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Ep. 35: Live, Laugh, Crash
133 Plays17 days ago
Join Curt and Jamie as they discuss their week, including topics such as Tiny tiny bearings, 4th axis, and now we can't go back, and making aeroplane parts.
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Transcript
Morning Greetings and Monday Blues
00:00:47
jamie peacock
Good morning, Kurt. are you doing this fine day?
00:00:50
Curt
i'm doing I'm doing fantastic. are you doing, Master Jamie?
00:00:53
jamie peacock
Yeah, I'm carrying on. I had a day.
00:00:56
Curt
Yeah.
00:00:57
jamie peacock
It's a Monday, so...
00:01:00
Curt
but ah Did it end well?
00:01:02
jamie peacock
Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was okay. Yeah, it was a Monday, so all over the show.
Sanding Incident and Production Shortfall
00:01:07
jamie peacock
Spent a good two hours sanding a mould.
00:01:08
Curt
Fair enough.
00:01:11
Curt
Ah, okay. One of the the big aluminum mold you were working on.
00:01:12
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah, I'm trying to get it finished. um But the sanding is brutal. So yeah, just busy polishing up the mold. ah did while I did that while Danica pressed together Torx bits with the stupid things.
00:01:28
jamie peacock
And then we were, i think, 12 parts short of the 1,000-part order.
00:01:33
Curt
Oh, yeah?
00:01:34
jamie peacock
After we had a minor incident on Friday, i was 12 parts short.
00:01:39
Curt
OK.
00:01:40
jamie peacock
So she had to go buy me a collet quickly. And that's like, it's a 30, 35 minute drive there, 35 minute drive back.
00:01:44
Curt
okay
00:01:48
jamie peacock
So yeah, while she did that, i was doing admin stuff this morning.
00:01:53
Curt
so ah So are we going to bury the lead or you going to set tell us what your minor incident was?
Machine Retrofitting Challenges
00:01:58
jamie peacock
I made a fancy walking stick out of 20 millimeter BMS.
00:02:04
Curt
and love that. I love that descriptor for it.
00:02:06
jamie peacock
yeah Dude, it looks like a walking stick. It's all curvy. ah Yeah, so I re-retrofitted Bertha a little while ago. And when I did so, i didn't tie in the alarms from or the the fault states from the closed-dip stepper drivers.
00:02:24
jamie peacock
Because in the past, I've had them tied in, and with a bit of electrical noise, they trigger erroneously.
00:02:25
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:02:31
jamie peacock
So the drive's still fine, but it'll throw in error state. And then you lose your position, and you've got to go through and reset your your X and Z position, because it's a stepper-driven machine, and the home switches aren't great.
00:02:42
jamie peacock
It's off by, like, a good amount, like 0.2, 0.3. So... so It was, i also over-tightened my gib to try to take out little bit of wobble I was having on the table.
00:02:59
jamie peacock
And since I did that, yeah, it's been a little sketchy. So I've been running it in 90% rapids, and then it's fine. It doesn't usually alarm out.
00:03:06
Curt
OK.
00:03:07
jamie peacock
And it was running. It had run 200 parts on Friday, and it went up to do the part-off. So the part-off is the full distance from of the travel, from one end to the other.
00:03:20
Curt
OK.
00:03:20
jamie peacock
Just it's how the tools are laid out and how the clearances all work.
00:03:21
Curt
Oh.
00:03:23
jamie peacock
It goes from the tool furthest to the tool furthest other side.
Drive Fault and Damage Control
00:03:26
jamie peacock
And it got just short of the part-off, the drive faltered the z moved around pretended to part off and then pretended to move to the stopper unclamped the spindle and put pressure on the feeder and just fed out like 600 millimeters of bar at 2000 rpm so it came out they got caught in the collet and shitw whipped itself
00:03:34
Curt
Oh, no.
00:03:37
Curt
Oh no.
00:03:44
Curt
Oh no. Oh no.
00:03:51
jamie peacock
um
00:03:51
Curt
Oh no.
00:03:52
jamie peacock
Put a ding on the corner of the X axis table. The gangplank got a couple dings. I lost a coolant line and I lost a collet. Didn't even break at all.
00:04:04
Curt
that's that sound like that's That's a pretty good outcome for what that is.
00:04:07
jamie peacock
It is. It really is. No, it really is. So I was on the other side of the workshop by the LK, and I hear this delightful sound. So I scramble around the corner, and by that point, the machine had realized something was wrong.
00:04:21
jamie peacock
But I e-stopped it, and I'm like, okay, cool. I'm done for today. I think I have enough parts. Screw this noise. I'm done. Just e-stopped it, powered it off. Danica came out. She's like, are you okay? She's like, she thought I'd die. She's like, are you okay? Because she heard it. She felt it in the house.
00:04:35
Curt
Oh, I bet, yeah.
00:04:36
jamie peacock
Because, I mean, it's like a good two kilos of material getting ship whipped around at 2,000 RPM. So, yeah, the moral of the story is
Enhancing Machine Safety
00:04:44
jamie peacock
connect all the safety things.
00:04:47
Curt
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:04:48
jamie peacock
So, I ended up, so what I ended up actually doing was running them through a relay.
00:04:53
jamie peacock
So it goes through relay, and that relay switches I.O. for the limit switches of the X and Z axis. So if the limit switch trips, it disables the machine, but also stops whatever the fuck's going on.
00:04:53
Curt
Okay.
00:05:04
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:05:05
jamie peacock
So that's now implemented.
00:05:06
Curt
Right.
00:05:06
jamie peacock
And then somehow I managed to turn the speed way past where it should have been. So then the drives are faulting. So I dropped them down to 69 millimeters per second. um
00:05:16
Curt
Nice.
00:05:16
jamie peacock
And then, yeah, obviously. And then today dropped the Z axis down a little bit further. It was still throwing an airway every now and again.
00:05:23
Curt
OK.
00:05:25
jamie peacock
So was like, okay, let's drop the acceleration little bit, drop the max speed a bit, and it ran 150-ish parts today.
00:05:34
jamie peacock
I'm busy with another job on it now, yeah.
00:05:35
Curt
Nice.
00:05:35
Curt
OK.
00:05:36
jamie peacock
So I'm busy with the next job, and it's running it's running pretty well.
00:05:38
Curt
Yeah.
00:05:40
jamie peacock
So yeah, not all that bad.
00:05:41
Curt
Oh, shit, yeah.
00:05:43
jamie peacock
That could have been way worse.
00:05:46
Curt
I mean, yeah, like, could have been ah infinitely worse, especially if you were just, like, happened to be I mean, if you were around, you probably would have gotten out of the way once you saw the giant rod come up, but, like, ugh.
00:05:49
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah.
00:05:54
jamie peacock
Once I saw the door coming towards me, I probably ought to move Didn't even knock the door off. Quite surprised.
00:05:59
Curt
Really?
00:06:00
jamie peacock
Yeah, like as far as can there's no ding in the door. It kept it pretty tightly whipping, but yeah, that's now my walking stick. I took it to my own customer today when I dropped off the Torx bits. I'm like, hey dude, check out, I made a walking stick.
00:06:13
Curt
Oh, yeah, it's lathes.
00:06:13
jamie peacock
But yeah, the collets, the collets are like $60 a collet, so it's a bit annoying, but is what it is.
00:06:15
Curt
Lathes are terrifying.
00:06:20
Curt
I mean, Rose had a call. At least you didn't just, you know, absolutely obliterate everything.
00:06:23
jamie peacock
At least I didn't stuff the spindle up or something else.
00:06:25
Curt
Totally.
00:06:26
jamie peacock
Like, yeah.
00:06:27
jamie peacock
Although that thing, you could probably hit the spindle with a sledgehammer the spindle would just shake it off. It is so overbuilt, it's hilarious.
00:06:27
Curt
Totally.
00:06:32
Curt
Yeah. ah Yeah, I know it's.
00:06:36
jamie peacock
Yeah. It was exciting. Very exciting.
00:06:39
Curt
Lathes have so much energy in them. There is so much energy.
00:06:41
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:06:42
Curt
Even like I had my little tag. It had a, I
Book Recommendations and Discussions
00:06:45
Curt
had a bar whip on a three eighths piece of stainless out the back, like out the back end.
00:06:48
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah. yeah
00:06:49
Curt
I didn't have the back end support enough and it whipped and it just clipped my finger. And I was like, if this, and this is like a little quarter horsepower machine.
00:06:54
jamie peacock
Mm hmm.
00:06:59
Curt
Like, like,
00:06:59
jamie peacock
Little toy machine. Yeah.
00:07:00
Curt
And it would if it would have hit my finger properly, it would have easily broke my finger. And that's tiny. and that's tiny like you now upsize it It's like,
00:07:06
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:07:09
jamie peacock
So I've I've had that with the Emco and that I can only put a half meter bar and I had to do something that was like 600 and something more long. um ah And it was small diameter. i think it must been like 8mm.
00:07:22
jamie peacock
And I actually was holding the bar while it was spinning with glove so that it wouldn't pick up in oscillation because i was literally facing the end of a bar off.
00:07:26
Curt
sure of course yeah
00:07:31
jamie peacock
Like, it was ah stupid thing.
00:07:31
Curt
Right.
00:07:31
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:07:32
jamie peacock
And, yeah, I just hold the bar so that doesn't start a vibration. Like, super safe. Like, obviously. you Until I own the workshop because I do dumb shit like this.
00:07:38
Curt
Of course. Yeah.
00:07:40
jamie peacock
Would never condone a staff member doing shit like this.
00:07:41
Curt
Yeah.
00:07:43
Curt
Put a glove on next time so it doesn't burn your hand.
00:07:44
jamie peacock
Like,
00:07:45
Curt
That's even better.
00:07:46
jamie peacock
Well, yeah. No, the problem is when the grab glove grips, it rips you in.
00:07:50
Curt
No, that's what I mean. and And put wedding rings on too.
00:07:51
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:07:52
Curt
Like wedding rings inside your glove.
00:07:53
jamie peacock
That helps, yes.
00:07:54
Curt
Yeah. Just everything.
00:07:55
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, that, that, yeah.
00:07:55
Curt
Make it horrible.
00:07:56
jamie peacock
Nothing like a bit of, uh, what's it, uh, sleeving. Or sheathing.
00:07:59
Curt
Or degloving?
00:08:00
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah, no, ya no.
00:08:01
Curt
Yeah. oh
00:08:02
jamie peacock
I've actually now, I've taken to, uh, to Robert Koning my, my lathe. My little, my toy lathe.
00:08:07
Curt
Proper. Yeah, yeah.
00:08:09
jamie peacock
Uh, but... ah um the Chucky sticking out the top and I push the E stop I'm like haha let's annoy some people um but yeah other than that the week was quite fun although ah do you watch Doctor Who?
00:08:15
Curt
Nice.
00:08:19
Curt
Oh. No, I don't.
00:08:25
jamie peacock
aww okay quick context no it's fine quick context Peter Capaldi's run he's a bit of a darker Doctor and he introduces his companion as this is my carer she cares so I don't have to
00:08:26
Curt
Yeah, Sorry.
00:08:38
Curt
Okay. Okay.
00:08:39
jamie peacock
Yes, apparently Danica is my carer. She um censored the after show from last week. She got a little upset with me.
00:08:46
Curt
Oh.
00:08:49
Curt
Oh, okay. I don't even i don't know what part you part you had to censor.
00:08:50
jamie peacock
Yes, about the beginning when we' were discussing the Titan video.
00:08:57
Curt
Oh.
00:08:58
jamie peacock
It was more about what I had to say about the guy presenting it.
00:08:58
Curt
Okay.
00:09:01
jamie peacock
But anyway, yeah, she censored me hard on that one.
00:09:02
Curt
Oh, okay.
00:09:05
jamie peacock
But anyway, so what's... Ooh. oh skunk works. Tell me more. Because that book is now in my my library.
00:09:12
Curt
OK, so there's
00:09:14
jamie peacock
My library grew a little bit over the weekend or over the last week.
00:09:18
Curt
I've had a few people mention it to me. And obviously, like I've loved like the SR-71 is my favorite spy plane that was ever made.
00:09:22
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:09:25
Curt
I mean, still today, it's and still a fantastic piece of engineering. And I knew that book was a little bit about it. I know it's not centered around it, but it's about the stealth.
00:09:31
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:09:31
Curt
It's about the B-1. It's about the Blackbird. um and the first half of the book is kind of like a lot of like political and business ah around the skunk works which is still interesting just but owning a business is still interesting to hear about that um but now i'm in the middle of the book they had kind of just like a big section on the blackbird and about like titanium and stuff like that and it's really interesting um i'm i'm really enjoying it now i kind of had to struggle through the first third of it or so but now it's
00:09:42
jamie peacock
yeah
00:09:52
jamie peacock
okay yeah
00:09:57
Curt
I mean, not, there were still like little pockets of really interesting parts, but I liked the technical aspects, less of the business. But anyways, they talked a whole bunch about titanium and like all the weird issues they were having. And it just, it's is's kind of blowing my mind because i was driving in my Jeep Listening to a bit of this book and hearing about titanium and hearing about like all the, because at that time it was like a fairly exotic new material they were working with.
00:10:19
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah.
00:10:20
Curt
And they like, they were having all kinds of weird issues of like certain, they would use, ah um these are no spoilers because it's a very small part of the book, but like they were using like a little marker on titanium, but it had like a, was it but not chlorine based uh like a chemical base of sorts and it was eating away at the titanium and just like little things that they didn't understand like bolts were snapping off because of like cadmium plated wrenches they were using and just like things were just like it was so cool to like hear about this and being like hey i like i machined titanium in my like little shop and it's just like it's cool to know like
00:10:33
jamie peacock
yeah
00:10:50
Curt
It's just cool to know the whole aspect of it, like these people building planes and having all these issues.
