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Ep. 75: CADing a Fence Like It’s Aerospace
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This week on the Lone Machinist Podcast, Jamie finally gets the keys to the new workshop and immediately discovers that moving a machine shop involves approximately 4,000 decisions, 7,000 trips to hardware stores, and at least one full-scale CAD model of the building. Floor plans are taped out, paint is being thrown around, machines are getting shuffled, and somehow there's still time to argue about carts.
Meanwhile, Curt discovers that being nice to people is apparently a business strategy, his X5 is doubling as an industrial space heater, and he may have reached peak machinist by CADing an entire fence before it was built. The contractor was impressed. Everyone else thought he was insane.
The long-awaited pneumatic vice finally arrives, barnacles are multiplying in the shop, anodizing experiments go slightly sideways, and both hosts spend an unhealthy amount of time discussing fixtures, keyboards, organization carts, and why every shop project somehow creates three more shop projects.
If you've ever bought a machine before you figured out where to put it, designed furniture in CAD, or convinced yourself that "one more fixture" would solve all your problems, this episode is for you.
Grab a coffee, avoid the mosquitoes, and enjoy the ride.
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Transcript
Podcast Introduction and Weekly Agenda
00:00:00
jamie peacock
Welcome to the Loaded Machines podcast so where it's just you, the work and the machines. What have you got going on this week, Kurt?
00:00:06
Curt
This week, I'm going to talk about ah just be nice, how AC makes my brain work better and $800 videos. How about you? What are you going to talk about?
00:00:16
jamie peacock
Oh, we're going to talk about pneumatic vice that has finally arrived. We're going to talk about the RAM prices because holy cow. um And we're going to talk about the new workshop because...
00:00:30
Curt
Ooh, keys.
00:00:30
jamie peacock
Yes. Yeah. So it's going to be an interesting week this week. um Yeah. How are you doing this evening? Good.
New Workshop Planning and Setup
00:00:38
Curt
I'm doing good. I'm doing good. was doing a bunch of fence work today. I fence built and just, yeah. So I've been outside for like days and behind on production, but I'm ahead on fences.
00:00:50
Curt
So yeah, that's where I'm at.
00:00:50
jamie peacock
Well, there we go.
00:00:53
Curt
How about What's your weekend like right now?
00:00:53
jamie peacock
Nice.
00:00:56
jamie peacock
Oh, yeah, it's ah it's been a week. um Yeah, we got the keys on Friday. We wasted the entirety of Friday because I was told we'll get we do handover on Friday. So we faffed around here until 11.
00:01:08
jamie peacock
And then eventually Danica's a couple go around errands. We'll be nearby. When they tell us to come up and get the keys, we can go up and get the keys. So we then went to literally every fucking store, looking at furniture, looking at cupboards, looking like all the stuff we need to look at.
00:01:23
jamie peacock
and plan for moving in and just get rough pricing on. So we literally fought around until three o'clock, went and got the keys, did the handover, proceeded to tape out the floor of the workshop, um with where machines are going to go just to start getting a rough idea like
00:01:36
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:01:40
jamie peacock
the plans have changed what I plan for desks that threw it out the window. i Machine placements are pretty solid. That's all coming off the floor today. But yeah, I did that. And then yesterday went again, zooting around to go look at stuff for the shop, like furniture, cutlery, all the dumb shit we need to to get done.
Move and Renovation Insights
00:02:02
jamie peacock
Networking, like just ended up cocking around till like three o'clock then ran ano and machines till the evening. Today, I've got to assemble things and then by the time this comes out, my floor will be painted already.
00:02:15
Curt
Oh wow, nice.
00:02:17
jamie peacock
So we're meeting there at Hopos 9 this morning. um I've just got to go by an adapter to connect my pressure washer to the tap because there's no actual ah garden and tap. It's just taps that sinks. So I'm going to just go by adapter to be able to put a hose on that.
00:02:30
jamie peacock
um There's one or two bolts want to grind off, scrape the floor a little bit, pressure wash it. and then we'll leave it to dry for the day and tomorrow probably around lunchtime i'll meet up there with carl and we'll quickly throw the first coat of paint and then leave that overnight rinse it off in the morning and second coat of paint and then leave it for like the rest of the week to just go hard like really hard
00:02:42
Curt
Hmm.
00:02:48
Curt
Nice.
00:02:54
Curt
I'm assuming that it doesn't need like a crap ton of cleaning, like it's in decent shape
Workspace and Office Setup
00:02:58
Curt
as is.
00:02:58
jamie peacock
yeah no it's pretty decent um Yeah, the the corner where my desk is going is like some spilt shit. So I just want to scrape that off. I bought a five liter of degrease. I'm just going to degrease the floor. i want to do it today on a Sunday. So no one's in the business park. So I can just wash down the road.
00:03:14
jamie peacock
um Like we made friends with the neighbor on Friday. He's also an engineering shop. He was like oh, do guys have CNC lat? Yeah, i a cool. I'll have overflow work for you.
00:03:22
Curt
Oh, sick. Oh, that's nice.
00:03:23
jamie peacock
Yeah, so really making friends in the in the complex. um But yeah, it looks looks like a nice little unit. I'll probably post some stories this afternoon about it, which will be three days ago from the point of the podcaster.
00:03:35
Curt
Cool. Oh, nice.
00:03:37
jamie peacock
But yeah, so yeah exciting stuff. So yeah, we got we got our ah keys. I need to go buy another two locks to just properly lock the place up and then go get keys cut.
Move Strategy and Production Continuity
00:03:48
jamie peacock
There's like a million things on the to-do list.
00:03:51
Curt
I bet. Yeah. I just looking around here is thinking about things.
00:03:52
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:03:54
Curt
Like if i had to move, you're like, man, there's a lot of shit you have to like consider.
00:03:57
jamie peacock
Yeah. So first thing is get the floors fixed. Then we once the floors are hard, we'll arrange for delivery of materials for the office upstairs that we need to build. Then we've got to order all the cable stuff, get all that delivered here, and then we'll take it over. We're putting in the wire U-channel stuff to run the cables in so it's not on the floor, not as high up.
00:04:21
jamie peacock
We've got to put all that stuff in I'm thinking of building a temporary mezzanine above where my desk is actually going to be.
00:04:21
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:04:27
jamie peacock
um just because now's the time to do it. And it'll let me have lots of it closer to to my head. Because there's a rafter through the middle of the the room, which means we only have there to mount lots.
00:04:42
jamie peacock
So i'm going to put a mezzanine so I can have better lighting in my area. Where Carl's going, there's the the other means the actual concrete mezzanine where we can just put lots under that. That's not gonna be too much of a shame.
00:04:52
Curt
Oh, OK.
00:04:53
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:04:54
Curt
Nice.
00:04:56
jamie peacock
So yeah, planning all the lighting, planning all the home assistant stuff, all automation, because obviously, um
00:05:04
jamie peacock
but yeah
00:05:04
Curt
Yeah.
Lease and Expansion Plans
00:05:05
Curt
Oh,
00:05:05
jamie peacock
we're only planning on moving in in two weeks' time, two, three weeks' time. I'm not rushing the move because I want to run production up until i decommission the LK. The following day, it needs to be rigged out of here and rigged in.
00:05:17
jamie peacock
And then I want to try have WD Hearn on site the following day. So like the riggers will place our lathes, or they'll put them on the floor, and we'll wheel them in with the pallet jack.
00:05:17
Curt
OK.
00:05:24
Curt
Okay.
00:05:30
jamie peacock
And then those I can commission, we can level and commission those ourselves. But the LK, I need proper people to come and do that.
00:05:40
Curt
Okay.
00:05:40
jamie peacock
I'm not even going to fuck around. I'm just going have them come and do it. They can level it. It's all fitting. The whole LK fits on a single section of the, because the pad is split, fits on a single section of that.
00:05:51
Curt
Oh, nice. Okay.
00:05:52
jamie peacock
Yeah, because that's kind of important to me.
00:05:52
Curt
That helps.
00:05:55
Curt
Is it a four-footer or a six-foot unit? like
00:05:59
jamie peacock
Six foot.
00:06:01
Curt
Oh, OK. So way more annoying. Yeah.
00:06:03
jamie peacock
They're leveling it. I don't give a fuck. I'll pay them to level my machine. I'm not dealing with that.
00:06:07
jamie peacock
Because it's fucking level.
00:06:07
Curt
Yeah.
00:06:08
Curt
Yeah.
00:06:09
jamie peacock
We checked the other day. It's still dead nuts from where it was two and a half years ago.
00:06:14
Curt
Nice. Yeah.
00:06:15
jamie peacock
Yeah, so they did a damn good job. So I'll just have them come and do it. They're not enough to even think about it.
00:06:22
Curt
Yeah. Well, I mean, that's probably the benefit of like an older building too, is like everything is probably fairly stable.
00:06:23
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:06:26
jamie peacock
Settled. Well, the the neighbor's been in that block for 16 years.
00:06:27
Curt
Yeah.
00:06:31
Curt
Oh, okay. Okay.
00:06:32
jamie peacock
Yeah, so it's an old building.
00:06:32
Curt
Nice.
00:06:34
jamie peacock
Apparently, our unit used to have a roof on the back, like for the little courtyard area. um But the previous tenants took it down with some shit, so that's annoying. um
00:06:43
Curt
Hmm.
00:06:44
jamie peacock
But we've signed a one-year lease. If we renew the lease, I'll then look at building on the back and a bunch of things, and I'm going to go push for like a five-year lease.
00:06:52
Curt
Oh, OK, OK, cool.
00:06:53
jamie peacock
yeah depending on Depending on how the growth looks and how we're managing with the space, it is a bit tight. I remember the unit being longer than it was, but it's fine.
00:07:03
Curt
Yeah.
00:07:03
jamie peacock
It seems to be, so from the from the Fusion model, it's 85 square meters that are machine shop, and then the rest is office and outside and shit like that.
00:07:14
Curt
OK.
00:07:14
jamie peacock
So like the outside area we're putting in the Wendy house for the tumbling and the sandblasting and stuff so that it's outside can make a mess. um But yeah, we can enclose that and put the sores and stuff out there as well.
00:07:26
Curt
I mean, at least it's it's more space than you currently have.
00:07:29
jamie peacock
Oh, yeah, it's like just just where the machines are going is more than double.
00:07:34
Curt
Wow. Yeah, nice.
00:07:35
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's significantly more space. um We are unfortunately getting additional workbenches because my brother-in-law is going away. um So like he's got a steel workbench that we're going grab. He's got a steel cupboard we're grabbing for lathe. So like we're discussing the lathe tooling crib, it's literally just going to be a steel cupboard.
00:07:54
jamie peacock
Because lathe tools, you're not building spinning assemblies.
00:07:58
Curt
Yeah, fair.
00:07:59
jamie peacock
Yeah, so that'll work for Carl for what he wants to do there. And then I'm going to have my whole tool crib corner section of my desk. So I was going to buy shelves, like industrial shelving, and use that as my desk.
00:08:08
Curt
So... Hmm.
00:08:13
jamie peacock
But I think I'm just going to go buy a countertop and bolt a countertop to the wall and have my desk towards the one side of that instead. And then tool grip on the other side and have it solid to the wall.
00:08:23
jamie peacock
Then I can put shelves and stuff above it. I think that's going to be the better the better play. Yeah.
Material Handling and Workshop Solutions
00:08:28
Curt
Yeah, well, you can try it for a bit and then you can always change and alter it. Yeah.
00:08:31
jamie peacock
Exactly. Yeah.
00:08:33
Curt
So how many months before you're crab walking in there? ah
00:08:39
jamie peacock
As it stands, we won't be crab walking for a while we've got provision to put in another two mills depending on what I choose. um
00:08:47
Curt
Oh,
00:08:47
jamie peacock
Yes, we can squeeze in a Zoppo. And we can probably squeeze in the x5 as well.
00:08:53
Curt
okay, cool. Okay.
00:08:54
jamie peacock
On the power budget that we have.
00:08:57
Curt
Oh, nice. Okay.
00:08:58
jamie peacock
Yes, if we choose to go that route. If we don't put down a 40 taper, we might just put down a 40 taper and just print money, then get rid of that and put in other machines. But we'll see.
