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Ep. 59: Designed for Quadruple-Jointed Dwarf Mechanics
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Buckle up for another episode of the Lone Machines Podcast, where we discuss the fine line between professional machining and absolute shop chaos.
In this episode, Jamie recounts his harrowing experience performing spindle surgery with tweezers to float solder into a corroded via—all because his probe decided to quit after being "slightly squished" at 12,000 RPM. He also explains how he's balancing a 700-enclosure production run with a new side hustle: serving as a personal chauffeur for his mother-in-law, conveniently timed to 18-minute machine cycles.
Curt shares his plan to escape the "brain-sucking algorithm" of Instagram by building a custom media site powered by RSS, ensuring his content reaches humans instead of robots. He also reviews his latest purchase: a 90-centimeter parabolic softbox that has effectively turned his garage into the brightest spot on Earth.
Whether you're here for the 3D printing drama, the AliExpress turbo scams, or the tax-deductible commercial vehicles, we've got you covered.
Links Discussed:
- Grimsmo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSNo8pVeSZs
- ano video: https://youtu.be/btjaRaaXCBM?si=oC3BU-5KsRTT69S8
- Story Telling Is Important: https://youtu.be/Ayhk9HXvZEE?si=m8-AT_ZkVfoX3rLi
The Lone Machinist:
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- Bonus Content: https://thelonemachinists.com/#bonus-content
- Merch: https://www.jspeceng.com/online-store
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Transcript
Podcast Introduction and Personal Updates
00:00:00
jamie peacock
Welcome to the Lone Machines Podcast, it's just you, the machine, and the work. what do you have going on today, Kurt?
00:00:06
Curt
Today I'm going to talk about making my own Instagram. Let's go lasering some signs big freaking lights. How about you, Master Jamie? What are you going to talk
00:00:18
jamie peacock
um Thinking of going DGR, I made another 200 desk dinguses, and I had to fix my probe today.
00:00:22
Curt
about?
00:00:27
jamie peacock
I think that will help.
00:00:27
Curt
Ooh, again?
00:00:29
jamie peacock
Yeah, we'll we'll discuss the probe things later. But yeah, i had to had to do some science on my probe this evening. But it's all working now, so not the end of the world.
00:00:36
Curt
Nice.
00:00:38
jamie peacock
But yeah, how are you
Work Challenges and Solutions
00:00:39
jamie peacock
doing today, Kurt?
00:00:39
Curt
it's Nice, nice. Doing good. Doing good. Weather's ah for February here. Shaping up lovely and excited to, ah I got all my shipping to do or it's pretty much done.
00:00:50
Curt
So i just got stick stickers on boxes today and then I get to play. So yeah, I'm i'm excited for that.
00:00:54
jamie peacock
Nice.
00:00:55
jamie peacock
Yeah, no that sounds sounds fun. Ah, yeah.
00:00:55
Curt
but What about What's your what's your day shaping up or day is shaped up to be like?
00:01:00
jamie peacock
shaped up as, yeah, been just chugging through a whole bunch of random crap. A lot of, I've been doing, I've been quoting a job. It's taken me six days to get a material price from a supplier.
00:01:11
Curt
Ooh, that's brutal.
00:01:11
jamie peacock
It's a little infuriating, yeah. To the point that today I was going to just phone the manager there be like, hey I actually needed this price last week. What is going on? um But yeah, i'm busy quoting a very large job.
00:01:24
jamie peacock
So hopefully that will come through. I should have a meeting with them later this week to discuss. um I was like, listen, yeah, we have to order the aluminium from the mill because it's not a standard size that I want to use. Well, it's not...
00:01:36
jamie peacock
Eurosteel don't stock it. It is a standard size, they just don't stock it, so two to three weeks lead time from the mill. And then I can also get it delivered in 3.1 meter lengths, or 3.05 lengths.
00:01:43
Curt
Oh,
00:01:47
Curt
OK.
00:01:48
jamie peacock
So when I cut it, I don't end up with the remnant.
00:01:52
Curt
I got you.
00:01:52
jamie peacock
Yeah, because I'm buying it by the kg at that point.
00:01:52
Curt
OK.
00:01:55
jamie peacock
So yeah, we're looking, been planning out that whole job and how to squeeze that into production, because they want like 700 enclosures that are going to take about 40 something minutes to machine each one.
00:02:08
Curt
Oh, whats that's a lot of time
00:02:08
jamie peacock
Yeah, so it's so it's a lot of time. It's a lot of money too. um So yeah, we'll see. I sent them, I shared the Fusion file with them and told them made it so they couldn't download it.
00:02:19
jamie peacock
So obviously it's currently my IP until they pay for it. um And then today I sent off the quote to my Glissan. It's three three to four weeks for the first 100 units. And then it's 200 to 300 units every month after that.
00:02:35
Curt
Okay, yeah, yeah.
00:02:35
jamie peacock
That's, I can't, I can't commit to 100% of my machine's capacity. Because then everything else gets dropped and we can't have that.
00:02:40
Curt
Yeah.
00:02:41
jamie peacock
So yeah, I've been been doing that today. And then was also finishing up some anchor point pads that need to go to Heatreat tomorrow.
00:02:51
Curt
Cool, cool, cool.
00:02:52
jamie peacock
Yeah, I've got stock of them already. I'm just building more stock. So that's, if I run out of stock, I have stock coming. Yeah, doing just, yeah, making sure I have parts available for anchor points.
00:03:04
jamie peacock
And then ya today yeah, yeah.
00:03:04
Curt
Nice. So all those, say those are all the mechanicals that are just like ready to ready to go now? Oh,
00:03:10
jamie peacock
Basically, I have to machine the bodies and they're ready to go. So the first orders are shipping. My goal is to ship by Friday on the orders that have come in already.
00:03:17
Curt
ah okay. Mm-hmm.
00:03:18
jamie peacock
So material hit today. Tomorrow morning, first thing, because now Danica wakes up early in the morning, I'll be in the workshop at like six o'clock in the morning, ah get it all probed and set up, make the first one good, run until eight. Then I've got to drive my mother-in-law around because Danica's borrowing her car because Danica's car has got some issues, which we'll get into later on.
Social Media and Content Creation
00:03:38
jamie peacock
um So I've got to drive my mother-in-law to gym and then take her to a doctor's appointment and then take her somewhere for tea or some shit because she doesn't have a car. So I'm like, no, no, I'll drive you around. It's fine.
00:03:50
jamie peacock
But the nice thing is it's an 18-minute cycle on Op1. So I can leave one to run until the machines power off, go run her where she needs to be. When I get back, put another one in. When I've got to go pick her up, leave one running.
00:04:02
jamie peacock
And it's not a total loss of of time. Like, I may even be fancy and run two at a time just because I can.
00:04:07
Curt
Nice.
00:04:12
jamie peacock
I've got two vases, so why not? Like, there's nothing stopping me.
00:04:15
Curt
Yeah, totally.
00:04:16
jamie peacock
So, yeah.
00:04:17
Curt
except Except minor amount of work to make it work with two things, but yeah, yeah.
00:04:19
jamie peacock
ah It's like four clicks in Fusion.
00:04:25
jamie peacock
it's It's that easy. It's yeah it's super, super simple. I just want to add a note here because something else came this week. But yeah, what have you been up to?
00:04:37
jamie peacock
I see you've got a lot of interesting things here this week.
00:04:40
Curt
Yeah, I was trying to write more just so I would ah remember. um Yeah, just ah boxing boarders getting all that ready to go now. They're all done. They're kind of out of my hair. So that's lovely.
00:04:51
Curt
It always feels good when that is done. Then I decided I get like a lot of comments of, especially in this day and age, people are like not wanting to be on a million social media platforms.
00:05:02
Curt
And unfortunately, like I share quite a bit of my details through Instagram just because it's convenient.
00:05:06
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:05:06
Curt
i'm as I'm sure most people do here just because like the community is great.
00:05:09
jamie peacock
InstaMachinists, yeah.
00:05:10
Curt
Yeah, the Instagram Machines community is great. And then like it's just super like easy um so i decided uh on my website now i have like a media page where i just like cross post the videos um and yeah it's been nice because like we have this podcast set up so like i always have cameras and microphones just like sitting ready to go so it takes me no time to do a quick video and it also helps me like work on my like quick video editing like just because i use resolve and it's just like
00:05:16
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:05:22
jamie peacock
Ah, okay.
00:05:29
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:05:37
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:05:37
Curt
The more I practice with it, the better I get. um So it's kind of fun.
00:05:40
jamie peacock
Sure.
00:05:40
Curt
It kind of feeds into that too. And then it lets me throw it on my site and then it gives people a place to communicate and like follow me and they don't, and then they can ah RSS to my site and they don't have to follow any social media platforms and
00:05:49
jamie peacock
Oh, okay. Nice.
00:05:50
Curt
Yeah. And then if I get like rug pulled on Instagram, because whatever pens turn into be dangerous or something, at least.
00:05:55
jamie peacock
Yeah, they're stabbing utensils, duh.
00:05:57
Curt
Right. Yeah. Like, and at least then I still have like an outlet where I can put stuff and like, and that drives traffic to the site.
00:06:02
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah.
00:06:03
Curt
Like it, it works for every single metric. So I'm like, I should just do this. And so anyways, I did that up on the, I did that up on the weekend and yeah, people seem to dig it.
00:06:07
jamie peacock
Yeah, that makes sense.
00:06:12
Curt
They're like, oh sweet. Now I don't have to like hunt you down on a platform I don't use. I'm like, yeah, that makes sense.
00:06:16
jamie peacock
Well, that's the thing.
00:06:17
Curt
I didn't really consider it, but.
00:06:17
jamie peacock
like instagram Instagram is absolutely stupid when it comes to showing you the things you actually want to see, like the people you follow.
00:06:25
Curt
Right? Yeah.
00:06:27
jamie peacock
um that It just keeps getting worse and worse. like The stories are still somewhat... Not that contaminated as as we they're somewhat pure, but like you'll click on someone's story, then it's two adverts than another story. It's insane.
00:06:40
Curt
Yeah, like
00:06:40
jamie peacock
But at least stories is generally other than adverts, only the people you are following.
00:06:45
Curt
Right. And if you like, if you had something like this, like if you had a site where you just posted blog updates like every day and then like all my other friends that did it, I would just, I would RSS to all the sites and that's how I would get the content.
00:06:46
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:06:54
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:06:56
Curt
Cause like you said, then you avoid all the brain sucking algorithm crap.
00:06:58
jamie peacock
All the crap.
00:07:01
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:07:02
Curt
I'm just like, yeah, I just want to keep tabs on people.
00:07:02
jamie peacock
No, because a lot, like a lot of people are unfortunately moving away from the socials because of all the algorithm fucking crap.
00:07:11
Curt
Yeah, and i like I'm not moving away at this point. I do still enjoy it, and I still enjoy the interaction, but like it's like it's definitely on a downward trajectory for me.
00:07:15
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:07:19
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:07:20
Curt
No,
00:07:21
jamie peacock
It is not what it used to be.
00:07:23
Curt
no no. I mean, it's sorry, it's on an upward to trajectory as far as reach, but it's on a downward trajectory as far as interest for me to like keep feeding the beast.
00:07:28
jamie peacock
Yes. Yeah. To go and doom scroll on it. Yeah.
00:07:33
Curt
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:07:33
jamie peacock
Because it's very quick to just get sucked in and be scrolling.
00:07:37
Curt
Absolutely, yeah.
00:07:38
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:07:39
Curt
I keep, a like i said...
00:07:39
jamie peacock
And YouTube's the same with their shorts. Like...
00:07:42
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:07:42
Curt
i have a I have a version of YouTube on my on my phone that lets me just like turn off shorts so I don't have to see shorts.
00:07:48
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:07:49
Curt
And it's so nice because I'm like, oh, there's my old YouTube where I can like, because when I'm watching YouTube, I don't want brain candy for 20 seconds. Like I want a 5, 10, 20 minute video, maybe occasionally like a 45 minute video to sit down and watch.
00:07:57
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:08:02
jamie peacock
Yeah, you don't get five 10 minute videos anymore. Now everything's frickin 2030 minutes. Like I was looking something to watch this evening while having dinner.
00:08:07
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:08:08
jamie peacock
And it's like, Okay, cool. It's a 22 minute video. I'm gonna watch it one and a half speed so that I can get through it with enough time to make it to the podcast because there's nothing that sucks up less than half an hour now on YouTube.
00:08:13
Curt
Yeah.
00:08:20
Curt
Totally. Yeah, I know.
00:08:21
jamie peacock
It's Yeah, it's a tad frustrating.
00:08:24
Curt
Yeah. I mean, I get it.
00:08:25
jamie peacock
But i don't Yes.
00:08:26
Curt
they They're incentivized. Like you get incentivized for longer videos, but still it's just like sometimes like cool is cool. It still doesn't matter. Cool is cool. If the internet likes and it's cool, if it's five minutes, it's still going get you views because cool is cool.
