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Ep. 22: Parks and Retrofits
128 Plays11 days ago
Join Curt and Jamie as they go into depth on all the pros and cons of retrofitting an old mill instead of buying a working machine like a sane person.
Links Discussed:
- PrintNC Wiki: https://wiki.printnc.info/en/home
The Lone Machinist:
- Website: https://thelonemachinists.com/
- Merch: https://www.jspeceng.com/online-store
- Patreon: https://patreon.com/TheLoneMachinists
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Curt:
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Transcript
Introduction and CAD Challenge Success
00:00:46
jamie peacock
Good morning. yeah Good morning, Kurt. How are you doing this morning? Sorry, the schedules, it's confusing now.
00:00:50
Curt
ah good Good evening, Master Jamie. I'm doing and fantastic. How are you doing?
00:00:57
jamie peacock
Yeah, I'm good. tre I woke up late, but then anyway, I had a long day in the workshop. Had to go through to SART quickly this afternoon and then had call my cousin's boyfriend over to start the Tartan 1M, the Tartans Building Blocks course with me.
00:01:14
jamie peacock
So he modeled that God awful drawing.
00:01:14
Curt
Oh, cool.
00:01:14
Curt
yeah, yeah.
00:01:17
jamie peacock
i ah You would swear someone at Autodesk drew it. And that's a dig at Autodesk because I did their CAD challenge at IMTS.
00:01:25
Curt
Mm.
00:01:26
jamie peacock
And the drawing was atrocious. Like, you had to add dimensions up to get to get sizes for the model. It was just horrible. um Didn't stop me from, like, absolutely smoking them.
00:01:38
jamie peacock
But, yeah, it was a bit tedious. So, yeah, he modeled that up today while I ran the Emco, don't the Emco, the Slowio and the LK this evening. And then, yeah, had Bertha and the Emco running today.
00:01:51
jamie peacock
so yeah, what's...
00:01:52
Curt
Yeah, I saw your story with all the lights. was like, ooh, lots of machines running.
00:01:56
jamie peacock
yeah well yeah Yeah, we'll get into some of that stuff later because i actually have a topic.
00:01:56
Curt
Good for the gram.
Exploring Retrofits and DIY Machines
00:02:02
jamie peacock
um what Let's bait people. The topic is regarding retrofits and DIY machines, the pros and cons to those because both of us have had the have those machines and we also have proper machines now.
00:02:14
jamie peacock
So I think it would be an interesting thing to dive into a bit later on in the podcast.
00:02:18
jamie peacock
Also, I have a question from Instagram regarding that.
00:02:18
Curt
Yeah, i feel like that's like
00:02:20
Curt
ah Oh, nice.
00:02:23
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:02:23
Curt
I feel like this is like heroin addicts telling people how good heroin is. Like, this is not a good idea.
00:02:31
jamie peacock
It's a great idea. i love it. um Yeah.
00:02:34
jamie peacock
Anyway, so what have you been up to? have you been up to this week?
00:02:34
Curt
isn
00:02:37
Curt
um Not much start of my week here, so just getting into the machining plan today. It's going to be just a crap ton of finishing, so my eyes and hands and fingers are going to bleed from finishing. That's the one thing I have to get better at automat i are autoizing automating is my finishing process, because I don't want to... I mean, tumbling, that's easy, but like doing satin finishes on all my parts is just so laborious, um but I haven't found a way to easily automate that, so...
00:03:03
Curt
Yeah, um that's it's definitely a bottleneck in my batch size. I like I can't I can't physically finish more pens than, you know, X amount. I'm still not there, but ah i'm I'm approaching it. And that's just going to be like car carpal tunnel land.
00:03:13
jamie peacock
yeah
00:03:15
Curt
So I just yeah, I don't know. Might just have to make more tumbled versions. But I do I do like the satin version. So i don't know. That's that's my world.
00:03:24
jamie peacock
what is the second version entail? is it scotch briting it?
00:03:26
Curt
and it's nothing yeah it's just basically machined like off the machine as good as i can possibly get them and then it's just i like i lightly basically wet sand every single part just to give it a grain um but even like even a silly nice finish off the machine it's just like it's just like a part you take a part and you stone a part you immediately see all the but all the you know um inadequacies and same thing like when you do a like a high polish a quote unquote high polish finish it just pulls out any kind of
00:03:27
jamie peacock
hmm
00:03:35
jamie peacock
uh okay yeah
00:03:53
Curt
errors in machining. So it's just, yeah, it's just tedious. And it just, I can't find a way to, to do it without, I mean, I can make jigs and stuff that kind of make it easier on the hands, but it's still like a very hands-on procedure.
00:03:55
jamie peacock
yeah
00:04:02
Curt
So i don't know
00:04:03
jamie peacock
yeah okay yeah that's tedious i'm
00:04:07
Curt
Yeah. don't know. I'll find it. I'll find a way. Maybe like I'm like, yeah, I'm still looking into like vapor honing.
00:04:09
jamie peacock
sure you'll find a way oh yeah yeah you're gonna go the danny rudolf rudolf root have a robot
00:04:12
Curt
I think that'll produce a really nice finish. It's still laborious, but it's a bit easier to automate. So yeah, don't know.
00:04:22
Curt
Absolutely.
00:04:23
jamie peacock
putting it in and out one time. That's the best.
00:04:25
Curt
Absolutely.
Machining Processes and Efficiency
00:04:26
jamie peacock
That's literally my favorite. I don't know that I'd do it with robot, but yeah.
00:04:26
Curt
absolutely
00:04:28
Curt
It's, yeah, I mean, if you have a role, it's like ah if yeah have ah if you have a hammer, everything's a nail.
00:04:33
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:04:35
Curt
So if you have a robot, everything is a robotic operation. So yeah, it's it's cool. I like what he does.
00:04:41
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah. He's not going to pay someone to do and he sure as hell not going stand and do it.
00:04:45
Curt
Yeah, and it's like that's I argue that's the most the boring most boring thing you can do is blasting. like Just putting things in blasting cabinets is is like the most dumb, dumb, brain-dead work you'll ever do.
00:04:50
jamie peacock
Hmm.
00:04:54
Curt
so I get why you'd want to automate that.
00:04:55
jamie peacock
yeah Yeah, I was doing brain dead stuff this evening.
00:04:57
Curt
i's yeah It's tedious.
00:05:01
jamie peacock
know if you saw.
00:05:01
Curt
Ooh, fun.
00:05:02
jamie peacock
The slowio was back in action.
00:05:05
Curt
Oh, yeah, I did see that.
00:05:05
jamie peacock
Running pull bullet connectors for the first time in six months. I made 600 of them in November and that is all that they've taken since then.
00:05:14
jamie peacock
They meant to be taking 300 of them a month. It's a little tedious.
00:05:14
Curt
Wow, okay.
00:05:18
Curt
um Making 300 of those would be... I mean, doing the machining wouldn't be bad, but...
00:05:20
jamie peacock
I don't know, 300 of them literally takes an hour and a half. I stand there with podcast and I just load and go.
00:05:25
Curt
Right, and yeah.
00:05:25
jamie peacock
It's quick, quick. It takes me longer to reload.
00:05:27
Curt
t Tidious.
00:05:29
jamie peacock
Yeah, tedious, but it takes me longer to reload than to do the actual cycle.
00:05:32
Curt
Yeah, fair.
00:05:33
jamie peacock
But it doubles as a QC in the process as well. So make sure the threads are good because it threads into the little
Boating Adventures and DIY Battery Projects
00:05:40
jamie peacock
arbor.
00:05:41
Curt
Right, yeah.
00:05:42
jamie peacock
Yeah, but the slow EO, doing slow EO things today is great.
00:05:46
Curt
That's... Still earning its keep. that's That's good.
00:05:49
jamie peacock
Well, that's that that is the only reason that machine still around is that that one job. Because i don't there's no way hell that's going on the LK.
00:05:57
jamie peacock
Like, it's just never happening. Like, no. So even with the pallet system, like, I could maybe batch a bunch, but the thing has to index 90 degrees. So I would need a giant rotary concoction, which I could make, but do I really want to go down that rabbit hole?
00:05:57
Curt
Yeah, no, I...
00:06:14
Curt
Yeah, no, I get you.
00:06:15
jamie peacock
And again, how many parts? Like 10 parts. Woo. It's, yeah, 10 parts, and then it's, yeah, it just gets overly complicated.
00:06:18
Curt
Right, yeah.
00:06:24
jamie peacock
So it does the thing. So it'll be left to do the thing.
00:06:28
Curt
Cool. I see you having giant bold font boats.
00:06:29
jamie peacock
But yes.
00:06:33
jamie peacock
Yeah, boats, boats, boats, boats. Yeah, you saw.
00:06:35
Curt
how's How's your Fisher Price boat going?
00:06:37
jamie peacock
Yeah. So I posted it. I sent a picture to my one mate, Dave, and he asked me how long did take to print. That his first question. But yeah, we went went on Sunday again.
00:06:46
Curt
Nice.
00:06:48
jamie peacock
So it's actually, I'm really enjoying that. Going on a Sunday morning, we ended up spending six hours on the water. And it's just, it's a disconnect entirely from work. It's something I've been really battling with.
00:06:56
Curt
Right.
00:06:56
jamie peacock
And now, well, yeah. I made a fish finder mount um out of one of the ball lock units I made. I made a giant Lapo battery.
00:07:07
Curt
Oh, okay.
00:07:08
jamie peacock
ah
00:07:09
Curt
Explain.
00:07:09
jamie peacock
I think. I'm not sure. It's between 38 hours and 60 amp hours. I don't know because I don't know the donor battery specs.
00:07:20
jamie peacock
And the donor battery is available in 19 amp hours through 30 amp hours.
00:07:26
Curt
Okay. Okay.
00:07:29
jamie peacock
So I got in there and made myself a 3S2P pack out of the battery, and I've got another half the battery to make another 3S2P pack to run my trawling motor.
00:07:40
jamie peacock
I ran, we literally drag raced up and down the dam ah between the two boats my trawling motors. And um when I put it on charge, I was at about 45% capacity still.
00:07:40
Curt
Nice.
00:07:51
Curt
ah Okay.
00:07:51
jamie peacock
after six hours of stuffing around.
00:07:51
Curt
Okay.
00:07:52
jamie peacock
So it's perfect. It weighs 3.2 kilos. So it weighs nothing, like six pounds.
00:07:56
Curt
Hmm.
00:07:57
jamie peacock
ah You pick it up with one hand, throw it on the boat and go.
00:07:58
Curt
Right.
00:08:00
jamie peacock
It's not a 40-pound lead-acid battery.
00:08:04
Curt
Yeah.
00:08:04
jamie peacock
But yeah, ended up ended up taking a drive, so a 30-minute drive down to answer Dave so that he could spot weld one of the battery tabs for me.
00:08:04
Curt
Hmm.
00:08:11
jamie peacock
So it had a big distribution board on the top and... I took an angle grinder to that. And then I had, because it was now 14 series, I had to break, I had to cut the one battery tab and then put a new nickel strip on.