00:09:08
Curt
Okay.
00:09:08
jamie peacock
It's dependent on, like I'm literally building the back corner of the workshop as the the nautical work cell. So the LK, R&D, all that stuff is just the back corner. And then any production stuff will be more towards the front of the shop.
00:09:24
Curt
Fair.
00:09:24
jamie peacock
And then we putting, oh, no smoking sign, no trust. You know, all the all the fun signage you have to have. Yeah.
00:09:29
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:09:32
jamie peacock
And then my cousin wants to decorate the place with a bunch of funny signs that she's found on Timu. So I'm just like, whatever floats you go, chick.
00:09:40
Curt
I think it's that Laura Kampf. I think she just released a video about like her little like organizing cart or whatever.
00:09:43
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:09:47
Curt
Those things, i think I get attracted to those videos, like organization carts, whatever things.
00:09:48
jamie peacock
Okay.
00:09:50
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:09:52
Curt
um But she had a little sign that says, like little yellow sign that says, this area must remain clear. And she like put it above her workbench. I was like, oh, I kind of like that.
00:10:00
jamie peacock
Ah, yeah, no, that will never happen.
00:10:01
Curt
That's kind of cool. right yeah
00:10:03
jamie peacock
Yeah, there were a couple of funny signs. Danica's been finding funny signs for us. ah But yeah, we're looking at carts now, whether we build a bar what we're going to do for moving material in for like all the prep material can go on a cart and be wheeled to the appropriate machine.
00:10:20
Curt
Sure. Right.
00:10:21
jamie peacock
Yeah, we've got a bunch of lathe work queued up already. So, Carl is going to be very busy. Mostly running the good way, actually. Because the good way is a production beast.
00:10:28
Curt
Hmm.
00:10:31
jamie peacock
So, there'll be bar pulling, and then he can do his onesie-twosies on his machine.
00:10:37
Curt
Oh, speaking of rolling carts, one of my friends who I will pull up his Instagram when I remember it because I'm just blanking on his name right now. Um, uh, he told me like a lot of people use like those, uh, bakery trays, um, or like bakery carts that hold.
00:10:52
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:10:53
Curt
Um, so anyways, if anybody is in North America, I guess, uh, Costco, like there's a Costco business center, at least in Canada, there's Costco business centers and they just do like bigger bulk stuff.
00:11:04
Curt
Anyways, they have like the best price for those rolling bakery tray holder things.
00:11:09
jamie peacock
Yeah, baking. Okay, make a note.
00:11:11
Curt
Yeah.
00:11:14
jamie peacock
Tray holder. Because yeah, we're looking at we're looking at cartels and get the wireframe the wire shelves.
00:11:20
Curt
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:11:21
jamie peacock
Because shavings don't build up on them more than anything else. was looking at those. I was looking at the cart version of those, but they don't have online pricing. So probably not going to from there. Because by the time you price out Angeline, have it guillotined to length and weld up a frame and put plywood in it, we're at the price of buying a cart.
00:11:30
Curt
Yeah, fair.
00:11:41
Curt
Yeah, exactly.
00:11:41
jamie peacock
we may as well just be buying carts.
00:11:42
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:11:43
jamie peacock
So like, I want to have a couple of carts. So whatever job is being done, you've got a cart for it. So like, if the good way is running a job, we've a cart for whatever's on there, whatever's on Carl's machine, you can wheel the cart next to the machine when you're setting up.
00:11:56
jamie peacock
um Yeah, that kind of that kind of thing.
00:12:00
Curt
um Oh, and just to shout out that dude ah on Instagram, Sigunink, S-E-G-U-I-N-I-N-K. He's just another another pen dude.
00:12:10
jamie peacock
Link
00:12:12
Curt
Actually, he's just north of me. I will have his link in the show notes. ah He makes cool pens too. um We chat a lot. And yeah, anyways, he told me, he said, go to Costco Business Center. i was like, oh, I never even thought to look there. So anyway.
00:12:22
jamie peacock
Yeah, I'm looking now at your smart chef stainless steel kitchen trolley.
00:12:27
Curt
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
00:12:28
jamie peacock
I like this plan.
Painting and Maintenance Strategies
00:12:30
Curt
Yeah, there they were like, I don't know, there're like $120 or something like that.
00:12:34
jamie peacock
Yeah, they're more than they're more than that.
00:12:34
Curt
And Uline wanted like $300 or something. Anyways, I don't know.
00:12:39
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:12:40
Curt
Yeah.
00:12:41
jamie peacock
I'm looking Kurt, you've done a bad
00:12:46
Curt
Looking up shit on the podcast. Looking up shit on the podcast.
00:12:49
jamie peacock
100% I just found one that takes like dishwasher racks for industrial dishwashers.
00:12:57
Curt
Ooh, okay. I can see those being more useful.
00:12:58
jamie peacock
Yeah, like that could be more useful even if I just make plywood trays that slot in there. I've then got seven trays of stuff.
00:13:08
Curt
Yeah, like i I personally don't like those rolling cart things or like the baking tray things. I just, for my purposes, but I mean, maybe if I found, like you said, maybe if I made my own inserts or something for it, but i don't know.
00:13:14
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:13:21
jamie peacock
What the shit?
00:13:21
Curt
I don't have a lot of room to roll shit around here either. I need like a tramway hanging off the ceiling.
00:13:24
jamie peacock
Yeah. Well, that's the thing like we've got, we've got a bit more space where we can actually wheel stuff around like this I would put next to the LK if it needs to move, you just wheel it out of the way.
00:13:26
Curt
That'd be better.
00:13:34
Curt
Yeah, totally.
00:13:35
jamie peacock
knock yeah But anyway, let's ah talk about exciting things other than my new shop.
Being Nice and Its Unexpected Benefits
00:13:41
jamie peacock
And the fact that before we move on from the shop, I'm painting the floors with stoop paint or fucking like veranda paint.
00:13:47
jamie peacock
I'm going to put two thick layers down, call it a day.
00:13:48
Curt
Okay. Yep. Yep.
00:13:50
jamie peacock
If we start seeing highway areas, we're then going to tape off and paint the walkways in a different color because those are going to be the highway areas. not Good enough. We've got a one year lease. I'm not willing to put down epoxy on one year lease.
00:14:02
Curt
That's exact. I bought floor paint.
00:14:03
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:14:05
Curt
It's it's called epoxy. It's a single component, so it's not really epoxy.
00:14:08
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:14:09
Curt
um But the same thing, I just cleaned the shit out of it and put a coat down. and or I think one coat.
00:14:15
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:14:15
Curt
It's been great. And I had the same thing.
00:14:16
jamie peacock
I've got a...
00:14:16
jamie peacock
Yeah. Exactly. Like, I've got a little Roomba, the knockoff Roomba. I'm just going to throw that on the floor and let it Roomba around.
00:14:17
Curt
I'm like, if it wears, I'll just paint the walkways in different color.
00:14:25
Curt
Nice.
00:14:26
jamie peacock
Yeah. Like, why not? Like, going to sweep and we're going to... It's going to be a lot easier to keep keep a clean floor floor clean and to try to keep my garage fucking clean because the garage is literally it is a nightmare to sweep. I put down that interlocking rubber mats.
00:14:39
Curt
Yeah.
00:14:39
jamie peacock
The worst stuff to try and clean the shavings get stuck in the joints. It just yeah you stand on a shaving of presses into it. So hopefully we won't have too much of that shit in the new shop.
00:14:49
Curt
Yeah. Cool.
00:14:50
jamie peacock
ah yeah Like lots of ah lots of exciting stuff happening.
00:14:51
Curt
Yeah.
00:14:54
Curt
No dough. No dough.
00:14:55
jamie peacock
Yes, let's talk about how you like to just be nice, whereas choose violence.
00:15:01
Curt
So like everybody's always told me like my entire life, we were like, oh, you sometimes you got to like drive a hard bargain and you got to be like, you got to be firm and you got to demand what you want. I don't because I'm very, I'm a very passive person.
00:15:11
jamie peacock
Canadian.
00:15:13
Curt
Sure. Canadian, whatever you want to call I'm like, I just don't, I just don't like arguments. um So it's probably screwed me over for like some cash at some point in my life, but it's like, it's nothing that,
00:15:25
Curt
reminds me like ah nothing comes to mind but being nice like i've never came into a situation where being nice screws me over and i anyways i've just dealt with like a lot of contractors this last week for like a bunch of house shit and just every one of them is like you're you guys are nice to us like me and my wife and i was like well yeah yeah why not and he's like we don't encounter customers that are just like kind of nice so he's like I appreciate it.
00:15:49
Curt
i was like, well, yeah, i like, I don't know. Don't be nice. It was, it was just, it was mind blowing to be like, yeah, just be kind. And like, then they gave us a bunch of shit where there's like, oh, we'll do that for free.
00:16:00
Curt
Don't worry about that. I'm like, oh, maybe it's because I'm not a, don't be a dick.
00:16:01
jamie peacock
Yeah. The magic of not being a deck.
00:16:04
Curt
Just be nice.
00:16:04
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:16:05
Curt
Yeah. Anyways, it's just like,
00:16:06
jamie peacock
Yeah, I tend to be very nice to subcontractors and especially service staff, people in the service industry.
00:16:15
Curt
a hundred percent.
00:16:15
jamie peacock
I've been there. I know what it's like. I will be nice to them. a I'll go out of my way to be, unless they are really useless, they're still getting it.
00:16:26
Curt
Yeah, i I'm with you on that. Yeah, there's there's certain groups of people I'm just like, I will 100, even if you're a bit of a cunt to me, I will try to be nice to you just because I'm like, you're getting it from every angle from everybody all day.
00:16:27
jamie peacock
Yeah, don't be a dick.
00:16:37
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:16:38
Curt
It's like, yeah.
00:16:40
jamie peacock
Exactly. Try not to be a knob.
Machining and Anodizing Challenges
00:16:42
Curt
Try not to be a knob.
00:16:42
jamie peacock
That's hard. But yeah.
00:16:45
Curt
Speaking of ah of knobs, let's talk about your barnacles.
00:16:47
jamie peacock
Nobs.
00:16:49
Curt
How are those going?
00:16:51
jamie peacock
ah Yeah, they are machined. So I ran the pallet with the clamps dude worked so well.
00:16:57
jamie peacock
ah
00:16:57
Curt
Oh, yeah?
00:16:57
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:16:58
jamie peacock
Doing the op zero with the keel clamp holding it. So I blanked all the material on the on the good way. 20 seconds apart. I made the blanking programs because bar pulls blanks bar pulls blanks.
00:17:09
jamie peacock
um Loaded those into the pallets on the back with the keel clamps with the machinable ones machine the dovetails in then they go into the barnacles on the front onto three barnacles and I machine the the uh the little gripper and then they go into a pallet 12 at a time to to do the optus so I have a whole boatload of them I think I've got like 40 something of them in stock yeah and I made a shitload um and then machined the bodies in the pneumatic vase but I've got a little bit of I can't feel it
00:17:43
jamie peacock
but I can see it on the surface finish.
00:17:46
Curt
OK.
00:17:47
jamie peacock
And if I take it to a piece of sandpaper, it goes away without changing the size.
00:17:54
Curt
OK.
00:17:55
jamie peacock
It's really annoying. So like I don't want to anno them and then you can still see it.
00:17:57
Curt
Hmm.
00:18:01
jamie peacock
I kind of want to sandblast them and then anno them. But i'll try I annoed six of them last night, so I tumbled them.
00:18:03
Curt
Mm.
00:18:06
jamie peacock
I ran them in the big tumbler for 30 minutes and the small tumbler for 15 minutes and then I ran them through anno. but I think I'd long gone fucked up and got the wrong surface area.
00:18:13
Curt
Mm-mm.
00:18:17
Curt
Okay.
00:18:18
jamie peacock
So burnt them in the anode.
00:18:21
Curt
Ooh.
00:18:22
jamie peacock
Yeah, so they came out like brown, and then I ran them through the blue dye, and they, yeah, they don't look nice, basically. um So I'm not sure what what happened there. I think I got the maths wrong. I'm actually checking right now.
