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Ep. 57: Just Another Brick in the Wall
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In this episode of the Lone Machinist Podcast, Jamie and Curt dive head-first into shop chaos, questionable safety decisions, and machines that just won’t stop printing money.
Jamie introduces the Bukkake Blaster 7000, a new coolant manifold upgrade that blasts hardcore, while Curt reflects on the joy of a machine running nonstop for hours—hot, moist, and perfectly intolerant from the first part to the last. Along the way, they cover long-run machining, thermal stability, laser mishaps, intrusive pneumatic ideas, and why sometimes the correct fix is simply unplugging the wire.
There’s also a surprise structural failure, a wall that absolutely “didn’t need to be there,” and a healthy reminder that lasers do not care about your eyesight—no matter how confident you feel in the moment.
Machining, lasers, money printers, and safety third. Just another day in the shop.
Links Discussed:
- smart lathe: https://youtu.be/on5yTSBz2tM?si=cNUjLE2XIThAa24l
- a1 changer: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005010477325746.html
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Transcript
Introduction to Machining and Humor
00:00:00
jamie peacock
Welcome to the Lone Machinist Podcast, where it's just you, the machines, and the work. What you got going on today, Kurt?
00:00:07
Curt
ah Today, I'm going to talk about how I help the AI robots take over our souls. Lasers, lasers, lasers, and did we land on the moon? How about you? What are
Innovations in Coolant Systems
00:00:17
Curt
you to talk about? What?
00:00:18
jamie peacock
ah The Bukkake Blaster 7000, running a CNC on a Raspberry Pi's GPI opens, um and the fact that I moved a wall this morning, mostly not on purpose.
00:00:28
Curt
who
00:00:31
Curt
So okay um i'm doing I'm doing fantastic now.
00:00:31
jamie peacock
How will you this fine day, Kurt?
00:00:36
Curt
This is, this is a yeah. We're getting better at teasing our topics. All of them have to do with machining, which is even crazier.
00:00:43
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:00:43
Curt
so but
00:00:44
jamie peacock
Yeah, that is quite impressive that they all actually have to do with machining today.
00:00:48
Curt
So do you want to lead with, ah I'm assuming, what was your nickname in high school? The old Bukkake Blaster saying that.
00:00:56
jamie peacock
So yes, we can lead with the Bokaki Blaster 7000. It's my new coolant manifold for the LK. so I bought some stainless steel nozzles because the ones I made I didn't like.
00:01:06
jamie peacock
And I needed to remake the manifold because I needed a set of holes to mount the air bypass for the gripper. So i was like, I'll just make a whole new thing.
00:01:16
Curt
Right.
00:01:17
jamie peacock
I can buy the stainless steel nozzles locally now. So I bought seven nozzles, hence the 7,000. I machined up one like a week and half ago or so, and then I finished machined up two this week, and then got the bypass little dingus, which didn't fit because some dick didn't take into account where this what the spindle looks like.
00:01:37
jamie peacock
So had to machine some little steps into it. But that's now mounted, and then I printed a little TPU dingus that interfaces between that block and the gripper, which actually seals way better than I expected and compresses a little bit.
00:01:52
jamie peacock
So compresses by about 0.3, 0.4 of a mil when the tool gets loaded into the spindle. The tool can still rotate if the machine deems it necessary to do a rotation before a tool change, which it does sometimes.
00:02:06
jamie peacock
That's why I designed it in such a way that I'm not locking the spindle um mechanically, like because I haven't made a rotary bypass, I just made a stationary bypass.
00:02:18
jamie peacock
So that's now done. The pipe is all run through and the new cooler nozzle blasts. Like hardcore, I need to still aim some of the nozzles, but it it works really well.
00:02:25
Curt
Does it?
00:02:29
Curt
I was thinking about your blaster this weekend because like I'm always aiming, I flex lines, like static flex lines and I'm constantly re-aiming them and it just makes me want to just walk into traffic.
00:02:40
Curt
So was thinking about your system. Do you have issues with not getting, because for the people listening, it's kind of like a ah semicircle that mounts on the back of the mill head that distributes the coolant.
00:02:48
jamie peacock
yeah generally speaking no because
00:02:51
Curt
Do you have issues getting coolant to the front?
00:02:56
Curt
Okay.
00:02:58
jamie peacock
Yeah, yes. In short, yes, but in reality, no. So yes, there's less coolants on the front, but generally it's blasting enough coolant that it's a non-issue.
00:03:03
Curt
Okay.
00:03:09
jamie peacock
Like if you're in a deep, deep pocket, it can be a bit of a problem, but generally speaking, it's not actually an issue.
00:03:09
Curt
Okay.
Machining Challenges and Solutions
00:03:15
Curt
Okay, so you haven't noticed, like, galling on, like, the front face of something, or...
00:03:16
jamie peacock
um No.
00:03:19
jamie peacock
It is noticeable every now and again on like really unique use cases.
00:03:19
Curt
Okay.
00:03:24
jamie peacock
So like if you've got a step or something, you'll see it there.
00:03:25
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:03:27
jamie peacock
Like you'll have you'll have chips building up that aren't getting blasted away more than anything else.
00:03:32
Curt
ah Okay.
00:03:33
jamie peacock
But then my flexible lines are still there. If that's going to be a problem, I pull one of the flexibles to come in from the front and I'm covered.
00:03:38
Curt
I suppose. I suppose.
00:03:39
jamie peacock
Yeah, but for 90%, 99% of what I do, I think since I've had the Bukkake Blaster 5000 and now the 7000, I've put the nozzle pointing in the front on two jobs.
00:03:39
Curt
Yeah, yeah. That's good point. Yeah.
00:03:52
Curt
Okay. Yeah.
00:03:53
jamie peacock
Yeah, that's it's really it generally it just it's fine. And then you my spindles got to make holes. So I just took picture of it. Laser cut a template, adjusted the holes till it fits it. then I made the aluminium block.
00:04:05
jamie peacock
I actually put an MDF piece there and did a tool change to make sure I'm not going to hit anything.
00:04:10
jamie peacock
Because clearances are tight.
00:04:10
Curt
Yeah, wise.
00:04:11
Curt
Yeah.
00:04:13
jamie peacock
um But yeah, there's actually plenty of space under these machines like as they go behind the the turret there's plenty plenty of space.
00:04:20
Curt
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:04:21
jamie peacock
And yeah, it looks really cool. And it goes up to the tool change. The gripper comes in and it goes but buts super quick and then grabs and comes down. It's like, oh, it goes perfectly.
00:04:31
jamie peacock
Like, yeah, it's beautiful.
00:04:31
Curt
Cool.
00:04:32
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:04:33
jamie peacock
I got a video of it.
00:04:34
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:04:34
jamie peacock
um But yeah, we're busy. with all the electrical and pneumatics. So here's the pneumatic valve block for those watching with J.O. That arrived today, and I went and bought the greatest, pridefullest collection of hoses.
00:04:49
jamie peacock
went my pneumatics supply. I'm like 10 meters of each, please, of every color you do. Because I'm going to make a a bundle that comes to the front of the, like, into the enclosure that's got, I think it's six different lines.
00:04:54
Curt
I...
00:05:01
jamie peacock
So that I can have my vacuum for my vacuum chuck. I can have my S-plot for the anchor points. I can have two dual acting valves all in one block mounted to the machine.
00:05:14
jamie peacock
And then one neat hose that goes out. And then on top of the machine will just be a shit show going to the valves. Like, let's not let's not pretend it's going to be pretty.
00:05:26
Curt
It works. It's just got to work.
00:05:27
jamie peacock
It's on top of your machine.
00:05:28
Curt
so
00:05:28
jamie peacock
You can't see it. It's fine. um But yeah, I bought i bought basically 10 meters of every color today so that I can have it all color-coded as well to make my life a bit easier.
00:05:38
Curt
Nice. Whoa! Sorry. i
00:05:39
jamie peacock
Whoa! It became bright.
00:05:40
Curt
Sorry. I hit the wrong ISO button.
00:05:43
jamie peacock
um And then yeah I'm going to make a little manifold block and then use a ah washing machine drain pipe. I've used i used them in Bertha and my fourth axis has one that works really well and they're super cheap.
00:05:52
Curt
Okay.
00:05:54
jamie peacock
You just go buy vacuum a washing machine replacement hose and you just feed all your stuff through it and it acts as a really nice
00:06:03
Curt
Oh, fair.
00:06:03
jamie peacock
single yeah like it keeps everything neat keeps the shavings out pretty tolerant with hot shavings considering the ones in bertha were in there for like four years before i sold her and no sign of damage yeah um so that's uh geez we're knocking off the things today so uh yeah that's the we'll get to the pneumatic work holding thing later um yes tell me about running your mill forever
00:06:04
Curt
OK.
00:06:15
Curt
Nice. Nice. Yeah.
00:06:28
Curt
OK, sounds good.
00:06:32
Curt
Okay, so I find, like, I've been doing all the grips on the pens. I have all the pens prepped. um And ah last week, I was trying to, basically last week, I had to finish my machining um to be on schedule. I'm not there. I'm like 90% there. I have some, I think I'd be able to finish it all today. so I'm already one day behind, but.
00:06:50
Curt
That's neither here nor there. I'll probably slip more anyways. um But ah yeah, so I was just able to load parts in and the grips I'm doing basically all ISO grips on this run. So they're they run for a long time, um which was lovely because I just kept plopping parts in the machine.
00:07:02
jamie peacock
here yeah swampy
00:07:05
Curt
And I think i i think it ran for, I can't say 18 hours continuously because it would every you know X amount of time I'd have to swap a part out. yeah it ran it ran long enough that it was hot like the all the coolant was hot the enclosure was like hot and moist and i mean it's cold like yeah like it's it's minus 30 outside here so like and i might the garage cools down to about 20 degrees at night so everything is 15 20 i mean on the floor the coolant is probably 15 degrees celsius so to bring it from like 15 to like whatever 30 degrees you know 80 liters or whatever it is it's uh
00:07:20
jamie peacock
so one thing
00:07:31
jamie peacock
yeah yeah
00:07:39
Curt
It was toasty. Yeah, it ran it ran hard. I mean, hard for my work.
00:07:42
jamie peacock
nice yeah um i forgot to add that to the document uh your machine doesn't have a spindle chiller does it okay um so i had it
00:07:43
Curt
The spindle didn't show any load, but it's spinning quick for hours and hours and hours and hours. ah yeah I was pleased. It was it was nice to see.
00:07:53
Curt
It does not, no, unfortunately. Thankfully, it doesn't really like I put my hands on all the bearings. um And i don't I don't run it near. It's like even even with the tool, it's a 1 16th tool that's doing all my surfacing.
00:08:06
Curt
And I just, at SFM, like, I'm still limited by SFM.
00:08:06
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:08:09
Curt
Like, I can't push it to what I want to. So, but yeah, it's it's still running at, like, 60% spindle speed.
00:08:12
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:08:17
Curt
So it's happy there.
00:08:17
jamie peacock
Ah, okay.
00:08:18
jamie peacock
Yeah. It can run continuously there.
00:08:18
Curt
Yeah.
00:08:20
Curt
And I don't have to push it because, like, yeah, like, it did all my work in that day.
00:08:22
jamie peacock
You don't need to, yeah.
00:08:25
Curt
So it's like, well, okay, well, run it faster. Like, just let it be happy.
00:08:28
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, 100%. No, no, that makes that makes perfect sense. um
00:08:32
Curt
Yeah. It's fun, though.
00:08:32
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's nice when the machine just runs and just... Prince money effectively.
00:08:38
Curt
Well, and I like, I found things that, um, like I had to keep, it went through, I don't know, probably 30 liters of water. Um, just, I mean, cause it's obviously it's like hitting the little tools and just atomizing and evaporating and cooling things.
00:08:48
jamie peacock
It evaporates. Yeah.
00:08:52
Curt
Um, but then it also, um, uh, I just lost my train thought, uh, complete.
00:08:52
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:08:59
jamie peacock
Yeah. To fill it up with water.
00:09:01
Curt
I mean, yeah, I'd fill it up with water, but I completely lost my train of thought there. That doesn't, it doesn't matter.
00:09:04
jamie peacock
this is quite a bit At least it's not only me doing it.
00:09:05
Curt
It was,
00:09:07
jamie peacock
Yay.
00:09:08
Curt
Fuck. Yeah.
00:09:08
jamie peacock
That's normally my trick.
00:09:09
Curt
Okay.
00:09:11
jamie peacock
I'm sure it'll come back to you some point.
00:09:12
Curt
Anyways, it was happy.
00:09:12
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:09:12
Curt
It ran all the parts. And ah yeah, it was just nice. It was nice to see a machine actually running at its probably pace that it wants to run. that So...
00:09:20
jamie peacock
The joys of ah of a reliable industrial machine, not a hobby machine.
00:09:25
Curt
And you know what? The first part was perfectly intolerant. And the last part was perfectly intolerant.
00:09:29
jamie peacock
Mm-hmm.