00:10:52
jamie peacock
yeah
00:10:54
Curt
And like now that we understand a lot of it, like we don't put certain things in our coolant because we know it destroys things. It's just kind of cool. I don't know. I found it really interesting.
00:11:02
jamie peacock
yeah that's on my my to listen to list yeah yeah got i got a few books from a from a mutual friend
00:11:05
Curt
Yeah, I would say it's a list it's a good list. And if you're into the world of machining, it's still it's still cool to listen to. I'm only halfway through, so.
00:11:16
jamie peacock
I'm not going to shout out exactly who it was because they're very much borrowed from the internet. But I now have all the books, like 50 gigs of books.
00:11:16
Curt
Hmm.
00:11:22
Curt
Proper.
00:11:24
jamie peacock
um Yeah, and in getting that, I re-listened to Project Hail Mary.
00:11:25
Curt
Sick.
00:11:29
jamie peacock
I finished this morning.
00:11:29
Curt
Yeah.
00:11:30
jamie peacock
It was really good the second time.
00:11:31
Curt
Good idea.
00:11:33
jamie peacock
We went to pick up Danica's family from the airport yesterday. And we went in my truck to their house, picked up there their car.
00:11:37
Curt
Yeah.
00:11:42
jamie peacock
Then both of us went to the airport because it's her brother and his whole family and their dogs and all their freaking luggage.
00:11:45
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:11:49
jamie peacock
So we just threw all the luggage on my truck. And then Danica and I went back. And I was listening to Project Hail Mary. And then after we left her brothers, as we're getting to the off-ramp, My favorite line of the book.
00:12:00
jamie peacock
Fist me!
00:12:00
Curt
Nice.
00:12:01
jamie peacock
Danica just looks at me like, what the fuck? But yeah, I thoroughly enjoyed listening to it a second time.
00:12:04
Curt
I love that book.
00:12:06
jamie peacock
I've got Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy loaded up now. But that's only like five hours.
00:12:10
Curt
Nick. Yeah. i You know what?
00:12:12
jamie peacock
That's
00:12:13
Curt
And so many people like throw a praise at hitchhikers. I didn't care for it. I like, I listened to it and I'm like, it's good. It's good. But like, it wasn't my favorite.
00:12:19
jamie peacock
Yeah, the movie really apparently didn't do it justice. So I'll give it a listen and see. But yeah, I finished Artemis as well.
00:12:27
Curt
Yeah.
00:12:28
jamie peacock
Because I think last time we spoke, I was almost at the end of it. Yeah, that was really good. I encouraged my sister-in-law to listen to it and use some of the things that happened there to my nephews because they are loud as hell.
00:12:40
Curt
Okay. Oh,
00:12:41
jamie peacock
Yeah, towards the end, where the whole moon goes to sleep.
00:12:45
Curt
ah okay, okay.
00:12:46
jamie peacock
Yes, I was like, do that to my nephews. They're noisy as hell.
00:12:50
Curt
I see.
00:12:50
jamie peacock
But yeah, they were busy as hell yesterday when we got back.
00:12:50
Curt
Yeah, yeah,
00:12:54
jamie peacock
You'd think they'd be tired from a four-hour plane flight. No.
00:12:58
Curt
I don't know.
00:12:59
jamie peacock
They were super excited to be home. So yeah, they'd been in Madagascar for like three or four weeks.
00:13:04
Curt
Oh, fun.
00:13:05
jamie peacock
Living their best lives. But yeah, anyway, back to the back to the machining things.
00:13:08
Curt
and like to move it.
00:13:11
jamie peacock
um
00:13:11
Curt
who
00:13:12
jamie peacock
Yeah,
Discovering Fourth Axis Machining
00:13:13
jamie peacock
I've got...
00:13:13
Curt
Okay. pick what Pick one of yours. Let's see. Let's go with... buth but but but I want to hear about the why you can't go back without a fourth axis.
00:13:25
Curt
Okay.
00:13:25
jamie peacock
Oh, yeah, no, I can't. I have been converted to the land of Fourth Axis. It's magic. know if you saw my story this week with the part for the Zlin that I was making.
00:13:36
Curt
ah I don't think so. No, I kind of just spaced out all weekend.
00:13:38
jamie peacock
Okay, so... no that that's fine. um So I made this part last time, and it was seven operations. So one up in the in the lathe to bore out the block, then one up for each end. So I made out a round.
00:13:54
jamie peacock
It's an inverted oil pickup for a Zlin aerobatic plane.
00:13:54
Curt
Okay.
00:13:59
jamie peacock
Hang on.
00:14:00
Curt
Okay. we've talked Yeah, we've talked about that for sure.
00:14:01
jamie peacock
we did We did speak about this.
00:14:02
Curt
I just...
00:14:02
jamie peacock
yeah Yeah, yeah. So this time I did it on the fourth axis, so and it was super freaking easy.
00:14:06
Curt
Oh, sick. Cool.
00:14:08
jamie peacock
So I need to get myself a Lang style plate for my fourth axis because the anchor point that's on there is not rigid enough. I know it's not rigid enough.
00:14:17
Curt
Hmm.
00:14:17
jamie peacock
This is not news to me. um So I want to get Lang style 96mm so I can actually put the anchor points on there still. um But I'm trying to find a ah reasonably priced one.
00:14:29
jamie peacock
But yeah, it's it's great. Like, I love it. I've got plans afoot to hold things and rotate them because it's just super convenient to be able to hit all the sides really easily.
00:14:39
Curt
Yeah, and you're still using it just purely indexing.
00:14:41
jamie peacock
Yeah. So I'm waiting.
00:14:43
Curt
Yeah, so that's awesome.
00:14:43
jamie peacock
emailed to get ah updates on the quotes on the fourth axis and then the five axis trunnion as well.
00:14:49
Curt
Nice.
00:14:49
jamie peacock
i want to know. i want to know how poor that's going to make me.
00:14:50
Curt
Oh.
00:14:52
Curt
I will also send you my whole install guide of how to install a drive. and not Not that you're going to probably do it. like You'll probably just get somebody to come out and do it. But I'll send you all the data anyway, so few if you ever had to.
00:15:03
jamie peacock
Please do, because I'm very curious. Yeah, I might just do that.
00:15:08
Curt
If they sell you all the cables and everything, it's trivial. The only annoying part is getting all the drives to talk to each other. But you have a bit more experience in that than I do, so you should be able to.
00:15:16
jamie peacock
yeah, I've played with Siemens before, and also I can just phone them and say, hey guys, I have an issue here, send your hand around, please, and he'll come around and install that shit in a hot second, there is a Siemens software unlock you need for it, though, for an additional access, yeah, but that's not there at all, can't find a price on that, mean, looking around, cannot find an actual, just, i want to know how much costs,
00:15:26
Curt
Yeah. Cool.
00:15:31
Curt
yeah Yeah, you got to buy. Yeah, it's...
00:15:40
Curt
I don't know either. I don't know.
00:15:41
jamie peacock
Yeah. They don't disclose that. So, yeah, I'm going to see what the what the cost on a fourth is and what the cost on a five-axis trunnion is. I'm kind of curious.
00:15:50
jamie peacock
Because it would be cool. It would be really cool.
00:15:50
Curt
Yeah.
00:15:52
Curt
Yeah.
00:15:52
jamie peacock
Like, there's bunch of stuff.
00:15:53
Curt
Yeah, no, what?
00:15:54
jamie peacock
Like, life would be easy. Just whee! With the five-axis.
00:15:57
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:15:58
jamie peacock
But, yeah, then it becomes the whole the whole challenge of programming it.
00:15:59
Curt
Totally.
00:16:01
jamie peacock
Like, it's... It was last week's Lean Built where Andrew Henry was saying, was chatting to Yeti Man and his wife. And they were saying, yeah, it's not just about getting the new 5X in. And woo, no, it's get the new five as in and then figure out how to program the thing and actually be efficient at running it.
00:16:21
jamie peacock
Because, yeah, they run Matsuris.
00:16:22
Curt
Yeah.
00:16:23
jamie peacock
And it's not just put it on your floor and run. It's put on your floor and then figure your shit out to make it work reliably.
00:16:31
Curt
yeah Yeah, exactly.
00:16:31
jamie peacock
And get your processes all dialed in. But yeah, I want to put a Lang plate, so I'm trying to find a reasonably priced one. I got all the silver CNC. I might just get one of theirs.
00:16:40
Curt
I've honestly heard good things.
00:16:40
jamie peacock
We shall see. Yeah.
00:16:42
Curt
I've heard good things about those. a lot of guys that and I know run them, and they're so inexpensive. And was just like...
00:16:45
jamie peacock
Yeah, they're really not too bad. um Yeah, because want to make a I want to be able to put on a tombstone or put on an L plate with an anchor point that I can then pivot sideways and things like that.
00:16:49
Curt
so
00:17:00
jamie peacock
But yeah, that thing thing is really sweet. i like it. And pretty rigid.
00:17:04
Curt
ah Cool, cool.
00:17:05
jamie peacock
Like, i was running out of rigidity from the anchor point more than from the from the unit itself.
00:17:11
Curt
Like the rigidity between like whatever plate you have, like the like the anchor point coupling or the way the anchor point was coupled to the...
00:17:12
jamie peacock
know
00:17:16
jamie peacock
Yeah, the anchor point coupling is the... No, the anchor point is the weak point.
00:17:18
Curt
Okay.
00:17:20
jamie peacock
Like, I watched it pull out of the one drilling on because I was a little bit violent.
00:17:24
Curt
Okay.
00:17:25
jamie peacock
But at that point, we were probably 105 inches, 125 mils from the contact plane, and I'm pushing an 8.5 drill at a vigorous speed out here.
00:17:25
Curt
Okay.
00:17:40
Curt
Okay.
00:17:40
jamie peacock
So there's a lot of leverage involved.
00:17:43
Curt
Yeah, and you're just honking on that with that little BT-30, so that's totally understandable.
00:17:44
jamie peacock
Nick? the Yeah, it's only about 300 pounds of retention force.
00:17:47
Curt
That's a lot of stuff.
00:17:51
Curt
Yeah.
00:17:51
jamie peacock
But then I did all the Torx fixtures, the new Torx pit fixtures, and those I went to town on.
00:17:56
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:17:57
jamie peacock
la There was no rigidity issues there. ah Just hogging out the the reliefs and then drilling and thread milling the side holes. And that worked pretty pretty well.
00:18:05
Curt
Yeah, those are big, too.
00:18:07
jamie peacock
Yeah, those were 85 millimeters long 108 millimeters in diameter.
00:18:07
Curt
Those are way bigger than I thought they'd be. like
00:18:12
jamie peacock
eight millimeters in diameter
00:18:15
Curt
was going to say about half a loaf of bread. yeah
00:18:18
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's a couple bananas long. ah Yeah, no, they're pretty chunky.
00:18:21
Curt
Cool, yeah.
00:18:22
jamie peacock
i Actually, I need to place order with the powder eron part gos laser cutters. I designed a rack for anchor point pallets that you can screw it to the wall and then just click them in and have all your pallets racked on the wall because I've got a shitload of pallets and storage is becoming a bit of an issue for them.
00:18:33
Curt
Nice.
00:18:40
Curt
Nice, nice.
00:18:41
jamie peacock
So, yeah, busy being fancy. But, yeah, so...
00:18:44
Curt
Yeah. Sick.
00:18:45
jamie peacock
Tell me about your Spinimitron that never used to Spinimitron and now Spinimitrons.
00:18:51
Curt
ah You mean my feature creep thing? That's, I think, feature creep me into a corner where I don't, yeah like, so I sent, like, these, you know what?
00:18:58
jamie peacock
Run it on bushes.
00:19:01
Curt
if it wasn't
00:19:01
jamie peacock
know, see
00:19:02
Curt
If it wasn't for the psychopaths out there, I probably would, because I have this little little fidget thing, and, like, whenever you hold it, you always want to do this. You always want to spin it. And you can kind of spin it. And I was going to put little pips on it so you could just balance it between your fingers.
00:19:14
jamie peacock
ya.
00:19:14
Curt
And it would it would just spin on you know like kind of just how I, whatever, like a gyroscope.
00:19:18
jamie peacock
Point contact, yeah.
00:19:18
Curt
no Yeah, point contact. But I'm like, that's a cop out. ah So I started designing. So i I bored a hole through it. And I started to see like how small of a bearing can I buy. So I bought these little bastards.
00:19:31
Curt
And these are little 3-millimeter bearings.
00:19:35
jamie peacock
Jeez, yeah.
00:19:36
Curt
um Yeah, 3-millimeter bore.
00:19:37
jamie peacock
Three by eight.
00:19:39
Curt
3 by 7 by 3, think.
00:19:40
jamie peacock
Oh, wow.
00:19:42
Curt
um So i can stack two yeah I can stack two of them in there so I can squeeze them so I can get some a little bit of like axial stability as opposed to just one bearing.
00:19:42
jamie peacock
Holy cow.
00:19:48
jamie peacock
yeah stability go for it challenge
00:19:50
Curt
um But yeah, jamming all that inside like a quarter inch, or I'm now mixing units, jamming all that inside like a 9mm, 8mm tube is ah and it's getting, all the parts got really small. So the axle is going to be three millimeter And then, um yeah, it's like, I just, I'll open, it I'll open it here.
