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Ep. 24: Hex Appeal!
130 Plays6 days ago
Join Curt and Jamie as they discuss their week, including topics such as The Isotie, 3D Scanning a Boat, and Engraving with Fusion.
Links Discussed:
- Smarter everyday video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZTGwcHQfLY&t=1135s
The Lone Machinist:
- Website: https://thelonemachinists.com/
- Merch: https://www.jspeceng.com/online-store
- Patreon: https://patreon.com/TheLoneMachinists
Jamie:
- http://instagram.com/jspec_engineering
- https://www.jspeceng.com/
- The Isotie: https://www.jspeceng.com/online-store/Isotie-p757712802
Curt:
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Transcript
Weather and Wardrobe
00:00:47
jamie peacock
Good morning, Kurt.
00:00:49
Curt
Good evening, comrade. How are you doing? I'm
00:00:51
jamie peacock
I'm good at you. Yeah, there's a reason for the hat, though.
00:00:54
Curt
doing fantastic. Is there?
00:00:57
jamie peacock
I've actually been wearing it most of the day because it is bloody cold here. Um, and by bloody cold, I mean, like it got to four degrees today. Ooh, like four degrees, four degrees science with a nice, uh, with a nasty wind.
00:01:05
Curt
That's chilly. Mm-hmm.
00:01:09
jamie peacock
I woke up this morning. was raining. Um, and then there's been a chilly wind all day and tomorrow we're going to drop to minus two, which is a pretty much as cold as it's going for the year.
00:01:12
Curt
Ooh.
00:01:17
Curt
Ooh.
00:01:19
jamie peacock
Hopefully.
00:01:20
Curt
Well, like minus two in rain or like, you know, right around zero in rain is cold.
00:01:21
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:01:24
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah. Well,
00:01:24
Curt
Like, especially if you're going to be outside like that, that's that's worse than minus 20 in some instances.
00:01:29
jamie peacock
Yeah, also wearing shorts.
00:01:32
Curt
Of course.
00:01:33
jamie peacock
Yeah, like I wore long pants on the weekend. I'm all long pantsed out now.
00:01:39
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, it was a little bit chilly in the workshop
Unexpected Cold Visitor
00:01:41
jamie peacock
today. actually closed up the doors. as well I had an ex-colleague come visit me this afternoon to sort out some oiling stuff. And we were standing by his car having a chat. And I'm like, okay, go now because I'm freezing because we were outside in the shade and the wind.
00:01:57
jamie peacock
And I'm like, okay, you can leave now. I'm done being cold. It's a bit chilly. I think that's odd.
00:02:05
Curt
beautiful man today's like i don't know it's like 27 or something like that it's gonna be it's gonna be lovely yeah summer for us yeah so it's warm at night too it's not dropping down at night which kind of sucks without ac but hey you know what i'll take it because it's gonna be minus 40 soon enough so
00:02:09
jamie peacock
Oh, nice. Summer.
00:02:12
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:02:20
jamie peacock
Yeah. I assume you guys have heating, not cooling.
00:02:23
Curt
Yeah, I mean, cool. A lot of people have their eight homes AC too because our temperature is so weird, but ah I don't know.
00:02:25
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:02:28
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:02:29
Curt
i'm just um I'm cheap. I have some portable units and that that gets us by for the few weeks you need it. so
00:02:34
jamie peacock
yeah i was in poland during summer minus uh minus 40 in winter 40 degrees in summer and there's no air cons we literally had admit lunch at mcdonald's every day because they had an air con we would take the full hour and go sit in the air con and have lunch like it was it was brutally hot but yeah so what have what have you been up to this week
00:02:35
Curt
Yeah.
00:02:41
Curt
Yeah. yeah
00:02:52
Curt
yeah Yeah. No, fair.
00:03:01
Curt
oh this last week i've just been pissed around with that mechanism got it fully uh fully fleshed out and functional super happy with it build a few of them and uh yeah had a lot of positive feedback so i'm gonna be doing a batch of them so yeah gonna be jumping on that this week while i wait for i have a bunch of titanium on order um i kind of postponed it because i knew i'd be kind of tinkering around with some other stuff this week so i pushed the order back but that should be here today another giant mcmaster order with a crap ton ultim should be here today and uh yeah party party i mean eventually we'll i i have like a plastic shop
00:03:22
jamie peacock
yeah
00:03:32
jamie peacock
yeah no that's
Machining Challenges
00:03:35
Curt
like down the road that will sell me ultim at probably like one tenth the price but it's easy so whatever so
00:03:36
jamie peacock
oh yeah um yeah the mechanism's looking really really good yeah i showed i showed danica and she got quite excited
00:03:45
Curt
yeah thanks man yeah it seems to uh it seems to work out it's good it's got nice clicks
00:03:51
Curt
Click, click, click, click. I'll click it over the entire podcast and just drive everyone in.
00:03:55
jamie peacock
Yeah, that's why I put down that kinematic coupling, because that thing makes a hell of a racket, and I've put it down, because I realized I have a habit of fiddling with things during the podcast.
00:03:58
Curt
Yeah.
00:04:05
Curt
Yep. Same. I'm putting mine out of reach because same thing.
00:04:05
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:04:06
Curt
I'll grab it and you'll just hear it in the background and everyone will go angry.
00:04:08
jamie peacock
Yeah. Go crazy.
00:04:11
Curt
So yeah, how was your week?
00:04:12
jamie peacock
But yeah, anyway.
00:04:13
Curt
looks like ah Looks like you had a lot of fun.
00:04:16
jamie peacock
Oh, yeah, a lot of fun. So I waited for three days for the replacement after couple of boards to come in for the probe, only to realize it was the probe that was the problem.
00:04:23
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:04:27
Curt
Ooh, okay.
00:04:28
jamie peacock
Yeah, so pulled it open. It's now working better than it's ever worked. So I pulled it open, cleaned it out again, got full of coolant, and then hot glued some stuff and shoved it back together.
00:04:41
jamie peacock
And it's now repeating it's now repeating within within a micron on most. If I touch off and touch off and touch off, there's about a micron of variation. So it's repeating much better than it's ever repeated.
00:04:50
Curt
Okay.
00:04:52
jamie peacock
ah Yeah, that's at least resolved. have a tool setter again.
00:04:56
Curt
Nice.
00:04:57
jamie peacock
Yeah, and then I discovered that the front of my machine says drill tap center, and it means it. I was rigid tapping M10 and stainless.
00:05:08
Curt
Ooh, okay.
00:05:09
jamie peacock
Yeah, no problem. Like, thought I was going to struggle. i was like, hey, I'll give it a try, and just plowed through all 30 parts I needed to tap.
00:05:14
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:05:17
Curt
Nice.
00:05:17
jamie peacock
So that was a nice surprise. 750 Okay.
00:05:22
Curt
How quick are you tapping it?
00:05:26
Curt
OK, so yeah, for an M10, that's good.
00:05:28
jamie peacock
yeah
00:05:30
jamie peacock
It's going, yeah. So I had to, unfortunately, I didn't catch it in the machine and the holes were undersized. So I had to just quickly open the hole up with a 8.5 drill and then run a tap through it.
00:05:41
jamie peacock
So I used to, I used to just rigid tap or tap them, power tap them in the lathe. And then I sold my lathe, my bigger manual lathe.
00:05:41
Curt
Oh, well, you found out.
00:05:47
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:05:50
jamie peacock
and the parts actually don't fit in the toy lathe.
00:05:51
Curt
Oh, OK.
00:05:53
jamie peacock
So this is the first time I've run them since then. So I had to figure out a plan. I was just going to drill a hole and then hand tap them because it's only 30 parts. And I was like, ah let me just see what the LK can do.
00:06:04
jamie peacock
And yeah, it can do.
00:06:04
Curt
Right, right. Nice. That's awesome. Yeah, that's.
00:06:08
jamie peacock
Like I rigid, I've got words of heart this evening. I regularly rigid tap M10 into aluminium and I do that at 2000 RPM.
00:06:20
Curt
Right, yeah.
00:06:21
jamie peacock
Yeah, and the machine doesn't care. It just zooms and zooms out.
00:06:24
Curt
Yeah.
00:06:25
jamie peacock
luck But that's aluminum, not stainless steel.
00:06:27
Curt
ah Yeah, exactly. Yeah, lot different.
00:06:29
jamie peacock
Yeah. Ever so slightly different. But yeah,
Design and Customization
00:06:34
jamie peacock
I was chatting to, I actually ended up on Discord on, must have been Thursday night?
00:06:34
Curt
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:06:42
jamie peacock
ah Wednesday night with chatting to Jacob but from Zonum Precision. Let's see if I get it wrong for the third time today. Zonum Precision, I know he listens. I was Jacob. And EJ from Nocturnal Welding. I was helping EJ design a pallet for some Lursies machining, which hopefully he will get around to machining tomorrow so we can see how it works because it's stainless steel on the anchor point. so um but yeah he was asking me about tap sizes and things because he was making custom pallets because he needed a palette that was just slightly bigger than the the blank pallets that ship with the anchor point but yeah i was running him through how to design a palette
00:07:16
Curt
Okay, okay. Yeah, think i I think I saw that he's got like four little stainless planks on one of those pallets.
00:07:23
jamie peacock
yeah i think it's three yeah three and then yeah many bolts i got them to bolt him through the back and then just drill the threads out after the fact
00:07:25
Curt
Or three, maybe. Yeah, yeah.
00:07:32
jamie peacock
Because, I mean, it's a fishing gun.
00:07:33
Curt
Cool.
00:07:34
jamie peacock
It really doesn't make a difference.
00:07:36
Curt
Yeah.
00:07:37
jamie peacock
Because yeah I'm a big fan of the knife maker method, where you bolt in through the back of the pallet.
00:07:42
Curt
Totally.
00:07:43
jamie peacock
I've got a video
00:07:43
Curt
Yep.
Video Editing Woes
00:07:44
jamie peacock
that is all shot, and I just, my editing software, Microsoft in it, are not friends.
00:07:50
jamie peacock
Every time I want to use it i have to reinstall it, and the last time don't want to reinstall.
00:07:50
Curt
I
00:07:53
jamie peacock
So I think I'm going to go to davinia DaVinci Resolve and see how that...
00:07:58
Curt
was going to succumb to the dark side.
00:08:01
jamie peacock
Yeah, I'm worried.
00:08:02
Curt
it's It's fantastic. I love it. like I came from Premiere, and going to Resolve is a bit of a learning curve, but you can map the shortcuts to whatever you're comfortable with. So it's I don't know.
00:08:12
Curt
It's good.
00:08:12
jamie peacock
Yeah,
00:08:13
Curt
There's a lot of weird steps, but
00:08:13
jamie peacock
videoed it so infrequently that, yeah, it'll be what it is. ah Danica's trying to convince me he use Canva and I told her no because just no.
00:08:18
Curt
yeah.
00:08:25
Curt
For video editing?
00:08:26
jamie peacock
Yeah, she videoed it in Canva.
00:08:28
Curt
i I side with you on this.
00:08:30
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, sorry, not happening. Like I want a proper video editor that I can edit stuff locally. Yeah, all the stuff's on the PC. And then, yeah, I went to download the stuff off my drive because it's just easier to push it to Google Drive from my phone and then pull it down on the PC.
00:08:46
jamie peacock
Went to pull it down and half the files hadn't synced.
00:08:49
Curt
Hmm.
00:08:49
jamie peacock
So I ended up faffing with that last night and then shooting a little thing using OBS. OBS is really cool.
00:08:56
Curt
Oh, yeah.
00:08:56
jamie peacock
Shooting a screen recording of how I programmed the... The Assotar.
Afrikaans Wedding Adventure
00:09:02
Curt
Oh, cool. I love that. That tie looked so cool.
00:09:05
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, it was 50 SL.
00:09:07
Curt
Yeah.
00:09:07
jamie peacock
I like that I'm the one at the at the wedding after. So everyone was your tie is so awesome. Like I was the dude with the fancy tie. And then after we left, cause, uh, yeah, we are a little, a little inebriated.
00:09:18
jamie peacock
And then, uh, we, I took Danica back to the, to our, uh, guest house room.
00:09:19
Curt
Hmm.
00:09:24
jamie peacock
And then it was like where's the chick with the boobs gone? I'm like, no, dude, it's a tight chick with the boobs. was like, fucking winning. Like, cause she was having a jaw, but then yeah, someone gave her a shot of cactus Jack.
00:09:36
jamie peacock
And that just pushed her over the edge and I'm like, cool, let's go before you fall over and injure yourself. Yeah, but it was, it was a proper joel. ah First off, Rakan's wedding I've been to.
00:09:45
Curt
That looks...