00:09:30
Curt
I didn't bump it. I didn't touch it. I didn't tweak it. Everything measured exactly start to finish.
00:09:33
jamie peacock
Yep.
00:09:35
Curt
Like, I will give style props for whatever comp they're using for any kind of growth because I couldn't notice anything.
00:09:39
jamie peacock
Thermals, yeah.
00:09:42
Curt
Like, the first pen and the last pen look identical, which is what I love.
00:09:45
jamie peacock
That's, yeah. But and it is quite a compact machine, so I think thermal's not as much of an issue on it.
00:09:52
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:09:53
jamie peacock
But yeah, that's really cool that you can just put it on and it just runs. that's That is the purpose of these machines.
00:10:00
Curt
Exactly. Yeah.
00:10:00
jamie peacock
lu That's really, really cool. ah Yeah, are speaking of ah machines just running, ah ran the slowio for the first time
00:10:04
Curt
Yeah, man.
00:10:06
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:10:09
jamie peacock
this year that I've actually used I think the probably the first time in six or seven months that I've actually run a job on it.
00:10:10
Curt
Ooh.
00:10:16
Curt
Okay. What was it doing?
00:10:17
jamie peacock
It's run in between calls run little bit. But yeah, I actually ran 300 and 400 electrical connectors today, where i're going to just split them.
00:10:28
jamie peacock
So screw the part and hit go unscrew the part screw the button hit go. It took me like two hours to do 400 of them. And then also machine some other stuff that the same customers reworking. So the boards been potted, they want to pull the fuses off and bridge them.
00:10:45
jamie peacock
And I'm like, guys, there's two kinds of people in this world, those who use fuses and those who will use fuses. But they want to bypass them because it's it's actually fuse on the communication line. So if you get any sparks in the CAN bus line, these re self-resetting fuses trip.
00:11:01
jamie peacock
But they only have X number of trips. So they're getting erroneous sparks through their power system or whatever, and it's causing the sensors to fail.
00:11:10
jamie peacock
So they're trying to recover them. I don't know. So I'm machining away the um the potting compound for them.
00:11:11
Curt
Hmm.
00:11:18
Curt
Hmm, okay.
00:11:19
jamie peacock
And then, yeah, and then the Slowio wouldn't probe because I disconnected the probe wire because it was erroneously triggering the probe.
00:11:27
Curt
It's good way to fix it, yeah.
00:11:27
jamie peacock
So, yeah, no, just unplug the wire, i plug it in when you need it. i need to put it that on a switch now. Like, even worse, put it on a switch so can just switch off the probe. um Yeah, it took me a little while to figure it out look in the back, I'm like, hang on.
00:11:40
jamie peacock
What the shit? This thing's, because I thought I disabled it in software. No, I just unplugged the wire.
00:11:47
Curt
Nice. Proper.
00:11:47
jamie peacock
because savage mode.
00:11:47
Curt
Proper way to disable, yeah.
00:11:49
jamie peacock
We tried to probe
00:11:49
Curt
Yeah.
Accidents and Unexpected Benefits
00:11:50
jamie peacock
something the other day, and I'm like, why wouldn't it probe?
00:11:51
jamie peacock
So I just gave Carl the wiggler. I'm like, yeah, use a wiggler. Could not be bothered. No, just you're finding a center of a shaft to drill a hole. It'll be fine. um
00:11:59
Curt
Yeah.
00:12:00
jamie peacock
So yeah, I figured it out this morning. This afternoon? Yeah, this afternoon, because I broke a wall this morning. So, yes.
00:12:07
Curt
Yeah, use you sent me your little video of your ah your destruction.
00:12:11
jamie peacock
Yeah, we had... We had a... a small amount of shavings. So we had a RPC tote that was full of aluminium shavings, 850 pounds worth of aluminium shavings, which as strong as I like to think I am, I can't actually manhandle that around.
00:12:24
Curt
Sure.
00:12:28
jamie peacock
So between Dan and I, we managed to pry it onto the back of the truck. Then ah I've done this in the past where I've used a pole or a piece of aluminum extrusion or whatever. She drives forward a bit. I drop the pole and she reverses. She drives forward. I reposition the pole. She reverses to push it onto the back of the truck.
00:12:44
jamie peacock
And I was getting a bit frustrated this morning and I put it a little bit higher on the wall than I normally do. Cause I normally put it like right where the driveway hits the wall and I put it a foot up on the wall and the whole wall went padunk over.
00:12:58
Curt
Oh.
00:12:59
jamie peacock
Yeah. So yeah, that that was fun. And then I needed, we had a power outage. So I wanted to turn the generator on and guess what's behind the wall?
00:13:07
jamie peacock
That, well, the wall fell onto the door to wear my changeover switches. So I had to break the wall into pieces to be able to get into the room that's got the changeover in it. So I could change over and run the generator for like an hour and a half to finish up what I was doing.
00:13:07
Curt
okay
00:13:22
jamie peacock
And so yeah, it was one of those days.
00:13:25
Curt
Is this wall? Is this this because i was watching the video. Is this the center wall in your garage?
00:13:30
jamie peacock
ah No, it's in front of the garage is like a walkway.
00:13:31
Curt
Oh,
00:13:34
jamie peacock
It's a stupid wall that doesn't need to be there, so it's not going back.
00:13:35
Curt
OK. OK.
00:13:37
jamie peacock
It's like a column.
00:13:38
Curt
OK.
00:13:38
jamie peacock
it Yeah, it was a column. That was the problem. and The problem is it's clay bricks, so they don't bond super well to the cement.
00:13:46
Curt
ah okay okay
00:13:47
jamie peacock
So it being 40 years old didn't help the situation. Yeah. And the bricks on the bottom didn't have holes through them, whereas the ones um in the middle did. So the cement would flow through the middle of the brick and kind key it in.
00:14:00
jamie peacock
The ones at the bottom weren't like that.
00:14:01
Curt
Sure.
00:14:01
jamie peacock
So as soon we pushed it, just moved over.
00:14:04
Curt
Oh, okay. Okay.
00:14:04
jamie peacock
So now I'm going to quickly, no no, nothing major.
00:14:05
Curt
So it's nothing. Yeah.
00:14:07
jamie peacock
I'm going to move the gate and then gaslight my mother-in-law to thinking the gate was always there.
00:14:12
Curt
who That's the ticket.
00:14:14
jamie peacock
because I'm that son in law. ah yeah I'm gonna move I'm gonna move the gate a bit up. That wall doesn't need to be there. It's just actually an inconvenience. So I'm just gonna move it. like
00:14:23
Curt
i love I love the, i love the, like the, the aspect after pushing it over, be like, you know, it wasn't, it wasn't even, it was kind of in the way, honestly, it was ah it was a bad wall.
00:14:32
jamie peacock
It was actually because getting the getting the workbench into the little shack of grinding was a problem. Like we had to shimmy it in because the fucking wall in the way. So the wall is now being removed.
00:14:43
jamie peacock
And I'm just going to brick it up quickly.
00:14:43
Curt
Yeah. You're going to take it down. Yeah.
00:14:45
jamie peacock
I'm going to go buy some cement tomorrow morning, brick it up, hide all the bricks and then gaslight my mother in law to thinking it's been like this for the last 40 years.
00:14:54
Curt
Oh boy. Well, I guess.
00:14:55
jamie peacock
It's the small things in life that bring me great amounts of joy.
00:14:59
Curt
Yeah. You don't need to be in a will anyways. It'll take you right out of that. Yeah.
00:15:02
jamie peacock
it's fine. Danica's in the will. Who cares?
00:15:04
Curt
I guess, I guess. Yeah.
00:15:05
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:15:05
Curt
You got, you got married in.
00:15:06
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:15:06
Curt
You're all right. ah
00:15:07
jamie peacock
Yeah. i' married and I'm good. Like if i we inherit anything, it falls into the accrual. So I'm good. du
00:15:14
Curt
That's, that's freaking awesome, man. Um, Oh,
00:15:17
jamie peacock
So I want to know what DGR thing you bought. Oh, what did you remember?
00:15:21
Curt
I did remember the train of thought that I lost is when I was running the machine, i was getting low on oil and when it alarmed out, cause I came in the garage and it's like the machine's alarmed.
00:15:26
jamie peacock
Ah, yes.
00:15:29
Curt
I'm like, son of a bitch, what is it? I'm like, is a tool changer stuck? And I'm like, Oh, you just low on oil. I'm like, okay, little friend. I just filled it up. And then it's like, yep, I'm good to go again. i was like, Oh, okay. Okay. You did a good job.
00:15:38
jamie peacock
for the For the third time in three years, I got a low oil alarm on the EMCO.
00:15:45
Curt
Oh, really?
00:15:46
jamie peacock
Yes. it's been It's been running like 14 hours a day the last couple days.
00:15:51
Curt
Okay.
00:15:52
jamie peacock
And yeah, finally emptied its oil reservoir again. And I topped it up. I'm like, carry on, little friend. Run! It made 200 and something parts today, 200 parts yesterday, 300 parts today before that.
00:15:59
Curt
Yeah.
00:16:04
jamie peacock
It's going to make 300 parts tomorrow. It's earning its keep.
00:16:10
Curt
Fair. Yeah. yeah
00:16:10
jamie peacock
Even the good way is earning its keep. The good way gets swampy. Holy cow. I was running aluminium and...
00:16:14
Curt
Oh, yeah.
00:16:15
jamie peacock
yeah open the door and it's like um but yeah that that made 200 parts in a day and like just on a day that you that would have taken us like two or three days previously so it's it's shooting all the machines like customer placed order on the 20th i'm assuming they did so assuming i wouldn't be able to deliver by the end of the month incorrect it will be delivered on thursday and i will invoice on thursday so they have to pay me by the end of the month
00:16:17
Curt
hu
00:16:23
Curt
Nice.
00:16:42
Curt
Laser magic. Laser magic for that kind of stuff.
00:16:44
jamie peacock
Dude, lathes are money printers, like straight-up money printers.
00:16:45
Curt
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:16:47
jamie peacock
And then, like, yeah typical Jamie Sales pitch, anchor point. Freaking shining star. Went to machine the tops of those lathe parts, pulled the fixture off the wall, loaded them, threw them in, hit-go. Fucking done.
00:16:58
jamie peacock
Like, they're magic. I've got another job.
00:17:01
Curt
Yep.
00:17:01
jamie peacock
I've got to reprogram it tonight. I'm changing the way I use the fixture. It was, I think, four eight parts, and then another four eight, I'm now going to do op one, op two, because I was having failures in my other fixtures.
00:17:13
jamie peacock
So... constant improvements on the process, but I need to just reprogram that and then I can run it tomorrow. That's to the second op on the parts that were in the m code today.
00:17:25
Curt
i had the ah I had the most ridiculous idea on the weekend because I was doing some laser work, which I'll talk about later. But um and she I needed like a repositionable jig that I could put into my laser.
00:17:36
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:17:39
Curt
So I was like, I'm like, what do I have where I could just like i could put like like a pallet into it and it would like and then I could pull it back out and it would repeat really precisely. And I'd look over and there's like your anchor point sitting there.
00:17:49
Curt
I'm like, that would be so ridiculous putting your your giant anchor point into ah into a fiber laser machine.
00:17:52
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:17:55
Curt
But I was like, I could do that no you're not doing that you're not doing that I'm building something simple but there's no forest so I was like what a waste but yeah I was like what if that gets a anchor point I milled us was like oh Jamie will be mad Jamie will hate me
00:17:56
jamie peacock
Do it.
00:18:01
jamie peacock
Do it.
00:18:07
jamie peacock
Dude, I would not be mad in the least.
00:18:08
Curt
isnt ah
00:18:10
jamie peacock
It would be freaking hilarious.
00:18:11
Curt
who
00:18:12
jamie peacock
It would be great.
00:18:14
Curt
probably tip the machine over yeah yeah
00:18:16
jamie peacock
Yeah, probably. It is a little bit overkill. And your one still very thick compared to the the newer ones.
00:18:22
Curt
Yeah, thankfully i got loads of Z on that machine. So, yeah. But anyways, that was, yeah.
00:18:25
jamie peacock
Yeah, mine's also got a shitload of Z on the laser. But yeah, I was ah not cutting foam on the weekend.
00:18:30
Curt
Yeah, I think they build them all like that, man.
00:18:33
jamie peacock
It's magic.
00:18:35
Curt
Yeah, it's always fun how quick it goes, yeah.
00:18:35
jamie peacock
Like, just like Kazan foam, but the white one from packaging, i was making in little trays.
00:18:40
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:18:41
jamie peacock
Oh, it's so cool. Just like laser cut it all out. Super, super easy. Like, yeah, CO2 lasers are magic. So fiber lasers. actually lasered my hand.
00:18:49
Curt
Oh.
00:18:51
jamie peacock
Because yes, the cycle is like 12 seconds. So drop one in, hit go, grab another one. I thought it was done. When grabbed it, like, oh, fuck, what was that? was lucky I was wearing a bitch, Matson.