00:08:26
jamie peacock
I couldn't solder to the stuff. I think it's an aluminum, not nickel strip. Anyway, went there, he spot welded to it for me. And then I drove a half an hour back. So literally an hour in the car for five minutes work so that I could solder it all up to the BMS. And yeah, and I now have a A fancy battery.
00:08:42
jamie peacock
That's a tad of a fire hazard.
00:08:42
Curt
o
00:08:44
jamie peacock
It literally sets in the driveway charging on Saturday night because I wasn't letting that
00:08:47
Curt
Yeah.
Drones and 3D Printing Innovations
00:08:48
jamie peacock
thing be in the workshop.
00:08:48
jamie peacock
Like, not a chance.
00:08:49
Curt
it Yeah.
00:08:51
jamie peacock
But yeah, it's all for agricultural drone.
00:08:51
Curt
It's like a giant. Yeah.
00:08:54
jamie peacock
So yeah, giant battery.
00:08:55
Curt
Oh, cool.
00:08:56
jamie peacock
Dave actually had a chassis from one that burnt out. It landed.
00:09:01
Curt
Mm.
00:09:01
jamie peacock
The thing caught fire. The guy ripped it off and threw it. And it just it melted down, like melted the aluminum case.
00:09:08
Curt
Oh.
00:09:10
jamie peacock
Yeah, but it's frigging sweet. Like it weighs nothing and I didn't have to really, I spent, what did I spend on it? That's actually something else we need to discuss on the podcast. It was like $10 for a BMS.
00:09:21
Curt
Wow.
00:09:21
jamie peacock
So really not, not bad.
00:09:21
Curt
Nice.
00:09:23
jamie peacock
Like 60 MPMS does the thing. but Yeah, boats are fun. I have a giant orange one and it's awesome. I can drag it and not give a shit what it's going over because it's never going to get a hold of it.
00:09:33
Curt
That's cool.
00:09:34
jamie peacock
The only way you're going to put a hole in that thing is with a drill. like You could go over a gravel road with it and drag it and it's not going to get a hole in it.
00:09:42
Curt
Right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:09:43
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's the dream. But yeah, as a one-man boat, there's some issues. We'll address those in the coming weeks. We're going to 3D scan it so that I can design all the stuff I want to add to it in 3D.
00:09:54
jamie peacock
Like all the the sub-flooring and hatches and stuff.
00:09:57
Curt
Cool.
00:09:57
jamie peacock
And then just have it laser cut at my mate's place out of half-inch ply and sort it.
00:09:58
Curt
Cool.
00:10:04
jamie peacock
Yeah, make my life as easy as possible. I was chatting to my brother about it today. He's like, no, that's really sweet that you can have a model and you can design all the storage and stuff and then just have a laser cutter and knock it together.
00:10:04
Curt
That's cool.
00:10:14
Curt
Right, yeah, yeah.
00:10:14
jamie peacock
So, yeah, the joys of knowing people with 3D scanners and having some CAD skills.
00:10:19
Curt
That's cool, yeah. its
00:10:20
jamie peacock
ah to
00:10:21
Curt
What a magical world we live in. yeah
00:10:23
jamie peacock
We do live in a ah magical world. Speaking of magical worlds, why does pixel size not matter as much as we think?
00:10:30
Curt
Okay, so after listening to our podcast last week, I was like, hmm, interesting.
00:10:33
jamie peacock
Mm-hmm.
00:10:34
Curt
I'm going deep dive more into this because like, how come some printers print better than other printers when it's, and it should be equated to pixel size.
00:10:40
jamie peacock
yeah
00:10:41
Curt
So I went on a big deep dive and started reading about this because arguably some of the best resin prints coming off machines for CAD models, I'll preface it with that. not I'm not talking about like miniatures, um but for like actual models to size um are probably coming off the form machines, like the form one, two, three, four, whatever.
00:10:49
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:10:55
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:10:57
Curt
They just seem to produce fantastic results. The pixel size on the four machines varies from 50 to 85 micron. So the pixel size on those machines is huge, but it has a lot more to do with cutoff.
00:11:06
jamie peacock
Interesting.
00:11:11
Curt
And there's all kinds of weirdness of like LCD, like masked LCD, LCDs, which is like every resin printer out there casting shadows.
00:11:15
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:11:18
Curt
So yeah, their pixel might be 20 microns, but they're probably casting like a 60 micron shadow and and you don't get sharp cutoffs. And like, Some of that actually plays well to miniatures because you want smooth, like you typically don't want like razor sharp edges on miniature.
00:11:27
jamie peacock
Yeah. You don't want to see the voxels. Yeah.
00:11:31
Curt
Right. Yeah. You kind of want like a bunch of aliasing and it's kind of just naturally putting alias on things. um But yeah, I couldn't figure it out. And then, so yeah, i read a ton about it. But yeah, there's there's so many factors at play that it's not just basic pixel size.
00:11:43
Curt
um Yes. yeah Because like it kind of had me confused because I'm like, well, my printer, I looked it up and it is 50 micron.
00:11:48
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:11:49
Curt
And i'm like, well, how come like how come it's printing better than like some other printers? that like I've had other people print me put me samples.
00:11:54
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:11:56
Curt
And I'm like, these are coming off printers that have half the pixel size, but the print is shittier. like The text isn't as crisp. And yeah, it's all due to...
00:12:02
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:12:03
Curt
There's so many factors at play, but yeah.
00:12:06
jamie peacock
I think it also comes down to competence.
00:12:06
Curt
So yeah.
00:12:08
jamie peacock
So I was down again at Dave and he's got my AnyCubic Photon Mono 2.
00:12:14
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:12:15
jamie peacock
That oak went down a rabbit hole. He's now designing his own supports in CAD so he doesn't have to deal with AnyCubic supports. And it's yeah printing his parts.
00:12:21
Curt
Proper.
00:12:23
jamie peacock
like Actually, I have a picture to send you. Also, Dave, this part of the podcast is specifically for you because I know you're going to go down a freaking rabbit hole as well. um but yeah he's getting some beautiful prints off that printer like he's in love with that thing uh he's finishing off the bottle of creality abs like resin that i gave him and then he's switching over to the any cubic abs like resin because it's uh just plain better and cheaper um but yeah oh yeah
00:12:36
Curt
Nice.
00:12:46
Curt
Yeah. Well, and like you said, it boils down to competency too. Like how how well you do everything. There's so many factors at play. like it's not It's not apples to apples. It's like apples to rocks
00:12:57
jamie peacock
No, not even close. um So Dave sent out a whole lot of stuff to printing in the past. And the quality of the stuff, he's like, were they drunk?
00:13:08
jamie peacock
Now that he's actually gotten into he's honestly like, were they drunk? but Did they just take it out the box and assume everything would work? How would they let that leave their shop? Like, what the hell?
00:13:19
jamie peacock
Like he had, speaking Fisher-Price, he's little Fisher-Price car.
00:13:20
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:13:24
jamie peacock
the little yeah he had a something that looked like that for the top of a drone it
00:13:24
Curt
Oh, yeah.
00:13:25
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
Enhancing 3D Printing Quality and Techniques
00:13:29
jamie peacock
was a camera mount whatever and he was tpu printing them his prints are coming out beautifully he sent them off to someone to print utter garbage thought oh let me get a resin printed the thing is meant to have like a two mil wall thickness it ended up being like six millimeters in some spots because the resin pulled and it was a translucent resin so it just kept curing
00:13:38
Curt
Mm.
00:13:46
Curt
Ooh.
00:13:50
Curt
Oh, okay, yeah.
00:13:50
jamie peacock
because they didn't have their settings dialed in properly. Like, yeah, the level of incompetence is is absolutely insane.
00:13:53
Curt
Right, yeah.
00:13:57
jamie peacock
Oh, Kurt, you need to look at your phone quickly.
00:13:57
Curt
Yeah.
00:14:00
Curt
All right. Are you sending me...
00:14:02
jamie peacock
I sent you some pictures so you can judge Dave harshly.
00:14:07
Curt
Judge Dave. Oh, this is a lot of things to see.
00:14:08
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:14:10
Curt
Oh, that's a sick-looking drone, though.
00:14:11
jamie peacock
while you While you think...
00:14:13
Curt
Oh, that looks cool.
00:14:17
jamie peacock
Yeah, so that's that's the craft he's been working on made all the aluminum bits for him.
00:14:21
jamie peacock
But yeah, he made all those brackets and stuff on the resin printer.
00:14:21
Curt
Okay.
00:14:24
jamie peacock
So he's gone into, like, he was printing them on FDM.
00:14:24
Curt
Oh, nice.
00:14:25
Curt
oh
00:14:27
jamie peacock
Now he's just like, nah, resin printer. He's printing, like, I think he said it was 0.1 wall thickness or something stupid. Like, super thin parts, because obviously it flies.
00:14:35
Curt
Wow.
00:14:37
jamie peacock
It needs to be light.
00:14:38
Curt
Right.
00:14:39
jamie peacock
ah But yeah, for his application, it's perfect. Like...
00:14:43
Curt
That's a pretty looking drone too. All carbon fiber and aluminum and yeah.
00:14:44
jamie peacock
It is, yeah, no, no, it's freaking beautiful. Like it is, you can't really get your electronics any smaller without rolling your own.
00:14:48
Curt
Yeah.
00:14:53
jamie peacock
Like as far as off the shelf components, this thing is optimized too to high hell.
00:14:54
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:14:57
jamie peacock
Do you like the heat sink on the bottom?
00:14:59
Curt
I do, yeah, I do.
00:15:00
jamie peacock
It's very spiffy. That's actually the battery rail. He made it bigger so that it wouldn't look stupid because it uses 18650s and they actually like clicking and lock into place.
00:15:03
Curt
Oh, yeah?
00:15:08
Curt
Gotcha.
00:15:10
jamie peacock
It's really sweet. I'll make sure I'll get some pictures when he's done with it eventually.
00:15:14
Curt
Oh, yeah, please do, yeah.
00:15:14
jamie peacock
He actually was meant to test flight over the weekend. I must harass him tomorrow and see how it went. Because was just down there on Saturday.
00:15:19
Curt
Nice.
00:15:22
jamie peacock
And he said test flight's either Saturday evening or Sunday morning. So we'll see.
00:15:27
Curt
is it Is that going to be a quad or is it going to be like an eight eight motor quad or just four motor?
00:15:30
jamie peacock
It's a quad. No, no. Just a quad? Yeah. um It's basically an aerial platform. He's got different payloads for it. But...
00:15:39
Curt
Hmm.
00:15:40
jamie peacock
The previous iteration was weatherproof. Like put it up in the rain, it doesn't care, it's waterproof. ah This one, a bit less waterproof, but it's just a cost-effective aerial platform
00:15:46
Curt
Hmm. Hmm.
00:15:51
jamie peacock
With ah HD downlink and all of the fancies, like autopilots and all that cuck.
00:15:56
Curt
Cool.