00:09:48
jamie peacock
It was quite fun.
00:09:48
Curt
Yeah.
00:09:49
jamie peacock
They've got a bunch of interesting, interesting tro ah traditions.
00:09:49
Curt
Yeah, looks like...
00:09:54
Curt
ah Okay.
00:09:55
jamie peacock
Yeah, like haggling the the groom when he's trying to do a speech.
00:09:59
Curt
Oh, wow. That's fun.
00:10:00
jamie peacock
Yeah, so like all the guys pulled up with their chairs and they gave us silly string and he's trying to do speech and I'm spraying it in his mouth.
00:10:08
Curt
Oh, wow. Yeah, that sounds.
00:10:09
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, like, haggle him and then eventually the the new wife came and said, okay, enough, guys. And then we all stopped and he did his speech. But yeah, just giving him a hard time.
00:10:19
jamie peacock
But yeah, it was interesting. Yeah, no, it was the first Afrikaans wedding I've been to and yeah, there's some interesting traditions involved there.
00:10:19
Curt
Oh, poor bastard.
00:10:26
Curt
That's cool. That's cool.
00:10:27
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah. But it was yeah generally a ah fun weekend away from the workshop.
00:10:32
Curt
Yeah, i say you look quite dapper. so
00:10:34
jamie peacock
Yes, I wore long pants and a long sleeve shirt. I even had a suit jacket.
00:10:38
Curt
I saw that, yeah.
00:10:39
jamie peacock
It was so fancy.
00:10:40
Curt
And boots.
00:10:40
jamie peacock
And my safety boots.
00:10:42
Curt
Yeah.
00:10:43
jamie peacock
I polished my safety boots that morning, like in the sun. Sat there, polished my boots. Well, by polished, I mean filled in the giant scratches with shoe polish so that I'd look spiffy.
00:10:55
jamie peacock
And then, yeah, we had the whole wedding story, and it was fun.
00:10:59
Curt
Oh, that's cool.
00:11:00
jamie peacock
And then we were back yesterday afternoon.
00:11:01
Curt
That's cool. That stuff is fun.
00:11:02
jamie peacock
Yeah, it is fun every now and again. People mustn't get funny ideas of getting married often. and
00:11:08
Curt
Yeah, I know. might
00:11:09
jamie peacock
and Yeah.
00:11:09
Curt
my favorite we My favorite wedding I went to is one of my best friend's wedding, and he had it in a gondola going up a mountain. So he had we could only have like 20 people in the gondola, and it was like ah nine minutes.
00:11:16
jamie peacock
Oh, nice.
00:11:19
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:11:21
Curt
Nine minutes from when you leave to when you end. So it's like the wedding is going to be nine minutes long, so go.
00:11:23
jamie peacock
Oh, that's brilliant. Yeah.
00:11:26
Curt
So as soon as it started moving, it's like, we're gathered here today. It was is my favorite favorite one i've been to.
00:11:30
jamie peacock
That's awesome.
00:11:31
Curt
Yeah.
00:11:31
jamie peacock
Now, this one wasn't horrible. It was all of 30 minutes, like the actual ceremony.
00:11:35
Curt
Cool.
00:11:36
jamie peacock
And the speeches were like, I think, another 30 minutes. um My wedding was also like 20 minutes of speeches. The wedding ceremony was super short. My cousin's was like an hour and a half or two hours of speeches.
00:11:48
jamie peacock
You would swear it was someone's 21st.
00:11:48
Curt
ah Yeah, ragged. Yeah, no one wants that.
00:11:51
jamie peacock
yeah And then they got divorced like two years later.
00:11:52
Curt
No one wants that. Of course, that's how it works.
00:11:55
jamie peacock
Turns out that's what happens when you marry a crackhead.
00:11:55
Curt
The long.
00:11:59
jamie peacock
But yeah, we can, oh my jeez, that's out the family.
00:12:02
Curt
There's like a study on that. The more expensive
Machining Expertise
00:12:04
Curt
your wedding is, the less likely your marriage is to last. It's crazy. no.
00:12:07
jamie peacock
No comment with what this wedding this weekend cost. um
00:12:10
Curt
Hmm. Huh.
00:12:11
jamie peacock
Yeah, it was not cheap. I know it was not cheap.
00:12:13
Curt
Oh,
00:12:13
jamie peacock
I know how much it cost because I'm friends with, yeah. But yeah, my cousin is the groom's ex-wife. She was there as well.
00:12:25
jamie peacock
It was great. No, no, they, they, okay. I say it like that, but they are, they they're best of friends still. Like they, they grew up yeah, they grew a apart, divorced before shit got ugly.
00:12:31
Curt
go. oco
00:12:35
jamie peacock
So they still friends and part of each other's lives and whatnot. So yeah, it was great. It was a bit sad that, uh, his ex-wife was a bigger part of his wedding than his best friend was because his best friend and them had a falling out like three weeks ago just before the wedding yeah anyway on to the actual important things not uh the dumb shit we do on weekends um yeah i'm very curious about your elton topic
00:12:49
Curt
Yeah,
00:12:52
Curt
ah oh yeah ah say back
00:12:59
Curt
fact to machining
00:13:04
Curt
So Ultim is wonderful. like you know how they say everyone's a hero in brass. I think everyone's a hero in Ultim. Unless you're drilling holes. Drilling holes kind of sucks with Ultim because it's like machining like UHMW or HDPE or kind of any plastic that wants to string.
00:13:17
Curt
So yeah, that was kind of annoying.
00:13:17
jamie peacock
okay
00:13:19
Curt
i would just keep pushing drills harder and harder and harder trying to get the ah trying to get the little bird's nest to fly off.
00:13:24
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:13:25
Curt
I actually realized I could probably program the drill to like come up and then like spin backwards and then spin forwards. And I bet you that would work, but just didn't think about it.
00:13:31
jamie peacock
I've done that.
00:13:33
Curt
Yeah, I ah just, I forget that like, hey, you have a spindle that can like do that in like a second.
00:13:33
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:13:38
Curt
Like it doesn't take like, je like it'll be zigzick and you'll be good.
00:13:39
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:13:43
Curt
to Anyway, so I might, I might pass around with that, but, and then same thing.
00:13:44
jamie peacock
Yeah. That does make quite a big difference. And the only annoying thing is you've got a program that shouldn't be had.
00:13:51
Curt
Yeah, totally. um And then, yeah I want to F around with getting some Siemens, like pass through, like message pass throughs. So like there's a, like there's optional stops, but then I want like,
00:14:00
jamie peacock
Like an actual pop-up.
00:14:01
Curt
Yeah, like physical stops to be like, hey, right now you have to put a bunch of bolts in because I do it. I do tape and glue because I hate I don't want to like post processes. I want to put the raw stock on, let the machine drill all the holes for it and then put the fixture screws in, um let it finish the machining so i don't have to worry about it.
00:14:08
jamie peacock
Yeah, yeah.
00:14:16
Curt
And then, yeah, just want to have a stop because I know one time I'm going to forget that be like, why it stopped here?
00:14:17
jamie peacock
yeah
00:14:20
Curt
Whatever. Hit cycle start and then be like, oh, so.
00:14:23
jamie peacock
yeah whoopsie yeah no 100 uh yeah as far as i know there is a way to actually make pop-up messages yeah yeah it does nothing yeah
00:14:24
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:14:29
Curt
There's got to be like, you can do it Linux. I'm sure you can do it. And I told her fusion told me you could do it. I was like, oh, okay, cool. So I did like a manual pass through with a ah message and it just, the control looked at it and it's like, what are you trying to do? i was like, oh, okay. Maybe you don't understand.
00:14:44
jamie peacock
But I mean, that shouldn't be too difficult to get working. I need to figure out how to store my current work offset um or what work offset I'm in and call it at the end of my tool break detect because I nearly crashed.
00:14:56
Curt
Right.
00:14:57
jamie peacock
Luckily, I was watching it.
00:14:58
Curt
yeah
00:14:59
jamie peacock
So if you don't, so my tool break detect macro works perfectly if you check at the end of everything using that tool. But if you check between cycles, it doesn't recall the offsets before continuing.
00:15:05
Curt
Right.
00:15:11
Curt
Gotcha.
00:15:11
jamie peacock
So, yeah, I need a figure figure that out.
00:15:12
Curt
Gotcha. Gotcha.
00:15:16
Curt
Or could you just could you just alter your post so that, or are you doing it mid, like mid program?
00:15:21
jamie peacock
I was doing it mid, so I was...
00:15:25
Curt
Or like mid op, I should say.
00:15:25
jamie peacock
i was doing of the I was doing it after every single operation. I wanted a tool break detect just to make sure the tool was still there because some of the stuff was like 15, 20 minutes and I wanted to make sure the tool was there.
00:15:29
Curt
Okay. Okay.
00:15:36
jamie peacock
But turns out when you use the magical one millimeter end mill that I have, it just doesn't break.
00:15:44
Curt
Did you have a spare?
00:15:44
jamie peacock
Pre-tool feeds and speeds. I've got two spares.
00:15:47
Curt
There you go. That's why i it didn't break.
00:15:48
jamie peacock
Yeah, that's what don't break.
00:15:48
Curt
Yeah.
00:15:49
jamie peacock
ah Yeah, so I machined i broke my 1.5 millimeter because it was a 22 millimeter length of cut like an extendo rib cutting one that I had. So I went to a one mill and I forgot I was going faster with the one mill than I was with the 1.5.
00:16:05
Curt
Nice.
00:16:05
jamie peacock
And then yeah, got that dialed in and ran off to both hours quickly.
00:16:09
Curt
Yeah.
00:16:10
jamie peacock
One for me and one for my brother in law. And then yeah, they look really sweet.
00:16:12
Curt
Sick.
00:16:15
jamie peacock
ah kind of wish I had an M2 thread mill so I could thread mill the isogrid holes just for shits and giggles.
00:16:15
Curt
They do. They look really good.
00:16:19
Curt
Yeah.
00:16:22
jamie peacock
Like there's no reason to thread them, but why not?
00:16:25
Curt
But you could bolt on additions. You could bolt on little flowers or all kinds of little decorations.
00:16:27
jamie peacock
oh Yeah, the back's already got four M3 holes for fixturing, but yeah, now I'm pretty pretty happy with how they came together for a whole afternoon of thought or an evening of thought and then
00:16:33
Curt
Nice.
00:16:42
Curt
Yeah.
00:16:44
jamie peacock
machined at the next day.
00:16:46
jamie peacock
yeah, there's like an hour and 20 minutes in each one.
00:16:46
Curt
Yeah, looks really good.
00:16:50
Curt
Nice.
00:16:51
jamie peacock
Yeah, one mill animals, they're the best, because everything's half millimeter wall thickness.
00:16:53
Curt
Yeah.
00:16:56
jamie peacock
And points, I think it's point 85 corner radiuses. So it's not exactly not exactly lots of spare space.
00:17:05
Curt
Yeah, and looks like I love that pattern. it just It looks so cool on anything, including a bow tie now.
00:17:08
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:17:09
Curt
Who would have thought? so
00:17:10
jamie peacock
Yes. Yeah, who would have thought? It's the ASO-TAR. But yeah i can yeah, it was lots lots of fun.
00:17:15
Curt
Sick.
00:17:17
jamie peacock
And then, yeah, last week I went and welded some shit and I 3D scanned my boat.
00:17:18
Curt
Yeah. Oh,
00:17:22
Curt
I saw that. Yeah, you're doing it with Roger.
00:17:23
jamie peacock
Yeah, I'm waiting to get the model from Roger. Yeah, thank you, Roger. Yeah, I went and welded some stuff for his Porsche Speedster replica while he 3D scanned my boat. And then it turns out I can TIG weld waterproof first go, who would have guessed?
00:17:34
Curt
Hmm.
00:17:38
jamie peacock
um Yeah, you you don't want to see the welds. They're waterproof. and didn't say they look good. But yeah, grinder and paint make me the welder aids. So I went through there and finished that up on Thursday afternoon.
00:17:38
Curt
Ooh, tough guy.
00:17:52
jamie peacock
i'm trying to think about last week what happened on which day because yeah friday afternoon we went uh we shot off to that wedding so like the week is a bit confusing
00:18:04
Curt
for that uh for that scanner is it like a what is it like an ion scan or okay cool okay i kind of looked the part i was trying to i was trying to judge it
00:18:08
jamie peacock
yeah i'm in skin yeah i think yeah i don't know it works yeah know it works pretty well like we uh put we bukkake my whole boat with uh
00:18:19
Curt
good
00:18:19
jamie peacock
alcohol and baby powder so it was all matte and then we're having a few tracking issues but we didn't want to use any tracking dots because those things are like two dollars each so he's like no we're doing this without tracking dots so we're putting piles of things for it to pick up as uh tracking like because you want texture and then it can actually track pretty well without uh without putting dots on it on the thing yeah so he's he's got that pretty waxed
00:18:23
Curt
right okay
00:18:43
Curt
oh cool okay are the dot i said aren't the dots just like printed things are they like is there more to them
00:18:49
jamie peacock
That's a little sticker. It's a little stick on dot that's retro reflective.
