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Ep. 65: If You Can't Make It Perfect, Make It Adjustable
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This week on The Loan Machinist Podcast, Jamie and Curt battle the literal "Demon" of Tolerance Stack-Up, because apparently, adding up a bunch of "tents" actually equals one giant headache
Curt scores a $600 lens for sixty bucks and plays a high-stakes game of "Did I just buy a paperweight?" while Jamie contemplates becoming a full-time electrician because Fusion 360’s latest update is officially "unusable"
We also dive into the oily world of vacuum workholding, where if you aren't pulling enough mercury, you’re just turning your shop into an unintentional oil mist sauna
Plus, Samo the Marmo presses 10,000 rivets by hand, Jamie breaks his resin printer for a Deadpool bust, and we definitely (mostly) don’t talk about Project Hail Mary
Grab your calipers and your patience; it’s just you, the work, and the machines.
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Transcript
Intro and Today's Topics
00:00:00
jamie peacock
Welcome to the Loan Machinist Podcast, it's just you, the work, and your machines. What have you got going on today, Kurt?
00:00:07
Curt
Today I'm going to talk about the Demon that is Tolerance Stack-Up, Ultim Isogrip Pen, and a $600 lens for $60, maybe. How about you? What are you going to talk about?
00:00:19
jamie peacock
We're not going to talk about Project Hail Mary. um
00:00:22
Curt
hey Thank you.
00:00:23
jamie peacock
We're going to talk about the T-slot riser I made, and we're going to discuss vacuum workholding, because I heard some very interesting information about that from another podcast this week, which kind of falls in line with my mar beliefs on vacuum workholding.
00:00:37
jamie peacock
But yeah, how are you this fine day, Gert?
00:00:38
Curt
Interesting. I'm doing fantastic. And I'm going to see project Hail Mary tomorrow from when we're recording this.
00:00:45
jamie peacock
Sure.
00:00:46
Curt
So maybe next week we can do like a, a spoiler cast in the behind the scenes or the Patreon exclusive, whatever we call that thing after show.
00:00:51
jamie peacock
Yep.
00:00:56
Curt
um
00:00:56
jamie peacock
That one. Yes.
00:00:57
Curt
Or we'll see if it bleeds into the main show. I don't know, but we'll warn you if we're going spoil shit. So go read it, go watch it folks.
00:01:04
jamie peacock
Yes, definitely. I definitely didn't watch it twice in one day on Friday.
00:01:10
Curt
Sick. That's okay. That's ah
00:01:12
jamie peacock
ah Yeah. Yeah, it was fun. yeah, we're
Tolerance Stack-ups Solutions
00:01:15
jamie peacock
not talking about that today.
00:01:15
Curt
cool.
00:01:16
jamie peacock
a I'm going to go on a limb and assume your tolerance stack up has got to do with the fidget.
00:01:23
Curt
Yes. And i like, I kind of half,
00:01:25
jamie peacock
Okay.
00:01:29
Curt
i was I've been trying to like, the way it is designed, it's pinched, um which is fine. yeah um And I need to hold a tolerance of about two thou for it to work reliably over lots production.
00:01:41
Curt
The problem is like the bearing I'm using has a tight tolerance, but it's like, it's tense.
00:01:41
jamie peacock
Yes. Yes.
00:01:46
Curt
And the pins I'm using that slide on have a tight tolerance, but once again, they're tents. And then the machining that I do on everything is all very tight, but once again, it's tents. And like, if you add all those tents up, all of a sudden it's like to hit less than, you know, a couple of thou, it's gets really difficult because every part has to be like no tents because, you know, you have five parts that are a couple tents.
00:02:06
jamie peacock
yeah
00:02:08
Curt
Well, there's everything it's. And I, yeah. So anyways, I bought a or i have a wave wave spring washer that's going go in one side that's going tension an internal bearing, which is going to solve some of the issues on the inside.
00:02:19
jamie peacock
Yep. Yep. Yep.
00:02:20
Curt
And then the new design I came up with has... ah washers for lack of a better term that go on either side of it. And they're mainly just to slide better because with the titanium on titanium, it doesn't slide as nice as if there's a, some sort of slippery washer in there.
00:02:35
Curt
So I'll probably use bronze on the all metal and then, um, Delrin on the not all metal ones. But, but doing that, I've been trying to avoid making different size washers, but I realized I could make these washers of like plus one thou minus one thou and then on tolerance and And that's like so much easier than trying to constrain everything to be perfect.
00:02:54
Curt
So i was like, I'm just going to do that. Like it's cheap enough just to make, I'll make a bushel of all of them and be like, oh, this one doesn't go together. I can drop down in one size and like, oh, it's loose. I can drop up or go up in size.
00:03:04
Curt
And anyway, I wanted to avoid it, but then I realized it's not actually that big a pain in the ass. So it's like, just do it that way.
00:03:09
jamie peacock
if you can't make it perfect make it adjustable
00:03:12
Curt
Totally. And then the way I redesigned it, I made the washers exact same. So I just have to make one style. It's not the end of the world. And I don't know why I was trying to avoid that. Cause I'm like, it's, it's the easier way to do it. So yeah.
00:03:22
jamie peacock
what is your plan for making those washers
00:03:26
Curt
um Just turn them. They're just, they're round. They're nothing fancy. So yeah, they can just be blanked out super quick.
00:03:30
jamie peacock
How thick are they?
00:03:32
Curt
I just, I can design them. So I designed them to be about ah two millimeters. So yeah.
00:03:39
jamie peacock
Oh, okay, so they're nice and thick.
00:03:41
Curt
Yeah, they got a decent amount of meat on them, so I can, yeah.
00:03:43
jamie peacock
Yeah, I was going to say, because parting off a plastic washer that's skinny is not going to be a pleasant experience.
00:03:48
Curt
Yeah, I thought about that, and I was like, you know what? why don't just, like, make the pockets deeper and make them actually sizable, so, yeah.
00:03:53
jamie peacock
Yeah, okay.
00:03:54
Curt
I mean, i could probably even find washers that are already made, but it's, I could make a million of them in, like, an afternoon.
00:03:57
jamie peacock
Yeah, you put a bar just let it run and it'll drop off the machine, finished.
00:04:00
Curt
I'd have enough for a year, so, totally.
00:04:07
Curt
Yeah. So anyways, when I'm done this batch of pens, I'm going to flip back to that, assemble the new version that I drew up in CAD. And I think, I think that'll be it. I think it'll be the one that works.
00:04:15
jamie peacock
Heard this before.
00:04:16
Curt
I think it'll block, dude. It's like, yeah, we'll see.
00:04:19
jamie peacock
No, no, 100%. Okay. Nice.
00:04:22
Curt
We'll see. I think I'm on version 54 now. So yeah, it's, but whatever, it's worth doing overdo it.
00:04:28
jamie peacock
So you've got another 15 versions to go over before production.
00:04:33
Curt
Exactly. I might just save it a bunch of times just to make that happen.
Production Challenges and Holidays
00:04:37
jamie peacock
There we go. Yes.
00:04:41
Curt
So let's see what you got on your list of shit, man. You got a lot of stuff going on.
00:04:45
jamie peacock
Not really.
00:04:45
Curt
ah Let's go with, ah let's hear about your assembling 5,000 parts.
00:04:52
jamie peacock
yeah. Fucking Samo the Marmo pressed 10,000 rivets last week.
00:04:57
jamie peacock
by hand with modified arbor press.
00:04:57
Curt
Wow.
00:04:59
Curt
e Oh, wow. Wow.
00:05:02
jamie peacock
Yeah, now he's doing like 1,300 parts a day. So I'm like, listen, finish 5,000 parts for the week and I'll pay you for all five days. if you don't on Thursday afternoon, just don't come on Friday.
00:05:14
jamie peacock
I'll pay you for Friday.
00:05:15
Curt
Cool.
00:05:16
jamie peacock
Paying you per part.
00:05:16
Curt
Yeah.
00:05:16
jamie peacock
So yeah, he's stoked. But now they broke the press tool that forms the parts. So we currently don't have parts.
00:05:23
Curt
Oh. Oh, shitty.
00:05:25
jamie peacock
But as soon as that's running, they've literally got five tons of material that they are processing.
00:05:25
Curt
Oh.
00:05:32
jamie peacock
So he's going to be busy for the next little while, just assembling things.
00:05:32
Curt
Oh.
00:05:36
jamie peacock
I'm actually setting up a second press now um that's going to be a bit easier for him to run. and then the press that he's been using will go back to the customer. They're going to run in tandem with us to build a buffer because next month, basically everyone's closed for two weeks.
00:05:51
jamie peacock
because of Easter and we all the we've got a bunch of public holidays and then we've got Easter, you can take three days of leave and be off for think it's 10 11 days.
00:05:53
Curt
Oh.
00:06:02
Curt
wow, okay.
00:06:02
jamie peacock
Yeah, because we've got it's Easter. So we got Good Friday, we got Easter Monday, then you take off two or three days that week, then there's another public holiday and another public holiday around the following weekend.
Machining and Assembly Efficiency
00:06:17
Curt
Nice, okay.
00:06:17
jamie peacock
Yeah, we used to do it where i used to work. So we used to work in hours for like the three days we needed to take. And then we would take off 10 days. the whole company would just shut down for 10 days.
00:06:26
Curt
Okay, yeah, it's a way to do it for sure.
00:06:27
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:06:28
Curt
It's nice, but...
00:06:29
jamie peacock
I know definitely. I'm just going to work straight through because, well, I'm a slave driver. But yeah.
00:06:34
Curt
Yeah, that probably means that my little my little people are going to be off as well, so I'll have to figure this out.
00:06:35
jamie peacock
I like working.
00:06:40
Curt
Okay.
00:06:41
jamie peacock
Yeah, Easter's coming up quickly. I think Easter's next weekend.
00:06:44
Curt
Yeah.
00:06:46
jamie peacock
I'm not sure.
00:06:46
Curt
Yes, yeah. I think you're right.
00:06:48
jamie peacock
Yeah, something, something to that effect. I know Eid was this last weekend.
00:06:50
Curt
the The peril... The perils of working in your own world, yeah.
00:06:55
jamie peacock
Yeah, 100%.
00:06:55
Curt
Yeah.
00:06:55
jamie peacock
Like, I was chatting to send to John about it, where he doesn't have to wake up early in the morning and like keep regular hours because he's making, he's just making products and selling online. I'm like, yeah, I got customers who phone me at seven o'clock in the morning to be like, hey, can you come to site?
00:07:10
jamie peacock
We need assistance. So I can't work weird and wonderful hours. I kind of have to keep regular hours. ah job i was yeah I was there today.
00:07:17
Curt
Yeah, fair.
00:07:19
jamie peacock
I went and bought stuff for an electrical panel. I'm building a panel for a press and rewiring the mill and making five counters for them tomorrow.
00:07:30
jamie peacock
All of that is happening tomorrow.
00:07:32
Curt
Oh, exciting.
00:07:33
jamie peacock
yeah Jamie's electrical services.
00:07:35
Curt
No kidding. Yikes.
00:07:37
jamie peacock
I get all sorts of weird and wonderful shit involved there because they'll buy an old press restore it mechanically and then I'll come in and throw a panel on it for them with a built-in counter and a couple other odds and ends that they like to have on their presses and wire it so it's just three phase in put a transformer in the box to step down to 220 for the solenoids and for the counter and yeah I think I've done six of their presses that I've rewired for them
00:08:08
Curt
Oh, wow. Okay.
00:08:08
jamie peacock
Yeah, so like i was there today, he's I need the press. like, cool, how much? He's like, it doesn't matter. It needs to get done. I'm like, nice.
00:08:15
jamie peacock
So then he paid a deposit.
00:08:16
Curt
Sick.
00:08:16
Curt
Yeah.
00:08:17
jamie peacock
I went to the to store that had absolutely nothing in stock. I'm like, ooh, I want rotary switches. And they've got three position. Don't have any two positions in stock.
00:08:28
jamie peacock
Okay, give me three positions. I'll make it work. Okay, I want a single button box. No, we have twos and threes. I'm like, What the fuck? Like, why do you not have stock of anything that I want?
00:08:37
Curt
Yeah.
00:08:39
jamie peacock
So i was a little bit annoyed with them. And it took like an hour and a half to get them to ring everything up. Which was mildly infuriating. But yeah, lots of fun. Jeremy the electrician. um Yeah, again, press operator. yeah And then I was still pressing shit together. assembled diesel sensors today.
00:08:59
jamie peacock
That took me four and half hours to do 250 them.
00:09:00
Curt
ah okay.
00:09:01
jamie peacock
need re-look
00:09:03
jamie peacock
i need to re
00:09:03
Curt
Okay.
00:09:03
Curt
those Are those your your big tubes that you do?
00:09:06
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:09:07
Curt
Okay.
00:09:07
jamie peacock
It's the the shorter tubes, not the three meter long ones, the 800 mil long ones.
00:09:10
Curt
Okay.