00:08:32
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:08:36
jamie peacock
Exactly. So speaking of videos, I just shot some stuff this afternoon that I hate.
00:08:38
Curt
Yeah. Anyway. Yeah.
00:08:41
jamie peacock
I'm going to have to reshoot it tomorrow. Also, my lav mic is just like so loud and like clipping. So I don't know. need to figure out what's going on there.
00:08:50
Curt
o
00:08:51
jamie peacock
I might just not use the lav mic because it's kind of somewhat steady footage. It's not me doing like shop tour. It's me shooting some product video. So I was making some little shorts to explain the anchor point and whatnot.
00:09:05
jamie peacock
And it only took like 200 takes.
00:09:10
jamie peacock
But yeah, I think I'm going to put the... I'll put the phone on ah on a tripod tomorrow and do it with a tripod. Because it's just...
00:09:10
Curt
yeah Yeah, I get it.
00:09:15
Curt
Yeah.
00:09:16
jamie peacock
It's a little too shaky for my liking.
00:09:19
Curt
Yeah, yeah, it's fatiguing watching something like that, yeah.
00:09:20
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah, so don't... It's 20 seconds long. It's not like it's it's long.
00:09:27
Curt
Okay, okay, that's, yeah.
00:09:27
jamie peacock
It's just... Yeah, I don't know I don't like it. um It's not as good as it could be. So I'm going to work on making it better. And then ah yeah i went down I went down a little bit of a DGR rabbit hole this week.
00:09:36
Curt
Cool.
00:09:42
Curt
Okay, explain.
00:09:43
jamie peacock
So I was looking at cameras.
00:09:46
Curt
Oh, that's, yeah.
00:09:46
jamie peacock
Have you seen the DGR Osmo Nano?
00:09:50
Curt
Oh, yeah, I've seen everyone in their cameras because I'm eagerly waiting for the Pocket 4 to come out.
00:09:53
jamie peacock
Dude...
00:09:55
Curt
but Anyways, carry on.
00:09:55
jamie peacock
I'm getting a Nano. Like, I watched a bunch of reviews on it.
00:09:58
Curt
Oh, yeah.
00:09:59
jamie peacock
It's got built-in Rocksteady 3 and some other other horizontal lock thing.
00:09:59
Curt
Yep.
00:10:03
jamie peacock
So you literally magnets it to your chest and it's onboard stabilizes the footage. It's got the little screen that's remote so you can stick it up somewhere and then check the framing of the shot. That's the biggest thing for me.
00:10:14
jamie peacock
um It's low-light performance is also pretty damn good, um which is a thing in the workshop. Like, you wouldn't think it would be because bloody bright in there, but... It's not bright enough.
00:10:23
Curt
Yeah.
00:10:24
jamie peacock
I get a lot of noise in my video. So I'm going to buy one of those and I'm going to see how it how it does. Because it can also pair with the DGR Mark 2.
00:10:29
Curt
Nice.
00:10:33
Curt
Yep. Yeah. Which is, ah if you're looking for a lav mic, even the little, I think the nano mic or whatever, the like all their lav mics are pretty damn good.
00:10:34
jamie peacock
I don't it pairs the Mark 1. I'll just check. Yeah.
00:10:42
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:10:43
Curt
For the price, they're pretty damn good.
00:10:44
jamie peacock
Yeah. So I want something that I can have a ready-to-go solution for IMTS or any trade show I go to or just shooting stuff easily like the Anno video. Strap it to my chest, talk about things.
00:10:56
jamie peacock
So like some of the downsides I saw for that camera is that it overheats in 15 minutes if you're shooting 4K60.
00:11:03
jamie peacock
Let's be very honest, I'm never shooting 4K60 ever in my life. My computer will literally melt. It doesn't need to be more than ten eightyp Um, so that's, that's a non-issue.
00:11:03
Curt
Sure.
00:11:12
Curt
Sure, yeah.
00:11:14
jamie peacock
It, yeah, it's it's got an interesting setup where it's got the memory built into the camera. Then you dock them and you can transfer it to the SD. It's a really interesting setup, but I think DGR, yeah, GoPros are useless these days.
00:11:26
jamie peacock
Um, my mate Dave was like, hey, check out the run cam. like, dude, it doesn't have a battery. The run cam thumb, it's meant as an FPV camera.
00:11:32
Curt
Yeah.
00:11:35
jamie peacock
So it's for a different, use case. But yeah, that's why like DGR bought up a bunch of optics companies in China.
00:11:39
Curt
Yeah.
00:11:43
jamie peacock
So and sensor camera sensor companies. So they own the entire stack. They selling a Mavic 3 with the thermal package on it, thermal imaging package for less than you could buy a thermal imaging camera a year ago.
00:11:57
jamie peacock
It's insane. Like, yeah, they've really monopolized that. um But they make really good products. So it's what it is. And um'm I mean, the Nano is not expensive.
00:11:57
Curt
Yeah, they're.
00:12:06
Curt
Yeah.
00:12:09
jamie peacock
It's one of the cheapest, decent action cameras.
00:12:09
Curt
That's the thing, right? Mm-hmm. Yeah.
00:12:13
jamie peacock
No, so I think.
00:12:14
Curt
Well, then you you gain the benefit of all their like all their software that they've been developing for all their cameras. Like you said, their their stabilization and their image or their noise reduction, their low-light performance, like what they can squeeze out of their smaller sensors.
00:12:19
jamie peacock
Yep.
00:12:25
Curt
Yeah, it's it's pretty incredible.
00:12:26
jamie peacock
Yeah. So i was watching a thing like the, the rock, there's a horizontal lock ones for like you're riding a bicycle and then you can even tune it.
00:12:27
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:12:32
jamie peacock
Like there's settings you can adjust on there to make it more stable for what you're specifically doing. So I'm very keen to get one and see how it, uh, how it actually performs because if I can get good video or decent video, it's going to make me want to edit it when I'm shooting video and I'm having to throw it away because it looks like shit.
00:12:49
jamie peacock
It's kind of getting demoralizing at this point.
00:12:53
Curt
get that.
00:12:53
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:12:53
Curt
Absolutely. Yeah.
00:12:54
jamie peacock
Because, yeah, I don't want to make shitty content if I can avoid it. Like, obviously, Instagram's a different story. shooting with my phone. the The purpose of it is that.
00:13:01
Curt
Yeah.
00:13:02
jamie peacock
Like, that is the purpose. Whereas, if I'm shooting something, want to put it to YouTube, i want it to be less shit.
00:13:10
Curt
Yeah. Well, and like the bar is forever increasing for, for YouTube.
00:13:13
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:13:13
Curt
But like, I mean that the content people are creating out there is phenomenal.
00:13:17
jamie peacock
It's insane.
00:13:18
Curt
And like, yeah, it's like, it's polished.
00:13:18
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:13:20
Curt
It's concise. Like the storytelling is good.
Laser and Machining Projects
00:13:23
Curt
The audio video, it's all great.
00:13:23
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:13:25
Curt
Yeah. It's yeah.
00:13:26
jamie peacock
No, it's so I want to try get better at that. So what?
00:13:30
Curt
Yeah.
00:13:30
jamie peacock
a Tell me about your lasering of signs.
00:13:34
Curt
Actually, so I never do any kind of like side job, side work. um But my ah
00:13:40
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:13:42
Curt
ah like my stepdad came up to me and he's like, hey, he's like, I have some, he has like ah is like a little hobby club with guys and they all build like little trinkets, trinkets for like retired people.
00:13:54
Curt
um don' I don't know if birdhouses, but you know what i mean?
00:13:54
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:13:56
Curt
They're just old timers cobbling away in their sheds. So they have a little sign they want me to make for them.
00:13:59
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:14:01
Curt
um And they want to burn it into a bunch of wood plaques. So he's like, does one of your machines, can you burn into wood? i was like, yeah, of course. I'm like, depends how big the plaque is. Like if it's eight feet long by four feet wide, like no, but um so they're little, they're like fist size.
00:14:09
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:14:14
Curt
So I'm like, oh, that's perfect for my needs. I'm like, you know what? I'm going to try um the little ah little laser pecker here I have. I'm like, I never use the diode um system on it. And it's it's so much faster than my CO2 for like raster work because it's just, it can fly, right?
00:14:26
jamie peacock
It's fast as hell, yo.
00:14:28
Curt
Yeah. So i was like, you know, I'm to give it a whirl. um So I just threw a piece of plywood in there and just burnt their logo into it. And yeah, it's like, it leaves my CO2, even though my CO2 has probably a lot more power, it just leaves it in the dust because it can raster like just insanely quick.
00:14:38
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:14:40
jamie peacock
Super quick. Yeah.
00:14:42
Curt
Yeah. So, um, yeah. so I ran one of those and yeah, I'm, it come up, it came out so clean. So i was like, yeah, did come by sometime with all your little blanks of wood and we'll just, you know, they take a minute to laser each and
00:14:50
jamie peacock
And, um, yeah.
00:14:53
Curt
So anyways, that was my, that was my fun.
00:14:53
jamie peacock
Nice.
00:14:54
Curt
First time I've lasered wood in, I don't know, ever.
00:14:57
jamie peacock
Oh, wow.
00:14:58
Curt
Cause I also only play in metal.
00:14:58
jamie peacock
Oh, geez. Okay.
00:15:00
Curt
So it was kind of, it's kind of fun to do something.
00:15:01
jamie peacock
Yeah, I ah shopping for lasers today because my CO2 laser needs a tube replacement.
00:15:08
jamie peacock
It's still working, just not very well.
00:15:08
Curt
Oh, okay.
00:15:10
Curt
m
00:15:11
jamie peacock
So I'm thinking of just replacing the tube and hoping that's the main issue. I'll probably do a mirror clean and whatnot, but I think the tube is dying.
00:15:17
Curt
Yeah.
00:15:21
Curt
Yeah.
00:15:22
jamie peacock
It's making it troublesome to cut stuff reliably, so... I think a new tube or just an entirely new laser.
00:15:30
Curt
i reached I reached out to actually to a few guys running CO2s for their business and I asked them their opinions on lasers and all of them were basically like they're all pretty good nowadays.
00:15:33
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:15:39
Curt
like Unless you're buying bottom barrel pricing, they're like like between the Omtek or the Boss or the Trotex, they're like they're all decent.
00:15:40
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:15:43
jamie peacock
They're all pretty decent.
00:15:49
jamie peacock
Yeah, Trotex are retardedly expensive here.
00:15:50
Curt
was like, oh, okay.
00:15:52
jamie peacock
There's a brand, am.co.uk, that's a local company.
00:15:52
Curt
Oh, yeah.
00:15:55
jamie peacock
They bring in units. I think they wanted,
00:15:58
Curt
Hmm.
00:16:01
jamie peacock
I want to say it was 40,000 Rand. Dollar reduce, so $2,500. can get in my truck, go fetch it and come back.
00:16:09
Curt
Okay. I guess that's how big and powerful it is.
00:16:12
jamie peacock
it It was, I think, 80 watts.
00:16:12
Curt
yeah.
00:16:14
jamie peacock
a
00:16:14
Curt
Oh, that's decent. Yeah, yeah, for the price. Yeah.
00:16:15
jamie peacock
It's decent, it's just more bigger and more than I need. So it's, yeah, i' just put a new tube in mind.
00:16:19
Curt
Sure. Yeah.
00:16:22
jamie peacock
It's for making packaging. i don't do I don't do any commercial like laser work for people anymore. Fuck that. I do my own stuff, otherwise go away.
00:16:28
Curt
Yeah.
00:16:30
jamie peacock
Because every time we do it, it's a fuck up.
00:16:31
Curt
Yeah.
00:16:33
jamie peacock
Every single time. They expect the world, they get what they pay for, and then they say it.
00:16:39
Curt
Yep.
00:16:40
jamie peacock
So we just don't entertain that.
00:16:40
Curt
I won't...
00:16:43
Curt
I wouldn't do laser work for for payment either. It's just not worth it.
00:16:46
jamie peacock
No. No, you're racing to the bottom. You're racing to against every dickhead who's got a laser in their garage and wants to charge literally one round a minute when to keep your head above water you need to yeah you need to be charging like seven or eight.
00:16:53
Curt
Yep.
00:17:02
Curt
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:17:03
jamie peacock
No.
00:17:04
Curt
Exactly.
00:17:04
jamie peacock
Sorry, I'm not competing with some dude who's retired.
00:17:08
Curt
Right?
00:17:08
jamie peacock
job
00:17:08
Curt
Yeah. I get it.
00:17:09
jamie peacock
um
00:17:10
Curt
Um, tell, tell, uh, for anybody that watched, I hope some of them caught your story for the tip trimmer 2000.
00:17:12
jamie peacock
Let's see. which Pick one because there's a bunch.