00:15:57
jamie peacock
And he's got ah he's got a very heavy payload and on it now.
00:15:57
Curt
Cool.
00:16:00
jamie peacock
It's infrared payload, but it's a little outdated. but Those things are stupid expensive. So he's using the one he's got.
00:16:05
Curt
Yeah. Fair.
00:16:06
jamie peacock
He got given it or lent it by somebody. And yeah, like... it It was on his previous version as well. I mean, Danica flew the thing. You literally pick up the hear link.
00:16:15
Curt
Oh, cool.
00:16:16
jamie peacock
It's got a tablet. You throttle up, it takes off, and then you it just flies. It's super easy to fly. Then we were playing with the HD downlink, looking at people walking in the road and things.
00:16:23
Curt
Nice.
00:16:27
jamie peacock
But yeah, all those all those fun bits and pieces of aluminium I got to machine for him, and an I have fixtures for when he decides to, well, when he does start selling them this time, he can have them manufactured locally, which is always fun.
00:16:38
Curt
Sick. Yeah, that looks cool. That looks cool.
00:16:40
jamie peacock
Yeah, so ah how are you heating your resin? I'm quite curious.
00:16:44
Curt
Um, so for the longest time I was being super like now that I want to give this resin printing a fair shake before I totally dismiss it and go to machining Delrin for these, these little weird widgets I'm making.
00:16:55
Curt
Um, cause if I can print them out a resin, I can literally offer this thing at a much more reasonable price for people. And then I can have more expensive versions. Um, so I want to heat the resin in the past.
00:17:03
jamie peacock
Sure.
00:17:04
Curt
I've just been using a heat gun to like heat the bath up to, you know, whatever, 30 degrees. Cause these resins print better at like 30, 35 degrees. So I've just been heating it like that. And then once it gets printing, it's usually fine.
00:17:15
Curt
But it's like, this is tedious.
00:17:15
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:17:17
Curt
I do not like this. So I brought i bought just like one of those in-chamber heaters that just sit right inside your printer. And then you just turn it on, like turn on like an hour before you print.
00:17:24
jamie peacock
Oh, okay.
00:17:27
Curt
ah Because my my vat is plastic and it's like double-walled. So like getting a vat heater is tedious.
00:17:31
jamie peacock
Hmm.
00:17:33
Curt
There's a cool company out of the EU that made one that goes like right in the vat. But and don't want to I don't want to wait like weeks to get it.
00:17:37
jamie peacock
Oh, okay.
00:17:39
Curt
So I just picked up one of these and yeah, I'm going give it a good work.
00:17:39
jamie peacock
Yeah. I have another stupid suggestion.
00:17:43
jamie peacock
um Could have used a terrarium heating pad. And then just put a piece of aluminum on that and placed your vat onto that.
00:17:43
Curt
What's that?
00:17:54
Curt
how How would the how it come through, though? Oh, you mean just heat it?
00:17:57
jamie peacock
Through the aluminum, through the resin, through the FEP film and straight into the resin on the bottom.
00:18:02
Curt
No, no not not the heat, the light. But you you mean just heat it before and then take it off?
00:18:04
jamie peacock
Yeah. Oh, no, no. The aquarium, sorry, the terrarium heaters, it's literally like a tinfoil pad that you plug into the wall and it just gets, it's got a built-in regulator.
00:18:10
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:18:13
jamie peacock
It sits at like 30 degrees.
00:18:15
Curt
Right. But you can't print with it.
00:18:15
jamie peacock
Because the, no, no, no.
00:18:17
Curt
Yeah.
00:18:17
jamie peacock
It would
Workshop Projects and Programming with ChatGPT
00:18:18
jamie peacock
just be for prepping your resin.
00:18:18
Curt
Yeah.
00:18:20
jamie peacock
And then the the resin printing is exothermic, isn't it?
00:18:20
Curt
Yeah.
00:18:22
jamie peacock
so the
00:18:23
Curt
It is. Yeah.
00:18:24
jamie peacock
Going from monomer to polymer.
00:18:26
Curt
Yep. Yeah.
00:18:26
jamie peacock
Okay.
00:18:27
Curt
That's why you typically don't have to worry about.
00:18:27
jamie peacock
So that would keep temperature. Yeah. Yeah.
00:18:29
Curt
Yeah. Typically. But I mean, it's a small printer, so it actually doesn't generate a ton of heat, even from printing. So I usually start losing, losing heat as it goes, but.
00:18:34
jamie peacock
Yeah. is your um Is your workshop not temperature controlled?
00:18:40
Curt
It is, but i only I keep it like right now, i keep it in like 20 in here because it's summer and it's hot.
00:18:44
jamie peacock
Oh yeah, okay. Comfortable comfortable temperature.
00:18:47
Curt
Yeah. And then the printer ones, like it would print better with that thick ah blue resin.
00:18:49
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:18:50
Curt
It'd print better at like 35 degrees. um So yeah, just crank it up.
00:18:53
jamie peacock
Okay. Just do want to do what Ben did from Black Fox.
00:18:58
Curt
what's What's... Oh, yeah. I thought about it. I thought about it. But i don't want I don't want to heat the whole, like, assembly up either. Like, I want the i want the ah projector to stay cool, but I want the...
00:19:06
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:19:08
Curt
Yeah. and
00:19:09
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:19:09
Curt
It was, like, $70 Canadian, so I was like, fuck it. I'll just try it, and if it doesn't work, whatever.
00:19:13
jamie peacock
Yeah, I'll give it a bash.
00:19:15
Curt
Yeah.
00:19:16
jamie peacock
Yeah, not the end of not the end of the world.
00:19:19
Curt
Exactly, yeah.
00:19:19
jamie peacock
job While we're on the 3D printing topic, I made buttons.
00:19:23
Curt
Mm-hmm. That is a very big button.
00:19:26
jamie peacock
So it's got three three push buttons on the bottom because these push buttons are horrible quality and are not super reliable.
00:19:31
Curt
Okay.
00:19:33
jamie peacock
So they're all in... parallel, so wherever you hit it, it triggers. This thing got beaten last week at the Quiznight, so now i'm busy printing another eight of them to, uh...
00:19:46
Curt
Yeah, well, they're huge. Like, I would beat that, too.
00:19:50
jamie peacock
100 grams of filament each. Printing them in PETG now, so if the guy leaves them in his car, it's not a problem. Whereas if it's PLA, they're going to melt. So that's tomorrow's endeavor.
00:19:58
Curt
Right.
00:19:59
jamie peacock
These will be done printing, and then I'll transplant all the electronics in, cut the acrylic discs, and sorted.
00:20:05
Curt
Nice.
00:20:06
jamie peacock
But yeah, designed to be printed without support.
00:20:06
Curt
Nice.
00:20:10
jamie peacock
So like little tapers on there, and even though even the back of the holes there, there's tapers.
00:20:12
Curt
Smart.
00:20:15
jamie peacock
like Yeah, quite a lot effort went into making that easy to print. Number five is on the printer in the background.
00:20:20
Curt
Nice.
00:20:21
jamie peacock
And then as soon as the eight of these are done, I'm printing tool tags and silver PETG.
00:20:27
Curt
I can hear your little power supply going,
00:20:30
jamie peacock
Yeah, every time the bed turns on.
00:20:32
Curt
Yeah.
00:20:33
jamie peacock
Yeah, the fan turns on on the power supply automatically. Yeah,
00:20:37
Curt
Sick. Cool. So what do you have going on here?
00:20:39
jamie peacock
oh
00:20:41
Curt
ah Did you get said did you get do you get hidden in your workshop in the dark again?
00:20:41
jamie peacock
let's... Yep.
00:20:47
jamie peacock
I did. We have a button programmed now.
00:20:48
Curt
Nice.
00:20:50
jamie peacock
but so okay So when I got the fiber last week, I just hooked up my, I moved my mesh network around.
00:20:50
Curt
Okay. Okay.
00:20:56
jamie peacock
And since then, it's been endless cuck with home assistance. It'll connect to the internet, won't connect over the local network. So eventually got that resolved. ah It was an IP issue and a DHCP issue on the one router.
00:21:10
jamie peacock
Still have an issue with the router in the office, but don't know how fix that tomorrow because I disabled DHCP on the my old router, which is acting as a network switch. Anyway, got that sorted. But then this morning I was busy warming up machines and don't know, I kicked something and tripped the power.
00:21:25
jamie peacock
Not entirely sure what happened, but tripped the breaker um or earth leakage. And then when I reset, my home assistant's light controller wouldn't come on. Like wouldn't connect to the network for the whole freaking day.
00:21:39
jamie peacock
And then i end up then I ended up at my neighbor. I'm like, hey, I need button on this thing. So I went there. We're busy looking, trying to figure out how to do He's like, hang on. Open chat GPT.
00:21:51
jamie peacock
Put in chat GPT. Problem solved. So that's now implemented, except there's no button.
00:21:53
Curt
nice
00:21:55
jamie peacock
I need to still add the actual physical button to the light controller unit tomorrow. But then I will be able to hit it with a broom because it's up on the wall. Hit it with a broom and it'll toggle the state of the relays.
00:22:06
jamie peacock
So in the event that the network is down, I can boop it to turn it on and boop it to turn it off.
00:22:13
Curt
Nice.
00:22:14
jamie peacock
Yeah, so that got implemented.
00:22:15
Curt
And to tall all the people saying that if you just had a light switch on the wall, it would do the same thing, you can go straight to hell because that's not
Managing Customer Orders and Inventory
00:22:23
Curt
what we want to do.
00:22:23
jamie peacock
ah My light switch on the wall doesn't respond when I say enable Ironman mode.
00:22:28
Curt
Oh, fair.
00:22:29
jamie peacock
Yeah, that that's my morning routine. Walk in. Enable Ironman mode. Obviously put the the keywords in front, but yeah. Enable Ironman mode. When I leave, it's disable Ironman mode. It brings me great joy.
00:22:40
Curt
It's the little things. Yeah.
00:22:41
jamie peacock
Yeah, my compressor is going to get put onto that shortly. That's one of the one of the things on my list there. um
00:22:46
Curt
Hmm.
00:22:46
jamie peacock
I need to sit with ChatGPT and program... The compressor controller for a customer and I need to machine the boxes and weld them up this week because that's getting invoiced tomorrow. So I need to deliver it this week still for them.
00:22:58
jamie peacock
um But then you're going to have a compressor controller that will get turned on by ChatGPT so that I can have my compressor staying in a much narrower ah air pressure band and also lead lag and all the all the fun stuff like that.
00:23:06
Curt
Hmm. Hmm.
00:23:17
Curt
Yeah.
00:23:17
jamie peacock
at least on my one. On their one, it's just a big, it's a compressor with ah a head that's super cheap to replace. It's a three-piston, just normal belt-driven compressor because it's in their factory they don't really care.
00:23:30
jamie peacock
um That if the head goes, they go buy a new one and they're up and running in like three hours. But it's meant to run on a 2.2 kilowatt motor. They've got a or kilowatt motor it.