00:18:37
jamie peacock
um I'm just opening Fusion. Well, Fusion was open. I'm just opening the file. and I'm going to check the surface area, I might have taken the wrong value when I when I went to check, I might have just ah read the wrong thing off of the the details page.
00:18:53
jamie peacock
And that would have caused that so I'm not sure like, I don't really want to send them out for anno. Because I send them out for anno I know all the tolerances are gone. And I've kept a pretty tight. Oh, yeah, there we go.
00:19:03
jamie peacock
I ran it at double. Okay, now I know why they burnt. So I read the volume, not the area. because I was in a rush, so I put it at 6900 instead of 3800 cubic square millimeters.
00:19:13
Curt
So
00:19:19
Curt
so now they're the color of real barnacles?
00:19:22
jamie peacock
ah No, they're still blue, they just got a like a brownish hue to them. So I will, yeah, I'll run another set probably tomorrow, I'll run the rest through Anno, because I thought I could do more than six at a time.
00:19:26
Curt
Oh.
00:19:33
jamie peacock
I was like, this seems wrong. I feel like I should, um I'm sure I could do more at a time. Um, cause I did the maths on this a while ago, so I think I can do 10 at a time, which makes anodizing not super annoying.
00:19:46
Curt
Yeah, that's better.
00:19:46
jamie peacock
Uh, yeah. And then um i think I'm, think gonna order material for more cause I don't sell, I'll use them internally. They're fricking sweet.
00:19:52
Curt
Gather.
00:19:53
jamie peacock
And I got, uh, I got Torx bolts in for them.
00:19:54
Curt
They're so cute.
00:19:56
jamie peacock
So they come with a Torx bolt so that the heck, so it doesn't strip. Although you're going to six Newton meters. That's it.
00:20:05
jamie peacock
It's hilariously low, but my whole whole fixture, the barnacles are 16 meters and so are the keel clamps.
00:20:05
Curt
Oh, yeah.
00:20:13
Curt
Oh, OK. OK, yeah, that's not a ton.
00:20:13
jamie peacock
So you just said to talk, no, if you go more than that, the keel clamp bolt bends over, it deforms the threads.
00:20:14
Curt
Yeah.
00:20:20
jamie peacock
in your pallets.
00:20:20
Curt
Oh, interesting.
00:20:21
jamie peacock
So yeah you don't want to over tighten them. ah But yeah, keel clamps, I've got a whole bunch in stock that aren't lasered, I need to build lasering fixtures. So my laser supports a fourth axis. And what happens is some smart tech goes to engrave the things, and then loads them not correctly, and then the lasering isn't on the same sides. And that annoys me.
00:20:39
jamie peacock
So I want to make a little thing with basically a fixture on ah on a stepper motor as a fourth axis. Then I just push the part onto it. only goes one way. It then lasers, rotates already, lasers, rotates back. You take it off, put the next one on.
00:20:52
jamie peacock
So that they're always lasered the freaking same. um So yeah, that's on the the list of shit to do. Either that or just put a whole pile of them in a row and laser them all at once, which is probably what's going to happen.
00:21:03
jamie peacock
But yeah, I've got M4, M5, M6 machinables and M8s currently. i haven't got packaging for any of them yet. I just haven't made the packaging. It's designed. I just haven't made it.
00:21:14
jamie peacock
ah But yeah, got a bunch of keel clamps in and stock. actually got a job I quoted this week that I might run with the M4s. It's modifying some M5 threaded rod.
00:21:26
Curt
Okay, yeah.
00:21:26
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's a really dumb job. But yeah. So yeah, the finish issue, don't know what's going on with the finishing issue. Like why I'm getting, it looks like chatter, but I literally cannot feel it.
00:21:38
jamie peacock
Like I scrape my nail, I can't feel it.
00:21:39
Curt
Hmm.
00:21:40
jamie peacock
So I don't know if it's when the material is, because I'm doing two finish passes. um I don't know if the material is just shearing weird when it goes around. I fucking don't know.
00:21:51
Curt
Hmm.
00:21:52
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:21:52
Curt
Weird.
00:21:52
jamie peacock
And I don't really want to sand every part by hand. That's just dumb. Yeah. So working on something to use my sandblasting cabinets automatically.
00:22:02
Curt
Yeah. Yeah. That's probably the better way, especially for that kind of part.
00:22:04
jamie peacock
ah
00:22:05
Curt
Yeah.
00:22:05
jamie peacock
but only In the past, I've had inconsistent results with anodizing sandblasted pots. But had used sand. I'm now using baking soda.
00:22:16
Curt
That'll probably help.
00:22:17
jamie peacock
So i soak it in water, it dissolves, and then run it through the halo.
00:22:22
Curt
I also find in my world, ah I clean, then I blast, and then I clean again. Because if I if i get the parts right of the mill and blast, exactly, just push the oil deeper.
00:22:27
jamie peacock
Okay, yeah. Push the oil in, yeah. Yeah.
00:22:32
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:22:32
jamie peacock
So I'll probably ultrasonic them and then actually that might be a plan is put them in ultrasonic with degreaser and etch them and see what the finish looks like.
00:22:40
Curt
Yeah,
00:22:40
jamie peacock
on that Because that degreaser I use literally etches the parts. We use it to strip anodize off.
00:22:44
Curt
yeah
00:22:46
jamie peacock
It's that violent.
00:22:48
Curt
yeah. Yeah, might that might be an easy way, yeah.
00:22:48
jamie peacock
Yeah, that might be the easiest way. Because yeah, it's thing in the new shop I'm planning on actually using my ultrasonic more. Because, yeah, it's kind of out of the way here, so i don't use it that much.
Temperature's Impact on Productivity
00:23:01
jamie peacock
But yeah, barnacles, barnacles will be on the site this week. That is the goal, is to have them available this week. ah Yeah, still have people are asking, oh why don't you listen to Taps of Patients this week?
00:23:01
Curt
Yeah, I
00:23:14
Curt
ah yeah i did. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:23:15
jamie peacock
Yeah, they were trying to find them on my site, and I'm like, fuck. So yeah, I just i want to get the the first batch done before I put them on there. So that'll be this week. Whether tumble them or I etch them or whatever I do, they will be on there this week.
00:23:28
jamie peacock
That is the goal. Because we're painting the floor in the workshop on Monday at lunchtime. And then we're going in on Tuesday. And then I'm not going to the shop for like two or three days. I want that paint to go hard, hard before we even think of walking on it.
00:23:39
Curt
Sure.
00:23:40
jamie peacock
So then we're going to get all the... all the admin shit done like well ordering all the cable ordering all the stuff that needs to be ordered that when we go in we can be useful
00:23:50
Curt
Yeah, no, that makes sense.
00:23:52
jamie peacock
yeah so tell me about your fancy heater that you have in your workshop
00:23:54
Curt
Sick.
00:23:57
Curt
Oh, dude, it's like i last summer I was not running the X5 hard enough. And now like I have all the grip is the grips because there's so much, especially the ISO grip. There's so much surfacing um and my fixture swaps over quickly.
00:24:11
Curt
So it's just it like it runs all day. um And it was it's getting warm here now. It's like, i don't know. We had a few days of 30, just 30 degrees.
00:24:23
Curt
And, and i I came in here and the one day it wasn't bad because the shop was still at like, yeah, 21 or something like that. And, uh, so the, the X five ran all day and it brought it up to like 24, 25. twenty four twenty five I'm like, okay, it's warm, but it's not uncomfortable.
00:24:36
Curt
And then, uh, the heat stayed and the night came and then the morning came and nothing dropped. So I started at like 24, 25 degrees and then it ran all day again. And it was like 28, 29 And it's like,
00:24:48
Curt
twenty nine in here and it's like oh, it's getting warm. And I'm like, it's just the X5 heating it up. It's just like, I just forgot how much heat that just, um I mean, from the cutting, from the spindles, from the servos, from everything.
00:24:59
jamie peacock
Yeah.
Acknowledgment of Supporters
00:25:01
Curt
It's just like, yeah, you're pushing amps.
00:25:01
jamie peacock
You don't have a spindle s spindle chiller on that machine.
00:25:06
Curt
I do not. No, no.
00:25:07
jamie peacock
Okay, that was actually something that's there's something I think it is actually planned for one.
00:25:08
Curt
I wish it did, but.
00:25:11
jamie peacock
um it's something I spoke to the guys at THR Shinjulz about. I'm like, yeah, it says 20k, but you can't run there. yeah, on the Sintec, they don't even let you get to 20k.
00:25:22
Curt
Oh, really?
00:25:23
jamie peacock
Yeah. I'm like, yeah, the Zoppo comes with chiller.
00:25:24
Curt
Yeah, like...
00:25:27
jamie peacock
You run at 20k all day. It says 20k, you can go to 20k, just like the LK. It says 12k, you can run at 12k all day.
00:25:33
Curt
Yeah, i like I run mine at whatever that is. 16K is what I max out for a long time because it's just like...
00:25:37
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:25:39
Curt
It can run like that in 100% duty cycle, but yeah, 20 is like you can run for like five minutes or something.
00:25:41
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:25:44
Curt
So like I don't need that much.
00:25:45
jamie peacock
kind of fucking hold this. Yeah.
00:25:47
Curt
I don't need that kind of time saving, like whatever.
00:25:48
jamie peacock
No.
00:25:49
Curt
It'd be nice to have, but man I'll deal.
00:25:50
jamie peacock
But you don't really need it.
00:25:53
jamie peacock
um Yeah, the Spindlechiller makes a big difference. Also pumps a lot of heat into the room for you.
00:25:53
Curt
Yeah, so, anyways.
00:25:59
Curt
Well, i say, yeah, you're not it's not like it's going to make the room cold it's going to make the room warmer and the machine colder, but...
00:26:02
jamie peacock
So we were looking at the new shop because it's got a ah roll-up door, but there's no way we are running with that roll-up door open without putting a gate across it.
00:26:09
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:26:14
Curt
Yeah.
00:26:14
jamie peacock
just to restrict access. um It doesn't have a gate. I don't really want to build a gate. So the plan is to open it however tall the box fans we buy are and just put a row of box fans there and just suck air through the back.
00:26:27
jamie peacock
In through the back door, out through there, or in through the upper windows and out through there. To just cool it in summer.
00:26:31
Curt
Totally. Yeah.
00:26:32
jamie peacock
Because that's thing we live where the climate is chilled enough that you don't insulate your house. So like my workshop in summer is fine in the morning.
00:26:43
jamie peacock
It's lovely. Come one two o'clock in the afternoon, the sun's been beating on the walls all day and the walls get hot.
00:26:49
jamie peacock
And then the afternoon gets very unpleasant in the workshop. um Yeah, where's for you? It's was 25 and you went to bed it's at 25 in the morning because it's insulated. Yeah.
00:26:49
Curt
yeah
00:27:00
Curt
That's the problem. Exactly. And we're at a good time a year right now.
00:27:02
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:27:05
Curt
Cause like if it's cold, like let's say right now, if it's cool enough, it isn't, but if it's cool enough, I can just open all the doors and let the air through here and it's fine.
00:27:11
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:27:14
Curt
But in like another two weeks, we have so many mosquitoes that that's not a, that's not a pro like you just fill the shop.
00:27:19
jamie peacock
not an option yeah yeah but you've got did they not plan the ac to your workshop
00:27:21
Curt
Like thousands will come in here cause of light. I'm just like, I'll suffer. I'll suffer with the heat. Mosquitoes are worse.
00:27:31
Curt
Uh, no, I'm not putting the AC in here. But the thing is, I have a few of like gigantic, like portable ACs and I might bring one.
00:27:37
jamie peacock
okay yeah
00:27:38
Curt
Yeah, I might bring one in here for when it's getting ridiculous. Cause it might, ah one of my other points is like, your brain does not work when it gets like, at least mine. Like when I get hot, like uncomfortably hot, I just noticed I'm like, my productivity is like way down.
00:27:53
Curt
I'm just like, I am not, I want to do things that are not making me hotter.
00:27:53
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:27:56
Curt
So i'm like, yeah.
00:27:58
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, your productivity falls off a cliff when it gets unpleasantly hot.
00:28:02
Curt
Especially humid. i I can deal with the 30 degrees in here, but when it's like 90% humidity from the stupid it's just like, oh, it's cooking in here.