00:09:12
jamie peacock
um So I ran off all the bits pieces and then this afternoon I assembled. But it took me way longer than i was expecting. So i need to have a much closer look at my costings on that because it took me like four hours to assemble 250 of them.
00:09:28
jamie peacock
We used to be able to do that in an hour. So I need to figure out what is taking so long. I'm assuming it's that we're now pressing the insert and after the fact, we're also adding a pop rivet.
00:09:40
jamie peacock
So there's a few extra steps, but it shouldn't be that much of an extra step.
00:09:46
Curt
Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:09:47
jamie peacock
Yeah, I was also on my ACE doing 250 assemblies.
00:09:49
Curt
Hmm.
00:09:50
jamie peacock
It was super fun.
00:09:53
Curt
yeah Yeah, that sounds tedious AF, Yeah.
00:09:57
jamie peacock
Eh, it's fine. It pays the bills. I'm willing to tolerate quite a lot of crap to pay the bills.
00:09:59
Curt
Yeah.
Machining Innovations and Challenges
00:10:02
jamie peacock
But yeah, I ran those off on the good way and ah i love the machine.
00:10:07
Curt
yeah
00:10:07
jamie peacock
That's what I did last week. I know, dude. So Bertha, at the peak, we could get 150 parts a day an eight-hour shift. Like, Danica, at the machine for eight hours straight and we could get 150 parts a day.
00:10:22
jamie peacock
If I was running, it was like 90 parts a day because I was always off doing other stuff. On the good way, I did 150 parts in an afternoon.
00:10:31
Curt
Holy poop. That's a lot.
00:10:32
jamie peacock
Yeah, well, I've got an extra thousand RPM. um I'm also feeding at like 0.6 per rev when I'm roughing the parts.
00:10:41
Curt
Oh.
00:10:42
jamie peacock
I've pushed it it basically a little bit past where it should be running, but...
00:10:42
Curt
Okay, so.
00:10:48
jamie peacock
and We ran the parts and parts catcher runs five parts. I go check that the parts catcher is clear. Hit go again. It runs 15 parts per bar. So I can literally go do something else for, think it's about seven eight minutes. And then the machine will stop. I'll go past, check everything's okay. Hit go again and let it continue.
00:11:06
Curt
Nice.
00:11:06
jamie peacock
Because we do have a little bit of a chip breaking issue on the U-Draw.
00:11:07
Curt
Nice.
00:11:10
jamie peacock
It's a bit frustrating. But I can't,
00:11:12
Curt
Okay.
00:11:13
jamie peacock
can't really push it any faster because it's already making one long really thick chip. So if I go any faster, I think it's going to go badly.
00:11:20
Curt
Hmm.
00:11:23
jamie peacock
But it runs, and it runs reliably. So yeah, it was great fun.
00:11:28
Curt
That's awesome. That's awesome.
00:11:29
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:11:30
Curt
Cause so then that's, yeah. Cause you said, you said Bertha was limited to 2000 RPM with the VFD you had in it.
00:11:34
jamie peacock
Yeah, 2,000 rippums.
00:11:35
Curt
Yeah.
00:11:35
jamie peacock
And also the spin-up time was brutal on Bertha.
00:11:36
Curt
Okay.
00:11:39
jamie peacock
Like nine seconds to get to RPM.
00:11:40
Curt
Right. Right.
00:11:41
jamie peacock
This thing's like four seconds were there.
00:11:45
Curt
um Okay. That helps.
00:11:45
jamie peacock
By the time I jog over, I'm at RPM.
00:11:45
Curt
Yeah, for sure.
00:11:47
jamie peacock
um And then after that, I did another diesel sensor, a bigger one with three meter tubes. And I just started messing with settings and just turning it up and up and up. think i ended up at lock 0.45 feet per rev on the roughing and just like absolutely obliterating these 80 diameter chunks of aluminium so that's got to go in the mill tomorrow so that's tomorrow's endeavour it's to finish that off that's the last thing on this order and then the whole order is complete like everything for them for the month is done and I can make sure everything gets invoiced and get paid
00:12:08
Curt
ah Cool.
00:12:22
Curt
Yeah, I guess the end of the month is creeping up, isn't it?
00:12:23
jamie peacock
uh what do you mean creeping it's like and storming in
00:12:24
Curt
Yeah, man. Time flies.
00:12:27
Curt
Oh, I know. Right.
00:12:28
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's not...
00:12:29
Curt
I know it just the fly past.
00:12:31
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, dude, this month has cruised. um Yeah, it's... We got a lot of shit that I need to make sure it's invoiced for them because there's a whole bunch of rework on their diesel sensors that I did.
00:12:44
jamie peacock
On the slow year, I've done two batches of those in the last two weeks. Printed a bunch of stuff for them. There's R&D work I've done, or design work I've done. So I need to go and sit tomorrow and just be like, doti invoice, invoice, invoice.
00:12:57
jamie peacock
It's going to be great.
00:12:59
Curt
exciting yeah
00:13:01
jamie peacock
then I get to hear them complain about my cost on the design of their one enclosure. like, guys, every email costs you, costs for me to open the file again. Like, make a list of changes you want.
00:13:12
Curt
yeah yeah no I'd see I'm seems fair yeah yeah well
00:13:13
jamie peacock
It's not a charity.
00:13:16
jamie peacock
So, yeah. Yeah. That should be a fun conversation. So, don't know. Tell me about the piss I so grew up.
00:13:28
Curt
This pen.
00:13:29
jamie peacock
Yes, this pen.
00:13:29
Curt
So I've like, I've had, I have this other design in CAD for an Alton pen. I want to make an Alton pen just cause it's kind of cool. I also make one. I'll, I also want to make a polycarbonate just so it's totally clear. Um, just cause I think it's cool.
00:13:44
Curt
And once again, mixed it with titanium, I think it would look cool. Um, Oh, okay.
00:13:47
jamie peacock
I have questions about the polycarb one.
00:13:51
Curt
Um, so,
00:13:51
jamie peacock
I want to know how you're going to get it that clear. But anyway.
00:13:55
Curt
uh yeah i mean and and that's a nice thing like ultim is my first test piece because ultim it machines pretty well um but i have found that machining ultim with oil like on the hard inch is it's like the cheat code to everything like i want to do the deep drilling in the ultim um well sorry deep drilling doesn't count because i'm i'm basically just pecking the living shit out of it um which works but like uh
00:13:59
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:14:20
Curt
Oil and Ultem, they behave so well together, but I think oil is the cheat code for everything because I got super clean finishes on the inside of that Ultem tube. Like it's optically about as clear as Ultem is going to get. And then after the reaming, it should be even better.
00:14:36
Curt
But um yeah, I'm like, because a few people ask me they're like, oh, how did you get like, how did you get, you know, such a clean finish? I'm like, I think it's, I think it's literally oil. I think oil makes the difference of about everything.
00:14:45
jamie peacock
so I don't know if you ever put a GoPro into soluble oil so the GoPro's waterproof housing is polycarbonate
00:14:54
Curt
Uh, no, I haven't. No.
00:14:59
Curt
Okay. Uh-oh.
00:15:00
jamie peacock
And you get soluble oil on that and you got about 40 minutes to two hours, somewhere in that range before it literally falls apart.
00:15:03
Curt
Yeah.
00:15:10
Curt
Really?
00:15:11
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:15:12
Curt
Interesting. Okay, we'll i'll have to pick another clear plastic. Okay, I'll have to look into this.
00:15:15
jamie peacock
Well, no, give it a try. I would assume the windows on your machine on the hard-inch are polycarb, but yeah just something to bear in mind.
00:15:20
Curt
Oh, yeah. Yeah, they're all polycarb. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
00:15:22
jamie peacock
Well, they're not all, but yeah, something to bear in mind.
00:15:23
Curt
Yeah.
00:15:25
jamie peacock
Like, I know the GoPros especially, the case would literally just almost shatter, but like, just crack and be fucked and then fall apart.
00:15:35
Curt
Huh. Interesting.
00:15:37
jamie peacock
Yeah, i don't know if it's because it was injection molding internal stresses or what it was, but I know that they react really badly.
00:15:37
Curt
Weird.
00:15:41
Curt
Sure.
00:15:44
jamie peacock
That's why everyone made their own GoPro housings out of aluminum or steel or whatever.
00:15:49
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:15:49
Curt
okay.
00:15:50
Curt
Interesting. That adds up.
00:15:51
jamie peacock
Yes, but I'd be very curious.
00:15:52
Curt
Weird.
00:15:52
jamie peacock
Like, i was i was actually machining, think, acrylic. I don't even know. It was a random piece of clear material. um
00:15:58
Curt
Yeah. Okay, sure,
00:15:59
jamie peacock
So I made these truck trackers I've been making, and a chip got on the taper while I was boring a Nothing on this is precision except the one fucking bore.
00:16:10
jamie peacock
The one bore is a 2.8 or hole, light pipe into
00:16:11
Curt
okay sure yeah
00:16:15
jamie peacock
and i'll press ah polycarboinates lock pop into it And six of them in the middle of the batch, because i'll literally are stacked them as I ran in the middle of the batch, they are three millimeters.
00:16:30
jamie peacock
Same file, same everything. a chip must have gone into the taper.
00:16:33
Curt
Right, yeah, yeah.
00:16:33
jamie peacock
And I had to make custom light pipes this morning quickly.
00:16:38
Curt
Oh, no.
00:16:38
jamie peacock
Yeah, so I ended up just putting a piece of acrylic in the vase.
00:16:38
Curt
ah
00:16:41
jamie peacock
It bode like a mother. Machine nine of these things up, turned the block over, came in with an end mill, and plunged where they were to knock them out the bottom.
00:16:52
Curt
Right, okay, yeah, yeah.
00:16:52
jamie peacock
Because I didn't machine all the way through. And yeah, then pressed them and i was like, this is ridiculous, but whatever. If it's done and it works, it's not done.
00:16:58
Curt
Yeah.
00:16:59
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:17:01
Curt
No, totally. And like, yeah. So anyway, I just had yeah had a ton fun with that. I didn't want to actually machine the Ultim. Like the Ultim pen I have in my CAD file has like way coarser threads and it's a little bit thicker body. Like basically i beefed up a bunch of dimensions because I didn't think it'd be strong enough.
00:17:15
Curt
And I've just never machined it because I don't want to go through the time of like putting up all the CAD for like getting it all perfect and dialed. So I'm like, you know what? I'm like, I have this rod of Ultim. I'm like, I'm just going to throw it in with this batch of titanium and just run all my titanium speeds, feeds, everything on it and just see what happens.
00:17:30
Curt
And i it came out perfect.
00:17:31
jamie peacock
see what happens okay yeah
00:17:32
Curt
And I mean, the threads are fine. They're 40 TPI threads in Ultim, which is like a pretty easy to cross thread. ah But yeah, i'm it so far, everything feels
Equipment Issues and Solutions
00:17:42
Curt
great on it. I don't know if I would sell it with that kind of threading because like if you manhandle the threads, like you're going to goll them up.
00:17:49
Curt
But once it's together, everything seems super happy.
00:17:49
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:17:52
Curt
So anyways, it's just going to be my own pen. So I'm not really concerned, but yeah it's fun.
00:17:55
jamie peacock
Do you do you hit me your threads?
00:17:59
Curt
Of course. Yeah. Yeah.
00:18:00
jamie peacock
Okay, I've never actually messed around with it being threads, but I figured you did.
00:18:05
Curt
Oh yeah. It's yeah. I can Higby the internals. and i IDs and OD threads. Now everything Higby. It's so much nicer.
00:18:09
jamie peacock
Okay.
00:18:11
Curt
it's And it's not hard.
00:18:11
jamie peacock
Oh, no, definitely.
00:18:12
Curt
It's like just clone your threading.
00:18:12
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:18:14
Curt
And now fusion actually supports using a parting tool for threading. So you can just like, i mean, if you do it on a mill, that's even easier, but now you just, yeah.
00:18:18
jamie peacock
Oh, yes. Okay. Yeah.
00:18:20
Curt
Clone your tool path offset a little bit, run only a few threads in and you're done. It's trivial.
00:18:25
jamie peacock
Okay.
00:18:27
jamie peacock
Interesting. It's something on the list of things to play with because I have a threaded assembly I'm going to be working on. So I might just go through the effort of him being it. It just depends if that tool is going to be in the machine or not.
00:18:27
Curt
Yeah.
00:18:41
Curt
Yeah, like it's, that's that's the only annoying bit if you're moving moving tools. But yeah, once you get dialed, like I just literally have threading in Higbee now.
00:18:45
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:18:46
Curt
Like no matter what I do, I always pair them together and then I can just have clean threads right off the machine.
00:18:49
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:18:51
Curt
So, Might have opened it, but i don't think I really did any hard work into it.
00:18:52
jamie peacock
Oh, that actually reminds me speaking of fusion. um Did you use fusion over the weekend?
00:19:04
Curt
like come Oh, the update?
