Patreons get... All our paid Patreons get access to the After Show, where Kurt and I talk about things. Who knows what it's going to be?
00:40:20
Curt
trains
00:40:21
jamie peacock
Probably trains. What it's going to be this week.
00:40:22
Curt
Jet engine trains today Today's going to be the jet engine train.
00:40:23
jamie peacock
Yes, it is actually going to be jet engine trains today. um But yeah, special thanks to all of our top-tier Patreons. Jade from Benchmark20, Luke from Fabtastic, AJ from Subtract Manufacturing, and 30 other country companies.
00:40:35
jamie peacock
Not countries. uh ej from nocturnal welding jason s the aussie machinist christian olsen charles watt kyle from cursed machine matt from offworld gear and alex b uh speaking of ej did you see his new welder
00:40:51
Curt
Uh, I don't know if I did.
00:40:53
jamie peacock
he fetched it this weekend freaking giant machine yeah i was watching his stories today about it because nocturnal welding he welds who would have guessed yeah
00:40:53
Curt
i don't know if I did. Okay. Oh, okay.
00:41:00
Curt
Yeah, fair enough. Yeah, yeah. Ha,
00:41:04
jamie peacock
we're up to 30 uh aj we'll do a number of companies there we've been i think we've actually kept it pretty good like and i don't think we've actually skipped any i' i've been pretty diligent to about it especially considering i don't write it down anywhere it's just from memory wasting a whole bunch of mental real estate to just for a for a joke
00:41:08
Curt
ha, ha. Ha, ha,
00:41:17
Curt
ha. Ha, ha, ha.
00:41:27
Curt
but sort of Throw a few extra in there. He'll probably catch you anyways.
00:41:30
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:41:31
Curt
i think
00:41:32
jamie peacock
Yeah. So, you know what I found out this morning?
00:41:35
Curt
So, what did you find it out this morning?
00:41:37
jamie peacock
That US dollars and Australian dollars are not the same and the Masos frickin website is in US dollars even though they're based in Australia.
00:41:41
Curt
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:41:45
jamie peacock
Fortunately, i didn't be stupid and I was charging my customer appropriately. So having to pay an extra like 30% wasn't the end of the world.
00:41:55
Curt
Yeah, no, it's good.
00:41:56
jamie peacock
It was a little bit annoying, but not the end of the world. Like, things will be fine. So ordered a Masso today.
00:42:03
Curt
I had that issue for a while because like my site didn't let like it didn't let you use multiple currencies and then it wouldn't display currencies until like checkout.
00:42:09
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:42:12
Curt
So i was like, this is so annoying.
00:42:13
jamie peacock
Yeah, that's...
00:42:13
Curt
So I was and just defaulted to Canadian and Americans get a special surprise because it's going to be cheaper for them.
00:42:18
jamie peacock
There we go.
00:42:19
jamie peacock
Well, yeah, I looked on there thought it was in Australian because it's Australian-based store, and yeah. yeah Luckily, I didn't be nice to the customer. Like, oh, no, you can have it at basically cost. Because if I'd done that, I would have been out of pocket for like, hang on.
00:42:19
Curt
Yeah.
00:42:32
jamie peacock
I updated them parallelized it to be accurate to rands for the current exchange rate. But have been out of pocket for like $600.
00:42:41
Curt
That would have sucked.
00:42:42
jamie peacock
Yeah, well, not out of pocket, but it would have screwed the budget for the for the project a little bit. Now it's only $60 that
00:42:47
Curt
Yeah.
00:42:49
jamie peacock
that I had to spend that I wasn't planning on spending. But that's not again, not the end of the world. I build appropriately. So it's not a problem.
00:42:58
Curt
Yeah. Yeah. use a few less zip ties and you'll you'll make it back up.
00:43:00
jamie peacock
Exactly. Yeah. Get the job done quicker than expected. And then my hourly rate goes through the roof, which is the way to do things.
00:43:06
Curt
Totally, yeah. Yeah.
00:43:09
jamie peacock
But yeah, so what did you do to your lottery code, Kurt?
00:43:12
Curt
um I got smarter and I started filtering lottery by because people are put in like their favorite colors. So I put some extra code in there.
00:43:20
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:43:21
Curt
So when I draw winners, if I'm doing a batch of, let's say purple or let's say purple in this instance, all I got to do is I get a prompt on my big Python script and I can just enter words and then keywords all the entries.
00:43:27
jamie peacock
Yes. Okay. Yeah.
00:43:34
Curt
And it'll be like, okay, anybody that has purple in their entry word somewhere, um I'll put those people into this pool and it'll draw from that. So that I can, because if someone's only interested in raw finishes and I send them a winning ticket for blue, they're probably going pass on it and want to be rolled into it. So I'm just trying to minimize that.
00:43:51
Curt
um
00:43:51
jamie peacock
No, 100%. That makes sense because you, I think you said you were doing single option batches now.
00:43:52
Curt
Yeah.
00:43:58
Curt
Totally. Yeah. I'm going to always do single lock so much nicer.
00:43:59
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:44:01
Curt
And, uh,
00:44:01
jamie peacock
Oh, it's so much easier, yeah. Yeah.
00:44:03
Curt
Oh, I had a few people that make products. i think, what is it? ed oh what's EDC Outlaw. He reached out to you and he's like, dude, he's like, i did I do that too.
00:44:09
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:44:11
Curt
He's like, it's so nice. He's like, because inevitably you're packing up orders with like multiple variants.
00:44:16
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:44:16
Curt
he's like and He's like, you don't leave them taped or you don't fully tape them up until you're fully done because then you look on your bench, you're like, oh shit, I got one over one left over. It's like, what did I mess up? And you got to go through everyone's order again. Like eventually you'll mess it up.
00:44:26
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:44:27
Curt
And so anyways, but this makes it so much nicer.
00:44:28
jamie peacock
Yeah. No, that makes perfect sense.
00:44:32
Curt
Yeah, so it's like, and and I don't filter with anything more. So like if people added grip options and stuff, that's, I think that's too granular. People are going to be like, well no, like people don't know what they want until they're showing what they want is what I kind of find out.