00:20:09
Curt
Actually, if, if you're,
00:20:09
jamie peacock
you can get two millimeter ID bearings just by the way yeah drone drone motor bearings as beefy as possible
00:20:13
Curt
Oh yeah, I know I can get smaller. I just wanted to make the axle is.
00:20:18
Curt
Yeah. So that I'm not, um so yeah, if people are watching this, you can see the copious crap that's going on inside this little thing.
00:20:24
jamie peacock
Fucking hell, dude.
00:20:25
Curt
Like there's two bearings in there. There's kind of a, it's going to be a C clip. It's going to be things that squish it together. There's a, yeah.
00:20:31
jamie peacock
Just cop out and put a ball bearing in each end so you have point contact on each end.
00:20:35
Curt
I was going to, I just don't want to make, i still want to make it thicker. Like I want to make it, I want to make it, um, not any thicker than.
00:20:40
jamie peacock
Okay. Well, the ball only has to stick out a little bit.
00:20:44
Curt
Yeah.
00:20:44
jamie peacock
Just enough to give point contact.
00:20:45
Curt
Yeah. I know, but like people want to spin it and have like zzzz. like have it spin up so and i was like you know what yeah you know what a bronze bush and a little bit lube in there would probably be just fine but whatever i'll put bearings because it'll sound cooler and um so anyways and then of course i couldn't be normal i found like stupid abec abec one bearings and i was like i'll just use those whatever and then i then i thought about it and i'm like i'm not using abec ones a spec is way out of line like then i'm gonna be annoyed because i'm not gonna be able to put pins in it so i bought abec sevens which are like
00:20:52
jamie peacock
Yeah, fair enough. But a bronze bush.
00:20:58
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:21:03
jamie peacock
Feature creeps.
Design Challenges and Feature Creep
00:21:17
Curt
a way higher tolerance, but way more expensive. And I'm just like, what am I doing? Like this project is so much money and I don't even know if it's going to work, but like, whatever.
00:21:24
jamie peacock
oh Yeah, that's brilliant. Feature keep creeping it to to the nth degree.
00:21:29
Curt
Thankfully, Well, thankfully, the interest is super high. So it's like, ah yeah, I'm spending a ton of money on it, but I know I can recoup it like instantly.
00:21:34
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:21:37
Curt
So that's like a huge positive.
00:21:39
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:21:39
Curt
So I can't i can't bitch. But it's yeah it's fun. this These would be one of the smallest things I've ever machined. So yeah, don't know. I'm interested. I like this kind of stuff. I like the dorky intricacies of this kind of stuff.
00:21:50
jamie peacock
Yeah. You like a challenge.
00:21:52
Curt
Yeah. well i was going to make the pin out of titanium. I was like, I'll turn down some titanium because I'm like, what am I doing? And that kind of leads into my second point of McMaster is
00:22:03
jamie peacock
Ah, yes.
00:22:03
Curt
like I believe in the holy church of McMaster like it is I was like you know what instead of making these pins I'm gonna buy dowel pins so I bought I can buy dowel pins like stainless dowel pins and then I'm like I can buy instead of machining a stupid little like it's essentially a pin with like a big donut in the middle instead of machining a donut I can use a c-clip and then I can get an exact precision c-clip to whatever thickness I want and it's like you just you can get whatever you want like it's it's fantastic what's
00:22:07
jamie peacock
Yeah. yeah
00:22:27
jamie peacock
Yep. Yeah, no, you got so spoiled.
00:22:31
Curt
Oh, it's and it's like I can get it tomorrow. I order it now and it'll be here tomorrow.
00:22:33
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:22:34
Curt
Like it's we're so spoiled. And Canada didn't have McMaster for a long time. I remember when I was building robots back in the day, all the Americans would have it. And I would be like, oh, I wish I had your access. And then we got it.
00:22:45
Curt
And I'm like, oh, I see.
00:22:47
jamie peacock
And now I'm poor.
00:22:47
Curt
I see why this is. yeah Oh, 100%. Yeah. The shipping is insane. The price is insane. But you want it.
00:22:52
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:22:54
Curt
We got it. It's like there's value in that for sure.
00:22:55
jamie peacock
That, yeah. No, McMaster's really cool. There's... I'm trying to think. There's one or two similar things here, but they really... Hot garbage by comparison. Like, if I'm looking for fasteners, I get hold of one of my friends who does fasteners, and he gets really good pricing and can pretty much source anything I want.
00:23:05
Curt
Yeah, and I mean...
00:23:14
Curt
Yeah.
00:23:15
jamie peacock
No.
00:23:15
Curt
Yeah.
00:23:15
jamie peacock
Like, I need to actually buy Grubscrews tomorrow. It's on the list of to-dos.
00:23:19
Curt
Well, and that's also what...
00:23:21
jamie peacock
Because I now have to keep a list.
00:23:24
Curt
I say what also snowballed in that stupid thing is that three millimeter shaft. I have to put screws in each end of it because I have to fasten this thing together.
00:23:28
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:23:29
Curt
And I'm like, I'll just use my screws that I put so much work into building and then they're too big. So now I have to go down to like, like a 180 or 172 screw. And I'm just like, oh, this is never ending.
00:23:41
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, you are...
00:23:42
Curt
So
00:23:43
jamie peacock
Yeah, that's ah that's a very, very deep rabbit hole. You're on your way down.
00:23:47
Curt
I like it. It's fun. Yeah. So anyway.
00:23:49
jamie peacock
Yeah, that's... yeah um
00:23:52
Curt
So if people want to know what the progress is, it's just yeah me and tears and thinking, but it's going to be cool, I think. Or it's not going to work at all, and i'll throw it in the garbage, and we'll just never speak of it again.
00:24:03
jamie peacock
Hopefully not, with the amount of effort you've put into it.
00:24:06
Curt
yeah I've burnt more money doing dumber things, whatever.
00:24:10
jamie peacock
Fair enough. um Yeah. I get to machine 700 Dutchman squeeze box reeds.
00:24:18
Curt
That's a lot.
00:24:20
jamie peacock
It is. It's going to be super pleasant.
00:24:21
Curt
Are those all the ones, are they like all different sizes too? Oh,
00:24:25
jamie peacock
I got the guy to sort them into their different sizes for me.
00:24:29
Curt
what a gentleman. Cool.
00:24:29
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, dude, he's getting a fucking killer deal on it, so I'm like, please sort them out before you bring them to me, so they've come in Ziploc bags ah in each different size, and then there's a set i have to keep separate, because they are a different grade, and they sound better or some shit, so...
00:24:30
Curt
Okay.
00:24:39
Curt
Hmm.
00:24:45
jamie peacock
I'm going to set up, going to make a second fixture, and then i will literally take one one little bank baggie, two little bank baggies that will both fit on the pallets at the same time, empty into them into a little tub, load and go.
00:24:57
jamie peacock
Have one pallet that reloading while the other one runs, and then just plow through them.
00:25:01
Curt
Nice.
00:25:01
jamie peacock
It's probably in the region of about five hours' work to get it all done, five or six hours' work.
00:25:08
Curt
Okay, well, that's not torturous.
00:25:08
jamie peacock
So it's not, you know, no, it's not too bad.
00:25:10
Curt
Yeah.
00:25:11
jamie peacock
Audiobook and carry on.
00:25:13
Curt
Yeah, fair enough.
00:25:13
jamie peacock
Tomorrow I get to rigid tap 300 pots with a six second cycle time.
00:25:18
Curt
Ooh. ah Well, that sounds like, yeah, that sounds heinous.
00:25:20
jamie peacock
It's the best.
00:25:22
jamie peacock
Yeah, it literally takes me 40 minutes. So I stand there, I put, I definitely have the door of my machine closed. I put a divider up so I don't get splashed.
00:25:29
Curt
Of course.
00:25:31
jamie peacock
And then just mill a pocket instead of jaws. And the machine, full rapid, comes in, rigid taps at 2000 RPM, rigid taps out, thing comes over, I loosen, slap a new one in tight and hit go.
00:25:43
jamie peacock
And I just back and forth. Every, I think, six seconds or so, we get a new part out of the machine.
00:25:45
Curt
Nice.
00:25:48
jamie peacock
It's freaking stupid fast.
00:25:49
Curt
Cool.
00:25:50
jamie peacock
But yeah, that's chasing down stuff for month end, getting jobs out of the out of the to-do list.
00:25:50
Curt
and Cool.
00:25:56
Curt
Yeah, yeah, no fair.
00:25:56
jamie peacock
like That's what's running now in and Bertha. So I was tweaking stuff today, adjusting the drilling. Because I was just plowing in and drilling with a center drill.
00:26:06
Curt
Ooh, that's chunky.
00:26:07
jamie peacock
Yeah, high speed steel, big ass sensor drill. I need a 16 millimeter chamfer. So I just bought a 20 mil chamfer drill and I just plow in with that and then I drill the hole for the threads and then it gets parted off.
00:26:16
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:26:21
jamie peacock
And that was making a shaving that was so thick it was getting between my stopper and the part. So I ended up changing it to just do it like cancha hand coated it to do a chip break.
00:26:27
Curt
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:26:31
jamie peacock
So it feeds in, backs out 0.2, feeds, backs out, backs out, backs and just makes short chips.
00:26:32
Curt
Oh.
00:26:35
jamie peacock
So I was just optimizing that.
00:26:36
Curt
Yeah.
00:26:37
jamie peacock
ah But the new collet I bought runs a lot truer than the old one. I think it also helps that the material is actually 20 millimeters, not 19.9, and they want the finished part to be 19.85.
00:26:41
Curt
Weird.
00:26:52
jamie peacock
So the last couple batches, yeah, we've had it where it hasn't cleaned up.
00:26:53
Curt
Ooh, yeah.
00:26:57
jamie peacock
um
00:26:57
Curt
Yeah.
00:26:58
jamie peacock
in one of the sections and now so far so good everything's cleaned up taking comma one five off so it's at least running nicely so I died Danica running the bandsaw because they cut the material to one meter like idiots they meant to cut it to 750 so because my bar feeder is 750 long and they didn't ask they just cut so now I've got 250 which Danica gets the load and run four parts and then 750 which runs 14 parts
00:27:04
Curt
Wow. Yeah, that's tight. Mm.
00:27:25
jamie peacock
But yeah, that's tomorrow morning's endeavor, is getting that job finished.
00:27:26
Curt
Yeah.
00:27:31
jamie peacock
But yeah, I've got Tufnel coming in again as well.
00:27:31
Curt
Exciting. At least get it done, get it out.
00:27:34
jamie peacock
Yay.
00:27:36
Curt
Gross.
00:27:36
jamie peacock
Yeah, I'm going to have to build a Pearson rig to be able to lift my fourth axis out, because I need my full table.
00:27:41
Curt
Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:27:42
jamie peacock
So I've got a plan afoot. I ended up not annoying the internet.
00:27:48
Curt
ah Oh, yeah, you yeah.
00:27:49
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:27:50
Curt
You're in the same problem I have. Yeah, yeah.
00:27:52
jamie peacock
Yeah, it was just easier to put it the same as your machine. But all the brothers have them on the other side, interestingly.
00:27:56
Curt
Put on the... Yeah.
00:27:59
jamie peacock
um Also, Justin Gray says it goes on the left. It's not up for debate. um And I would have liked it on the left.
00:28:07
Curt
How is he, how is, i don't know, he's a lathe aficionado.
00:28:07
jamie peacock
Mine's on the right.
00:28:11
jamie peacock
or He's got a brother and the brothers all go on the left.
00:28:11
Curt
Why does he want it on the left too? Oh, sorry. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah Okay.
00:28:15
jamie peacock
Yeah, all the brothers put on the left.
00:28:16
Curt
Fair enough. Okay.
00:28:17
jamie peacock
um Even if I buy trunnion, I want it on the left of my machine. Not on the right, because I'm creepy. um
00:28:24
Curt
Oh yeah.
00:28:24
jamie peacock
But yeah, I made myself Pearson Smart Plate out of material I had kicking around to shift my fourth out of the envelope a bit.
00:28:25
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:28:32
jamie peacock
And then I have clearance.
00:28:32
Curt
Yeah.
00:28:37
jamie peacock
To the point that it knocks the washdown hose out of the way when it homes.
00:28:42
Curt
Yeah, that's getting tight to the enclosure.
00:28:42
jamie peacock
But clearance's clearance is clearance. Yeah, nothing's touching.
00:28:45
Curt
Yeah, no done no doubt.
00:28:46
jamie peacock
So, yeah, I need to yeah need to make the little bar because mine doesn't have a roof, my machine.
00:28:46
Curt
Yeah.
00:28:51
jamie peacock
So I've got to make a steel bar across the top that I can winch it up against.
Innovative Lifting Solutions
00:28:56
Curt
how do you mean How do you mean, like, you don't have a roof? Like, is it enclosed or is it just like...
00:29:00
jamie peacock
It's enclosed.
00:29:00
Curt
Oh,
00:29:01
jamie peacock
It just doesn't have a roof. I've put, what's that shit called? Correx. or Yeah, I put Correx, yeah, Coroplast on the roof just to stop splatter.
00:29:06
Curt
okay. Chloroplaster.
00:29:12
jamie peacock
So I'm just, yeah, I'm going to go buy a piece of, I'll just go to the the metal place and literally go see what they've got laying around as offcuts. But I'll probably just buy two pieces of square bar and then bolt them together with spacers so that I can run the wire, the cable over the spacers, make one of the spacers into a pulley.