00:23:41
Curt
OK.
00:23:45
jamie peacock
so It's like super oversized.
00:23:46
Curt
Oh, nice. OK.
00:23:47
jamie peacock
It starts under full load. It doesn't care.
00:23:50
jamie peacock
And it's three phases. It just goes. So yeah, I've got to go get that all hooked up for them because they can run their whole shop on that.
00:23:50
Curt
Nice.
00:23:52
Curt
ah
00:23:56
jamie peacock
The issue they're having is relying on their compressor. The pressure switch turns on too late and off. It turns off at like eight or 10 bar, but it turns on too late. Some of the pressers don't like it.
00:24:08
jamie peacock
That's why they want the tighter band on the um the pressure.
00:24:09
Curt
Mm.
00:24:12
Curt
Mm.
00:24:13
jamie peacock
ah jar ran I went there today to go pick up a bin for my shavings because Bertha is full of shavings. So I have nowhere to put them anymore. So I went and picked up a big tote. I'm going fill it up tomorrow morning and then I've got to go to a meeting there. So going dump off all my mixed and steel shavings and then come back and then go back there with all my aluminum shavings in the afternoon.
00:24:35
Curt
exciting lots of driving yeah reason
00:24:35
jamie peacock
Because again, yeah, going to be a couple hundred kilos. At least they're not too far. They're like 15 minutes away. So it's not the end of the world. Also, so I don't think the shavings are going this week, so I don't have to get the aluminium ones there tomorrow. I just want to get the steel ones out of my workshop in the mixed.
00:24:50
jamie peacock
So that's the the main priority for tomorrow morning.
00:24:54
Curt
yeah cool cool
00:24:55
jamie peacock
door And then, yeah, other than that, I've been knocking ah knocking out all the small jobs. I've had stuff sitting in the workshop for like six months. It literally took me ten minutes. set the job up, run it, and it's just, in my mind, it's a freaking mountain, so i'm busy running through all of those.
00:25:05
Curt
Yeah.
00:25:09
jamie peacock
so Like, today I made 13 case gauges. The LK ran all morning with no lights, while I ran Bertha and the Emco.
00:25:21
Curt
Nice. It's nice to get rid of those stupid little like time sucks.
00:25:21
jamie peacock
Oh, yeah.
00:25:24
jamie peacock
Oh, yeah. And it's not even a freaking time suck. It's just, in my mind, it's a mountain, when in reality, it's a molehill. And, yeah, the mental inertia thing is is a challenge.
00:25:31
Curt
Right.
00:25:36
jamie peacock
uh yeah actually carl called me out today for it he's like uh no that adhd people like to work with a lot of pressure i'm like yeah it wasn't for the last minute nothing would ever get done yeah
00:25:38
Curt
I get that.
00:25:48
Curt
Yeah. Yeah, I know exactly. What's that thing? If you need something done, give it to a busy person or something like that. It's like, exactly.
00:25:53
jamie peacock
yeah no that's it like he's like i'm like no i'm fucking lazy he's like no you're not lazy you just don't have motivation to do it i'm like fair enough
00:25:55
Curt
Yeah.
00:26:01
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:26:03
jamie peacock
there's no dire need for me to do it so why would I do it
00:26:07
Curt
Yeah, exactly. Do it at the ninth hour. Yeah. Just like, yeah.
00:26:09
jamie peacock
yeah 100% like under pressure it's the way yeah it makes it more fun that way but yeah I've got a couple stupid things to do on the lathes tomorrow and then yeah a bunch of random stuff in the workshop at the moment it's a bit a bit annoying also month enders are creeping up on us rather rapidly
00:26:11
Curt
Yeah.
00:26:13
Curt
Yeah. The best way to do things. Yeah.
00:26:19
Curt
Yeah.
00:26:32
Curt
Oh, I know it always comes so fast.
00:26:33
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:26:34
jamie peacock
Well, yeah, this month's been interesting cash flow was like, yeah, I don't know what's happening with all the customers. It's getting a bit, a bit tedious, but ah a lot of fire under them. They're getting, the big customers getting a price increase now because brass has gone up in price.
00:26:34
Curt
I know.
00:26:49
jamie peacock
So I think after like two or three years, they can get a price increase. And if they cry about it, they can go somewhere else, especially considering they like placing stupid orders with me now.
00:26:53
Curt
yeah especially
00:26:59
Curt
well especially with the last two or three years of entail like it's been uh all kinds of interesting things in the world so oh boy
00:27:03
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:27:06
jamie peacock
Yeah, well, speaking of that, we sent out an update on the Anchor Point today the to all the people who signed up for the newsletter. And one of the things in there was from the beginning of next month, we will be adjusting the Anchor Point price if there's any major fluctuations in the Rand dollar because we're manufacturing in Rand's and every time I look, the dollar is dropping.
00:27:28
jamie peacock
So I don't want to be in a position where I'm making them for free.
00:27:32
Curt
Right, yeah know totally. Yeah, it makes sense.
00:27:33
jamie peacock
you so Yeah, so there might be some fluctuation coming on those pricing, on that pricing. um But yeah, while we're on that topic, there are four units available for anyone who wants to pick one up, because we're not starting on batch two until batch one is gone.
00:27:50
jamie peacock
Just cash flow reasons and whatnot.
00:27:54
Curt
no
00:27:54
jamie peacock
So that's all, yeah.
00:27:54
Curt
Probably a wise idea, yeah.
00:27:55
jamie peacock
Yeah, like I don't want to sit with 24 of the things instead of four. So yeah.
00:28:00
Curt
Yeah.
00:28:02
jamie peacock
trying to be a responsible adult. It's horrible.
00:28:05
Curt
Oh, I know. It's so much easier just to do things on the whims of what you want to do Yeah, I get it.
00:28:07
jamie peacock
Yeah. Well, that's what I did last year.
00:28:09
Curt
I get it.
00:28:10
jamie peacock
And now I'm reaping the benefits of it.
00:28:12
jamie peacock
um Every spare cent was buying tools or investing in equipment. And yeah, now we sitting with customers not placing orders and thinking, Oh, cock I shouldn't have done that.
00:28:12
Curt
Yeah.
00:28:23
jamie peacock
But no as well as you live and you learn no points in no points in being sad about what you did in the past.
00:28:26
Curt
Yeah.
00:28:30
jamie peacock
You did the right decision at the time, because if it wasn't the right decision, you wouldn't have done it.
00:28:34
Curt
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, or you wouldn't be here talking about it. Yeah, no, exactly.
00:28:37
jamie peacock
Yeah. click Passed Jamie was a dickhead. That is what it is.
00:28:42
Curt
Yeah.
00:28:43
jamie peacock
Look.
00:28:43
Curt
Yeah, no doubt.
00:28:45
jamie peacock
Yeah, no point in being sad about it. It's not going to fix it.
00:28:49
Curt
Yeah.
00:28:50
jamie peacock
But yeah. So, well o I'm very curious about the titanium helicopter main rotor.
00:28:57
Curt
Okay. that was kind of fun. Um, I have a local friend here. Uh, he's bought quite a few of my pens and, um, he, uh, he hit me up and he's like, Hey man, he's like, I have a bunch of titanium, uh, like titanium scrap.
00:29:09
Curt
Would you be interested in it? And I was like, yeah, sure. So we kind of struck up a deal and, um, he's just going to give it to me. And I was like, you don't to give it to me. Like, I don't expect, I'm like, I'm probably going to turn it into something that I'm going to sell. for you know profit so i i want to i don't want you to give me something and then see me turn around and sell it for a bunch of cash and just feel weird about it so i'm like no no no no we we'll work something out so we work something out i mean he he took me some pictures i'm like and they were like big chunks of titanium like i don't know they're whatever like we'll do it we'll do it metric to keep everyone angry oh like probably 30 centimeters by maybe like 15 centimeters by 20 cent
00:29:24
jamie peacock
yeah
00:29:42
jamie peacock
so one foot by six inches
00:29:44
Curt
Yeah, one foot by six inches by like maybe a half inch to a one inch to three quarter inch to one and a half inch thick, like big slabs of titanium. But they're like very, very like organic shapes. Like they taper and they're all because asked, he's like, do you have a saw? I'm like, yeah, I can cut it up.
00:29:59
Curt
He's like, because he's like, they're weird shapes. He's like, but they're yours if you want them. And then he's like, I have one with the serial number on He's like, it's from a helicopter. um So I looked at the serial number and it's Bell. um I think Bell 412, so like a 412 helicopter.
00:30:07
jamie peacock
Oh,
00:30:10
Curt
um But thankfully, I could look up the whole serial number. And on Boeing's site, you can back look the serial numbers up, or sorry, the part numbers up to what specific part that is. um And I figured out all the parts he gave me are from the main rotor assembly on ah on a Bell helicopter.
00:30:20
jamie peacock
okay.
00:30:25
jamie peacock
Oh, cool.
00:30:25
Curt
um
00:30:26
Curt
And I picked him up. I'm like, these don't feel like titanium. He's like, oh, I'm pretty sure they're titanium. And yeah, so I gave him an anodizing test and they're 100% titanium. And just judging by where they were used, they're using the main rotor assembly.
00:30:35
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:30:36
Curt
they They're probably grade five too. um
00:30:38
jamie peacock
Yeah, I going to say, what grade would they be?
00:30:38
Curt
Yeah.
00:30:39
jamie peacock
But yeah, probably grade five.
Repurposing Helicopter Parts and Machining for Aeronautics
00:30:41
Curt
pretty Pretty sure it'd be grade five. I don't think they'd use grade two. They definitely wouldn't be using like commercially pure.
00:30:45
jamie peacock
CP, hell no.
00:30:46
Curt
Yeah. So I'm pretty sure it's grade five. It feels like and kind of like from what looks like, it if I can say it feels like grade five.
00:30:49
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:30:52
Curt
um Once I cut it, I'll know. But yeah, so.
00:30:54
jamie peacock
Did you do the BART test?
00:30:56
jamie peacock
Ah, grade five.
00:30:56
Curt
The bite test.
00:30:57
Curt
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, exactly.
00:30:58
jamie peacock
No,
00:30:59
Curt
Yeah, yeah. It's good. Solid gold. Yeah. Yeah. So I'm going to turn him.
00:31:02
jamie peacock
that's fucking, can Yeah.
00:31:04
Curt
like I'm going to turn him into something, but there's one, cause it still has a serial tag stamped into it.
00:31:06
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:31:08
Curt
So I'm going to try to save that and just machine it into something cool. So you still have like the, that one I'm probably going to keep.
00:31:12
jamie peacock
lu yeah yeah
00:31:14
Curt
I'm not going to give that piece away, but that's kind of fun. It's just kind of cool seeing like, don't know. It's just cool looking up the, like the picture and being like, Oh, that's exactly where it came from. And I sent him the picture.
00:31:22
jamie peacock
yeah that's quite cool yeah no the cool cool bits and bobs um yeah yeah
00:31:23
Curt
I'm like, this is where it came from. And yeah, this is kind of cool. I like, I like getting stuff like that. So yeah. Yeah.