00:18:51
Curt
oh
00:19:02
Curt
I've,
00:19:03
jamie peacock
So then the glove just got really hot and burned me a little bit. Didn't actually hit my skin. was like safety third.
00:19:08
Curt
i've a I've only lasered my hand once and that was in my CO2. And just cause it's cause the beam path, right?
00:19:15
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:19:15
Curt
They bounce. And I didn't realize it.
00:19:17
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:19:18
Curt
I w it was cutting. i was like Oh, I just need to move this really quick. And I i opened it and obviously i don't have any safety interlocks cause, um, and I, I reached past to grab the piece, which I was far away from the cutting area, but I went right through the path of the beam and yeah, thankfully it wasn't the focused beam, but yeah, it's still burnt a little hole in my hand and like instantly was like, yikes.
00:19:24
jamie peacock
Well, duh.
00:19:30
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:19:34
jamie peacock
Still. Yeah, and it takes a while to heal as well, because it cauterizes it. Like, my mate Phil did the same thing.
00:19:40
Curt
Yeah, yeah, it was it was a clean cut, yeah.
00:19:43
jamie peacock
My mate Phil did the same thing on his little 50 or 40 watt, and yeah, same story.
00:19:43
Curt
Oh, yeah?
00:19:48
jamie peacock
like
00:19:48
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:19:49
jamie peacock
That's not even the worst. i was I got a fusion 360 power bank. And I was I had it in the CO2 and I was lasering it around power bank. And I'm lasering my name into it.
00:19:57
Curt
Okay.
00:19:58
jamie peacock
And like why is my face warm? Because it's at an angle it was reflecting the the diffuse.
00:20:02
Curt
know Oh Oh no!
00:20:04
jamie peacock
towering Oh, fuck. Move out of the way. Yeah. ah
00:20:08
Curt
Oh. Oh. I mean.
00:20:11
jamie peacock
That's a very, very dumb things in my time.
00:20:14
Curt
Okay, since we're on the topic of stupid lasers, I'll say this one thing is, um so I was calibrating on on the fiber laser I have. It has a diode laser in there, which I don't really, I'm probably never going to use. um But it uses the diode laser to ah basically display what, yeah, to trace what you're going to laser with the fiber.
00:20:28
jamie peacock
Trace. Yeah.
00:20:32
Curt
um It just uses low power so you can move it around, get your alignment perfect. And the alignment between the two lasers I suspected wasn't perfect. So I was like, oh, here's the easy way to fix it I'll just put something that'll respond to both. So I just put some anodized aluminum in there.
00:20:43
Curt
And I'm like, I'll run the fiber laser, run a circle, and I'll run the diode laser, run a circle, and I'll be able to see the offset.
00:20:48
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:20:49
Curt
and then I'll be able to calculate out and either fix it in software or fix it mechanically, whatever i can do.
00:20:53
jamie peacock
Yeah, there's a thing in Lightburn to calibrate that.
00:20:57
Curt
Sure, yeah. And um they actually, I messaged and manufacturer because I'm like, this is kind of annoying. And they're like oh, yeah, we can, like, you can correct for that. i was like, okay, excellent excellent. They're like, we'll get you a procedure. It's they don't have one yet. um anyway Anyways, ah fiber laser on anodized aluminum isn't really all that bright. So I had the door open and I just quickly really light past low power circle and you can look at it. And so I was like a fool. I wasn't wearing the glasses ah and it goes, I'm like, okay, that's the circle I want. And then I switched to the whatever, you know, i'm the thousand nanometer down to the 400 nanometer.
00:21:29
Curt
And I was like, I better crank a power up a little bit because it's not, you know, it's just diode laser. um And I had go watching the circle like an idiot. And then the diode laser, the blue diode laser, like the infrared laser for fiber, you can't really see, but the bright diode laser, holy Christ, it was, and it just did a circle in about a quarter of a second.
00:21:40
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's brass.
00:21:49
Curt
And it did it so fast. And I was like, shit. And I just closed my eyes. And as I closed my eyes, I see circles everywhere. I'm like, oh no. so
00:21:56
jamie peacock
Yep.
00:21:57
Curt
yeah, i was like, yeah, was,
00:21:58
jamie peacock
Done that too.
00:21:59
Curt
Idiot, idiot. Like CO2s, they're bright, but they're not that bright.
00:22:00
jamie peacock
Yep.
00:22:02
Curt
But diode lasers are stupid bright.
00:22:03
jamie peacock
Yep.
00:22:05
Curt
Yeah, just, they respond well.
00:22:05
jamie peacock
Diodes are stupid. Yep.
00:22:07
Curt
Yeah. your eyes, anyways.
00:22:08
jamie peacock
Now I've, uh, yeah. Done that one too with my little 5 watt back in the day. Where you're watching it cut, you're like, this cool.
00:22:14
Curt
Yeah.
00:22:15
jamie peacock
You close your eyes and you go, oh, and see the pattern, it just cut.
00:22:18
Curt
Yeah, it's like, okay, well, that took a year off my sight, so, yeah.
00:22:19
jamie peacock
Yeah. Wear your safety sequence, people. That is the gist of it.
00:22:25
Curt
Yeah, and buy good ones. Yeah.
00:22:26
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:22:27
Curt
Yeah.
00:22:28
jamie peacock
Yeah, we won't discuss my safety practices. I live in Africa.
00:22:33
Curt
I have some great tips on, or great sayings for eye protection, but they're not probably podcast safe, so we'll carry on with those.
00:22:40
jamie peacock
Yeah, probably not.
00:22:43
jamie peacock
So what would you like me to discuss, Kurt?
00:22:44
Curt
Anyway.
00:22:48
Curt
ah ah but up but but but Let me see. have so many things.
00:22:51
jamie peacock
There's a whole bunch. I know.
00:22:53
Curt
ah let's ah Let's finish off your intruthive intrusive thoughts regarding the pneumatic workholding, because we're kind of on a pneumatic kick right now, so.
00:23:01
jamie peacock
Fair enough.
00:23:02
Curt
Get that out of the way.
00:23:04
jamie peacock
I had some intrusive thoughts about making my own air vase again.
00:23:08
Curt
Oh, really?
00:23:09
jamie peacock
um probably i' probably just going to buy one, but I have thoughts and stupid plans that I may just execute on for shits and giggles. So I've got a self-centering one of the little Zendaya vases.
00:23:21
jamie peacock
And a while ago, I put a stepper motor on it to clamp and unclamp it. So you give it a signal, a little ESPNO, a little M0 board or whatever it was, would run the motor slow for like a second.
00:23:26
Curt
OK.
00:23:36
jamie peacock
Because the slower you go with the stepper, the more torque you have. um
00:23:39
Curt
Right.
00:23:40
jamie peacock
So I'm trying to think about, no, it's sorry, it would run it fast for a second, stall it, and basically clamp your part. And then when you went to loosen you'd run a bit slower for a little bit longer, and it would average out to be the same opening and closing distance.
00:23:53
jamie peacock
And then i'm like, yeah, motor's not really waterproof. So I was thinking of maybe making a pneumatic version of that. So having a cylinder driving a rack, put a gear on the on the lead screw, but but have it that the so obviously on a pneumatic cylinder, you've got a rod, and the side of the rod has less force than the side without the rod.
00:24:04
Curt
oh Oh, okay. Mm-hmm.
00:24:16
jamie peacock
Because there's less surface area.
00:24:19
Curt
Oh, okay, okay.
00:24:19
jamie peacock
because the rod yeah the rod takes up surface area so i would clamp with the side with the rod so pressure on the side with the rod so that you always have enough force to unclamp because you don't want to go and clamp the thing with the ones and you can't loosen it you can't take it out the vase automatically so i was thinking of what i have laying around evil thoughts i'm thinking of maybe making a little actuator for shits and giggles um and just seeing i'm gonna probably ordering you well i'm gonna order pneumatic vase
00:24:22
Curt
yeah gotcha. Gotcha.
00:24:29
Curt
Gotcha.
00:24:46
jamie peacock
But that's still a few weeks away. So let me use what I have and waste a bunch time and fuck around and make myself something cool.
00:24:52
Curt
okay and
00:24:55
jamie peacock
So i was yeah I was thinking of going ah timing belt, kind of like a cuckoo robot style where it goes around a corner so that i can put the whole mechanism under the vase and then just have it go around and then back under.
00:25:08
jamie peacock
Make a loop of belt and then put the cylinder on the loop of belt that it pulls the belt back and forth.
00:25:10
Curt
h
00:25:13
jamie peacock
Because then it's straightforward pneumatics.
00:25:14
Curt
Sure, yeah, yeah.
00:25:15
jamie peacock
Your range is not great, but then what you do is you have it so you can slide the, you can pull the coupling out, adjust the vise to where you want it within a few mils, push the coupling back in, and it actuates two or three millimeters.
00:25:28
jamie peacock
um Yeah.
00:25:28
Curt
sure
00:25:29
jamie peacock
Jamie's intrusive thoughts about workholding. I also half designed a pneumatic vise a while ago.
00:25:36
Curt
yeah idle time is the devil i dude that's the problem is we all get these beautiful setups where we have machines that can build basically anything we can imagine
00:25:37
jamie peacock
Aluminium body with steel rails. Like, it's not a difficult problem to solve. It's just, I've got better shit to do with myself.
00:25:48
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:25:55
Curt
and
00:25:55
jamie peacock
Yep.
00:25:56
Curt
then you give us just ah a little bit of spare time just sprinkling a little spare time to anybody that's probably listening to this podcast and they're like oh yeah i gotta i got a laundry list of a thousand things i want to make just like because you can you can make all kinds of shit it's dangerous totally yeah yeah it's different if you want to make it for the fun of it or no yeah yeah
00:26:03
jamie peacock
Yep.
00:26:09
jamie peacock
Yeah, you can make anything. It's just is it actually worthwhile making? Yeah, so I'm yeah. Yeah, so I'm looking at the silver CNC pneumatic vases.
00:26:21
Curt
yeah that's probably the way to go
00:26:22
jamie peacock
Just actively working on being less poor first.
00:26:25
Curt
Yeah, that's a, yeah. And so was a struggle bus, so.
00:26:28
jamie peacock
Yeah, I'm trying to front load all the all the automatic gripping stuff before the orders are actually upon me. But cert, like the pneumatic vise is a pretty large outlay of cash.
00:26:35
Curt
Sure.
00:26:38
jamie peacock
I'm like, kind of going to wait till the order comes and tell them, listen, your first batch is three weeks out. it Gives me two weeks to get the vise in and then a week to machine all the parts. So I think that the worst case, I can start machining the parts and manually load them, but I have a gripper and I want to use it.
00:26:48
Curt
Yeah.
00:26:55
Curt
Yeah, yeah, no, it makes sense.
00:26:56
jamie peacock
No. Yeah, even the the diesel guys we have today, I'm like, what's happening with your own your guys sensor?
00:26:57
Curt
I would do the same.
00:27:02
jamie peacock
Because those housings, they're not the highest value item, like dollar value, but I can also load them and have the machine just ship the op ones out. ill load the op twos into a fixture on a tombstone. And every time I had cycle chooch on the op twos, I'm dropping out like 16 pots.
00:27:19
jamie peacock
so kind of worth my time to do so yeah we'll see i'm not holding my breath on those guys anymore but they're they're actually placing orders again just yeah exactly just in time to be inconvenient regarding the mechanical anchor point production yeah that's that's how works yeah but uh yeah the mechanicals are in are in production at this point
00:27:27
Curt
Yeah, I see.
00:27:30
Curt
Promises don't buy bread, so. yeah
00:27:37
Curt
Oh, 100%. That's how it always works. Yeah, the universe knows this. Sick.
00:27:46
Curt
Sick, sick, sick.
00:27:46
jamie peacock
Yes, I'm waiting. got to go buy a new 173E collets this week. They were out of stock, so they're getting a container in this week. I'm waiting for them to phone me and say, we have stock. And then I get in my truck and I zoom along in my go-kart, not my NASCAR.
00:28:00
jamie peacock
And yeah, I've been driving my little truck and it feels like driving a go-kart after driving a Land Rover. It's a bit of a problem. Like it feels like I'm in a go-kart. But yeah, I'm going to go pick up some collets so that I can actually properly manufacture some of the parts on the mechanical.
00:28:15
Curt
And that because you launched the presale so that that go decently well or?
00:28:19
jamie peacock
ah Yeah, there's there's been interest.
00:28:21
Curt
Yeah.
00:28:21
jamie peacock
My lovely wife is incapable of sending out emails. So pre-order is open if anyone's interested. There'll probably be an email going out at some point in the future regarding that.
00:28:31
jamie peacock
I've only been asking for like a week. um So I'm going to arouse her tomorrow to send that pre-order email out so people on the list know that it's available for like pre-order. But yeah, I've decided I'm going to first batch is going to be between 20 and 30 units. I've got parts for because some of the part. Well, one of the components is between both mechanical and pneumatic.
00:28:53
jamie peacock
And that's the one of the longest lead time, the pad. So I've got material on the way for pads. I'll get those machines sent to heat treats and then everything else is a very quick. It's either small or very quick turnaround.