00:44:39
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:44:44
Curt
But color is pretty polarizing.
00:44:44
jamie peacock
I want fruit grip.
00:44:47
Curt
Yeah, I know you want a fruit grip. It's, it's, uh, it's more with the fiber.
00:44:49
jamie peacock
It better be in pink, too.
00:44:51
Curt
Oh, it will be. Oh, trust me. I've already played this game. Yeah, I, uh,
00:44:54
jamie peacock
ah
00:44:55
Curt
Yeah, it's goingnna be it's going to be pink, and it's gonna actually it's going be purple, and it's going to be green. That's the only tips I'm going to give you on that one.
00:45:00
jamie peacock
Okay, I'm quite excited.
00:45:02
Curt
So, um yeah, that'd be pretty sick. The only problem is it's...
00:45:05
jamie peacock
The fiber is going to make that a lot easier.
00:45:08
Curt
If I can get, ah which I think I'll be able to, um the cleaning with fiber, too, because the nice thing about fibering is it makes it nice black, which is hard to get on titanium, but it's super nice. But I also want to be able to not do black, too.
00:45:19
jamie peacock
Doesn't the black take like super long titanium? font tartanium
00:45:23
Curt
I don't know, because I have, like, on this thing, like, those are black as hell in titanium.
00:45:26
jamie peacock
Oh, okay. Yeah.
00:45:28
Curt
And, like, I scotch-brite these, and, like, it's in there. So, like, I can get a really nice...
00:45:31
jamie peacock
Okay. No, because I remember, um what's his name now? um Kevin from, well, the knife engineer now. I remember him saying they engraved, they lasered Texas with a star or something on their pocket clips, and it takes forever to get it solid, solid black.
00:45:40
Curt
Yeah.
00:45:46
Curt
Yeah.
00:45:48
Curt
Yeah.
00:45:51
jamie peacock
But they do it, and it is what it is. like But yeah, and I haven't played with, oh, actually, allah I have played with titanium in my laser. I burnt a hole through a piece of titanium. It took about an hour, like a two mil hole, just, yeah, because I was seeing if I could cut racking on my fiber laser.
00:46:01
Curt
nice nice nice oh nice so you can yeah
00:46:08
jamie peacock
Because again, I don't care if it takes an hour, it's quicker than milling it.
00:46:13
Curt
sure yeah yeah yeah yep
00:46:13
jamie peacock
So, I got 20 watts of power. Okay, no, interesting. So you, and have you got the rotary for it?
00:46:20
Curt
I have rotary and I also have a a slide table, which I thought it was kind of gimmicky, but I played with it. So it's like a, basically it's another axes and it's meant for like batch production.
00:46:28
jamie peacock
yeah yes of goodness yeah it gets very weird
00:46:30
Curt
Cause lasers have such a fixed cone of we like our effective area. Yeah. And you can get to the edge, but it starts to get weird. um Yeah. So they built a slide table. So like if you, if you're doing key chains, you just put a huge fixture on there with like whatever 20 key chains and it would just slide through and you could index them all.
00:46:44
jamie peacock
yeah I'm planning on building a spinning one for my laser for a job that if it ever comes around I have plans afoot it's going to just be harmonic drive with the stepper and a disk and I load 16 or 20 parts on it configure it that it runs indexes runs index and then I under it all load again and it can run for 30 minutes instead of me loading a part every minute or two yeah robotic automation it's the way yeah make the robots do the work
00:46:51
Curt
Oh, smart.
00:46:56
Curt
Yeah.
00:47:10
Curt
Totally. Yeah, that's smart.
00:47:14
Curt
Robots. Yeah, so yeah And let me see. So yeah, got the filtering code is good. um Oh, and I was, I was laughed at like when companies send you like, ah this account is, hasn't been used in
Online Store Dynamics and Shipping Solutions
00:47:29
Curt
six months.
00:47:29
Curt
Like we're going to deactivate your account if you don't reply back.
00:47:31
jamie peacock
Go for it. No. Yeah.
00:47:32
Curt
And I was like, yeah, I'll give a shit. Go nuts. I never realized the value in that until I, cause now I, I sent out a lot of emails a month. i'm Like you start adding, like, you know, you start getting like a bunch of people subscribing to your messages and then,
00:47:45
Curt
you start sending emails and you start sending multiple emails a month. and all sudden you're sending like tens of thousands of emails a month. And emails cost money. And my stupid tier, like I love, I use MailChimp.
00:47:55
Curt
I like MailChimp. It's very easy. But every like 500 people, they ding you for the next tier up in price. And it gets, it gets spendy. It gets spendy to the point where like, it's valuable to me to be like, okay, if I have 500, or let's say I have a thousand extra people on my list that I'm just sending them literally email they don't care about, like I'll deactivate your account.
00:48:12
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yes.
00:48:13
Curt
And that might drop me down a tier, which, you know, can save me 50 bucks a month.
00:48:16
jamie peacock
yes
00:48:18
Curt
So I see why people do now.
00:48:19
jamie peacock
Well, I know Danica does with Descript. You only get like 10 hours a month on the tier she's on, but it's pro rata.
00:48:28
Curt
Okay.
00:48:28
jamie peacock
So if she needs to go up a tier on the 20th of the month, it only costs her an extra couple dollars. And then she as soon as she's done doing what she needs to do, she gets another like freaking 60 hours.
00:48:35
Curt
Oh, that's nice.
00:48:39
jamie peacock
And then as soon as she's done doing what she needs to do, she goes back down to the lower tier. And because on the tier she's on, i don't think you can buy more hours or some shit.
00:48:45
Curt
Oh, that's nice.
00:48:48
jamie peacock
She explained it to me, I wasn't listening.
00:48:51
Curt
Yeah.
00:48:51
jamie peacock
But yeah, like, people do all sorts of shenanigans with the tiers of things. I mean, even now my equid, which I use for my online store, I pay for their tiers so that I can have up to 100 products and I can have stock management.
00:49:07
jamie peacock
But I can only have stock management on the main item, I can't have stock management on the options.
00:49:12
Curt
Oh, bummer.
00:49:12
jamie peacock
Yeah, but that's fine.
00:49:13
Curt
ah Yeah.