00:31:32
Curt
Yeah, well, my uncle, I'd say my uncle flies helis, so he gave me, like, he gave me a cross-section of, like, a helicopter blade. um So I got all kinds of weird, weird little pieces of fun manufacturing.
00:31:39
jamie peacock
Okay.
00:31:41
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah, my brother-in-law used to be a helicopter pilot. And then he did an involuntary disco dance at work.
00:31:47
Curt
Hmm.
00:31:49
jamie peacock
And no longer a helicopter pilot. Yeah, had a seizure because he had a brain tumor.
00:31:52
Curt
Hmm.
00:31:54
jamie peacock
But yeah, he's got...
00:31:54
Curt
Oh, shit.
00:31:55
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, no, it was great. Like, we joke about it now, but yeah, it was a little serious. ah He was literally on his way to get in the helicopter to fly out to the oil buoy off Durban.
00:32:01
Curt
Oh.
00:32:05
jamie peacock
And is' what we've got a video of it, like the security camera.
00:32:07
Curt
the
00:32:07
jamie peacock
fucking e Involuntary disco dance.
00:32:10
Curt
Whoa.
00:32:11
jamie peacock
And then didn't want to get, didn't want them to put him in the ambulance because he knew when he got put in the ambulance, he was never flying again.
00:32:17
jamie peacock
Like his whole identity was being a pilot. From when he was like 16, he got a job sweeping hangars.
00:32:17
Curt
Right, yeah.
00:32:20
Curt
Right.
00:32:23
jamie peacock
And for every like eight hours he swept, he got one hour of flight time to build hours. Like that is how, yeah.
00:32:29
Curt
OK, yeah.
00:32:30
jamie peacock
And then he went to the Air Force out of high school and... was the main training guy for the Oryx and the... What's the other one? Shit. Anyway, for the SA military, it was the main training guy for the Oryx.
00:32:46
jamie peacock
It's going bug me. Oh, and Alouette. I actually flew an Alouette with him a few months ago, after the whole brain tumor thing.
00:32:52
jamie peacock
So he's technically not allowed to be the pilot, but if his friends are pilots, he can fly. So we were flying, we're flying in Alouette 2 and we're flying up. You can tell when you're flying when an Air Force guy's flying because the trees are above you.
00:32:52
Curt
Wow.
00:33:06
Curt
Right, yeah, yeah.
00:33:07
jamie peacock
but yeah Yeah, we were were going down, we came down the river with the other guy flying, then ah Brother-in-law took the sticks and literally the trees were above us. We were going along the river.
00:33:14
Curt
Yeah.
00:33:15
jamie peacock
It was insane. But yeah, like I've flown a couple times with him. Flew his Boeing Stearman before he sold it. ah Obviously sold it because he couldn't fly it anymore. um ah Yeah, I flew that with him from Springs to Krugersdorp.
00:33:29
jamie peacock
Krugersdorp's so creepy. You come in on approach and the runway's above you. It's up a hill.
00:33:34
Curt
Oh, wild.
00:33:34
jamie peacock
you're literally coming in and the runway, the end of the runway is above you. And then, you know, you cruise up the hill to slow down.
00:33:38
Curt
Cool.
00:33:39
jamie peacock
So, you know, we've had lots of fun and yeah did a bit of work on his Yak 55s. We put in smoke systems a few years ago. I machined bits and bobs for that and then, you know, wired them all into the Yaks.
00:33:47
Curt
Oh, pretty, yeah.
00:33:50
jamie peacock
So he used to do aerobatics.
00:33:51
Curt
Cool.
00:33:51
jamie peacock
Like he was, that that was his thing. He was a pilot.
00:33:54
Curt
Hmm.
00:33:55
jamie peacock
And then, they yeah, involuntary disco dance and no more piloting for him. He's actually going to Oshkosh now in in July.
00:34:03
Curt
Oh, cool. Oh, cool.
00:34:04
jamie peacock
Yeah, he sold it. So his one mate's like, sell this airplane. I'll pay for your ticket to go to Oshkosh because he's selling airplanes now.
00:34:09
jamie peacock
And like a week later, he's cool, it's sold. He's like, yeah, yeah, yeah. He has a ticket to Oshkosh. So he's, yeah.
00:34:10
Curt
Oh, cool.
00:34:14
Curt
Nice.
00:34:14
jamie peacock
He went, I think, 2005 with his dad and their one friend and did a whole tour of the U.S.
00:34:21
Curt
Nice.
00:34:21
jamie peacock
But yeah, I've actually got a pot for an airplane sitting downstairs that they need me to, for the oil system pickup, they need me to make a new one of because that one is so stripped and welded and duct taped that it leaks.
00:34:33
jamie peacock
So they want a new version of it.
00:34:36
Curt
Fair. That's kind of an important part, yeah.
00:34:37
jamie peacock
Yeah. Kind of important. Yeah, it's for when you go inverted to keep the oil flowing. It picks up from a different section. So I need to just actually cad it up and then make it.
00:34:43
Curt
Hmm. Oh,
00:34:47
jamie peacock
So it should be fun. I like fun things like that.
00:34:49
Curt
that's good. Yeah, that's cool. That's cool.
00:34:51
jamie peacock
so Yeah. So one thing one thing I did learn this week is that smaller cutters and steel run really well.
00:34:59
Curt
ah Oh, explain.
00:35:00
jamie peacock
So I was roughing with a 10mm cutter and a 30 taper machine. And it does a good job. Moved good couple kilos of material. And then I burnt it up. cutting tool steel.
00:35:11
jamie peacock
So I then bought an 8mm and it ran friggin beautifully till I decided to push it straight through cap screw because I used a 3D adaptive and I was using a 10mm so it ignored the center hole and then I switched to an 8 and then it's like, oh, we can shove this in here and I didn't catch it.
00:35:29
Curt
Oh, nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:35:30
jamie peacock
till it got the punch right into the bolt. um And then I bought some six millimeter ones. So like quarter inch. Wow, they run beautifully. Obviously a lot less load, similar material removal rates, um but just runs nicely in the machine. If you don't need the length of cuts, and then why use a bigger tool?
00:35:50
Curt
Right. Yeah.
00:35:50
jamie peacock
They're also half the price. Yeah, so I was roughing bunch of tool steel out this this week and then finishing it with just a normal six six millimeter four flute. But yeah, works freaking beautifully.
00:36:02
jamie peacock
So something, know, maybe helps someone. Don't always have to go for the biggest tool available.
00:36:08
Curt
Were you, ah like, were you adjusting the SFM for everyone or were you just running the same, like, okay.
00:36:11
jamie peacock
Yes. No, no.
00:36:13
jamie peacock
So so um I was using SFM off of the charts I have for my Ceratoba, some funny brand that I use generally.
00:36:13
Curt
Okay.
00:36:13
Curt
So it, it,
00:36:21
jamie peacock
And I got a RPM che che she cheat for that. And I use the RPMs off of there or the SFM off of there. And it's pretty good. It's increased my tool life significantly. But yeah, the 10 mil.
00:36:33
jamie peacock
So I've been running. So with my coolant ring. I noticed the cup was getting hot on the front side, but it wasn't getting enough coolant. So I pulled one of the lines back down just to properly wet it out for steel.
00:36:45
jamie peacock
For aluminium, it doesn't really matter. But for steel, it matters, apparently. So, yeah, I fixed it with that as well.
00:36:51
Curt
it's cool.
00:36:52
jamie peacock
But yeah, six mils, they run beautifully. like It's also, it's 30 taper machine. You can't go full tighten on it.
00:36:58
Curt
Yeah, no doubt. I mean, you can, but yeah, yeah, it just, you gotta, yeah, exactly.
00:37:00
jamie peacock
Yeah, you can for a very limited time.
00:37:05
Curt
Yeah.
00:37:05
jamie peacock
Like today I was punching 9.6 millimeter drills into 7075 at like silly feed silly ah yeah feed feed per rev.
00:37:19
jamie peacock
They're just throwing shavings, putting 600 odd holes today.
00:37:19
Curt
Hmm.
00:37:25
jamie peacock
So drill them down with that, then drill them through with the 9.1, then ream them, the special tapered reamer, then just poke the burr out with the 9.1 again.
00:37:26
Curt
That's lot of holes.
00:37:33
jamie peacock
But yeah, carbide drills are magic. i was doing 8 000 rpm it was freaking amazing and that's yeah it's a 0.378 drill don't know what that means in imperialim but uh yeah just shy of 10 millimeters yeah yeah i broke my 0.75 drill the other day again some i think a shaving got caught on it and i tugged and it broke
00:37:36
Curt
Yeah.
00:37:47
Curt
Sick. Yeah. Drills are amazing. i I baby my drills, but yeah, it's still, they're they're incredible.
00:38:03
jamie peacock
Although i drilled 100 holes with one this morning and it was fun. I was wearing my fancy glasses, my leopard print glasses.
00:38:09
Curt
I saw those. They're very pretty.
00:38:10
jamie peacock
yeah
00:38:11
Curt
Yeah.
00:38:12
jamie peacock
They're so pretty are they like 3.5 plus reading glasses so that I can actually see the frickin drill in the machine because can't get my head close enough because the m goes tiny.
00:38:22
jamie peacock
So what I do is ah I'll turn a pip. So I'll face down and then leave the little center pip and then I just eyeball it. And that gets me close enough that I'll drill like 1000 parts on a single drill bit.
00:38:30
Curt
Yeah.
00:38:34
jamie peacock
So yeah, but you need to be able to get close enough to see that shit.
00:38:35
Curt
Right. Yeah. Yeah.
00:38:38
jamie peacock
So yeah, my sexy glasses, which are really annoying, like Danica came to ask me something. And um I stood up, I looked at him like, okay, cool, I'm not gonna move because I'm gonna fall over. Because the it just knew brain said no.
00:38:47
Curt
Right, yeah.
00:38:52
jamie peacock
Even looking at the screen is difficult, but I need them to be able to see that to align my centers.
00:38:58
Curt
Yeah, I know.
00:38:59
jamie peacock
Like I guess I could do the whole slidey slidey drill bush story, but me, I'm running brass.
00:39:04
Curt
I want, I want like a pair of safety, like talking about all these like AR glasses and stuff coming out. I want a pair of glasses that have like zoom on them so that I can be working and they're normal. Like they're like one-to-one, but then when I want to zoom in, there's like zoom and give me like four X or like 10 X.
00:39:13
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:39:17
Curt
So I can like look real close.
00:39:17
jamie peacock
Go-go-gadget zoom.
00:39:18
Curt
and Yeah, totally. Google gadget zoom. I would wear them everywhere. I don't care what I look like. Like there would be so cool. Not that I have any need to zoom in in life.
00:39:27
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:39:27
Curt
Whatever. Leave that topic, I guess. But it just it would just be so useful to like... Same thing. Because like I'm always trying to like... And actually, the worst one is the sile.