00:29:04
jamie peacock
So I can just make as needed for those.
00:29:07
Curt
Nice.
00:29:08
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:29:08
Curt
Nice.
00:29:08
jamie peacock
And then on the anchor point note, we're going to be adding blank palettes and accessories to the website in the very near future.
00:29:16
Curt
Ooh, cool.
00:29:17
jamie peacock
Yes. Which also leads into the fact that I need an A1 Mini.
00:29:23
Curt
Ah, okay. Buy two.
00:29:24
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:29:24
Curt
ill i'll I'll take one. Yeah.
00:29:26
jamie peacock
Yeah, so they there's actually none in the country at the moment.
00:29:27
Curt
okay
00:29:29
jamie peacock
Stocks arriving end of the month. And i'm andnna I think going to buy it with the AMS LART so that I can do color changes for the anchor point little protector, like dust cover things, which also shoots out quite excitingly because they've got a seal in them.
00:29:43
jamie peacock
So that friction fits into the pad.
00:29:45
Curt
right
00:29:45
jamie peacock
And then when you unclamp, it goes out into the roof. It's great. um So yeah, those, yeah.
00:29:51
Curt
did we did did we talk about the little uh palette changer for the ams lights or not the ams sorry the um uh little a five
00:29:53
jamie peacock
yeahp
00:30:00
jamie peacock
yes i think we did i don't know when but yeah um i'm basically buying one of those as well and stacking it with at least four build plates yeah i've got yeah the link it in the show notes because i literally have one in my cart on aliexpress um
00:30:06
Curt
okay well we'll link we'll link it link in the show notes because it's cool
00:30:14
Curt
It's pretty cool. it's like It swaps the whole plate on the printer, and it does it with the printer's like ah existing mechanical system.
00:30:19
jamie peacock
yeah the printer's kinematics yeah they stole
00:30:21
Curt
Yeah, it's pretty cool looking. I kind of want it just for that. Yeah.
00:30:24
jamie peacock
Yeah, I want it for my mate's boss runs one and just prints stuff for their drones like nonstop. So like you queue up 10 prints and leave it.
00:30:32
Curt
Yeah.
00:30:34
jamie peacock
So I want to do that for the go no go gauges is one of the accessories that's going on the site. So it's got a dowel and a one of my locating pins. So when you're making blank pallets, you can check the fit of the locating holes.
00:30:47
jamie peacock
So if the green pin goes in, you're good. If the red one goes in, you've blown the tolerance basically. So the green must go, the red mustn't. um I want to print those two colors autom automatically.
00:30:58
jamie peacock
And then there's the little covers for the top. And then I want to print insert things to stop coolant going in the bolt holes.
00:31:09
Curt
Ah, makes sense. yeah, fair.
00:31:09
jamie peacock
So those other all just go as accessories. They'll also all be available for free on the website in the CAD pack. um So if anyone wants the models, you just go down you just go purchase the CAD pack for free and you get emailed all the models.
00:31:23
Curt
Nice. That's that's nice.
00:31:24
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's got all the all the palette models, all that all that stuff's in there. And it'll keep getting updated. So every time it's updated, you just go buy it again for free. And then you you get it. But yeah, so I want to buy an A1 Mini for that reason. It's going to go over there next to the beefcake because the beefcake's annoying me.
00:31:42
Curt
They're ridiculously inexpensive for what they are.
00:31:45
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, they're stupid cheap.
00:31:46
Curt
It's like...
00:31:47
jamie peacock
Like here they are.
00:31:47
Curt
Sure.
00:31:48
jamie peacock
So they're a little bit more expensive in sunny South Africa ripoff land. um
00:31:53
Curt
Sure.
00:31:54
jamie peacock
It is... Fuck it, close enough. $600 with the AMS Lite. six hundred dollars with the is lot
00:32:02
Curt
Okay, yeah,
00:32:03
jamie peacock
For the A1 Mini. It's, yeah. It is what it is. I can get it for, without the AMS. Oh, wait, 7's up there. $420. It's... four hundred and twenty dollars
00:32:14
Curt
yeah. Yeah.
00:32:15
jamie peacock
it's
00:32:17
jamie peacock
It's stupidly cheap. My mate Dave's got running, came past with some prints of that thing. I'm like, dude, you just send stuff and it prints and it fits. Like, it's really, really well dialed in.
00:32:17
Curt
That's so inexpensive.
00:32:25
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:32:27
jamie peacock
So I want to be lazy and have one of those that can just print parts for me and I don't have to really stress about it.
00:32:35
Curt
I know that it it like part of me wants to yeah but like part of me wants to buy like something that lasts for a bajillion years. And then the part of me is like, this is the disposable camera of printers. by like And it just it feeds into the consumerism, just buy it and throw it away kind of thing.
00:32:44
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:32:49
jamie peacock
Thing is, you buy something that's going to last you 10 years, and 10 years of technology has changed so much.
00:32:49
Curt
100%. 100%. i yeah it's
00:32:55
Curt
ah hundred percent a hundred percent
00:32:55
jamie peacock
Dude. That machine is five, far and off five a half years old. It's very hilariously outdated. It still prints well, but it requires a lot of effort.
00:33:05
Curt
Yeah.
00:33:07
jamie peacock
Whereas the bamboo stuff you just send to slicer, send to park, to printer, done.
00:33:08
Curt
Yeah.
00:33:14
jamie peacock
And that, yeah, I'm looking for the business on that one.
00:33:14
Curt
Yeah. Yep.
00:33:17
jamie peacock
So I've been
Exploring New Technologies
00:33:18
jamie peacock
a in looking at that.
00:33:18
Curt
Yep.
00:33:21
jamie peacock
Also, regarding the pneumatic intrusive thoughts for work holding, was thinking making ah soft jaw that is a pneumatic cylinder slash vase.
00:33:21
Curt
Nice.
00:33:32
Curt
How?
00:33:32
jamie peacock
So you have a fixed soft jaw on your like four inch curved vase or whatever. And then you have a moving soft jaw that goes.
00:33:37
Curt
Sure. Okay.
00:33:41
jamie peacock
So it's effectively just a cylinder that just pushes it forward a little bit and runs on like, fuck what are those things called? Oh, no. Shoulder bolts.
00:33:53
jamie peacock
So it would be an Op1.
00:33:53
Curt
okay
00:33:54
jamie peacock
Op1 pneumatic work holding option. But basically, the jaw would be a cylinder. So it just goes out like three millimeters and then pushes back. Three millimeters just a clamp with like castle grips or something.
00:34:10
Curt
For what purpose? I'm not following.
00:34:11
jamie peacock
For Op1s. For Op1 pneumatic work holding.
00:34:16
jamie peacock
So just putting it in a four inch vase instead of buying a pneumatic vase.
00:34:16
Curt
Oh, okay.
00:34:16
Curt
Okay.
00:34:19
jamie peacock
like making it as a cheap option yeah but your surface area of the cylinder is not that great yeah it's not gonna have a shitload of holding force but again depends what you're doing and yeah Jamie and his intrusive thoughts they're very very dangerous like very dangerous so tell me about your DGR
00:34:20
Curt
Oh, gotcha. Okay. I see. Okay. Okay. I gotcha.
00:34:28
Curt
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Fair. Yeah. yeah
00:34:34
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:34:38
Curt
Dude, they're dangerous. They're dangerous.
00:34:44
Curt
Yeah. So I haven't bought it yet, but I'm pretty certain because I want... It leads kind of into my my Google box, but I kind of want a video camera just for the... Because I like video. but No other reason than I like video. and So i was going to buy a new phone because my phone's getting a little outdated now. A lot outdated. But I also...
00:35:07
Curt
i hate I hate the phone thing of like, you need to get a new phone every year. So I was looking at the, ah what do they call them? Fair phones, I think. The ones that you can swap every single part out. Because like for most of my purpose, that's, I need a phone for like phone reasons.
00:35:21
Curt
Like I don't, it Instagram, I suppose, like it's nice to have good cameras for that.
00:35:22
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's, yeah.
00:35:27
Curt
But for the most part, like i don't I don't need to be buying a new phone every two years. Like I thought about, honestly, I thought about going to a dumb phone, um like a flip phone.
00:35:31
jamie peacock
Exactly.
00:35:35
Curt
It's just like it.
00:35:35
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:35:36
Curt
that just like oh Anyways, um so for cameras, I've been looking at a few different types of cameras. I'm looking at some of the Blackmagic stuff, which are freaking sick. Kind of want one of those cameras.
00:35:45
jamie peacock
They are.
00:35:47
Curt
Yeah, and I was also looking at the DJI Osmo cameras because they honestly get some pretty goddamn good reviews for having like a one-inch CMOS sensor and a gimbal.
00:35:54
jamie peacock
They do. Yeah.
00:35:56
Curt
Like, they're not all that expensive.
00:35:58
jamie peacock
The only yeah only issue with those the screen so small you can't see if you're of focus.
00:35:58
Curt
So it's like, you know what?
00:36:04
Curt
Yeah, that is true. um But, you know, like most of my stuff is like what I use it for is just like B-roll or talking head. So it's like it's it's not a huge issue for me.
00:36:08
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:36:11
Curt
And it's short short enough clips that like i'm like, oh, I'll just reshoot that one. um
00:36:14
jamie peacock
Yeah, 100%.
00:36:15
Curt
And like having the like mors so bigger sensor for lower light. and just Anyways, so was looking at those. And then I also got wind that the 4 is being released.
00:36:26
Curt
Because was going to buy a 3 off of Marketplace because I'm sure someone got one for Christmas that they don't want and I could get it for a steal.
00:36:29
jamie peacock
again
00:36:32
Curt
um And then I realized the 4 is coming out. like they They already have like the FCC filings for it and everything. And now there's been leaked like images of the box. I was like, I'll probably just wait. So...
00:36:45
Curt
Yeah, so i might I might wait on that. So I'm not a big fan of DJI. I didn't like what they did with their whole drone thing, but I got to hand them when it comes to those cameras because their gimbals and cameras are insane.
00:36:52
jamie peacock
camera stuff dude yeah i watched a thing yeah
00:36:56
Curt
Especially their big stuff. If you start looking at their like they're huge steadicam rigs, it's like, wow, impressive.
00:37:01
jamie peacock
none No, no, they, yeah, they what they're doing in that space. Unlike GoPro. I watched a thing the day on GoPro's inevitable downfall.
00:37:06
Curt
Oh, yeah.
00:37:08
jamie peacock
And I was like, yeah, that was, that what could have been predicted from the beginning just by how it was run. But yeah, interesting. Nonetheless, I mean, I've got a bunch of GoPros.
00:37:18
jamie peacock
I gave them a whole pile of money. But I am seriously considering the Metaglosses. The video off of them is not horrible.
00:37:25
Curt
Oh, I was looking at those two. Yeah.
00:37:27
jamie peacock
And then I can film by myself.
00:37:27
Curt
Yeah.
00:37:29
jamie peacock
Like it's, on my fucking melon so yeah i'm seriously considering a pair of those um would also be kind of cool to shoot imts footage with uh with that of the booths and stuff because then it's what you're looking at like it's actually what you're looking at yeah i don don't know what the disclosure stories about that would be but it's uh yeah i'll walk around like a nerd with glasses i don't mind
00:37:41
Curt
Yeah. fair
00:37:45
Curt
yeah
00:37:55
Curt
I was watching a thing about how they said like a lot of those like glasses that look like glasses, but are also shooting video, just how it's going to change the way humans interact.
00:38:01
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:38:03
Curt
Cause people are gonna well, I'm being filmed by you. It's like, this is creepy now.
00:38:07
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:38:08
Curt
yeahs It was interesting.
00:38:08
jamie peacock
Yeah. No, 100%. It is an interesting thing. like it I want it more for doing like setup videos and things like that in the workshop or making tutorials, things like that.
00:38:16
Curt
Sure.
00:38:17
jamie peacock
like That's what I want it for. But it could be very interesting for shooting footage at like a show or something.
00:38:23
Curt
Yeah.
00:38:24
jamie peacock
Put a big shirt, I'm recording you bitches so that they at least know that they're being recorded.
00:38:30
Curt
Jamie's Jamie's POV channel.
00:38:32
jamie peacock
Yes, there we go. um Speaking of IMTS, our Patreons are making the wheels on the train go round and round.
00:38:41
Curt
Ooh.
00:38:43
jamie peacock
as well as a helping us get to IMTS when we're going to kidnap Kurt because he doesn't know this yet, but he's coming with. um But yeah, the the patrons help make the wheels on the podcast go round and round, and they're all greatly appreciated, especially our top tier patrons.
00:38:58
jamie peacock
Jade from Benchmark20, Luke from Fabtastic, who i actually hung out with on Friday night on the Taps and Patients Discord.
00:39:03
Curt
Sick.
00:39:04
jamie peacock
Yeah. um AJ from Subtract Manufacturing and 31 other companies. EJ from Nocturnal Welding. Jason S, the Aussie Machinist. Christian Olson, Charles Watts, Kyle from Kirst Machine, Matt from Offworld Gear, and Alex B. Thank you to you and all the other Patreons.