00:19:04
jamie peacock
Un-un-usable and that's a compliment to it.
Repairing and Troubleshooting Equipment
00:19:10
Curt
Really?
00:19:10
jamie peacock
Calling it unusable. it It just keeps fucking up. Like it keeps, um it's almost like windows are stealing focus. And then i literally have to go and click and on the thing in the taskbar to try and get it to minimize.
00:19:24
jamie peacock
And then when it comes back, then I can click on stuff again.
00:19:28
Curt
Hmm.
00:19:28
jamie peacock
Yeah, so I'm not sure because Toolpath also had an update.
00:19:29
Curt
Interesting.
00:19:31
jamie peacock
I'm not sure if the two of them are not playing nicely. But I disabled my Toolpath extension because I thought that's because the first time it happened was with the Toolpath thing that I was doing. So I then disabled Toolpath and it was still being flaky as hell today.
00:19:46
jamie peacock
Or yesterday.
00:19:46
Curt
Hmm. Interesting.
00:19:47
jamie peacock
Yeah, like frustrating as all hell.
00:19:52
Curt
Huh.
00:19:53
jamie peacock
So not exactly sure what's what's happened there.
00:19:54
Curt
I haven't.
00:19:56
jamie peacock
But yeah, thought I would just ah mention that they took the Microsoft approach and made it worse.
00:20:04
Curt
Yeah, it's, yeah. Yeah.
00:20:05
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, it was like swear words flying in my workshop because I was trying to do something and then end up spending half an hour trying to post code. actually had to redraw a part because i eventually just killed it from taskbar because I couldn't do anything.
00:20:22
Curt
Yeah, mine's showing that I need to update.
00:20:22
jamie peacock
Oh,
00:20:24
Curt
I have 25 more days until Fusion must update to the most current version.
00:20:26
jamie peacock
Yeah, don't. Yeah, don't.
00:20:28
Curt
All right, well, I won't.
00:20:30
jamie peacock
Wait a few days.
00:20:32
Curt
Okay. Interesting.
00:20:33
jamie peacock
I'll let you know when when they've updated again and hopefully the problem has gone away.
00:20:38
Curt
ah All right.
00:20:39
jamie peacock
Because, yeah, it is very, very infuriating.
00:20:40
Curt
Weird.
00:20:44
Curt
Hmm. Well, I guess that's the price you pay for, i don't know, software.
00:20:50
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:20:52
jamie peacock
I guess that's the price you pay for the software you pay for.
00:20:52
Curt
Yeah.
00:20:55
Curt
Right? Yeah. Like, it' kind of...
00:20:56
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:20:59
Curt
I kind of miss the old days of a software on a disk, and I put it in and off I go.
00:20:59
jamie peacock
Very.
00:21:03
jamie peacock
Yep. And you had all the problems that had and those were the only problems you had.
00:21:05
Curt
But
00:21:08
Curt
yeah. But then again, I also do like the updating. It's a double-edged sword for sure.
00:21:12
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, definitely. Stephen did double edged sword. um
00:21:15
Curt
I'd probably still take the CDs, but whatever.
00:21:18
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, I drew.
00:21:19
Curt
Ooh.
00:21:20
jamie peacock
So I made a T slot riser for the mechanical anchor points in my machine. So I can have five anchor points on the table. And I had to go back and redraw it because I had to kill fusion.
00:21:33
Curt
Okay.
00:21:33
jamie peacock
Yeah, like it was a little bit annoying and like getting that, like I went back, I wanted to make a change to the um the thread offset, the thread diamonds offset because I was dialing in the M8 threads and it would literally take me five minutes to post out an altered um operation.
00:21:54
jamie peacock
It was absolutely infuriating trying to trying to use Fusion yesterday afternoon, like on Sunday afternoon.
00:22:03
Curt
well
00:22:04
jamie peacock
yeah i don't know did i post that i don't know yes i did put in my stories um the the riser i made i kind of went to town engraving it because i could you know fiber laser don't worry it's on its way there
00:22:04
Curt
Bummer.
00:22:19
Curt
I think I missed. Yeah, that helps. Oh, you're sending to be sick. Sick.
00:22:28
jamie peacock
go sending it to you on instagram um Yeah, I need to just machine the surface of it now because it wasn't perfectly coplanar off of the vase.
00:22:38
jamie peacock
white of the device So it's going to bolt down and I'm just going to skim the surface to make it nice and coplanar.
00:22:44
Curt
Okay.
00:22:46
jamie peacock
And dial in the fit of the little studs.
00:22:46
Curt
Okay.
00:22:50
Curt
Don't mind me. Ooh, Jamie sent me picture. It's a big block of aluminum with a whole wackadoo of text on the front. That looks nice too. That looks really good.
00:22:57
jamie peacock
Yep. Fiber laser.
00:23:00
Curt
Yeah, that looks good on aluminum. Nice and black.
00:23:02
jamie peacock
Yeah, that's my settings for the keel clamps.
00:23:03
Curt
Yeah.
00:23:06
Curt
yeah, that looks great. That looks awesome.
00:23:07
jamie peacock
Yeah, so I've got to just probe that tomorrow morning, warm the machine up, probe it, machine the top, and then I've got a mechanical anchor point next to my four pneumatic anchor points.
00:23:16
Curt
Sick. Nice.
00:23:17
jamie peacock
Because then I can drop my three-jaw chuck into the mechanical and have it hold really tight when I go to town on a part that I think the whole stack up's like 200 millimeters. It's a little bit stupid.
00:23:31
Curt
Oh, okay. Okay.
00:23:32
jamie peacock
Yeah, like it gets really far from the interface on the anchor points. So if you go too hard in the pneumatics, it actually lifts a little bit because it's in a single pneumatic.
00:23:43
Curt
Oh, fair. Okay. Yeah, that makes sense.
00:23:44
jamie peacock
Yeah. And then this mechanical anchor point, in theory, can stay in the machine. it won't affect any of the pallets, but I think it's going interfere with the fourth axis. So then unbolt it. I leave the riser in place, and then I can use the mechanical on the fourth axis.
00:24:03
Curt
Okay, yeah, that adds up. That adds up.
00:24:04
jamie peacock
Yeah, yeah, because I'm running out of table space.
00:24:09
Curt
Fair. Fair, fair.
00:24:10
jamie peacock
wouldn't Wouldn't have thought so, but I am.
00:24:11
Curt
Which is insane.
00:24:12
jamie peacock
Like on a 710 machine, I'm running out of table space.
00:24:13
Curt
yeah No kidding, how big...
00:24:18
Curt
um Oh, and speaking of fusion, a lovely gentleman that I believe listens to the pod, I mean, obviously would listen to the podcast because I was talking about the issues of spiral facing and fusion not supporting that.
00:24:20
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:24:27
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:24:29
Curt
So he said ah ah cool trick is to to trick a 3D spiral face into a facing path is use a patch surface and then I'm assuming use the three d spiral face.
00:24:39
Curt
um toolpath, which is, you know, model aware, but off a patch surface. I'm like, oh yeah, i never thought about just doing, like just creating a patch surface off that. So yeah, thank you. That was from Venture Machine. So yeah, I appreciate it.
00:24:50
jamie peacock
yeah the patch Yeah, the patch surface things are really powerful technique.
00:24:50
Curt
That's actually a cool method.
00:24:51
Curt
I think I'm going try it
00:24:57
Curt
it. I like mess with it so infrequently, like the patching, that whole workspace of just like basically mesh modeling.
00:25:01
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:25:03
Curt
I don't really mess with it and I should because there's a lot of power in there.
00:25:08
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, super powerful for surfacing. When you want to make sure it only, like it ignores certain things, you patch the surface.
00:25:16
Curt
Yeah.
00:25:16
jamie peacock
And it gives a much cleaner toolpath as well because it's now not seeing those divots and shit that you're trying to ignore.
00:25:17
Curt
So.
00:25:24
Curt
Yeah, that's, I forgot where I heard. I think I heard that on a bomb podcast or something like out of like how the CAD, like how it tessellates everything before it actually runs a machine.
00:25:28
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:25:32
Curt
Like I thought it was machining off the saw, but no, it's machining off essentially like ah a mesh model.
00:25:34
jamie peacock
New.
00:25:36
jamie peacock
Yeah, an STL.
00:25:36
Curt
So it's like, oh,
00:25:38
Curt
Yeah, so i was always like, because patch seemed stupid for me, but I'm like well, it's already actually working off patch geometry when you think about it. So i'm like, okay, may as well make it exactly how you want it.
00:25:43
jamie peacock
yeah have you have you ever saved out your finished stock like if you do a simulation you can save out your machine stock as stl it's really cool go away sorry guys there we go sorry i forgot to mute my phone um
00:25:52
Curt
I have not, no.
00:25:55
Curt
Yes. I haven't played with that, but... Ooh. Hollywood.
00:26:09
jamie peacock
it on vibrate one of my customers is trying to phone me i wonder what he is after i don't know if he's outside because my camera's not working um yeah it is but he phones anytime um i think he's gonna come past tomorrow i've got 30 kilograms of wire for him that i made into little pieces of wire over the weekend turns out lube helps a lot
00:26:14
Curt
sorry so It's already late time there. Oh, right on. That's good.
00:26:31
Curt
Oh, with your chop-o-matic.
00:26:35
Curt
Yeah, so I've heard.
00:26:37
jamie peacock
So I kept the, I kept the, the Chopper Matron very well lubricated. Like every 20 or 30 minutes, I'll just go bust and squirt it with some lube. And it ran 30 kilograms of wire nonstop with no issues.
00:26:53
Curt
Wow, that's a lot of wire.
00:26:55
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:26:55
Curt
Yeah.
00:26:56
jamie peacock
It's a shitload of wire. But yeah, that was Sunday, that I did on Sunday. Ran that and then What else? Yeah. Machined a bunch of stuff on the Slowio on Sunday while that was running.
00:27:09
jamie peacock
Yeah,
00:27:12
Curt
Hmm. Wow.
00:27:13
jamie peacock
it was great fun.
00:27:13
Curt
That's cool.
00:27:14
jamie peacock
Yeah, so what what custom springs are you making, Kurt?
00:27:15
Curt
um
00:27:18
Curt
ah So once again, for the fidget, I've been using spring stock because I couldn't buy the springs that I wanted. um Well, I couldn't buy them in a reasonable timeframe just from McMaster.
00:27:29
jamie peacock
Okay.
00:27:30
Curt
Excuse me. And while I've been prototyping this, I've been kind of tweaking the length. so I'm like, you know what? I'll just buy a spring stock. I know the diameter I need, um but I don't know the length. um So just bought spring stock, which is annoying because when you cut it, like you're always left with cut ends on a spring and it just, Jamie's sending me secret messages and I can't see.
00:27:43
jamie peacock
yeah yes you've been still for like a month of sundays sure we're so good at this production quality thing
00:27:46
Curt
Cycle my camera. Oh.
00:27:51
Curt
Oh, weird. Yes. Okay. Hold up. um I will just try this and then I will try this again. I'll see if that helps at all. I don't know.
00:28:03
jamie peacock
nope still frozen there we go turn it back on technical difficulties
00:28:04
Curt
Cycle it. Nope.
00:28:07
Curt
Oh, now it's oh it's technically on. Don't worry about this, folks. We'll edit this out in post.
00:28:12
jamie peacock
yeah No, we won't.
00:28:14
Curt
I know we won't.
00:28:15
jamie peacock
We definitely won't.
00:28:15
Curt
I know we won't.
00:28:17
jamie peacock
You've
00:28:18
Curt
Oh, now I have no camera.
00:28:20
jamie peacock
got to turn it back on in Zen Costa.
00:28:20
Curt
Pinteresting.
00:28:23
Curt
Oh, okay. Don't mind me, folks. um You know what? I'm going to finish my thought, then I'm going fuck with that. um
00:28:28
jamie peacock
Yeah, that's all.
00:28:30
Curt
So... Whoa, lost my area here. There we go. Oh, yeah, Custom Springs. So um I've been using...
00:28:34
jamie peacock
You're making springs, yes.
00:28:36
Curt
Yeah, I've been using just raw stock, which is fine, but you get cut ends, and they're just... They don't... They don't sit nicely in a pocket and they they can't to the one side.
00:28:40
jamie peacock
Yep.
00:28:43
Curt
So they're rubbing on one side. So I'm not getting the actual feel that I want it to be. um So I reached out to my spring manufacturer that does the springs for my current pen, which are like, once again, a stone's throw away from me. And I was like, I'm going back.
00:28:52
jamie peacock
was going to say they're the baseball ones.
00:28:55
Curt
Yeah, totally. I'm like, hey, how small of a spring can you guys make? Because these are like ah two millimeter diameter, about three millimeters long um and a pretty fine a wire size.
00:29:07
Curt
Like, how small can you go?
00:29:07
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:29:08
Curt
So I said them in the the rough specs. And they're like, oh, yeah, that's no issue for us. I was like, oh, sick. Cool. Okay. um So i' just got to buy like a thousand of them at time, which usually isn't all that expensive.