00:17:21
Curt
That was the most dangerous looking fucking thing I've ever seen.
00:17:22
jamie peacock
Ah, yes. um
00:17:27
jamie peacock
So the customer in in this situation, they make the steel ends for mops, and their tools make 25mm mops, so like a one-inch stick. And their customer bought a whole bunch of twenty eight millimeter sticks.
00:17:42
jamie peacock
So now they are like, well, we can't use your stuff. And they desperately want them to buy their stuff. So they he's like make me the tip trimmer. So I made him a version of the tip trimmer, but we had some issues.
00:17:53
jamie peacock
um It was a two-bladed version, and it was... the stick would come out the side. So we made a three-bladed version. So I turned the blank, put it in the fourth axis, machined, tapped, put an insert, rotated 120 degrees, machined.
00:18:07
jamie peacock
That was running, the video was running with a single insert because I only had one screw because it's an M2.5 Torx screw that I took out of the tool holder to be able to test it.
00:18:12
Curt
Okay.
00:18:16
jamie peacock
But yeah, that was at 1,300 RPM, 1,400.
00:18:17
Curt
okay
00:18:21
jamie peacock
thousand four hundred Basically, what the motor is going to be running at. Because they're going to bolt this thing straight to just a little AC motor and have the guy shove sticks into it all day.
00:18:29
Curt
Oh my God.
00:18:31
jamie peacock
Africa.
00:18:31
Curt
So for the listener, it was essentially, imagine a pencil sharpener, like an old school rotary pencil sharpeners without any kind of protection on it. And instead of it being, instead of being like the conical burrs that cut your pencil, it's just like a single insert kind of fly cutting on the inside.
00:18:39
jamie peacock
need protection.
00:18:46
Curt
And then Jamie with a gloved hand, feeding it into the lathe one handed as your eye, like eyeball into the blade spinning death path.
00:18:49
jamie peacock
Duh.
00:18:56
jamie peacock
Oh
00:18:56
Curt
And then it's going like, yeah and you see it like, cut it cuts beautifully. And then right when you get to the bottom, you see it, you see it torque and start to twist and mangle.
00:19:00
jamie peacock
no, it cuts beautifully.
00:19:03
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:19:03
Curt
it i'm like, Oh my God, he's going to lose it.
00:19:05
jamie peacock
yeah
00:19:05
Curt
And then you pull it out and all is well.
00:19:07
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, I pulled it out, so it won't go that deep in production.
00:19:07
Curt
And i'm like, hold.
00:19:10
jamie peacock
There's going to be a bolt in there to set the depth. But it's also guarded. It's got a 28mm bore at the front, so it's guarded.
00:19:16
Curt
Yeah.
00:19:16
jamie peacock
And then as it cuts, it's guarded again. And that's where the shavings get little stuck. But yep they're going come fetch them tomorrow, going to go drop them off tomorrow, and then they can have someone lose their arm.
00:19:24
Curt
Yeah. What? Like, When you look, like, I get it. Like, I look at it, I'm like, okay, that is actually more safe than it looks. But from a video perspective, it just looks like one wrong move and that thing would just pitch it into your face at a thousand miles an hour.
00:19:31
jamie peacock
Yeah. Oh, it's fucking terrifying. Yeah. the previous one The previous one, yes, because it was a fork. So they had an insert there so it could come out sideways.
00:19:43
Curt
okay.
00:19:43
jamie peacock
So they had a whole piece of angle and they would lay the stick on and then feed it in. But I was using round inserts and it was eating the the wood. It was like ripping chunks out.
00:19:54
jamie peacock
So I went to a DCMT or DCGT 0708, 70408, which I for aluminum.
00:19:54
Curt
Okay.
00:20:01
jamie peacock
And that worked surprisingly well.
00:20:02
Curt
Yeah.
00:20:04
Curt
Yeah. I mean, it looks like it works a treat, but yeah.
00:20:05
jamie peacock
But yeah, the tip trimmer. Yeah, it works well.
00:20:08
Curt
Yeah.
00:20:09
jamie peacock
Like, I'm curious, they got to wire cut the bore for the motor because it's a key shaft. I just drilled an undersized hole to thread.
00:20:19
jamie peacock
Then they'll hold it, probe the outside of the body, and then thread the center and wire cut
00:20:25
Curt
Oh, okay. Okay.
00:20:26
jamie peacock
Yeah, so then that they'll do that tomorrow and then they they'll be sorted out. I've got to go see them in the morning to go drop off golf balls because I machined golf balls for them as well.
00:20:35
Curt
Golf balls? What did you machine on golf balls?
00:20:36
jamie peacock
Yes. A two millimeter deeper pocket. So these, it was a job that I quoted them on a while ago. Then they did it in house and it was a fuck up. So I had to try to remachine them. So I 3D printed soft jaws that compressed the golf ball by half a millimeter.
00:20:50
jamie peacock
So, cause if you keep tightening, the golf ball becomes a pancake.
00:20:51
Curt
Okay.
00:20:54
Curt
Sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:20:55
jamie peacock
Yeah. So I made them at the jaws bottom out after half a mil compression. um And then I'll just put an extra two millimeter deep, deeper pocket in the thing for them today.
00:21:05
Curt
what What are they using the golf balls for with holes in them?
00:21:05
jamie peacock
Like, stupid job. ah they They're gluing shot glasses into them.
00:21:10
Curt
Oh, okay.
00:21:10
jamie peacock
So the people who get drunk when they play Murrensuk can drink out of a golf ball because apparently that's a thing.
00:21:10
Curt
Okay.
00:21:17
Curt
ah Okay. Okay.
00:21:17
jamie peacock
Yeah, stupid.
00:21:18
Curt
I was like, golf balls probably don't need holes in them, but I see. I see.
00:21:21
jamie peacock
Yes, so making making ornamental golf balls. um is Yeah, e stupid jobs. But that I ran the slow EO for that, which I haven't run in a while.
00:21:30
Curt
That's cool.
00:21:34
Curt
Speaking of golf balls, what I wanted to do is I wanted to put a golf ball in the little fiber laser right here and like laser in like my, because I golf occasionally i wanted to like laser in my names like so the ball is marked with my, but narrative I'm like, I wonder how much I could laser a golf ball before like it just, it weakens it to the point where it just like explodes when I hit it
00:21:44
jamie peacock
yeah
00:21:53
Curt
So I'm like, maybe I could do that.
00:21:54
jamie peacock
I'm now curious.
00:21:55
Curt
I'm like, just keep lasering progressively deeper golf balls and then take them you know to the driving range or something like that and just start wailing on them and see which one just explodes.
00:22:01
jamie peacock
And just start whacking it
00:22:04
Curt
Yeah.
00:22:04
jamie peacock
that' That'd be awesome.
00:22:06
Curt
Probably mess the flight up too because golf balls are pretty aerodynamic little creatures, but it's fun.
00:22:10
jamie peacock
um Because, yeah, that that out prove that outer layers, like... um if it's a millimeter thick it's a lot they're they're quite thin the outer layer uh yeah would be interesting to see lay one this way lay one that way see what happens we're definitely not train enthusiasts so tell me about the giant ass sun that you bought
00:22:17
Curt
Yeah, it's, yeah, yeah. And I'm sure if you mess with a dimpling, it's going to fly all kinds of mess. But anyways.
00:22:26
Curt
Yeah. Yeah, maybe I'll do that.
00:22:33
Curt
and
00:22:36
Curt
ah So I bought this big, so I've always wanted a soft box mainly for like photography and videography. Cause like I said, the, the lighting in here is always changing. So i'm like, why don't I stop the outside lighting and then control the inside lighting and then I can, I can make it whatever I want.
00:22:48
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:22:50
Curt
Um, So on this, yeah, I was like, you know what? I'm just going to buy a proper studio light. So I bought a 90 centimeter softbox, which is freaking huge. It's like 90 centimeters by 90 centimeters, giant parabolic umbrella.
00:23:04
Curt
um And then to drive it, i was like, well, you need a pretty, ah I realized now this is why lights are so powerful for parabolics or softboxes.
00:23:04
jamie peacock
Fuck.
00:23:13
Curt
So I bought a 60 watt, like COB, like a chip on board.
00:23:13
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:23:17
Curt
light and i'm like this is going to be so bright because you don't have if you don't have a soft box on it like 60 watts of actual led light is a ton of light and uh so yes i turn it on like i even at one percent i can't look at it put it in a soft box and it's like it just eats light as anyways bought that and then i have a giant stand hanging off my wall so i have yeah freaking 30 pounds of lighting um but now i can now i
00:23:17
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:23:23
jamie peacock
It's a lot, yeah.
00:23:37
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:23:39
jamie peacock
Yeah, I saw you Swiss-cheesed your wall with that thing. Like eight screws.
00:23:42
Curt
Yeah, I was so concerned. I was like, I found a stud and put like a million screws into it because i'm like, this is kind of heavy and it's it's on a boom arm.
00:23:49
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:23:49
Curt
So it's like the leverage just goes crazy when you start extending it.
00:23:51
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:23:54
Curt
So apparently this can go out four feet for a boom arm.
00:23:54
jamie peacock
Yeah, look it's quite...
00:23:58
Curt
And I'm like, oh, I don't know. That's a lot of leverage.
00:23:59
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:24:01
Curt
So anyway.
00:24:01
jamie peacock
That is a hell of a lot of leverage. But yeah, is are you running it now?
00:24:06
Curt
Yeah, that's what's ah that's what's lighting me right now.
00:24:07
jamie peacock
Okay, yeah. That's what that side, yeah, okay.
00:24:08
Curt
So yeah, it's...
00:24:10
jamie peacock
It's very mellow looking.
00:24:10
Curt
just Just a little nicer to have. Yeah, it's that's I guess the point of a softbox is to try to make soft shadows. But it's super nice for photography, like for taking pictures of pens now because I have like just a nice light that I don't know. It's not glary. It's consistent.
00:24:24
Curt
I can take the exact same photo over and over and over. And it scratches the little video side of my brain, which I love.
00:24:27
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:24:30
Curt
So yeah. just
00:24:31
jamie peacock
Yeah. No, that's the thing. Like, all these...
00:24:34
Curt
Yeah.
00:24:35
jamie peacock
Yeah, all the things that make life easier. I mean, I was running...
00:24:37
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:24:39
jamie peacock
i was machining steel over the weekend. Tool steel. um And it's like doing it on the old process, which was... I i think the original process was do the bores on Bertha, then mill the keys into the bores,
00:24:53
jamie peacock
then while i'm doing the keys i'd mill the reliefs on the side of these rollers back in bertha turn the od and then you had one shot if you fucked it up that's it you couldn't take another 10 microns off diameter because of the chatter um now i'm a the whole thing i'm all the bore and the key in set and up one up two it goes on a fit on a little
00:25:08
Curt
Right.
Machining Techniques and Innovations
00:25:17
jamie peacock
fixture thing locating on that ball and I'm on the perimeter and it's like oh it's 10 microns out let me comp it and the machine just well doesn't comp it because I hadn't programmed it with in in controller so I kept adjusting the diamonds and why is it not fucking changing uh turns out it was one of the old programs done with uh stock to leave so then I got it working with uh in controller comp and it's just like yeah nice machines make life easy
00:25:36
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:25:43
Curt
Totally. Yeah. Yeah.
00:25:44
jamie peacock
Oh, yeah.
00:25:45
Curt
On, on all fronts.
00:25:46
jamie peacock
speaking
00:25:46
Curt
Yeah.
00:25:47
jamie peacock
Speaking of nice things, my DC holders arrived.
00:25:52
Curt
Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah. yeah
00:25:53
jamie peacock
Yeah, they seem rather nice.
00:25:53
Curt
Those are the, ah eight mils that you bought or six mil.
00:25:57
jamie peacock
Six.
00:25:59
Curt
Okay. Yeah.
00:25:59
jamie peacock
Yeah, so I bought DC 6s with 6mm collets.
00:26:03
Curt
Yeah.
00:26:03
jamie peacock
I bought a 120mm gauge and a 60 gauge, I think. The 60 gauge is a bit short for what I wanted it for, but I think I'm going to put the ball nose in it to do the anchor point bodies.
00:26:14
jamie peacock
And then I've got my standard 6mm 3-flute 10mm in the other one, and I'm going to see how it goes.
00:26:14
Curt
Yeah.
00:26:24
jamie peacock
It sticks out a little bit long because the DC collets only... It's not super deep, so the stick out's a bit longer than I would like.
00:26:28
Curt
yeah
00:26:31
jamie peacock
But we're going see how it does on these anchor point bodies because the anchor point bodies have now left the back balls all undersized by a millimeter. So I can measure it and no and dial in on those and then still correct it if I need to at the final step.
00:26:46
jamie peacock
So we'll we'll mess around with it tomorrow and see how it's how it cuts with the with the high accuracy stuff.