00:49:14
jamie peacock
I'll just make different items. It's not the end of the world.
00:49:16
Curt
Yeah.
00:49:17
jamie peacock
But yeah, it's it's a bit of an annoyance, but i'm marked I'm not willing to go to the next tier.
00:49:22
Curt
Yeah. yeah has to make sense
00:49:23
jamie peacock
Yeah, even when they invoice me for this tier, it makes me sad. Very sad. yeah the equal store Also, there was an issue with shipping on the store.
00:49:30
Curt
yeah
00:49:33
jamie peacock
So for anyone who wanted to buy a shirt and saw that shipping was $70, please write angry emails to danica at jspeceng.com. um She forgot to change the shipping option in eQuid. So it was putting the store default shipping, not the printable shipping. So yeah Jacob was looking at a shirt. He's like, why is this shipping $70 on a $20 shirt?
00:49:54
jamie peacock
It should be like $4 or $5. So that has been resolved.
00:49:57
Curt
Right.
00:49:57
jamie peacock
So if anyone didn't buy a shirt because the shipping was expensive, please go and look again. We would like to sell some fancy shirts.
00:50:03
Curt
We have train shirts.
00:50:04
jamie peacock
Yes, we have train shirts and triangle shirts.
00:50:08
Curt
The triangle's the best.
00:50:09
jamie peacock
Speaking of the triangle, it should have arrived this week, the one that went to the triangle place.
00:50:14
Curt
The triangle plays.
00:50:15
jamie peacock
Yes, because what shape are sections of a part chart?
00:50:16
Curt
Okay.
00:50:19
Curt
ah Triangles.
00:50:20
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:50:21
Curt
is Exactly.
00:50:22
jamie peacock
Exactly. Yes. Planning. like This is multiple layers think here. Um, yeah, so this week, I machined, or this past week, I'm trying remember days of the week here again, I machined a mold.
00:50:28
Curt
her
00:50:35
jamie peacock
That's gist of
Machining Molds and Aerospace Adventures
00:50:36
jamie peacock
it. So I got to use my new shunk hydraulic holder and my old shunk hydraulic holder. And, oh my word, it's so much quieter when you rough with normal end mill, not a, um, corn cob.
00:50:47
Curt
oh really
00:50:47
jamie peacock
Like, so much quieter, yeah. The corn cob is violent. I roughed down, I ended up roughing with a 45 length of cut 12mm end mill.
00:50:56
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:50:57
jamie peacock
And just, just machining beautifully. Machined up two molds. And then I was like, no, I'll bring them through. deliver because I need to drop off the tufnel as well. And got to two or three aerospace composite shops.
00:51:11
jamie peacock
All owned by the same guy at three different facilities. Well, yeah, he's got the the one facility where they do a lot of the layups. Then they've got another facility where they build a drone and do the radar stuff that I'm involved with.
00:51:25
jamie peacock
And then he's got the build, the works or the, it's like an industrial unit. The industrial unit next to it is where he stores all his model airplanes, like one third scale gliders.
00:51:36
Curt
Oh, big ones.
00:51:38
jamie peacock
Yeah. They also build full-size gliders, and he flies full-size gliders.
00:51:39
Curt
OK.
00:51:42
jamie peacock
its yeah He's got big toys.
00:51:43
Curt
Cool.
00:51:45
jamie peacock
um So yeah, we were I went into it. I haven't been there in like two years, so it was interesting to see how it's all changed. Like, the tuftal stuff is all assembled in a climate-controlled room because it all needs to be interchangeable, and like the fixture table is quite impressive.
00:51:59
jamie peacock
Because, I mean, if your fixture table is two and meters long as a sheet of aluminum, those holes move a lot if the temperature changes. So it's at 23 degrees all the time.
00:52:05
Curt
Sure, yeah.
00:52:08
Curt
cool that's cool
00:52:09
jamie peacock
So yeah, ah was it was a really, like you showing me one part, they've shipped 22,000 pieces. It's a fiberglass thing with some divots in it, and then they use a jig to drill it out, and it goes out like that. It has a thickness call out.
00:52:21
jamie peacock
Every one of them has a piece of paper to say what the thickness was, and they have to keep the paper for 12 years. I'm like, that's a lot of paperwork.
00:52:26
Curt
holy smokes yeah yeah that's lot of trees yeah
00:52:30
jamie peacock
But a very, very interesting facility. I made all the molds for them last year for their one craft, and I got to see the molds, how they polished them up. Got to see the Chinese molds. like, I'm not the only one who leaves tooling marks, because I noticed some tooling marks on the Chinese.
00:52:43
Curt
and
00:52:44
jamie peacock
just took them three attempts to make those molds. They kept polishing them and blowing out the corners.
00:52:47
Curt
wow oh
00:52:49
jamie peacock
As the mold comes to the to the top, they kept rounding those. so They basically painting the mold two hours later, lay up and sandwich and cure. And then they pull a painted wing out of the mold.
00:53:02
jamie peacock
So it needs to meet perfectly.
00:53:03
Curt
okay sure yeah yeah
00:53:06
jamie peacock
So very, very interesting process. um So I got to see all of that fun stuff.
00:53:13
Curt
Cool. That sounds like a fun place to visit.
00:53:13
jamie peacock
And then, you and but yeah, it was a really, it was a really cool place to visit.
00:53:15
Curt
Yeah.
00:53:18
jamie peacock
um So just looking, yeah, heard a funny noise. I'm assuming it was my idiot dog idioting.
00:53:25
Curt
Boo. Boo.
00:53:25
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, i heard a funny noise. I don't know if they're scratching at the door, so i'm just going look on frigates and see if there's been any triggers on my motion activation in the front yard. Nope, just one fat ass walking through the gates after visiting his neighbor.
00:53:38
jamie peacock
All three of us went fishing this weekend on our own in different places. So we're all catching up and seeing what everyone caught.
00:53:44
Curt
Nice.
00:53:46
jamie peacock
Basically, fuck all.
00:53:48
jamie peacock
Yeah, it was fun.
00:53:49
Curt
Fun.