00:29:16
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah.
00:29:18
Curt
But I have another company that I can work with that sells me singles, but they're just heinously expensive. So anyways, I'll buy a bunch of singles to test it. And then once they work, I'll get them to manufacture me the ones. But yeah, it's just like, I don't know. It's just nice to be able to like have these like suppliers in place where it's like, I want to make some, cause i'm like, ah I'm like, part of it is like, I don't want to cut a million springs for these.
00:29:39
Curt
And I'm trying to figure out ways to balance them. Right. i'm like, why don't I just get a maid? And i'm like Oh yeah, I, I guess I can do that now since I get everything else like that I want done that way. So yeah, it's just, just nice.
00:29:48
jamie peacock
yeah what i'm hearing is you should buy a spring making machine or i have never yeah
00:29:50
Curt
It'd be sweet to have honestly. Um, but yeah, they charged me like nothing. Yeah, I say that. I think they'll charge me like ah maybe a penny a spring.
00:30:03
Curt
So it's like not real.
00:30:05
jamie peacock
yeah
00:30:06
Curt
Oh, sorry. pray No, probably about like maybe 10 cents a spring or it's just not worth it for me.
00:30:10
jamie peacock
even still or i or i have never
00:30:11
Curt
Yeah. Never. Yeah, never. You can charge me a buck a spring and the r ah ROI would still be never.
00:30:20
Curt
Yeah. So anyway, i just lovely to have. So yeah, get a bunch of those and then, uh,
00:30:25
jamie peacock
and that's ah assuming assume for the details yeah
00:30:29
Curt
That's for the spring detents, yeah. And then I'll be able to hopefully get it all put together and not want to kill myself every time I do it. So, yeah, that's the goal, right?
00:30:37
jamie peacock
nice that's yeah not wanting kill yourself when you make your own product yes definitely that is the goal
00:30:40
Curt
So,
00:30:44
Curt
yeah. Speaking of stuff, breaking your resin printer.
00:30:50
jamie peacock
ass um that was majestic as fuck but i'm gonna say we'll come back to that after we uh thank our train enthusiasts before we get too late in the podcast uh we have patreons choo choo the patreons to make the wheels on the train go round and round uh all the patreons get access to the after show where kurt and i discuss things not project ale mary this week although maybe um
00:30:51
Curt
Tell me about that. You like that transition? That was pretty good.
00:30:58
Curt
Okay. Ooh.
00:31:20
jamie peacock
But yeah, they get access to that as well as Q&As and things and other stuff. yeah There's a list of things. I just don't have said list. But the top tier Patreons all get a shout out every week.
00:31:31
jamie peacock
And those include Luke luke from Fabtastic, Jade from Benchmark20,
00:31:38
jamie peacock
a AJ from Subtract Manufacturing and 36 other companies. Jason S, EJ from Nocturnal Welding, The Aussie Machinist, Christian Olson, Charles Watt, Kyle from Kirst Machine, Matt from Offworld Gear, Alex B, and John from 2SM Performance and Engine Tricks.
00:31:53
jamie peacock
Thank you, Patreons. You make the wheels on the train go round and round. Ah, Kurt's back. And yeah, that's all going towards getting us to IMTS to go have a fat jaw.
00:32:00
Curt
ah
00:32:04
jamie peacock
And yeah, I'm quite excited for IMTS later in the year. assuming the world still exists but yes anyway back to my my resin printing so you know the lovely lcd on a resin printer
00:32:11
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:32:15
Curt
Yes.
00:32:19
Curt
ah Wait, the one that actually does the work or the one that displays the information to you?
00:32:22
jamie peacock
the one that actually does the work you know it happens when you print something for somebody because they ask you nicely it falls off the fucking plate and gets smashed into the lcd and cracks the lcd
00:32:24
Curt
Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.
00:32:30
Curt
Oh no, what happened?
00:32:36
Curt
Oh no.
00:32:39
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:32:39
Curt
Bummer.
00:32:39
jamie peacock
So I don't know. This Creality Resin I've got, I built my profile according to the the specs. It would not stick to its supports. The parts kept falling off the supports. So I upped the exposure time by 0.2 of a second, and now it works fine.
00:32:55
jamie peacock
But yeah, this so I ruined the FEP. I ruined the LCD. I ruined another FEP, and then I replaced it again, and now it's all working. It cost me more to print the job that went out today than I invoiced for the job, just in spares. Because the LCD was wasn't brutally expensive, but it was like, that's millimeters.
00:33:20
jamie peacock
It was $122 for a new LCD.
00:33:25
Curt
Yeah, fair.
00:33:25
jamie peacock
And then another $30 for two febs. One got fucked up pretty quickly. Because for some reason, the slicer would slice the pot and had some random bit up here.
00:33:38
jamie peacock
And I only caught that on the third print. I'm like, that's weird. So I was having to do vac cleaning every time to prevent there being little bits stuck in the on the FEP and then causing it to break the FEP.
00:33:45
Curt
Oh,
00:33:50
jamie peacock
So yeah, resin printing this week has been a challenge. But I managed to get my 10 parts I needed done and they've picked them up today and they're happy. So, yeah.
00:33:59
Curt
that's good.
00:34:00
jamie peacock
Yeah, resin printing. I need to now print a giant Deadpool for...
00:34:02
Curt
ah
00:34:04
jamie peacock
The thing that broke my printer was printing the Deadpool. um That's a Deadpool bust for a birthday cake at my cousin's wedding. Because the groom's friend, it's his birthday on the day, so he's getting his own cake.
00:34:17
jamie peacock
And since my wife is making all the cakes, she's making him a Deadpool cake.
00:34:22
Curt
Okay, so it's it's even worse because it's not like it got broke and doing high-value job or like...
00:34:28
jamie peacock
Yeah, useful shit.
00:34:29
Curt
Yeah, yeah,
00:34:29
jamie peacock
No, it got to doing something for the wife. Fucking something stupid for the wife. But yeah, anyway, it fucking is what it is. At least it's fixed. Like, and this is the week after my other one left.
00:34:42
jamie peacock
Because I had two of them.
00:34:44
Curt
right yeah.
00:34:44
jamie peacock
So I phoned my mates.
00:34:44
Curt
Yeah.
00:34:44
jamie peacock
i like, hey, dude, remember that printer? um
00:34:48
Curt
this isn
00:34:49
jamie peacock
But yeah, still, like, after buying new screen, I'm still cash positive after selling the first printer. So it's fine.
00:34:57
Curt
All right.
00:34:58
jamie peacock
no not the end of the world but yeah fucking frustrating not very difficult to change the the screen on that thing took me like 10 minutes yeah like super super simple new they now sell spares and the spare was only a third the cost of the printer
00:35:05
Curt
Oh, that's nice. That's good. Oh, that's awesome. Yeah. I just assume you just garbage the printer. So.
00:35:15
Curt
Sick. That's cool.
00:35:20
Curt
Okay. So yeah, it's yeah. Reasonable ish. Yeah.
00:35:22
jamie peacock
Yeah, my friend had a Creality, one of the original ones, and the screen cost more than the printer when he broke his screen. They wanted more than he had paid for the printer.
00:35:31
Curt
Yeah. That's when I, when I was buying my printer, that's why I went with like a, a whatever DLP is.
00:35:35
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:35:38
Curt
Cause I was like, the LCDs are the same price as a printer. So I'm like, well, what's the point? Not that I'm even remotely close to what like a masked LCD has for life, but besides the point,
00:35:50
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, it's yeah. don't know if I can printers. I hate them still need to give myself a bamboo printer to go up here, but that's a problem for another day. I have a new design for a cover for my anchor points, the magnetic cover because magnets in a machine of the best.
00:36:03
jamie peacock
Um,
00:36:04
Curt
Great idea, yeah.
00:36:05
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, no, the reason being is the magnets will pull it against the O-ring so you won't get ingress of shit when the machine's running.
00:36:05
Curt
okay
00:36:11
Curt
OK.
00:36:12
jamie peacock
But when you unclamp bypasses, it will just up the O-ring and then as soon as there's no air going past, it'll seal again. So in this case, magnets do make a little bit of sense.
00:36:22
Curt
OK.
00:36:26
Curt
Magnets wouldn't be bad as long as like it's a...
00:36:27
jamie peacock
And they'll be... Yeah.
00:36:29
Curt
Yeah, if they're under... Like if you can just clear them off, it's not so bad then. It's just when they're like... They're in a pocket or something stupid where it's just like... It's heinous.
00:36:36
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, I'm not that savage. But unfortunately, the beefcake doesn't pause during prints. Something in the firmware it doesn't let me do that. So kind of need to buy a new printer to be able to do that.
00:36:47
jamie peacock
Because I'd like to actually print the magnets into the plastic piece.
00:36:52
jamie peacock
So that there is there is no way. It's all smooth all around.
00:36:53
Curt
Oh, that's what I...
00:36:59
Curt
Fair, yeah, yeah, yeah, cool.
00:37:00
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:37:02
jamie peacock
Okay, now i want to know about your lens because I know you have that lens in pieces.
00:37:08
Curt
Yeah, so like I once again, I'm like kind of hard into just photography and videography right now and just constantly scouring marketplace and eBay for dumb things. um So I came across a local post of a lens that I didn't really want, but the price, it's like $600 lens and I got it for 60 bucks.
00:37:28
Curt
because it was broken. And the gentleman that was selling it knew it was broken. And he had bought it at a really reduced price because he had the same intentions of fixing it. So i'm like, ooh, now this is extra scary because someone broke it then sold it somebody else who thought they could fix it. So I'm looking at the screws really closely to be like, if he was in there, this gets infinitely more difficult because like if someone else...
00:37:49
Curt
refucked something that's already fucked it's like it gets so much harder to fix so it looked like he didn't touch the screws it looked like no one's been into it so i'm like okay i have a chance um so and i talked to him he's like i sat on the shelf he's like i meant to fix it if you can fix it he's like then you get a ah lens so When I picked it up from him, ah little a little socially awkward little dude.
00:38:09
Curt
um But he was selling, like when he was giving it to me, like I i gave the money and then he's handed the lens over to me. He was like looking at me like like i was in the like discover something and then hit him with a bat. And I was like, what he what are you so cagey for?
00:38:22
Curt
So I just chalked it up to him being socially weird. And then I got it home and I took it all apart.
00:38:25
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah. It's tiny.
00:38:26
Curt
And then ah one of the ribbon cables inside, it which is like these, there's like 20 conductors and the ribbon cable is maybe five millimeters wide. So like that they're like thinner than hairs and the ribbon cables is torn completely in half. And I'm like, I bet you he knew this and was just like, this guy has no fucking chance of fixing it. and Hopefully he doesn't figure it out and hit me with a bat or something. I don't know. yeah.
00:38:47
Curt
Anyways, I'm like, oh, and I'm like, that's going to be rough. I'm like, i don't think I can hand solder that. Like, that's even under magnifier. Like, I went to school for electronics, folks, by the way. Like, this is my background. And I was like, there's no way. Like, this is this is not this is beyond, like, SOIC kind of work.
00:39:01
Curt
ah so So I just, I jumped on ah YouTube and looked up that lens. And there's a whole teardown for it. So I'm like oh, that's awesome. And then I jumped on AliExpress and looked up that lens. And you can buy that whole ribbon cable assembly.
00:39:14
Curt
So I'm like, sick.
00:39:14
jamie peacock
nice. Yeah.
00:39:15
Curt
So yeah, i bought the whole assembly for 20 bucks. um Should be here in the next few days, actually. And then totally the entire lens apart everywhere else and nothing else seems to be messed. I can hear the like focus motors running and everything. So yeah. ah So i think if I just replace that ribbon cable, I will have a, it's an F4 constant aperture power zoom lens from 18 100
00:39:37
Curt
seven or something like that Sony lens with optical image stabilization. So it's like, it's an expensive lens. Um, and I'll, I'll have it working for a hundred bucks plus, you know, so far about an hour of my time. So I enjoy it.
00:39:47
Curt
kind of fun. We'll see if it goes. but So maybe next week I'll have an update, but. Frickin' amazing what they cram into those little, adult like, the optical image. Yeah, like, the image stabilizer is a lens on, like, a little XY stage driven by big coils that are in, magnet like, between magnet sandwiches.
00:40:06
Curt
So by varying the frequency, I'm assuming, of the coils, they can drive the little stage around at, like, incredibly fast speeds to, you know, stabilize.
00:40:10
jamie peacock
yep
00:40:13
Curt
And, like, then they got little, ah like, ah gyroscopes on the back to compensate. Like, really cool shit.
00:40:19
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's impressive what they can shove into a little space these days.
00:40:19
Curt
So, yeah.
00:40:22
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:40:22
Curt
And for the price, like I said, this is like a $600 lens and you look at it, you're like, there's a ton of shit in here. Like big chunks of glass and like, yeah, it's impressive.
00:40:28
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:40:32
jamie peacock
What was it?