00:29:30
Curt
I mean, not having a roof is almost an advantage there, because you can just like yank it right out of the machine if you wanted to, like as opposed to having it hugged.
00:29:36
jamie peacock
Yeah, I'm just going to jack it up to the, high up in the machine it's out of the way.
00:29:40
Curt
Although you don't run a freaking telephone booth little machine like me. Like you have room.
00:29:43
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:29:43
Curt
Like you could probably hide in the corner of your machine.
00:29:44
jamie peacock
I got space for days.
00:29:45
Curt
Yeah. Yeah. yeah yeah
00:29:46
jamie peacock
Dude, I could stand in there while at machines and I've got space.
00:29:49
jamie peacock
Like, my feet would get wet, but yeah.
00:29:49
Curt
Yeah.
00:29:50
Curt
yeah Fair. Yeah.
00:29:52
jamie peacock
That's actually, that's on the list of shit to do is to actually climb in my machine and clean the spindle fan on the top of the spindle motor because that is a tad grimy. So want to get in there and pull it off at some point and just do a bit of preventative maintenance.
00:30:04
Curt
Yeah.
00:30:07
Curt
yeah That's probably a good idea. Yeah.
00:30:09
jamie peacock
Yeah. So, what did you think of those parts I sent you a picture of today?
00:30:14
jamie peacock
Oh, yes. For all those listening, I'll post a picture of them tomorrow on Instagram. Well, today when the podcast comes out. I'll post so you can see what we're talking about.
00:30:14
Curt
Those are pretty.
00:30:21
Curt
they They kind of look like, for just people listening right now, they kind of look like fancy brake levers in like, or Lego PC, yeah, Lego Technic.
00:30:27
jamie peacock
ah They look like Lego pieces. Yeah.
00:30:31
Curt
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:30:31
jamie peacock
Yes. Also, Roger learned to design things. um Every single one of them had a design issue. We had M3 by 0.2 holes, which were meant to be M3 0.5.
00:30:44
jamie peacock
um
00:30:44
Curt
Yeah, I was...
00:30:45
jamie peacock
We had holes that weren't there. We had threaded holes that interfaced with threaded holes, but in the model, there's a bolt going through them. So, yeah, there were lots of retarded things designed in SOLIDWORKS using the hole tool, which is the problem.
00:30:57
jamie peacock
Anyway, I updated all the drawings and made all of them on Sunday. um Yeah, it was quite fun. everyone Most of them had a second op, but some of them I managed to do in one op.
00:31:05
Curt
yeah I was looking at this, I'm like, I think of these are going to be two ops. I thought we'd be talking about that. and i was like, oh, they're kind of interesting, some of them. Like, you could probably get them by two ops, but eh.
00:31:12
jamie peacock
Yeah, so most of them most of them were done so backside chamfer, slitting saw off, and then it was just hold it sideways and put a middle of slot and put the threaded hole through the big ones.
00:31:24
jamie peacock
And then there's one little can square one that I had to hold on end and put an M3 thread into the end of it.
00:31:31
Curt
Oh, cool.
00:31:32
jamie peacock
But all in all, like not super complicated, just a little bit tedious to program and set up and program and set up. So I made two sets of them.
00:31:39
Curt
are they all Are they all brass?
00:31:41
jamie peacock
Yeah, they're all brass. They're brass.
00:31:43
Curt
Okay, yeah.
00:31:43
jamie peacock
They're getting shit-soldered into them. Connectors. And it's the power distribution for a UAV v of some sort.
00:31:51
Curt
Oh, weird. Oh, those are power distribution bars?
00:31:52
jamie peacock
It's the power... Yeah, it's bus bars. It's the bus bars for all the molds that I've been making for that craft.
00:31:55
Curt
Oh.
00:31:59
Curt
Interesting. They're freaking fancy bus bars.
00:32:00
jamie peacock
Yeah. So they've got three XT60s that are being used not in the normal sense because they're using both pins on each one. ah for something They're bridged.
00:32:12
jamie peacock
And then it goes to what looks like are other bullet connectors that things plug into.
00:32:13
Curt
Okay.
00:32:16
jamie peacock
I don't know.
00:32:18
Curt
Sick. Oh, that's cool.
00:32:18
jamie peacock
Yeah, not not my circus, not my clowns.
00:32:19
Curt
Yeah, that's cool.
00:32:21
jamie peacock
um
00:32:22
Curt
Sure, yeah.
00:32:22
jamie peacock
I just make the wits and bobs for them. but also really you Lots of fun.
00:32:25
Curt
Oh, cool.
00:32:26
jamie peacock
I've actually got note. So I bought a... um A chalk marker. and strokemarker Anyway, it's a freaking cookie that just writes in chalk to write on the window of my machine.
00:32:33
Curt
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:32:37
jamie peacock
Like now I've got note. T-tool is used because I broke my tool two when I threw a through one of the pieces because wasn't holding it properly. And brass is a little more bitey than aluminum.
00:32:46
Curt
Sure. Yeah, yeah. Mm-hmm.
00:32:49
jamie peacock
So I threw in an old tool because I'm just using the six mil for roughing.
00:32:50
Curt
yeah
00:32:54
jamie peacock
So I didn't want to put a brand new tool in and then potentially stuff up the edge. So now I've got a note written on the door and I had a note written for the last week. G57 is broken. um ah accidentally reset the Z on my G57. Luckily,
00:33:09
jamie peacock
luckily I have it backed up in G157, or no, G557, and my extended offsets is the back anchor point, it's pin, and Z-hearts, and the Z-hearts are three microns off, so it's fine.
00:33:22
jamie peacock
I can just jog to there and then reset it.
00:33:26
Curt
Clever. Yeah, clever.
00:33:26
jamie peacock
Also, I've figured out how to access the extended work offsets in Fusion.
00:33:32
Curt
Oh, okay.
00:33:33
jamie peacock
Because mark currently, the G154 is the center of rotation in X and Z of my fourth axis. And then X are set according to the job.
00:33:45
Curt
Sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:33:46
jamie peacock
Yeah, so that I set as 154. And that offset 14, I think. and that is of sets fourteen I know.
00:33:56
jamie peacock
um just I just output the code, see what it puts, and then adjust accordingly. But yeah, figured out how to access those, yeah.
00:33:59
Curt
Yeah, it same.
00:34:01
jamie peacock
I figured out how to get, i like, to spit out the codes I actually want.
00:34:01
Curt
Oh, cool.
00:34:05
jamie peacock
Because I do tend to program stuff on weird offsets occasionally.
00:34:08
Curt
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:34:09
jamie peacock
And that, I mean, that is my plan with the with the four anchor points on the table, is it's G57, G157, G257, and G357.
00:34:09
Curt
Yeah.
00:34:20
jamie peacock
That when I output code, I can output using the fusion, it's the multiple work offsets, and then I set the spacing at whatever, 10 or 8 or whatever it is, and it will just spit out to all the correct work offsets.
00:34:29
Curt
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:34:37
Curt
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:34:37
jamie peacock
Yeah, because both of our controllers have a shitload of offsets.
00:34:41
Curt
Yeah, like more than the same thing. I use a lot of them just for backups of like, OK, this is same thing, like 56.
00:34:43
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:34:46
Curt
fifty six and i can I'll throw it way, way down the down the list or or just places, yeah.
00:34:48
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:34:51
jamie peacock
Yeah, I actually need to move my... I need to move my warm-up program onto one of the high numbers because I'd like to use 58 for something else. like that's yeah but That's just old habits from when I ran a FNUC machine.
00:35:06
jamie peacock
and I only had 54 through 59. So then like 59 was dedicated to my warmup cycle. That it was, in the morning, it was always just set at the middle of the travels, turn the machine on, hit go, and it could warm up.
00:35:21
Curt
That's cool.
00:35:21
jamie peacock
Yeah, even my Linux TNC setup is the same, because that's also only got a couple offsets.
00:35:22
Curt
oh yeah
00:35:28
Curt
Did you know that FANUC is, what is it? Is it Fuji?
00:35:32
jamie peacock
Fujitsu, yeah, Fuji, yeah, where did we hear that?
00:35:34
Curt
Yeah. I didn't, I just recently I came across and I can't remember where, but I i know it's somewhere where we're all of rubbing shoulders.
00:35:42
jamie peacock
Yeah, it was on the Instant Machinist community. i saw it somewhere on instant Instagram.
00:35:48
Curt
Oh, you know who was? ah Oh, he runs, he's got robots, a ton of FANUC machines. can't remember now, sorry. Whoever's listening to this.
00:35:57
jamie peacock
Should I sing? Yeah,
00:35:59
Curt
Sure. Yeah. We'll figure it out. Anyways.
00:36:01
jamie peacock
yeah no, it was it was very, yeah, Fujitsu universal numerical control or something.
00:36:06
Curt
Yeah. Something.
00:36:07
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:36:08
Curt
I didn't know that. i was like, oh, cool.
00:36:09
jamie peacock
Yeah, neither did I.
00:36:09
Curt
Okay. This makes sense.
00:36:10
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:36:11
Curt
Yeah.
00:36:11
jamie peacock
Because, yeah, that's old school.
00:36:12
Curt
don't know.
00:36:13
jamie peacock
Yeah, finook.
00:36:14
Curt
Oh, yeah. yeah Yeah.
00:36:15
jamie peacock
Like, it works. Like, the built-in roughing cycles in there are something else. Like, when you get your head around them, I see the value in it if you are hand-coding something.
00:36:23
Curt
Hmm.
00:36:27
jamie peacock
It makes perfect sense. In the modern day and age, we have CAD and CAM, but yeah, I understand why, why they exist.
00:36:29
Curt
Right, yeah, yeah.
00:36:34
Curt
Yeah. Well, like, it kind of reminds me of...
00:36:36
jamie peacock
Nuggets really.
00:36:38
Curt
It reminds me in school, like when we when we were programming, we were programming on like motorellala Motorola chip sets and programming everything in assembler. And like, beautiful, because it's like one cycle, one like boom.
00:36:46
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:36:50
Curt
You want to make efficient code, program in assembly. ah You want to kill yourself, program in assembly, because it's like, it's heinous to you.
00:36:52
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:36:56
Curt
Like you just want to do simple math, good luck. Like, okay, load accumulator, unload accumulators. Like it's a lot of operations, as opposed to nowadays, like, oh, sum these numbers, boom, one line of code, you can do it.
00:37:03
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:37:07
Curt
crazy anyways just it kind of reminded me of that of just like totally yeah it's like oh whatever this yeah
00:37:08
jamie peacock
Yeah, or even better, ChatGPT, some of these numbers. Danica was swearing at ChatGPT on Wednesday because we we did the buttons for the QuizNight and were trying to implement a code change.
00:37:20
Curt
yeah yeah
00:37:22
jamie peacock
And then it works, but the colors are wrong. But she doesn't know that RGB LEDs can be addressed RGB or GRB. So the colors are fucking wrong. So then it was working, but now she's trying to get it to put different colors.
00:37:35
jamie peacock
And yeah i'm like, you should have just asked. would have told you it's one on one of the lines. You just have to change change that. It's which LED is being addressed in which order. And the only reason I know that is from drone racing when my indicators on my drone were the wrong colors.
00:37:43
Curt
Right, yeah.
00:37:48
jamie peacock
That's how I learned that.
00:37:48
Curt
Yep, yep, yep, yep.
00:37:49
jamie peacock
And in like the amount of stuff you take for granted. I had someone ask me to teach them Fusion. And I'm like, please just go pay for the Fusion 360 for makers from I like to make stuff.
00:38:01
jamie peacock
Just go to his course, please. Because it covers the basics.
00:38:03
Curt
Yeah.
00:38:05
jamie peacock
I'm not going to teach the basics. I'm going to assume you know what I know in the CAD realm.
00:38:10
Curt
Yeah.
00:38:10
jamie peacock
And I'm just teaching you how to use the interface. I'm not teaching you the fundamentals of parametric modeling.
00:38:16
Curt
Totally. Yeah. Yeah.
00:38:17
jamie peacock
and o I used AutoCAD today.
00:38:21
Curt
Oh.
00:38:22
jamie peacock
Yeah, it was fucking horrid. I'm used to Fusion now. Now, remember when I started Fusion, i hated it because it wasn't like AutoCAD, and yeah, had to do some AutoCAD stuff and was horrible.
00:38:30
Curt
Yeah.
00:38:31
jamie peacock
I also managed to lose all my lasers, presets, and light burn.
00:38:36
Curt
Oh, bummer.
00:38:37
jamie peacock
Yeah, i turned on my PC, was adjusting the screen, and then it shut the bed. So I killed the power, and then it was giving me a memory alarm, so I'll turn it back on, and then Lightburn's like, hey, we have no setups for you.
00:38:51
jamie peacock
So i had to go and find the piece of paper that has my fiber laser's scaling and settings on it, written on it by hand by gentleman. I had to find that so I could get fiber laser working. still haven't got my CO2 working again.
00:39:05
jamie peacock
And i I'm now going to make backups of my configs. Because I didn't have backups of my fucking configs.
00:39:13
Curt
that's say
00:39:13
jamie peacock
It was a little annoying.
00:39:14
Curt
that's how That's how backups usually come about. It's like once you get roasted once, you're like, okay, now I'll make, or you get roasted twice or three times and then you do it.
00:39:17
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:39:19
jamie peacock
Well, I mean, that...
00:39:23
jamie peacock
That PC was built 14 ago.
00:39:28
Curt
Okay, so it's ripe for a little bit of a finagling.
00:39:28
jamie peacock
just yeah Just before I moved up to Johannesburg, I built that PC.