00:39:33
jamie peacock
yeah
00:39:35
Curt
Trying to get my head into the sile. Like the lathe isn't bad. But the sile, just the way the tool changer is. And all my tools are like needles. So like to get my head in to look at the vise. The same thing. like Use a loop to check in engraving or something like that.
00:39:45
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:39:46
Curt
like There'll be like a thread mill above my head. Like a 1.32nd end mill. And then like a 0.3 drill. Like if I move up, like they're going directly into my brain. Like I will instantly die inside my machine just by poking my head on one of these stupid tools.
00:39:55
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:39:59
jamie peacock
Yeah, i was trying to touch something off today, and the LK, you've got to lean so far into it, because it's a bigger machine.
00:40:00
Curt
So.
00:40:06
jamie peacock
like Oh, my poor back. I was just trying to touch something off of the parallel, and I'm like, yeah, like in the machine, trying to try to touch it off. It was a little bit of a schlep.
00:40:17
jamie peacock
But yeah, my machine's low.
00:40:17
Curt
Yeah. full
00:40:18
jamie peacock
It's a bit annoying. Like the table's are lower than I want to.
00:40:20
Curt
I say if only I,
00:40:23
Curt
I say if only if I had like ah some sort of like zero point system where I could take the part out and examine it and then put it back
DIY vs Industrial Machines: Pros and Cons
00:40:28
Curt
in like that would be amazing.
00:40:28
jamie peacock
Can you imagine how awesome that would be?
00:40:30
Curt
It would be incredible.
00:40:31
jamie peacock
Yeah, like, wow. If only someone made something like that, that would anchor your part.
00:40:35
Curt
Yeah. iphon Yeah. Yeah.
00:40:38
Curt
Exactly. Yeah. I know.
00:40:40
jamie peacock
oh Yeah, but you'll get there. Don't stress.
00:40:46
jamie peacock
Speaking of anchor points, so remember last week I had the cunning plan of putting six of them in my machine?
00:40:46
Curt
Oh, yeah.
00:40:47
Curt
Yes.
00:40:51
Curt
Yes.
00:40:52
jamie peacock
Yeah, that changed.
00:40:54
Curt
Oh, OK.
00:40:55
jamie peacock
I decided to make a rise use my current riser that I have, um make another riser on top of my current riser to be able to get the thing level with the current anchor points, and then just make a big pallet that goes onto my riser with my two vases.
00:40:56
Curt
What's up?
00:41:07
Curt
OK.
00:41:11
jamie peacock
ah Cheaper solution, because trying to convince the guy that they need to pay me like six times the machining cost to do setup is not going to fly. So I figured I'd go this route, and then I can sell anchor points.
00:41:20
Curt
Fair.
00:41:23
jamie peacock
Speaking of, there's four anchor points available for anyone who's interested. um
00:41:27
Curt
Jump on it.
00:41:28
jamie peacock
Yeah, because ah the next batch is hopefully going to be at the end of June that we release batch two.
00:41:35
Curt
Cool.
00:41:36
jamie peacock
But yeah that's ah yeah, we'll get into that a bit later on.
00:41:36
Curt
Go, go, go.
00:41:40
jamie peacock
And then we have, I did a Q&A today. So I have a question regarding LinuxCNC.
00:41:45
Curt
Ooh, fun.
00:41:46
jamie peacock
Not question from me, question from... Well, actually both. So have you ever had your um your tool offsets disappear?
00:41:59
Curt
No.
00:42:00
jamie peacock
Tool table disappear?
00:42:02
Curt
No.
00:42:03
jamie peacock
Work offsets disappear?
00:42:05
Curt
No.
00:42:06
jamie peacock
Okay, I guess you live in a place where there's electricity all the time.
00:42:09
Curt
I guess so.
00:42:10
jamie peacock
How fancy.
00:42:10
Curt
No.
00:42:11
jamie peacock
Okay, so I'm just trying to pull the question up. Okay, so I've had that happen to me. And I have basically discovered that it's... Okay, there we go.
00:42:23
jamie peacock
I discovered that it's caused by a power outage at the wrong part of the cycle. So it doesn't always happen. But if you catch the machine in the wrong state, it will lose your offsets.
00:42:34
jamie peacock
So your G54, G55, and occasionally your tool library. Also, if you read um go into PNC config and you output a new config on the newer versions, like if you edit something, it deletes your tool table. It generates a new generic tool table.
00:42:51
Curt
Ooh. Yeah, that's rough.
00:42:52
jamie peacock
which is really annoying. Yeah, I know.
00:42:54
Curt
Yeah.
00:42:55
jamie peacock
I actually copied the one in for Bertha and I made a backup. So the question I got was from Fabtastic Creations.
00:43:07
jamie peacock
Hang on one moment. I believe that's Luke, who's also on Patreon.
00:43:10
Curt
Oh, nice. OK, cool. OK. That's.
00:43:12
jamie peacock
um
00:43:12
Curt
Yeah, that would do it.
00:43:13
jamie peacock
Anyway, he has one of the APSX Nano Suisses.
00:43:17
Curt
oh nice okay cool
00:43:18
jamie peacock
Yes, but Linux CNC will lose tool positions.
00:43:23
Curt
okay
00:43:24
jamie peacock
So I think it's either a power cycling issue oh he's not or post is not calling a g forty three with the tool number.
00:43:25
Curt
that's
00:43:36
Curt
yeah i would do it
00:43:37
jamie peacock
Because I know i I modified both my posts for my lathes to throw G43 in there.
00:43:42
Curt
Yeah.
00:43:44
jamie peacock
Because sometimes it'll work. Sometimes you T1 M6, it pulls it in. Sometimes it doesn't. I don't know what causes the sometimes-ness. But yeah, that I think that might be your issue. I'm going to pop him a message anyway because...
00:43:58
jamie peacock
I don't think he needs to wait. Well, I mean, and until tomorrow. Oh, no. But yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna just pop my message and say, this is what I think it might be.
00:44:01
Curt
listen
00:44:07
jamie peacock
And in all likelihood, it is a ge ah G, a 43 issue. Because I know that the the standard Linux NC post does not include that.
00:44:11
Curt
yeah
00:44:15
jamie peacock
And I've had it before where sometimes it pulls in and sometimes it doesn't.
00:44:20
Curt
Yep. I find that on my lathe.
00:44:20
jamie peacock
Which
00:44:21
Curt
I had to alter the pose to ah to put G43s in because same thing.
00:44:24
jamie peacock
Yeah,
00:44:24
Curt
it wouldn't It would be like...
00:44:26
jamie peacock
It'll do it sometimes and it won't do it other times. It's frigging annoying.
00:44:28
Curt
Yeah.
00:44:29
jamie peacock
But yeah, something to watch is the tool table being wiped if you're going through PNC config.
00:44:29
Curt
Yeah.
00:44:33
jamie peacock
um And then also your work offsets getting deleted if you power cycle at the wrong time. Or live in Africa and have the power switched off for you because, I don't know, they promised people free electricity and then stopped doing any infrastructure development and instead stole all the money.
00:44:43
Curt
Yeah.
00:44:52
jamie peacock
Africa.
00:44:52
Curt
Yeah.
00:44:54
jamie peacock
Yeah, that that's also been interesting this week with, I know we're not meant to do politics, but with the visit to the US of our lovely president.
00:44:54
Curt
Yeah, probably good.
00:45:03
Curt
I was going to ask you about that.
00:45:04
jamie peacock
Yeah, squirrel rummer pizza. Yeah. Yeah, like that that was the best during lockdowns when we had the broadcast to to the nation over YouTube.
00:45:16
jamie peacock
Everyone the comments was like, post the squirrel to summon the cyril. And it was just squirrels in the comments. It was freaking great. like It was the best. Watching the comments was more entertaining than watching the actual address.
00:45:30
jamie peacock
all
00:45:30
Curt
Yeah, all fun stuff.
00:45:31
jamie peacock
Yeah, I know that. I had a couple of messages from... It's been very interesting to see how the different medias handle that whole situation.
00:45:37
Curt
Yeah. Well, you guys didn't give him an airplane, so that's not very nice.
00:45:38
jamie peacock
But yeah, think we...
00:45:42
jamie peacock
Well, know we're very mean. But we should have. We've got a bunch of spare ones since i a National Airline closed down. But yeah, I think we'll we'll get a bit more into that one in the after show because that's a tad, tad controversial.
00:45:52
Curt
Yeah, that sounds so sounds like a better place for that.
00:45:57
jamie peacock
Yeah. ah So, let's do all the shout-outs and things quickly. so Thank you to all of our Patreons who make the wheels on the bus go round and round. We've got Jade from Benchmark20.
00:46:10
jamie peacock
Thank you very much. And Luke from Fabtastic. Thank you also. We also got a new Patreon this week. The one and only Dylan Jackson.
00:46:19
Curt
Thank you all kindly.
00:46:20
jamie peacock
Which, yeah, I was quite surprised by. Like, it's quite interesting to see how much reach the podcast actually has. But yeah, the Patreons all get the after show. And at some point, I'm sure we'll put a Q&A on there.
00:46:30
jamie peacock
I think we meant to, but yeah. I'll harass Danica tomorrow and get her to put one up for us. Or plan to put one up like a day or two before the next recording session. Just so that we... We remember to do that. My lovely wife, the podcast producer, also asked me to please let everyone know that the end of the month is the last time you'll be able to buy the shirts that are currently on the JSpec ENG store.
00:46:53
jamie peacock
So if you're interested in any of those designs, grab them now because they will be gone. And there will be new ones from the first. So yeah, she asked me to please shout that out again so that if anyone wants them, they can go get them.
00:47:05
jamie peacock
But yeah, so...
00:47:06
Curt
Yeah.
00:47:07
jamie peacock
i
00:47:08
Curt
Sick.
00:47:08
jamie peacock
let's Let's be crackheads. Oh, no, do we still have one more? Okay, we'll come back because that kind of ties in youre your last one there.
00:47:15
Curt
Okay.
00:47:17
jamie peacock
ah Let's be crackheads telling people that crack is great.
00:47:17
Curt
Okay. Okay. Yeah.
00:47:20
jamie peacock
um So the topic I had in mind...
00:47:25
jamie peacock
was ah retrofits and DIY machines, the pros and cons. Like both of us started off with retrofitting or building our own machines, and we've now both got fancy milling machines that we didn't DIY or build.
00:47:35
Curt
Yeah. Right.
00:47:42
jamie peacock
So what yeah what would you say ah some of the pros and cons ah associated with going the DIY route as opposed to the the expensive route?
00:47:42
Curt
right
00:47:55
Curt
I mean, but like the two huge pros I can say are, A, it's going to be less cash expensive. I won't say time expensive, but if you have time, like if you have a day job and you're just kind of slowly snowballing something, you know, to maybe be a full-time gig and you have more time than cash, DIYing a machine is...