00:26:47
Curt
Gotcha. Yeah,
00:26:52
jamie peacock
As I made a set of soft jaws today running it, and it it ran fine. Ran beautifully.
00:26:58
Curt
Yeah.
00:26:58
jamie peacock
So, yeah.
00:26:59
Curt
I mean, I've been super happy with my DC holders. Like they're, they're not heinously expensive and ah like for, especially for like fourth access stuff where like, I want to get close, like they're nice and narrow and tapered.
00:27:04
jamie peacock
No, they were stupid cheap.
00:27:09
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:27:11
Curt
and Like you said, the one, the one drawback is that call it is very short. So I mean, for my tools, it works cause like I can almost bottom them still, but yeah, for any kind of big tool, it's you, you know you can only grab like maybe, maybe an inch of them and then you bottom out.
00:27:16
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:27:20
jamie peacock
It's something, yeah. um Yeah, I think I'm grabbing about 20 millimeters of it, of a 50 millimeter tool.
00:27:26
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:27:27
jamie peacock
So it's, it's a little more stick out than I want by a More stick out means less chance of hitting shit, but and also you start losing rigidity. So we'll see we'll see how it performs.
00:27:35
Curt
Yeah.
00:27:37
jamie peacock
I left my old tool 2 set up, so we'll see how it runs tomorrow. If it's a shit show, I'll just touch off that the other tool and carry on.
00:27:44
Curt
Yeah.
00:27:44
jamie peacock
yeah So yeah, we'll see.
00:27:45
Curt
Yeah, I think.
00:27:45
jamie peacock
they They're very cool though. I like them. I might buy a whole bunch of the 90mm ones, gauge length ones. And I was thinking of maybe putting all my thread mills into them.
00:27:53
Curt
I think I'm going to buy.
00:27:57
Curt
Yeah, that's exactly what I was going to say.
00:27:58
jamie peacock
yeah
00:27:59
Curt
I was going buy a bunch of them and put all my drills into them because drills like and then.
00:28:04
jamie peacock
yeah it'll stick out who cares even my thread mills like they stick out quite far so already so it doesn't really matter if I go to those so I'm looking at plans for the future and tooling for the future because we're going to need a lot of tool holders going forward to be able to just take stuff in and out of the machine easily because that's how shit's going to have to be
00:28:04
Curt
Yeah.
00:28:19
Curt
Yeah.
00:28:24
Curt
Yeah, it's.
00:28:27
Curt
I know I'm at the point now where I have like i have the machine full of tool holders and I don't have to swap anything for all my production. So now when I design new products, like I deliberately am like, i this would be better with whatever, 316th ball, but I'm like, I don't have one in the machine right now. So I'm like, I'll just use 1 8th ball. and like The cycle takes longer, but I don't have to ever change it.
00:28:47
Curt
So I'm like, this is what we do.
00:28:48
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:28:48
Curt
This is the way...
00:28:50
jamie peacock
So i've got like I've got my standard tools. The tools that Toolpath has for me are my standard tools that are either in the machine or already set up that I can swap them in and out easily.
00:28:58
Curt
Yeah.
00:29:00
jamie peacock
um But i even this this thing, this HTTP part that I designed, It's designed to be machined entirely with a 12mm tool, a 6mm tool, and a 3mm tool. So the big pockets, 12mm, some of the smaller details are 6mm, and then the O-ring groove,
00:29:17
jamie peacock
ah three millimeter And I'm trying to keep the tool count as low as possible because cycle time matters. Not that tool changes take long, but and I pushed it through Toolpath and it wanted an hour and a half cycle time. It was doing the floor with a four millimeter end mill.
00:29:31
jamie peacock
I'm like, no, no, this was designed to be done with a 12 millimeter end mill. mble The corner radiuses are eight so that we don't jam into a corner.
00:29:37
Curt
Yeah.
00:29:38
jamie peacock
Like, let's not fuck around here. But I know that's just a config issue.
00:29:43
Curt
Yeah. Yeah, totally.
00:29:44
jamie peacock
Also, very cool, you can simulate your cycle and then export your final machined part as an STL.
00:29:55
Curt
Oh.
00:29:55
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:29:56
Curt
Oh, that's useful.
00:29:56
jamie peacock
So this, so I'm machining it with the the anchor point checker pattern on it because then I don't have to make it smooth.
00:29:57
Curt
Yeah.
00:30:03
jamie peacock
on the spot.
00:30:03
Curt
Right, right, yeah.
00:30:04
jamie peacock
I'm like, this is what it will look like. Here is and a model of what it's going to look like when it's done. ah That way there's no missed expectations kind of story. So pulled, I exported the STL, pulled, opened it, made it into a parasolid, then pulled it into my original model and mated it that to where it's going to be.
00:30:13
Curt
Yeah.
00:30:24
jamie peacock
And then made it black PTFE or black HTP so they can see it's actually going to look like.
00:30:24
Curt
Oh, cool.
00:30:31
Curt
Ooh, that would be useful for like accurate soft jaws and stuff like that.
00:30:32
jamie peacock
But yeah,
00:30:36
jamie peacock
Accurate soft draws and also you can do op 1, export that stock, pull it in as your stock for op 2.
00:30:43
Curt
Right. Yeah. Oh yeah.
00:30:44
jamie peacock
for your For some reason, yeah, if like you're doing op 2 in a fixture and it's not, Fusion's being dumb and is not carrying it over.
00:30:44
Curt
Yeah. yeah yeah
00:30:51
jamie peacock
So you can do it there as well.
00:30:51
Curt
Yeah.
00:30:53
jamie peacock
um Yeah, very, very useful thing.
00:30:53
Curt
Yeah. I like that.
00:30:54
jamie peacock
So literally you run the simulation to the end, you right click on the the simulated body and you say export, I think. And you export it as a mesh. Like super simple and yeah, super, super powerful fusion fusion trick there.
00:31:05
Curt
Interesting.
00:31:09
Curt
That's cool. Yeah, I like that.
00:31:11
jamie peacock
So yeah, I've been planning out this job for the for the HTP stuff. Like, yeah, it's a silly job. I don't know if i spoke right beginning the podcast now. Can't remember. That was so long ago. 31 minutes ago.
00:31:24
Curt
I don't think so. No, you were talking about a giant job you have coming, but that was aluminum. Yeah.
00:31:27
jamie peacock
That's... Ah, yeah, that's this job. Aluminum and...
00:31:31
Curt
Oh, okay, okay, okay.
00:31:31
jamie peacock
HTP. Yeah, so planning on part loading it with a vacuum, vacuum gripper. The vacuum pads are in South Africa, should have them this week.
00:31:37
Curt
ah Okay.
00:31:40
jamie peacock
I bought 1620 and 40 diameter, and a little vacuum venturi.
00:31:44
Curt
Hmm.
00:31:45
jamie peacock
So I'm gonna have it make another gripper that tool changes into the same setup. And then I'm going to vacuum the top of the part loaded into a pneumatic vase, ma machine it and then drop into the pocket and vacuum it from in the pockets.
00:32:00
Curt
Oh, cool. Cool, cool. Yeah, yeah.
00:32:01
jamie peacock
Yeah, so it's gonna it's going to be a fun one. um Managing the HDB shavings is not going to be fun, though.
00:32:08
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:32:09
jamie peacock
not Chip fan, I think they're just going to blow out the top of my machine.
00:32:13
Curt
Oh, I guess. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:32:14
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:32:15
Curt
Yeah, if you're going to cut it. Yeah, if you're not going to use coolant. Yeah.
00:32:18
jamie peacock
No, I'm gonna run it with coolant. But like we're going end up with ah we're going to end up with a pool.
00:32:20
Curt
Oh, okay.
00:32:23
jamie peacock
So I'm going to have to do something to get the shit out of this. I can vacuum pick the part up.
00:32:26
Curt
Right.
00:32:27
jamie peacock
Either that or must use the gripper and grip on the side of the part and lift it up skew and put it down.
00:32:28
Curt
Right, right, right, right.
00:32:32
jamie peacock
So I don't know exactly how I'm going to how I'm going tackle that problem yet.
00:32:32
Curt
Yeah.
00:32:36
jamie peacock
But that's a problem for for another day.
00:32:39
Curt
You need like your little g gripper to go over and like pick up a little mop and then like bring it over and like mop up and then bring it over and like wring it out.
00:32:43
jamie peacock
And mop it. So what I can do is I can run a facing pass, offset up, and turn on the g gripper's air as I do so and blow all the shit out because it's right behind the spindle.
00:32:56
Curt
oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:32:58
jamie peacock
So there's lots of ways to solve the problem. um I want to try get that job running the op 1s unattended. Op 2s are all going to go on vacuum fixtures. So and that for that part, I'm going to have a a boss that the thing drops onto and then vacuums down to do the backside machining. And the aluminum plate, same thing. A boss that vacuums down and then I machine the the backsides on them.
00:33:19
Curt
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:33:20
jamie peacock
Yeah, and the perimeter in the aluminiums case. But yeah, that that job has eaten up my entire week, like trying to figure out how, when, what, all the fun questions.
00:33:29
Curt
Yeah.
00:33:29
jamie peacock
Now it's just case of waiting for the customer to either cry sob stories at me or place orders.
00:33:30
Curt
Fair.
00:33:36
Curt
Yeah, well, I hope it's a second.
00:33:37
jamie peacock
Preferably place orders.
00:33:39
Curt
Yeah.
00:33:40
jamie peacock
Like it's not ah not a small project.
00:33:41
Curt
Yeah, that's it.
00:33:43
jamie peacock
So, oh, you did new stickers.
00:33:44
Curt
Yeah, sizable.
00:33:48
Curt
Yes. So those will be for the, uh, all the train stickers you sent me.
Vehicle Maintenance and Financial Decisions
00:33:52
Curt
Um, I found a, yeah, I got this.
00:33:53
jamie peacock
OK.
00:33:55
Curt
So from my, uh, one of my sticker suppliers, uh, cause I was, i was using, ah originally I was using sticker mule, but they're kind of a terrible fucking company morally. Um, so I dumped them and then I went to a Canadian supplier and I liked them, but they're like their color balance on the sticker was just like ever so slightly more yellow than I like, but like to the point where like if I bitch about it, they're gonna be like,
00:34:16
jamie peacock
ah got
00:34:21
Curt
Like, even side by side, theyre like it's like, who is right, right?
00:34:22
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:34:24
Curt
Like, unless you have, like, an accurate calibrated monitor, like, how do you determine which is the color you're seeing? And, like, if you go off Pantones, Pantones change in different lighting. And, like, color science is a freaking nightmare.
00:34:36
Curt
Anyways, um so i was like, you know what? I'm not going to bitch. And I didn't really like, like, ordered from them, and i just they were they ghosted me for a while, and all sudden stickers show up. And i'm like, I want a little bit of communication to know, like... Besides what found this other company ordered a giant pack of stickers from them once again Canadian and ah super happy with they like they gave me a stick of every sticker they have um so I could feel them and see what I like um and yeah found out ah that they also make like these paper labels.
00:35:02
Curt
which I realized from my, because I do so much paper labeling on like my products and on the boxes.
00:35:02
jamie peacock
Okay.
00:35:07
Curt
And I i i cut them out of like thermal paper and then I just shear them to size, which is quick. But the problem with shearing them is you don't you don't you're not left with like a nice edge to peel, like to peel the backing off.
00:35:13
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:35:18
jamie peacock
Okay, yeah, yeah.
00:35:19
Curt
So I timed myself how long it takes me to peel backing off of stickers and stick them on things because I have a lot of fucking stickers. And the time was very disheartening. And then I realized i'm like, I would be able to pay myself like I would be able to pay it like to buy these stickers professionally printed, get them shipped to my door and still have like enough money left over to like take my wife out for a nice dinner.
00:35:43
Curt
every single batch of pens I do. So I'm like, this is a no brainer. So anyways, yeah, I just wanted kind of a solution for everything. And I found a company that works for all of that.
00:35:52
jamie peacock
Nice.
00:35:52
Curt
So yeah, I'm going to give them a whirl and then I'll have a whole gang of stickers for podcast people.
00:35:53
jamie peacock
Okay.
00:35:59
Curt
And I will, like I say, every single podcast.
00:36:00
jamie peacock
Nice. Danica will be sending out an email tomorrow, probably. um No, wait. Yesterday, when this comes out, to the Patreons to get their addresses and let them know that the day the release day is shifting.
00:36:09
Curt
Okay.
00:36:13
Curt
Okay, cool. was going say I'll build a form so that people can drop their addresses in so I can.
00:36:14
jamie peacock
Yeah. No, no, she'll send them...
00:36:17
Curt
Okay.
00:36:17
jamie peacock
Yeah, you can build a form and send a link, or she'll she'll just ask them for their addresses.
00:36:22
Curt
Whatever works.