00:18:51
Curt
Okay. Right.
00:18:54
jamie peacock
ah
00:18:55
Curt
Okay.
00:18:55
jamie peacock
But yeah, they are silly expensive. And if it's not the right dot, apparently it doesn't work or some shit.
00:18:58
Curt
Okay.
00:19:00
Curt
okay I was like, they seem like they'd be very basic to make, but I got you.
00:19:01
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah, so we ended up just throwing a couple of cloths in there and like the box from the ah scanner and some sticks and things just so it has enough texture to track where it's going because there's repeating patterns.
00:19:03
Curt
Okay.
00:19:12
Curt
Right.
00:19:18
jamie peacock
And if you're not careful, you end up with a thing that's a million miles long because it just thinks the pattern keeps repeating.
00:19:18
Curt
Correct.
00:19:23
jamie peacock
If it doesn't have any tracking data, yeah.
00:19:23
Curt
Ah, gotcha.
00:19:25
jamie peacock
ah so
00:19:25
Curt
Gotcha, gotcha.
00:19:26
jamie peacock
like he scanned his car and he had no issues but this the boat's got some repeating patterns so just had to be little bit little bit cautious so yeah hopefully i'll get that from him soon and then i can design all the all the things i need to design
00:19:31
Curt
Fair enough.
00:19:39
Curt
I want one of those for no reason other than to piss around with. like
00:19:43
jamie peacock
they don't do so we try to scan something small they don't do small stuff very well i ended up just modeling it by hand with a vernier uh we tried and tried and tried with no luck
00:19:47
Curt
Okay.
00:19:51
Curt
I remember... Way back in the day, I messed around with a software called David Laser Scanner. And it was like with a, you used like a light beam and it was doing, um then then they went to like projectors to project patterns on things and like,
00:20:01
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:20:06
Curt
I messed around with that a ton.
00:20:06
jamie peacock
Nice.
00:20:07
Curt
And that that was before the like everyone started using those Xbox Kinects. um
00:20:11
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah.
00:20:11
Curt
Actually, had my my wife has got so was scanned by ah Xbox Kinect at a Maker Faire, and then I printed her.
00:20:17
jamie peacock
not
00:20:17
Curt
That was kind fun. But the same thing, super, super low res.
00:20:20
jamie peacock
yeah
00:20:20
Curt
It looks like you're made out clay. um Whereas nowadays, they have just insane resolution, even for the fairly inexpensive ones.
00:20:23
jamie peacock
yeah
00:20:25
Curt
so
00:20:26
jamie peacock
I think the boat we did at 2mm resolution, because that that's 4.
00:20:29
Curt
Wow.
00:20:30
jamie peacock
Yeah, like, wow, I make a billion points.
00:20:31
Curt
Totally, yeah.
00:20:33
jamie peacock
um But I think this one goes down to like 0.1.
00:20:37
Curt
That's nuts. That's nuts.
00:20:38
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's a stupidly tight resolution. Like, yeah, absolutely insane.
00:20:41
Curt
Yeah. Cool.
00:20:44
jamie peacock
So, okay. Okay. the okay, we're gonna come back to the smart everyday thing is also the smart everyday topic. But for now, tell me why you need more SFMs.
00:20:57
Curt
So I was looking more into the screws. ah There's a guy on, oh i should call out his name here because he was ah he was helpful on Instagram. um I'm not going to be able to find him now because it's deep in the world.
00:21:10
Curt
Anyways, he was machining.
00:21:10
jamie peacock
I don't know, keep looking, keep looking, gonna play the music.
00:21:13
Curt
oh it'll take me way longer than the music runs for.
00:21:15
jamie peacock
and all
00:21:16
Curt
It'll just, it's in my feed somewhere. So I don't even, don't even, Omni, Omni Tech, Omni omni something, maybe Omni.
00:21:23
jamie peacock
Okay. Yeah.
00:21:25
Curt
Anyways, um he's building some of the nice titanium screws. And he's machining Torx pockets as well. So I kind of just commented on I'm like, hey, that looks pretty good.
00:21:30
jamie peacock
yeah
00:21:32
Curt
Like I could kind of see the step over and whatnot he was using. ah So he told me to use, I think he was using um like cron tools mitsubicia Micron Mitsubishi or Micron. um And so anyways, I looked them up and I found there's like a PDF ah showing like feeds and speeds and recommended everything. And it's wildly different than the Harvey ones, which is kind of funny.
00:21:49
Curt
ah So i was looking at that and it recommended a minimum for a 0.01 inch end mill, whatever that click that's 0.3 millimeters, I think, um ish.
00:21:58
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:22:00
Curt
ah
00:22:00
jamie peacock
Oh, jeez.
00:22:02
Curt
It recommended like 98 SFM as a minimum, which works out to like 35,000 to like
00:22:09
jamie peacock
o gee
00:22:10
Curt
200, 200 SFM, which is like, I don't know, 60,000 RPMs. I was like, huh. So I know like upper SFMs, like those, you typically don't want to exceed those because you're like, you're pushing the knife too fast through material.
00:22:22
jamie peacock
yes
00:22:22
Curt
if you want to think of it that way, and just going to break down the edge.
00:22:25
Curt
I don't know if you go too slow, if there's any detrimental, like to me, I always assume like if you go too slow on SFM, you're just increasing your tool. You're leaving time on the table, but you're increasing your tool life because you're, you're pushing the cutter through the material slower. There's no detriment as far as I understand.
00:22:39
Curt
Maybe there is detriment to it. I don't, I don't know enough.
00:22:41
jamie peacock
You know, you might not be in the...
00:22:43
Curt
I can't think about it. Like I can't think why it would cause problems.
00:22:46
jamie peacock
Well, there was a there was a um podcast with Marvin Grove from Kirk, and he was all getting the material into its ductile regime.
00:22:47
Curt
Like maybe like not activate, activate, Yeah, like if you're if you're not activating a coding or something, I can understand that. But like for an uncoded tool?
00:23:01
jamie peacock
So he was saying they they run aluminium at like...
00:23:01
Curt
OK.
00:23:06
jamie peacock
a tar CFM or RPM and they actually push it into a different cutting regime and with harder stuff getting that getting it to its certain within a certain band it actually allows it to be cut whereas if you're below that band the material acts solid and won't actually be ductile for the cut so it may be something along those lines but yeah
00:23:09
Curt
Right.
00:23:27
Curt
Okay.
00:23:30
Curt
Hmm. That makes, I mean, that kind of makes sense. Yeah. Cause this one, yeah, this one recommended 98 to 197 SFM, which you're screaming to get a little tool spinning that fast.
00:23:32
jamie peacock
makes some sense
00:23:40
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah.
00:23:41
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah, that's absolutely small.
00:23:41
Curt
And then, and then the feed is the fun part.
00:23:44
Curt
Uh, so I was cutting at like, uh, uh, I don't know, like a 10th chip load or something like that. This one is recommending 0.00004. So zero zero four so like 40 million chip load.
00:24:00
jamie peacock
yeah
00:24:00
Curt
um Yeah, it's tiny. And when you work that out, if unless you're spinning at like 60,000 RPM, it's going to be like, okay, it's going to be 14 minutes to do this one little Torx pocket.
00:24:03
jamie peacock
yeah that's absolutely this
00:24:07
jamie peacock
yeah
00:24:11
Curt
It's like, well, anyway.
00:24:14
jamie peacock
Have you looked at air turbine? Okay, yeah,
00:24:18
Curt
I have looked at a few of them. um The one, i did find one that was an air turbine that I think I can plumb from the side and it's about five grand and that'll go anywhere between about 40 to 90,000 RPM, depending on what you spec it at.
00:24:31
jamie peacock
and yeah because there's air turbine tools.
00:24:32
Curt
That should be enough. um Obviously I want to see if I can do it without first, but
00:24:37
jamie peacock
Yeah, obviously. um Yeah, air turbine tools is the one that comes to mind for me.
00:24:41
Curt
like if,
00:24:44
jamie peacock
But that's mostly because they're advertised at the toolpath booth. They're one of the sponsors at IMTS.
00:24:50
Curt
if i If I had through spindle, there's some other options where you can get more compact units, like the ones that you like you shrink the turbine or you put the turbine right on the tool.
00:24:57
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:24:58
Curt
um But I don't have to through spindle. I don't have through spindle in a reliable sense. Like I have purge, but I don't have like an easy way to just.
00:25:03
jamie peacock
you don Yeah.
00:25:06
Curt
ah So it'd be external, but I don't know. I want to see if I can do with just a spindle first. um
00:25:11
jamie peacock
Yeah, I'm sure you can.
00:25:11
Curt
No, no sense adding.
00:25:12
jamie peacock
I mean, Grimsmo machine things forever at 18,000 RPM, I think, with the speed on the Nakamura.
00:25:13
Curt
I can't see why not.
00:25:20
Curt
Yeah.
00:25:21
jamie peacock
So, yeah.
00:25:23
Curt
Yeah, like I can't see why it wouldn't work. So I don't know. But yeah, that makes sense. I got to read more about the ductile states of material because that that is a good point. I never really considered that.
00:25:31
jamie peacock
Yeah. I think that mights might have something to do with it.
00:25:37
Curt
Yeah.
00:25:37
jamie peacock
But, yeah.
00:25:38
Curt
No,
00:25:39
jamie peacock
don't know if you saw before we logged on the stuff that i was up to this afternoon.
00:25:44
Curt
ah no I kind of just run around with my chicken with my head cut off. So what what are you up to?
00:25:49
jamie peacock
I had a small die set in the mill.
00:25:52
Curt
Okay.
00:25:54
jamie peacock
So I could hard mill a pocket into it because they accidentally drilled some holes that
00:25:57
Curt
Okay.
00:26:00
jamie peacock
the back of uh ejectors were not lining up with so they needed me to hard miller pockets so that they can drop a piece of gauge plate into it as a kind of half cock fix but yeah that was fun turns out hard milling's not that hard
00:26:11
Curt
right, right.
00:26:15
jamie peacock
you just go slow and it works like shallow pass I basically a half he did it so like 1700 RPM on a six millennial and then I think I went like 600 miles a minute point one step down just ramp down and then feed slow feed finish and then just walked it out till the piece of gauge plate dropped in then they're gonna wire cut the ends wire cut some holes and then wire cut that end
00:26:15
Curt
Nice.
00:26:20
Curt
Hmm.
00:26:40
Curt
Oh, cool.
00:26:40
jamie peacock
I'll make that their problem tomorrow. And then I had to hard mill some countersinks as well. Yeah, put a pin in, probe the pin, and because the end was all mangled, and then just came in with a ball mill that is no longer ball-shaped and machined into pockets for them.
00:26:57
Curt
Cool.
00:26:58
jamie peacock
But yeah, silly job. find they They messaged me on Saturday evening about this. I'm like, I'm at a wedding, bro. I'll deal with this on Monday.
00:27:06
Curt
Oh, nice.
00:27:07
jamie peacock
And then they phoned me today, and I'm like, no, bring it through. I'll i'll sort you out. I was busy on the lathes this morning and the grinder, and then they brought it through, and then when I was done on the grinder and the one lathe, started playing on it.
00:27:21
Curt
Sick. That's cool.
00:27:23
jamie peacock
Yeah, I made a few parts today, though.
00:27:26
Curt
Yeah, how many?
00:27:27
jamie peacock
It's the most parts I've made in a day on the M-Cove.
00:27:30
Curt
Oh, and the Emco too, okay.
00:27:32
jamie peacock
Yes. So I'm literally, it's four millimeter material. I'm turning a pin on the front, but just a little step and then I'm parting off.
00:27:37
Curt
Yeah.
00:27:39
jamie peacock
And it was just over 800.
00:27:39
Curt
Okay.
00:27:42
Curt
That's a lot. That's a lot.
00:27:44
jamie peacock
those scrap.
00:27:46
Curt
Oh no.
00:27:47
jamie peacock
16 parts in the insert chips and I didn't catch it for 300 parts because I was busy running a lathe and a grinder.
00:27:52
Curt
Oh no.
00:27:54
jamie peacock
So eventually like 10, it must have been about 12 bars in. Granted it's not expensive but annoying.