00:39:30
Curt
Yeah.
00:39:33
jamie peacock
And that was my gaming rig for many years. And it's a tad outdated. Still overpowered for running a freaking laser. um
00:39:40
jamie peacock
The reason I stopped using this because it is because the CPU didn't support the new anti-cheats for playing online.
00:39:40
Curt
Right.
00:39:46
Curt
Oh, OK.
00:39:47
jamie peacock
Because it's an AMD Phenom X6.
00:39:47
Curt
Nice. OK. Yeah.
00:39:51
jamie peacock
So it just straight up wasn't supported because was bit of a niche CPU. But yeah, it's got 12 gigs of RAM. It does the job. Danica's trying to get me to put my old screen on there so it's got a decent screen for running the lasers.
00:40:00
Curt
Yeah.
00:40:04
jamie peacock
It's got a square screen and she hates it.
00:40:07
Curt
Yeah. Fair.
00:40:07
jamie peacock
But yeah, that's a her problem.
00:40:08
Curt
Yeah.
00:40:11
jamie peacock
Oh yeah, did did you know you can make airtight 3D prints relatively easily?
00:40:19
Curt
Tell me, because actually, weirdly enough, just tried to 3D print something that was airtight. I ended up covering it in silicone. um But tell me tell me your secrets.
3D Printing Tips for Airtight Projects
00:40:28
jamie peacock
Six perimeters. End of story.
00:40:29
Curt
OK. OK. OK. That's what I. OK.
00:40:32
jamie peacock
So i need ah so i needed a butt plug for the um for the rotary, for the fourth axis, so i could pass air through for the for the anchor point.
00:40:32
Curt
Never mind. I thought something clever.
00:40:38
Curt
Sure. Yeah, whatever it is. Yeah, sure.
00:40:42
jamie peacock
So I literally printed six sidewalls, tap in a drill, threaded, threaded, screwed in my fittings, and airtight.
00:40:42
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:40:49
Curt
Beautiful.
00:40:50
jamie peacock
Just out of PLA, but I think I do overextrude just a little bit as my preset.
00:40:50
Curt
Nice.
00:40:54
jamie peacock
Okay. on my printer.
00:40:56
Curt
Yeah.
00:40:56
jamie peacock
I tend to overextrude a bit looking for strength, not for prettiness. So yeah, airtight.
00:41:00
Curt
Yeah.
00:41:01
jamie peacock
Like, same time. they Didn't even have to try. And then I put an O-ring on it and and rammed it into the thing's butthole. And now I have a pass-through for air so that I can unclamp.
00:41:10
Curt
Sick.
00:41:10
jamie peacock
Because that's the anchor point with no air port on the side.
00:41:14
Curt
Oh, right, right, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:41:15
jamie peacock
Yes. Also, was chatting to Ben from Black Fox today.
00:41:17
Curt
Yeah.
00:41:19
jamie peacock
The green one is going to head their way.
00:41:22
Curt
Oh, really? Cool.
00:41:23
jamie peacock
Yeah, he was like, fucking he'll pay for shipping. I'm like, okay, fucking one time. I don't mind.
00:41:27
Curt
Oh, cool.
00:41:28
jamie peacock
Like, it was either going to go on my machine or his.
00:41:28
Curt
That's nice.
00:41:30
jamie peacock
I'm like, listen, the vi it's missing one of its feeds. Please point that towards the back of your machine so no one sees it. um But yeah, I'm going to send that off. I'm just, I'm actually waiting my, so...
00:41:42
jamie peacock
Ah, FedEx. I love FedEx to bits, as in to hack them into little pieces. um Now, as far as bringing stuff into South Africa, they're fucking great. Out of all the parts all the anchor points I've sent out, we've had no issues until EJ's French flag.
00:41:58
Curt
Oh no.
00:41:59
jamie peacock
It's been missing since the 10th.
00:42:02
Curt
Oh no.
00:42:03
jamie peacock
Yeah, so he's reach stuck in Memphis or fuck knows.
00:42:04
Curt
Like totally off the books or?
00:42:08
Curt
Oh, that happens.
00:42:09
jamie peacock
So he yeah he reached out and has done a claim with them.
00:42:09
Curt
That happens.
00:42:13
jamie peacock
So we will see what what happens there. I reached out today to the shipping guys, okay, what the fuck's happening my parcel?
00:42:16
Curt
Yeah.
00:42:19
jamie peacock
And now tomorrow, i need to reach out to them and say, I tried to make a shipment. It did not calculate any duties going to the US. What the fuck? It's meant to calculate duties. um As far as I know, that's all meant to be implemented, because I'm going to add a shipping option, including duties.
00:42:29
Curt
Yeah.
00:42:37
jamie peacock
So I think I might just duplicate the Anchor Point product and say, Anchor Point for Americans, um shipping includes duties, and then limit the number of pallets they can buy.
00:42:37
Curt
yeah
00:42:47
jamie peacock
So I can gauge what that duty is going to be, and we pay it on our side. So it just arrives.
00:42:53
Curt
yeah
00:42:54
jamie peacock
Duties prepaid. But obviously, that's goingnna the shipping on that's going to be rough. Because know Saunders was saying they bought a Freddy and then got a lovely bill from FedEx.
00:43:00
Curt
Yeah.
00:43:05
Curt
Yeah, that's,
00:43:05
jamie peacock
for import duties. I'm like, yeah, that's that is how it works.
00:43:09
Curt
yeahs yeah. Well, I have opinions on that, but we'll just leave them quiet.
00:43:13
jamie peacock
Yeah, we'll save it for the after show.
00:43:14
Curt
Yeah. hey
00:43:15
jamie peacock
Speaking of the after show, um we have an after show for our Patreons. But now Kurt's going to tell us tell you about what the patron does because my wife didn't do the thing i asked.
00:43:28
Curt
What do I have to tell?
00:43:29
jamie peacock
speak words Kurt tell people where they are on Patreon and where they can find information while I quickly look up our new Patreons so that weren't added to the list yes
00:43:30
Curt
What do I have to tell about pitch? Oh,
00:43:37
Curt
Oh, oh, I see. Okay. Well, you can find us. ah We have a lovely website of theloanmachinists.com and that links to a bunch of everything. If you don't want to remember all this stuff, you can find us on Patreon.
00:43:48
Curt
We probably have a link in this podcast that links to that somewhere, I would imagine. So I don't know.
00:43:52
jamie peacock
more than likely
00:43:52
Curt
i don't run the I don't run the levers and cranks. I'm just the pretty face that gets to talk with Jamie on the other end. And yeah, and then and people, lovely people that Jamie's trying to search out, you know, give us money each month to yell at each other.
00:44:04
jamie peacock
I have searched out.
00:44:07
Curt
And honestly, it helps pay the bills. We very much appreciate it. um I love talking to Jamie. fun just talking with somebody else and just like commiserating and sharing our misery because we kind of both live in solitary worlds.
00:44:18
Curt
um So I really appreciate other people listening and deeming that this rambling is actually worth some of your hard-earned shackles. So yeah, I appreciate that. hell out of all of you.
00:44:28
Curt
Even if he was listening for no money, that's cool too. I don't care. But the people that give us money, I like you more.
00:44:34
jamie peacock
ah Class for days, Kurt.
00:44:36
Curt
and those And those people include...
00:44:36
jamie peacock
So, yes, those people include Jade from Benchmark20, Luke from Fabtastic, AJ from Subtract Manufacturing, and EJ from Nocturnal Welding. And our top tier, as well as our new Patreons, Christian Olson and James N. Thank you guys for supporting us on Patreon and adding to the fund for me to go kidnap Kurt next year in September.
00:45:01
Curt
Well, no, because if you kidnap me and then they take me across and they'll kidnap me again and then they'll... Yeah, no.
00:45:07
jamie peacock
We're going to come fetch him and drag him to IMTS. um But yeah, thank you very much to the patrons. That is where the money is heading, is to get us to IMTS. Even if Kurt doesn't want to come, I'll go fetch him. It's fine. ah we will We will convince him. We will wear him down.
00:45:22
jamie peacock
um But yeah, I am planning on going to IMTS for 2026, because it was a jaw in 2024. four So looking forward to...
00:45:32
Curt
Yeah.
00:45:32
jamie peacock
i actually am looking forward to going there and just looking at all the fancy shit again.
00:45:36
Curt
I would, you know what?
00:45:37
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:45:37
Curt
Seriously, I would so much love to go and just like visit with the people and see the things. It's just the whole political environment keeps me from wanting to do that. And it's a hundred percent going to keep me from wanting to do that, but it's not because of the people.
00:45:50
Curt
It's because of the, of the way the levers and cranks have been pulled.
00:45:51
jamie peacock
Yeah. Now, hopefully something there will change soon.
00:45:53
Curt
So absolutely.
00:45:55
jamie peacock
And then, yeah, we can always be hopeful because my wife's adamant we are going.
00:45:56
Curt
Yeah. Yeah. Maybe.
00:46:00
jamie peacock
I am...
00:46:02
jamie peacock
and Unless things change. Yeah, I don't know. That's a topic for another day. um
00:46:02
Curt
That's cool.
00:46:06
Curt
Fair enough.
00:46:07
jamie peacock
Hopefully there will be change. ah Good change, not bad change.
00:46:09
Curt
Yeah, we'll see.
00:46:11
jamie peacock
But yeah, thank you to the Patreons. And also thank you to Taps and Patience. They shouted us out. They recommended us to their Patreons this week.
00:46:16
Curt
Ooh.
00:46:19
Curt
Ooh.
00:46:19
jamie peacock
Yeah, thank you to AJ, who I believe listens and watches on Zencast like a creepy person. Yeah, thank you to you guys for the shout out and the recommendation to your your audience.
00:46:31
jamie peacock
anyone here that doesn't know what taps and patience is i would recommend you go and check out uh aj and harrison's podcast it's also quite entertaining and uh harrison might be getting more machines again so yeah so it's always entertaining
00:46:31
Curt
Well, well,
00:46:42
Curt
i so I say, and in and the off chance that Harrison listens to this, I know AJ told him to go listen to Project Hail Mary. Go listen to Project Hail Mary. You'll like it.
00:46:50
jamie peacock
yes go listen to it i just yeah i just finished it for the second time in two weeks
00:46:51
Curt
It's a good book. and Put it ahead of all your other books.
00:46:56
Curt
Yeah.
00:46:57
jamie peacock
Like, it's great.
00:46:58
Curt
Yeah, it's...
00:46:59
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:46:59
Curt
Yeah, I think I'm going to cuuee it up again.
00:46:59
jamie peacock
Even the second time, it was great. I'm actually looking forward to the movie even.
00:47:01
Curt
Yeah, it's good.
00:47:03
jamie peacock
luck
00:47:04
Curt
Me too.
00:47:04
jamie peacock
So I was at i was at the last flashback last night when I went to bed, and I didn't want to listen to it when I went to bed, because Danica's there.
00:47:04
Curt
Me too.
00:47:13
jamie peacock
I didn't want to spoil the vote why he's on the Hail Mary part.
00:47:18
Curt
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
00:47:19
jamie peacock
I was like, I don't know if they're going to spoil it, so let me not let me not listen to this now. listen to it in the morning.
00:47:25
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:47:26
jamie peacock
Because that, I think, is going to be an amazing surprise for for the movie if you haven't read the book.
00:47:26
Curt
Fair enough, yeah.
00:47:32
Curt
Absolutely, yeah.
00:47:33
jamie peacock
Like, yeah, that's...
00:47:33
Curt
there's a few There's a few twists and turns that would be really good, yeah.
00:47:35
jamie peacock
this Dude, it's so good. I'm so excited for that movie. but Like I said, I've listened to the book twice in the last two weeks and enjoyed it probably more the second time.
00:47:40
Curt
Yeah.
00:47:47
Curt
Yeah, well, you can focus more on the the technical details and stuff.
00:47:47
jamie peacock
Like, yeah.
00:47:50
Curt
And like, there's a lot coming at you in those books.
00:47:50
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:47:52
Curt
So it's, it's fun.
00:47:53
jamie peacock
There is. Like Danica was saying, it's it's ah it's a tough listen because it's very technical.
00:47:53
Curt
I agree.
00:47:59
jamie peacock
Even Artemis was very technical.
00:48:00
Curt
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:48:02
jamie peacock
And when young when you realize what Artemis is, and yeah then it's great. like When you realize it's actually like a political thriller type thing, it was pretty good.
00:48:07
Curt
yeah No.
00:48:12
Curt
Totally. Yeah. But done. And yeah, it's, it's good.
00:48:13
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:48:14
Curt
It's good.
00:48:15
jamie peacock
Yeah. I've started watching ah Alien Earth.
00:48:19
Curt
Oh, cool.
00:48:20
jamie peacock
It's tough to get into, but it's apparently the best Alien installment, so we will see. it's ah i'm on I wanted to watch episode 3 tonight, and Danica was watching some dude judging the body language of the Twilight movies, which was hilarious, because, oh my word, those people can't act for shit.
00:48:44
jamie peacock
It was quite fun. um
00:48:47
Curt
Yeah.
00:48:48
jamie peacock
What else have got?
00:48:48
Curt
Cool.
00:48:48
jamie peacock
Oh, yes. Oh, we discussed making the Zlin parts. I'm making PTFE parts for airplanes. Again.
00:48:57
Curt
I like machining PTFE.
00:48:58
jamie peacock
um
00:48:59
Curt
That's nice.
00:48:59
jamie peacock
I made the samples of this. Before I got the LK.
00:49:05
Curt
that was a while ago.