00:40:35
jamie peacock
I was listening to the PFG today. And Spencer was like, Yeah, he would love to go back to like 80s himself. And like, look at this internet thing we have, because he was he's got a Starlink setup that like, literally 100 megabits per second, or sorry 1000 megabits per second while you're driving.
00:40:47
Curt
Right.
00:40:55
Curt
Right.
00:40:55
jamie peacock
Like, it's insane.
00:40:55
Curt
Yeah. Insane.
00:40:56
jamie peacock
Like the level of technology we have these days is insane. And we use it to watch cat videos.
00:41:00
Curt
Yeah.
00:41:01
jamie peacock
It's the best.
00:41:03
Curt
it's Right. Like I know we got.
00:41:04
jamie peacock
Do scrolling cat videos.
00:41:06
Curt
Yeah. People don't understand like the processing power in their phone.
00:41:08
jamie peacock
yeah oh it's insane yeah no dude like this magic rectangle is insane yeah when you understand what's in it like and yeah it's just magic straight up magic even go back to the 80s with a cell phone and it's magic even the 90s it's still freaking magic um yeah like insane oh speaking of camera things i was trying to film stuff this week
00:41:09
Curt
Like what you can actually do with it. It's ridiculous. Yeah.
00:41:16
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:41:24
Curt
Mm hmm.
00:41:27
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:41:30
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:41:35
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:41:38
Curt
Okay.
00:41:38
jamie peacock
you the video I put on YouTube.
00:41:42
Curt
The anchor, how did you see anchor point one
00:41:44
jamie peacock
Yeah, just palette swapping all the different flavors of palettes that i had.
00:41:47
Curt
Yeah.
00:41:47
jamie peacock
Yeah, do you know how many times I try to film that?
00:41:48
Curt
Yeah, I watched that one. yeah
00:41:52
Curt
How many?
00:41:53
jamie peacock
My stupid big camera cannot give me video that isn't grainy.
00:41:55
Curt
Yeah.
00:41:57
jamie peacock
In fact, with every setting, i actually bought a filming light now.
00:41:58
Curt
Oh, OK, OK. Yeah,
00:42:02
jamie peacock
um Like a big, like half-meter panel, which...
00:42:03
Curt
yeah.
00:42:05
Curt
Yeah.
00:42:07
jamie peacock
I want to convert to runoff battery. Right now it plugs into the wall and it's got a clear thing to change the color temperature and whatnot. I'm thinking two fucking knobs with two variable power supplies to set the thing.
00:42:19
jamie peacock
Shove a drill battery on the back and it's portable.
00:42:22
Curt
Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:42:25
jamie peacock
But I know I need to get a specific frequency... Dimmer so that it or voltage regulator so that it doesn't uh strobe I know Winston Moy did a video about this many years ago need just go watch that because he had a recommended uh LED driver to use but yeah I think I might just reconjigger it to use my drill batteries so that I don't have to run an extension cord to run the fucking thing because that's going to get old very very quickly
00:42:39
Curt
Oh, yeah.
00:42:52
Curt
Yeah, no fair, yeah.
00:42:53
jamie peacock
But yeah, that video I shot at like four or five times. Eventually I ended up shooting it on my cell phone. I got better video out of my cell phone than I was getting out of my camera.
00:42:59
Curt
Yep.
00:43:01
jamie peacock
Put the phone in the gimbal, put it pointing where I wanted, did all the fucking stuff, chopped it all up, and there we go, video done.
00:43:08
Curt
Yeah.
00:43:09
jamie peacock
And yeah, just shows all ah all the different flavors of palettes that I have.
00:43:13
Curt
Yeah, I liked it. I liked you'd seen like you got that big tall one and you need little short ones and that was cool. Yeah. Then you had your giant vice one.
00:43:19
jamie peacock
And yeah, the the vacuum chuck one.
00:43:20
Curt
con
00:43:21
jamie peacock
Yeah, the vase one lives in there, honestly, most times, because a lot of times it just use a vase, and I can drop it in and out. But the vacuum chuck one, got some questions in the Taps and Patients Discord. I was in there earlier discussing vacuum workholding.
00:43:36
jamie peacock
And the parts department this week, know if you listened to them. It's Justin from PDX and...
00:43:41
Curt
I do not know.
00:43:44
jamie peacock
Gem from LikeButter. They've got the pencil shop. It's fucking great. LikeButter. They make threaded dials. It's fucking awesome. Anyway, they were discussing vacuum workholding.
00:43:56
jamie peacock
And think it was them. Oh, I'm being confused. Anyway, it doesn't matter. Venturi's are fucking great. The only problem with the Venturi, if you're running vacuum all day every day, you're literally spending $1,000 a year on compressed air.
00:44:10
jamie peacock
on compressed day
00:44:14
Curt
Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:44:15
jamie peacock
it consumes air. But the nice thing with that is when it consumes, when it sucks coolant and it just spits it out the butt. Whereas if you use a vacuum pump, which I think my vacuum pump's like a $100 vacuum pump, you've got to put a catch wind chamber to catch your coolant. Otherwise, it goes through to the pump and the pump doesn't really like that too much.
00:44:35
Curt
Yeah, yeah, fair.
00:44:36
jamie peacock
But you can be into vacuum workholding for like a couple hundred dollars. You've just got to have a thing to catch coolant. And what i've also learned is the vacuum pump if it's not pulling a really hard vacuum, it sprays oil everywhere.
00:44:52
Curt
Oh, okay.
00:44:52
jamie peacock
So if you, if you pulling like, say, 15 inches of mercury, it sprays fucking oil all of your workshop. But if you're pulling like 26 around, like right up, then it doesn't actually aspirate as much oil.
00:45:07
Curt
Hmm. Okay.
00:45:07
jamie peacock
I know this because if the power went out to last week, Sunday, and I came back in oil mist because it hadn't pulled a full vacuum.
00:45:11
Curt
Right. Yeah.
00:45:15
jamie peacock
So that's, you because that's thing, like, you're running a little vacuum pump, it is putting oil into the air.
00:45:16
Curt
ah Okay.
00:45:21
jamie peacock
It is aspirating oil, but it's not that much if it's pulling a really hard vacuum.
00:45:27
Curt
Right. Yeah. That makes sense.
00:45:27
jamie peacock
But yeah, I really, I really like vacuum workholding.
00:45:28
Curt
Yeah.
00:45:30
jamie peacock
It's lots of fun.
00:45:33
Curt
I need to mess with it more because, yeah, it's it would be useful for certain certain things for sure.
00:45:36
jamie peacock
Yeah, so last week I did some HTPE plates. Threw them on the vacuum chuck, left half a mil on the bottom, took my trim router, just round the parts when I was done. knocked out a bunch of trays quickly for a customer, which I'll need to invoice them for tomorrow, out of material I had laying around, but holding a nice big piece of material, you can absolutely wail on it and it's going nowhere. Like all my big pallets I did for that for those rings, the op one on that was done on the vacuum chuck.
00:46:06
jamie peacock
It's got more than enough surface area that you can absolutely wail on it and it's going nowhere unless you disappear a tool into it. Then it moves.
00:46:16
jamie peacock
I know this. That's why I have a demo ring in my workshop, because it moved when I accidentally tried to mill hole below the part.
00:46:25
Curt
Yeah. Yeah, I would do it. Yeah. Oh, no.
00:46:27
jamie peacock
And it slammed my six mills straight into it. It was not pleasant.
00:46:32
jamie peacock
But yeah, vacuum workholding really not that fucking complicated. Someone sent me a thing. They used a keg as their coolant accumulator.
00:46:32
Curt
no
00:46:41
Curt
Oh, yeah. like it's Yeah, that would work. They can hold pressure, so they can hold vacuum.
00:46:43
jamie peacock
Yeah, why not? You've got plenty of capacity.
00:46:45
Curt
Yeah.
00:46:46
jamie peacock
Actually, I've got some acrylic tube.
00:46:47
Curt
Yeah.
00:46:47
jamie peacock
I want to make ah an nice long reservoir, acrylic tube, and then a set of valves on the top to bypass.
00:46:51
Curt
Yeah.
00:46:53
jamie peacock
So you can open a valve that'll link the two sides, and then you can close off the reservoir and drain it while still holding a vacuum for if you do have a leaky job, because some some days the job's just fucking weak.
00:47:00
Curt
Right.
00:47:07
Curt
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:47:08
jamie peacock
Yeah, so want to have options be able to drain the coolant out mid-cycle.
00:47:09
Curt
Yeah, fair.
00:47:15
Curt
Yeah.
00:47:15
jamie peacock
So what are these blueprints you speak of?
00:47:15
Curt
Yeah. like Vacuum's cool.
00:47:20
Curt
Okay, dude, I think you have the same problem with i that I do um is anytime I find something that I remotely am interested in, my brain immediately flips to how can I monetize it? Like, how can I make money? It's not that I'm like, not that I want to make money off of everything. But for some reason, it excites me when I know that I can like, sell something. And I i don't know why my brain does this. But I do it with like any hobby I get into, I immediately start going to the thing of like, how can I turn this into a job? And it's like, why do I do that with everything? So ah
00:47:51
Curt
I came across this cool... ah you might have Maybe you saw it. ah It was like a... I think it was on... or TikTok or Instagram or Facebook or I don't know, whatever these kids post on nowadays, um where this guy was taking blue construction paper and running it through like ah like a Cricut plotter and drawing up blueprints.
00:48:08
Curt
um Just like you just download blueprints from the internet and then plot them so you can hang them up in his workshop and cool decoration. um So I've wanted to do that forever with ah like some of my designs, like especially this mechanism because it is so freaking complicated on the inside.
00:48:22
Curt
I want to do some really nice blue and like not blueprints to like Not like a blueprint that you would machine off of, a blueprint that just looks cool. Like, blow aparts and like
00:48:30
jamie peacock
yeah it's uh
00:48:34
jamie peacock
what's it there's a word for it now can't remember the word but i yeah it's like a technical drawing of it yeah
00:48:39
Curt
Yeah, like technical drawing is probably... Yeah, exactly. And just you lay out things, like just make it look visually interesting. i Just you have a really cool poster. So I want to make some of these just for my own shop.
00:48:50
Curt
And I was like, well, you know, i'm like, I bet you people would be into this. Like if they were reasonably priced and they would be. um So anyways, I started looking at like, okay, I'm like, I'll buy like a plotter. So I mean, from when I was talking about stickers, like months and months ago, I looked up like some of the best, the highest accuracy plotters.
00:49:03
jamie peacock
yeah
00:49:06
Curt
um So yeah. Yeah, all of sudden those are all in my cart again. and I'm like, pardon?
00:49:10
jamie peacock
Preparatory research.
00:49:13
jamie peacock
The preparatory research.
00:49:15
Curt
Repertory research. Exactly. So I've, yeah, I have this giant shopping cart of everything I want to do to, to make one of these. And like, so then I realized I'm like, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm going to generate the artwork. I'm going to get everything I want. I'm going to maybe get one like printed or something like that.
00:49:28
Curt
And then, uh, I might like put them on my site as like a presale. So like when these fidgets do go live, if people want to buy like a cool, and it'll be like proper blueprint size, like 11 by 17, sheet of paper.
00:49:32
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:49:37
Curt
ah sheet of paper And I think it's just cool. Like I could get them professionally printed for cheaper. That'd be fine. But I think the fact of like it being mechanically plotted is cooler. Like it's cooler than just a print that came out of a print shop.
00:49:48
Curt
It's like, this was mechanically
00:49:50
jamie peacock
What the fuck size is 11 by 17?
00:49:53
Curt
a five or whatever, a three.
00:49:55
jamie peacock
A3? No, it's a retarded size. A3 is 420 by 297.
00:49:59
Curt
What's your, what's your,
00:50:03
Curt
whatever your double, double letter or legal size or yeah. Letter size, double letter size for you.
00:50:07
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's fine. It's an American size. That's fine. and It's fine. It's an American size.
00:50:11
Curt
It's no, it's not. It's an ISO size that's been transferred to an American size. It's not technically 11 by 17. It's like whatever, 440 millimeters by 260 or something like that.
00:50:21
jamie peacock
that's a retarded size because a3 is 420 um which is 16.5 inches but 297 it's 11.69 that is an a3
00:50:25
Curt
26.
00:50:31
Curt
Yeah. Yeah. That's that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That that's, that's why they round it. Yeah. who
00:50:40
jamie peacock
okay yeah okay that's all sorry was like those are really retarded sizes
00:50:40
Curt
Yeah, it's dumb. I know. Yeah. So anyways, yeah, it is dumb. um Anyways, it'll be that big. But what I'm going to do is I think I'm just going to sell the fidget and then I'll pre-sell them.
00:50:51
Curt
Like I'll pre-sale if people are into them.
00:50:52
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah.
00:50:53
Curt
And then I can realize, be like, oh, four people bought it.
00:50:53
jamie peacock
Okay, who
00:50:55
Curt
It's like, well, this is a horrible idea. um Or if, you know, 400 people buy it, i'm like off to the races. So. Yeah, don't know.