00:28:02
jamie peacock
I loaded and I'm like let me just see on the first part how this is coming out. I'm like oh well that's not what it's meant to look like. so i pulled the bin out that uh the part bin i put it in a colander washed it to danica please sort three i find me all the ones that look correct and all ones that don't there were 16 that look correct out like 350 of them and it's not worth uh brass four millimeter bra so it's not expensive so like i'll send it tomorrow i'm gonna run what's left and send her to go buy more brass it's less effort to run new parts than to rework these parts
00:28:02
Curt
Right.
00:28:24
Curt
What material?
00:28:27
Curt
Okay. Okay.
00:28:37
Curt
Oh, gotcha. Okay.
00:28:38
jamie peacock
because I don't want to stand there and them one at a time into the chuck.
00:28:41
Curt
Totally. Yeah, yeah.
00:28:41
jamie peacock
So I'll just yeah suck it up. But yeah, while that was making scrap, i was busy finishing up the surface grind automation. So that's about as done as it's going to be for a while. ah
00:28:52
Curt
Mm.
00:28:53
jamie peacock
Ended up just printing a box with two switches. Turns out it's much easier when you have two switches instead of one trying to pull double duty. um
00:29:01
Curt
Mm. Mm.
00:29:01
jamie peacock
And then, dealll yeah, I was, it took way too long to grind those anchor point pads because some smart deck left half a millimeter on them.
00:29:10
Curt
Right.
00:29:10
jamie peacock
So I ended up just roughing down comma three off of that. So the all that comma two left. And then I went in, dressed the the wheel, touch off, grind off that comma two. And then it's a relatively quick process.
00:29:23
jamie peacock
It's like 10 minutes. But if you go from comma five down to finished, it ends up taking about 45 minutes because the wheel starts getting clogged up. so i just rough rough grounded really badly and then put them back in and finish dropping but batch one is now assembled all that is going on in batch one is assembled and uh there are still two units available i was just assembling as orders were coming in but now they are all done and inside one of them got a very much not in sequence serial number as requested by jacob
00:29:30
Curt
Oh, yeah.
00:29:37
Curt
Nice. Nice.
00:29:59
Curt
Oh, what did he get? 69. Yeah.
00:30:01
jamie peacock
What number do you think he got?
00:30:03
Curt
sixty nine
00:30:04
jamie peacock
Obviously, because nice. So I made it in my serial number file on my laser. It's got ah batch one, then what serial numbers were used, and then 69 equals eight, because it's number eight.
00:30:15
Curt
yeah
00:30:20
jamie peacock
Just so I have track of which ones went where.
00:30:20
Curt
ah
00:30:23
jamie peacock
um Yeah, but yeah, he wanted 69. I was like, no problem. but I ended up chatting to till like midnight other nights on ah Discord after helping ah helping EJ.
00:30:23
Curt
Totally, yeah.
00:30:27
Curt
That's cool.
00:30:34
jamie peacock
Then Jacob and I ended up chatting for a few hours. Then I was like, no, he's waiting for his geometry check, then he wants to pick up an anchor point, and then, yeah, picked up an anchor point over the weekend.
00:30:38
Curt
Oh, cool.
00:30:43
Curt
Oh, cool. That's nice.
00:30:45
jamie peacock
So, anyway, we got one that shipped out last week, and then FedEx, they picked up Friday afternoon. I wasn't here. I left the box with all the paperwork with my mother-in-law. um end up at the wedding. I'm like, let me track track the parcel. So I checked my cameras, I saw it was picked up.
00:31:01
jamie peacock
So the cool, let me track it. Exception, missing paperwork.
00:31:05
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:31:05
jamie peacock
What?
00:31:06
Curt
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:31:06
jamie peacock
So I messaged the freight forwarding company tunnel. And they obviously don't work on the weekend because they're living their best lives. So I could get back to you Monday morning. I'm like, No problem.
00:31:18
jamie peacock
So like, hop us on this morning, send a message to them, hey, just following up on this, get a message back. We're looking into it. We're just clearing up the backlog from the weekend. We'll be back. We'll get back to you shortly.
00:31:29
jamie peacock
And then about an hour later, I got a message saying, no, we spoke to the guys at FedEx. There's no problem. It's in Dubai already. So I don't know if someone just cocked it up for the week.
00:31:35
Curt
Oh.
00:31:36
jamie peacock
So I sat stressing all weekend for nothing.
00:31:38
Curt
Right, yeah,
00:31:38
jamie peacock
But anyway, yeah, it's on its way. And let me quickly have a look here. Okay, cool. Time to butcher some names.
00:31:47
Curt
Ooh.
00:31:48
jamie peacock
I'm going to give a shout out to our Patreons because we have some new ones, including the person whose anchor point is on the way.
00:31:52
Curt
ah o
00:31:55
jamie peacock
um so our new patreons are yeah sorry adam i'm gonna butcher your surname uh adam dark dark hey yeah anyway i'll ask you to say it you haven't come back to me so sorry uh and then we got joe harrison i'm assuming that's how you spell your name uh you pronounce your name thank you both you guys joined at the lower tiers but since you joined you get a shout out uh Sorry, Joe, for not shouting you out sooner.
00:32:21
jamie peacock
I forgot. And then thanks to Jade from Benchmark20 and Luke from Fabtastic on the higher tiers. You get a shout out every every week. And to all the Patreons, there is a see super secret after show that you can get if you're on the Patreon.
00:32:36
jamie peacock
I think on any of the paid tiers above $4. And yeah, Patreon makes the wheels on the bus go round and round and will hopefully enable us to get some fancy cameras soon instead of using old cell phones.
00:32:48
jamie peacock
So yeah, thank you everybody to the, thank you to everybody on the Patreon. Your support is greatly appreciated. Also need to shout out one other person who ordered some shirts.
00:32:53
Curt
Yeah, thank you all.
00:32:58
jamie peacock
Oh look, he's in my, he's on my screen.
00:32:58
Curt
Ah. Weird!
00:33:00
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah. Very weird. Yeah. He ordered some shirts. So he got, uh, well, i don't know. He can give them a surprise and he can show them off when they arrive.
00:33:09
Curt
Yeah, i just got I had to get some of the...
00:33:10
jamie peacock
They are super classy.
00:33:12
Curt
had to get some of the chip fan ones and then the, uh, the, uh, face mill. There's so like shipping has gotten even cheaper to me now.
00:33:14
jamie peacock
The Facebook.
00:33:17
Curt
So I'm like, Oh, okay. So I can just like, cause I usually want to order a bunch. So I'd be like absorb the shipping costs. And now I think it was like $7 to ship it to me or something.
00:33:21
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:33:24
Curt
So I was like, or no, sorry, $10 and 70 cents.
00:33:24
jamie peacock
Oh, nice.
00:33:26
Curt
So I was like, yeah, I'll just, yeah,
Wedding Attire Discussion
00:33:29
Curt
I got to slowly replace my entire wardrobe with those shirts.
00:33:29
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:33:31
Curt
So
00:33:32
jamie peacock
Yeah, I was wearing my face small shirts at the wedding for breakfast.
00:33:36
Curt
perfect. It's perfect shirt for that.
00:33:36
jamie peacock
Yeah, class for days.
00:33:38
Curt
Yeah. Why not?
00:33:38
jamie peacock
Yeah, I was I was exuding class at the wedding.
00:33:39
Curt
Yeah.
00:33:43
jamie peacock
ah Yeah, it was just lots of fun. So Kurt, have you read through all of my topics for this week?
00:33:47
Curt
Yeah.
00:33:50
Curt
I have read through a lot of them. There's some weird ones there. um
00:33:53
jamie peacock
There's one specifically for you.
00:33:56
Curt
I see there's Fruit Grip there. I'm assuming that one is a something to
00:33:58
jamie peacock
guy i realized I haven't asked you what's happening with the fruit grip in a long time.
00:34:04
Curt
Oh, it is a it is on. I have the design drawn up. um You're going to get the first fruit grip.
00:34:08
jamie peacock
Oh, come on.
00:34:10
Curt
ah I'm just trying to get the... i'm steve and and For some reason, the Siemens, the Sile unit is not doing the chamfer on this one part on the fourth axis the way I want it to. like i can't I can't figure out why. I don't know why. It's it's basically blowing a corner. um And yeah.
00:34:28
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah.
00:34:30
Curt
it's doing though like It's doing the milling of the little J perfectly. And then after i I come around with a chamfer mill and just put a nice chamfer on everything, and it's just kind of like wherever it's coming in, it leads fine.
00:34:32
jamie peacock
yeah
00:34:40
Curt
And then it's just like it hammers on the gas too hard when it's coming out, and it blows the corner. like it' It's wider. You can only see it under a microscope, but like the back corner is wider.
00:34:49
jamie peacock
yeah
00:34:50
Curt
Again, this is not a big issue, but I'm like, I don't understand. So you can use like ah there's like a G64, which is like your you know tolerance um on Linux anyways.
00:34:57
jamie peacock
Yeah, you're smoothing tolerance.
00:34:58
Curt
Yeah.
00:34:59
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:34:59
Curt
And then there's Siemens has their own like input of like, you know, how tight do you want this feature? Do you want a balance of accuracy or speed? um But I can't figure out why it's getting pissy on the fourth axis. So.
00:35:09
jamie peacock
Didn't you didn't you work around this back in the day by drawing a sketch to get the chamfer the way you wanted it on the on the Kurt?
00:35:18
Curt
Yeah. On the, well, the Kurt.
00:35:20
jamie peacock
I kind of remember that from like one of your blogs or some vlogs back in the day.
00:35:23
Curt
Yeah. Yeah. the The issue with it is um it did it did the corners fine. Like it didn't blow any corners, but just when you're rotating, like like we're saying, depends where you're following on the circumference, you get weird.
00:35:28
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:35:34
Curt
So like a chamfer on the X axes will be wider than a chamfer on the Y axes because you have to turn further. Like let's say you have to turn 10 degrees.
00:35:41
jamie peacock
yeah
00:35:42
Curt
If you want the matching chamfer, you have to turn like... 15 degrees, not 10 degrees. Let's just say if it's 10 degrees either way from zero. um But your CAD program won't output that. You can stretch and skew it a little bit with fusion, but it won't and won't do it visually perfect.
00:35:55
Curt
The best way to do it is just 3D machine the chamfer. So that's what I did do.
00:35:58
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah.
00:35:59
Curt
um But yeah, I don't i don't know why it's just it's just annihilating that corner. Like a chamfer, a single cut chamfer is still nicer looking than surfaced. um
00:36:06
jamie peacock
yeah
00:36:07
Curt
Once again, under a microscope. Visually, like you look at it with your eyes, you're not goingnna see the difference. But all the savages i buy my pens look at them through microscopes and dumb stuff so i gotta think about those dorks um anyways it minor but like i'm just trying to figure out why it's coasting through that it's something once again it's something stupid it's something similar or something simple but can't figure it out so
00:36:14
jamie peacock
yeah
00:36:25
jamie peacock
It's something small that you just need to figure out.
00:36:28
Curt
Yeah. Yeah. And just like, like little thing, like it's blowing corners on A's and just, it just, once again, very minor. Like, but just, I'll find it. It's something. It's some dumb, it's some dumb fusion setting. It's an arc tolerance setting or it's a acceleration setting or it's a something.
00:36:44
Curt
don't know what it is. So,
00:36:46
jamie peacock
Yeah. And then I see you fusion can engrave without exploding.
00:36:48
Curt
but I say one step.
00:36:53
Curt
Yes. So ah lot like the whole reason I did back in the Dizze, and a lot of people I know that serializer products, because they all reached out to me with sympathizing um feelings. We're like, ah, they're like, yes.
00:37:03
Curt
Like a ton of knife makers are like, yeah, I remember I engraved my first thousand serial numbers by manually posting every single serial number. And I'm like, yep, I did my first like, I don't know, 300 serial numbers manually posting each serial number before I made my auto serializing ah macro.
00:37:19
Curt
But doing it on these Altum parts, um it's it's text on a curve, which kind of complicates the way I have to run my macro because
Engraving on Curved Surfaces
00:37:26
Curt
I was using, for my pens, I was just using ah basically a translation of the ah ah position. So it's very simple because it's it's only moving in X, whereas this one is moving in XY and it's rotating.
00:37:37
Curt
So the macro gets a lot more complicated. um which you can you can just do like a rotational skew that'll work too um but I realized fusion now will support um engraving without exploding your text you can just you can type in some text and just put an engraving yeah and put an engraving path on there and it's fine like in the day back in the day you had to explode all your text single line font you had to explode it so it would actually read it right but now it doesn't so it's way easier to edit so yeah
00:37:43
jamie peacock
yeah
00:37:52
jamie peacock
Oh yeah.