00:49:06
jamie peacock
Yeah, that Maths is hard. That was 20 months ago. that was twenty months ago
00:49:13
Curt
Yeah.
00:49:13
jamie peacock
The order finally came through for 100 units. So I put the price up and then sent them updated quote um and then proceeded to machine all the parts out of scrap material that I had left over.
00:49:25
Curt
Nice. That works out lovely.
00:49:25
jamie peacock
So like when ah when I run my PTFE production, my remnant is between probably 75 and 100 mils because I'd rather the have a longer remnant and a reliable process than a short remnant and an unreliable process.
00:49:40
jamie peacock
And they all just get thrown in a box.
00:49:41
Curt
totally
00:49:42
jamie peacock
And now we needed to make 100 things. Danica sat and loaded, make three out of each remnant. And we ran 100 of them on Sunday, Saturday, one of the days of the weekend. So now I've got to do the machining.
00:49:52
Curt
Yeah.
00:49:53
jamie peacock
So that's why want to do that and on a tombstone, on an anchor point in the fourth axis.
00:50:00
Curt
Nice.
00:50:01
jamie peacock
Because I mean, girl, there's a cross hole.
00:50:01
Curt
Nice.
00:50:03
jamie peacock
So if I can hold the part, machine the two flats, then tilt over, I can do the cross hole. Or machine the flats, fixture it by the flats, machine the other side, and then tilt over tilt it over and put the hole in it. It'll be great. so So it's going to get fourth axis.
00:50:17
Curt
Yeah.
00:50:19
jamie peacock
It's going to be great. Like, I love the fourth axis. Now, yeah, I literally said to Danica, we're driving to fetch a brother. I'm like, you know, i can't live without a fourth axis now, right? like it just It makes life so fucking and easy. Index 90 degrees. It's 90 degrees.
00:50:33
Curt
yeah
00:50:33
jamie peacock
Probe the part and you know where it is, depending on how you've programmed it. It's frigging great.
00:50:38
Curt
It's like little Jamie walking around his house with a hammer and just looking for any nail that he can hit. This is the fourth axis hammer now.
00:50:44
jamie peacock
that
00:50:45
Curt
Nice.
00:50:46
jamie peacock
do there's ah There's a production job that I'm looking at I'm waiting for quoting another batch of samples. and That needs to go on an anchor point palette on the fourth axis.
00:50:57
jamie peacock
So i want to make an L thing with an anchor point that I can drop a fixture on, do my op 1, my op 2, and then tilt to the side and do my op 3 without having to refixture.
00:50:58
Curt
nice
00:51:07
jamie peacock
Like, it's a stupid application, but hey, why not?
00:51:07
Curt
Yeah, that'll work.
00:51:10
jamie peacock
Like, if I can index, let's index.
00:51:11
Curt
No, totally. Yeah. Yep.
00:51:13
jamie peacock
And yeah, I haven't tied it into the controller yet, but we will get there. I actually want order that circuit board that I designed.
00:51:18
Curt
Hmm.
00:51:21
jamie peacock
That's got a few extra features that I haven't implemented yet. so But I figured I'd future-proof it. Because I want to be able to use the encoder on the controller to basically, when once you've honed it, you can then use that to fine-jog it to get it level.
00:51:38
jamie peacock
And then once you hit, once you hit another button, it then goes into index mode.
00:51:38
Curt
Right. Yeah. yeah
00:51:43
jamie peacock
And it's referenced to being square. Because it's not the end of the world, you've got to unfortunately go a full revolution to get it right.
00:51:45
Curt
Right.
00:51:49
jamie peacock
So it's 180, or it's 120, 120, 90, and then 11111, and then point, point, point, one until it tracks, because those are the increments I have.
00:52:00
Curt
Oh, right. Okay. I see.
00:52:01
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:52:02
Curt
I see.
00:52:03
jamie peacock
So I added only go in my program only goes in one direction currently.
00:52:03
Curt
I gotcha.
00:52:08
Curt
Gotcha, gotcha.
00:52:08
jamie peacock
Because, yeah, I kind of want to make it go back to zero, but I also want to keep going in one direction so there's no backlash to deal with.
00:52:08
Curt
yeah
00:52:16
Curt
Fair, yeah, yeah, fair.
00:52:17
jamie peacock
There is some backlash, but it's like when I do the maths on it, it is insignificant.
00:52:23
Curt
Right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:52:23
jamie peacock
the The worm moves back and forth in its bearings by like 10 microns. And it's an 88 to 1 gearbox.
00:52:30
Curt
Yeah, okay.
00:52:35
Curt
Yeah, yeah. You're probably not doing precise enough work to care about that.
00:52:39
jamie peacock
yeah, I don't care about that. And with it only going in one direction, it's always moving in one fucking direction.
00:52:41
Curt
Well,
00:52:45
jamie peacock
So it doesn't really matter.
00:52:46
Curt
well and if you're making fist-sized parts, like, it's... If you're making two-foot-long parts on it, yeah, it's going to be an issue, but, like, eh.
00:52:48
jamie peacock
Yeah, doesn't matter.
00:52:52
jamie peacock
Yeah, you'll see the issue.
00:52:53
Curt
Yeah.
00:52:53
jamie peacock
but So currently the anchor point that's on there has a bit of run out in it.
00:52:54
Curt
Yeah.
00:52:57
jamie peacock
ah Just from the the flange I made and all the mounting stuff, there's a bit of run out. So what I did was I put ah two one of the round pallets in, put an end mill in, and it told it index 180, index 180, and made a boss that was true, then took it off of there, put it on one of the flat anchor points, probed the boss to find my center, and then I could machine everything in knowing where the center of rotation is.
00:53:10
Curt
Right.
00:53:17
jamie peacock
And since it's got an idiot screw, it only goes in in one direction.
00:53:17
Curt
App smart.
00:53:21
Curt
Also smart, yeah.
00:53:23
jamie peacock
Yeah, some some forethought went into this.
00:53:23
Curt
Clever.
00:53:26
jamie peacock
Just a little.
00:53:26
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:53:27
jamie peacock
Just a little. But yeah, I need to actually sell some anchor points at this point.
00:53:29
Curt
Nice.
00:53:32
jamie peacock
um there's still a scream and There's still a deal on the on the batch one anchor points on the website, by the way.
00:53:39
Curt
Buckle up, folks.
00:53:40
jamie peacock
Yeah, suggest you dive in now.
00:53:41
Curt
If you're looking for
00:53:43
jamie peacock
Like, yeah, I need to potentially sell some of those. I need to finish machining the the rest of that batch. I've machined op 1 on the bodies. I haven't done op 2. Everything else is done. just need to do op 2 and then anodise.
00:53:58
jamie peacock
So anyone wants anything super special in the anodise, there's also an option for that in the dropdown. But also, yeah, the whole tariff thing, I think, is making it a bit uncertain at this point.
00:54:09
Curt
Yeah, yeah. No, it's huge market, so I get it.
00:54:10
jamie peacock
Like,
00:54:12
Curt
I get it.
00:54:13
jamie peacock
Yeah, that's by far the biggest market, and it's now been ruined by Cheeto.
00:54:13
Curt
I'd be...
00:54:21
jamie peacock
But yeah, what's interesting is it doesn't come up with a with a tariff yet, which is annoying.
00:54:22
Curt
Yeah.
00:54:26
jamie peacock
they I got an email saying that it would auto calculate the tariffs and the import duties, and it isn't. So I don't know what what exactly is going on.
00:54:33
Curt
I'm just... i'm just I'm curious to see how that plays out. Cause even like FedEx, like I've a ton of times when I get stuff coming in here, there's duty and stuff on and whatever.
00:54:41
jamie peacock
yeah
00:54:42
Curt
And I'll pre, I'll prepay it just so I like, there's barriers to like dropping it off. Like they'll just leave it here and they'll go away.
00:54:47
jamie peacock
Yes. Yeah.
00:54:48
Curt
Um, and like more often than not, they'll drop it off and be like, Oh, you owe me, you owe me money. I'm like, Nope, Nope. It's all prepaid. And they're like, Oh, I haven't checked. I'm like, I know. And then they'd check.
00:54:56
jamie peacock
yeah
00:54:57
Curt
They're like, yeah, you're good. I'm like, I know. Like, so I'm like, I'm wondering if you prepay the tariffs, if they're going to be like, and still, still charge the customer.
00:54:59
jamie peacock
So mine.
00:55:03
jamie peacock
ah know they No, it gets on the label prepaid. I've had parcels coming from China where it's been prepaid.
00:55:07
Curt
Okay.
00:55:10
jamie peacock
um
00:55:10
Curt
Okay. Okay.
00:55:11
jamie peacock
And it literally says prepaid on the package. Otherwise, FedEx, normally i get an email when it is in Dubai, if I'm bringing stuff in. uh to pay the the tariffs and or the import duties and then i'll pay that or i won't and the guy'll pitch up here and be like hey he has the card machine pay if like i've paid that morning then he's said can i get a proof of payment then i'll just quickly print some proof of payment so just so that he has so he doesn't get in trouble for not having me pay for it but yeah i made friends with my fedex driver
00:55:20
Curt
Yeah.
00:55:29
Curt
Yep.
00:55:34
Curt
Yep. Yeah, exactly.
00:55:39
Curt
Totally. Yeah, I was going to say did the same thing.
00:55:43
jamie peacock
He pitched up here the other other day. He's like, my car's making a funny noise. So I look under the fucking brake calipers loose. So I'm like, what the hell? So we pull his wheel off.
00:55:56
jamie peacock
The bolt, there were no threads in the hole.
00:56:01
Curt
those. You don't those.
00:56:03
jamie peacock
In the caliper, was like, what the fuck is this? but I went and found a right size bolt and it just goes in. like, what the fuck? So I grabbed a tap. I tapped it a bigger size and put a bigger bolt in for him.
00:56:12
Curt
That's nice.
00:56:12
jamie peacock
And like, how the fuck did this get, like, assembled? This is from a Toyota. Like, you would expect better than this. but doubt does But yeah, I'm friends with all the courier drivers.
00:56:25
jamie peacock
Makes life so much easier.
00:56:26
Curt
and so Oh, it's yeah, I know. It's a wise decision to do that.
00:56:29
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:56:30
Curt
Yeah.
00:56:30
jamie peacock
Yeah, even my local courier guy, their slogan is the best.
Wi-Fi and Unexpected Visits
00:56:35
jamie peacock
What do you think their slogan is?
00:56:37
Curt
I don't know. You guys have some banger slogans.
00:56:39
jamie peacock
Dude, we want to handle your package.
00:56:42
Curt
and Of course, yeah. Okay, there we go.
00:56:44
jamie peacock
ah But john yeah, he was having connectivity issues the other day. So I'm like, no, just hop onto to my Wi-Fi. So I log him into my Wi-Fi. Now he parks outside my house in the afternoon. So I've got collections, he's waiting for me.
00:56:55
jamie peacock
I'm like, fucking hey.
00:56:56
Curt
cool.
00:56:58
jamie peacock
I mean, for the what for the gig of data he's going to use a month, it's fine.
00:56:59
Curt
Yeah.
00:57:01
jamie peacock
Like I've got, I'm on file, but it doesn't make a difference.
00:57:02
Curt
Yeah, totally.
00:57:04
jamie peacock
i but Rather have him close by if I need to urgently send something out in the afternoon.
00:57:09
Curt
Right, yeah, yeah, exactly, yeah.
00:57:10
jamie peacock
Yeah. Like, yeah, that's great. Like, he'll drop something here in the morning. i'm like, I'll see you in the afternoon. And then true as nuts, like, because obviously now I know when my parcels are moving around.
00:57:16
Curt
this
00:57:19
jamie peacock
If I've ordered stuff and then he'll be there like, how did you know? i'm like, yeah, I ordered it this morning. Got shipped same day express. I'm going to don't fuck around.
Drone Gear Production Challenges
00:57:28
jamie peacock
ah jo Oh, we're making a... We're doing another batch of drone landing gears. I got... I was in the workshop and a truck pulls into my... Like a bucky pulls into my driveway. I'm like, fuck, I'm not expecting anybody.
00:57:28
Curt
nice nice cool
00:57:41
jamie peacock
So got there and I was like, oh no, I've got this stuff for you. Donnie asked me to bring this to you. I'm like, okay, cool. He's like, no, you'll get hold of you. I'm like, shwee-doe. They ground out one of the legs to clear a wire.
00:57:52
jamie peacock
So now they want a revised version that has clearance because they got a new version of their drone in and they now need a different version of the leg. I'm like, no stress. They've got 40 units. So it's 160 landing legs.
00:58:04
Curt
Sick. That's awesome.
00:58:05
jamie peacock
It's going like a whole three days of production. Unreasonable, I tell you. Yeah, I'd fucking rip the ring on those. I like it.
00:58:13
Curt
night Awesome.
00:58:14
jamie peacock
There's more and more jobs now where I make fucking good money on them compared to other things.
Profitable Machining Work
00:58:20
jamie peacock
And that's the kind of job shop work I want.
00:58:20
Curt
That's good. That's a good thing.
00:58:21
jamie peacock
yo No, no, no. That is the work I'm pursuing now.
00:58:23
Curt
Yeah.
00:58:24
jamie peacock
Like, fuck it. I'm not interested in doing shit for bottom dollar.
00:58:25
Curt
Yeah, for sure.
00:58:27
jamie peacock
The stuff that's running in Bertha now, those parts are just over a dollar a part.