00:28:03
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:28:07
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:28:10
jamie peacock
Yeah. No, it gets it gets very like you become very unproductive. It's a it is an issue.
00:28:15
Curt
Yeah.
00:28:16
jamie peacock
Speaking of unproductive, we have Patreons.
00:28:19
Curt
Ooh.
00:28:20
jamie peacock
ah
00:28:21
Curt
Horrible segue.
00:28:22
jamie peacock
I'm trying to decide if I should read AJ's name wrong like he did this week for me. um But yeah, we have Patreons.
00:28:27
Curt
like great He got your name right.
00:28:28
jamie peacock
Yep.
00:28:29
Curt
you just got your company wrong, so...
00:28:30
jamie peacock
Boy, I got the company entirely wrong. um Yeah, we have Patreons. They make the wheels on the train go round and round. ah Yeah, all the ah so paid Patreons get access to the Q&As when we sometimes maybe do them. $5 and up get access to the after show. And top tier Patreons get shouted out every week.
00:28:49
jamie peacock
That list of top tier Patreons is significant and we are grateful for that. And they consist of Jade from Benchmark 20, Luke from Fabtastic, AJ from Subtract Manufacturing, and 34. He got two this week. 34 other companies. Jason S, EJ from Octurnal Welding, The Aussie Machinist, Christian Olsen, Charles Watt, Kyle from Kirsten Machine, Matt from Off-World Gear, Alex B, John from 2SM Performance and Engine Tricks, and Matt from Modern Fuel.
00:29:12
jamie peacock
ah Yeah, AJ and I are discussing...
00:29:17
jamie peacock
some technical writing and I joined the Discord. He's like, this doesn't count as another as another company. What was his response when I joined the the Discord?
00:29:25
Curt
ah
00:29:25
jamie peacock
gets two for this um Yeah, Danica might be doing a bit of technical writing for them.
00:29:26
Curt
yeah
00:29:29
Curt
excellent
00:29:32
Curt
Nice.
00:29:32
jamie peacock
Yeah, so, but yeah, anyway, that is our Patreons. Thank you, Patreons. Your contributions are going towards the Jamie goes to IMTS with the cardboard cutout fund um and also
CAD for Personal Projects
00:29:44
jamie peacock
making the wheels on the train go round and round.
00:29:44
Curt
It's going
00:29:47
Curt
to be hell of a cardboard cutout.
00:29:50
jamie peacock
It's my my cardboard, what what was it? My emotional support, Kurt. Yes.
00:29:56
Curt
yeah
00:29:57
jamie peacock
you know have to cut into pieces to fit in my bag to bring it home. It's going to just be in the corner in the workshop.
00:30:01
Curt
Oh, that's so creepy.
00:30:04
jamie peacock
oh But yeah, thank you, Patreons. And yeah, back to the show. Tell me, oh, jeez. I thought I was bad. Okay. Tell me how you catted your fence.
00:30:16
Curt
so ah if you don't know folks, I'm a little bit particular and ah compulsive.
00:30:21
jamie peacock
No, not at all.
00:30:23
Curt
And yeah, as we all are on this wonderful train of life. um So anyways, I wanted the fence built like a certain way and I couldn't communicate.
00:30:36
Curt
I just, I knew I could communicate what I was talking about, but when I tell somebody that, then they'll be like, yeah, sure. And then they won't understand it. And then things will go sideways. and then I'd be like, oh, it was supposed to be this way. And then once again, like the, the contractor I was using was super nice. So he would gladly undo it, but I just, I don't like to, and yeah, i didn't want to make them do more work. So i was like, I will get smart.
00:30:54
Curt
So I, I catted up the fence of what it should look like. And then the morning when he showed up, I brought it down to him and he didn't call me crazy at all, but my wife did. She's like, yeah, she's like, so do,
00:31:06
jamie peacock
Yeah, but she knows what she married.
00:31:07
Curt
didn't Yeah, it totally made fun of me for like drawing it up that way He's like, no, he's like, it's useful. He's like, because now I can see exactly how you wanted it laid out. He's like, this makes it way easier for us. He was like, i appreciate it. And i was like, well, thank you for saying that and not saying like, this guy is so anal.
00:31:21
Curt
He drew up the goddamn fence we're building. It's a fence. It's not complicated. Anyways, but yeah, CAD is useful for that kind of stuff. And then Yeah, i I used it for a bunch of other things. Just like I had to get a curve, like a perfect curve because I wanted to curve on the top of the fence. And I was like, how am I going to measure this? I'm like, maybe i could use string or something. Like, wait a minute. I'm like, so I just drew up the section CAD and took measurements and then made just a foam template. And I'm just like, I don't know. It's just kind of fun to realize like, oh, yeah, we have these pieces of software that connect to our machines, but you can also use them for all kinds of dumb things. Yeah.
00:31:52
jamie peacock
I have a whole model of my workshop because I'm designing the upstairs office and need to work out material lists.
00:31:58
Curt
Exactly. Yeah, it's perfect. Yeah.
00:32:01
jamie peacock
we Yeah, we that's changed a little bit. um Yeah, I was like, I don't want to don't want to do any draw. All fucking avoidance. I hate fucking drop. So i was just going to go like 12 millimeter OSP.
00:32:10
Curt
Fair.
00:32:13
jamie peacock
And then I was like, hey, instead of painting this, let's put wallpaper.
00:32:13
Curt
m
00:32:17
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's cheaper to put like 40 liters of paint on it than it is to paper wallpaper it.
00:32:18
Curt
isn Oh,
00:32:22
jamie peacock
Then yesterday it dawned on me, why don't I just go buy a melamine chipboard with a fucking pattern on it or whatever fuck we want and just screw that as the wall.
00:32:22
Curt
yeah.
00:32:32
Curt
yeah Yeah, totally.
00:32:32
jamie peacock
So then i don't have to paint it I don't have to do shit.
00:32:33
Curt
Sure.
00:32:35
jamie peacock
So yeah, we're looking at, we'll go look and see what flavors they have of that. um Because there'll be OSP on the assembly wall because I want to be able to squish into it. to it And I like the look of OSP. um So fucking yeah, forever changing the plans.
Further Workshop Setup Details
00:32:51
Curt
ah
00:32:52
jamie peacock
But yeah, we've got rafters. i'll I'll post the pictures of it later today. um There's rafters that you are between an upstairs mezzanine. So I want to screw to the rafters and then just make a box with the lid um that it's not going to get hot as fucking summer because we'll put insulation on the top and on one side so we don't get noise.
00:33:11
jamie peacock
But then it's an admin office slash meeting room slash assembly room slash inspection.
00:33:17
Curt
Okay.
00:33:20
jamie peacock
But it's so tight that we can't actually have a fixed table for like meeting. So I'm gonna have it fold against the wall.
00:33:26
Curt
okay. Nice.
00:33:27
jamie peacock
So you just pull the table down and pull the chairs from the wall and you've got a four seater table for meetings. And then if it's not being used, it can be moved out of the way. Because otherwise, you're gonna have to crab walk past the assembly workbench.
00:33:42
Curt
That's awesome.
00:33:43
jamie peacock
Yeah. The other thing is I don't have anywhere to put my CO2 laser. in the new shop.
00:33:50
Curt
Oh, okay.
00:33:50
jamie peacock
Like I don't have anywhere that makes sense to put the CO2 laser. So I'm thinking it might stay in this workshop for now. And we just come home, like come run packaging and take it back there, but go take it in the next day.
00:33:58
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:34:02
jamie peacock
The fiber laser will go because i use it on a regular basis.
00:34:02
Curt
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:34:05
jamie peacock
But I think the CO2 might stay in its current house. It's also fucking heavy.
00:34:11
Curt
Yeah.
00:34:11
jamie peacock
And don't want to lift it.
00:34:13
Curt
Yeah, and they're delicate kind of creatures too, so yeah.
00:34:15
jamie peacock
You know, i might look at getting a bigger one freestanding unit down the line for for the workshop.
00:34:22
Curt
Okay. yeah
00:34:22
jamie peacock
If we need it's like, because this one is a Jamie special.
00:34:26
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:34:27
jamie peacock
And emphasis on special. So again, interesting times.
00:34:30
Curt
and
00:34:34
jamie peacock
um Which one would you like to cover?
00:34:36
Curt
Yeah. Tell me about your pneumatic vice.
00:34:39
jamie peacock
Ah, yes, it arrived after quite literally eight weeks from when I paid trump for it.
00:34:40
Curt
You said it finally arrived. Yeah.
00:34:45
jamie peacock
um
00:34:45
Curt
Hmm.
00:34:46
jamie peacock
It finally shipped after eight weeks. Then took like five days to get you.
00:34:49
Curt
Hmm.
00:34:51
jamie peacock
It doesn't have silver CNC engraved on it because their fiber laser broke. And that belayed it by another three days. I'm like, just fucking send it. I don't need your branding on it. I'll put my own fucking branding.
00:35:01
Curt
Yeah.
00:35:03
jamie peacock
Yeah, it arrived. I put air on it and it opened. And I took air away and it closed. And i was like, oh, it's spring loaded. And then you put additional air to clamp harder.
00:35:13
Curt
Oh, cool. Okay.
00:35:13
jamie peacock
Yeah, so clam it fails clamped, but with like, I would say 200 kilos of clamping, not 400.
00:35:14
Curt
I like that.
00:35:21
jamie peacock
um
00:35:22
Curt
Hmm.
00:35:23
jamie peacock
But yeah, it arrived. Yeah, I have thoughts. There's a bit of chatter where they've machined it.
00:35:31
Curt
Ooh.
00:35:31
jamie peacock
but it's not, in it's just in the main body. It's not in a critical part of it. Like all the critical surfaces are fine. It's just cosmetic stuff. And I'm like, it's fine. It'll function.
00:35:42
jamie peacock
um
00:35:43
Curt
That
00:35:43
jamie peacock
I just, ah but yeah, it works. I've been using it. I like not tightening vices anymore.
00:35:50
Curt
ah be nice.
00:35:50
jamie peacock
I've literally been using it for job shop stuff like onesies, twosies, I can just go, cutch chunk push the pads and put the pad in, clamp.
00:35:51
Curt
Yeah.
00:35:56
jamie peacock
um Because I haven't made the trays for my spindle gripping yet. So trays are this week's endeavor, just obviously with the shop and whatnot, I've been a little bit busy. So I'm going to go, I've got material, I've got a palette that I'm going repurpose.
00:36:09
jamie peacock
And then I'll just bolt a plate onto it, go buy some acrylic and laser cut trays.
00:36:14
Curt
Oh, yeah, okay.
00:36:15
jamie peacock
So just gonna do laser cut trays. um And then you want to start that I've got a job now that is going to be the first job.
Machining Innovations and Tool Needs
00:36:23
jamie peacock
I need to make 80 parts I ordered 140 pieces of material. And I have 60 pieces to fuck it up. Because the material cost is literally nothing. So I can afford to attempt auto loading. If I don't come right, I will then um just manually load the job and run the job to get it out.
00:36:23
Curt
Ooh, exciting.
00:36:41
Curt
Yeah, that's a good way to test it then. At least, yeah, cheap and yeah, for sure.
00:36:44
jamie peacock
um I think the next thing that's going to end up on it is going to be flux and just run a bunch of them. And oh no, I scrapped a bunch of material. The material is literally like scents. So it'll let me try some other shenanigans I want to try that I was warned against trying and i want to do anyway.
00:36:53
Curt
Yeah.
00:37:00
Curt
Hmm. That's a good idea, yeah.
00:37:00
jamie peacock
Yes. Yeah. I want to stack pots.
00:37:03
Curt
Oh.
00:37:03
jamie peacock
And that is a very bad plan because they stick to each other with coolant. So there's ways to get around it, like center punching the pot.
00:37:13
Curt
and Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:37:13
jamie peacock
in a spot that's going to be machined so that it then creates a gap like there's a bunch of tricks you can pull. So I plan on pulling all said tricks.
00:37:19
Curt
Sure. Sure.
00:37:21
jamie peacock
um But yeah, it it arrived. I'm adequately happy with it. I need to make soft jaws for it still. I've got a quote out at the moment for jaw jaw material, for that, for the little Zendai vases, and for 4-inch vases.