00:36:23
jamie peacock
We have some of them.
00:36:23
Curt
Whatever works.
00:36:24
jamie peacock
um Yeah, we're only missing a few. Dun, dun, dun.
00:36:29
Curt
Yeah.
00:36:30
jamie peacock
Speaking of our Patreons, we have Patreons, and they make the wheels on the train go round and round.
00:36:31
Curt
And then,
00:36:38
jamie peacock
I love having the train noises. Yeah, the patrons Patreons make the show carry on and help with the IMTS travels later in the year.
00:36:40
Curt
It's so good.
00:36:47
jamie peacock
Should be blast. The Airbnb has been provisionally booked. um But yeah, all Patreons get access to the after show and the bonus content. We are Rage about Bridgerton. um And there's some other bonus content, I think.
00:37:01
jamie peacock
But the top tier ones get their names read out. And those are Luke from Fabtastic, Jade from Benchmark20, AJ from Subtract Manufacturing and 32 other companies, Jason S, AJ, sorry, EJ from Nocturnal Welding, The Ozzy Machinist, Christian Olson, Charles Watt, Kyle from Cursed Machine, Matt from Offworld Gear, who has a really awesome knife, and Alex B.
00:37:23
jamie peacock
Thank you all the Patreons.
00:37:24
Curt
Nice.
00:37:24
jamie peacock
You do make the wheels on the bus go round and round. Well, the train. Sorry, trains.
00:37:27
Curt
Train.
00:37:27
jamie peacock
um Make the train go round and round.
00:37:28
Curt
Train.
00:37:30
jamie peacock
um Yes, have you seen Matt Snaff from Offworld Gear?
00:37:35
Curt
I literally, i think I just ended up following him this weekend because I came across a post and I was like, oh shit, cool stuff.
00:37:38
jamie peacock
Dude.
00:37:40
Curt
So I'm go to pull it up right now just to make sure I'm, I'm just going to look at it.
00:37:41
jamie peacock
Yeah, overkill of note.
00:37:46
Curt
Don't mind me, folks. Talk amongst yourself.
00:37:48
jamie peacock
um Also, Luke from Fabtastic was asking some questions on the Taps and Patients Discord the other day.
00:37:55
Curt
Okay, yes, I just followed him because that knife, sorry to interrupt you, that knife came over.
00:37:58
jamie peacock
No, no.
00:37:59
Curt
ah like One of his AI generated images came across my feed, and then that knife, is I love the mechanical intricacy of it.
00:38:05
jamie peacock
Yeah, super mechanical.
00:38:07
Curt
So pretty. Yeah, so pretty.
00:38:08
jamie peacock
Yeah. Very, very cool.
00:38:09
Curt
I might have to i'm gonna have to add one of those to my collection. It's, yeah. Go check them out, folks. Offworldgear on Instagram.
00:38:14
jamie peacock
Yeah, no. Yeah, Matt from Off-Off Gear. um
00:38:18
Curt
Yeah.
00:38:19
jamie peacock
Yeah, so Luke from Fantastic was asking some questions about machining large castings.
00:38:26
Curt
Ooh.
00:38:27
jamie peacock
That little Swiss has become something very else.
00:38:32
Curt
Oh, okay.
00:38:33
jamie peacock
yes yes that's where this is going uh we yeah i think his shop is finally done think he posted about on that on the on the discord but yeah i'll chat to him this week and uh we'll get an update for everybody because yes all pride details out of him yeah he was on the he was on the hangout over the weekend i want to have some patience so i was hanging out on the discord there but yeah all right cool back to the uh to the podcast um
00:38:33
Curt
Okay, that's where this is going. Okay.
00:38:40
Curt
Ooh, okay.
00:38:45
Curt
Yes. Yeah. Pry details out of him. I want to hear.
00:38:54
Curt
Good. Yeah.
00:39:01
Curt
yeah
00:39:02
jamie peacock
Would you like to know about Land Rovers? Hang on. There we go. And how they are made for quadruple jointed midget mechanics to work on them.
00:39:12
Curt
I stepped out of Land Rover for like ah six months and it was like nope carry on
00:39:19
jamie peacock
So no, the Freelander 2 is lovely. The Clutch Master shat the bed. So ordered a replacement, did a bit of light Googling.
00:39:23
Curt
yeah
00:39:27
jamie peacock
was like, oh, this doesn't look too difficult to take the Clutch bracket out. I spent two and off hours before I was like, fuck this is going to the mechanic. I don't care how much he charges, I make more money in my workshop. My arm has a bruised here.
00:39:38
Curt
Right.
00:39:40
jamie peacock
Because I could squeeze my hand in past the steering shaft. The ratchet would go click. And then I would turn it click, click, click.
00:39:51
jamie peacock
I got that bolt halfway off and then was like, fuck the shit. There was one next to it still. The whole dash has to come out of the car to get access to those bolts.
00:39:59
Curt
why do you have to do that for the clutch master cylinder?
00:40:02
jamie peacock
and the clutch master goes through the firewall so there's a the whole clutch pedal is on a bracket that bolts to the firewall you take that out disconnect the cables on the back and then the whole thing comes up other than that no you can't get it from the base side yeah
00:40:02
Curt
Can't you access it from the...
00:40:09
Curt
Yeah.
00:40:13
Curt
Oh, you can't access it from the bay side. You have to access it from the cab side. Oh, that's dumb.
00:40:17
jamie peacock
so yeah i thought it would be easy to take out it's not uh all the videos people have the dashes off because they're working on the car and yeah fuck so i took half the car part on thursday and then dropped it at the mechanic this morning and he phoned me like midday he's like listen um i don't know how long this is going take do you want to take somebody specializes in this i'm like dude it's there just do it i don't care how long it takes just fix my car
00:40:18
Curt
Okay.
00:40:40
Curt
Yeah.
00:40:42
jamie peacock
So yeah, he's sorting that out.
00:40:42
Curt
Yeah.
00:40:43
jamie peacock
And then, yeah, one of my other topics well we'll discuss later about my little truck and how much it's actually worth, which is fucking hilarious.
00:40:52
Curt
Yeah.
00:40:53
jamie peacock
um Yeah, so Danica has been a little bit stressed with going back to work and some drama with her brother's other Land Rover. He got a Range Rover and it's throwing an alarm and limping along because apparently one of the turbos is poked. And he got a quote to replace the turbo for more than the value of the car.
00:41:10
Curt
Oh yeah.
00:41:10
jamie peacock
So i was like, dude, hold the fuck on. Send me the part number. And we'll buy one of AliExpress, get it working, and then sell the car. Like, straight up, get it driving and sell the car.
00:41:21
jamie peacock
Because at least then you get something for it. Like, otherwise it's useless and you're going fuck all for it. Dude, 100%.
00:41:27
Curt
Just that AliExpress turbo just strikes fear into my heart.
00:41:29
jamie peacock
Why? Dude, the... why it's a dude the um
00:41:33
Curt
Do you know, those things spin so fast.
00:41:36
jamie peacock
there's There's a car brand now out of China. They literally bought the Diasets and the model from Land Rover. It's a Freelander 2 made in China. Exact copy of the car.
00:41:47
jamie peacock
So they bought off all the old all old tooling and the designs and are making an exact copy. So it's an OEM part for their vehicle. Just happens to fit this vehicle.
00:41:58
Curt
Whatever works.
00:41:58
jamie peacock
No, yeah, fucking it works.
00:42:00
jamie peacock
So yeah, we were discussing that today. He's phoning around to see who can do the actual work because you've got to pull the whole engine out to get to the turbos because they're on the backside of the engine.
00:42:01
Curt
hu
00:42:09
Curt
Of course, yeah.
00:42:10
jamie peacock
It's like, yeah, I hate cars. So yeah, the the car thing has been a bit stressful and Danik and I stopped at the Suzuki dealership on the way back. Um,
00:42:22
jamie peacock
on Saturday from my nephew's birthday, because this was now stressing out a lot because her brother might need his Freelander back. I'm like, hey, it's fucked. he can come have it. um So I'm like, let's go. Let's go have a look. She wanted to look at a Jimny, a Suzuki Jimny.
00:42:34
jamie peacock
They're nice. They're just fucking expensive. And we're walking through Suzuki, and I'm like, this is a panel van version of the Bellino or the Bullbag or whatever the fuck it's called. So asked the lady what the price is and can I have the OEM radio installed and all that shit?
00:42:51
jamie peacock
Turns out it's not that expensive to buy a new one. And the nice thing is I can claim the sales tax on it.
00:42:56
Curt
And that's that's sort of that's for the listener, that's your that's your little truck?
00:42:57
jamie peacock
It's going to come in.
00:43:00
jamie peacock
Yeah, my little truck. So i'm going to trade that in and buy a little.
00:43:02
Curt
OK, yeah.
00:43:04
jamie peacock
It's essentially a hatchback car with no back seats. So it's a cargo vehicle.
00:43:08
Curt
OK.
00:43:09
jamie peacock
The car so I can claim the sales tax because it's a business vehicle. It's commercial.
00:43:13
Curt
Sure, OK.
00:43:14
jamie peacock
So it's $15,000 for a new car. I can trade my truck in. So the the best part, um so trading my truck not worth it.
00:43:26
jamie peacock
I can get, a ah paid must I much did one o six service reserve I pay it? 106. $6,500 for my truck brand new because I bought it from the company.
00:43:36
jamie peacock
They claimed the VAT on it, so I never paid the VAT for the sales tax.
00:43:39
Curt
Okay.
00:43:41
jamie peacock
I bought it, they bought it and i bought it off of them over time. I can sell it for $6,000.
00:43:47
Curt
Nice.
00:43:47
jamie peacock
after 12 years because they've they've been discontinued.
00:43:48
Curt
Nice. Nice.
00:43:51
jamie peacock
So there's no small trucks available anymore. So people are, there's like more demand than there's supply. So I can kind of rip the ring on the price, which makes the little car even more compelling.
00:44:02
jamie peacock
And then the sales tax also makes it even good more compelling. So we're now looking at pulling that maneuver and then it comes with service plan and all that shit because Danica is going to be doing 30,000 kilometers a She's doing kilometers a day.
00:44:17
jamie peacock
So she's going to be racking up some serious mileage. So my thought is I will drive the Freelander. She can drive the ball bag. And then we have two cars we can trust. And if in six months the Freelander starts giving more shit, I sell it and I buy Jimny for her.
00:44:27
Curt
Just
00:44:33
Curt
for just for like my own reference, what is like ah your like vanilla like vehicle price down there?
00:44:34
jamie peacock
No.
00:44:39
Curt
like If you just want just like a midsize whatever, blank, blank, blank, whatever you drive on the roads, what's what's a rough vehicle price?
00:44:44
jamie peacock
so
00:44:47
Curt
Because here, i'd I'd say it's about $50,000 for kind of like an average vehicle.
00:44:52
jamie peacock
uh what are you talking about like a family vehicle type thing
00:44:55
Curt
ah like um Like a van, SUV, decent car. like You're in that.
00:44:59
jamie peacock
so like a chinese a chinese suv um they're pretty kitted out they're about 24 25 000 dollars
00:45:03
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:45:09
Curt
Okay, okay.
00:45:10
jamie peacock
brand new. um If you're looking at like a Suzuki Jimny, you're looking at if it's optioned with anything other than the basics, you're looking at about $28,000.
00:45:11
Curt
Okay.
00:45:25
Curt
OK, OK, so yeah.
00:45:26
jamie peacock
Yeah, so they're a bit cheaper, like you can get some stupid cheap things. Like i was looking a little the Suzuki Eco, that thing's crumples on is your legs.
00:45:35
Curt
Sure, yeah, exactly.
00:45:35
jamie peacock
Like, straight up. it It has fan.
00:45:36
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:45:37
jamie peacock
That is the only knob in the cabin is fan.
00:45:41
jamie peacock
Like, it's insane. But that thing is... They also have, like, the little the little mini trucks. That thing is $6,000 brand new.
00:45:41
Curt
Yeah.
00:45:48
Curt
Yeah.
00:45:52
Curt
Yes, yeah, OK, fair.
00:45:52
jamie peacock
They're cheap. But, yeah, cars get stupid expensive here as well. um Like, if you start looking at brand name stuff, it's everything's over, like, $30,000.
00:46:02
jamie peacock
The only reason the Suzuki is as cheap as it is is because it's a commercial vehicle. um
00:46:02
Curt
Yeah, okay, that's...
00:46:07
Curt
Yeah, that makes sense.
00:46:07
jamie peacock
So it's like min option. it's got the safety pack, air con, and that's it.
00:46:11
Curt
That makes sense, yeah.
00:46:12
jamie peacock
So unlike my my little truck, we won't die like real men because we don't have airbags, but it is what it is.
00:46:12
Curt
I know I...
00:46:18
jamie peacock
of i don't know if I have a sticker on. I think I have sticker on the back of my car. ah No airbags here. We die like real men.