00:53:50
jamie peacock
But yeah, so yeah, so that and then I did a load of admin shit this week. I'm to remember what admin shit I did, but I did a bunch of it. And it sucks.
00:53:57
Curt
Fun. Yeah.
00:53:58
jamie peacock
Yeah, I hate admin stuff.
00:53:58
Curt
No one hates, no one likes that.
00:53:59
jamie peacock
Yeah, i ended up spending a lot of time in in the house, not in the workshop because I had admin stuff to do and I didn't have material to run.
Time Management and Linux Transition
00:54:07
jamie peacock
So take the time too to be useful and do admin things.
00:54:07
Curt
Hmm.
00:54:12
jamie peacock
um And then, well, okay, you've let's hear why you're busier than a one-armed fiddler.
00:54:18
Curt
Oh, just the the getting back into production now and then all my stupid influencer stuff because I'm stupid. And ah so now I have to do, i have to finish doing like a short video on the laser scanner that i i' actually want to do.
00:54:32
Curt
So that'd be fun. But then I also want to do a video, a 2025 wrap up video for YouTube that I've been wanting to do because I like to do those at least once a year.
00:54:33
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah.
00:54:40
Curt
So I got to do that. And then I have to do a bunch of content for this fiber laser and then I also have to finish the production that I'm currently doing and then I also want to finish the production on this fidget because it's got a shit ton of interest and then then just general life and it's just like got so many irons in the fire right now and it's ah I'm so happy like it's it's lovely it's lovely to be busy because people want your shit um I'm happy about it but yeah like this like I got my next two months I think I'm gonna actually like I don't normally schedule my months because like it's
00:55:11
jamie peacock
Yeah, no need to.
00:55:12
Curt
it's pretty, i i have a pretty good idea how I want to run.
00:55:13
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah.
00:55:15
Curt
And I have kind of have done it for last year, but these next few months, I think I'm going actually have to schedule it where it's like, if I don't hit my production by this date, like I, I need to like push into the evenings. Cause like I'll start running, it it'll start running away on me.
00:55:27
Curt
So yeah.
00:55:28
jamie peacock
That's the thing. mean There was a really good podcast, I think it was a Tips and Chips one, where they discussing the the guy from Articards was saying, as you start approaching your full capacity, any slip starts to compound really quickly.
00:55:40
Curt
Yeah.
00:55:43
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:55:44
jamie peacock
Like, really, really quickly. Like, if if you're at 50% capacity and a project runs an hour long, oh, it's not the end of the world. But if you're at 90% capacity and that hour long, that kicks everything down the road an hour. is You don't have capacity to make it up.
00:55:58
Curt
yeah Yeah, exactly.
00:55:59
jamie peacock
it's yeah
00:55:59
Curt
Exactly. Yeah, and it...
00:56:01
jamie peacock
So I'm curious to see how the the pre-order tomorrow goes and what the kind of numbers we're looking at are.
00:56:06
jamie peacock
Because then I need to pull my finger out my ass and start making anchor points.
00:56:06
Curt
Yeah.
00:56:11
Curt
Yeah, well that's a good thing. That's, I mean...
00:56:12
jamie peacock
Yeah, definitely. back to the yeah We'll be good up to fairly high quantity we'll still be okay with. So we'll see how much interest there is and then ah go from there.
00:56:19
Curt
Nice.
00:56:24
Curt
Cool. Well, i hope it I hope it goes super well.
00:56:24
jamie peacock
Should be fun. And then Kurtz and I both decided that Windows sucks in retrying Mint Linux.
00:56:26
Curt
Tell me... ah
00:56:31
Curt
yeah um Yeah, I'm game.
00:56:31
jamie peacock
Sorry, I'm pulling in on this one.
00:56:33
Curt
um du Don't got to pull me in. i'm yeah um I'm right in your candy truck.
00:56:35
jamie peacock
I need to find my SSD.
00:56:37
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:56:37
jamie peacock
I have an SSD somewhere here with a NVMe drive in it. And I'm literally just going to wipe that, put Mint on it, put it in my PC. If it doesn't work, pull it out, put my Windows OS back in.
00:56:49
Curt
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:56:50
jamie peacock
At least then I have the option to revert back instantly because obviously it needed for work. But yeah, I think I'm going to give Mint a bash. It's compatibility is pretty good with most Windows apps.
00:57:03
Curt
Yeah, I'm gonna, I don't know. I'm so, I'm just kind of getting cooked on, yeah, just just dumb stuff.
00:57:05
jamie peacock
It's frustrating as hell.
00:57:09
Curt
Just saving me from myself. Just like, stop it.
00:57:11
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:57:12
Curt
Just let me be unsafe.
00:57:12
jamie peacock
No, the the constant fuckery is really annoying. And if Mint works well, in all likelihood, this PC will end up outside for my daily driver and my PC from outside will end up here for the podcast and Friday nights fusion sessions and things.
00:57:16
Curt
Yeah.
00:57:27
jamie peacock
Because this PC can't go to Windows 11 because reasons of science.
00:57:36
Curt
Right, right.
00:57:38
jamie peacock
Mark, they say it can't, therefore it can't.
00:57:40
Curt
that
00:57:42
jamie peacock
It's perfectly functional.
00:57:44
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:57:44
jamie peacock
So yeah, they can go choke while deep throating.
00:57:45
Curt
i
00:57:49
jamie peacock
I'm not a fan of Windows anymore at fucking all. Like, no, it's gotten him bad.
00:57:53
Curt
Yeah, I know. i Well, in these last like few months, I've spent so much time just like in in like Linux, just doing Python code.
00:58:04
Curt
And as I'm like, I'm getting so much better at just like playing and like learning where all the commands are.
00:58:04
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:58:08
Curt
I'm like, oh I can like function. I'm like, i've I've been sitting here for like an hour and my hand hasn't moved off the keyboard. It's like, just like, I like this. I enjoy this. So it's like, I think I'm just going to jump ship.
00:58:19
jamie peacock
Yeah, I think they're gonna have a lot of people jumping ship. Unfortunate.
00:58:23
Curt
Yeah, seems that way. Seems that way.