00:37:36
jamie peacock
So thinking of just ordering a bunch of material, having the spindle gripper loaded into the automatic machine automatic thing, and do all up ones, and then just make pallets for up twos.
00:37:47
Curt
Okay. Yeah.
00:37:47
jamie peacock
and then offering those on the site because having cheap chores is kind of useful.
00:37:51
Curt
Yeah.
00:37:55
Curt
Yeah. i I mean, now that I'm switching switching everything over to your anchor point, ah right before that, like, I know, two or three months ago, I bought, like, just a ream of aluminum in the size I need to make soft jaws that I'm no longer using.
00:38:11
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:38:12
Curt
So I just have a giant stick of it. But hey, I'll find a use for it. So...
00:38:15
jamie peacock
You'll find a use for it, yeah. um Yeah, I used the Flux Flex devices this week.
00:38:16
Curt
Absolutely.
00:38:20
jamie peacock
I used both of them.
00:38:22
Curt
Oh, cool.
00:38:22
jamie peacock
I'm now i'm not angry with Ken because I need more.
00:38:26
Curt
I know i already told him like before he even had pricing on but what are these going to cost?
00:38:27
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:38:30
Curt
Cause I need a bunch of them.
00:38:31
jamie peacock
Dude, I literally have got a job that comes around twice, three times a year. um It's a 7075 job. a fact Both of those are now running 7075 parts. I do up one of both. so there's two components. It's a sliding assembly.
00:38:46
jamie peacock
I do the one part here the one part there in my two self centering vases. So every time I hit go, I get up one of both parts done. Then I made a one of the flux vases on the anchor point, you put in the things, you de-top hat them, then you rotate them 90 degrees towards each other, and you do the set the third op on them, all in the same fixture.
00:39:06
jamie peacock
um
00:39:07
Curt
Nice, nice.
00:39:07
jamie peacock
The only thing I found with the the size of those flexed vases is if you're drilling right on the edge with the blunt drill bit, it kind does this because you're a bit far from the center on the pneumatics.
00:39:21
jamie peacock
um that's the only the only issue i've had with them but if you just slow your drilling down on your farm um i know he does a single station version i think that would be killer on the anchor point because then you're over the pad yeah so i did chat again about that as well actually need to make him a bunch of pins i need to go when i buy acrylic for the trays i need to buy delrin i'm sending him a bunch of the idiot pins
00:39:21
Curt
Right, yeah.
00:39:33
Curt
Yeah, that'd probably be really rigid, yeah. Yeah, yeah, totally.
00:39:40
Curt
Ooh,
00:39:48
jamie peacock
So he'll do four holes, and then you just push the idiot pin into whichever one you need it to be in for your specific setup.
00:39:57
Curt
yeah. Yeah, that boy is making crack cocaine for me right now. um
00:40:01
jamie peacock
Dude, yes. It's a problem. It's a big problem,
Equipment Setup and Management
00:40:06
jamie peacock
because I need a new keyboard.
00:40:08
Curt
Well, and I was just going to say that a not suspicious MFG on Instagram.
00:40:12
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:40:12
Curt
Go give them a follow.
00:40:12
jamie peacock
Yeah, definitely. Yeah, need to go and...
00:40:14
Curt
he The keyboards he is making are so sexy. And yeah.
00:40:21
jamie peacock
Dude, yeah. I just, yeah.
00:40:24
Curt
ah Yeah.
00:40:25
jamie peacock
We'll discuss keyboards in a second. ah One sec.
00:40:29
jamie peacock
Okay, so yeah, keyboards. um Ken's one's beautiful. I was looking at keyboards yesterday because was at the computer shop and i'm like, I want a mechanical keyboard because I like it.
00:40:41
jamie peacock
I'm running a membrane. It fucking sucks. um But I use the numpad a lot. So finding one with a numpad, not the cheapest endeavor. Let's put it that way.
00:40:52
Curt
Yeah, fair. um I don't know.
00:40:54
jamie peacock
yeah
00:40:55
Curt
And that's the thing. like i have I have a giant keyboard numpad mechanical sitting right here, and Ken's keyboards are just... so i but I wanted a mini, so like I requested the tiniest one he has, and I...
00:41:08
Curt
i he sent me some pictures and he's like, Oh, this one was like before I did the Sarah coating on it. I'm like, dude, I'm like, that is so fricking good looking. Like if this is possible.
00:41:19
Curt
And I'm like, I don't know if you're Sarah coating the batch or what you're doing, but like if, if raw finishes are available, like hit me up. Cause I'm like, that's, that's what I want. It looks so good. And like, he shipped me his vices and like the finishes on those were insane.
00:41:33
Curt
So I was like,
00:41:34
jamie peacock
I felt bad machining it.
00:41:36
Curt
Yeah, and I'm like ah ah like, and usually when people, like even people request for me, they're like, oh, can I have a mill finish pen? And I'm like, you don't really want a mill finish. Like, it you think you do, but like, you probably don't.
00:41:44
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:41:47
Curt
Like, it doesn't, if you're maybe if you're a machinist, you'll like it, but like there's like, you'll see tool marks. You'll see stuff that just doesn't look super pleasing.
00:41:54
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:41:55
Curt
But in his case for his vices, like, yeah, you can maybe see like where a face mill changed direction or something like that but it's, it's just so pretty.
00:42:01
jamie peacock
Dude.
00:42:02
Curt
And I love that.
00:42:03
jamie peacock
It's so pretty.
00:42:03
Curt
I love the look of all that.
00:42:04
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:42:04
Curt
Yeah. So anyways, we'll see what happens with that. But yeah, he's doing cool shit. Go check him out. Not suspicious. MFG. We'll have it linked in the show notes. Yeah.
00:42:12
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, dude, it's, ah his stuff's really pretty. But he was doing, he was doing par heatsinks a little while ago.
00:42:16
Curt
Yeah, it's pretty. Yeah.
00:42:20
Curt
Yeah, yeah, for the little, yeah.
00:42:21
jamie peacock
Yeah. um When last did you look at the price of pars?
00:42:26
Curt
I don't know, like a year ago?
00:42:28
jamie peacock
Can you guess which version is in stock of the par 5 currently in South Africa?
00:42:34
Curt
No.
00:42:34
jamie peacock
the one gig version.
00:42:36
Curt
Oh, okay.
00:42:38
jamie peacock
That's it.
00:42:38
Curt
Just a wee one. Really? Yeah.
00:42:40
jamie peacock
I bought some beginning of the year about too far path of eight gigs. They were, let's call it 2000 and a unit.
00:42:50
Curt
Okay.
00:42:50
jamie peacock
They are now close on 5000 ready unit because of the RAM pricing.
00:42:55
jamie peacock
And there's no stock. So my home assistant at the workshop has now become a problem.
00:42:55
Curt
Whoa.
00:43:01
Curt
Mm, fair. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:43:02
jamie peacock
So I think I'm going buy the one gig version, clone my SD card that I've got running my grinder, put the one gig in there and see if it works. If it works, fine.
00:43:13
jamie peacock
Then I've got an eight gig.
00:43:15
Curt
Right, okay, yeah, yeah.
00:43:16
jamie peacock
Because I literally cannot buy an eight gig right now. It's a fricking problem.
00:43:21
Curt
Yeah, I never thought about that.
00:43:21
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:43:22
Curt
But yeah, that would be they'd be super sensitive to RAM pricing because they're they're not horribly expensive as is.
00:43:24
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:43:26
Curt
But yeah.
00:43:27
jamie peacock
No, but that's like close on three X the price.
00:43:31
Curt
totally That's what I mean. It's going to massively impact their price.
00:43:32
jamie peacock
yeah because i'm buying a little um it's six it's a six u ten inch rack for the networking for the workshop so just a mini rack that'll have the nas it'll have the home assistant server and it's the backup power for the budget the networking and then probably the hosting thing for the erp it's either going to go on there or it's going to go on a raspberry pi glued to the back of a tv that displays the shop board
00:43:33
Curt
Yeah.
00:43:43
Curt
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:43:56
Curt
um Okay.
00:44:02
Curt
Yep. Yeah, that'll work too, yeah.
00:44:03
jamie peacock
It's on the network. It doesn't really matter. I've got a ten eight port switch currently, and that is not enough. I needed, I needed 12 ports.
00:44:10
Curt
Hmm.
00:44:12
jamie peacock
I actually made a spreadsheet with everything that needs to connect because Carl's PC doesn't have wifi.
00:44:12
Curt
Hmm.
00:44:15
Curt
Hmm.
00:44:16
jamie peacock
Um, Because you're busy speccing out speccing out new PCs. Well, PC for call. um And a new case for me, because my PC is when I built it, I built it in the Lee and Lee case, like ultra compacts, RTX case, and it has had a custom power supply which shut the bed.
00:44:37
Curt
Right, right.
00:44:38
jamie peacock
Yeah, so I've got an ATX power supply sitting next to my mini RTX PC, and I don't want to leave the PCs at work. I want them to go home with us because reasons. So I found a deep cool case that's got a handle on the top of it, supports micro ATX and mini RTX, as well as ATX power supplies.
00:45:00
jamie peacock
So I'm going to pick up two of those, and then building Carla PC is $25 more expensive than buying a refurb. I'm just going to build him a new PC.
00:45:09
Curt
Oh, really?
00:45:09
jamie peacock
Yeah. so I'm just going to build him a new PC.
00:45:11
Curt
Yeah.
00:45:12
jamie peacock
Basically, the only thing that isn't the same as mine, well, it's a different motherboard, same processor, same as greater graphics. He's going to have a little bit less RAM than me for now, because RAM is also still silly expensive, but basically on par with what I use on it as my daily driver, which reference is a Ryzen 5 5600G.
00:45:25
Curt
Yeah.
00:45:28
Curt
Yeah, fair. Fair, fair.
00:45:32
jamie peacock
He's getting because reasons
00:45:37
Curt
Yeah.
00:45:37
jamie peacock
Like, I'm not going to pull my CPU out and put his CPU into my machine, just to be petty, but yeah.
00:45:44
Curt
yeah that'd be Yeah, that's a little, yeah.
00:45:47
jamie peacock
Like, mine works. I'm not going fuck with it.
00:45:50
Curt
Totally. yeah and Totally.
00:45:50
jamie peacock
Yeah, I've got 32 gigs of RAM in my machine, and yeah, it makes a big difference, but yeah. We're going to get him squared away with a new PC next week or the following week. Put mine in a new case. His monitor should arrive next week. I emailed, i bought a refurb monitor for him. It was like, how much was that?
00:46:07
jamie peacock
It was under $1,000, under $60 for a 24-inch monitor. um
00:46:11
Curt
That's nuts.
00:46:12
jamie peacock
And um I was waiting. I haven't heard anything. So i emailed him. Okay, what's happening with this order? Oh, sorry. We forgot to process it. We duck we missed it because it's from their Shopify site. They do on-site sales as well. So du we'll have shipped to you tomorrow.
00:46:25
jamie peacock
I'm like, no worries. When it gets here, gets here. So you'll have a 24-inch monitor, which is undersized. And I want my 27.
00:46:33
Curt
Tough guy.
00:46:33
jamie peacock
but like for now he's going to program stuff just email me the f3d file i'll post the code out for him because we he doesn't have a fusion license and that'll be a thing when mine renews i'll buy a second seat
00:46:43
Curt
right, right, right, right. OK, yeah.
00:46:48
Curt
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Makes sense. Makes sense.
00:46:51
jamie peacock
um yeah so for now like he's just doing late stuff it'll be fine he can send it to me i'll post it and then we can go from there uh but speaking of posts i didn't actually add this in here um i fixed my post good
00:47:04
Curt
What was I doing wrong?
00:47:05
jamie peacock
It didn't have tool break control. So if you went to the manual NC menu, tool break control did nothing.
00:47:09
Curt
Oh, okay.
00:47:11
jamie peacock
So I went and looked in the post processor. It did nothing because there was nothing in that subsection. So I they then spoke to Mr.