00:51:01
jamie peacock
else
00:51:02
Curt
I don't know why my brain gets into these funks, but just i have to I have to take the fun out of every hobby I have. and just Even if I had a billion dollars in the bank, I would still do this. For some reason, it's just like, i don't know.
00:51:16
Curt
It's like the high score on the pinball machine for me. just excites me. I don't know why it is.
00:51:19
jamie peacock
try Yeah, try and, yeah, no, no, I get that. Try and monetize everything for some unknown reason.
00:51:24
Curt
I don't know why. i don't know why it makes my brain excited, but yeah.
00:51:26
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:51:29
Curt
Anyway, so.
00:51:29
jamie peacock
Because then more people can have it, that's why.
00:51:32
Curt
I think it just, I like building shit in the world and releasing it. I think I just like, I like putting stuff out there.
00:51:35
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:51:37
Curt
I think that's the thing of we all do. I think anybody that's in this like making field, you just like making something like you get the joy from making it.
00:51:43
jamie peacock
Yeah. Sharing...
00:51:44
Curt
And then, you know, if you can monetize it, then you can keep doing that. Even if you're not, like even if you didn't make money, you could monetize the process. You could just not spend money on it. Like, I think that's more what it falls into.
00:51:55
jamie peacock
Yeah, you can have it be cash flow neutral.
00:52:00
Curt
Sure. Yeah, exactly. exactly ah have I've definitely had my business cash flow and neutral a few times and cash flow negative.
00:52:02
jamie peacock
At least that's the plan.
00:52:05
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah, I can all be in there. Don't worry. Yeah,
00:52:17
jamie peacock
so.
00:52:17
Curt
Anyway, tell me about your, uh, first tell me about your car trouble.
00:52:22
jamie peacock
So um I did my breaks on my Bucky. Two weeks ago? Three weeks ago? They were a little squeaky. So on a cool new brake pad, swapped the brake pads out. Oh, shit. The one side is only worn on the one pad.
00:52:36
jamie peacock
So, like okay, this is the side that a bolt came out and the caliper moved while driving.
00:52:36
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:52:41
Curt
OK.
00:52:42
jamie peacock
So I think I bent the caliper. Not a problem. We ordered new caliper. I drove round and then all of a sudden the brakes, I was going through brake fluid. So in my truck, if the handbrake's up, you got your handbrake lights, put the handbrake down.
00:52:51
Curt
Ooh, OK.
00:52:56
jamie peacock
If the light stays on, you either the switch is fucked or you have low fluids. So I checked, low fluid, put fluid. Drove around a bit, still burning through fluid, put more fluid.
00:53:07
jamie peacock
So I'm like, the brakes were squeaking and making funny noise for a while after I changed the pads because the caliper's bent. So I bought a spare caliper, swapped the caliper. got down to help me bleed the brakes and then her brother came past to help me as well.
00:53:22
jamie peacock
ah He pumps up, I bleed because I then wanted to take my my truck for a drive and I got in and I pushed the pedal and the pedal was soft. So I'm fuck, okay. Adam gets here, we'll sort it out. So I bleed the brake, I bleed the other side thinking, okay, cool, they both bleed.
00:53:36
jamie peacock
He pumps up and he's like, no, it goes lacquer hard and then it just goes soft again. This fluid's got to be going somewhere. So I'm checking around the calipers on the front because those are the ones only ones i'm really fucked with.
00:53:44
Curt
Gotcha. Wanna
00:53:49
jamie peacock
Nope. No leaking fluid. So eventually I'm like, like if hold on. Go to the back of the truck, put my head under. Pissing fluid. There's a brake balancing unit between the, it's I think it's bolted to the rear axle.
00:53:56
Curt
it?
00:54:01
jamie peacock
So as the car shifts forward, it then applies, don't know, applies brakes, some fucking magic shit. Anyway, that thing. Pissing fucking fluid. So, yeah, ordered a new one today.
00:54:12
Curt
but do it no
00:54:14
jamie peacock
It'll be here tomorrow, and then I'll probably install it on the weekend because I don't exactly know the bleeding procedure on that because there's no bleeding port on it as far as I know, but I'll have a look when it arrives.
00:54:26
jamie peacock
But yeah, fucking I hate cars with passion.
00:54:26
Curt
Yeah, okay.
00:54:30
jamie peacock
They fucking suck.
00:54:30
Curt
Yeah.
00:54:31
jamie peacock
So I'm tempted to just drive it up to the mechanic with no brakes and just be like, dude, it needs its 180,000 service, cam belt service.
00:54:32
Curt
Yeah.
00:54:38
jamie peacock
Just fucking service it, flush the radiator, and put this fucking part in po for me. Whatever it costs, it costs. Like, just fucking do it for me, please. Because I can't not have her a vehicle. It's a little bit of a fuck.
00:54:51
jamie peacock
So, yeah.
00:54:51
Curt
Yep.
00:54:52
jamie peacock
I hate cars. A lot. But I got a new caliper. and the new caliper's in it. It's super smooth compared to the other caliper. Because the other one's fucking bent. Optimized for cornering.
00:55:00
Curt
That's.
00:55:02
jamie peacock
No.
00:55:03
Curt
Yeah.
00:55:03
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:55:04
Curt
just
00:55:04
jamie peacock
I fucking hate cars. And then, yeah.
00:55:07
Curt
Yeah. I mean, yeah yeah.
00:55:09
jamie peacock
They're great when they work. But when start giving shit, then just set them on fire and get a new one.
00:55:15
Curt
That's kind of the merit of a new vehicle is just like you don't have to think about it for a while. Yeah.
00:55:19
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:55:19
jamie peacock
and say I mean, this vehicle I bought brand new 12 years ago, and it only really started giving shit maybe six years ago. Like, that was after I hit a rock on the freeway and popped the radiator.
00:55:20
Curt
Yep.
00:55:28
Curt
Hmm.
00:55:32
Curt
Hmm. Okay.
00:55:32
jamie peacock
Like, and then from then, it's just been little bit fucking tedious.
00:55:32
Curt
Yeah. yeah
00:55:37
Curt
Yeah.
00:55:38
jamie peacock
But still pretty reliable, so, yeah. don't know. Flog it, buy new car, don't have to worry about But first, I have to be rich, so we're not there yet.
00:55:46
Curt
yeah Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Repairing an old car is still a good idea.
00:55:48
jamie peacock
But, but... maybe new secret project might be the the ticket.
00:55:53
Curt
Oh no. Okay. What is your, uh, what is your new secret project for Kurt is what it has written down, which is scary.
00:55:57
jamie peacock
So, well, yeah, do you remember the model I sent you? Oh, essentially, the model what do I sent you picture of it, of putting anchor points on your machine, and then ah your tool set to kind of being in a bit of a precarious position?
00:56:06
Curt
I think you sent me a picture.
00:56:13
Curt
Yes. Yes. You did. Yeah.
00:56:14
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:56:15
Curt
Yeah. yeah
00:56:17
jamie peacock
So Dylan from co Got Chips has got a similar issue. His robo-drawal's only got 14 inches of travel. So by the time you've got a vase and an anchor point duck, the tool setter's in peril.
00:56:24
Curt
Okay.
00:56:30
jamie peacock
Because Fusion likes to do random fucking linking moves every now and again.
00:56:30
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:56:35
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:56:35
jamie peacock
So we're chatting today.
00:56:36
Curt
Yeah.
00:56:36
jamie peacock
And I think I have a way to do it that doesn't use magnets. To make a quick disconnect tool setter mount that doesn't involve magnets.
00:56:46
Curt
Oh, okay. Okay.
00:56:47
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:56:48
Curt
Interesting.
00:56:48
jamie peacock
It'll be a button on the side that you press in and you take the thing. Sorry, people hit the microphone. Take it out and you put a little cap in, release the button and it grips. So similar similar-ish to the anchor point.
00:57:01
jamie peacock
that I think I'm going to make a custom pull stud though, just because you're not going to need 20 of them.
00:57:04
Curt
Okay.
00:57:05
jamie peacock
you're going to need one pull stud. So...
00:57:07
Curt
Ideally not. Yeah. Yeah.
00:57:09
jamie peacock
Yeah, but I want to make the bases cheap enough that you could put two bases on your table. So you could have one where your tool set is and then one right at the edge of your travel.
00:57:15
Curt
Oh, yeah.
00:57:18
jamie peacock
So that since it's wired, you it's not up here somewhere way or something stupid. You can just move it out of where your machine can't actually hit it.
00:57:23
Curt
Right.
00:57:26
Curt
Right. Yeah. Yeah. That makes sense.
00:57:27
jamie peacock
Yeah, so I think I have a way to do it. I'm going to have to see how it all shakes out with the the button and the springs and everything. So basically, you'll push the button in and it'll...
00:57:39
jamie peacock
um it'll let you take it out and then it won't hold it with like a shitload of force but it's a tool setter
00:57:47
Curt
Yeah. Yeah. yeah
00:57:49
jamie peacock
you don't need it to be held with a shitload of force it needs to just repeat so then we'll do the same story like i drew up a while ago with nine ball bearings so because i mean a ball on a pin is still a point contact so ball on ball is same fucking story
00:57:53
Curt
Right.
00:58:05
Curt
Right. Yeah. Yeah.
00:58:06
jamie peacock
Yeah, so then we'll just make it that we press all the balls in, and then, yeah, you'll push the button, and drop it, and the button will get springed back, and that spring back will hold the tool setter in place.
00:58:06
Curt
Yeah.
00:58:17
Curt
It's a good idea. Yeah, i think it's good, especially for like us with, or like not you, but me with Tiny Machine.
00:58:18
jamie peacock
Yeah, that.
00:58:21
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:58:23
Curt
Yeah. you
00:58:23
jamie peacock
Well, even myself, because art need to take tool setter off to be able to do the tough one. So being able to quickly and easily take it off, it's great, like, fucking A.
00:58:29
Curt
Oh, right. Yeah.
00:58:33
jamie peacock
So I'll probably build myself one. I've just had an epiphany now about how to do this with how to fit the spring in because I was battling to figure out how to do that. I just figured that out.
00:58:33
Curt
Yeah.
00:58:44
Curt
Yeah, well, it's perfect because dovetails into your little world right now, like perfectly. You've been spending months just playing this exact game.
00:58:48
jamie peacock
Yeah, well, that's the thing. Like Dylan said to me, if you've got ah an anchor point, you're going to be terrified that the thing's going to fucking go through and face off your your tool setter because it's quite low to the table compared to the tool setter.
00:58:50
Curt
Yeah.
00:59:01
Curt
Yeah.
00:59:02
jamie peacock
So if you can make it easily removable, then why not? So yeah, I think this week I'll order some material and then knock one up quickly and give it a quick test. And then, yeah, that solves that problem.
00:59:15
Curt
Yeah, no, it's a good idea. And like you said, then just scooting it out of the way where it's just like, yeah, that's smart.
00:59:16
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:59:19
jamie peacock
I like the idea of it not not having magnets. To me, that's fucking huge.
00:59:24
Curt
So do I. Yeah,
Design Innovations
00:59:25
Curt
I mean, does it doesn't matter my world, but yes, it's cool.
00:59:25
jamie peacock
So what I'll do is we will have the the balls inside the ring of balls, there'll be an O ring. So when it clamps down, it clamps on the balls and touches the O ring so coolant won't ingress.
00:59:36
jamie peacock
And when you take it off a cap, you just put a cap on that it doesn't have cool, you don't have to worry about coolant and ingress. Because to me, you don't want the fucking hole filling up with coolants kind of feeds the purpose.
00:59:42
Curt
Yeah.
00:59:48
Curt
Yeah, yeah. Yeah. sir
00:59:49
jamie peacock
so i don't know i'll i'll put pen to paper and come up with the design probably in the next week or so and then make some and see how they how they work jamie's forever expanding product line of stuff
00:59:57
Curt
Sick. Cool. Yeah, I think.
01:00:02
Curt
I mean, yeah, you got you're an industrious little creature, that's for sure. Yeah.
01:00:07
jamie peacock
yeah there's some more stuff that i'm busy cooking up for the work holding stuff yeah because i need some uh some other clamps so
01:00:12
Curt
Nice. Nice.
01:00:17
jamie peacock
Those are going to get cooked up. There's going to machinable versions of the M6s coming soon. So I don't know if you saw the the stuff over the weekend that I posted.
01:00:22
Curt
Ooh, okay, cool.
01:00:25
jamie peacock
Probably not. Because you were very busy not watching Project Hail Mary.
01:00:27
Curt
Uh,
01:00:30
Curt
ah, yeah, I had a bunch of freaking little sick children here, or else I would have been. Um, actually, actually not on the weekend. Cause what am I going to do with them? Put them in the car, crack the window like for three hours or however long that movie is.
01:00:40
jamie peacock
Yeah, exactly. I don't see the problem, guys.
01:00:44
Curt
Yeah. no Yeah.