00:58:24
jamie peacock
yeah I was my mate Roger came posted on my You need to push code. oh I need to adjust this thread, push just that to the NAS walk to the machine reload code. He's like, that's magic. I'm a guest flash drives off for the poor people set up a network drive for your machine.
00:58:38
jamie peacock
And if you've got if you set up a Linux share, super easy on the Siemens.
00:58:43
Curt
Oh, yeah. OK.
00:58:44
jamie peacock
Like super duper easy.
00:58:45
Curt
Yeah.
00:58:46
jamie peacock
Like ridiculously. Share folder on your PC and as long as your PC is on, it'll see it. It took me all of five minutes to set up with some light Googling.
00:58:58
jamie peacock
Like it's it's not it's not hard.
00:58:58
Curt
OK.
00:59:00
jamie peacock
I just can't remember how to get back to the menus I was in before. Like even finding the stuff in the PLC, I can't find it now, but I have pictures of it, so it's fine.
00:59:09
Curt
I know i'm starting to do ah I'm starting to do like readme files of like anytime I make like a weird program or like so I just make a readme file of like so when I come back to this in like six months time I'd be like okay this is how I did it all.
00:59:12
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:59:17
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:59:19
Curt
It's like okay like just a quick polls notes so I can figure out what the shit I was thinking about.
00:59:21
jamie peacock
yeah.
00:59:22
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:59:23
jamie peacock
My custom HAL files on LinuxCNC have instructions in the beginning. Put this in here. Delete this line of code from here. All these instructions so that if you run through PNC config, you know what you need to do again because you can't remember all that shit.
00:59:39
Curt
Sure. Yeah, no doubt. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
00:59:44
jamie peacock
Yeah, there's a lot of setup crap. I actually got a call. I think we accidentally uncommented a line in his custom howl. So start button stopped working. it works once It works once the program is running.
00:59:55
Curt
Oh, that's unfortunate.
00:59:59
jamie peacock
The pause and start work.
01:00:00
Curt
Okay.
01:00:01
jamie peacock
But the start button does fuck all until then. So I think he uncommented a ah line there by accident. So I need to just go there with my ah good a copy of known good code and just see what the difference is.
01:00:07
Curt
Yeah.
01:00:12
jamie peacock
Or just copy and paste that whole section in and change the I.O. numbers.
01:00:17
Curt
Sure. Yeah.
01:00:17
jamie peacock
Yeah, because, there oh, by the way, his machine is holding size like perfect.
01:00:18
Curt
Yeah.
01:00:23
Curt
Oh, nice. That's good.
01:00:23
jamie peacock
Yeah, like half a thou, no problem.
01:00:23
Curt
That's awesome.
01:00:27
Curt
Beautiful.
01:00:27
jamie peacock
So, yeah, he's now, he actually, think it was last week, Thursday, he went to go deliver some stuff to a customer and on the way there he's like, I'm going to have to hustle this over for some work. By the time, it was a half hour drive, by the time he arrived there, his machine's at capacity.
01:00:41
jamie peacock
because his missus and I have been whoring them out something silly to like all of our customers like, hey, you need turning work, go to call.
01:00:46
Curt
yeah
01:00:49
jamie peacock
Guys come to me with, sin i'm like go to call. I'm not interested in doing it. So we've been whoring them out solidly. So he's got like, yeah, he's got a three or 400 parts he's got to make this month.
01:00:55
Curt
Good. That's good.
01:01:00
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's a lot of parts. So he's ah he's at least busy, which is good.
01:01:05
Curt
Coco.
01:01:05
jamie peacock
Yeah. So what is in your Google box?
01:01:10
Curt
Go to the Google box. Oh, my Google box is full of all kinds of fun this week. a
01:01:15
jamie peacock
I'll see next time.
Nostalgic Tech and 3D Printing Innovations
01:01:16
Curt
So yeah, so if you're a child of the 90s, the Slow Mo guys released a video on the Virtual Boy. um I remember going to toy stores and like looking, but when they used to have displays of video games,
01:01:28
Curt
um When they had the virtual boy sitting on the counter and say, put my head in like, whoa, it's like VR. Anyway, the tech in that thing is the tech is basic, but the the way they executed it, mind blowing. The thing was running at like stupid, stupid, like ah refresh rates because the way they were generating the images, like I think I forgot what they said. i think it was like a billion times a second. I might be ah speaking out of school.
01:01:52
Curt
It was over the megahertz range.
01:01:53
jamie peacock
I saw, so I've seen the video. I didn't actually realize was realize it was them.
01:01:54
Curt
So.
01:01:56
jamie peacock
It's been in my feed for the last few days. And i I was like, I me didn't know what it was about, but yeah, I'm going to go watch it all for this.
01:02:02
Curt
It's worth view.
01:02:03
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:02:04
Curt
It's a really weird way they use like gavel heads to like draw the lines on your eyes. So anyways, cool. If you're into that stuff, go check it out.
01:02:09
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:02:10
Curt
It's a link in the show notes, but just Google slow-mo guys, virtual oh boy, it'll come up or slow-mo guys. It's like their first video right now. um Cursor. I was looking at that for some code work just because I'm doing so much more code.
01:02:18
jamie peacock
All right.
01:02:20
Curt
So it just kind of, it's, that's actually a pretty cool software as well. I don't know anything about it. So anyways, um, sculpt okay uh literally just like that um it's for taking like vectorized or taking sorry uh images and turning them into like depth maps for like the million challenge coins people are doing but i want to do some 3d work um and some of these 3d works i don't have like a mesh file for i would have to generate it from an image uh so anyways mess around with that it seems to be pretty decent
01:02:37
jamie peacock
Okay.
01:02:41
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:02:45
jamie peacock
Sure. You do know slices do that. Like a lot of your three d printing slices have done that for years.
01:02:55
Curt
Oh, I guess for lithopanes, right?
01:02:57
jamie peacock
done Even before that, like you could pull in an image and it would depth map it, and you could then print like a 3D...
01:02:58
Curt
Yeah. okay
01:03:05
jamie peacock
I know I messed around with it back in 2016 or something. Cura does it, and I will assume...
01:03:11
Curt
I thought they just gray, because you can grayscale it, but I'm learning that depth mapping is a little bit different like to than just grayscaling it.