00:46:26
Curt
i wanted a ah I wanted a mini truck for that reason, like just to have a mini truck too. And they they got decently popular around here.
00:46:30
jamie peacock
Yeah, yeah.
00:46:32
Curt
And you can get like four by four ones and guys put little lifts on them and bigger tires so they can handle the winter better.
00:46:35
jamie peacock
they're so cool yeah
00:46:37
Curt
But like going down our roads, like our highway, like ah we have trucks that are no joke. The like my head height, like I'm about six feet tall.
00:46:45
jamie peacock
yeah yes you yeah no you done so the issue with those also is they go super slowly uh they are limit speed limited
00:46:45
Curt
Like I will be head height to the hood. So like like we have monster vehicles here. So like you're driving in that thing down the road and you get hit by somebody. You're just going to be like missed.
00:46:55
Curt
Yeah. It's just like yeah A hundred percent. Yeah.
00:47:02
jamie peacock
So I look, I seriously looked at one because they're fucking cool. um But I get very frustrated driving at 80 kilometers an hour way everywhere. And we have what are colloquially known as taxis, which are not taxis.
00:47:09
Curt
Yeah.
00:47:13
jamie peacock
They are minibuses with like 80 people in them.
00:47:15
Curt
Yeah.
00:47:16
jamie peacock
And those folks drive like absolute lunatics. So I was like, no, that's why don't drive a motorbike.
00:47:19
Curt
Sure.
00:47:21
jamie peacock
Because as a motorbike driver, you don't have to worry about what you're doing. You have to worry about what every other fucking dickhead's doing. um so yeah i want something a safety pack danica's driving it all the time interesting thing with the land rover it's got a whole freaking die cast aluminium frame around the steering wheel and a steel plate behind the leg breakers uh the airbag by your legs i'm only assuming it's there to snap your knees backwards just from where it is but yeah very interesting to take it apart and see how it's uh all been built to take the load and push it in a certain direction
00:47:46
Curt
who
00:47:54
Curt
Right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:47:55
jamie peacock
But yeah, I'm now looking at replacing the little truck, buying a trailer to put my shavings on because I still need to be able to dump shavings and need to be able to use my boat.
00:48:02
Curt
Yeah.
00:48:04
jamie peacock
So I need a little trailer.
00:48:05
Curt
Yeah.
00:48:05
jamie peacock
um But then I'll just go buy a little trailer and then make a trailer and just photocopy the license disc and put it on the little trailer. And then I have two trailers with the same registration.
00:48:13
Curt
Nice.
00:48:15
jamie peacock
Problem solved. um Yeah, so I'll probably do some shit like that so that I can still move my shavings around and whatnot.
00:48:18
Curt
I didn't hear that. Yeah.
00:48:23
jamie peacock
But have two vehicles that are comfortable to drive.
00:48:23
Curt
Yeah.
00:48:26
jamie peacock
But yeah, that was a long-winded side quest there.
00:48:26
Curt
Yeah. That's totally fair.
00:48:29
jamie peacock
um oh Okay, now I understand what magnetic magnetic exhaust ducting means.
00:48:31
Curt
Cool. Cool.
00:48:35
jamie peacock
I was thinking, why do you have magnets in your car's exhaust?
00:48:36
Curt
Yeah.
00:48:39
Curt
No. So yeah, that's for my,
Production and Technology Enhancements
00:48:41
Curt
for my CO2. And now for the little fiber, I have a, the fiber has like its own filter, like filtration system. And honestly, I put my little, little, like, um, like I have an air quality meter that like, you know, it does like particle count and VOCs and all that jazz.
00:48:55
Curt
I put it beside the, Oh, Hey, I don't want to die. I want to make sure, and especially with oil.
00:49:02
jamie peacock
I know what you worried about.
00:49:02
Curt
I want to make sure that I'm breathing good air in here. Um,
00:49:05
jamie peacock
You're going die once.
00:49:09
Curt
Uh, yeah. Hot tip folks, go get air quality meter. You'll be amazed how much shit just demolishes your air. Like you, you light a candle in your house. It's not good. It's not good folks. Um, anyways, uh, I, so I ran it at the exhaust of this little fiber, just while I was like running some engraving, just to see, I'm like, does it do anything or does it make noise?
00:49:25
Curt
And it actually is, it has two, two HEPA filters and activated carbon. So it was clearing everything under the air. I'm quite impressed with it. How long it'll last.
00:49:33
jamie peacock
I would be very curious if it's still doing that in a month.
00:49:34
Curt
I don't know.
00:49:38
Curt
That's what I'm going to check.
00:49:38
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:49:39
Curt
um Because the filters are not cheap. It's $200 to replace a filter.
00:49:42
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:49:42
Curt
um Yeah, so I was like, and with all this, like, wood burning I'm going do, I'm like, I'm not putting all that smoke through. Like, why? Like, I'll use it for what I want it for. So anyways, I ducted it.
00:49:52
Curt
um to a vent I have in the garage that lets me output from my CO2. But I didn't want to like make a big adapter and have to have like blast gates. So I just made a little like magnetic attachment so that like the wall has essentially a magnetic plate on it.
00:50:05
Curt
And I just pulled the CO2 exhaust off it.
00:50:06
jamie peacock
yeah nice magnets are great
00:50:08
Curt
And then I clicked the fiber went onto it And then like if I have to switch, it's like click, click. And they they suck on with magnets because magnets are fun. And I just printed them. And yeah, it worked out. worked out so well. I was like impressed that I just like cobbled the design together in like, I don't know, 10 minutes and just printed them.
00:50:21
Curt
I was like, if it doesn't work, whatever.
00:50:21
jamie peacock
it just worked yeah so oh speaking of just printing things some smart deck went and designed 3d printed parts into a 700 part production run
00:50:22
Curt
I've just, and it worked. Yeah. It's just like perfect. So yeah.
00:50:33
Curt
Oh shit. Okay. This is makes sense now. Carry on.
00:50:36
jamie peacock
yeah it's because I want an A1 Mini.
00:50:39
Curt
Yeah.
00:50:40
jamie peacock
Like, I can print the the little clippies that I need to make faster than I can machine the parts. So I want to, yeah.
00:50:46
Curt
Yeah, I get it.
00:50:47
jamie peacock
going to use that to justify a new printer with one of the plate changes. So I can queue up 10 plates at night and just let it ship parts all night.
00:50:53
Curt
Okay. You're going to go with the mini?
00:50:57
jamie peacock
ah Yeah, going to go with Mini.
00:50:58
Curt
Are you thinking going to go with mini?
00:50:59
jamie peacock
Yeah, I'll with the Mini.
00:50:59
Curt
Yeah, That makes sense.
00:51:00
jamie peacock
um they They're the best...
00:51:01
Curt
It makes sense.
00:51:03
jamie peacock
bang for buck locally, price-wise. So I'm to go with that probably with an AMS lot because I want to do some two-color printing.
00:51:11
Curt
Yep.
00:51:12
jamie peacock
But yeah, currently, yeah, currently that thing doesn't support it and I don't feel like making it supported. It's just a firmware change, but changing the firmware is more effort than I want to put in on that printer.
00:51:21
Curt
I was, uh...
00:51:28
Curt
For the price of printers, I don't blame you. Like, the A1 minis are nothing.
00:51:30
jamie peacock
Yeah, like...
00:51:33
Curt
They are... so You could collect cans on the side of the road and pay for one.
00:51:33
jamie peacock
So theyre they're not they're not cheap here. um They are $610 with AMS lights. Like,
00:51:41
Curt
Still, like, that's pretty inexpensive.
00:51:42
jamie peacock
not it's a bit rough. There's the fucking South African primo tax because reasons. um
00:51:49
Curt
Yeah.
00:51:49
jamie peacock
i can If I'm patient, I can get one sent from England for basically free. But I don't think I'm that patient.
00:51:56
Curt
makes sense. Yeah.
00:51:57
jamie peacock
No, yeah, I'm not that patient. I might just get one sent anyway and then have a bar one local then have two. Because why not? I've got some anchor point accessories that need to be printed.
00:52:07
Curt
I was a.
00:52:11
Curt
I was in your same boat this week. I was printing something and my printer was throwing like temperature. I think it was too cold in here and it was getting a little pissy.
00:52:17
jamie peacock
Oh, yeah.
00:52:17
Curt
And I was just like, i was like, i started troubleshooting it. and I'm like, I jumped online and started looking at printers. And I i jumped obviously to bamboo. because So i was like, well, let's look.
00:52:25
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:52:25
Curt
And then i just couldn't deal with the, uh, uh, Because they're like, there's new laws here that like, if it's a certain geometry, it won't print it. Like there's, there's firearm stuff coming out.
00:52:35
jamie peacock
Such a load of bullshit.
00:52:37
Curt
Oh my God. I tell me, right? Like go to the hardware store, but besides point it anyways, I can rant all that for way too long.
00:52:42
jamie peacock
Dude, yeah. i So, sorry, back back to that one for a second, that hardware store comment. You used to frequent Hackaday.
00:52:50
Curt
Oh, all time.
00:52:51
jamie peacock
Did you not?
00:52:51
Curt
Yeah.
00:52:52
jamie peacock
Yes. Do you remember the article that they had on there about building a gun once you were through airport security?
00:52:52
Curt
Yep.
00:52:59
jamie peacock
With stuff you can bar in the airport, right?
00:52:59
Curt
ah ah yeah i think I can or you told me about it and I think I came across it right like yeah if
00:53:04
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's fucking great. Yeah, airport security is such a false sense of security, it's hilarious.
00:53:12
Curt
yeah and like printed well and printed firearms is is its whole own category it's not it it's not as scary as people think it is hmm yeah
00:53:12
jamie peacock
Sorry, I'm being, just seeing where my wife's at. She's busy driving home. Yeah.
00:53:20
jamie peacock
It's really, it it's really interesting. Like, the guys have full-on, like, competitions. They've also developed really interesting ways for raffling pieces of pipe.
00:53:30
Curt
Oh yeah i was yeah, I was looking into that just for...
00:53:33
jamie peacock
It's so cool.
00:53:34
Curt
I'd like to see it.
00:53:34
jamie peacock
Like, it's a really clever workaround. I mean, it's just clever engineering, working within the constraints to get the result you want.
00:53:40
Curt
Yeah.
00:53:41
jamie peacock
But yeah, then people get their tits in a knot because reasons and ruin it for everybody.
00:53:47
Curt
If people want to kill people, they're going find ways to do it.
00:53:47
jamie peacock
knock
00:53:50
Curt
Anyways...
00:53:51
jamie peacock
You're not going to take bricks away from people and sticks, like, for fuck's sakes.
00:53:51
Curt
anyways Right, right. And anyways, that's just the one thing.
00:53:54
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:53:56
Curt
i don't like I don't like Big Brother Control, so that's the only reason that's pushing me from bamboo is I don't want someone to just be like, nope, you can't use this piece.
00:54:03
jamie peacock
pull the rug yeah
00:54:04
Curt
yeah so I was like, I want to maintain. And if i had if I'm in your situation where I needed it for production, I would probably still go that way because the likelihood of them shooting their entire customer base in the foot by not letting them print what they want is incredibly, incredibly low.
00:54:12
jamie peacock
yeah is low yeah but yeah but two plus two equals five so yeah like i i finished that book by the way thanks i'm now scarred yes
00:54:18
Curt
Yeah, so it's like, but I don't.
00:54:24
Curt
Yeah, so long way to stay is, oh, you're welcome. Yeah, it's rough. Yeah, it could be a little,
00:54:33
jamie peacock
It was rough. It was good, but it was a bit rough. But yeah, I powered through it the other day.
00:54:37
Curt
yeah.
00:54:38
jamie peacock
am yeah ah The end is very, very interesting.
00:54:44
Curt
Yeah, yeah, it's, yeah.
00:54:46
jamie peacock
soul hurting but yeah uh yeah so if i can okay interesting making magnetic ducts i like that plan because i've got i've got an exhaust fan if i want to run it i have to turn my co2 on but it's got a duct that goes to the fiber so then i just power on the co2 that it runs the fan when i'm doing a lot of engraving because i don't want to breathe atomized aluminum i don't think it's healthy it might be but i don't think so um
00:54:46
Curt
yeah
00:55:01
Curt
Yeah.
00:55:05
Curt
No. No. Yeah. No. no No. I know.
00:55:13
jamie peacock
But yeah, speaking of printers, customer sent me some files today.
00:55:13
Curt
Ugh.
00:55:16
jamie peacock
Hey, can I machine these for him? It's guy I've known for a while. He built CNC a while ago.
00:55:19
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:55:21
jamie peacock
one of the one I think one of the rat rig ones. um
00:55:24
Curt
Oh, I like those. Yeah, yeah.