00:58:27
Curt
yeah
00:58:32
jamie peacock
It goes in the lathe for a minute, and then it goes in the mill for rigid tapping. It's like, I'm not losing money. I'm running at a better rate than I normally run at, but still it's annoying.
00:58:45
Curt
For sure. yeah Yeah.
00:58:46
jamie peacock
But it is going to make it a lot easier to say no to stupid things.
00:58:50
Curt
Yeah.
00:58:51
jamie peacock
that all the, currently all the little stupid things are paying the bills because the diesel sensor guys, we have finally fixed their fucking problems.
00:58:51
Curt
Yeah. Exactly.
00:59:01
jamie peacock
Had to buy like four drills last week because turns out their spring is not the size it's supposed to be. They're putting a mountain of solder on the things and spilling over. So the things I make that are 3.7 diameter are not 3.7 diameter anymore.
00:59:15
jamie peacock
So they don't go down the 3.8 diameter hole.
00:59:16
Curt
Money. Yeah. Yeah.
00:59:17
jamie peacock
So we've now opened that up to four millimeters and made it longer and deeper and a whole pile of crap. And I think we finally have a version that will work. And then I get to rework a thousand tubes.
00:59:31
jamie peacock
which is, I'm charging them for it, so don't really care, but yeah, got to make all the inserts, and then put a pole up the tube, ga-dunk, ga-dunk, and knock the PTFE out the end, and then press a new one in on a thousand parts.
00:59:31
Curt
money yeah yeah
00:59:43
jamie peacock
It's going to be a little annoying, but hopefully that will get them back into the swing of things, and then they are busy trying to get ah deal in the Netherlands for 6,000 vehicles.
Netherlands Truck Deal Potential
00:59:56
jamie peacock
for a fleet of 6,000 trucks.
00:59:57
Curt
oh
00:59:59
jamie peacock
That's between 6,000 and 12,000 diesel sensors.
01:00:03
Curt
Wow. That'd be nice.
01:00:04
jamie peacock
If they order that in one go, Danica stands at Bertha for 120 days straight, eight-hour days.
01:00:14
Curt
I mean...
01:00:14
jamie peacock
I then also buy a new lathe after that, just from the profits, but yeah, like, it's a rough one.
01:00:16
Curt
Sure. Yeah. Maybe Danica a nice pair of shoes or something. Like soft shoes or something.
01:00:24
jamie peacock
Nah.
01:00:25
Curt
Better yet.
01:00:25
jamie peacock
She gets to sit.
01:00:25
Curt
Nice chair.
01:00:26
jamie peacock
She fucking puts a chair in the way. So fuck that.
01:00:27
Curt
Perfect. Yeah. better to get nice chair perfect
01:00:29
jamie peacock
Dude. That chick in the fucking chair in my workshop. mo My workshop is not big enough for a chair in front of a machine. But she's running a machine, she wants the chair. And then she refuses to fucking fold it up when she goes out.
01:00:41
jamie peacock
So then I can't get out the fucking workshop because there's a fucking chair in the way.
01:00:44
Curt
Hey, unions, you got to be careful of them.
01:00:45
jamie peacock
But yeah.
01:00:46
Curt
yeah she's She's going to unionize.
01:00:47
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:00:48
Curt
She's going to take you to the cleaners.
01:00:48
jamie peacock
She can try. She can try. She knows I won't divorce her because I have to go to home affairs and stand in a line. She knows she's safe. Not a fuck will I do that shit.
01:00:59
Curt
Hey, she's ah she's a saint. There's not a lot of people that would put up with you. i would I'd count your stars.
01:01:02
jamie peacock
Eh.
01:01:03
Curt
so
01:01:03
jamie peacock
Not a lot of people who put up with her either. But yeah, she's said a delight. No, she was cutting stuff on the bandsaw today. Like, for Oscar Valp, she comes and gives me help. Just, she gets distracted.
01:01:11
Curt
That's awesome. That's awesome.
01:01:12
jamie peacock
It's a bit annoying. um I needed her to do drone registration stickers today. So I emailed her the the registration number. I'm like, I need these, because the guy wanted to pick up today, and then she got distracted. She fell into TikTok, I assume.
01:01:25
jamie peacock
um And this evening, I'm like, hey, where my stickers? Oh, I'll do them in the morning. I'm like, lady, you're testing my fucking patience. I literally had to fix my laser to make this fucking drone tag.
01:01:36
jamie peacock
And it's done.
01:01:37
Curt
Yeah.
01:01:37
jamie peacock
Can you please make the fucking stickers? Because yeah we do all the drones. So they passed the law that your drone has to have registration stickers if you're commercially operating. And a fireproof name tag.
01:01:48
jamie peacock
So we used to do the fireproof name tags on the CO2 laser with anti-scuff spray, molybdenum disulfate spray. um And then I bought a fiber laser.
01:01:48
Curt
Nice.
01:01:59
jamie peacock
And now it takes like six seconds to do one. It's fucking great. Like I did, I think I did like 40 of them for for a company a while ago. They sent me a list. Now that I know how to do the the variable thing, I'm going to do that in the future.
01:02:11
jamie peacock
But I literally just type in the number, hit go, while it's engraving, in the upper and type in the new number. soon as it's done, load a new one, go, go, and it fucking runs.
01:02:20
Curt
Nice, nice, nice.
01:02:20
jamie peacock
But yeah, I'll do the very the variable trick when there's lots of things to do in the future.
01:02:26
Curt
Yeah. Yeah, sick,
01:02:28
jamie peacock
But yeah, anyway.
Retroid Pocket 5 Excitement
01:02:29
Curt
dude.
01:02:29
jamie peacock
Yes, so your thing arrived.
01:02:32
Curt
Dude.
01:02:34
Curt
yeah You need one. You need to go buy one.
01:02:40
Curt
We're talking about the, ah I got a little Retroid Pocket 5. Actually, on my Instagram right now, there's actually, if you listen to this, it'll probably still be there.
01:02:46
jamie peacock
Yes.
01:02:48
Curt
I took a picture of it. I'm playing Borderlands 2 on it. like You can play like a ton of Switch games, a ton of anything lower than that, basically. So all the old consoles, PS2, some PS3, bunch of Steam games.
01:03:00
Curt
like yeah it's I have it loaded up.
01:03:01
jamie peacock
Have you played... What OS is it running?
01:03:05
Curt
Android.
01:03:07
jamie peacock
Okay, and then Steam on top of Android?
01:03:10
Curt
Well, you can run, there's like, there's Winlater, which means you can run Windows on Android. And then there's a ton of emulators for every single console that you can think of.
01:03:15
jamie peacock
Ah. Yeah.
01:03:19
Curt
Some of them you got to be a little sneaky on because like Nintendo is really tight on how they Like they cracked
Gaming as a Mental Escape
01:03:24
Curt
down on every emulator because they're obviously trying to protect their IP.
01:03:24
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:03:27
Curt
um So it's, but like but you build a mouse, mice are going to get smarter. Like, you know, you try to trap people from creating software.
01:03:32
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:03:34
Curt
Like you're never going to win, unfortunately, in this world of, you know,
01:03:36
jamie peacock
No, you're never gonna win.
01:03:38
Curt
um But yeah, you can get some crazy, crazy stuff on it.
01:03:38
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:03:40
Curt
So yeah, I was quite impressed. Like I said, I would have been kind of jazzed just playing 64 games. But yeah, now um and I'm just playing like super, like AAA kind of style games.
01:03:46
jamie peacock
Got all the games.
01:03:49
Curt
And I forgot how fun it is just to sit down. Like it's nice because like I leave it on my little, like right by my living room whatever. When you know my ah little people are asleep, you know my wife's gone to sleep like and I don't want to doom school.
01:03:59
Curt
I just whip it out. I can play like 10, 15 minutes of Borderlands, half an hour, or hour, two, three, four, five, six, not sleep.
01:04:00
jamie peacock
Yeah, the... I'm glad you didn't say you just whip it out and play.
01:04:06
Curt
quick
01:04:08
jamie peacock
ah You whip out in Borderlands.
01:04:11
Curt
yeah
01:04:12
jamie peacock
um
01:04:12
Curt
yeah yeah
01:04:14
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, well, that's the thing. like I end up just fucking doomscrolling, and yeah, it's a problem.
01:04:19
Curt
yeah it's not good for like yeah i like i don't i wasn't yeah the same thing i'll like i'll doom scroll reddit which is fun and there's things i'm interested on a reddit and then i just like doom scroll about things i'm not interested in and then just like i'm like why am i reading about all this heinous stuff so i'm like you know what let's put a stupid video game on and enjoy
01:04:19
jamie peacock
So I might need to go that route.
01:04:26
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:04:32
jamie peacock
Well, I mean, find even if I'm listening to an audiobook, like if I'm not working, I'm listening before go to bed or whatever, then I end up doom scrolling because um um I want to be busy.
01:04:40
Curt
Yeah, totally.
01:04:42
jamie peacock
So I yeah ah think I might need to get myself one of those because they sound really fucking cool.
01:04:47
Curt
And there's inexpensive ones. Like, there's super cheap ones you can get that that'll still do, like, 64 and PS2 games and stuff like that.
01:04:50
jamie peacock
Nah.
01:04:53
Curt
I just bought this because I wanted to... I just wanted something a little fancier, and...
01:04:55
jamie peacock
I want to be able to play my my Steam library. That's what I want to be able to do. Because I've got a shitload of games.
01:04:59
Curt
I don't know if it'll play...
01:05:01
jamie peacock
I don't have play all them.
01:05:01
Curt
Yeah, I don't know if it's... Yeah, it'll play most, but it's... And the same thing, every month that progresses, all the emulators get better. And yeah, I don't know.
01:05:08
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah, because that's our...
01:05:11
Curt
say most of my games I play are pretty old, so they're not really taxing the system. Like, it can play Crysis, just to let everybody know. Like, that used
Creative Gaming Solutions on a Budget
01:05:18
Curt
to be the thing in the past. Can it play Crysis?
01:05:18
jamie peacock
That was the thing. Speaking of playing Crysis, did you ever watch Scrapyard Wars from Linus Tech Tips?
01:05:20
Curt
Yeah, it can play Crysis. Yeah. No, I didn't. No, no.
01:05:27
jamie peacock
Oh, dude, okay, you've got 10 seasons to go go watch. Basically, they build a PC on a budget, but it's two different...
01:05:31
Curt
Ooh.
01:05:34
Curt
OK.
01:05:35
jamie peacock
It's Luke and Linus competing and trying to find deals online and whatnot. And they've just really they're busy releasing their latest one where they don't... It's not just build a PC. It's this is the room.
01:05:47
jamie peacock
Make it a good gaming and and movie watching experience. and how the two different teams are tackling this differently.
01:05:52
Curt
Oh, cool.
01:05:54
jamie peacock
But it's everything. Dacor, paint, Alice for like 2000 So, yeah, it's really, it's quite interesting to to see the different, like the one team bought a projector, other teams buying a big TV.
01:06:01
Curt
Oh, cool.
01:06:07
jamie peacock
One team's going with Shadow, which is a game streaming service, instead of building a powerful PC. And, yeah, that was in PS5. And, yeah, very, very interesting to see the different ways to achieve the same thing.
01:06:17
Curt
Yeah.
01:06:19
jamie peacock
But, yeah, very, very entertaining. Like, solid recommend on those, on all of those series.
01:06:21
Curt
Well, and that's... Okay. I wrote it down. That's something I want to check out That's the other thing you can do with like some of these and more inexpensive like handheld gaming things.
01:06:26
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:06:30
Curt
like there's There's game streaming services, and you can just stream like crazy advanced games and just like yeah rock on.
01:06:31
jamie peacock
Stream, yeah.
01:06:35
jamie peacock
Yeah. You can stream AAA titles to literally...
01:06:37
Curt
100%, yeah.
01:06:39
jamie peacock
The one team's using a little one of those little Lenovo tiny PCs, and it's a video stream. Like, it's a little bit of latency, but if you're not playing competitively, who cares?
01:06:49
Curt
Totally. Yeah, yeah.
01:06:50
jamie peacock
Like, your brain will adjust to the latency in no time.
01:06:50
Curt
Totally reasonable. Yeah.
01:06:53
Curt
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
01:06:55
jamie peacock
I was playing Gears of War 2 and then i got in when I got sucked into the worm, got in by the worm, I stopped playing there after dying class. I've played through the game, but there's nowhere comfortable for me to sit in my lounge and play.
01:07:06
jamie peacock
Because my couches are too far from the TV because my TV is a mini TV. um And chairs are apparently expensive. My wife won't let me buy chair.
01:07:16
Curt
Take the one out of the workshop. Yeah.
01:07:18
jamie peacock
Good plan. um
01:07:22
jamie peacock
Yeah, like I like having the Xbox, but it requires me to move a couch, and that's just too much effort.
Joy of Handheld Gaming Devices
01:07:28
jamie peacock
I do like the idea of the handheld story, being able to play in bed or whatever.
01:07:28
Curt
Yeah. like
01:07:31
Curt
It's kind of fun.
01:07:34
jamie peacock
Like, take up that doom scrolling time, because doom scrolling is a problem.
01:07:34
Curt
Yeah, it's...
01:07:38
Curt
Totally, yeah. and it's just like It's just something nice is to kind of turn the brain off and just kind of stay away from just trying not to burn out on machining or else I will.
01:07:42
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:07:45
Curt
I'll just the suck in. I like it so much. i just like it We both like it. We all like it in this stupid hobby.
01:07:49
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:07:50
Curt
We just kind of get
01:07:51
jamie peacock
No, this this last week I've been feeling a tad burnt out, but I had stuff to do and month ends, well, here.