01:03:17
jamie peacock
I know this this depth maps.
01:03:18
Curt
yeah
01:03:19
jamie peacock
So you set the maximum height, and then judging on the color, it varies the thickness.
01:03:19
Curt
Interesting. OK.
01:03:23
Curt
Yeah.
01:03:26
Curt
Interesting. Okay.
01:03:27
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:03:28
Curt
I'll have to check this out.
01:03:28
jamie peacock
So yeah, it's an old thing from from 3d printing.
01:03:29
Curt
um
01:03:31
jamie peacock
But yeah, I know it's there because I did it once twice.
01:03:36
Curt
Cool. Okay. I'll mess with it more. It just seems like neat stuff.
01:03:38
jamie peacock
Yeah. But that's quite cool.
01:03:39
Curt
i' Oh, and... ah ah duxbury precision Duxbury Precision Concepts on Etsy. ah He reached out after the show last time because talking about spiders for my lathe, making a spider to hold some.
01:03:49
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:03:50
Curt
It has to be a weird spider, um but he makes them and sells them on Etsy. um He was going to send me some just out of the goodness of his heart, so I figured to give him a shout out here. so if you If you're into that, they're like little magnet ones that all clip together so you can have varying sizes for for lathe.
01:04:03
Curt
so if you need If you need a spider, go
01:04:04
jamie peacock
Yeah.
Community Shoutouts and Machining Insights
01:04:05
Curt
check them out.
01:04:05
Curt
um Duxbury Dux Precision Concepts on Etsy's where, or it's, or like Duxbury precision on Instagram.
01:04:10
jamie peacock
We will see if we can throw them in there.
01:04:13
Curt
I'll throw them in the show notes too.
01:04:14
jamie peacock
okay Yeah, I'll make Kurt get us a link and can throw it in the and the show notes.
01:04:14
Curt
Yeah. Why not?
01:04:17
Curt
Done.
01:04:18
jamie peacock
Yes.
01:04:18
Curt
So yeah. Thank you for being kind. Um, I didn't need what he had, but, uh, I appreciate it.
01:04:22
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:04:22
Curt
I was very, very kind.
01:04:23
jamie peacock
But maybe someone else does.
01:04:24
Curt
Maybe someone else does.
01:04:25
jamie peacock
There we go. Yeah.
01:04:27
Curt
How about you?
01:04:27
jamie peacock
um
01:04:27
Curt
What's in your Google box?
01:04:28
jamie peacock
ah Yeah, looking at AC units, trying find a reasonably priced AC unit, except there's no documentation whether it actually comes with the pipes or not, so I need to phone the guys and just figure that out. um It is dark the cheapest one, and it probably doesn't come with the pipes.
01:04:42
jamie peacock
I was looking up Lang Hall spacings. i actually found it on the Fifth Axis website. They actually had documentation.
01:04:47
Curt
Mm-mm.
01:04:48
jamie peacock
Lang does not. Anywhere.
01:04:50
Curt
Oh, really?
01:04:50
jamie peacock
on the whole spacing yeah i pulled their documents uh it's got tolerances for the balls but not for their positional tolerance so i was like interesting you just make it exactly exactly which is what you should do but yeah kind of weird uh then do what robotics do cobots i'll saw them some ways i googled them and i was looking at their cobots
01:04:58
Curt
Oh.
01:05:04
Curt
Hmm.
01:05:11
jamie peacock
And then, yeah, the stepper wiring, had to Google what colors are what on the stepper motor, because the motor I gave to Mish had an integrated driver that died.
01:05:12
Curt
Hmm.
01:05:19
jamie peacock
So I chopped it off the board, extended the wires.
01:05:20
Curt
okay Totally, yeah.
01:05:24
jamie peacock
guessed at which word what what the phase order was, had it wrong, fixed it, ran it a self-test, and then gave it to him. And know that driver, the stepper driver is really cool. like If you want to do simple stuff, like it's perfect to do simple.
01:05:37
jamie peacock
You just need to go backwards and forwards. You don't need a pulse generator or anything. And then, ah yeah, Dark Art Cotaz, thank you for your message on Instagram. He was referring to listening to my episode of With Intolerance.
01:05:49
jamie peacock
He was asking about analyzing.
01:05:49
Curt
Oh, cool.
01:05:50
jamie peacock
But yeah, I like getting fancy messages like that. So yeah, thank you very much.
01:05:54
Curt
Oh, that's nice.
01:05:55
jamie peacock
Yeah, that episode's obviously it's still getting back catalog listens, which is cool.
01:06:03
Curt
Cool, cool.
01:06:05
jamie peacock
Now
Pre-order Strategies and Customer Engagement
01:06:07
jamie peacock
I'm getting asked tricky questions on WhatsApp.
01:06:10
Curt
No.
01:06:13
jamie peacock
Do I have a 10 millimeter collet for ER? Yes, I do. Yes, or you can just use two five millimeters.
01:06:17
Curt
Doing work on the podcast, doing work on the podcast.
01:06:19
jamie peacock
Yeah, you can use five two five millimeter collets. It's the same as a 10 mil collet.
01:06:24
Curt
Except that, but yeah, why not?
01:06:25
jamie peacock
Yeah, exactly. Now I'm pretty sure I've got a 10 million to ER20 for him.
01:06:27
Curt
Gloomed again.
01:06:31
jamie peacock
It's probably cheaper to just go buy one at printing store to drive to my house, but whatever.
01:06:31
Curt
Cool.
01:06:35
jamie peacock
You can come visit, I'll make him lift heavy things.
01:06:40
jamie peacock
Savage mode.
01:06:41
Curt
Where can, unless you got more to add, where can people find your wares?
01:06:43
jamie peacock
No, no, no. ah Yeah, you can find me at jspec underscore engineering on Instagram. You can find the Loan Machinist's podcast, or theloanemachinist.com where you'll find the podcast website with the companion guides and bonus content, the Wall of Fame, yeah whole bunch of fun stuff.
01:07:01
jamie peacock
And then you can find the anchor points and the mechanical anchor points at jspeceng.com.
01:07:01
Curt
Ooh.