00:38:01
jamie peacock
Okay.
00:38:04
jamie peacock
Yeah. Okay.
00:38:05
Curt
took a like a five minute job down to like a 10 second job. Um, so I'm still going to manually post like the first, don't know, hundred serial numbers here until I figure if I actually want to do it this way.
00:38:16
Curt
So, but yeah.
00:38:16
jamie peacock
Yeah. And what about... Yeah, okay. Do you remember, I sent you my serializing thing for Linux back in the day for that job that I, yeah.
00:38:26
Curt
Yep. Yep.
00:38:27
jamie peacock
What about it just outputting each digit instead of, so you output for each position the 10 digits, so zero through nine, and then you can just call them and the spacing should be pretty close.
00:38:38
Curt
Yes.
00:38:42
Curt
Yes. Yeah, you could. That's exactly the way that and I'll and end up doing it.
00:38:45
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:38:46
Curt
It just gets significantly longer, but the machine doesn't care how long the text file is.
00:38:50
jamie peacock
No, the machine.
00:38:50
Curt
It's not going to get it's not going to get lazy walking that far. So, yeah, it's the way I'll go.
00:38:53
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:38:55
Curt
That's ah I hacked it on with the new one just so I didn't have to have 40 billion lines of code.
00:38:58
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:39:00
Curt
But yeah, that's probably the way I'll do it.
00:39:01
jamie peacock
Yeah, it takes a few hours to get set up, but then it's set up and done.
00:39:06
Curt
Yeah, and that's as the balance is doing. I'm like, okay, i'm building like 24 of these little mechanisms. And I'm like, it's going to take me two, three hours to do the macro.
00:39:10
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:39:13
Curt
I'm like, how about I just punch all the code out, take me 20 minutes, and I'll kick this can down the road.
00:39:15
jamie peacock
Yeah, mate.
00:39:20
jamie peacock
Yeah, and then just make sure you don't load the wrong program number and have two of the same number.
00:39:25
Curt
Yeah, well, at least the parts, the parts easy to cut.
00:39:26
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:39:28
Curt
So and it's cheap. So if I mess up, you can bin it.
00:39:29
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:39:30
Curt
And like a pen where it's like, if I mess up a pen, it kind of sucks. So anyway.
00:39:34
jamie peacock
Yeah. That's why you only serialize the clip.
00:39:38
Curt
yeah Yeah, exactly. It's exactly why I serialized the g clip.
00:39:41
jamie peacock
Yeah. Now, I was alsoll trying to explain to, over the weekend, why your pens cost what they cost. And I'm like, yeah, no, it's not just it's not just buy a piece of tube and shove a pen in it. It's machined from solid.
00:39:55
jamie peacock
The balls ream. It's a hell of a thing. ah jo like it Trying to explain it to a layman is not easy.
00:39:59
Curt
Yeah, it's a pissed on a work, but
00:40:04
jamie peacock
even Even someone understands machining, trying to explain to them how it can be, who would pay for it, like that kind of goes over a lot of people's heads.
00:40:04
Curt
yeah.
00:40:12
Curt
totally totally yeah like my my neighbor my neighbor caught me on the driveway and she's like oh she's like i i heard you machine pens like i've been doing this forever and she finally she's like she's like i would and you know her kids are in university or whatever she's like i would love to buy them some i was like okay i'm like it's little bit of a weight she's like wait there's a weight you have like people i'm like yeah i know i have a few people that want them like oh
00:40:14
jamie peacock
But yeah, it is a piece of art.
00:40:24
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah.
00:40:35
Curt
So how much are they? i was like, so I told her the price. She's like, what? She's like, oh, they're like 50 bucks. was like, sorry, no. She's like, okay, nevermind. No, she's like, you go, you go do your thing. was like, okay, well, thank you.
00:40:46
Curt
But it's, it's same thing.
00:40:46
jamie peacock
yeah
00:40:47
Curt
If you're not in that world, you're like, who in the right mind would, you know, who in the right mind would spend $2,000 on a pocket knife? Go talk to a bunch of the nerds that just met up in the show, you know, down in the States.
00:40:53
jamie peacock
Yeah, exactly.
00:40:56
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:40:57
Curt
Like, they'll be like, of course I will. Like, what are you talking about? Mm-hmm.
00:41:00
jamie peacock
Yeah. My name blinking island. Like, what do you mean? I want three of them, please. Like, yeah, it's insane.
00:41:04
Curt
Exactly, yeah.
00:41:05
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:41:06
jamie peacock
Like, but yeah, that's, it's different, uh, different strikes for different folks.
00:41:06
Curt
Yeah.
00:41:06
Curt
Yeah.
00:41:11
jamie peacock
Like, like I would, I probably would never buy a $2,000 pocket knife, but who knows?
00:41:13
Curt
Totally, man. Like, you're...
00:41:18
Curt
Right.
00:41:21
Curt
Yeah, but, I mean, some people will buy a $200 pair of pants. Will you buy a $200 pair of pants?
00:41:24
jamie peacock
yeah No, actually speaking of I bought new pants.
00:41:27
Curt
Probably not.
00:41:28
jamie peacock
So my pants don't have holes in them. um
00:41:30
Curt
Ooh. Yeah.
00:41:31
jamie peacock
Who the hell is phoning me? Go away. Go away. Bloody mother in law. It's a Monday night. She knows what goes on. um Yeah, no, like it's I mean, I'm wearing $20 pants.
00:41:44
jamie peacock
$25 pants. I won't spend more than that again. My old pants were like $40 and they would last three wears and then they'll be broken. So we're trying out new ones. The only problem with new ones is if my phone's in my pocket, I can't bend my leg.
00:41:57
jamie peacock
They're not stretchy in any way, shape, form. They're technician pants, which I like. It's just, yeah, getting used to them still.
00:42:04
Curt
and Jamie's blacktop and pants
00:42:08
jamie peacock
Yeah, no.
00:42:08
Curt
going out on the town.
00:42:10
jamie peacock
Yeah, no. I thought I'd hole in my new pants, but I don't. It's just some random crap. But yeah, turns out I didn't make enough blank palettes.
00:42:23
Curt
Oh, they all got snapped up? Or they're getting snapped up?
00:42:25
jamie peacock
not yet there are two spares yeah made uh 46.
00:42:29
Curt
Oh, you had a shit ton, though.
00:42:34
Curt
Holy Christ.
00:42:35
jamie peacock
yeah the anchor point that went out the anchor point that went out last uh last week had six blank pallets so two in the kits and four additionals
00:42:36
Curt
That's a lot.
00:42:44
Curt
I get it. It's cheaper than buying and making it yourself, so...
00:42:45
jamie peacock
yeah
00:42:47
jamie peacock
So I ordered material today to just quickly make another 10 or 15 so that I have stock for myself and for the remaining anchor points.
00:42:56
Curt
Nice.
00:42:56
jamie peacock
Because currently they they are starter kits and two spare pallets.
00:43:02
Curt
Cool.
00:43:02
jamie peacock
Yeah, so trying to just get ahead on that and then ordering the material for batch two.
00:43:08
Curt
Nice.
00:43:08
jamie peacock
At least for the bodies because those are going to take the longest. So batch two is now officially in the works.
00:43:12
Curt
Yeah.
00:43:14
jamie peacock
Not as in the works as I wanted, but that's fine.
00:43:15
Curt
Ooh.
00:43:17
jamie peacock
Like I wanted to buy a bunch of new tooling and stuff, but guess what? I made the last batch with what I have, so I'll make the next batch with what I have. And then I will roll into into some more fancy tools.
00:43:25
Curt
Yeah.
00:43:30
Curt
Yeah, it's it's a hard
00:43:30
jamie peacock
You know, being responsible adults and things, and actually paying for my machine instead of buying tools.
00:43:38
Curt
it's a struggle. like yeah I know you get cash, you're like, I want to spend it on making things easier.
00:43:40
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:43:43
Curt
It's like, well, you did it once, you could do it again and just hold that cash and you'll probably better for it.
00:43:47
jamie peacock
Well, that's exactly it. Well, that's it. Like, we've, we, i was expecting an audit to come through or payments come through on Friday, didn't come through. and now I'm like air scrambling.
00:43:58
jamie peacock
So yeah, we are going to be responsible adults for the next short while and get ourselves a little bit out of the red that I'm not stressing as much because my one customer is still dragging their feet and I'm progressively getting less and less interested in their work.
00:43:58
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:44:15
jamie peacock
But unfortunately, I still need it for now.
00:44:15
Curt
Yeah.
00:44:19
Curt
Yeah.
00:44:20
jamie peacock
Although, I could probably make a pretty penny by convincing them to go find another supplier and selling them their drawings. Because they sure as hell don't own them. But yeah, anyway, we won't complain about that.
00:44:29
Curt
Yeah.
00:44:31
jamie peacock
We will look forward. The Tufnel job has come through. So i ordered all the materials small this afternoon ah for the riser and the vacuum chuck and the fixture.
00:44:36
Curt
Mm, nice.
00:44:45
jamie peacock
And that's a bit silly.
00:44:48
Curt
Nice.
00:44:48
jamie peacock
My CAD model of my riser and my machine don't quite type by like a bit. So I probed it today at the top of my riser and the top of an anchor point so that I know exactly how much space is I need. So I'm just going to put two bars and then put a pallet on the anchor points and then just bolt the whole plate onto that.
00:45:08
jamie peacock
And that'll work.
00:45:08
Curt
Ah, okay.
00:45:09
jamie peacock
Yeah, that'll work for the interim instead of putting anchor points across my whole bed because I kind of want to sell them instead.
00:45:15
Curt
Yeah, yeah, no, fair enough. Yeah, I get that.
00:45:18
jamie peacock
Yeah. yeah
00:45:21
jamie peacock
Uh, yeah.
00:45:22
Curt
Yeah, I know the ah the entire time I was machining the little fixture to hold those Alton things, i was just looking at the Anchor Point palette.
Manufacturing Processes
00:45:30
Curt
I'm like, oh, I should really be doing this on that because it's annoying.
00:45:34
Curt
Like like I said, it's tape and glue, so it's like,
00:45:35
jamie peacock
You definite definitely should be.
00:45:37
Curt
I was like, why am I doing this on a stupid vice palette? I'm doing it because I want to prototype and see if it works before I, but I was just like, I could just be doing this exact same thing on the anchor point palette.
00:45:41
jamie peacock
yeah
00:45:46
Curt
And then I wouldn't stress about loading. I just go put one in and go boop and then hit go and then take my, take my sweet time to load the next one and then keep it running. Yeah.
00:45:57
jamie peacock
you
00:45:57
Curt
So
00:45:58
jamie peacock
You've only got the two blank palettes, eh?
00:46:00
Curt
I do. Yeah. Yeah.
00:46:02
jamie peacock
Okay. Sorry, just typing something into the confuser quickly. know, you're not in the US.
00:46:11
Curt
america oh yeah
00:46:12
jamie peacock
Get another quote. Just want to see something quickly. One moment, please.
00:46:18
Curt
ju do do di-oooo-doo-oo-oo do
00:46:19
jamie peacock
You're going to have to sing. the
00:46:22
Curt
do do jaie types on the podcast and
00:46:24
jamie peacock
Sorry, if I don't do it now, I am going to forget.
00:46:26
Curt
did did did did yeah no i will definitely get more palettes from you because makes no sense to make my own
00:46:32
jamie peacock
Oh, yeah.
00:46:34
Curt
although
00:46:34
jamie peacock
We'll need to see.
00:46:34
Curt
and for
00:46:36
jamie peacock
We'll need to see about what the most effective way to ship them is.
00:46:42
Curt
I'll just order enough so it works out. Whatever costs, I'll just skew.
00:46:45
jamie peacock
Yeah, i haven't I haven't actually got them listed as individual items. I normally just like they go with but the pallet system and then it kind of all shakes out.
00:46:49
Curt
Mm.
00:46:52
Curt
Mm.
00:46:54
jamie peacock
So I'll have to just see how going to work that out because the shipping is a little brutal.
00:46:54
Curt
Yeah.
00:46:59
Curt
i just buy, like, a block of, like, 30 of them or something like that then. Like, whatever whatever it works out.
00:47:05
jamie peacock
Well, yeah.
00:47:05
Curt
If the shipping's 300 bucks, like, I'll just scale it.
00:47:07
jamie peacock
other
00:47:07
Curt
I'm like...
00:47:08
jamie peacock
the looks of it, it works out that basically two pallets are about $50 a pallet with shipping, including shipping. And then as the number goes up, it becomes like $40 per pallet if you order two pallets, four pallets.