00:47:17
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:47:18
jamie peacock
Claude nicely and was like hey, I'm editing my post for Fusion 360. I want add it. I want this, this, this. was like, cool. Here's an example. I'm cool, copy, paste, done. Then I was like, hmm, my tool break macro is potentially problematic because I called G598 five nine eight the work offset, and our pre position before I do the tool break, so that I'm 10 mils above the tool to break detector.
00:47:34
Curt
Right,
00:47:37
Curt
right, right. right Sure.
00:47:40
jamie peacock
um The problem is it stays in that mode at the end. So if you do a tool break between two operations with the same tool, so say you roughing with this one tool, and then you finish it with the same tool, and you do tool break between them.
00:47:54
jamie peacock
It doesn't necessarily take it out of g 598 to run in your pre existing
00:48:00
Curt
sure
00:48:01
jamie peacock
Try and figure that bullshit out in Siemens where I can store the current offsets. And in my tool break macro, I wanted to store the current offsets. And then once I've done my tool break restored to that offset, like fuck, I could get that shit to work.
00:48:14
jamie peacock
So eventually I just brute force my way to in the post it does TBD current work offset.
00:48:14
Curt
that
00:48:21
Curt
Okay. Yeah.
00:48:21
jamie peacock
took me about half an hour to figure that out because it was dumbing.
00:48:22
Curt
Yeah.
00:48:25
jamie peacock
Eventually, I just caught i literally Ctrl A, Ctrl C, pasted it into Claude said, this is my post processor, this is what I want to do. It spat out some examples, I copied and put it in my post processor, because I do not trust Claude to edit my post directly.
00:48:35
Curt
Yeah. 100%. Yeah, 100%. Ooh. Ooh. Oh, cool.
00:48:39
jamie peacock
But there is a video coming with myself and Mr. Gray, Idiot's Guide to GitHub and how to put shit on GitHub and check stuff in. And we're going to be doing a video on the idiot because I don't know.
00:48:48
Curt
ah wo
00:48:50
jamie peacock
I'm actively not learning about GitHub right now. I don't know. I know what it is, but I don't know how it works. We're going to do the ERP and we're going to do the posts. We'll do a video of how to get your post because having your post and get is perfect.
00:49:00
Curt
oh cool
00:49:02
jamie peacock
Like you can do a compare if you do an edit. If you want to roll back, you can roll back. it makes perfect sense. um I don't know how to do it and I don't want to learn how to do it myself.
00:49:07
Curt
Totally. and
00:49:10
jamie peacock
I want to be, I want to, we may as well get some content out of it.
00:49:14
Curt
For the sheer amount of times I've shared my posts with people, I should absolutely throw it up on Git because I'm constantly emailing it to people.
00:49:21
jamie peacock
Exactly. Yeah, like may as well.
00:49:23
Curt
Yeah.
00:49:24
jamie peacock
My post has got a lot of edits and at this point for the Siemens 828D. um I've got dates and timestamp. I've got mine working specifically for my machine for the smoothing settings, which is a whole cascade of F statements, which Danica loves.
00:49:36
Curt
Yeah.
00:49:39
jamie peacock
But it's dumb and it works. um I've added, I moved where my coolant turns on to before the machine comes down.
00:49:48
Curt
yeah
00:49:49
jamie peacock
I've done a whole bunch of stuff to it. And it would be nice to be able to check that into Git and just know that it's saved. Like I generally every couple months I will export all my posts, all my tool libraries, zip them and email them to myself to like all three of my email accounts.
00:50:04
jamie peacock
Then I know at least they're backed up there.
00:50:06
Curt
Oh, and this is a perfect time to do that. If you're listening to this podcast, hit pause and go do that. Back up all your shit because you're going to mess it up one day and then you're going to be pissed.
00:50:13
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:50:16
jamie peacock
So I need to do that.
00:50:16
Curt
I should actually do it as well.
00:50:18
jamie peacock
So Jacob was giving me shit about my ERP. I'm like, it doesn't touch the internet. There's no reason for such fucking internet. Check it in into gits. I'm like, fuck you. No, my plan is to back the database up by plugging a flash drive in once a day or once a week or whatever. Whenever you walk past, just plug the flash drive in. When it detects flash drive, copies the file over, unplug the flash drive.
00:50:37
jamie peacock
It's not permanently connected to fuck all. If there's a power surge and I blow the power, I don't blow my backup as well. um
00:50:44
Curt
Yeah.
00:50:44
jamie peacock
I don't want to touch the internet, but he had a point about checking it into Git for when we make changes.
00:50:50
Curt
Yeah, that's useful for that.
00:50:51
jamie peacock
So I will be chatting to Mr.
00:50:51
Curt
yeah
00:50:53
jamie peacock
Gray about that and probably doing that in the video.
00:50:56
Curt
Cool. I'm excited.
00:50:56
jamie peacock
And since I know listens Justin, we need to do the video.
00:50:56
Curt
I'll watch that.
00:50:58
jamie peacock
um No, we've been chatting about it over the last little while.
Equipment Sales and Space Optimization
00:51:01
jamie peacock
But Jahaim, one technically inept, although his vibe coding kit, dude. Dude, if you're an idiot like me and don't do programming, yeah, I read the readme files.
00:51:10
Curt
Yeah.
00:51:12
jamie peacock
It spat out. Fucking brilliant. Like, actually explains what's going on.
00:51:15
Curt
Nice.
00:51:15
jamie peacock
um
00:51:16
Curt
Nice.
00:51:16
jamie peacock
Like, I put in this new vibe code kit, and it refactored everything and changed a whole bunch of shit that it's doing back end.
00:51:22
Curt
Oh, cool. That's cool.
00:51:23
jamie peacock
So yeah, very, very, very useful.
00:51:23
Curt
Yeah.
00:51:25
jamie peacock
um But yeah, we are building out the up the API needs to add to the shortcut section i need to add the ability to have round bar as an option, instead of square arm dimensions, diameter i dimensions.
00:51:36
jamie peacock
So when we ordering round aluminium or round steel whatever, we can put it in there, it generates what we copy and put in the email and send off.
00:51:45
jamie peacock
So and it also tracks pricing there too.
00:51:45
Curt
Right.
00:51:46
Curt
Yeah.
00:51:49
Curt
Cool. That's nice.
00:51:50
jamie peacock
So
00:51:50
Curt
He's full.
00:51:51
jamie peacock
yeah i'm adding features as i go um tell me about your 800 video ah yes nice
00:51:56
Curt
Oh, that is actually, I totally forgot to say ah my drink for this evening. ah
00:52:02
jamie peacock
ah yes
00:52:03
Curt
straw Strawberry lime soda by Jones. It's actually not too bad. I'm on a hook for like red drinks lately. Anyways. Um, $800 video. So the 3D scanner, since I did all the videos on it, it has literally just sat under my bench and done nothing.
00:52:20
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:52:21
Curt
um I haven't used it. I'm likely not going to use it because everything I'm going scan is either super, super, super, super tiny, which it isn't really suited for, or really, really, really, really shiny, um which...
00:52:29
jamie peacock
Uh-uh.
00:52:33
Curt
is not really suited for.
00:52:34
jamie peacock
It isn't suited for. Yeah.
00:52:35
Curt
Yeah, you could you could sublimation spray. It works great, but you can't sublimation spray like inside a machine. Anyways, I mean, you could, I guess. But like anyways, I'm just not going to get any use out of it. So I ended up selling it. My contract with them is over.
00:52:47
Curt
um There was nothing saying I couldn't sell it. So yeah, so I did. And then actually, i think it's more than $800 video. whatever it works out to.
00:52:55
jamie peacock
yeah yeah yeah nice okay
00:52:55
Curt
Anyways, the video is paid for himself. The thing I said I was going to do is like, you know, get it, make the content on it and then sell it. And, uh, that would help pay for it And I actually did that. So I was happy. I was happy that I actually sold it and it just didn't sit under my desk for the next five years and then depreciate to the point where it's so like inadequate in the current age that you can't even sell it.
00:53:15
Curt
So it's like, I do that a lot. Um, so anyways, it was just nice to give it to somebody that will use it maybe potentially. We'll see.
00:53:22
jamie peacock
okay
00:53:23
jamie peacock
Yeah, so that that whole obligation is not done with ah the scanning.
00:53:23
Curt
Hmm.
00:53:26
Curt
I was looking at that. That was like a year ago. So yeah, it's 100% done.
00:53:28
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:53:29
Curt
And they didn't even have a formal contract with me. They was just is kind of like, make something cool.
00:53:32
jamie peacock
Okay.
00:53:33
Curt
And so we did. So anyways.
00:53:35
jamie peacock
Yeah, and the laser are you done with that one as well?
00:53:38
Curt
I think I have like a couple more shorts, which is good because I actually have a couple more use cases for it. And then ah it'll honestly probably go the same route as I'll probably...
00:53:43
jamie peacock
Okay.
00:53:46
jamie peacock
Yeah, because it's not quite a perfect fit for you need.
00:53:50
Curt
No, it's not what I need, um but I've had some, i they have some videos that I created um that have done quite well, so I think it worked out beneficial to both parties.
00:53:58
jamie peacock
Okay.
00:54:00
Curt
So yeah, I will probably release it into the wild again.
00:54:00
jamie peacock
Yeah.
Workshop Efficiency Improvements
00:54:03
jamie peacock
Okay. Nice. Let it be free.
00:54:05
Curt
Let it be free.
00:54:06
jamie peacock
Yeah. Um...
00:54:07
Curt
Yeah.
00:54:09
jamie peacock
um
00:54:09
Curt
Let me see. Okay. Okay. Customer says he will kill the admin staff.
00:54:17
jamie peacock
Yes. So I got a call on Friday while we were out and about from one of my customers.
00:54:19
Curt
Okay.
00:54:21
Curt
Yeah.
00:54:23
jamie peacock
Like, hey, have you started with those parts yet? I'm like, I haven't got a PO yet. He's like, I'm going to kill someone. I'm going to go kill someone.
00:54:29
Curt
Oh, nice.
00:54:30
jamie peacock
He put the paperwork through like a week before. it was ah It's an urgent job. I said, bre as soon as I have a PO, will order material because I know payment takes two to three weeks with them. I'm like, send me a PO.
00:54:40
Curt
Sure.
00:54:41
jamie peacock
It's not a huge amount of money. Send me a PO. As soon as I have the PO, material gets ordered. phones me to find out how I'm getting along with John, like, dude, I haven't got a PO. He's like, he fucking lost it. He's like, I'm gonna go murder people.
00:54:52
Curt
Oh, no.
00:54:52
jamie peacock
So I got a PO on Friday afternoon.
00:54:53
Curt
Oh, no.
00:54:55
jamie peacock
That's the first part I'm gonna run on the spindle gripper.
00:54:56
Curt
Cool.
00:54:58
Curt
Oh, cool.
00:54:59
jamie peacock
It's that job.
00:54:59
Curt
Okay, nice.
00:54:59
jamie peacock
Yeah. um It's just little inserts for a wing of a drone. I also found out why my mate's previous version of the drone why that company didn't buy from him.
00:55:05
Curt
Oh, cool.
00:55:10
jamie peacock
It's because I fixed the landing gear.
00:55:11
Curt
Oh, I... Yeah, I think you mentioned that, yeah.
00:55:13
jamie peacock
Yeah, I felt kind of bad when he told me. But yeah, he was like he for he was raging because the admin staff there are fucking useless. um So he was gonna go murder somebody. It was quite funny.
00:55:25
Curt
Nice.
00:55:25
jamie peacock
um Yeah. um Okay, my last one that I just added chip tray updates.
00:55:30
Curt
Mm-hmm. Oh, yes. Yes, yes, yes.
00:55:32
jamie peacock
Yes, dude, dude, fucking magic.
00:55:37
jamie peacock
So I made the new chip tray that I designed like five months ago. I had my mate fabricated for me, put the mesh in, it's got a 0.15 millimeter mesh. So like tiny.
00:55:37
Curt
Yeah.
00:55:47
Curt
Ooh, that's tiny.
00:55:48
jamie peacock
I've got wire basket or punched metal baskets that slot under the chip things. If they get full and overflow, they flow into the main thing, which has got a 0.15 mesh.
00:56:00
jamie peacock
So I literally cannot get shavings into my coolant. And those those little baskets, you pull one out, slot another one in carry on with your day. My coolant works so much better.