00:39:20
jamie peacock
And yeah, we look forward to having a meetup with Kurt at IMTS. No pressure, Kurt.
00:39:26
Curt
Dude, it's not cut not happening. I'm not going.
00:39:28
jamie peacock
It's happening.
00:39:28
Curt
It's too scary right now.
00:39:29
jamie peacock
Kidnap.
00:39:29
Curt
Too scary. They're already doing that.
00:39:30
jamie peacock
Oh, don't worry. We will yo nodora will we' discuss this after the after the show because Danica has raised some concerns as well um about some of the shit that's lying on there.
00:39:36
Curt
Yeah.
00:39:40
Curt
Yeah. Fair.
00:39:41
jamie peacock
But anyway, ah thank you, Patreons.
00:39:44
Curt
Yeah. Thank you.
00:39:45
jamie peacock
Oh, they also get the after show where we will discuss ah other things. Don't know discussing today. i don't think it's going to be jet trains again, although there was another video from their channel.
00:39:53
Curt
Probably not, no.
00:39:56
Curt
Oh, well, maybe we'll be trains then.
00:39:57
jamie peacock
Yes. ah yeah Yeah, back up.
00:39:59
Curt
Buckle up, kids.
00:40:00
jamie peacock
This is going to be good. I'm misspelling it.
00:40:03
Curt
Oh, actually, i have a i have a little micro train video that we can we can share. This is actually really cool, and it's not totally to do with trains, um and it's to do with a ah YouTube guy.
00:40:08
jamie peacock
Oh, nice.
00:40:12
Curt
So I'll just i'll put micro train so I don't forget. Yeah.
00:40:14
jamie peacock
Okay, cool. So, After Show is going to be about cool things and microtrains.
00:40:20
jamie peacock
So, um how are you helping advance the AR takeover?
00:40:27
Curt
uh okay so i was messing with chat for a while and i like i've always had the free tier um and i i've always kind of been a bit against chat just because of the whole everything there's a thousand reasons to hate ais um and i mean i want to hate them but i also don't want them to know i hate them because once they take over i don't want to be the first in line for the
00:40:33
jamie peacock
Yeah. Exactly. Yeah.
00:40:50
Curt
the rapings um or at least at least i'll be they'll treat me gentler because i say please and thank you and besides the point uh i just i i ended up buying a paid patent paid plan uh for chat just because like i use it frequently enough for like coding and for like just the dumbest like dealing with data that i don't want to like have to comb through it's and unfortunately like now i just leave it open on my on my desktop because i'm like well i have it i'm going to use it and just like
00:41:03
jamie peacock
Okay.
00:41:18
Curt
i'm I'm using it so much. I am heating the planet for all of us. So sorry, friends.
00:41:22
jamie peacock
Done right. My lovely wife's been doing the same. She's been developing a Java course and been using chat and notepad LM, notebook LM to develop, to like make, make some of the test papers for her because it's much easier to just have it do that.
00:41:29
Curt
Yeah.
00:41:36
Curt
I feel...
00:41:39
Curt
Dude, I feel like it's going to be the have and the have-nots in the next like X amount of years of like, if you if you use it...
00:41:43
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:41:45
jamie peacock
Well, it's going to be,
00:41:47
Curt
against your morals or whatever and don't like it's it's weird.
00:41:49
jamie peacock
I think it's going to be the can use it competently and cannot use it competently. I think that's going to be the you need to realize it's lying to you and not trust anything it says.
00:41:55
Curt
Sure.
00:42:00
jamie peacock
But for stupid work like processing a bunch of data, it's perfect. I wouldn't ah out if it told me the sky was blue, I'd go outside and check. Like, yeah, like, I don't trust the fuck all.
00:42:09
Curt
Well, of course, but like
00:42:13
jamie peacock
But Danica's been using it now to help with the course she's developing because it's passing through a whole lot. She has the presentation, creates a test that's going to take the guys three hours to complete.
00:42:26
jamie peacock
And then ChatGPT gave her three questions. Here's your test. So she put it through Notepad LM and it gave her an actual exam.
00:42:32
Curt
Yeah.
00:42:36
Curt
Yeah. Like it's, it's
00:42:37
jamie peacock
And then obviously she still went through it and checked everything because you have to, but it can get the bulk of the work done for you.
00:42:41
Curt
totally.
00:42:44
Curt
Well, and it's it's insane. what it like Sometimes like I was using it for doing i was doing some photo work, and i would I would tell it to render me a photo. And I was like, I like that photo. I'm not going to use your photo because the resolution isn't high enough and it's a little sloppy, like AI sloppy.
00:42:55
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah.
00:42:58
Curt
So i'm like, tell me exactly what you did. like How did you process my image to get that? And this is the software I'm using. And it's like, oh, okay, this is exactly the steps and the filters and the effects I did. And it's like, oh, okay. I'm like, I'm not a, I'm not super proficient in like Photoshop.
00:43:14
Curt
But when you like list me 60 steps of how you don't know, 60, but like eight steps of how you did it. I'm like, oh, I can get an incredibly similar result to that. And it took me 15 minutes. And like, I didn't use my brain to scour the internet for six hours trying to learn how to use this.
00:43:27
Curt
This is like, that's where there's value in it for me anyways.
00:43:28
jamie peacock
Exactly. Yeah.
00:43:30
Curt
Yeah.
00:43:31
jamie peacock
No, that's where I think there's value for a lot of people, but I think there's also the AR buzzwords shooting around right now, like with Danica having been down in Cape Town dealing with the the short dick dude who wants everything to be done by AR.
00:43:45
jamie peacock
He's a moron.
00:43:45
Curt
Yeah.
00:43:45
jamie peacock
He's an absolute fucking idiot and thinks that what he's asking chat to you is
00:43:48
Curt
Yeah.
00:43:50
jamie peacock
is private, which is fucking hilarious. And he's like, he's got ChattyBetit to generate art.
00:43:53
Curt
Yeah.
00:43:56
jamie peacock
He's trying to sell the art in his estate agent place. And it's like, dude, you do realize that's in the public domain, right? He's like, no, what do you mean? to You clearly didn't read the end user agreement.
00:44:06
jamie peacock
Like, yeah, you're a fucking idiot.
00:44:07
Curt
yeah
00:44:09
jamie peacock
Please don' forget to breathe. um But yeah, there's a lot of people who are just like, AR, AR, AR for fucking no reason.
00:44:13
Curt
Yeah.
00:44:17
Curt
Yeah. And it's funny how like I put, I made a few posts about it and like a ton of like people that work in like it, I've just like come out of the woodwork and talk to them me and they're like, dude, they're like, I work for so many companies are like, we'll just get ah AI to do it They're like, no, no, like it's not how this works yet.
00:44:32
Curt
Like it kind of helps, but like, we're also just going to like, there's still value in someone knowing what they're doing as opposed to just letting a robot try to do it all. It's just like, you have to,
00:44:40
jamie peacock
Just do what HP does and wait 15 minutes to answer the phone so that people will try to fix it themselves.
00:44:47
Curt
Yeah, it's like, it's it's it's wild.
00:44:47
jamie peacock
like No, did the the AR story is really frustrating.
00:44:49
Curt
wow
00:44:52
jamie peacock
like Everyone thinks it's the answer to everything, and it really isn't. But i think you were saying a few weeks back about people potentially looking at supporting companies that specifically say they don't use AR.
00:44:57
Curt
No, no.
00:45:05
Curt
ah Yeah, I don't know if it was me, but I know Steam does it.
00:45:06
jamie peacock
I think we were discussing that, yeah.
00:45:08
Curt
Steam has like little things on their games.
00:45:08
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:45:10
Curt
Like this game was created with AI and it's like, yeah, like I'm starting to realize
00:45:13
jamie peacock
Well, Larry and... So Larry and the studio, the guys who made Bare Fucker 5000, Baldur's Gate, they specifically put a statement saying that they will not be using generative AR to generate concept art.
00:45:20
Curt
Yeah.
00:45:27
jamie peacock
But there's nothing stopping their concept artists from going home, generating a bunch of ideas with thing and then coming to work.
00:45:32
Curt
Yeah.
00:45:33
jamie peacock
You can't stop it, unfortunately.
00:45:35
Curt
Yeah.
00:45:36
jamie peacock
um But yeah, they're saying, no, we're not, in our corporate environment, we are not generating concept art and then iterating on it. We still have concept artists. Because you could very quickly get rid of concept artists.
00:45:47
jamie peacock
Because just say, chat GPT, make me a concept art about this and get a relatively good result.
00:45:55
Curt
Totally. Totally. And yeah, it's like, yeah.
00:45:56
jamie peacock
So yeah, we definitely live in an interesting time.
00:46:01
Curt
Well, and we're standing on the precipice right now of something that's absolutely, like we have no idea.
00:46:03
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:46:04
Curt
Like, like remember like the Will Smith eating spaghetti? Like remember how that changed from a year ago or like whatever, a couple of years ago to now, like now it's creepy close to, I mean, you can still tell it's not human, but in a year from now, you're not going to know, like you're not going to tell.
00:46:12
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:46:17
jamie peacock
The, yeah, you're not. The most frustrating thing to me right now is Instagram is like, how to tell if a video is fake. And there's like a guy jumping in, throwing a um a unicorn floaty thing in a pool and then jumping into it.
00:46:30
jamie peacock
so Look at the splashes.
00:46:31
Curt
Yeah.
00:46:31
jamie peacock
And then he like takes off and flies like, this is real.
00:46:32
Curt
Yeah.
00:46:34
jamie peacock
I'm like, fuck off now. Like, just go away. Like even like, yeah, even five minute crafts on Instagram are winding me up.
00:46:39
Curt
Yeah.
00:46:42
jamie peacock
I'm like, I see it and like I see them doing something stupid. So then I watch it. cause I want to see what stupid they're doing. I'm like, no, Jamie, turn it off. Like they're baiting me in by showing me something dumb and I'm falling for it.
00:46:49
Curt
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
00:46:53
jamie peacock
It's very frustrating.
00:46:54
Curt
Totally. Yep.
00:46:56
jamie peacock
But yeah, but that's it.
00:46:56
Curt
Welcome to the world.
00:46:57
jamie peacock
The most, the most valuable resource on this planet is human attention.
00:47:02
Curt
Oh, absolutely. Absolutely.
00:47:04
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:47:05
Curt
Yeah.
00:47:05
jamie peacock
No, that's, i was, I don't, okay, I doubt you've listened to Lean Built this week.
00:47:10
Curt
No, I have not.
00:47:11
jamie peacock
Okay, Pearson was saying him and his wife, sitting having a conversation in the morning that afternoon, getting served ads.
00:47:18
jamie peacock
And Andrew had a thing say about that, yeah, it might not be as straightforward as that, because
00:47:18
Curt
Yeah.
00:47:19
Curt
Yeah.
00:47:26
jamie peacock
your friends might have mentioned it you, then you discuss it with your wife, and then you're more perceptive to actually seeing the adverts for it because it's in the front of your mind. and I was like, that's a valid point, but it's definitely fucking in listening.
00:47:35
Curt
Hmm.
00:47:38
jamie peacock
I know because I've got cousin people, ah the dude's 16, his sister's 19, I think, and every time he's on his phone, she walks past and shouts the most deranged shit, and he gets adverts for it.
00:47:52
jamie peacock
It's brilliant. Like, you'll be playing on his phone and his sister will just walk past. And just the most deranged things, like, definitely not podcast-friendly
00:47:53
Curt
Hmm.
Work Strategies and Profitable Machining
00:48:00
jamie peacock
things. And then that'll start popping up on his ads.
00:48:04
jamie peacock
agree We actually had quite a long discussion about it. I'm like, your sister's a savage.
00:48:08
Curt
back in the day before algorithms were really good, i would i would seed algorithms. Because you know you'd always get ads on the side of Google back in the day of like pictures and stuff.
00:48:15
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah.
00:48:16
Curt
And I was like, I don't want to see like whatever... drug of choice ad or vehicle ads so i would just like search a bunch of things that i was super interested in like let's say i just whatever jets or something i would just search it for like an hour and then like for the next few weeks i would just have beautiful pictures of all these jelly no it wasn't jet it was probably girls i was probably searching girls anyways besides the point you i'd have i'd have nice pictures to look at instead of like stupid ads about a ford focus that i don't want to buy so now it's smart it gets around that but
00:48:31
jamie peacock
yeah nice
00:48:39
jamie peacock
yeah 100 yeah no dude yeah now it's gotten a bit smarter i was actually chatting to one of my customers this week about tick tock because danica gets like sucked into that stupid app um And my customer's wife was saying, oh, he was saying, no, he's not really into tickling. like, dude, that app is the devil.
00:49:02
jamie peacock
Like straight up, you will open that app, having never used it. Within 10 minutes, you are doom scrolling because it is only showing you what you want to see. And it's not because, oh, you clicked and liked it. No, no, you looked at the picture for 0.2 of a second longer than the rest.