00:55:25
jamie peacock
Yeah, I think it was one of those. Anyway, he his machine's currently out of commission. So he's like, can I machine these parts for So I have a look. I'm like, what the fuck? like, no, no, I'll come past you later today. So he came past me. We had a chat for like an hour.
00:55:37
jamie peacock
um It's the Voron XY components.
00:55:41
Curt
Oh, cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:55:42
jamie peacock
Yeah, Billetali ones. So I think I'm going to build a little Trunyini Matron for my fourth axis. That way I can hit the parts from one side and hit them from the other side and be done.
00:55:54
Curt
Cute. Yeah, that's the way to go.
00:55:54
jamie peacock
That way, that's gonna that's going to be the easiest way to fucking do it. look i don't want to I don't want to make soft jaws told because it's four unique components and I am lazy. So i want to machine them and tab them off.
00:56:06
Curt
Yeah.
00:56:07
jamie peacock
And I want to figure out that workflow.
00:56:07
Curt
Uh...
00:56:08
jamie peacock
So this is an excuse to figure out the workflow.
00:56:11
Curt
And, I mean, not to not to cancel you a job, but why doesn't he just buy him, like, off alley? Because, like, there's so many people building Voron parts.
00:56:23
Curt
Podcast.
00:56:26
jamie peacock
Sorry, we're having a short intermission.
00:56:31
Curt
ah
00:56:33
Curt
I only... can't talk when this stupid song is on.
00:56:35
jamie peacock
I'm tired of
00:56:37
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:56:37
Curt
There we go.
00:56:37
Curt
um I only ask because ah i'm I have a Voron kit in my cart on Alley. And same thing, it's like, it's all aluminum, it's four wheel drive. It's because I want to play with tool changers. And like, I'm pretty sure I'm going that route.
00:56:48
jamie peacock
Yeah, you want to do all the fancies.
00:56:49
Curt
But i was like, I looked at him, like, I can't machine any of these parts. I'm just going to buy them. Like, it's so cheap.
00:56:54
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's, it is. Like, I'm looking, they've carbon fiber versions of it. I'm just going to pop up a message and be like, dude, just buy the carbon fiber version for literally $5 and it'll be before I can machine it.
00:56:59
Curt
Yeah.
00:57:08
Curt
Yeah, that's some reason I'm thinking that.
00:57:09
jamie peacock
Like, don't be stupid. um Although his have steps in them for some reason, so I'm not entirely sure which version of the Voron kit he's building. but I'll pop him a message and be like, oh, there we go. There's the set he needs. It's 460 Rand, which is like $20.
00:57:27
Curt
Yeah, that's like you can't fight.
00:57:28
jamie peacock
You are not going to get me to machine for that price. I can promise you that.
00:57:33
Curt
Yeah, that's kind of what i figured.
00:57:34
jamie peacock
Because, yeah. But I was going to use it as an excuse to learn the fourth axis double-sided machining tabbing story.
00:57:42
Curt
Then that's a different, that's a different game.
00:57:43
jamie peacock
So I might just machine it because it's a part I didn't design, so it's not been designed for that process.
00:57:44
Curt
Yeah.
00:57:48
Curt
Yeah.
00:57:49
jamie peacock
So might just do it for shits and giggles, as one tends to do.
00:57:53
Curt
Yeah. If you don't need it to put, put food on your table, then yeah, go nuts, learn something and build a, build a trunnion.
00:57:56
jamie peacock
Yeah. Well, I'm already trying to find time to machine Ultim Fluck, and I'm battling to find time for that.
00:57:58
Curt
Yeah.
00:58:03
jamie peacock
I considered doing it late last night, and I was like, eh.
00:58:04
Curt
Sure.
00:58:06
jamie peacock
And now I have anchor point bodies to machine, so that ain't happening.
00:58:11
Curt
Fun.
00:58:11
jamie peacock
deal um yeah we can skip that one that's boring um so my probe
00:58:15
Curt
Okay. Tell me about a... Yes. The one that's held together with tape and glue.
00:58:21
jamie peacock
okay no not not the table probe not the one held together with hope prayers and love my spindle probe that is a cheap aliexpress one that just lights up in boobs it gets coolants in it every now and again because somebody had kind of slightly squished it and spun it at 12 000 rpm by accident
00:58:23
Curt
nope
00:58:26
Curt
Oh.
00:58:29
Curt
Okay. Okay.
00:58:33
Curt
Okay.
00:58:42
jamie peacock
So it's been a little flaky for the last like month. Every now and again, little tool change in. I've got to take it out, hoop it to like make the battery shift and make contact and then carry on. And then I took it out of the machine the other day. Cause like if I'm running something where I know the coolant's going to just straight up Bukaki it, I take it out of the machine.
00:59:00
jamie peacock
And I took out the machine in the morning, ran the job, looked at my tool rack and the lights on.
00:59:01
Curt
Sure. Hmm. Hmm.
00:59:04
jamie peacock
I'm like, oh shit. So messed around little bit, got it to sort its stories out. And then probed something yesterday in the morning.
00:59:16
jamie peacock
Went to probe something in the afternoon. Probe's not working. Dead as a doornail. So I pulled it out, stripped it in the workshop. not working eventually i was like okay i'll with this tomorrow then i needed some machine anchor point pads today managed to do that without a probe because you can always touch things off without a probe uh so i just machined the the soft jaws and knew where my part would go because i machined soft jaws um and then this afternoon i pulled the probe inside and was trying to troubleshoot like what the hell i assembled the probe without the um
00:59:41
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:59:50
jamie peacock
without the kinematic coupling in the front, so it's always triggered. And then I put the tweezers in through the little window, i took the window off, and I shorted the contact, and it doesn't beep. But when I take the board out of the housing, hold it on the battery, and I touch the other side of the board, it stays beeping.
01:00:08
jamie peacock
So grabbed my multimeter, probed the two pads on either either side of the board, one of them wasn't connected. So I think coolant got in and corroded the veer. So I took a pair of tweezers,
01:00:18
Curt
Right, yeah, yeah.
01:00:19
jamie peacock
open the via and then heat it up and float a bit solder into the vias and now it is working again.
01:00:24
Curt
Yeah. Huh, okay.
01:00:26
jamie peacock
But yeah, like every now and again I have to pull the kinematic coupling out and just soak and like just wash it out in alcohol and then it's good for another few months.
01:00:35
Curt
Cool.
01:00:35
jamie peacock
But I think I might just buy a wireless probe now.
01:00:35
Curt
But, I mean, bummer, but.
01:00:41
Curt
Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
01:00:43
jamie peacock
It would be nice to be able to validate that there's nothing in the um and the pneumatic vase. when I unload a part.
01:00:51
Curt
Yeah, yeah, that would be important.
01:00:52
jamie peacock
Kind of important.
01:00:54
Curt
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:00:55
jamie peacock
Yeah, i have ways I have ways around that. Like, there's ways that I can just ram the parts out of the way, but I'd prefer to not ram things.
01:01:01
Curt
Sure.
01:01:04
jamie peacock
Because if I ram it, I'm not sure where it's going to fall It's long enough that it could be a problem.
01:01:05
Curt
Yeah.
01:01:09
Curt
Yeah, no.
01:01:10
jamie peacock
So I'd rather validate that it's removed.
01:01:13
jamie peacock
But that entails...
01:01:13
Curt
I don't think anybody that bought a wireless probe ah has or has ah regretted that they have a wireless probe, so.
01:01:18
jamie peacock
yeah exactly like i don't know i wasn't gonna buy an expensive one that's the problem
01:01:24
Curt
Sure.
01:01:25
jamie peacock
aliexpress i was gonna buy a cheap one um it's in my cart it's been in my cart for like a year um i don't know we'll see how i feel i just don't know what the integration into the siemens is going to be like i think it's just one display mask i've got to change but like i know which one it is
01:01:26
Curt
But. Yeah,
01:01:32
Curt
yeah.
01:01:42
jamie peacock
So I've got to reach out and try and figure out. I know where it plugs in. I know where the skip signals go. I know all that shit goes. um I just don't know if it is in the ladder for the low battery warning and things like that.
Camera Equipment and Storytelling
01:01:56
jamie peacock
so I'm going i have to go poke around the the PLC again um and then see.
01:01:57
Curt
Right, yeah.
01:02:00
jamie peacock
But I think I might go that route. I think it'll be cool.
01:02:05
Curt
Yeah.
01:02:06
jamie peacock
Like, I don't know what the probing macros look like on the Siemens.
01:02:06
Curt
Yeah, no.
01:02:10
jamie peacock
I don't know if it does spindle orientation. I would want to do spindle orientation for measuring center of stuff just so that if there's any runouts, it's a non-issue.
01:02:17
Curt
Mm-hmm.
01:02:19
jamie peacock
um i wouldn't I don't think I'd use it for like super high accuracy stuff. If was, I'd probably just use it manually. But don't know. We'll see. It was an intrusive thought that I had. I like intrusive thoughts. They're fun.
01:02:33
Curt
Yeah, no, that makes sense.
01:02:34
jamie peacock
So what is your slippery camera slope, Kurt?
01:02:35
Curt
yeah
01:02:36
jamie peacock
What did you do?
01:02:37
Curt
Dude, ah okay, so um it's just it's a such anybody that's looked at cameras in the last little while. It's it's so it's so easy to feature creep yourself up in price by ah hundred bucks, a hundred bucks, a hundred bucks, a hundred bucks, a hundred bucks, a hundred bucks. before you know it, like I was looking at like FX, um I was looking at the FX 30, which is a cinema camera similar to the FX three. But anyway, these are like three, four, $5,000 cameras where I was like, I initially was looking at like the thousand dollar range. um It just, anyway, ah long story short, I came across this video, which I will link because it is a super cool video and it is all about like gear is important. Sure.
01:03:18
Curt
To a point. And then it's all about everything else.
01:03:20
jamie peacock
yeah
01:03:23
Curt
Like like if you're making if you're making videos, if you want people to watch videos, it's not about it's not about the gear you have. It's about it's about storytelling. Like that is 95% of it.
01:03:31
jamie peacock
yes
01:03:33
Curt
Like you don't need a 4K camera to to tell a story.
01:03:37
jamie peacock
You need to be good at storytelling.
01:03:37
Curt
You can do it just fine.
01:03:38
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:03:39
Curt
If you have a good story and you're shooting it in 720p, it's still going to be better than 4K. And just like anything, right?
01:03:45
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:03:47
Curt
um But anyways, I've just been looking at cameras. I have a few like ah SLRs here that just are like old enough where it's like it shoots video, but it doesn't shoot the video And then I realized I can use it because right now I have this webcam that we were talking on.
01:03:57
Curt
And I realized I can use my SLR for um a webcam. So I'm going I think I'm gonna switch it because like it just collects dust. I don't really use it. It's great for photos. Like that's another thing.
01:04:08
Curt
If you're taking photos um with your smartphone, which I've done forever because it's so convenient, I just don't bring out my ah SLR. And then I brought out my ah SLR this weekend and started taking photos. And even though it is built, it was built in 2014, my camera, my Sony, and I have a modern smartphone with a quote 40 megapixel sensor, 50 megapixel sensor, my 20 megapixel APC size sensor blows it out of the water for clarity, for light, for like...
01:04:21
jamie peacock
well, yeah.
01:04:28
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:04:35
jamie peacock
Yeah, free.
01:04:37
Curt
Everything. And it's a 10 plus year old camera and it just annihilates smartphone cameras still to this day.
01:04:38
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:04:43
Curt
Cause like you can't compete with a sensor, you know, a sensor this big as opposed to a sensor the size of your thumbnail.
01:04:46
jamie peacock
No.
01:04:48
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:04:49
Curt
So like, yeah, it's just, yeah.
01:04:50
jamie peacock
No, please. Thumbnail is way smaller than that. Like, the sensors on smartphones are hilariously small.
01:04:54
Curt
Like, and it just, yeah, it just made me realize again. It's like, oh yeah. Like the you don't have to just yeah like, don't fall victim to the the megapixel count.
01:05:04
Curt
Cause it's not, it's not where it all matters.
01:05:06
jamie peacock
It's not accurate.
01:05:06
Curt
Like,
01:05:07
jamie peacock
No, it's all the other stuff, the processing and whatnot behind that.
01:05:07
Curt
Yeah.
01:05:11
Curt
Yeah, totally. Yeah, so.
01:05:12
jamie peacock
Like, even the even the Osmo Nano, the guys were like, it takes really good stills for what it is.
01:05:17
Curt
Yeah.
01:05:18
jamie peacock
Like, it's not a DSLR, but it takes, for what it is, really good stills. So, yeah.
01:05:23
Curt
Have you, did you see, I think it was Insta360. They came out like the Ace Pro 2. It's an action cam, but they made ah a cage grip for it.
01:05:30
jamie peacock
Yeah, yeah.
01:05:32
Curt
So it feels more like people are using it for street photography. And obviously they reached out to a ton of influencers and were like, hey, try to take the best photos you can with these.