01:00:44
jamie peacock
Yeah, two and a half hours. They're sending you picture quickly on WhatsApp this time.
01:00:46
Curt
Yeah.
01:00:50
Curt
I might have saw it because I doom scroll in the middle of the night.
01:00:50
jamie peacock
so
01:00:52
Curt
Let me see.
01:00:53
jamie peacock
So these are custom clips.
01:00:55
Curt
Oh, yeah, I saw that.
01:00:56
jamie peacock
Yeah, custom ones that are made, but I'm going to make them that you can buy them as a square and then machine your stuff into it. But what I'm going to do like do with the negative volumes, these are not going to get negative volumes.
01:01:08
jamie peacock
But on the bottom, I'm going to In the model that I share, in the bottom, I'm going to put a circular cutout, just 0.25 of a mil deep in the model.
01:01:20
jamie peacock
So when you want to draw your circle for where your bolt hole needs to be, it's in line with that and it's already point two five off in the right direction, so that you get your camping range.
01:01:31
jamie peacock
So then you can model your whatever curve or triangle or whatever, mate it to your components, and then pick that underside geometry that you can't see.
01:01:32
Curt
Gotcha. Gotcha.
01:01:41
jamie peacock
And that's where your hole needs to go to try and make it as easy as possible for someone to modify the the blank file to suit what they need. And then they can just hold it literally hold the thing in a vase, machine their profile into the end, and then throw it on their fixture.
01:01:56
Curt
Right, right, or right. Yeah, that's like, yeah.
01:01:57
jamie peacock
Yeah, make them a machinable version.
01:02:00
Curt
Slick.
01:02:01
jamie peacock
Yeah, so Jamie's forever improving product line.
01:02:01
Curt
I like that.
01:02:05
jamie peacock
Because, I mean, these ones, I made run of these. I've got two of these pallets. Each one's got 12 of those on it.
01:02:13
Curt
Yeah, I'm for the folks listening. They look like little RC car wheels. they're They're pretty cool looking. Or little faucet aerators or something.
01:02:18
jamie peacock
Sure. They are, they're at the bottom of a diesel sensor.
01:02:22
Curt
Yeah, they just round thing, a bunch of holes in pockets.
01:02:23
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:02:25
jamie peacock
yeah so they those are the trilobular ones as well so that's why there's one ah one this way and one that way i blank them on the m-code then i drop in and i machine a trilob into it then they turn over and i draw the drilling that way they fit any size tube because when you force them onto the tube it either deforms or skims the plastic to the right diameter depending on the deburring of the tube because tubes have tolerances yeah so we made a trilob version
01:02:25
Curt
They look cool.
01:02:25
Curt
Yeah.
01:02:45
Curt
Sure. Yeah, yeah
01:02:50
Curt
yeah. yeah Yeah, yeah.
01:02:54
jamie peacock
But yeah, those I dig those little clamps.
01:02:55
Curt
Cool.
01:02:56
jamie peacock
They're super, super useful.
Project Hail Mary vs. The Martian
01:02:59
Curt
Yeah, they look nice.
01:02:59
jamie peacock
Okay, and then we have one more topic left, Kurt.
01:03:00
Curt
i like them.
01:03:03
Curt
What's our one more topic?
01:03:05
jamie peacock
Not Project Hail Mary. It's fine, I'll make it green.
01:03:09
Curt
I don't know. That was it. ah Yeah, I know.
01:03:13
jamie peacock
Um, yeah, there's one thing I kind of want to spoil the movie for you, but I won't.
01:03:14
Curt
I want to.
01:03:19
Curt
I appreciate it.
01:03:19
jamie peacock
think it's it's fucking funny.
01:03:20
Curt
that
01:03:21
jamie peacock
um cure I'll chat to you about it next week and see how long it took you to realize it. Um, but, uh, dude, yeah, I went and watched it twice.
01:03:26
Curt
Oh, I'm excited. I'm excited to see it. My wife's.
01:03:30
jamie peacock
I have many thoughts. So, yeah, I was kind of excited to chat to you about it, but it's fine.
01:03:33
Curt
Oh, yeah, I will.
01:03:36
jamie peacock
I will be patient.
01:03:38
Curt
ah I promise you I will have watched it before next week. So, yeah, my wife has the whole she took the whole week.
01:03:43
jamie peacock
Go watch it tomorrow, and then we'll we'll do the after show. We'll film the after show tomorrow night.
01:03:49
Curt
I mean, we could we could.
01:03:52
jamie peacock
I'm game for that. I really want to chat about it.
01:03:53
Curt
happyby ah Yeah, I'm definitely gonna go see it like the matinee tomorrow.
01:03:54
jamie peacock
like Yeah.
01:03:59
Curt
So that's that's that's my plan. So, yeah, I'm game.
01:04:01
jamie peacock
I like this one.
01:04:02
Curt
We can play that game.
01:04:03
jamie peacock
Yeah, I think let's play that game. So our Patreons still get ah to hear all the spoilers this week. um Yeah, because...
01:04:10
Curt
Or don't listen to it.
01:04:10
jamie peacock
you
01:04:11
Curt
if you If you haven't read the book or haven't watched the movie, don't listen to the spoilers because it's a really good book and it's a really good movie.
01:04:14
jamie peacock
You know, it's a fucking great book and it's a movie.
01:04:16
Curt
like Or I don't know about movie. Okay. It's a really good story. So yeah, don't ruin it.
01:04:22
jamie peacock
It's a great book and a good movie. Let me put it that way. And if you do them in the opposite order, if you watch the movie and then read the book, it'll be a great movie and a good book.
01:04:33
Curt
Okay, cool.
01:04:34
jamie peacock
Yep.
01:04:34
Curt
Okay, that worked. That's cool to know.
01:04:35
jamie peacock
I'm not upset about the movie. Let's put it that way.
01:04:38
Curt
Okay.
01:04:39
jamie peacock
There were just some interesting choices that were made.
01:04:39
Curt
Okay.
01:04:42
jamie peacock
it... but it As far as the movie goes, it was entertaining.
01:04:47
Curt
Okay, that's good.
01:04:48
jamie peacock
And good.
01:04:48
Curt
That's good to know.
01:04:48
jamie peacock
So good I watched twice in one day.
01:04:49
Curt
That's good to know. I guess the same could be said for The Martian. You could watch The Martian and then read The Martian, and it would...
01:04:54
jamie peacock
Yes.
01:04:56
Curt
Both are both are good. Yeah.
01:04:58
jamie peacock
Both are great. Yeah, The Martian, having watched the movie and then read the book, I can see why someone who had read the book and then watched the movie would be a little disappointed.
01:04:59
Curt
Yeah.
01:05:08
Curt
That's the way I went. I was like, oh, but it makes sense. I get it though I never expect a movie to be as good as the book. Oh, 100%. Yeah,
01:05:15
jamie peacock
I shared a picture on the Taps and Patients Discord after I watched the movie the first time. um It's, yeah, I don't know if you've probably seen it where it's a book with the DVD shape cuts out of the book.
01:05:28
Curt
100%. Yeah.
01:05:28
jamie peacock
Yeah, yeah. That's exactly it. So, you know, I think you'll we'll do after show this week. Not right now. And then we can, we'll see. We'll discuss this after the episode and see what plans we decide are a good idea.
01:05:44
Curt
Deal, deal. Yeah, and then we can and we can force a bunch of people to buy our our Patreon to listen to us rant about ah a movie that all of seven people are probably interested in.
01:05:45
jamie peacock
Yes, okay.
01:05:49
jamie peacock
There we go. Yes. Well, the all the after shows are available as single purchases for like two or $3.
01:05:59
jamie peacock
Yeah, Danica set it up that way.
01:05:59
Curt
look at that, folks.
Fun and Humor in Tech
01:06:02
jamie peacock
So what is in your Google search history, Kurt?
01:06:03
Curt
And that goes...
01:06:05
jamie peacock
Probably probably tell Mary.
01:06:05
Curt
ah
01:06:08
Curt
ah No, dude, I've been doing... any time like There's so much Project Hail Mary shit and behind-the-scenes stuff that comes across my world. I'm just like,
01:06:15
jamie peacock
avoiding it yeah that's why i went to watch it on friday
01:06:16
Curt
throwing it away as quick as I could because yeah I don't I don't want get spoiled I kind of wanted to watch it early too because I want to see all this like BTS content um as the cool kids say so ah yeah rip
01:06:28
jamie peacock
fuck what did do you want me to start with the google box start a funny one So Danica needed, well, we when she got home, we went for drive quickly. She's teaching APIs tomorrow. She's like, fuck, what does API stand for?
01:06:41
jamie peacock
It stands for Application Programming Interface. But I had something else that I was going to try convince her.
01:06:44
Curt
okay
01:06:45
jamie peacock
was going to wait for to go to sleep and then whisper it in her ear. But I can't remember what I was going to fucking say now. Damn it. Because she's I know she's going to be teaching it tomorrow and whatever I said is always going to be stuck in her fucking head.
01:06:53
Curt
well
01:06:56
jamie peacock
Because I'm a savage like that.
01:06:57
Curt
Mm-hmm.
01:06:58
jamie peacock
I actually use this as an opportunity to clear my my Google box.
01:06:58
Curt
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
01:07:03
jamie peacock
I bought CR4 CRC SP 400 today anti corrosion spray for under my vases and stuff.
01:07:12
Curt
Okay.
01:07:12
jamie peacock
I've just been using WD40 type stuff.
01:07:12
Curt
Yeah.
01:07:16
jamie peacock
So I bought some fancy waxy stuff to play with. um
01:07:19
Curt
Mm-hmm.
01:07:20
jamie peacock
googled the machinist which is a movie like horror movie with christian bale where he doesn't eat a sandwich for like seven months um i kind of want to watch it because want to see how they describe machining um looking up spares for my bucky uh looking up wimpy because i wanted a disgusting food thermal coefficient of expansion This was quite interesting.
01:07:44
jamie peacock
So Carl was battling with holding size. Turns out it wasn't thermal expansion, although on a three inch diameter, if you get a 50 degree delta, which is not unheard of, like roughing tool steel with not too much coolant, it'll grow by like half a millimeter.
01:08:00
Curt
Sure.
01:08:03
Curt
Yike.
01:08:03
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:08:04
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
01:08:05
jamie peacock
So it turns out that wasn't the problem. The problem was that he was hitting his fucking jaws with his tool. The tool was moving.
01:08:10
Curt
Oh, that's easier. yeah
01:08:12
jamie peacock
Yeah. So I'm trying to teach him to think about work differently. So like there he was gripping on six millimeters, facing, or turning the Odie and then having to groove right at the jaws. I'm like, dude, do it the other way around. You're turning that back shoulder anyway.
01:08:26
jamie peacock
Do the grooving then. And then you've got more clearance on your second up So like just thinking out of the box in terms of how you go about doing things. um Looking up camera settings, because I wanted to know what I so did.
01:08:39
jamie peacock
On my camera, fuck all. Um, I've still got Datron stuff in here.
01:08:41
Curt
Oh, no. Oh, no.
01:08:45
jamie peacock
Like, God, I was looking up a little sawzall. That's about sawzall. Um, yeah, I think that's about all that's interesting in here. I'm just busy killing everything that's other Rand dollars also in its motor again.
01:08:59
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:09:00
Curt
Right on.
01:09:01
jamie peacock
Well, good for me, but problematic. What is in your Google box?
01:09:06
Curt
My Google box is once again full of bandsaws. I was looking at the one bandsaw I was looking at. ah I realized I i shouldn't be looking because I found one I really like. It's like a floor standing model with a big base and it's like it looks cool. It's got a big capacity, um but that it has an odd size blade.
01:09:23
Curt
So then I'm like, well, that's dumb. Like the blades for those were like 120 bucks or something like that for a blade. And then I went to like a different size and the blades dropped down to 30 bucks and there was like 100 to pick from. so I was like, shit, okay, I have to pick a standard size blade first and then find out what saw that goes in.
01:09:39
Curt
ah the perils of buying relatively inexpensive bandsaws. and oh Yeah, fuck.
01:09:42
jamie peacock
But I'll get to him up to give you one as an influencer. You'll have to do a video a month on your pants, so...
01:09:47
Curt
Actually,
01:09:50
Curt
oh my god no no i can't play that game uh scotch bright wheels i have a bunch of like motors i realize so much of my work is like spent on finishing i'm going to make a whole plethora of different types of buffing like stations so i can just quickly do things uh camera shit uh what the fuck is this metrology i don't even know what the hell i was looking at oh the um there's a giant uh
01:10:06
jamie peacock
Nice. OK.
01:10:20
Curt
uh what the hell they got not not too uh what do they call those things big screen round uses light and a camera lens uh optical comparator yeah yeah shadow graph uh there's one on like really close to me and uh i talked to you about it and i kind of want to buy it i have no need for it uh it's old so the thing is like i heard on those ah the mirror like if you touch the mirror like the plating flake off and then you kind of start losing
01:10:31
jamie peacock
Yeah, Shadowgraf.