00:56:11
Curt
Oh, that's awesome.
00:56:12
jamie peacock
Do like not a day doesn't even cover it.
00:56:12
Curt
That's good.
00:56:16
Curt
Really?
00:56:16
jamie peacock
It is infinitely better. Not having shavings going through my fucking pumps all the time and blocking the through filter.
Power Usage and Energy Management
00:56:24
Curt
Oh, okay.
00:56:25
jamie peacock
like not and fucking day when I move, going to put a thing with two two inductives and a float so that I can when the level gets low, it'll put a lot on so that I can just keep the coolant in a very tight band for level level wise, because if I let it get too low, then the wash down doesn't work properly.
00:56:25
Curt
Fair, fair, fair.
00:56:40
Curt
Sure.
00:56:43
jamie peacock
Like those are washed on because the pickup is higher. So I'm going to put a float with some inductives that'll just flick a lot on and tell me hey cool, it's not right. Because if we're running into the night, there needs to be a checklist.
00:56:54
jamie peacock
oil level, coolant level, chip trays, tooling, like all these things need to be checked off before you tell it to run all night and then it hits a problem.
00:56:54
Curt
Yeah.
00:57:02
Curt
Absolutely. Yeah, no, exactly.
00:57:03
jamie peacock
Yeah, running all night's going to, so automation is an automatic process to show you the weakest link in your system.
00:57:11
Curt
Yep. Yep, exactly.
00:57:12
jamie peacock
So yeah, we will be doing that. What are the actual current values for running?
00:57:15
Curt
Cool.
00:57:17
jamie peacock
Oh, assume this has got to do with power monitoring.
00:57:18
Curt
Uh, Totally. Yeah. I've been doing a bunch of power monitoring with everything running now with like the lathe running with the compressors running with the AC running with the style running.
00:57:21
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:57:28
Curt
I
00:57:28
jamie peacock
Kurt went and bought a thousand hundred watt globes and just plugged them in and logged the power increase.
00:57:35
Curt
i i still don't have my factor running well, but I'm using it's like it's web app and I just have, I leave it open on my PC.
00:57:40
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:57:42
Curt
Um, So yeah, I think the highest I spike here, so I have 100 amp service, and the highest I'm spiking is about 60-ish amps.
00:57:54
Curt
And that's if, that's generally, like there could be a worst case where everything kicks on at once, and the spindle, and then they would be up to probably like 70, 80 for a brief, you know, a few seconds.
00:57:54
jamie peacock
Okay.
00:58:05
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:58:06
Curt
um But for the most part, I don't ever really see anything jump more than 60.
00:58:06
jamie peacock
Yeah. Okay.
00:58:09
Curt
So, and that's with the lathe and the X5 running and the compressors running. um and the AC running in in my house. So yeah, it's totally reasonable. Yeah.
00:58:18
jamie peacock
No, that's, dude, what's measured is managed.
00:58:18
Curt
So.
00:58:20
jamie peacock
So I spoke to my neighbor at the new place because I'm obviously going to put power management in.
00:58:21
Curt
Yeah.
00:58:25
jamie peacock
And I was going to put two plugs because two plugs are cheaper than one plug. So put a plug for the late department, put plug for the mill department, 32 amp three phase plugs because it's cheaper than buying a 63 amp plug.
00:58:30
Curt
Okay.
00:58:38
jamie peacock
He's like, don't waste your time, i'm just fucking wire it straight in. They're not going to come check. Like, don't burn the place down and you'll be fine. I was like, fuck, fair enough. I'll just put in some breakers, um, and then put my power management in the main DB on the incoming that I can measure all three phases and the voltage and all that shit. And then my sub panels will handle the smart stuff for the lights and all that shit.
00:59:01
Curt
Gotcha. Yeah.
00:59:02
jamie peacock
Because obviously we're doing Iron Man mode where the lights go, because fucking reasons.
00:59:06
Curt
Nice.
00:59:07
jamie peacock
Um, Yeah, I want to put that all on. luck And also then we can turn on specific areas. So if you're running at night, you can have just your area lit up.
00:59:17
Curt
Sure.
00:59:17
jamie peacock
You don't light up the whole workshop.
00:59:18
Curt
Yeah.
00:59:20
jamie peacock
Yeah, so I'm excited to get power management in there and actually measure stuff on three-phase. Because like I said, I've got a meter, but mine is just the unit. It doesn't talk out at all.
00:59:31
Curt
Right, right, right, yeah.
00:59:32
jamie peacock
So you have to watch the screen and read it to see what's happening.
00:59:35
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:59:36
jamie peacock
So yeah it's gonna be interesting to see what my power bill here goes to once I'm out of here, because I feel like it's gonna drop by a factor of like, five.
00:59:47
Curt
Yeah, yeah, probably. Yeah.
00:59:49
jamie peacock
Yeah, I mean, we use a shitload of power running well, we use a lot of power running machines and nano and whatnot. um I don't we will we will see. And then your last topic for the day Kurt.
Building Blowy Boxes and Public Plans
01:00:00
Curt
Yeah, man. You're, ooh, okay.
01:00:01
jamie peacock
ah building blowy boxes. Yes.
01:00:04
Curt
I am interested in this because I've been looking at a few of them.
01:00:05
jamie peacock
Yes. So I was also looking at a few of them. But I think I know how they're doing it. So the air comes in, goes through an air motor, and the exhaust of the air motor goes to your gun.
01:00:16
Curt
Right.
01:00:18
jamie peacock
So when you pull the gun, it lets air through.
01:00:18
Curt
Right.
01:00:20
jamie peacock
um Don't feel like doing that because, well, complicatedness. My plan is to build a box and buy a 150mm Zoll-growing fan or weed-growing fan.
01:00:31
Curt
Yep. Yep. Yep.
01:00:32
jamie peacock
When you walk up to the box, you hit the foot pedal, it turns on, you hit the foot pedal again, it turns off.
01:00:37
Curt
Yeah. Fair.
01:00:38
jamie peacock
So you hit the foot pedal, you grab your air gun.
01:00:38
Curt
Fair.
01:00:40
jamie peacock
By the time you've grabbed the air gun, it's spun up already and sucking air and blowing through a furnace filter, which I found on a can by Loki.
01:00:47
Curt
Oh, cool.
01:00:47
jamie peacock
And then you blow into the box. itlo My thought is to have like a section at the back of the box equivalent to the area of the fan. So the surface area of the the air slit will be the same size as the fan.
01:00:59
Curt
Okay.
01:01:05
jamie peacock
so that it's getting maximum velocity through there. And you blow down into the box, the box will be so deep, probably angled. um You blow your parts, we'll put a grid so you can't drop the parts in. You blow your parts off, it sucks the the mist and shit in and blows it through a filter out the back.
01:01:05
Curt
OK.
01:01:20
jamie peacock
It's just a fucking little standalone box that goes on your table because I don't want to be blowing coolant onto the floor in the workshop because it's going to be slippery as fuck.
01:01:27
Curt
Totally. Yeah.
01:01:28
jamie peacock
So I'm going to build one of those for Carl and build one for myself.
01:01:33
Curt
Nice.
01:01:34
jamie peacock
But I will probably post plans for it as well, as one does. Yeah.
01:01:38
Curt
Yeah, I went on for the on for the late. The mill isn't so bad because like I have a big mist filter that's going to go on it, so I just blow into the cabinet and that's fine.
01:01:44
jamie peacock
Into the enclosure. I do as well.
01:01:46
Curt
Yeah.
01:01:46
jamie peacock
But the lathes are a bit of ah bit of an issue. And also if you're running production type stuff where you want to take the part out, put the next one and hit go and then blow it off. i want to have somewhere I can just turn and blow it off. um
01:01:56
Curt
Totally.
01:01:57
jamie peacock
And my thought is to make it out of melamine chipboard because I can have it all cut to size already from the supplier. And then you just screw it together and cork the corners and you're done.
01:02:03
Curt
m
01:02:06
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
01:02:07
jamie peacock
Now try make it as a little effort as possible.
01:02:08
Curt
Yep.
01:02:09
jamie peacock
And then here I found out where to buy furnace filters.
01:02:12
Curt
Oh, yeah?
01:02:13
jamie peacock
Amazon.ca.za.
01:02:16
Curt
Oh, you can just get him there? Sweet.
01:02:17
jamie peacock
Well, yeah, they they sell them because, well, I assume they think we have furnaces here.
01:02:17
Curt
Yeah.
01:02:21
jamie peacock
um None of the local guys really stock them because it's not a thing in South Africa.
01:02:23
Curt
Hmm.
01:02:26
Curt
Sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:02:27
jamie peacock
So found a five-pack, so I'm just going five-pack.
01:02:30
Curt
Nice. That'll work.
01:02:30
jamie peacock
And then I might just buy a couple more and some box fans and do a Kurt special for just filtering air in the workshop.
01:02:31
Curt
Yeah.
01:02:38
Curt
Yeah, it works. It works decently well. Yeah.
01:02:39
jamie peacock
it works wellly now It works better than fuck all.
01:02:42
Curt
It works better than your lungs doing the filtering. Yeah, for sure.
01:02:44
jamie peacock
Yes, and especially if we're going to run with the doors closed.
01:02:45
Curt
first Yeah, it helps a little bit. No doubt.
01:02:49
jamie peacock
Yeah, so I think we might do that now that I've found where i can buy them.
01:02:49
Curt
Yeah, no doubt.
01:02:53
jamie peacock
But yeah, I think the the little weed fan does 305 cubic, 305 liters per hour, minute, minute. I'll tell you now.
01:03:03
Curt
Those things haul. Yeah.
01:03:04
jamie peacock
Yeah, i've got I've got the tiny one, the 100 millimeter one in my, ah above my Anno setup.
01:03:09
Curt
Hmm.
01:03:12
jamie peacock
It does 305 cubic meters per hour. The one I have above the Anno setup is 107. So i'm going to get the big one. It's a 30 watt fan. It's not exactly big. um And then just have that blow into the top thing and have the come back um have the furnace filter sit on top.
01:03:33
jamie peacock
So it just blows everything up through the furnace filter back into the into the workshop.
01:03:38
Curt
You'll probably find they don't they don't do shit for filter. Like, it'll it'll kill it'll stop the mist. um But it's...
01:03:45
jamie peacock
Yeah, that's all I needed to do. I needed to catch myths and particles that make it up there.
01:03:47
Curt
Yeah.
01:03:49
Curt
Yeah, that'll probably do it. Yeah.
01:03:51
jamie peacock
It'll probably be fun. um
01:03:52
Curt
Because i've i i built the I built a giant one for the lathe before I like just exhausted outside. But the lathe is oil, so that's a different kettle of fish.
01:03:58
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:04:01
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:04:01
Curt
And you can actually measure the VOCs off it.
01:04:03
Curt
Anyways, I built one. Same thing, like I used a like four giant furnace filters just to try to have the most amount of area so that when I was pumping high-velocity air in there, I'd have really slow...
01:04:09
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:04:13
jamie peacock
It would go through you.
01:04:14
Curt
And it did diddly for ah removing any kind of like VOCs or particles. So I was like, hmm.
01:04:20
jamie peacock
Well, yeah, but do nothing for VOCs because that would need carbon to pull that out. But particles, it should it should help with unless they smaller than the filter.
01:04:24
Curt
Exactly.
01:04:30
Curt
I think it would, I think even with the surface area that I had, I think the airflow is just still too high. Um, going through the, so anyways, I just, yeah.
01:04:35
jamie peacock
Okay, yeah, just pushes it through the filter.
01:04:38
Curt
So i just like, oh, well outside you go. So I just pipe it outside. So
01:04:42
jamie peacock
That works. That's Africa styles.
01:04:45
Curt
yeah. Yeah. Well, it's like,
01:04:46
jamie peacock
Well, the so I was chatting to the neighbor on Friday, and he said to me, if you see rats, let the landlord know right away. Two doors down, they make dog food. And there were literally pellets in the fucking driveway on Thursday afternoon.
01:05:01
jamie peacock
So him and his neighbor are fighting over cleanliness and whatnot. So yeah, I was warned about that.
01:05:07
Curt
Fair.