01:07:55
Curt
Yeah.
01:07:58
jamie peacock
So I can't stop. I need to get all the stuff that needs to be out out. But yeah, it's like it does get a bit much after a while of all machine all the time.
01:08:03
Curt
Yeah.
01:08:06
Curt
Yeah.
Reading for Mental Relief
01:08:08
jamie peacock
I've actually enjoyed escaping into books for that that reason lately.
01:08:12
Curt
Absolutely. Absolutely.
01:08:13
jamie peacock
is it fills up the little bit of extra space that's available.
01:08:13
Curt
Yeah.
01:08:17
jamie peacock
like just it's It's something to be going on in your mind that isn't machining.
01:08:18
Curt
Yep.
01:08:24
Curt
Yep. Yeah, exactly. It's entertaining. Yeah, it helps you.
01:08:26
jamie peacock
Ooh.
01:08:27
Curt
Yeah, I like it.
01:08:27
jamie peacock
Yeah. I found a giant part, Kurt.
01:08:31
Curt
It's hefty. looks like a he says ah piece of stripped wire.
01:08:32
jamie peacock
Focus, you fuck.
01:08:36
jamie peacock
It's a piece of copper. It's a 3.7 by 3 with 0.75 hole through the middle.
01:08:37
Curt
Okay.
01:08:43
jamie peacock
I have made thousands of those.
01:08:43
Curt
Tiny.
01:08:46
Curt
Oh, well, that's probably why you found one.
01:08:47
jamie peacock
I'm very... Yeah, this was actually one of the prototype parts. It's on my upstairs desk. ah Yeah, I've made thousands of them out of bras. They're great. Load a bar, come back in an hour and a half, and there's 90 parts in the then the chip bin.
01:08:56
Curt
Nice.
01:09:00
jamie peacock
Or in the parts catcher. It's fucking great. Not the high... Well, actually one of the higher margin parts, because it's just hit go and walk away.
01:09:00
Curt
Nice.
01:09:08
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
01:09:08
jamie peacock
Anyway.
01:09:10
Curt
Cool.
01:09:10
jamie peacock
What is in your Google box?
01:09:13
Curt
um My Google box is ah full of master.
01:09:15
jamie peacock
how to run an emulator.
01:09:18
Curt
there is i had to close some of them because it was i was like i can't talk about this on the podcast because it was just embarrassing the sheer amount of tabs i had open for like various forms of emulators and uh yeah you get cracking because literally all of mine is around dumb nerd stuff
01:09:29
jamie peacock
If you want, i will get cracking.
01:09:34
jamie peacock
Okay. I am one day away from equaling my streak on Wordle.
01:09:40
Curt
oh
01:09:41
jamie peacock
I'm on 71. um I have the wiring diagram for a closed-loop stepper open because I was wiring up a fourth axis last week.
01:09:49
Curt
Mm-hmm.
01:09:50
jamie peacock
um Apparently, I have been searching at CNC support for their Lang-style systems, but they're expensive and I don't want to give them that much money. I've also been looking for a three-jaw chuck to go on there.
01:10:04
jamie peacock
From our local Dark Harbor Freight guys. Also looking at T-slot, T-nuts and nut replacements for my clamping set so I could get T-nuts cheaply. They said they had stock. They only had one in stock. I needed two, but anyway, it's what it is.
01:10:21
jamie peacock
I won't hold it against them.
01:10:22
Curt
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
01:10:23
jamie peacock
Looking up 632 threads because I have a part that has 832 threads in it. so ah So had to go buy an 832 tap to be able to gauge the threads. Because I have a thread mill, I just don't any way to gauge it.
01:10:35
jamie peacock
um Looking at 5th Axis. Looking at C&C Supports. Lang style bases again. i was looking at a Quest 2 because they've come down in price quite a bit. um And might get one of those to play Beat Saber.
01:10:49
jamie peacock
Like that's all one I wanted for is to play Beat Saber.
01:10:50
Curt
Sick.
01:10:51
jamie peacock
Because Beat Saber is fucking awesome. I played on my mate's one. Looking up CNC support so I could get their phone number, so I could phone and check if they had collet for me this morning. Yeah, and that is about it.
01:11:01
jamie peacock
Oh, they must stay open. What are my inactive tabs?
01:11:03
Curt
Nice.
01:11:04
jamie peacock
Oh, nice. I've got three anchor point tabs open as my inactive tabs.
01:11:09
Curt
Cool.
01:11:09
jamie peacock
Because every time I run Instagram ads, I go and look for a link for the anchor point.
01:11:14
Curt
Nice. Okay. Well, I have actually have some fun. um things I looked up on, uh, I'm just opening up my Reddit here. Cause everyone loves new post pictures of my stuff. Um, anyways, um, so, uh, on Reddit, I found a few, uh, there's like, uh, I'm following like an arcade channel where like people build their own custom arcade machines. Cause I have all the parts to build an arcade machine as well. I've had them for years.
01:11:36
Curt
Yeah. My wife bought it for me for my birthday.
01:11:36
jamie peacock
That's out of character.
01:11:39
Curt
no kidding right like totally way out of left field i want to build a whole arcade in our basement like i have so many memories and i was a little of like are the arcade and like fun memories there so i want to build a whole and my wife's like yeah do it like go nuts so i have a whole area for it so um i have been following that um edc pouches because i like i like everyday carry kind of
01:11:41
jamie peacock
Yeah.
Building a Home Arcade
01:11:56
Curt
people that carry like pouches of tools so i always have something going on it's always in flux i'm always changing tools in there so i have a bunch of tabs open on that kind of jazz
01:11:56
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:12:04
Curt
and And then, like i said, just nerd content around ah these stupid emulators. Actually, if you want an inexpensive source, um these emulators all basically run the Snapdragon chipsets. You can buy like ah maybe like a last-generation Samsung phone online or various Android phone online with like a good Snapdragon processor and a couple controls, and you can probably be in it for half the amount of money that like one of these Retroid units costs.
01:12:14
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:12:18
jamie peacock
I use that.
01:12:28
jamie peacock
Yeah, but yours looks cool.
01:12:30
Curt
It looks cool, and it's got like backlit Hall Effect joysticks and
01:12:31
jamie peacock
Can you put a link in the documents after the podcast?
01:12:36
Curt
For what?
01:12:37
jamie peacock
For the Retroid, for anyone who's interested.
01:12:38
Curt
Hell yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll throw links up for all that jazz. Of course. Yeah.
01:12:41
jamie peacock
There we go. Cool.
01:12:42
Curt
And yeah, that's it.
01:12:42
jamie peacock
Yeah, I added a note.
01:12:43
Curt
Oh, and also if ah Dylan perchance listens to this from the lovely podcast that we all listen to, I know he was ranting about or talking um about running home assistant as someone who just recently switched to home assistant.
01:12:48
jamie peacock
he does ah
Home Assistant Recommendation
01:12:57
Curt
Do it. Like don't piss around with like other devices that won't connect. Like just go to home assistant.
01:13:01
jamie peacock
yeah it's great yeah he yeah he actually shouted me out in the with intolerance yeah
01:13:02
Curt
It's so much, it's so much better. I should have seen the light. ja Jamie told me I didn't listen to him.
01:13:08
Curt
I heard that, yeah. Yeah, I heard that, yeah. Yeah, so yeah, do it.
01:13:10
jamie peacock
ah yeah We actually need to we need to reach out to him because he reached out to us.
01:13:11
Curt
Go to Home Assistant.
01:13:13
jamie peacock
But yeah, we'll message him after this because that I think will be that'll be a fun one.
01:13:15
Curt
Yeah, yeah, for sure. For sure.
01:13:20
Curt
Yeah, that's cool, I guess.
01:13:20
jamie peacock
Oh, also, did you see the shirt?
01:13:22
Curt
I saw that, yeah.
01:13:23
jamie peacock
Yes.
01:13:24
Curt
got this one, too.
01:13:24
jamie peacock
Got it at IMTS. Nice. I was wearing my one like that yesterday.
01:13:27
Curt
Yeah, thank you. Yeah, thank you.
01:13:29
jamie peacock
So I assume they arrived.
01:13:31
Curt
Yeah, beautiful. Thank you, my dude.
01:13:32
jamie peacock
Okay.
01:13:32
Curt
Yeah, they' they fit like a glove, so perfect.
01:13:32
jamie peacock
Nice. No stress. Yeah. You don't look super buff in them.
01:13:37
Curt
Yeah, the other ones are getting a little coarsity, so these ones are much much more comfy.
01:13:41
jamie peacock
I was actually chatting to Danica this morning on I'm wearing the world's worst pants today. But what we'll do is we'll talk about the world's worst pants in the after show.
01:13:46
Curt
Ooh.
01:13:51
jamie peacock
Yeah, I'm a savage like that. So where can people not find a way to buy your products, Kurt?
01:13:57
Curt
confoundedmachine.com. There's, yeah.
01:13:59
jamie peacock
Still not, still sorting out your lottos.
01:14:00
Curt
Send me, send me, send me a message. Oh dude, it's going to be months. It's going to be months before I can open it up, which is a lovely thing to have.
01:14:04
jamie peacock
Okay.
01:14:06
Curt
I know it pisses some people off, but it makes a lot of other people happy.
01:14:07
jamie peacock
No, sure. Yeah, but you need, I think you need to purge the the overabundance of people who aren't actually interested.
01:14:09
Curt
So
01:14:15
Curt
yeah. Yeah. So we're going to, we're going to do that. And then once I, once I do a purge um and then and we'll, we'll open, we'll open the floodgates again. So how about you?
01:14:23
jamie peacock
Okay.
01:14:24
Curt
How about, where can people find you your, your wares?
01:14:25
jamie peacock
um yeah you can find us at jspeceng.com on there you can find the anchor point there are some flux and stock i think i might be well i am going to be restocking because i just ordered 500 proper magnets uh the ones that are on the v2s are not quite strong enough so i ordered stronger ones uh but yeah you can pick up anchor points and some blank pellets and whatnot there still a special running on the uh batch one anchor points there is I want to say it's like $50 off if you buy a batch one because trying to clear the stock on those. So yeah, bit of a deal there.
01:14:56
jamie peacock
And we will have updated shipping price. Currently, it is ah shipping duties on the receiver. We're going have an option for shipping and prepaid duties. So you basically, the shipping will be a lot more, but you don't have to worry about duties when it comes into specifically the US.
01:15:14
jamie peacock
um The rest of the world is used to paying duties. But yeah, and you can find me at jspec underscore engineering on Instagram if you want to follow along there with the day-to-day shenanigans in the workshop, which I've actually been really quiet on for the last week, but I'll get back into it.
01:15:31
jamie peacock
Tomorrow will be lots of posts because I to be promoting podcast.
01:15:34
Curt
Nice.
01:15:35
jamie peacock
But yeah, so what are you up to today, Kurt?
01:15:36
Curt
And your new walking sticks. Yeah.
01:15:40
jamie peacock
what are you up to today
01:15:43
Curt
uh today i think i'm going to finish running tips on the lathe and a couple extra parts all the machine parts are done and then i can just do all the eye bleeding work of finishing so yeah it's boring don't worry about it let's just well it's just no it's gonna it's gonna be the same topic next week because it's gonna take me a week to do it so don't worry about it how about you oh
01:15:52
jamie peacock
Yes, we skipped a topic.
01:15:56
jamie peacock
Well, yeah, it is, but not the point. Okay, yeah yeah, fair enough. like Okay, we will cover that super secret topic next week. um
01:16:07
Curt
yeah
01:16:08
jamie peacock
Yeah, I'm going to go have a nap and then... Shit, I just dropped something into my keyboard. um And then tomorrow I'm going to finish running those 300 little insertimatrons that I'm busy machining and then probably move on to running something else that i can get out this week and get paid for this week.
01:16:23
jamie peacock
So I've got a couple jobs that need to go out ASAP. So I'll get those all all buttoned up for the week. And then by the end of the week, Tufnel should be arriving and I can make my machine stink again.
01:16:36
jamie peacock
It's going to be fun. Yes, it makes me sick. um Yeah, I need to build the little gantry, the little lifting matron for my fourth axis as well. So there's a bunch of stuff going on. I wanted to get one of the worm wheel winches, but they're bloody expensive.
01:16:48
jamie peacock
And if I use the normal crank winches, that's got the little lever. And then I'm just to be safe. I'm just going to strap around the handle and strap it to a pipe on the machine so it can't spin.
01:17:00
jamie peacock
um like just as a extra bit of safety just that it's not relying on that little ratchet thing because yeah i've been hit by one of those handles before it is not pleasant
01:17:00
Curt
Right. Yeah.
01:17:04
Curt
Yeah.
01:17:06
Curt
Totally.
01:17:09
Curt
Yeah.
01:17:10
jamie peacock
Yeah, we used to load the boat with that.
01:17:11
Curt
Yeah. I can see that.
01:17:12
jamie peacock
It was horrible back when I was a latte.
01:17:14
Curt
Mm-hmm.
01:17:14
jamie peacock
But anyway, thank you everybody for for listening to the podcast. ah If you are listening on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, you can see our ugly mugs on Zencast, if your name's AJ, or YouTube.
Podcast Closing and Listener Information
01:17:28
jamie peacock
And now on YouTube, if you search the loan machines that should come up, we hadn't put that in the title. So that from going forward is in the title of the video to make it a little easier to find.
01:17:36
Curt
Take care
01:17:37
jamie peacock
ah But yeah, thank you everybody for listening and we shall see you next week.
01:17:42
Curt
carol