01:07:10
jamie peacock
You'll also find our merch line there. We do fancy t-shirts that now have the correct shipping. um yeah, go check that out. And Mechanical Anchor Points pre-order Dingus will come out probably the time this podcast is out.
01:07:22
jamie peacock
At least that's the plan. And yeah like said earlier, that's just a coupon. Valid anywhere on the store, but gets you front of the queue for notification when the anchor points are ready for sale, which we're targeting the 14th, but it might be sooner than that.
01:07:36
jamie peacock
Like as soon as they're ready to go into Anno, going start messaging people. to say hey place your order let me know what color you want when we've got the order we'll anodize it as it's kind of story so yeah dude the last coupon we did we did uh one for the anchor point in march a guy bought two coupons he bought the anchor points in november
01:07:47
Curt
like that co I like that coupon idea. That's a good idea. like i was and then And then people, if they bail, they can still use it for something. It has value. yeah
01:08:03
Curt
Well, and like you said, that gets you around the the PayPal limitation of like holding your funds because you haven't shipped.
01:08:06
jamie peacock
yes
01:08:08
Curt
You technically have sold a digital product, and then it's fulfilled.
01:08:09
jamie peacock
Exactly. Yeah.
01:08:11
Curt
That's good idea.
01:08:11
jamie peacock
I've technically sold, yeah, sold you a voucher.
01:08:12
Curt
Yeah.
01:08:14
jamie peacock
Danica makes up the vouchers, emails them through to the guys and they're redeemable pretty much until forever. Um, and with, for anything on the store, it's not like you have to buy an anchor point with it. If you want to chicken out of bank, when I buy a t-shirt, you can, um,
01:08:27
Curt
Interesting, yeah.
01:08:28
jamie peacock
But yeah, it was a it was my solution to that problem. And it gets me an idea of how many I need to make because obviously don't want to make 100 units and not sell 100 units because we've tied up a bunch capital and also don't want to make 10 units and need to sell 100.
01:08:43
jamie peacock
And then people are waiting.
01:08:44
Curt
Yeah.
01:08:46
jamie peacock
So want to try and gauge the interest.
01:08:49
Curt
Yeah, interesting, that gives me ideas. But that's cool. That's good idea.
01:08:51
jamie peacock
Yeah, there's also a newsletter on the website, the Anchor Point sign-up thingy-mobobby, and that will also get you on the mailing list to know when the pre-order happens, when things drop.
01:08:52
Curt
That's good idea.
01:09:02
jamie peacock
You can get out of that mailing list.
01:09:05
Curt
We that's awesome.
01:09:05
jamie peacock
Yeah, where can people find you, Kurt?
01:09:08
Curt
Confounded machine.com. You can sign up for the lottery on the aptly named page called lottery. ah You are if you you can enter it. The only way out is to win. And technically, if you win, you are not removed. Some people have asked that.
01:09:23
Curt
And if you've entered in the past, it'll it'll do all the math. You can enter it. No issues. um Actually, same thing on the contact page. I found i had a ton of people enter my lottery, but they've unsubscribed from my emails.
01:09:34
Curt
So when and I've drawn a winner from that, but I can't email because it's like MailChimp won't just privacy concerns.
01:09:39
jamie peacock
Oh,
01:09:41
Curt
It's like they unsubscribe. They don't want your messages. i'm Like I can't give you your winning ticket because I can't email you and I can't email you to tell you you're on the list because I can't email you.
01:09:47
jamie peacock
yeah.
01:09:49
Curt
So. I shouted them on in shouted him out on Instagram and I shouted them out here.
01:09:50
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:09:52
Curt
So the only way to fix it, go on the contact page, re-enter your email. It fixes it.
01:09:56
jamie peacock
OK.
01:09:56
Curt
But yeah, there's a few of them.
01:09:57
jamie peacock
Does that fix that?
01:09:57
Curt
no one Only like five...
01:09:58
jamie peacock
So it adds them back to the OK list.
01:10:00
Curt
It adds them back because they have to do it and I can't manually do it.
01:10:02
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:10:03
Curt
Even if they gave me permission, I can't manually do it. They physically have to do it. So kind of a dumb way to do it, but I get it because, or else people that are not nice would just be like, oh, all these people unsubscribed.
01:10:07
jamie peacock
Yeah. privacy. Yeah.
01:10:13
Curt
Today you resubscribed. And that's probably how the world works because I keep unsubscribing from other people.
01:10:15
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:10:17
jamie peacock
It is definitely how it works.
01:10:18
Curt
But anyways, yeah. So yeah, confoundermachine.com and on the media page, it links to all the stuff on the Jamie talked about. don't buy shirts. It links to the phone machinist. So yeah, just... everything Everything is there.
01:10:31
jamie peacock
Yeah, I got a I got a thing today from Kyocera printing solutions. I'm like,
01:10:37
Curt
Ah, yes.
01:10:38
jamie peacock
Where the hell did you get my number? Why are all my email? Why are you emailing me? Like, what the hell? of
01:10:46
Curt
What you did mention, well, actually, no, because if you got your parts now scanned by a Keyence machine, they probably know your part, so they'll probably find you online, because I hear their marketing team is heinous.
01:10:59
jamie peacock
Don't worry, i'll already get the Keyonce emails because used to use them where I used to work.
01:11:02
Curt
Oh, do you? okay hey
01:11:04
jamie peacock
And yeah, i logged in I made an account with my personal email address, so I get Keyonce emails every day.
01:11:05
Curt
and
01:11:10
jamie peacock
Yeah, like it's...
01:11:11
Curt
Oh, bummer. Gross.
01:11:13
jamie peacock
Yeah, there they are unrelenting.
01:11:16
Curt
Ugh.
01:11:17
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's the bomb that we're chatting about it this week.
Event Plans and Workshop Updates
01:11:22
Curt
I wonder if they're worse than Uline. Uline is heinous. They send you physical mail, but Uline is brutal.
01:11:27
jamie peacock
Ugh.
01:11:29
Curt
Yeah, you get a catalog, like a one-inch catalog monthly.