00:47:16
Curt
Okay, I gotcha.
00:47:23
jamie peacock
And then if you order to six, it'll come down a little bit more and little bit more because the shipping, I was kind of expecting a cheaper rate than that.
00:47:24
Curt
Right.
00:47:29
jamie peacock
But anyway, I guess it is heavy.
00:47:31
Curt
Yeah. Yeah. Shipping. Yeah.
00:47:34
jamie peacock
Like it is 900 grams of pallet, so they add up quickly.
00:47:34
Curt
Yeah, that's true.
00:47:40
Curt
Yeah, I guess they're little weighty. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, for sure.
00:47:42
jamie peacock
Yeah, they add up very quickly. So job anyway, I thought I'd just have a look quickly on tunnel and see what but the price on shipping looks like.
00:47:46
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:47:51
Curt
yeah shipping shipping's always fun i would not don't worry i will i'll give you a heads up i'm not going to just right now it's sitting on my bench if i had 30 of them they're just going sit on the bench beside it because i got too many gd irons in the fire right now so gotta start stop pissing around and yeah anyway too many things too many fun things
00:47:52
jamie peacock
ah yeah Don't order 30 because then i'm going to have to send you a container.
00:47:59
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:48:02
jamie peacock
yeah
00:48:06
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:48:11
jamie peacock
Yeah, I had a meeting with one customer on on Thursday to plan out what I still owe him because he's the kind of customer who pays you for things and then doesn't ask you for them so you forget about them.
00:48:23
Curt
Ah, hmm.
00:48:24
jamie peacock
Yeah, so busy trying to chase down all the stuff that him. So I've got a long list of things that I owe him so that needs to all get loaded into Trello and then make me depressed when we're machining things for free for like a month.
00:48:31
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:48:35
jamie peacock
But yeah, it's fun. Like, I mean, I've got stuff that's been sitting since January that is half machined and I'm scared of putting the side holes in because I'm worried I'm going to stuff them up.
00:48:45
Curt
Oh, no.
00:48:46
jamie peacock
Yeah, like just being paranoid.
00:48:46
Curt
Oh,
00:48:48
jamie peacock
um Yeah, I need to. That's on the um the to-do list for this week. I want to give those to them at the end of the week. So I need to make a fixture to do so and then make some stupid little 1911 pins, which I still need to find the sample of, which is somewhere.
00:49:05
jamie peacock
ah
00:49:06
Curt
um so
00:49:07
jamie peacock
Make a drawing and then blank out these pins. Yeah, I had to polish out a collet this morning.
00:49:10
Curt
Cool.
00:49:13
jamie peacock
So a new 4mm 5C collet was tight on my brass. So cut a piece of brass, diamond and compound, hone the thing out until it's loose and the bar will actually feed.
00:49:18
Curt
Oh.
00:49:28
jamie peacock
ah ja That took all over like 15-20 minutes and then made 800 pots. 500 good pots. 300 that are...
00:49:32
Curt
Oh, nice.
00:49:35
jamie peacock
three hundred that all
00:49:35
Curt
yeah
00:49:37
jamie peacock
going to scrap.
00:49:38
jamie peacock
Yeah, at 180 kilos of aluminium shavings.
00:49:38
Curt
Yeah, well, yeah.
00:49:42
Curt
ah That's a lot.
00:49:43
jamie peacock
ah Yeah, and I got half of what I got last time per kg. Scrap prices are down apparently.
00:49:47
Curt
Why?
00:49:50
Curt
Hmm.
00:49:51
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's, yeah, it fluctuates wildly.
00:49:52
Curt
Interesting.
00:49:55
Curt
Huh.
00:49:56
jamie peacock
So that's fine. It's bonus money. So i don't really, don't really mind.
00:49:59
Curt
Yeah, I know. Same thing like when I take titanium in, like, i yeah, it's nice that I get money for it, but honestly, I just, if it's getting recycled and I don't have to, like, to dispose of it, like, i don't really care. Like, and don't I don't make enough scrap to make it worth my while.
00:50:10
jamie peacock
No, that's it. look Yeah, like I keep all the aluminium separate. I need to clean out my tank. ah Yeah, that's on the to do list, along with moving the Emco forward by like 120 millimeters.
00:50:24
Curt
Why come?
00:50:25
jamie peacock
so that the chiller for the LK can slip in behind it and Monika can sit right by the door so I can use Monika easily without having to scoot it through the entire workshop because I need to do the LK's tank and I haven't because I have to scoot it through the whole workshop.
00:50:34
Curt
Ah, nice.
00:50:41
Curt
Gotcha.
00:50:43
jamie peacock
Yeah, removing barriers because I am lazy as hell.
00:50:43
Curt
Gotcha. Gotcha. Yeah. No, that's that's the way to do it. Make like, yeah, you don't have to, yeah you don't have to be motivated.
00:50:49
jamie peacock
yeah
00:50:51
Curt
Just make things easier. Yeah. 100%. Yeah.
00:50:52
jamie peacock
exactly i like that you don't have to be motivated just make things easier ah yeah like today so these uh the final anchor points i've been grinding the pads when i get a gap and then i got frustrated with the old cross feed on the thing because it was being done
00:50:56
Curt
yeah
00:51:08
jamie peacock
So got that fixed today, ground all the things. It literally took me like 30 minutes to assemble all the anchor points, like all five of them.
00:51:13
Curt
that's cool.
00:51:14
jamie peacock
It's super quick.
00:51:14
Curt
That's cool.
00:51:15
jamie peacock
Like it's all processed. Everything's in bins. You just go through the process and it's super quick. And then set the mill up and mill the back of them off so that they are exactly 49 millimeters.
00:51:27
Curt
Nice.
00:51:27
jamie peacock
And it's a pretty straightforward process now. It's been designed to be a straightforward process.
00:51:35
Curt
Right.
00:51:35
jamie peacock
Um, yeah, I need, I see you've got a thing about packaging. That's on my to-do list tomorrow because I'm out of inserts for my boxes.
00:51:39
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:51:42
jamie peacock
So I'll send Danica down to the, to the box shop. I'm to get it to print the, um, so there's a, like a little corner print shop. They do the DHL services and they sell boxes.
00:51:53
jamie peacock
So I'm going to get it to go print out my new process charts for the anchor points because I made a bunch of changes to those. Obviously going through production, things change. Um, so i'm gonna get it to get those printed and laminated and then also buy me some boxes because that's the easiest way to get cardboard for the laser yeah buy stock box five or six and it's uh 600 by 300 which is perfect uh zucker apart
00:52:11
Curt
Oh, yeah. Fair, fair. Yeah.
00:52:19
Curt
Nice.
Packaging and Logistics
00:52:20
jamie peacock
shove it in the machine and then let the laser laser my packaging for me so now we're busy going through the process of getting all the inserts and stuff i want to get that all done well ahead of time for the next batch
00:52:23
Curt
Cool.
00:52:31
jamie peacock
that I have 20 of everything on the shelf. When it comes to pack, I just pack the order. I'm not like, oh, Danica, I need a thank you card, or I need the little top cover insert thing. Like, just everything must be done.
00:52:41
Curt
Yep. Yep.
00:52:43
jamie peacock
And then I might even buy a workbench for my packaging room, also known as my sister-in-law's childhood bedroom.
00:52:44
Curt
No, I...
00:52:53
jamie peacock
Turns out she's the only child to have ever stayed in that bedroom. like on a permanent basis.
00:52:57
Curt
Oh.
00:52:58
jamie peacock
The one next to it was Danica and Adams and then yeah, weirdness.
00:52:58
Curt
Huh.
00:53:02
Curt
Hmm.
00:53:03
jamie peacock
But it's now the packaging room. It's got all the Anchor Point stuff and all the mag bases and things stored in it because then they're not in the garage.
00:53:10
Curt
Yeah. That makes it easy, too.
00:53:11
jamie peacock
And then may as well.
00:53:12
Curt
Then you just walk in and get it done.
00:53:13
jamie peacock
Well, the room's not getting used. I may as well use it for something productive like
00:53:15
Curt
Totally. Yeah. Yeah.
00:53:18
jamie peacock
So I've got a shelf in the garage I want to pull out of the garage and bring into the house with and just stack full of all the finished stuff.
00:53:27
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:53:27
jamie peacock
Because I actually want to do the anchor point assembly in that room as well. So bring all the components out and then assemble in the room and then it goes back to the garage for the final machining up and lasering and then comes back for packaging.
00:53:33
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:53:39
jamie peacock
But that way I'm not having stacks of finished parts in the garage potentially getting damaged.
00:53:39
Curt
Yeah.
00:53:44
Curt
Yep. No, that makes makes perfect sense.
00:53:45
jamie peacock
Because that, yeah, that does happen. drop something and then your parts scrapped so try and avoid that what is your packaging fun
00:53:53
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:53:56
Curt
Yeah, yeah, I know. ah what's Same thing, packaging these little widgets, which they're about like an inch and a half circle. um So I was trying to find a different.
00:54:04
jamie peacock
yeah but aren't you gonna like 3d printer case and then a foam inserts yeah
00:54:09
Curt
Basically, yeah, um I got clear cases, ah clear snap cases, little squares.
00:54:13
jamie peacock
yeah
00:54:13
Curt
um And I'll put a laser in um like or branding stuff on the top bottom. And there'll be a foam insert to hold everything. And there's so they come with little tools. So there'll be little tools that go in there too. Serialized, all that jazz, all the whatever.
00:54:24
jamie peacock
Thought you were gonna just use a coin, Kurt.
00:54:27
Curt
I was, but you know what? I'm pedantic. And then with the finish, ah like a coin will slightly mar the finish if you slip out. So then I'm like, well, it's no, like i have room on the build plate and it doesn't take any time. So now I'm 3D printing little plastic things so that if you slip, it doesn't harm the finish at all. So it looks the same because whatever. Cause yeah. um So it'll come with those. And then it's just, yeah, it just...
00:54:48
Curt
um ah thankfully like there's these are like part comes off the lathe it's done like parts come off the printer they're ready like the only processing i'm doing is blasting to get a nice uniform finish the ultim parts come directly off the machine and they're ready to go like their edge broke i went i put edge breaks on everything like i made it so that there would be very little manual work because my pens are just a whole piece amount of manual work so i'm trying to go the other way for this product um
00:54:53
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:54:58
jamie peacock
Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:55:11
Curt
But yeah, packaging is fun. I love packaging. So getting little clear containers and whatnot and then boxes. And then I'm kind of trying to switch away. I use Uline for a ton of my boxes, but as a company, they're I don't really like what they stand for as a company.
00:55:23
Curt
some As a company, like they're fantastic to deal with, but overarching, their owner is kind of a dick.
00:55:27
jamie peacock
yeah
00:55:28
Curt
um So I'm trying to get away from using them and just finding finding other suppliers that aren't just rebranding Uline or something stupid like that.
00:55:33
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:55:36
Curt
so
00:55:37
jamie peacock
Yeah, I feel like there'd be a lot of that.
00:55:37
Curt
And then also produce a quality item. Yeah, well, and that's the problem is like I can get some of these boxes off Amazon, which is fine. And I don't like I can find out where their source, whatever. Like I went through all the Canadian suppliers trying to buy boxes and they're all pains in the ass to work with.
00:55:47
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:55:51
Curt
No one wants to work with me. No one is producing a good item. So and that kind of ties into the smarter everyday thing we can talk about. um
00:55:56
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:55:57
Curt
But it's just like I'm like, what what are you guys doing? Like, yeah. You're making, and ah besides, I'll get off that soapbox. um I've exhausted all those. so ah So just trying to find different. And but the problem is like some of these Amazon suppliers, you're like, oh, the price is great. The quality looks good.
00:56:09
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:56:10
Curt
It's like, but will I get it in six months? Like, will you still be around in six months or will it change slightly? Because then it changes all my downstream effects. So it's like trying to find something that's reliable too is kind of, yeah, I don't know.
00:56:16
jamie peacock
yeah
00:56:19
jamie peacock
Well, yeah, I was trying to explain that to a guy today, one of my colleagues, he came and grabbed oil from me. And then we're looking to buy more oilers.
00:56:27
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:56:28
jamie peacock
I know about from the store, I bought from them before he's like, No, it isn't exactly like the one he had. i'm like, it's coming from China. It's never going to be exactly like the one you ordered last time.
00:56:34
Curt
Yeah.
00:56:37
jamie peacock
But he wants them to be the same.
00:56:37
Curt
Yeah.
00:56:38
jamie peacock
Otherwise, the guys asked questions like, why is it different? And it's easier to just have the same product again and again.
00:56:42
Curt
Totally.