00:48:13
Curt
obviously great in that regard. And the fact that you'll know it inside out, like if anything breaks, like my hard engine, especially like I gutted that thing. Like I know every single part of that machine machine, aside from something hugely mechanical, there's nothing on that machine I can't fix that I don't know about.
00:48:27
Curt
Whereas my style is kind of a bit of a black box in certain instances. Cause I'm like, i don't know exactly how this is wired up or programmed or coded or like, so if there's an error there, I'm not, and I'm not as easy. You know, I can't quickly as quickly fix it, but at the same time,
00:48:39
Curt
I didn't have to build it. So yeah, that's, that's the main con is you have to build it
00:48:43
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:48:43
Curt
don't know. What, what would you say for your pros and cons?
00:48:46
jamie peacock
So yeah, like if you, as you said, if you've got more time than money, which in my case, when I was getting annoyed with my boss and starting out Jspec engineering, I had more time than money. Like I couldn't afford to buy a machine, but I could afford to spend my evenings at the machine shop making my machine or designing a machine and wiring it up in my flat. Like there were, there's always options.
00:49:10
jamie peacock
It's just a ah money, money makes things go really easily, but, uh, It also comes with its own set of caveats. And yeah, the slowio. I know, well, I know everything on the machine because guess what?
00:49:21
jamie peacock
I made every component on the machine. So I know it inside and out. Same thing with Bertha and the Emco. I know those machines inside out because I took them all apart. And like Bertha, the computer died lost last week or the week before. know.
00:49:35
jamie peacock
In the past. And I bought all the spares. It took me not even a day and I had a fully functional, as functional as it was before machine. And it's up and running. And I think since then has made like two or three, no, made like 700 or 800 parts since I got it up and running again. Like it's a workhorse.
00:49:55
jamie peacock
But having said that, it is. It's been super reliable, but I can't say it's as reliable as an industrial machine. Like there's always those little things like, i don't know, it's not as accurate as it could be.
00:50:11
jamie peacock
The ways are a little bit worn out. If you home the machine, you've got to re remark your sizes. It's not an industrial machine. Whereas I look at the LK. Like today I was running a pot this evening and I forgot to put a fillet on one. or I put a fillet and fusion decided to be stupid.
00:50:28
jamie peacock
And I'm like, ooh, if I remachine this, is my surface finish going to go to ship? No, it's not. Because the machine positions exactly. Exactly, exactly.
00:50:35
Curt
Yeah.
00:50:36
jamie peacock
So even like day to day, I turn it on, it repeats exactly. Like, as accurately as it can, it repeats. Whereas, depending on the temperature of the day, the other machines will vary by like 0.2, 0.3 of a millimeter.
00:50:49
jamie peacock
Because they're all using inductive home switches. And steppers, or closed-dube steppers.
00:50:52
Curt
yeah
00:50:53
jamie peacock
Like, I was explaining this to Carl today. Uh, most of the DIY style controllers, pretty much all of them, ah they issue a command, and they assume that command has been followed.
00:51:06
jamie peacock
So if you're running a closed loop stepper, your controller saying, o go one step. And assuming that that has been executed, the closed loop step is saying, Oh, I must go one step.
00:51:17
jamie peacock
If I didn't make the step, let me try force my way to that step. And only once you're quite a way out, then it'll throw an alarm. And then your controller is like, ha ha, there's an alarm. But like that, So you're making a lot of assumptions, whereas a proper machine, you tell it to go to a position, it the servo drive says, oh you go there, checks it gets there.
00:51:38
jamie peacock
Then the drive the controller is still like, hey, servo drive, what is your position? Feed it back, please. So it's a very much tighter closed loop. Like even homing on most machines are done with the Z, with the index pulse of the motor.
00:51:47
Curt
totally
00:51:52
jamie peacock
So your limit switch just gets you within a rotation of the servo, and then it looks for the index pulse. And if your coupling doesn't move, it repeats as accurately as your ball screws and motion system will allow.
00:52:05
jamie peacock
yeah look
00:52:06
Curt
yeah
00:52:06
jamie peacock
So yeah, you get what you pay for when it comes to machines.
00:52:12
Curt
Well, and like, also don't get hung up on like chasing like the crazy type tolerances if that's not something you're initially going to need. Cause like so many people are like, well, can it, can it cut to this? Like, do you have a need to do that?
00:52:23
Curt
Because my little wiggly little Kurt milling machine has made me 10, it's made me probably it definitely has made me more than a hundred thousand dollars and it has not cost me anything close to that. And it does not, I mean, it does tight work, but you have to know how to do it on it.
00:52:33
jamie peacock
yeah it comes down to skill yeah
00:52:36
Curt
And like, I don't know. See, Yeah, you can make a lot of money on a machine that's not horribly accurate. You just got to work it. So yeah you don't need to you don't need you don't need a kern to make your whatever you want to make.
00:52:48
Curt
Your little, i don't know, you know, 3D machined whatever.
00:52:51
jamie peacock
i literally used to do injection molding parts on the slow air
00:52:56
Curt
Right, yeah.
00:52:56
jamie peacock
isn There's no reason I should have doing that, but hey, go in there with blind ignorance and you freaking sort it. You rock out that white guy confidence, claim that you can do it and just do it.
00:53:04
Curt
Yeah.
00:53:07
jamie peacock
Like, we were discussing this today.
00:53:09
Curt
Yeah.
00:53:10
jamie peacock
It's like you just rock up with confidence and make it happen. I don't know if you've had a chance to listen to the latest with intolerance yet.
00:53:14
Curt
Yeah.
00:53:17
Curt
I did.
00:53:17
jamie peacock
With Rebecca Wolfinger.
00:53:17
Curt
Yeah. yeah
00:53:18
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:53:19
Curt
Yeah. I'm like 90% of the way through.
00:53:19
jamie peacock
Confident.
00:53:20
Curt
So yeah.
00:53:20
jamie peacock
Yeah, know. It was really, really good.
00:53:22
Curt
Yeah.
00:53:22
jamie peacock
Like, and, you
00:53:23
Curt
i like I like her. I like her attitude. Yeah. She's got a good attitude.
00:53:25
jamie peacock
Yeah, 100%. Very good attitude. I actually tagged her in a – it's actually one of the things there. I was making Instagram reels this morning because AJ posted a thing about putting an aerator, and then she posted a thing about aerator.
00:53:36
jamie peacock
So, like, this is my solution, guys. So, she actually – I tagged her and sent it as a offer to collaborate whatever, and she shared it on her story.
00:53:47
Curt
Mm-mm.
00:53:48
jamie peacock
I was i'm like, sweet.
00:53:50
Curt
Oh, cool. That's nice.
00:53:50
jamie peacock
like, yeah, trying to build the Instagram audience.
00:53:53
Curt
Yeah. We're all dorks.
00:53:54
jamie peacock
But yeah, I mean, for the process but for the price of a bucket and a pond pump, you've got an oil skimmer and it doubles as a circulator for your coolants. Like, yeah, no-brainer in my mind.
00:54:02
Curt
Right, yeah.
00:54:05
jamie peacock
I've got on all my machines now. Because, yeah, Bertha got stinky.
00:54:07
Curt
But yeah, no, definitely retrofit retrofit machines. I'd say if you're starting, if sorry, if you have a great product you need a machine, you need it made and you need a functioning machine and you have cash to go, obviously don't DIY machine.
00:54:15
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:54:19
Curt
That's just a, that's just a route to burn time.
00:54:19
jamie peacock
yeah
00:54:21
Curt
But if you're like pretty much, I bet you probably 90% the people that, have this idea that they want to start their own gig. Yeah. Buy an industrial machine for like pennies on the dollar. Sorry. I should caveat this with, you kind of have to know what you're looking at too.
00:54:33
Curt
You don't want to buy like a, just a piece of crap and then just spend hours to realize it's a piece of crap.
00:54:34
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:54:38
Curt
Um, so that's
00:54:39
jamie peacock
and yeah In that case, the forums tend to be very useful. CNC Zone and ah know Aaron from CNC Repairman did a video about that as well.
00:54:44
Curt
totally. Yeah.
00:54:48
jamie peacock
say um So this yeah, there's a lot of resources.
00:54:48
Curt
Yeah.
00:54:49
Curt
Yeah. His is good. Yeah. His is good.
00:54:52
jamie peacock
And also look and see if other people have done a retrofit on the machine. if you're looking at a second hand machine, see if there's any information out there. ah The Emco, I knew more about that Emco before arrived here than anything.
00:54:59
Curt
Yeah.
00:55:03
jamie peacock
I saw what it was, told them I'll buy it, and then started researching. um ah I mean, I would have bought it even if and there was nothing on the internet. But there were web websites dedicated to these little machines.
00:55:13
jamie peacock
There were other multiple retrofits. So I could have a look through and see what problems the guys had run into, what motors they had used, all these kind of things that I had all that information. I mean, I had all the electronics for this machine here before I had the machine.
00:55:27
jamie peacock
Like i was I was starting to acquire all the bits and pieces because I didn't need to buy the machine right now.
00:55:27
Curt
Right, yeah.
00:55:32
jamie peacock
I could buy it in three months. And I said them, if anyone looks at it, you phone me, I'll pick it up now. But I got all the parts together because it was a bit cheaper ah doing it little bit, little bit, then trying to do it all in one go.
00:55:44
jamie peacock
i mean, when I bought the Emco, we were doing okay, but yeah I needed it for some production work that was coming up, but I didn't have any orders yet.
00:55:53
jamie peacock
That machine, I got it running and it paid for itself the following month.
00:55:53
Curt
Right, yeah, yeah
00:55:57
jamie peacock
and has since regularly paid for itself in a month.
00:55:57
Curt
yeah.
00:55:57
Curt
Yeah.
00:56:01
Curt
Yeah.
00:56:01
jamie peacock
Like even birth birth is hilarious birth pays for herself pretty much every month.
00:56:02
Curt
Yeah, no.
00:56:06
Curt
Yeah, no.
00:56:07
jamie peacock
birth like I recoup the entire cost of that machine in a month, because in total, it cost me like $2,000 turn $1,000. two and half thousand dollars
00:56:15
Curt
Yeah, and exactly.
00:56:16
jamie peacock
Now, obviously, I did that on a budget because I was poor at the time.
00:56:16
Curt
Right.
00:56:20
jamie peacock
But I did it on a very strict budget or very tight budget, made it work. And it ran like that. The first things to start failing were the x axis drive, which kind of expected.
00:56:32
jamie peacock
And then the PC, which was a free PC from an old lady that I used to live with when I moved up to Joburg.
00:56:39
Curt
right Yeah. Yeah. yeah You can't complain about that.
00:56:40
jamie peacock
Like,
00:56:42
Curt
Yeah.
00:56:42
jamie peacock
Yeah, like that that PC also had no reason to still be freaking working. And the last five years, it's been running pretty much flawlessly.
00:56:50
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:56:51
jamie peacock
Same thing happened on another machine.
00:56:51
Curt
So I think, yeah.
00:56:54
Curt
Yeah. It just boils down to your, your budget and time and what whatever you have more of, more time, more money.