01:11:29
jamie peacock
Yeah, that's wrong. So, unfortunately, we're going to IMTS again, and there's a nice convenient button. Re- or apply with last year's credentials. I'm like, shit, because I wanted to change my email address to not be my main email address.
01:11:47
jamie peacock
Also, I wanted to change Danica's card to say Barloader, not CCO, which is Chief Chicken Officer. She's a chicken. Mine says Dictator, as always.
01:11:58
Curt
I would, if I go, I would pick that for sure. Yeah.
01:12:01
jamie peacock
100% I dictate what goes on in my business.
01:12:02
Curt
Yeah.
01:12:03
jamie peacock
um Anything I go to, it's dictator.
01:12:03
Curt
ah
01:12:06
jamie peacock
him Even the the amazing thing I went to dictator all the time. Okay, and those are like, there's there's a few people who actually read it. It's hilarious when they do actually read it.
01:12:18
Curt
Right.
01:12:18
jamie peacock
It's frickin funny. ah Yeah, so what what are you up to today? Good?
01:12:23
Curt
ah Today I will probably have a bunch of bodies ready, pen bodies. So going to get those prepped because they're going go in the big style going to take forever. So I'm going to do those first, try to front load my work so that both machines can finish at the same time.
01:12:36
Curt
That's the goal. And then ah yeah screws actually, but it'll it'll blank screws first. Then it'll do bodies and just balance the machine loads out. But yeah, how about you besides sleeping?
01:12:44
jamie peacock
between um yeah i'm gonna go to sleep uh tomorrow gotta finish up the water flingers then i've got a customer coming to visit yeah odds and ends like keep busy work lots of busy work Got to make this, this, this, but out of aluminium.
01:12:59
Curt
That's fun.
01:13:03
jamie peacock
So the material arrived, I need to just set it up and run it.
01:13:04
Curt
Of
01:13:07
jamie peacock
um Yeah, i love ah little odds and ends like a whole bunch of little odds and ends planning a couple retrofits and whatnot in between all odds and ends. Also spindle gripping stuff.
01:13:17
Curt
course, yeah.
01:13:18
jamie peacock
um I need to finish machining the manifold tomorrow morning. machined the one side and I need machine the other side. And then I need to make one little block and that can go into the machine.
01:13:29
jamie peacock
And I can actually just put an airline and test that my gripper works.
01:13:33
Curt
Oh, cool. Yeah.
01:13:33
jamie peacock
Yeah, and then I'm waiting on the valve block, which hasn't shipped. i ordered on Saturday, still hasn't shipped. I'm a bit annoyed um that I'm sure it'll ship this week. And then I can get that mounted into the machine and wired in and got its bypass switches. So my machine's got in the front, it's got a bunch of punch outs buttons.
01:13:51
jamie peacock
So I'm thinking of putting the Tony toggle switches like just the 22 millimeter ones. for overriding the valves for if want to override the the device or i want to override the um the air blow or whatever i'm thinking of just running basically in uh running buttons there so i wanted to actuate the gripper i can actuate the gripper with either uh turns like a two position switch or a button so like i've got spare punch outs i'm just gonna like fill them up with crap
01:14:22
Curt
Fair, cool.
01:14:24
jamie peacock
why not? They're there. ach
01:14:26
Curt
Yeah.
01:14:26
jamie peacock
It's not really going to hurt the the um not going to hurt the machine.
01:14:32
Curt
Right, right, right, yeah.
01:14:32
jamie peacock
i want to see if I can get an air gauge that'll fit in a 22mm button spot as well so that I can put a pressure regulator there and adjust the pressure of the vice.
01:14:37
Curt
Ooh, that'd be pretty. Yeah.
01:14:43
Curt
Yeah, that would look nice too.
01:14:43
jamie peacock
Because then it's all clearly visible. It's a bit of extra plumbing to run the airline all the way forward and all the way back again. But I think potentially worth it.
01:14:53
Curt
I think so for the cool factor. Yeah.
01:14:54
jamie peacock
For the cool factor, I also i bought a valve block, so yeah, I'd have to just figure out how I'm going to actually integrate that. Although i should only be gripping in one direction with the vase.
01:15:05
jamie peacock
I can't see myself expanding out to grab things.
01:15:09
Curt
Fair. Yeah, fair, fair.
01:15:10
jamie peacock
Although you never know.
01:15:13
Curt
Well, now that you said it, you'll have fun to use for it. So yeah.
01:15:15
jamie peacock
Yeah, now I've said it, I'm going need to do it. But yeah, i want to get that to be a nice, neat little solution. I was going to make some little boxes like Gimbal's got, but I'm like yeah, that's stupid. I'll just use the front punch-outs in my machine.
01:15:26
jamie peacock
like
01:15:27
Curt
I think you should I think you should do that. And i think you just toggle switches with like the little bars to protect them like on airplanes. And then you can use them to turn the machine on. It's like. Ooh.
01:15:35
jamie peacock
So as it is, I've got little flip cover on the power off button, and that brings me great joy when I flip it, I'm like, eh, machine off.
01:15:39
Curt
o
01:15:41
jamie peacock
And then it powers down the phase converter and all that other shit as well. So I'm like a small child with shit like that.
01:15:45
Curt
um
01:15:47
jamie peacock
100%.
01:15:48
Curt
um what Yeah, of course. It's got to make life interesting. yeah
01:15:50
jamie peacock
ah hundred percent You need to enjoy what you do in life. But yeah, on that, thank you everybody for listening.
01:15:53
Curt
Yeah. 100%.
01:15:55
jamie peacock
And we will see you next week. Patreons,
Episode Wrap-Up and Future Teasers
01:15:58
jamie peacock
we will see you shortly. No idea what we're talking about, but...
01:16:01
Curt
Jet trains.
01:16:01
jamie peacock
little Oh yes, jet trains.
01:16:01
Curt
Jet trains.
01:16:03
jamie peacock
That's what we're going to talk about. There'll probably be a link in the show for the jet trains as well for the non-patreons. But yeah, thank you everyone.
01:16:08
Curt
Go watch. It's cool.
01:16:09
jamie peacock
Thank you everyone for listening and we will see you next week.
01:16:11
Curt
Mm-hmm.
01:16:13
Curt
Take care