00:49:17
jamie peacock
So it starts showing you more that it is creepy as hell. Like it is super, super creepy.
00:49:24
Curt
um not to derail to get right back on the machining. This thing, I've been messing with this.
00:49:27
jamie peacock
Oh yes.
00:49:29
Curt
So if people are on the the camera, i don't know if you can focus on that.
00:49:30
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:49:32
Curt
um So Jamie sent me these lovely little, the unit, which is a little proper ruler called ah the real two inch ruler. I was trying to see, so you have engravings on here. You have centimeter engravings, one, two, three, four, five.
00:49:47
jamie peacock
Random Alamiza.
00:49:48
Curt
Then you have, ah yeah. so So I'm trying to figure out. So the one says, it says 1.066.
00:49:57
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:49:58
Curt
And then 2.132.
00:50:03
Curt
Or like, but I'm trying to figure out how the logic is.
00:50:03
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:50:08
Curt
Because like 0.066 or 0.0066 is the conversion factor between millimeters and inches.
00:50:13
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:50:15
Curt
So I'm trying to figure out the lasering you did on this.
00:50:16
jamie peacock
Yeah, that's not inches. No, no, that's the standard length of a banana.
00:50:19
Curt
What is it? Fractional.
00:50:22
jamie peacock
It's fractions of a standard banana.
00:50:26
Curt
Okay. Okay, this makes more...
00:50:26
jamie peacock
I Googled the average length of a banana and it is in divisions of ah of an average banana.
00:50:30
Curt
Okay.
00:50:32
jamie peacock
That's why the scale has a banana next to it.
00:50:33
Curt
Okay.
00:50:34
jamie peacock
Where like at the bottom?
00:50:35
Curt
Okay, because...
00:50:36
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:50:36
Curt
Yeah, oh so and that makes sense because on on your ah on our ah their your
00:50:40
jamie peacock
and Yeah, imperializers.
00:50:42
Curt
imperializer, use banana, but banana is actually em imperial units.
00:50:45
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:50:46
Curt
And on here, banana is actually bananas.
00:50:46
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:50:49
Curt
This makes sense. That's why it's 0.26 of a banana.
00:50:52
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:50:52
Curt
I got it now. Okay, I was sitting here.
00:50:53
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's an actual banana length.
00:50:54
Curt
I sat there for like... I sat there last night or like Saturday night at like two in the morning.
00:50:57
jamie peacock
ah
00:50:59
Curt
I just ended up coming in the shop and I was looking at this thing and i was like, what the fuck is Jamie on? I'm like, I can't make heads or tails of this. I'm like, what is he talking about? I'm like six thou per mil. That's not even close.
00:51:10
Curt
And I'm like, he's done. like, what is he doing? Bananas. Perfect.
00:51:13
jamie peacock
yes it's average length of a banana i can't remember what it was um
00:51:14
Curt
Perfect. Makes sense.
00:51:19
Curt
I mean, average, average bananas. know. Depends like, like we said, depends where you are in the world.
00:51:25
jamie peacock
Seven to eight inches. I can't remember what. I think seven and a half. Yeah, I can't remember what the actual conversion is.
00:51:29
Curt
a big
00:51:31
jamie peacock
But I did Google it, and that's how it got calculated out. So that's a millimeters to banana.
00:51:35
Curt
Well, if you're bananas.
00:51:38
Curt
Okay, well, that's a large banana, I would say. I would say large in my opinion, but
00:51:42
jamie peacock
Bananas here are pretty big. um In Africa, the bananas are very big.
00:51:45
Curt
they are bigger in that side of the
00:51:47
jamie peacock
of But yeah, they that's in bananas. actually was getting another batch of those laser cut. I'm sending laser cutting off this week.
00:51:55
Curt
I have to develop a form or something like i that so we can send all the Patreons and I will send everybody one of these lovely Jamie banana rulers because you sent me a gang of them and they're they're a cool keychain made of stainless, lasered in.
00:51:55
jamie peacock
was
00:51:58
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:52:04
jamie peacock
Yeah, there's three different versions of them.
00:52:06
Curt
I will.
00:52:07
jamie peacock
actually tweak the way they do the lasering. want specify where the lead in and lead out are, because you see the one corner is ground off, because they tabbed them out there, and I had to ground the freaking thing, so just ground a 45 on it.
00:52:14
Curt
Yeah.
00:52:16
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah.
00:52:18
Curt
Okay, I was trying to figure out why there's 45.
00:52:19
jamie peacock
yeah
00:52:19
Curt
was like, there's probably a reason.
00:52:20
jamie peacock
Yeah, that it came out of, it like, projected, and I didn't want to fuck the end up, so I just put a 45 on all the ends.
00:52:21
Curt
ah Jamie probably made it for something.
00:52:28
Curt
Looks cool.
00:52:28
jamie peacock
not No, it works.
00:52:29
Curt
it's kind of like a little flathead. I like it. It's usable.
00:52:31
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:52:31
Curt
Yeah. but
00:52:32
jamie peacock
I definitely haven't bent them taking 5C collets in and out of my machines. Because it fits in a 5C collet split.
00:52:38
Curt
Yeah. Yeah, and I know. was like, I should sharpen this little bevel on Anyways, besides point.
00:52:44
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:52:45
jamie peacock
But yeah, bananas per bananas per millimeter is the ratio there.
00:52:45
Curt
Cool.
00:52:46
Curt
ah Cool.
00:52:49
Curt
Answers the question. that was That was troubling my mind.
00:52:50
jamie peacock
yes
00:52:51
Curt
That's why it's sitting on my desk so I could ask you.
00:52:54
jamie peacock
so my my mom on my customers master were yes very quickly also uh 7 000 rand worth of import duties uh yeah between um so 425 import duties and vat
00:52:57
Curt
Ooh.
00:53:06
Curt
Ooh, that's up there.
00:53:11
jamie peacock
and import duties and that
00:53:13
Curt
Yikes.
00:53:14
jamie peacock
Yeah, my ass is still a bit sore.
00:53:15
Curt
Yikes.
00:53:16
jamie peacock
But it's here. And I now know how much it actually costs to fucking buy one so I can quote the next customer appropriately. Because i have a meeting to tomorrow with the next customer.
00:53:23
Curt
Yeah.
00:53:27
Curt
Oh, nice. Okay.
00:53:28
jamie peacock
Yes, because Jamie does retrofits on a regular basis now, apparently.
00:53:32
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:53:32
jamie peacock
Who would have fucking guessed? um Yeah, so the Mazda arrived. looks really cool. i haven't powered on, but I'm sure it'll power on. Yeah. And then i went to the guys that did the 5-axis work for in December.
00:53:47
jamie peacock
They wanted to know about retrofitting either their 3-axis router or their neighbor's one that's fucked. So they might buy that and then we retrofit it with a new controller.
00:54:02
jamie peacock
But that one, so yeah, ended up spending like three hours there the other of day. We can retrofit the existing router, but the servos are can open servos. They don't seem to support step direction, which is all that the Maso does.
00:54:16
jamie peacock
So three working servos need to get pulled off the machine, and I've got to put new servos in. So that obviously pushes the price up. The other machine has got Yaskawa drives on its four axes.
00:54:30
jamie peacock
One axis is a tool changer. But those I can put into step direction mode or pulse pulse sign mode and run them off the Maso. So I've got a meeting with them tomorrow to discuss options.
00:54:40
Curt
All
00:54:41
jamie peacock
Do they want to buy that machine? Move it in? ah come in, I got the thing, I start rewiring it, we see what we need, and then we go from there. Or do we retrofit the existing machine, but then they're without a machine for a while, like, yeah.
00:54:54
jamie peacock
Do they want to add capability or upgrade capability? It's basically the conversation I get to have with them tomorrow.
00:54:59
Curt
right.
00:55:00
jamie peacock
But yeah, the most expensive part of that is going to be labor, by far.
00:55:05
Curt
Fair. Yep.
00:55:06
jamie peacock
Mostly because they're an hour and a half from my house.
00:55:06
Curt
Yep.
00:55:08
jamie peacock
um And I'm going have to stay there while I'm literally just going to quote for accommodation while I'm there and just stay in the town for two or three days instead of commuting back and forth.
00:55:09
Curt
Ooh.
00:55:17
Curt
Yeah.
00:55:20
jamie peacock
Mostly because i don't want to put all those K's on my bucky.
00:55:20
Curt
Yeah, it's a lot of wasted time.
00:55:22
jamie peacock
Like, screw that. I'll just draw there for a few days. um The only problem is it messes with everything else that's going on. So definitely needs to be worth my time to go there.
00:55:30
Curt
Yeah.
00:55:32
jamie peacock
But yeah, got to look at a bunch of cool machines. um Like these Oaks have a graveyard of routers. And not not cheapy routers, like NAS routers, because they're from like 2000, 2002, around that era.
00:55:40
Curt
Oh, wow.
00:55:47
jamie peacock
And a drive will go, but now the agent's no longer in South Africa. So they can't go to the agent and then they try and get over to fix it and it's just a shit show.
00:55:53
Curt
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:55:57
jamie peacock
So I'm like, this VFD is fucked. Yeet, throw a new VFD in it. The servers are all still working. We can communicate with these servers. We pull the can open, bullshit off, reset the drives to pulse and sign.
00:56:10
jamie peacock
And I'm not, like that one, if we go that route, I'm not going buy the touchscreen Maso. I'm just going to buy the G3 and there's a keyboard and mouse stand in the cabinets. like a pullout tray for it they can just use that um where's the other the ones i'm going to use the g3 touch because it looks fucking cool and i like it yeah it's it's a really nice controller but yeah we're gonna we're gonna fuck around with that and then on the the lovely topic of retrofitting things i should not be retrofitting yeah my grind is getting retrofitted to be cnc
00:56:26
Curt
Yeah, does it does look cool.
00:56:31
Curt
Yeah, it's pretty.
00:56:43
Curt
we talked about...
00:56:44
jamie peacock
We spoke about this.
00:56:45
Curt
Okay, we talked about C&C. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:56:46
jamie peacock
Yes, we spoke about sensing it, but I don't want to buy 7C81 for it because I don't need all that functionality. I don't need, think it's 54IO. Like I literally don't need that.
00:56:56
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:56:57
jamie peacock
So I found a project using the Raspberry Pi's GPIO. guy made a breakout board that works specifically with the 5-axis breakout board. So I'm just going to buy two of those because I'm doing mine and someone else's grinder.
00:57:12
jamie peacock
Raspberry Pi 5. GPIO hat to the 5-axis breakout board, done. It does simple limits, spindle control. it it does the the bare minimum with that you need for a CNC router or grinder and is about half the price of C81.
00:57:33
jamie peacock
The shipping's a bit rough because it's from the US, but yeah, the shipping's like a thousand rand, so the shipping's like $70, and the rest of the order's like $90. ninety dollars So it's mostly shipping, but that's fine.
00:57:33
Curt
Sure, yeah, yeah.
00:57:44
Curt
Right.
00:57:47
jamie peacock
The guy's got pre-done configs, so I can literally just burn the thing, pull the configs in, and then tweak it for what I need.
00:57:47
Curt
Yeah.
00:57:54
jamie peacock
So it was interesting diving down the drabital.
00:57:54
Curt
Yeah, that'll work.
00:57:56
jamie peacock
Jacob had some concerns about timing. I'm like, dude, I ain't doing fuck all. Someone else has done the legwork. Like, I'm not worried about step timing on this. Someone else has done the legwork.
00:58:06
jamie peacock
It works. It's a grinder. It doesn't have to be overkill.
00:58:12
Curt
You're not pushing HSM toolpaths through a grinder, so yeah you're probably not going to hit timing issues.
00:58:14
jamie peacock
No. No, exactly. Like...
00:58:17
Curt
Yeah. yeah
00:58:17
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's going to, the so the Z-axis will always be enabled.
00:58:19
Curt
Yeah.
00:58:21
jamie peacock
The enable pin will just be tied high or low or whatever it fucking needs. The X and Y will be on the enable. So or I probably actually have them on their own toggle that I can just toggle them into hand mode.
00:58:33
jamie peacock
I can move the machine around, like surface something, enable the motor, like put them in the zero position, enable them, zero them off with no home switches, so just little indicator flags, and then I'm good to go and I can run my program.
00:58:35
Curt
Yeah.
00:58:45
Curt
Yeah.
00:58:46
jamie peacock
So yeah, I was having a chat to the guy I'm doing that for. I a chat to him today because I was working out a costing for him. And he's like, what about labor? I'm like, don't stress, I'm doing mine. I'll just do yours the time. You give me enough work that I do.
00:58:56
Curt
Nice.
00:58:57
jamie peacock
He gives me enough work, like easy work that I don't mind.
00:59:01
jamie peacock
ah it's yeah like Now we've got a bunch of work queued up.
00:59:01
Curt
Sure.
00:59:01
Curt
Yeah.