01:10:46
jamie peacock
yeah
01:10:50
Curt
ah Efficiency of it. Anyways, I have no need for it. It just matches my hard engine paint color. So I kind of want to buy it. ah ball lent ah Ball lock detents. Because I was thinking instead of buying springs and bearings and machining pockets in my fidget, I would just get really tiny ball lock
Fidgets and Custom Solutions
01:11:05
Curt
detents. Because that's the exact same thing, essentially.
01:11:07
Curt
But they're hard to get in size i want And then they're not tunable.
01:11:07
jamie peacock
yeah
01:11:10
Curt
And they're usually not stainless. And so anyways.
01:11:11
jamie peacock
i'll just start curiosity what diameter are you looking for in those
01:11:15
Curt
For the ah ball bearings.
01:11:18
jamie peacock
yeah the ball d10 units
01:11:20
Curt
Uh, they are doing a metric. Anyone in Imperial about two millimeters, but two millimeters.
01:11:24
jamie peacock
what do you think okay because i've got some three millimeter ones that i got from china land yeah no no but they did smaller they do smaller ones yeah uh to adjust it 100 yeah no definitely especially if it's going to go in someone's pocket
01:11:30
Curt
Uh, yeah. Three millimeter, which is little bit too big. I even too, I think it's like, sorry, what's that? Oh, they make them smaller. i might have to peruse. i kind of like the ability to, to take them all apart so you can clean them. Yeah.
01:11:45
Curt
Um, and just, they're going to get, It's going full of lint, so I like to make it so that everything can be disassembled. You can clean everything, put everything back together. That's kind of what I try to do everywhere. And yeah, that's about it.
01:11:56
Curt
Oh, and mermaid gin, because it was a really cool bottle, and my wife likes mermaids, and I like mermaids. So yeah.
01:12:02
jamie peacock
Nice.
01:12:04
Curt
That's my entire Google box.
01:12:06
jamie peacock
Oh, before we continue, there's an update on Dylan's motor.
01:12:12
jamie peacock
Dylan, gotcha, we discussed his motor.
01:12:13
Curt
The troubleshooting? Yeah.
01:12:14
jamie peacock
Yes!
01:12:15
Curt
Yeah, because he broke it. Yeah.
01:12:16
jamie peacock
Yeah, basically, he covered it in science. um
01:12:23
jamie peacock
I'm kind of curious to what do you what would you think if I told you it is a DC motor?
01:12:31
Curt
uh, it's a servo or I would,
01:12:34
jamie peacock
For Nook Servo from that era, it's a big ass DC motor.
01:12:38
Curt
yeah, my hard engine was all DC.
01:12:39
jamie peacock
So when he checked, so it's only got two wires, so glad it sounds like fucking DC.
01:12:40
Curt
So, yeah.
01:12:43
jamie peacock
He sent me a picture, it's a DC motor.
01:12:43
Curt
Yeah.
01:12:45
jamie peacock
When he was checking from each of those wires to ground, he was getting random readings. i'm like, yeah, dude, you got a bunch of your brushes have fucked out and are shorting you to ground.
01:12:52
Curt
Oh, yeah.
01:12:56
jamie peacock
So it's faulting the drive.
01:12:57
Curt
Yeah.
01:12:58
jamie peacock
So he's going to pull the back cover off when he gets back from work today and have a gander under there at what the brush condition looks like. And then probably chat to me about it because I'm like, yeah, 100% if I'd known it was like two wires, DC motor, like straight up.
01:13:17
jamie peacock
um
01:13:17
Curt
Yeah. Way easier to troubleshoot.
01:13:18
jamie peacock
And yeah, fucking turns out big ass DC motor. I reckon the brushes are just fucked on it.
01:13:25
Curt
Yeah, otherwise, yeah, you'd have burnt commutator connections or simple stuff to see anyways.
01:13:25
jamie peacock
Because,
01:13:28
jamie peacock
yeah.
01:13:30
jamie peacock
So chat GPT was like, yeah, I'll turn the motor and maybe it'll, uh, maybe you just like between gaps on the commutator or whatever, but that didn't really solve the issue. So he's, uh, yeah, basically you're going to pull the cover. I'm like, dude, just pull the cover off and let's, uh, see what's inside.
01:13:49
Curt
Yeah. yeah yep
01:13:50
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:13:51
Curt
Cool.
01:13:52
jamie peacock
These guys are lying to me on Ali express copy. I bought some of these thought send you a link but they're a little bit big because yeah I bought some for a tool this mag base for a Glock so the s slide side of the mag was actually s slides off with the detent yeah because reasons
01:14:01
Curt
Oh, perfect. beauty they't go Oh, yeah, yeah.
01:14:16
Curt
Yeah, man, that's are cheap. It's amazing what can be manufactured.
01:14:18
jamie peacock
yeah no they're stupid cheap like that's why I was like just have a look they're fucking dumb cheap
01:14:21
Curt
ah
01:14:24
Curt
Yeah.
01:14:26
jamie peacock
but they only go down to M3 three millimeter.
01:14:26
Curt
Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah. Yeah, might be a ah significantly bigger for my purposes, but yeah.
01:14:30
jamie peacock
So not ideal. I wonder where my cover for my gripper is. Anyway, problem for another day. So Kurt, where can people find you and your things?
01:14:39
Curt
Cool.
01:14:42
Curt
you can find me and my, my, and my things at confounded machine.com where it links to anything you would ever want to know about me or buy from me. Um, or anything about the podcast, it links there to go buy shirts or whatever else we are slinging on that store.
01:14:57
Curt
I haven't checked it in a while. This always surprises me what pops up there.
01:14:58
jamie peacock
Me neither. I know there are new shirts coming next month, I think.
01:15:04
Curt
Ooh.
01:15:05
jamie peacock
don't get those shirts every four months, so there's new shirts coming. But yeah.
01:15:09
Curt
Sick. How about you, Jamie, wherever you find your stuff.
01:15:11
jamie peacock
Yeah, you can find the day-to-day happenings of the shop at jspec underscore engineering on Instagram. You can find shirts, podcast stuff, and flux at jspeceng.com. And for all your workholding needs, you can go to nauticalwh.com where you'll find the anchor point, keel clamps. There's a parametric spindle liner in there now.
01:15:34
jamie peacock
um And some other stuff is... Busy getting cooked up, so keep an eye on there for new and exciting things. The keel clamp, all the CAD packs are there as well. Just go grab them. They're a $0 item.
01:15:45
jamie peacock
Check out and you get all the clamp models to make life easy.
01:15:50
Curt
Oh, and if I Google nautical workholding, spelled like a human, it links to your site.
01:15:54
jamie peacock
it does it.
01:15:55
Curt
So, yeah. Yeah, it now links links to N-O-U-G-H-I or T-I-C-A-L is how you chose to spell it, which is, I get it, it's hilarious, but it's heinous to search.
01:15:57
jamie peacock
Nice.
01:16:05
jamie peacock
That's how Danica chose to spell it.
01:16:09
Curt
So, if you spell nautical like like the ah marine version, it links to your site, nautical workholding.
01:16:10
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:16:15
Curt
So, that's kind of cool. At least it does on my end of the world, so...
01:16:16
jamie peacock
Yeah, okay. Yeah, it's not quite that easy on my side of the world, but it does actually link. Did you see the parametric spindle on there?
01:16:25
Curt
I did, yeah. That reminds me of the old ah the old printable guide bearings from the 3D printer world circa 2010 or whatever that was.
01:16:26
jamie peacock
Yes.
01:16:31
jamie peacock
Yes. So... that is designed to be printed in vase mode.
01:16:38
Curt
Right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
01:16:38
jamie peacock
So it prints super quickly.
01:16:39
Curt
yeah
01:16:40
jamie peacock
And then yeah you basically it's got parameters for length ID OD, and then a tolerance factor, and you output the STL and print in vase mode.
01:16:51
Curt
That's cool, man.
01:16:51
jamie peacock
Super quickly. yeah
01:16:53
Curt
That's cool.
01:16:54
jamie peacock
I use them for all sorts of dumb shit.
01:16:57
Curt
Sick. Free? Put a price on those bitches.
01:17:00
jamie peacock
Yes.
01:17:02
Curt
Three bucks.
01:17:02
jamie peacock
Nah.
01:17:03
Curt
yeah
01:17:06
jamie peacock
Yeah, for now, just pack it up.
01:17:07
Curt
Anyway.
01:17:07
jamie peacock
It's free. I try get lots of emails for people buying free stuff. Well, not buying free stuff.
01:17:12
Curt
Yeah.
01:17:12
jamie peacock
It's great. um What are you up to today?
01:17:16
Curt
Cool. ah Today, ah I'm going to...
Audiobooks and Automation at Work
01:17:22
Curt
I don't know what I'm going do yet. Finish chatting with you have some lunch, and then probably start fourth axis work on the pen bodies because they're all ready to rock.
01:17:31
Curt
Actually, I do a little more lathe work, then the mill can start running, and then they can like can double team them.
01:17:35
jamie peacock
Okay.
01:17:36
Curt
And while I'm double teaming them, then I'm just going to listen to more audiobooks because that's...
01:17:36
jamie peacock
Nice.
01:17:41
Curt
so i try to do these days. Make my life easy enough that I can listen to audiobooks all day. That's how that's what drives my automations to make them easy.
01:17:46
jamie peacock
Nice. and you Can you get a listen to an audiobook while it runs?
01:17:49
Curt
It's just so I can... well I can't listen an audiobook if I have to think.
01:17:51
jamie peacock
Yeah, I'm actually Yeah.
01:17:53
Curt
if i As long as I don't have to think, I can listen to an audiobook. Ah, I see.
01:17:56
jamie peacock
I'm currently between books.
01:17:59
Curt
i see
01:18:00
jamie peacock
yeah, I need to move some stuff onto to my phone tomorrow. I think I might go into the Bobaverse. I don't know.
01:18:10
Curt
a good one. It's good.
01:18:10
jamie peacock
Yeah, know.
01:18:11
Curt
I like that series.
01:18:11
jamie peacock
I know. But yeah, I'm still got a book hangover from Project Hail Mary for the third time.
01:18:13
Curt
Yeah.
01:18:18
Curt
The only problem is it's tough to freaking compete with Project Hail Mary. That's such a good book.
01:18:22
jamie peacock
It is.
01:18:23
Curt
So.
01:18:23
jamie peacock
It's so... fucking dig it. But yeah, I'm very curious to chat to you about it after you've seen the movie.
01:18:26
Curt
Yeah.
01:18:30
jamie peacock
Because, yeah, lots of opinions.
01:18:31
Curt
Okay. but We'll do it. We will do it. Yeah.
01:18:34
jamie peacock
um Yeah, what am I up to tomorrow? ah tomorrow I've got a finished machine, yes, tube things.
01:18:37
Curt
yeah What are you doing?
01:18:40
jamie peacock
So I've got to get my T-slot riser finished so I can put my mechanical anchor point in, so I can put my three-jaw chuck into that, so I can machine the ends of these things and then put them in the fourth axis, which is currently out of the machine, so it has to go back into the machine, so that I can do the side machining and then assemble the things and then that can all go.
01:18:59
jamie peacock
I told my customer my truck's out of commission, so they need to come they need to send a truck to come fetch the stuff.
01:19:05
Curt
Okay.
01:19:05
jamie peacock
So they are fetching tomorrow afternoon, I think.
01:19:09
jamie peacock
butja There's a whole bunch. There's like just over a thousand parts, I think, that are going to them.
01:19:10
Curt
Cool.
01:19:15
Curt
Wow.
01:19:15
jamie peacock
So yeah, it's a fucking boatload.
01:19:16
Curt
That's a lot.
01:19:17
jamie peacock
Yeah, and I did all that within like a week.
01:19:21
jamie peacock
The Emco made 400 parts yesterday. It ran for the whole day.
01:19:21
Curt
Party.
01:19:25
Curt
Wow.
01:19:26
jamie peacock
Just load by every time it goes 69 parts, done.
01:19:30
Curt
that's
01:19:31
jamie peacock
ah could probably get like 75 parts out that while when I can get 69.
01:19:36
Curt
No, totally. Yeah, yeah.
01:19:37
jamie peacock
it's the small things in life anyway thank you everybody for listening um if you've enjoyed the podcast please consider sharing it with someone you think may also enjoy it or someone you don't think will enjoy it we don't mind having rage listeners um
01:19:39
Curt
okay Exactly.
01:19:53
Curt
Oh, yes.
01:19:53
jamie peacock
Yes, if you've seen our faces, you've been watching on Zencastr like AJ or YouTube because my wife does not put it on Spotify anymore for us because she doesn't love us anymore. If you're listening to the audio on Spotify, you can look at our faces on YouTube or Zencastr if you're AJ.
01:20:07
jamie peacock
But yeah, thank you everybody for listening and we'll see you next week.
01:20:12
Curt
Take care.