00:56:46
jamie peacock
So we try to source from the same supplier in the hopes that they're somewhat similar every time.
00:56:53
Curt
Yeah.
00:56:54
jamie peacock
Because unless you're buying a whole batch, you can't guarantee
00:56:54
Curt
Well, then I...
00:56:58
Curt
Yeah. And then I went through like the whole rigmarole of like, I could, these could technically ship by bubble mailers. I just don't typically like bubble mailers because they don't feel as luxurious as opening a box. And it really doesn't cost anything different to ship a box as opposed to a bubble mailer.
00:57:07
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:57:10
Curt
So it's just like, people like opening boxes.
00:57:12
jamie peacock
yeah
00:57:13
Curt
Like no one likes, no one likes a plastic package to open. Don't care how pretty it is.
00:57:17
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:57:18
Curt
It's just not as exciting.
00:57:18
jamie peacock
Well, I got, I got a paper envelope in my post box. I was rather shocked.
00:57:23
Curt
Ooh.
00:57:24
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, no. I was like ah a little bit taken aback. It was my Smart Everyday stickers for being a Patreon and sticking with them.
00:57:27
Curt
Uh,
00:57:30
Curt
Oh, sick.
00:57:30
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:57:31
Curt
Cool.
00:57:31
jamie peacock
I was like, sweet. I figured, like, we're never going to arrive because got my baseball like a few months ago. And then, yeah, literally was, took my bins out on Thursday and was walking back into the yard. And I'm like, hey, what's that in the post box?
00:57:43
jamie peacock
It's a post! And yeah, had some stickers.
00:57:45
Curt
Wow.
00:57:46
jamie peacock
So my door now has a cicada on it and the square sticker.
00:57:49
Curt
Sick.
00:57:50
jamie peacock
And then I kept the the clip sticker for Damaka.
00:57:54
Curt
Cool.
00:57:55
jamie peacock
But yeah, I'm pretty sure that the video that you were referring to there was released on his Patreon a few months ago.
00:57:59
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:58:01
jamie peacock
So I think I have one, yes. But yeah, interesting. the The rabbit hole he went down on that.
00:58:01
Curt
I think so, yeah, yeah.
00:58:08
Curt
Totally. And if you, if if if anyone has some time, go watch the Smarter Every Day video on him making a product, making a product in America.
00:58:12
jamie peacock
and yeah you know
00:58:15
Curt
We'll link it in the show notes. um It's a fantastic insight as to why things aren't made. And it doesn't have to be America. Insert whatever country you want.
00:58:22
jamie peacock
Anyway, yeah.
00:58:23
Curt
It's just like, it's a huge talk of like how much we've used, we've pushed away our manufacturing just in pursuit of like the higher intellect level work um to the point where it's a detriment where you can't like, you want a mold made?
00:58:33
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:58:36
Curt
Good luck. Like no shop around here is going to make you a mold.
00:58:37
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:58:39
Curt
And if they do, they're going outsource it to a country that is specializing in that where their technology is superior to pretty much, you know, any first world country. Now it's, it was, it was super eyeopening.
00:58:48
jamie peacock
or Oh, oh. The technology isn't superior, and they believe in hand finishing because our machine some molds a while ago, because we also we're on the cheap end of the cost spectrum.
00:58:53
Curt
Totally. Yeah.
00:58:58
jamie peacock
So we end up with silly things that we do.
00:58:59
Curt
Yeah.
00:59:01
jamie peacock
um One of my customers does a whole bunch of work for a company in the UK, because we're just that much cheaper that we get the work. at Yeah. and But he also he likes to race to the bottom.
00:59:11
Curt
But that doesn't even...
00:59:13
jamie peacock
It's a bit of a problem. He broke a drill and there goes his profit for the for the month.
00:59:18
Curt
Right.
Craftsmanship in Mold Making
00:59:19
Curt
But that doesn't even mean like it.
00:59:19
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:59:20
Curt
Yeah. Maybe like if you do more hand finishing, it doesn't mean it's lower quality. Like you can like mold polishing is an art and like that's a skill.
00:59:24
jamie peacock
no
00:59:27
Curt
And like if you don't have that skill base.
00:59:27
jamie peacock
very much rewards.
00:59:29
Curt
Yeah. If you don't have that skill base, you're not going to make good parts.
00:59:30
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:59:32
Curt
Like I don't I don't care how good your mold is. Like you still need to have that skill of polishing molds.
00:59:35
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:59:37
Curt
And like if you don't know how to do it and no one in your area does like that's a skill that just died off. Like, yeah, it was a really interesting video.
00:59:41
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, that is the thing. Yeah, a lot of that skill has left. And getting it back is not an overnight thing.
00:59:46
Curt
Yep.
00:59:49
Curt
Not at all.
00:59:50
jamie peacock
Like, yeah, because that that seems to me yeah seems to be the sentiment at the moment.
00:59:50
Curt
No.
00:59:55
jamie peacock
Now bring jobs back to America or to our country. And it's like, yeah, that shouldn't happen overnight.
00:59:59
Curt
Yeah.
Value of Trade Skills vs. Degrees
01:00:01
Curt
No, no.
01:00:01
jamie peacock
Because the only country that really or country, the only area that really does proper apprenticeships is Europe, like Germany, Austria, those guys, they do really good apprenticeships.
01:00:09
Curt
and Totally. Yeah, yeah.
01:00:11
jamie peacock
And that's how that knowledge is passed on. It's not passed on by everybody going to university and getting a degree.
01:00:14
Curt
Yep.
01:00:18
Curt
No, not at
01:00:19
jamie peacock
Because that degree ain't worth the paper it's printed on if they if everyone has one.
01:00:23
Curt
all.
01:00:23
jamie peacock
Like it's a similar problem we've run into here where everyone thought they needed a degree. If you don't have a degree, you're way better off in South Africa at the moment. so
01:00:32
Curt
Yep. Yeah.
01:00:33
jamie peacock
Firstly, you're not asking a stupid salary because you have a degree.
01:00:33
Curt
Yeah.
01:00:37
jamie peacock
But you'll find that the people who don't have degrees tend to be a bit more practical.
01:00:38
Curt
Yeah.
01:00:41
jamie peacock
And they're never looking for work because they are capable and work finds them.
01:00:42
Curt
Mm-hmm.
01:00:49
Curt
Yeah. Yeah. And it's like, yeah and i he even briefly talked touched on that same topic of like some of the higher level, like people like go to school, learn how to be a programmer.
01:00:50
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah.
01:00:57
Curt
It's like, well, you know, who's getting just worked for programming jobs right now? Programmers, because like the advancement of like AI and automated systems is stomping on that field, but it's definitely not stomping something.
01:01:09
Curt
mold finishing because we just don't have the automation to make that work yet and it's just like it was really eye-opening to be like i totally agree with you like and and when i was going to school they're like you have to go to high or university and get you know a big fancy and like i went to a trade school and i'm like i'm super thankful i did because you can make a crazy amount of money in the trades and it's it's skills that are useful
01:01:15
jamie peacock
yeah
01:01:25
jamie peacock
Well, I look, I look at myself and my brother. I went, I studied drafting. I went to tertiary education. My brother didn't. He was a guy who doesn't really want to study.
01:01:34
Curt
hmm
01:01:35
jamie peacock
I think he was like, he'll take a gap year and see where where his head's at. He got a job at a fishing shop. He always enjoyed fishing growing up.
01:01:43
jamie peacock
He now develops fishing rods for a living.
01:01:43
Curt
Mm-hmm.
01:01:46
Curt
Yeah.
01:01:46
jamie peacock
He moved his way. he he literally started there as a technician fixing fishing reels. And when he was done with what he had to do, he would go onto the sales floor and sell things.
01:01:51
Curt
Yeah.
01:01:56
Curt
Yeah.
01:01:56
jamie peacock
It got to the point that he was running the workshop. So rod manufacturing, our custom builds, repairs, the wholesale side of that, and still top salesman.
01:02:06
jamie peacock
And then eventually, it says, well listen, I'm leaving to go to the wholesaling guys, which was also partially owned by the guy who owned the shop. And he moved there and he's the right hand man there. When, like two years ago, he wanted to leave Durban and move down to the Cape.
01:02:06
Curt
Mm-hmm.
01:02:21
jamie peacock
is Boston and the conversation started off with, you know, if you want to take a bit of salary cuts and maybe work remotely to please don't leave us, your salary could stay the same. Like just please don't leave us because they can't afford to not have him around.
Knowledge Sharing Culture
01:02:35
Curt
yeah
01:02:35
jamie peacock
knock So he works remotely from Plett and sees the whole of the Cape. He will get in his truck and drug go visit all the shops. But he's living his best life and he hasn't studied tertiary at all.
01:02:49
jamie peacock
He's just got a work ethic and willing to put the work in and that goes a hell of a long way.
01:02:54
Curt
ah hundred percent 100%. Yeah.
01:02:55
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:02:55
Curt
Could not agree more.
01:02:56
jamie peacock
And I think that that is a lot of the messaging at the moment on the all the social media things regarding machining is you put in the effort and you'll get rewarded. And that is true.
01:03:04
Curt
Yeah.
01:03:06
jamie peacock
Look, may not happen overnight, but you put in the effort and you're consistent and good things come to those who will wait and are consistent.
01:03:06
Curt
Yeah.
01:03:15
Curt
Well, and we also, I think that we've had a whole shift of like anybody that's good in this machining world is happily sharing what they know freely.
01:03:24
jamie peacock
Yes.
01:03:24
Curt
Like they're like, look at like, look at ah was like Marv with all his like Kern related stuff, like just putting out crap tons content, like ah Adam and the Machinist and all these YouTubers we talked about that are just going out of their way to produce content, to educate.
01:03:29
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:03:35
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:03:38
Curt
That's all they're doing. They're giving all their knowledge in their head away for free.
01:03:39
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:03:41
Curt
All you have to do is absorb it. Like it's crazy.
01:03:43
jamie peacock
Yes. No, that's exactly it.
01:03:44
Curt
It's not the crusty machinist anymore who's like, no, I'm hiding it because it's my it's my secret.
01:03:45
jamie peacock
Like, yeah.
01:03:50
Curt
It's like, you're going to die with it, old man. like Share it.
01:03:53
jamie peacock
The amount of people here with that mentality still is hilarious. Don't want to share anything because they're adamant they are doing it the best way they possible that it can possibly ever be done.
01:03:57
Curt
Yeah.
01:04:02
jamie peacock
It's like, dude, come back.
01:04:04
Curt
Yeah.
01:04:04
jamie peacock
yeah You're in the 80s still. Like, move on, please.
01:04:07
Curt
Exactly.
01:04:08
jamie peacock
um yeah i was chatting to carl last week there was a video from i can't of remember the guy's name used to make it probably still does makes engines little steam engines on a shape oko what do you do when your shape oko is cutting an oval and you need a round ball
01:04:08
Curt
Yeah.
01:04:21
Curt
Sick. Cool.
01:04:29
jamie peacock
when you're trying to interpolate a round ball but it's cutting oval what do you do
01:04:29
Curt
How do you mean?
01:04:31
Curt
OK. Mm-hmm. I've got a plethora of things.
01:04:37
jamie peacock
measure the oval, model an oval and get it to cut round.
01:04:41
Curt
Oh, sure. That's a way. Yeah, that's a way. Yeah, why not?
01:04:44
jamie peacock
so law So I told Carl about this, because that's that's one way of tackling it, like the machine is, is a wet noodle.
01:04:45
Curt
Mm-hmm. Sure, yeah.
01:04:50
jamie peacock
um So you measure how much it's out of whatever making an oval and you compensate. And his boss was having an issue and Carl's like, No, why don't you just program an oval?
01:04:56
Curt
Yeah.
01:05:00
jamie peacock
And he was like, No, no, go back and stand at your machine. So he's like, Okay. And that's what he does now when the boss says go stand at your machine, he goes stands at his machine.
01:05:08
Curt
Yeah.
01:05:08
jamie peacock
And looks pretty because he's tired of giving suggestions of being told that he doesn't know what he's talking about. Like that.
01:05:14
jamie peacock
I'm waiting for that, that whole story to explode. Cause it's going to, but anyway, call. Love you lots. Um, cause I know he's busy listening through the backlog, so he will get to this at some point, probably actually soon.
01:05:14
Curt
Yeah.
01:05:28
Curt
keep keep Keep doing that, Carl.
01:05:29
jamie peacock
Cause he's got a two and a hour drive back from Rustenburg tomorrow. But yeah, anyway, yeah.
01:05:35
Curt
Keep doing that thing, Carl. That makes sense. yeah
01:05:39
jamie peacock
Just ah tolerate his bullshit till you can buy a machine.