01:05:08
jamie peacock
But yeah, we'll keep an eye on that
Workshop Environment and Pet Policies
01:05:10
jamie peacock
shit. No desire to have rodents in my fucking space.
01:05:14
Curt
Yeah, it's less fun for sure.
01:05:15
jamie peacock
yeah no not ideal um danica's gonna take the dogs to work and like fuck off it's not happening thou never coming there because where the fuck are they gonna take a shit i'm not picking that shit up like there is actually no space for the dog who's at my workshop unfortunately unless i put some astroturf out the back but i don't really want to do that danica wants to astroturf the office instead of carpeting it i'm like no because you're gonna drop a screw and it's gone forever no
01:05:22
Curt
ah
01:05:30
Curt
Yeah, fair
01:05:33
Curt
you
01:05:37
Curt
fair. would look so white trash.
01:05:42
jamie peacock
be lovely. Take your shoes off. Fucking and chill in the office. I'm like, no, not fucking happening.
01:05:46
Curt
ah No, no.
01:05:48
jamie peacock
It's a bare concrete floor, so I need to do something. But I don't know what that something will be yet. It might just be laminate floor because I have a bunch on my veranda.
01:05:56
Curt
Yeah, fair. Yeah.
01:05:57
jamie peacock
Just fucking put on laminates. It's an office slash assembly room. It'll be fine. My Google box is full of more things regarding the the new workshop.
01:06:07
Curt
I see that, yeah.
01:06:08
jamie peacock
Yes. um What is in your Google box, Kurt?
01:06:09
Curt
You want to light him up? ah Mine is really quick because, like i said, I've been just...
01:06:14
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:06:15
Curt
doing fence shit like all week and then whatever, whenever I'm not out there working, finding shit, I just run in here and run parts and like, yeah, my week has been busy. Um, my Google box, uh, uh, United Arab Emirates perfume. don't know you've seen like those like Emirate guys just like,
01:06:34
Curt
Dosing themselves and like layering perfumes. I was trying to explain it to my wife So I googled and then we started googling perfumes because she really likes perfumes and so we're looking at all this stuff We got a bunch of fancy stores around here that sell those perfumes.
01:06:45
Curt
I wanted to see how much they cost anyways. It's interesting um And then fountain pen ink I found some ink yeah I've wanted to like a waterproof ink because my fingers are somewhat sweaty and when I write I don't want to like smudge my writing and
01:06:51
jamie peacock
Okay.
01:06:58
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:07:00
Curt
Um, but I found you can get particle or like, um, pigment ink. Um, so I bought some platinum carbon ink, um, which is basically carbon in suspension and, uh, yeah, it works super, super well.
01:07:03
jamie peacock
Okay.
01:07:08
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:07:11
Curt
Um, so yeah, I think it's going to be the ink income I'm going to use for basically forever now. Cause yeah, it's, uh, it's completely waterproof once it's dry.
01:07:15
jamie peacock
Nerd.
01:07:17
Curt
So yeah, dude, it's coming soon.
01:07:18
jamie peacock
So when are you building a fountain pen?
01:07:21
Curt
Like I've in the, it's in the works.
01:07:22
jamie peacock
Ahead of the click pen.
01:07:25
Curt
Uh, it might be. Yeah, we'll see. Yeah.
01:07:27
jamie peacock
As long as not ahead of the fidget, it's fine.
01:07:30
Curt
No, the fidgets. Yeah, that's that's actually probably next week's endeavor here. So I say that every week.
01:07:34
jamie peacock
Oh, nice. Okay.
01:07:35
Curt
I'll just keep saying it.
01:07:36
jamie peacock
Yeah, I know.
01:07:36
Curt
doesn't It doesn't mean anything.
01:07:36
jamie peacock
Yeah, just keep kicking the can down the road.
01:07:37
Curt
yeah
01:07:39
jamie peacock
Okay.
01:07:39
Curt
ah How
Humor and Lifestyle Improvements
01:07:41
Curt
about you? What's in your box of Google?
01:07:42
jamie peacock
Um, yeah, furnace filters, weed fans, uh, cable size calculators, because seeing what size cable I need to run, because obviously bigger is better, but smaller is cheaper.
01:07:50
Curt
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
01:07:52
jamie peacock
Um, looking at lip channel to build the mezzanine, um, checking the updates to my websites, which we will cover shortly.
01:07:53
Curt
Mm-hmm.
01:08:00
jamie peacock
um
01:08:00
Curt
Yeah.
01:08:00
jamie peacock
looking at trolleys and shelves and fucking carts and all those fun things. And then, uh, the, uh, in my Google box is currently the double ended feeling stick.
01:08:10
Curt
yeah
01:08:10
jamie peacock
So, My cousin's like, no, no, you guys need a feeling stick. For when one of you needs to articulate that you are having feelings, you can hold the feeling stick the has to listen. i'm like, well, that's going to be a double-ended dildo. And it's going to go in a little fucking cabinet, break glass in case of feelings.
01:08:24
jamie peacock
And walk up to like, I have feelings. So yeah, class for days in our workshop.
01:08:31
Curt
I like this.
01:08:31
jamie peacock
purple and pink one. um Yeah, so I'm going to buy one literally as a fucking meme. It's going to be on the wall in case of feelings.
01:08:37
Curt
Hmm.
01:08:40
jamie peacock
Like in a little cabinet.
01:08:42
Curt
That's awesome. like that.
01:08:43
jamie peacock
Visiting a my workshop is going to be fucking wild. Like, we're going through it now. Like, we're spending fuckload of money on, wouldn't say dumb shit, but quality of lifestyle that I just, want in my workshop. I want the compressors automatic. i want the lights automatic. I want just niceness.
01:08:58
jamie peacock
Like, all these small quality of life things, they add up over time.
01:09:01
Curt
Sure. Sure.
01:09:02
jamie peacock
Yeah, feeling stick.
01:09:05
jamie peacock
It's little floppy, but mean, it's a double-ended feeling stick.
01:09:05
Curt
Yeah, whatever.
01:09:08
Curt
Still good.
01:09:09
jamie peacock
You can fucking jiggle it. If you really want, you can spin it like a lightsaber. um Yeah, fucking my Google box is ruined at the moment. ah yeah we
01:09:20
Curt
yeah Fair.
01:09:20
jamie peacock
Where can people find you, Kurt?
01:09:23
Curt
Find me and my things at confoundedmachine.com. I had actually planned to have the latest batch go out when you're listening to this last week, but it's going out early this week, which is probably already happened by the time you listen to this because we are recording in the past and you were listening in the future.
01:09:39
Curt
but Anyways, confoundedmachine.com.
01:09:39
jamie peacock
We are time traveling.
01:09:41
Curt
And if you subscribe to my mailing list, you'll have received an email regardless. So this is useless information to everybody.
01:09:46
jamie peacock
Exactly.
01:09:48
Curt
How about you, Jamie?
01:09:50
jamie peacock
You can find me at jspeceng.com.
Website Updates and Enhancement Plans
01:09:53
Curt
Nice. i like this.
01:09:54
jamie peacock
it yeah we did update to the website so on the website there is a link to nautical work holding to my instagram and to this online store on jspec so you're looking work holding stuff in order work holding dates for happenings is instagram and online stores flux shirts and things also the entire catalog of shirts is now available including this one um so you can go see fancy things over there so i did small update danica wants to rebuild the whole website so that's coming in a few weeks time And then, yeah, Nautical's probably get some more products this week.
01:10:22
Curt
Nice.
01:10:25
jamie peacock
At least that's the idea.
01:10:25
Curt
I like that. that makes it That's the first thing I see before the page break.
01:10:28
jamie peacock
Yes.
01:10:28
Curt
That's awesome. Yeah, well done.
01:10:29
jamie peacock
Yeah. No, I got to to put it right at the top. I kind of want to change the Instagram logo, but it's fine. um
01:10:35
Curt
but It works.
01:10:36
jamie peacock
Yeah, it gets the the point across. I actually put Instagram links on the Nautical site to the Nautical work holding Instagram.
01:10:43
Curt
That's a good point, too. Yeah.
01:10:43
jamie peacock
Because that only gets posts of like product specific things.
01:10:44
Curt
Yeah.
01:10:47
jamie peacock
It doesn't get Jamie's random fucking shit.
01:10:50
Curt
Yeah.
01:10:51
jamie peacock
also need to delete some shit off my phone because my phone's uh making instagram stories at five fps because it has yeah it's frustrating as fuck um but it's because the memory's full i know why at least so i'll go and dump a bunch of shit off of it um i'm on the second book of dungeon crawler call because aj's internet's been down so i've been waiting to get those books and Then I copied it on my phone and I copied...
01:10:57
Curt
Yeah, I noticed few of those, yeah. Oh.
01:11:02
Curt
Yeah.
Audiobook and Entertainment Recommendations
01:11:16
jamie peacock
Somehow I unzipped to a duplicate of all the chapters. So it would play the chapter and it would start that chapter again. was like, no, fuck this shit. Collect my phone and delete the duplicates because that was going to drive me insane.
01:11:29
Curt
Boomer problems here.
01:11:30
jamie peacock
Yeah, pretty much. But yeah, that dude, thought you need to listen to those books.
01:11:32
Curt
yeah
01:11:34
jamie peacock
Like, you really do.
01:11:35
Curt
Oh, I'm finishing this latest Stephen King book and then I'm probably going switch over to it. It's on my short list for sure. Yeah.
01:11:41
jamie peacock
Okay, yeah, dude, it's... amazing like yeah yeah it's really really good i've been drawing book two already i think i'm four or five chapters in like i actually have missed audiobooks this week because i haven't wanted to start anything or yeah i wanted to carry on with dungeon crawler car you know train enthusiasm problems yeah what are you up to tomorrow kurt
01:11:44
Curt
um I'm jazzed. Yeah.
01:11:57
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
01:12:00
Curt
I get it. I get it.
01:12:04
Curt
ah Tomorrow I'm going to try to fix my jigsaw cause I blew it up.
Weekend Activities and Workshop Prep
01:12:10
Curt
Got all these stupid tops of my fences and trying to make everything pretty. And if I can't, going to buy another cheap one because this one has lasted significantly longer than I would have assumed for what I paid for it.
01:12:20
Curt
And yeah.
01:12:21
jamie peacock
yeah
01:12:23
Curt
And ah yeah, I don't know. That's basically what I got on the roster for tomorrow. It's a Sunday for me. So just if people are wondering, we do this on the weekend. How about you? What do you got going on?
01:12:31
jamie peacock
yeah it's a Sunday for me too I am leaving here and 15 20 minutes or so to go and buy a hose adapter so I can go clean the floor the new workshop and prep it for paint for tomorrow yes very excites speaking of that is now available to watch project Hail Mary yes
01:12:42
Curt
excite, excite.
01:12:48
Curt
Oh, I know. I've been trying not to watch it, but I should just go watch it.
01:12:52
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's on my external. i should probably just bring it inside and watch it.
01:12:56
Curt
Yeah.
01:12:57
jamie peacock
We actually watched the the Grandish tour last night.
01:12:57
Curt
Cool.
01:13:00
jamie peacock
Danik and I watched episode two of it. Dude, those three are fucking amazing together. like we were I was in stitches on the couch laughing at the shit they were doing.
01:13:05
Curt
Yeah.
01:13:09
jamie peacock
luck ah young The reason that show worked was because of the three of them, their chemistry together.
01:13:16
jamie peacock
like that's the only reason that show works so i was watching that last night it was quite good um but yeah anyway thank you everybody for listening uh we shall see you next week if you have enjoyed the show please consider liking sharing subscribing all those things and if you really enjoyed the show consider sharing with someone else who you think may also enjoy the show and uh yeah if seen our faces probably youtube um if you just heard our voices spotify um
01:13:16
Curt
Yeah.
01:13:16
Curt
Yeah. Nice.
01:13:23
Curt
nice
01:13:44
jamie peacock
I don't know if there's an audio only link available. i did ask Danica. I'll check with her if she's made that available. Someone was bitching at me about it. That you can only download the video. you can't do the audio only. Yeah, so I will find out. I promise.
01:13:56
jamie peacock
But yeah, thank you everybody and we will see you next week.
01:14:00
Curt
Take care, all.