00:59:04
jamie peacock
like Simple stuff takes me 20 minutes to machine and we're charging them for like an hour and a half of machining. So it's, yeah, you give me enough work, I don't mind like sorting this out for you.
00:59:17
jamie peacock
It's one of those, yeah. It's the Dutchman's squeeze box, guys. gives me way too much stuff.
00:59:17
Curt
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:59:21
Curt
Fair, fair.
00:59:22
jamie peacock
Yeah. Alright, so.
00:59:23
Curt
Nice.
00:59:24
jamie peacock
Lasers, lasers, and lasers.
00:59:27
Curt
Dude, I'm so locked into lasers, so I've been...
00:59:29
jamie peacock
Well, technically, you have three now.
00:59:33
Curt
Do I?
00:59:33
jamie peacock
CO2, diode, and fiber, yeah.
00:59:33
Curt
Yeah, i do have three. Yeah, yeah.
00:59:35
jamie peacock
Two machines, three lasers.
00:59:36
Curt
Yeah, i do i do. I do have the trifecta of lasers. um Yeah. So the little fiber has been actually ah working better. And I thought I did some deep engraving into brass.
00:59:47
Curt
I have some bronze coming today. i have some titanium. Well, I have titanium everywhere.
00:59:50
jamie peacock
Did you, sorry, did you post a picture of the engraving? Of the coin you did?
00:59:54
Curt
I did. Yeah, yeah.
00:59:55
jamie peacock
Yes, okay, I thought I saw it.
00:59:55
Curt
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:59:58
jamie peacock
I thought I saw you post something.
00:59:58
Curt
And I need like... Yeah, and I needed some, I needed content um for that whole brand deal to work out.
01:00:03
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:00:04
Curt
um So I was going to do this. And my my deal with them is, ah since I do so much work in titanium, they're like, could you do work in titanium? I'm like, yeah. Can your machine run for like 30 hours continuously?
01:00:13
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:00:13
jamie peacock
Okay.
01:00:13
Curt
Because that's what it's going to take.
01:00:14
Curt
And they're like, yeah, no sweat. i was like, okay, sweet. Yeah, i'll I'll do it. Sure, why not?
01:00:17
jamie peacock
Okay.
01:00:17
Curt
um but Anyways, I'm going to do some work in titanium. But yeah, the brass work kind of blew me away. I was pretty impressed with the kind of features you can get. And these are cheap-ish machines, like two, $3,000 machines.
01:00:29
jamie peacock
How deep did you end up going in the brass?
01:00:31
Curt
I it's about two millimeters deep. So decent.
01:00:35
jamie peacock
um Okay, I need you to please send me that file.
01:00:39
jamie peacock
Or of your settings, because I've got to mill
01:00:39
Curt
Yeah, sure.
01:00:39
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
01:00:47
jamie peacock
i've got to mill something because I can't engrave it deep enough and I think it's just a settings issue. Okay.
01:00:53
Curt
Yeah. just, I mean, basically it's for brass almost as low as frequency you can go and, pretty heavy on the power and a bajillion passes well just just let her yeah it just takes fucking ages and that's the thing is like uh yeah like and i will probably honestly seeing the value in fibers now i'm i'm already looking at like between 60 and 100 watt units because it's just for my work it's going to be i will use it for a million things and uh anyways um yeah so i've been pissing out with that having a load of fun with that um like i said bronze is coming and do some work in that and uh I was actually talking with chat.
01:01:02
jamie peacock
Yeah, so the normal recipe.
01:01:07
jamie peacock
Yeah, that's right. It can take forever.
01:01:15
jamie peacock
Nice.
01:01:20
jamie peacock
Yes.
01:01:28
Curt
That's what one thing I was using it for is a thermal coefficients of materials. And the reason brass lasers so well is because it transfers heat so well. So it basically ablades the material and gets rid of the heat.
01:01:34
jamie peacock
Okay. Yeah.
01:01:36
Curt
Titanium doesn't. it It doesn't transfer heat at all. So you tend to get a lot of remelt, which is why it lasers really poorly. Um, But you can do it. You just have to change things around frequencies and power factors and whatnot. So yeah, I'll do some testing at that.
01:01:52
Curt
And then on the other laser front, the laser scanning, I've been fucking with that because I've been wanting to get higher accuracy
Moon Fascination and Misconceptions
01:01:58
Curt
scans. And technically, this laser that I have should be able to do it. And I finally found settings that are like decent, like enough where I'm pulling the features off a coin um to the like the level I want.
01:02:07
jamie peacock
Okay, geez.
01:02:09
Curt
Yeah, like I have a little...
01:02:09
jamie peacock
Yes, i saw I saw your story of that.
01:02:12
Curt
Yeah, it's like a little Canadian dollar coin, old coin, big silver coin.
01:02:13
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:02:16
Curt
But yeah, i was able to pull like there's a goose on it and I was able to pull details out of the feathers from the goose. And I mean, we're talking like foul, like, yeah, maybe and like, you know, tiny features.
01:02:21
jamie peacock
Oh, wow. Yeah.
01:02:25
Curt
So I'm really happy with that. So that's been that's been nice because that's kind of I like that thing. But I was like, the features are kind of like what the specs aren't they say it should do this. And I wasn't able to get it to do it.
01:02:36
Curt
And I finally found settings that worked.
01:02:36
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:02:37
Curt
So um that was nice.
01:02:38
jamie peacock
Okay.
01:02:40
jamie peacock
no Who knows?
01:02:40
Curt
What I'm going use it for, I don't freaking know, but I have it now.
01:02:43
Curt
So yeah, exactly.
01:02:43
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:02:44
Curt
Yeah.
01:02:45
jamie peacock
Yeah, you've got it. yeah You can scan every pen so you have a digital twin of it.
01:02:47
Curt
yeah
01:02:51
Curt
Yeah, exactly. take me ages to do it, but why not? Yeah, like i yeah there's I have some really weird ideas that I've wanted to I wanted to like put a piece of clay around a pen and then like mold it perfectly to my hand and then scan that negative and then machine like a giant a pen that fit perfectly into my hand.
01:03:03
jamie peacock
Oh, geez. Okay.
01:03:07
Curt
Just dumb stuff i got like that, for my own curiosity. And I think it would make a cool YouTube video. um So yeah, I've been playing with lasers because the machine was running for a day, so I had lots of time to to dork with this stuff.
01:03:17
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:03:19
jamie peacock
Nice.
01:03:19
Curt
And last thing that I will touch on and then we can jump into the other things because we're already running long is, ah or I guess we'll hit your last topic.
01:03:24
jamie peacock
Yeah, lots.
01:03:26
Curt
Do
01:03:26
jamie peacock
We've got one more. It's a very interesting topic.
01:03:30
Curt
ah do you want to what do you want to go first? do you want me to carry on?
01:03:32
jamie peacock
No, no, do your one first.
01:03:33
Curt
Okay.
01:03:34
jamie peacock
Don't stress. I'll bait people with that for next week. I don't mind.
01:03:37
Curt
ah um So ah moon. ah So I've been pissed around with some lunar textures for reasons, but I figured out you can go online and you can download pretty much any image off the moon that's been mapped and like,
01:03:54
Curt
it blew my mind to realize a the detail we have of the moon and be the detail that we don't have of the moon and see how fricking big the moon is. Like, ah ah like you just, I don't have a sense of scale.
01:04:06
Curt
So I looked up the Apollo 11 site. That's where we landed on the moon. Allegedly. Um, I, I believe it, but some, some don't, um, fuck.
01:04:14
jamie peacock
Some people don't. That's their they hang up, not yours.
01:04:16
Curt
Yeah. That's your prerogative?
01:04:17
jamie peacock
Yep.
01:04:18
Curt
Yeah. So um I looked up the Apollo 11 site and like I have, there's one image from that I had a bunch of stories on and it's shot from about 500 kilometers over the surface. And it's it's pretty, like it looks really nice.
01:04:29
jamie peacock
Yep.
01:04:30
Curt
um It's one image that I'm using for a lot of things. And you can use, like if you have a good pair of binoculars or a small telescope, you'll be able to see the features here where it's like a couple of craters and you can kind of map your way to the Apollo 11 site and you can tell where like where we landed on the moon, which is super cool.
01:04:44
Curt
But the really cool thing is They had like a low orbiter that flew over the moon and mapped it down to like a 15 centimeter resolution for certain areas. And I think it's the Apollo 17 site.
01:04:55
Curt
You can pull up images on that. So I pulled up one of the images and downloaded it. And it's like, are you sure you want to download this? I'm like yeah it's an image. Why do I care? And it's like, it's one gig. I'm like, oh, like that's a big image.
01:05:04
jamie peacock
yeah Yeah.
01:05:05
Curt
So I downloaded it and opened it. And it's it's one strip because it's flying over, obviously. um
01:05:10
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:05:10
Curt
And you can zoom into the Apollo 17 site and see like rover tracks and like ah like footprints.
01:05:16
jamie peacock
You had this in your story, yeah.
01:05:17
Curt
And yeah, you can see the lander.
01:05:19
jamie peacock
It was really cool.
01:05:20
Curt
And like it's it's so cool to be able to see... to be like And then you start zooming out and you start referencing that with other images.
01:05:23
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:05:26
Curt
And you're like, the moon is freaking huge. like It's not huge. The Earth is huge. But like he just i just in my head, it was always like...
01:05:32
jamie peacock
Yeah. It's not small. Yeah.
01:05:34
Curt
in my
Movie Discussions and New Equipment
01:05:35
Curt
head was always small and then i realized i'm like okay this crater that i'm looking at that looks like you know ah tiny on my screen i'm like that's eight kilometers across it's like no wonder we can't see people on it like do you know how close you have to be to see that kind of resolution lots of people are like on earth are like why can't you see the astronauts standing on there with a telescope like you don't realize how big the moon is and how far away it is like it's it blew my mind to finally
01:05:54
jamie peacock
Yeah. Wallace and Gromit is not an accurate depiction of the moon.
01:05:59
Curt
yeah, like to actually have a sense of scale of how everything works now, I'm like, wow.
01:06:03
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:06:04
Curt
I'm like, it's, I knew it was big, but like, it's, it's interesting. It's a planet. So, i mean, it's not a planet, it's a moon, but, oh, it's planet, whatever.
01:06:10
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:06:11
Curt
ah Yeah, I've been geeking out on that hard.
01:06:11
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, dude, it's... It's really cool. Like it is really cool.
01:06:16
Curt
So cool.
01:06:16
jamie peacock
Speaking of the moon, have you watched the movie moon?
01:06:20
Curt
i I have not.
01:06:22
jamie peacock
thousand non 2009, very slow burn movie, but very good sci-fi.
01:06:25
Curt
Yeah.
01:06:26
jamie peacock
Very, very good.
01:06:27
Curt
have not.
01:06:27
jamie peacock
Just real slow burn. watched a thing on how they did some of the effects, but a really good movie. um So yes, my last topic here.
01:06:34
Curt
Cool.
01:06:35
jamie peacock
I had a chat W.D.
01:06:36
Curt
Yes.
01:06:37
jamie peacock
Hearn, specifically Dylan at W.D. Hearn. And he phoned me with a price on a Zappo or sino a SVT600, which is their drill tap center.
01:06:40
Curt
Okay.
01:06:47
Curt
Okay.
01:06:49
jamie peacock
600 millimeters X.
01:06:49
Curt
I'm looking at it right now.
01:06:51
jamie peacock
But oh, good luck with that. um
01:06:53
Curt
Oh, I found it.
01:06:55
jamie peacock
Yeah, doubt that.
01:06:57
Curt
Maybe I didn't. Carry on. Sorry.
01:06:59
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, there's bugger all on the internet. ah You might find one or two posts on Facebook and things. Anyway, 15 kVA machine. I'm like, weird. Siemens controller.
01:07:10
jamie peacock
Slightly bigger motors on X, Y, and Z. Same size spindle motor as my machine. 20,000 RPM BBT spindle.
01:07:18
Curt
Ooh, that's nice.
01:07:20
jamie peacock
with the chiller so 20k all day um yeah take a guess on the price he actually double checked his mat and then went to his boss and like have i fucked this up because he didn't believe the price
01:07:22
Curt
Oh, nice.
01:07:37
Curt
Tell me. What's it?
01:07:38
jamie peacock
landed excluding sales tax for forty four hundred forty four thousand dollars
01:07:44
Curt
That's cheap. That's cheap. it That's just almost scary cheap.
01:07:47
jamie peacock
Yeah, they're bringing one in for shits and giggles. Kind of earmarked for me, but shits and giggles.
01:07:52
Curt
Interesting. Interesting.
01:07:54
jamie peacock
Yeah. Siemens with all the options that I currently have, I believe, on the thing, 21-Tool ATC. Yeah, I've got the docks if you want to if you wanna to have a look at them.
01:08:05
jamie peacock
But yeah, very cool machine.
01:08:06
Curt
Wow.
01:08:07
jamie peacock
So yeah, i'm gonna when it arrives, I'll go look at it in Cape Town and hopefully be in a position to be like, wait, send it, friends. Because technically, it would fit in the garage.