01:05:39
Curt
Think outside the box.
01:05:42
Curt
Yeah, yeah. we'll just yeah Don't yeah don't andt squash your brain. let let your Think outside the box. It's a good idea. It's a good thing.
01:05:49
jamie peacock
Yeah. um Come work in my workshop, Cole. You can learn to do things somewhat properly.
01:05:53
Curt
Yeah.
01:05:55
jamie peacock
Yeah, he's actually, that's Thursday. He's back ah back in the workshop, carrying on with the Titan building blocks things. He needs some help modeling one or two of the things, and then we're going to program them and start running through. ordering material this week.
01:06:09
jamie peacock
So he got his sp his business registered and email and everything set up. So he wants to order material for the building blocks. Sorry.
01:06:09
Curt
fun
01:06:18
Curt
cool
01:06:18
jamie peacock
the That he's not pillaging all my material. I'm like, I don't mind. It's in the scrap bin for a reason. i Go on the spare bin, use it. But he wants to order it. So I'm like, that's fine.
01:06:31
jamie peacock
He wants to start building up a ah trail in his own company name.
01:06:36
jamie peacock
was like, fair enough.
01:06:36
Curt
Fair enough.
01:06:37
Curt
I get that. Yep, I get that.
01:06:37
jamie peacock
Yeah.
Online Searches and Projects
01:06:39
jamie peacock
So yeah, we will we'll get material delivered from a CDE. e Carl's Design Emporium.
01:06:44
Curt
Ooh. Ooh.
01:06:46
jamie peacock
Fancy name.
01:06:47
Curt
Nice. Ooh.
01:06:48
jamie peacock
Yeah. No, he's actually out doing some drafting work. He's been redrawing a bunch drawings for these guys and now they're missing a few pieces. So he's going to make drawings on site for the missing bits of the assemblies.
01:07:02
jamie peacock
So he's out. It's like a two and hour drive from here. He doesn't come past on a Monday comes past on a Tuesday a Thursday and Friday, Wednesday, something he does something on a Wednesday, can't remember. But yeah, trying to get our schedules somewhat synced up on that one now.
01:07:20
Curt
Cool, man.
01:07:21
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:07:22
Curt
Well, we're nearing the ah top of the hour, so
01:07:22
jamie peacock
look guy Yes. we are
01:07:27
jamie peacock
anyone we go Okay, scrolling through the to do list of documents. So what have you been googling Kurt?
01:07:36
Curt
I have been Googling ah some of that fusion related stuff. um Some of the, I was looking, still have that credit from style. So I was actually looking, they um have mist collectors.
01:07:44
jamie peacock
oh
01:07:46
Curt
um They're not the ones I would pick, but I mean, I'm applying a credit to it. So why not? So I was looking at their, I think it's the filter mist S 800 is the one I'm looking at, which is a Royal, but it's the same as Royal.
01:07:51
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
01:07:57
Curt
Like as far as I understand the branding story is different.
01:07:58
jamie peacock
yeah
01:08:00
Curt
So i think I'm going to have two of those coming one with a gigantic after filter, which is heinously expensive. Um, that'll go on the lathe and then one without an after filter will go on the mill cause it's not oil.
01:08:11
Curt
So it's less or it's easier, to easier to filter.
01:08:12
jamie peacock
yeah
01:08:14
Curt
So been Googling a bunch about that. And then on my other Google box, I have those tools that i was talking about. Um, some SFM calculators, Mitsubishi stuff, packing related things.
01:08:25
Curt
And, uh, yeah, I have the Jspec engineering store open cause I bought some shirts. So yeah, that's, that's what's been in my Google, my Google search history.
01:08:30
jamie peacock
Ah, yes. Fancy shirts.
01:08:34
Curt
How about you?
01:08:35
jamie peacock
ah Yeah, I got Wordle. I'm on 67.
01:08:38
Curt
Ooh.
01:08:39
jamie peacock
And then I was looking up the dry dock because EJ was asking me for it, so i was looking up for a link for him, which is the pallet reloading station that you can 3D print.
01:08:46
Curt
Mm-mm.
01:08:48
jamie peacock
It's on printables. I was looking up the TV show My Family. know if you ever watched the British comedy or sitcom.
01:08:55
Curt
I don't think so. No.
01:08:56
jamie peacock
Oh, it's really, really good.
01:08:57
Curt
No.
01:08:57
jamie peacock
Yeah, I saw clips.
01:08:58
Curt
OK.
01:08:59
jamie peacock
I was looking it up. um Yeah, then there's a, was looking at the ISO tire, checking how the page loaded on the website. And then looking up the time for when Taps and Patience recorded last night.
01:09:07
Curt
Cool.
01:09:13
jamie peacock
There was no way I was waiting up till 2am. And then I was looking up the Arduino Nano ISP header, which is different depending on the freaking board.
01:09:15
Curt
oh yeah
01:09:21
jamie peacock
It blew up one of my boards today.
01:09:23
Curt
oh um yeah yeah yeah
01:09:24
jamie peacock
Yes, it's this way or this way. It's really annoying. Yeah, I plugged in there. Dead. So I was a little but little bit annoyed by that. um But yeah anyway, that that is what is in my Google box. I need to now purge it later.
01:09:38
jamie peacock
um But yeah, I'm now but tom six days ahead of where my previous record for Wordle was.
01:09:47
Curt
Ooh.
01:09:48
jamie peacock
I'm going for 100 because my brother in law got 99 and then forgot one day.
01:09:53
Curt
Oh, bummer.
01:09:53
jamie peacock
Yeah, so that's very much part of my routine again, and I plan on keeping it there.
01:10:00
Curt
Cool, cool.
01:10:00
jamie peacock
Yeah. So where can people find you, Kurt?
01:10:02
Curt
That's a fun thing.
01:10:05
Curt
confounded machine.com all my information's there contact page there's a newsletter sign up if you don't want to try to follow me on social medias um you can sign up for newsletter and I send out a little email blurb of you know anything that's pertinent so yeah how about you Jamie
01:10:21
jamie peacock
You can find us at jspeceng.com. You can find the Anchor Point, still two available, some fancy shirts, an arso attire.
Promotions and Personal Ventures
01:10:30
jamie peacock
Yeah, to decided to make a product out of that one.
01:10:33
Curt
hmm
01:10:33
jamie peacock
They're made to order, like me. I've got the pallets, may as well. um Yeah, and you can find the podcast at theloanemachinists.com.
01:10:36
Curt
Sure.
01:10:42
jamie peacock
On there's a list of all our fancy Patreons, in order of which, in order, in order...
01:10:50
jamie peacock
This is hard wording.
01:10:51
Curt
Of how cool they are.
01:10:52
jamie peacock
ah Not of how cool they are, of who, in order of how they joined or when they joined.
01:10:57
jamie peacock
So it's, a yeah, yeah. Okay. And then there's also the companion guard. Sorry, words are really hard this morning. It's been a long day. um Companion guard using all the fancy words that I like to use in case you can't understand what I'm saying because I have a lovely accent and some very specific slang.
01:10:57
Curt
I know, yeah.
01:11:13
jamie peacock
ah There's also a link in there to the shirts for the Lone Machinist and hoodies and water bottles and other things. And that all goes towards supporting the podcast. So yeah, you can go check those out. so And yeah, I think that's all the shout outs I have.
01:11:27
jamie peacock
What are you up to today, Kurt?
01:11:30
Curt
Today I'm going to warm up the machine, load up a crap ton of Ultem parts, get those going, load up the printer, get that printing, and then probably load up the lathe and get that lathing. So yeah, just bunch of production on that.
01:11:41
jamie peacock
Nice.
01:11:41
Curt
I want to try to knock out all these mechanisms this week. I have one friend who I will look up while you're talking about your thing. I'll give his little show a shout out. um But he has a meetup.
01:11:55
Curt
and I'm going to send him one of these mechanisms as a giveaway and a bunch of stickers and shit. um But it's he's leaving in like a week or two.
01:11:58
jamie peacock
and
01:12:01
Curt
So I got to hop to.
01:12:02
jamie peacock
yeah okay
01:12:03
Curt
So I'll get that going. Yeah. And thanks for all the patrons. I know so I talked to some of those patrons. um i Actually, talked to all of them. So thank you guys. Thank you kindly for helping help me make the show go.
01:12:12
jamie peacock
yeah like us yes i think actually yes definitely uh yeah i think we might discuss uh
01:12:14
Curt
it's ah ah We enjoy doing it, but it's very pleasing to ah have people that support it. So thank you.
01:12:25
jamie peacock
the messages that Luke sent through this week in the after show because ah yeah we have we have some thoughts and opinions ah but we'll keep those out of the out of the main podcast ah but yeah I'm going to go sleep and then what am I doing tomorrow tomorrow I'm running another like couple hundred parts on the EMCO and then ah bunch of stuff on the LK and yeah fair finger out I've got
01:12:30
Curt
Oh, yeah. appreciate that, Luke. Yeah, yeah
01:12:37
Curt
yeah.
01:12:54
jamie peacock
Oh, bike. Jeez, tired as hell. I got a bunch of backlog stuff that I'm trying to work through. So going to be working through all of that tomorrow. and need a 3D print a fan shroud as well.
01:13:03
Curt
Nice.
01:13:05
jamie peacock
My PETG finally arrived. I ordered it on Wednesday. And with there was a coupling and some PETG, and I needed it on Thursday. And it arrived today.
01:13:15
jamie peacock
So I messaged the guys Thursday. I'm like, what the hell's happening? And then I go, oh, no, sorry. We had to transfer something between branches. Bullshit story, bullshit story. And yeah, they dispatched it on Friday, so I only got it today, which was a little tedious.
01:13:24
Curt
o
01:13:28
jamie peacock
But that'll be a itll be a tomorrow problem.
01:13:31
Curt
nice
01:13:32
jamie peacock
I've got to go drop off that tool that I said I was working on, so I'll go drop that off and drop off the coupling and stuff. With the other customer, literally 3D printed him a coupling to just tie them over for the weekend.
01:13:40
Curt
Cool.
Community Support and Wrap-up
01:13:44
jamie peacock
Because his staff didn't gauge like 10,000 parts, and now they've all been sent back for gauging.
01:13:44
Curt
Cool, cool.
01:13:52
Curt
ah Rough.
01:13:54
jamie peacock
Yeah, so it's like, I'm not paying you to do this. You guys can do it two hours a day. After hours, you can gauge these things for two hours every day extra. So they all gauged because you were meant to do it.
01:14:03
Curt
Cool.
01:14:05
jamie peacock
But yeah, they got lazy and didn't. And yeah, parts got rejected because one didn't screw on out of 10,000. Yeah. And
01:14:11
Curt
oh ragged yeah no totally yeah
01:14:12
jamie peacock
yeah that's how it works. And it's probably it's probably just because there was a shaving in there. They didn't blow the parts out and gauge them. So there's probably, it was just a shaving. Oh, it didn't go on reject the whole batch.
01:14:25
Curt
yeah yeah um
01:14:26
jamie peacock
So yeah, but you know, that's how it goes. ah Anyway, do you want to shout out
01:14:31
Curt
Yes, I have a link. So it's the, I think it's the Canadian knife group meetup in June. i think it's happening in BC. The gentleman is on face or not face blog, um Instagram, the underscore urban underscore bandit.
01:14:48
Curt
Um, urbanbanditphoto.ca. Oh, all kinds of shout-outs for there. Anyways, they're having big meetup. It's a bunch of Canadian guys. um I've talked to a bunch of them. um They're super supportive of me, have been for a long time.
01:14:59
Curt
ah So I think I'm going to send ah the very first mechanism I make 001 so it can be a giveaway for them because, yeah, lot of those dorks have just provided a lot of help for me. So I try to keep them a little happier.
01:15:07
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:15:08
Curt
So it's kind of cool when all the dorks meet up. I say dorks in the kindest possible way.
01:15:11
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:15:12
Curt
We're all dorks. So...
01:15:15
jamie peacock
Yeah. 100%. Oh, no. Sweet. Cool. In that case, let's ah wrap this up. Then we can go discuss super secret things in the pod in the after show.
01:15:24
Curt
Sweet.
01:15:26
jamie peacock
So thank you, everybody, for listening. you can find us on spotify youtube music and apple podcasts uh please do consider giving us a like subscribe rate or whatever it is on your specific platform of choice if there's anybody that you think you know that might enjoy the podcast please feel free to recommend it so and uh if you want to ask any questions or anything just pop code to our message and we will try and remember to mention it in the podcast.
01:15:55
jamie peacock
But thank you everybody for listening. Please enjoy the rest of your day and we will see you next week.
01:16:02
Curt
Take care all.