01:05:37
jamie peacock
yeah
01:05:40
Curt
They're cranking out some incredible photos for, I think it's like, I don't even think it's a one
Machining Accuracy and Daily Tasks
01:05:45
Curt
inch CMOS. Like it's a tiny sensor and it's still putting out some pretty, yeah, some pretty impressive photos.
01:05:47
jamie peacock
yeah it's like a one-third yeah thing is like action cameras like a shitload of lights they're designed for outdoor use so now you want to film something in a workshop and it's grainy whereas like that's why i was looking specifically at the osmo for its low light performance
01:05:50
Curt
But anyways, besides the point.
01:05:56
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
01:06:00
Curt
Yeah.
01:06:04
Curt
yeah And like, I like, I like photos, but like this camera that I'm currently shooting on, like it has an aperture that like, you can see the background is still sharp. Like I don't, I don't want that.
01:06:11
jamie peacock
Yes.
01:06:12
Curt
I want, I want a nice, I want a fast lens, which my ah SLR can do. So you get nice, like blurred background, but like, anyway.
01:06:17
jamie peacock
Yeah. And then you can do custom bokeh.
01:06:20
Curt
Yeah. Oh yeah, absolutely.
01:06:22
jamie peacock
You have a laser cutter.
01:06:24
Curt
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
01:06:26
jamie peacock
don't know if you've seen the corridor video of that, where they made custom bokers.
01:06:26
Curt
Yeah, little subliminal. I think I did, yeah.
01:06:30
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's fucking great.
01:06:30
Curt
Yeah, I think I did.
01:06:32
jamie peacock
Proper nerd shit.
01:06:32
Curt
yeah
01:06:33
jamie peacock
Jeez. All right, cool.
01:06:34
Curt
Anyway, yeah.
01:06:35
jamie peacock
One last thing on my list for today.
01:06:38
Curt
Yes. Ooh.
01:06:40
jamie peacock
The mechanical anchor point is on sale.
01:06:43
Curt
Ooh.
01:06:43
jamie peacock
We will be three days ahead of schedule. It's been on sale since the weekend, but it's up for sale. So if anyone want to pick wants to pick one up, now's your chance. The first run is...
01:06:57
jamie peacock
We'll see. We'll see how sells out. But yeah, first run is available, and there have been some tweaks. We have added Saunders MachineWorks compatible doel holes in the bottom of it. So it will now drop straight onto a Saunders plate and then just clamp with the toe clamps.
01:07:11
jamie peacock
But it's keyed by the dials. We've also changed the process we're using for machining the final op. So we're leaving everything, all the back bores undersized by a millimeter.
01:07:22
jamie peacock
And then when we deck the back off, we're going to bore those bores so they're all perpendicular and coplanar.
01:07:27
Curt
Right. Yeah.
01:07:28
jamie peacock
so and it also means we know where they are in relation to the round pin
01:07:28
Curt
remember talking about that. Yeah.
01:07:34
Curt
Right. Right. Yeah.
01:07:35
jamie peacock
so we'll have a higher degree of accuracy of if you put it on a lang place you can fairly accurately know where that round pin is like half a thou to where that pin is just from obviously the tolerance and whatnot of uh all the balls and stuff but yeah it should be much more it's a much better version and then all the
01:07:36
Curt
Yeah.
01:07:46
Curt
Nice.
01:07:57
jamie peacock
Pneumatics going forward are going to go to 4.2, which has the same changes. um The harbors and mooring points are available in 4.1, so I discounted them a little bit more because I've got a bunch of bodies where I can't guarantee the Lang Hall's perpendicularity to the base.
01:08:14
jamie peacock
So for harbors and mooring points, it's fine, but on there, there's a note. We don't recommend you use these with Lang just because I'm sitting with, like, 16 bodies.
01:08:21
Curt
Gotcha. got you Gotcha. Gotcha.
01:08:23
jamie peacock
So... Now's your a chance to get discount. Because I discounted them a little bit further because buying in bulk and also I want to get rid of those bodies.
01:08:32
Curt
Sure. Yeah.
01:08:33
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:08:33
Curt
Awesome. Go get him, folks.
01:08:34
jamie peacock
But yeah, mechanical and there's some video that maybe I'll reshoot tomorrow and it'll be less shit. The audio will be less shit.
01:08:40
Curt
Yeah.
01:08:41
jamie peacock
Otherwise, I'm going to try to fix the audio and I really don't want to. It's like it's clipping and it's just you.
01:08:44
Curt
Yeah, that's hard.
01:08:46
jamie peacock
And the lav mic was like down halfway down my shirt. because it was doing it the other day when it was up here, so I put it lower.
01:08:50
Curt
Yeah.
01:08:52
jamie peacock
And then, oh, also the yellow room echoes like a motherfucker. So I ended up opening the door, opening the cupboard, and hanging a blanket over it just to try and stop the reflection.
01:08:57
Curt
Oh, yeah.
01:09:01
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
01:09:03
jamie peacock
And worked a hell of a lot better. But yeah, I was shooting it in the assembly room, and it sounded like shit.
01:09:10
jamie peacock
But that's the joys of trying to make fancy videos.
01:09:10
Curt
Yeah.
01:09:11
Curt
Yeah.
01:09:13
jamie peacock
So what is in your Google box? I see lots of things. Good God.
01:09:16
Curt
Oh, dude, I will try to tear through these because already going long. um ah DIY prepper disc. I came across this thing. It's basically like the internet if the internet goes down. um
01:09:27
jamie peacock
Oh, NOS, OK.
01:09:27
Curt
But...
01:09:28
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:09:28
Curt
Yeah, you could you people have been building those with their own pie and like you can find this giant resource where it has like all medical journals and like all like ah military journals for like how different things work and like how different vehicles were and like really cool data um to have if the world ends.
01:09:35
jamie peacock
What you mean?
01:09:43
Curt
So anyways, kind of want to build one of those a bunch of if you know, right.
01:09:44
jamie peacock
if
01:09:47
Curt
A bunch of smartphone stuff just to see which way I want to go with smartphones because once again, mine's getting a little long in the tooth. um Best Stephen King novels, because I'm a big fan of Stephen King and I haven't listened to a lot of his stuff. So right now I'm listening to ah Under the Dome, which is kind of creepy.
01:10:04
jamie peacock
Ooh, okay.
01:10:04
Curt
Kind of liking that.
01:10:05
jamie peacock
I have got a few ah after it. I've got the full Dark Tower series from him.
01:10:10
Curt
Oh, I've listened to that a few times now.
01:10:11
jamie peacock
I have you, okay.
01:10:12
Curt
That's one of my favorite series. Yeah, yeah.
01:10:13
jamie peacock
Okay, I have not listened to any of his stuff.
01:10:14
Curt
ah i I'm a big fan of Stephen King.
01:10:18
jamie peacock
Okay.
01:10:19
Curt
um I just finished The Stand, which is a very kind of depressing story, but it's a good listen.
01:10:24
jamie peacock
Okay.
01:10:24
Curt
ah uh, phone plans, uh, Elgato cam link, which pairs with a camera talk. I was talking about a black magic app for your smartphone, which is a super nice, uh, camera app.
01:10:30
jamie peacock
Yep.
01:10:35
Curt
And if your phone supports it, ah you should use it. Cause it's really good.
01:10:37
jamie peacock
Yeah, don't worry we'll get into that now, Kurt.
01:10:39
Curt
And Voron cause Voron.
01:10:41
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:10:42
Curt
Um, how about you, Jamie? What's in your Google box?
01:10:45
jamie peacock
I'm full of Land Rover stuff. DJI Osmo stuff, Osmo Nano, bamboo printer stuff, the Suzuki ball bag, um gimbal automation, because he doesn't ship to South Africa, and I keep going and looking at his stuff. I'm going to have reach out to Let's see if he listens.
01:11:00
jamie peacock
um Yeah, I'd want to potentially buy some vases and stuff, and it I can't just check out. um And then Blackmagic camera app sucks ass because it doesn't work on my phone any of my phones. Not just my current phone, any of my phones.
01:11:14
jamie peacock
Because it was recommended by Jacob. But yeah, that's that's what's in the goggle box. ah
01:11:19
Curt
cool
01:11:20
jamie peacock
Yeah, we are running long. We have after-show topics, just before we carry on. ah The Grimsmo Hacksmith video and the Hacksmith Anno video we're going to discuss the after-show.
01:11:30
Curt
Nice. I've watched one of those.
01:11:31
jamie peacock
Yes.
01:11:31
Curt
So yeah, we're good.
01:11:32
jamie peacock
OK, cool. What are you up to today, Kurt?
01:11:36
Curt
ah Today, I'm going to put boxes into bigger boxes so I don't have to drive. like
01:11:41
jamie peacock
Boxception, yes.
01:11:41
Curt
for my Yeah, for that last mile carrier jazz. Anyways, and then I'm going to probably play. i think I'm going to play with some bronze, doing some maybe fourth axis and laser work.
01:11:49
jamie peacock
Nice.
01:11:53
Curt
uh maybe a little bit of work on this little fidget thing that i've been meaning to work on yeah just a bunch of uh i'm gonna probably screws and stuff on the machines to keep them busy making pens for the next batch and then just give myself a few days to try to get caught up on some of the other shit i want to do trying to but i'm kind of cheating because i'm also running a bunch of production while i'm doing it so yeah but
01:11:57
jamie peacock
Ooh.
01:12:03
jamie peacock
yeah no okay so I guess you're going back to your your three one ratio that's the whole point of robots that you don't have to babysit
01:12:19
Curt
That's the whole point of, yeah, me wanting to actually make money. so
01:12:25
jamie peacock
yes no no that's the whole point of the robots that you don't have to babysit they can just make parts while you do other stuff yeah
01:12:28
Curt
Totally. Once a... Yeah. Once you're reliable, that's that's the whole goal. Yeah, it's ah we'll have to actually next week, i'll next week we'll talk about, um I'll make a note of it.
01:12:34
jamie peacock
Yeah. Okay.
01:12:38
Curt
um It is kind of cool. I was looking at my projections from like 2024, 2025, and now this year and just seeing like growth, profit, expenses, all that jazz. um It is kind of interesting. So maybe I'll talk about that next week.
01:12:49
jamie peacock
Okay.
01:12:49
Curt
But ah anyways, what are you up to?
01:12:50
jamie peacock
Yeah. That would be, that would actually be quite interesting to to dive into. It won't be next week, though.
01:12:55
Curt
It was, there was some neat data.
01:12:56
jamie peacock
It'll be the week after.
01:12:58
Curt
Sure, right. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
01:12:59
jamie peacock
Yes, because next week, a super special guest who has mostly kind of confirmed we will know tomorrow, tomorrow or the following day, whether he'll be the guest.
01:12:59
Curt
yes
01:13:04
Curt
Ooh. Okay.
01:13:10
jamie peacock
It's going to be interesting. um Yes.
01:13:10
Curt
Okay.
01:13:12
Curt
Keep me in the loop or else it's going to be my mom.
01:13:13
jamie peacock
yeah
01:13:16
jamie peacock
Don't worry, I got backup guests queued up already.
01:13:19
Curt
yeah Okay. so look Look at you, Jamie, holding the whole show together.
01:13:20
jamie peacock
Yeah. Being a professional podcaster, sent out like four four whole Instagram messages.
01:13:25
Curt
Influencer.
01:13:29
jamie peacock
ji yeah yeah nice um yeah i've got uh i've got anchor point bodies tomorrow and then gonna probably blank out as many as if feel like blanking out the op ones then push the the balance or push the ones i need through for anodizing for the existing orders and then uh carry on chuching along with anchor point production while i don't remember what else i'm gonna do this week yeah i got a bunch of stuff to do can't remember it i've got a several rerollers um But that entails me making and doing a bit of Anno and whatnot. So I'll squeeze in the Anno when I'm doing other Anno.
01:13:29
Curt
Four more than me.
01:14:05
jamie peacock
Because setting up the Anno for one run sucks.
01:14:09
Curt
You need to listen to our after show then.
01:14:10
jamie peacock
So, yeah.
01:14:14
Curt
who
01:14:14
jamie peacock
Ah, yes, definitely, where we discuss anodizing videos. But yeah, thank you, everybody, for listening.
01:14:17
Curt
Yes.
01:14:19
jamie peacock
um If you are listening to us on YouTube, hit a subscribe button there. I was told to do that in the first 30 seconds. I pulled an AJ. um But yeah, if you if you're listening to us on YouTube,
01:14:31
jamie peacock
um yeah hit the subscribe if you're listening somewhere else you can find us on YouTube I renamed the channel to jspec space engineering or at jspec underscore engineering and if you're on Zencaster then please AJ move to a real player but yeah thank you everybody for listening and we'll see you next week
01:14:52
Curt
Take care all.