01:08:18
Curt
Nice.
01:08:19
jamie peacock
Technically, I would probably have to take the vase off my workbench because there's like 20 mils to stay.
01:08:25
Curt
Oh, tight.
01:08:28
Curt
ah
01:08:28
jamie peacock
No, fit current setup. I'd have to build my new shop, but that is the plan for this year anyway.
01:08:36
Curt
I like that when you're like, yeah, i would fit my shop. I just have to take my belt off to get past it. It's like, Jesus.
01:08:42
jamie peacock
It technically would fit. um So yeah, very interesting. la like I got all the specs and stuff on the machine, and it's a beast. like Pretty much on par with the with the LK, a little bit better than the LK.
01:08:56
jamie peacock
21 tool servo turret and all the fancinesses.
01:09:00
jamie peacock
And BBT, which is kind of cool.
01:09:00
Curt
Wow.
01:09:00
Curt
that's That's cheap. Yeah. Tool holders might be pain in the ass, but
01:09:03
jamie peacock
Yeah. Thing is, you can run non-BBT in a BBT spindle.
01:09:09
Curt
I guess. Yeah, you were saying that.
01:09:09
jamie peacock
You can't run BBT in a non-BBT spindle.
01:09:09
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
01:09:12
jamie peacock
Yes, that way around.
01:09:13
jamie peacock
um Yeah, so I don't know. We'll see. They might bring one in for Machines with Africa. i don't know. I also got lead times and all that fun stuff on them. So yeah, we'll see when it's here. I'll go visit them in Cape Town and see.
01:09:13
Curt
Yeah.
01:09:26
jamie peacock
But like, it's got the the measuring the measuring module and the network drive module.
01:09:26
Curt
Cool, I'm interested. Yeah.
01:09:30
jamie peacock
like i I actually Googled what all the all the modules were that came as options on it. And yeah, it looks like a beast of a machine. look
01:09:40
Curt
Cool.
01:09:40
jamie peacock
looks very similar to the Nakamura just say extremely similar so yeah yeah wouldn't be surprised so what is in your Google box
01:09:45
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
01:09:48
Curt
I bet there's yeah a lot of weirdness going on there.
01:09:56
Curt
The Google box is, oh, hold on. I'm dragging some of our boxes around. Cinema cameras, because like I said, been looking at cinema cameras.
01:10:03
jamie peacock
yes
01:10:05
Curt
If anybody has one and you want to hit me up. um ah ah Ruby spheres, because I'm going to include some Ruby in this.
01:10:14
jamie peacock
Yes, I saw.
01:10:15
Curt
Yeah, so I bought some Ruby. I got some five millimeter Ruby. um It was cheap, um because I
01:10:20
jamie peacock
Making new tips for your probe.
01:10:23
Curt
ah ah No, not quite, but they're going to be just on this little coin project I'm working
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01:10:27
Curt
on. But like I was going to buy, so I looked at getting Ruby spheres, just synthetically created. um And the price, was like, oh, I'm like, those are not cheap.
01:10:36
Curt
They're quite expensive for like a pack. um So then I found these, which are really cheap, but I'm like, they're not, obviously they're not met metrology grade. So I had to measure them all and they all deviate by like, you know, five tens or a thou. So it's kind of annoying for production um for what I'm going to use it for.
01:10:47
jamie peacock
yeah
01:10:48
Curt
But for testing, like, yeah, the price was, like dollars in a yeah dollars each as opposed to like more than that each um so yeah i'm gonna have those um they're cool because they fluoresce under uv so i have uv lights i lit them up and they're all glowing kind of look cool
01:10:52
jamie peacock
compelling yeah
01:11:05
Curt
um and then uh my i i'm googling do we have a restaurant that uh sells like uh it's like a beef saute soup and i love i love these it's such it's such a good soup anyways my wife's co-workers they're like oh if he likes that he'll like this and there's this restaurant it's called fo king um so yeah so yeah so there i was laughing because i was like i want some of that fo king soup so i'm I think going to, I, and it's close enough that I can like, I can like skip the dishes it to me because some of these restaurants are too far away.
01:11:37
jamie peacock
Ah,
01:11:38
Curt
So I'm, I'm, I might have that for lunch one day here. So anyways, that's in my Google box.
01:11:40
jamie peacock
nice. Yeah, we had a Chinese place called the Tong Lok and my dad decided to rename it to the Long Kok.
01:11:42
Curt
yeah Yeah. I understand that. Yeah.
01:11:49
jamie peacock
Yeah, that's common sense. Yeah, so.
01:11:52
Curt
How about yours?
01:11:53
jamie peacock
The brakes on the Land Rover started making horrible noises when I picked down a cup from the airport. So i went to brother-in-law's house.
01:11:58
Curt
Ooh.
01:11:59
jamie peacock
I'm hey, Brew, need to sort these out. So went and bought brake pads. And were about to change them, pulled wheels off. He's like, hang on, Brew. I remember there being a trick or something.
01:12:10
jamie peacock
So we turned to Professor YouTube. Dude, you pull two little dust caps off, unscrew the... um
01:12:19
jamie peacock
caliper sliding ball, like the the sliding pins, pull the caliper off, swap the pads, put it back on, tighten the two screws and you're done. Like he you need a seven millimeter Allen key because some fucking illiterate was involved.
01:12:30
jamie peacock
But other than that, it freaking like took us 10 minutes to change the brake pads on the, on the Land Rover, which was really cool.
01:12:36
Curt
Oh nice. Nice.
01:12:38
jamie peacock
Yeah, so the Land Rover brakes were still in my Google box. Then I was looking on DIY electronics for Raspberry Pis because Pisshop doesn't have stock. So was trying to find other local places. Anyone locally looking to buy electronics things, if you want, hit me up. I'll give you a list of all the shops have frequent. But DIYelectronics.co.za.
01:12:57
jamie peacock
has got pretty good specials. Usually they do like a couple sales a year on 3D printer spares and they do weird filaments. And then looking for a presentation remote for Danica because she's going need to do slideshows. So she wants a little wireless dingus. And then the movie Tenant.
01:13:13
jamie peacock
Really fucking good. I feel like it didn't garner the praise it deserved when it came out. I mean, I put off watching because I'm like, hey heard the reviews are kind of mixed.
01:13:24
jamie peacock
Dude, that movie is so frickin amazing. actually want to watch it again.
01:13:27
Curt
Cool.
01:13:27
jamie peacock
I thoroughly thoroughly enjoyed it. um Like really, really well written, well really well executed.
01:13:30
Curt
OK.
01:13:34
jamie peacock
The storyline is awesome. Yeah. Like, and you realize two thirds the movie three like, Oh, that's what's happening. And yeah, it's really, really cool.
01:13:42
Curt
Cool.
01:13:43
jamie peacock
It's got some really interesting concepts. So yeah, worth a watch. It's three hours, but flippin' worth a watch. And don't like half-ass watch it. Sit and watch it.
01:13:53
Curt
I will add it to my list.
01:13:53
jamie peacock
Because, yeah, it requires focus to actually know what's going on. Because the storyline flies this way and that way and this way and that way. But it's really cool.
01:14:03
Curt
Nice, nice. OK, I will add it.
01:14:04
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah. Really, really good. So, you know, where can people find you and your stuff, Kurt?
01:14:10
Curt
confounded machine.com you can find all my wares and on the media page you can link to all of these wares that I'm currently wearing a sweater and then our t-shirt underneath as well that Jamie sells on his t-shirt shill site so yeah ooh where can people find your wares
01:14:19
jamie peacock
Oh, nice.
01:14:23
jamie peacock
Yes, which has correct shipping now. Yes. ah You can find me at jspec underscore engineering on Instagram, or you can find our website at jspeceng.com, where you will find the Anchor Point, the merch, the flack, a whole bunch of fun stuff.
01:14:39
jamie peacock
um
01:14:40
Curt
Yay.
01:14:40
jamie peacock
As previously mentioned, the shipping on the shirts has been fixed because there was some illiteracy that happened. And there's a newsletter to sign up for the Anchor Points. We're going to be sending out a newsletter at some point about there being a pre-sale for the mechanical version, and those are going on full sale on the 14th of next month.
01:14:59
jamie peacock
That is the target date. If you have done a pre-order or message us to indicate you are interested in being one of the first people, then you will get notified as soon as we have available. So I think we're going to start making slots available a bit earlier to those people just so that we can get them through Anno and have them shipped by Valentine's Day.
01:15:18
Curt
Right, right, right.
01:15:19
jamie peacock
Because that's when we decided be releasing it.
01:15:20
Curt
it's It's a great gift.
01:15:22
jamie peacock
Yes, exactly. Okay.
01:15:23
Curt
it's a It's a great gift, yeah.
01:15:25
jamie peacock
Yeah, and then there will be blank pallets and some accessories coming to the site in the next week or two. I might put the pallets up like tomorrow, but we'll see how feel. But yeah, those will $30 of blank pallets. I need to just check what the shipping is going be on them.
01:15:39
jamie peacock
And they're $30 of blank pallet for a very specific reason, which we will not discuss here.
01:15:39
Curt
That's so crazy.
01:15:40
Curt
That's so crazy. okay Yeah.
01:15:46
jamie peacock
But yeah, that that concludes where you can find me.
01:15:46
Curt
Fair. Fair.
01:15:49
jamie peacock
What are you up to today, Kurt? I see there is a pen behind you in the machine.
01:15:51
Curt
Uh,
01:15:54
Curt
uh that's actually just the jig that holds it but yeah i'm probably gonna yeah it grips it from the inside so i can access a hole outside um i'm probably gonna flick the thing on behind me and let it continue to do some work um actually actually i think the person that lists maybe they listen to our podcast but uh they they wanted some uh some pens uh for their wedding um and ive i've dealt with him while he's been a good customer so yeah i i'm making a gang of of units for him as well so that's kind of cool
01:16:16
jamie peacock
oh lovely not very cool
01:16:22
Curt
um so I'm going to run that, take some pictures for him because he wants some in progress. So I'll shoot some of those. And i think I'm going to play with just a bunch of media stuff today because that's, once again, the machine's just going to be kicking away and then the lathe is going to do the same thing.
01:16:32
Curt
And I'm just going to sit here and twiddle my thumbs, which is exactly what I want to be doing. Let the machines do the hard work.
01:16:37
jamie peacock
Exactly.
01:16:37
Curt
So how about you, man?
01:16:38
jamie peacock
That exactly is.
01:16:39
Curt
What are you up to?
01:16:40
jamie peacock
um Lots of things. Tomorrow morning, before it gets hot as all hell here, I'm going to be cutting 200 pieces of tube so that I can assemble diesel sensors. And then I need to process like 350 of the other diesel sensor part. And then I still need to manufacture another 375 different part. But that that you just put it put a bar in, hit go, come back in 90 minutes and there's 69 parts in the bin.
01:17:04
jamie peacock
It's great.
01:17:04
Curt
Nice.
01:17:05
jamie peacock
Yes, I know. the maths just works out to 69, and it's fucking amazing.
01:17:09
Curt
Oh, sure. Sure.
01:17:10
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, no, it
Future Plans and Audience Engagement
01:17:11
jamie peacock
does. because No, no, it's done. i don't know seen my magic maths program. So basically, put in the bar length, the remnant length, the part length, and then it will calculate how many cycles it can run before it runs out of bar.
01:17:22
Curt
I see. Okay.
01:17:23
jamie peacock
And it just so happens that 500 mil bar, get 69 parts.
01:17:23
Curt
Yeah.
01:17:27
Curt
Nice.
01:17:28
jamie peacock
I think we make more material into scrap than we make the parts. Because I've got a 2mm parting blade, and I take half a mil off the front, we machine the thing, and then we take 2 mils off the back.
01:17:33
Curt
Fair. Yeah.
01:17:39
jamie peacock
And the parts are only 3mm long.
01:17:40
Curt
Yeah, fair.
01:17:44
jamie peacock
It's ah it's a little bit of a silly part.
01:17:44
Curt
That's always not, that's always fun.
01:17:46
jamie peacock
Yeah, but we've got to make a few hundred of those, and then we can deliver that order. So that that is the plan for tomorrow, as well as a meeting with the guys I'm doing the retrofit for. We've meeting with them. Yeah.
01:17:57
jamie peacock
It's going to be a busy day tomorrow.
01:18:00
Curt
Cool.
01:18:01
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:18:01
Curt
Cool, cool, cool.
01:18:02
jamie peacock
So thank you everybody for listening.
01:18:03
Curt
We'll have fun.
01:18:05
jamie peacock
ah Patrons, we'll see you in the after show where we're going to discuss miniature trains. And yes, submarine yeah submarine aircraft carriers.
01:18:11
Curt
And oo submarine aircraft carriers.
01:18:17
Curt
Well, that's going to be a good one today.
01:18:18
jamie peacock
It's going to be a banger. But everyone else, thank you very much for listening. And we will see you next week. Hope you have a good one. And yeah, Patreon, see you now.
01:18:27
Curt
Take care, all.