00:56:57
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:56:59
Curt
It's like. Like nowadays, what i buy would I buy another project machine?
00:57:00
jamie peacock
Yeah, that's it.
00:57:03
Curt
With the one exception of potentially a used Swiss, because just Swiss's are insanely expensive. But like I had an option. I had an option to buy a basically a Swiss with no parameters on it, which is a death sentence for Swiss's.
00:57:15
Curt
But it was like two grand and it's close to me.
00:57:16
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:57:17
Curt
And I had to pass on it, even though that hurt my soul to do. But other than that, like if I buy a machine, it's it's it's basically got to function at this point because I have less time than I have money.
00:57:25
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:57:27
Curt
But yeah.
00:57:29
jamie peacock
Yeah, that's that is a tough one to to deal with. It's great to have more more money than time, but think you and i both enjoy enjoy the projects.
00:57:34
Curt
Yeah.
00:57:41
Curt
that's That's the issue too.
00:57:42
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:57:42
Curt
like that's That's why we're heroin addicts in this regard is just because like we we both like it.
00:57:45
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:57:47
Curt
like If I had all the money in the world, i would still be interested in building and retrofitting machines because I find it enjoyable.
00:57:53
jamie peacock
yeah
00:57:54
Curt
like That's something I enjoy. If I had 70 hours in a day, i would i would do this for what I need to do, and then I would spend the rest of it just pissing around with machines because I just and i enjoy it.
00:58:00
jamie peacock
Yeah.
Balancing Hobbies with Work Commitments
00:58:05
Curt
It lights up my brain.
00:58:06
jamie peacock
Well, I'm very curious because you've got a thing yeah about the the printancy. Yeah.
00:58:11
Curt
Yeah. So speaking of doing drugs, I came across the print NC like forever ago. And it's basically just like a printed router, like 3D printed parts on a router.
00:58:22
Curt
It's designed fairly well, ball screws.
00:58:22
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:58:24
Curt
Like they they did it well, linear rails. Like it's not ah just a cobbled together unit, but then people use that to machine aluminum parts to start building out a router that's actually usable for like, you know, machining.
00:58:35
Curt
like there's videos of it machining stainless. There's videos of it machining aluminum. And it's like, I kind of want to build like a Datron-esque machine, you maybe like a two foot by two foot footprint. So I can function as a router and do kind of like routery work.
00:58:47
Curt
But if I still want to push some aluminum jobs onto it, I could use it to do like, you know, let's say the semi finishing on a big aluminum job would be not that I'm doing that. This is a pure want. This isn't a need. So I need Jamie to enable me more. But like the problem is I have all the parts to make it. I just need that whole time thing. So once once I figure out the way to get more more than 24 hours in a day, I'm definitely jumping on it.
00:59:06
Curt
Until then, it'll probably stay as a pipe dream and I'll just scour the Discord and dream. know.
00:59:11
jamie peacock
Yeah, i and I'm not going to encourage that because I kind of want a router as well. So I'm going to not encourage this because i will very quickly machine all the parts.
00:59:16
Curt
I know.
00:59:21
jamie peacock
And then I just have to buy all the electronics. That's the expensive bit. Like, i can I can sneak the bits of Ali into other aluminium orders that I'm placing. Like, yeah.
00:59:29
Curt
Yeah, I know.
00:59:29
jamie peacock
Piece here, piece there. Like, yeah.
00:59:32
Curt
Yep. I know I've already been like looking at linear rails and ball screws and it's like, no, stay away, Kurt.
00:59:33
jamie peacock
Now busy. ordered...
00:59:38
Curt
Stay away.
00:59:39
jamie peacock
You can probably buy a kit off AliExpress.
00:59:41
Curt
don't You can.
00:59:41
jamie peacock
um
00:59:42
Curt
So yeah, don't.
00:59:45
jamie peacock
You're a bad influence, Kurt. I like it.
00:59:47
Curt
um
00:59:47
jamie peacock
um
00:59:48
Curt
We're both horrible.
00:59:49
jamie peacock
So, well, Roger and I actually want to build a machine that we can do 750mm wings on.
00:59:56
Curt
Nice. That's perfect use for this.
00:59:59
jamie peacock
For a DLG.
01:00:01
Curt
Ooh.
01:00:01
jamie peacock
Locally made.
01:00:01
Curt
Yeah.
01:00:02
jamie peacock
Yes. But yeah I'm trying to trying to limit the number of hobbies that I have.
01:00:08
Curt
Yeah, I know. That's a problem.
01:00:09
jamie peacock
Because now we're going into winter, so fishing is going to become a bit of a shitty hobby. So boat building is going to be my hobby because I want to modify my boat a whole lot. And then in the room over there somewhere, there's an Archon, which is a float plane.
01:00:17
Curt
Oh,
01:00:27
jamie peacock
so it's a water plane.
01:00:27
Curt
ah cool.
01:00:27
Curt
Okay.
01:00:28
jamie peacock
I got it from Rog. I want to put in an autopilot system and then go start flying FPV with a plane again. I mean, I have all the stuff.
01:00:35
Curt
Yeah.
01:00:36
jamie peacock
I may as well do something with it. So yeah, just so again, something to break away from the workshop.
01:00:43
Curt
Yeah.
01:00:44
jamie peacock
So we went ah so went I went fishing on Sunday morning, as everyone knows, because I like talking about it, in my beautiful pink top.
01:00:44
Curt
Yeah.
01:00:51
jamie peacock
I was told to use Danica's hat next time, not my hat, on my toolpath hat, because her one is pink and then it'll color match. Danica pointed out that why would I color match anything when my shirt's pink, my shoes are green, my pants are like, well, Lumo yellow, like nothing matched in my outfit.
01:01:08
jamie peacock
So she's like why would you bother matching your hat? was like, oh, fair enough. Um, But yeah, like we went, so I went fishing and then i came back and I promised Danica would take the dogs for a walk.
01:01:19
jamie peacock
So we went down to a place down the road from us. Normally it's, this is going to seem cheap because I live in the land of the cheap apparently. ah Normally it's 50 Rand. So $2.70 for access to the park.
01:01:32
jamie peacock
So it's paid to go walk in their place.
01:01:35
Curt
Hmm.
01:01:35
jamie peacock
And there were three of us the guys are like, hang on, it's 150 Rand for the three of you or 150 Rand for a ticket that gets you 10 entries. so we bought the tent then it then it becomes not even a dollar to go freaking walk the dogs um it becomes like 81 cents each to go walk the dogs at the park it's nice it's trails through the forest yeah it's really sweet so i think we're going to start doing that a bit more as well just yeah gets us out of the house because that's problem is if you're working from home you get stuck here it's bit of a bit of an issue
01:01:43
Curt
okay
01:02:06
Curt
Yeah, yeah, totally.
01:02:07
jamie peacock
Like, I went, I mean, last, okay, last week I drove around quite a bit. had to go pick up a boat and go see customers and things. And like today, I had to quickly shoot to Albert's 15 minute drive away. Tomorrow morning, I've got to go there again.
01:02:20
jamie peacock
But yeah, you kind of end up just stuck in the garage all day.
01:02:24
Curt
Yeah.
01:02:24
jamie peacock
So
Social Interaction and Mental Health in Isolation
01:02:25
jamie peacock
I think we're to start walking the doggos more. Hopefully Drax will become less of a freaking potato.
01:02:28
Curt
Well.
01:02:31
Curt
Yeah, that that is a problem with work. I mean, but like me, the you're one adult I talk to.
01:02:33
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:02:35
Curt
I talk to my wife and you're the only two adults I talk to on a regular basis.
01:02:39
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:02:39
Curt
Like otherwise I'm talking to ah one and a half year old and a three year old and my dog and my cat.
01:02:43
jamie peacock
Yeah, they' not they don't do the best conversation.
01:02:46
Curt
No, I mean, their conversations are fantastic, but they're yeah, they're not and they're not and on the same level.
01:02:50
jamie peacock
Super stimulating, yeah.
01:02:52
Curt
Yeah, they're very interesting. Yeah.
01:02:53
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, that's something to be aware of, like, and there was something they they touched on with and with intolerance, was the whole mental health thing of working in a shop, like, yeah, gotta look after the, gotta look after one's mental health.
01:03:04
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
01:03:08
Curt
Yeah, totally. No, exactly. Yeah.
01:03:10
jamie peacock
Yeah, because it's very easy to just go spend the whole day in the garage and you have fun doing it. But I mean, even even Adam the Machinist, he started his YouTube channel just so that he could keep the ability to articulate highly detailed concepts because he wasn't speaking to anybody and he felt he was losing that ability.
01:03:16
Curt
yeah
01:03:29
Curt
Yeah, one I'm thankful for people like him that do do that, like him and Robin and like ah Tom and like all these guys that do like fantastic YouTube videos just because they want to.
01:03:33
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:03:39
Curt
And they're sharing their knowledge that otherwise they're just going to die with.
01:03:41
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:03:42
Curt
like yeah like And they're benefiting. like Everyone benefits from it. It's fantastic.
01:03:47
jamie peacock
Yeah. No, that's...
01:03:48
Curt
yeah
01:03:48
jamie peacock
ah
Reflecting on Success and Legacy
01:03:49
jamie peacock
Yeah. that those I was listening to the Joe Rogan podcast. I don't normally listen... Well, I'm subscribed to him. I listen to anything that with someone I'm interested in listening to.
01:03:57
jamie peacock
And, yeah, was listening to a podcast the other day and it finished. And then, because he's sponsored by Spotify, his podcast always plays next. And... If I'm busy, I'll leave it to play.
01:03:57
Curt
Same, yeah.
01:04:08
jamie peacock
And then I heard a laugh. And I'm like, hang on. It's Jimmy Carr. His podcasts with Joe Rogan are the best.
01:04:14
Curt
Oh, ah okay. Okay.
01:04:17
jamie peacock
They talk a little bit about comedy, but about everything else. And yeah, super, super interesting to listen to.
01:04:20
Curt
Hmm.
01:04:22
jamie peacock
And they were saying like, the whole the whole thing of being successful is, what's it? It was, um there was
01:04:33
jamie peacock
flip their success and then the in regard, there were two different things, like when you die, what people say about you and when you love what people say about you.
01:04:40
Curt
Mm-hmm.
01:04:40
jamie peacock
And I was like, yeah, ah very interesting.
01:04:40
Curt
Mm-hmm.
01:04:43
jamie peacock
Like, so yeah, like, yeah, having kids is not the, uh, the all end all, but yeah, was interesting, especially with, yeah you know, what's going on behind the scenes. Um, yeah, there's a very interesting take on that, that I fucking, but yeah, that podcast was all over the show.
01:04:58
jamie peacock
Like religion, you know, every, everywhere. Um, like, yeah, the that, that podcast tends to go all over the show. It's quite entertaining.
01:05:10
Curt
Yeah, same with, I cherry pick, yeah, I cherry pick like the physicists and like, I do that.
01:05:12
jamie peacock
Yeah. Physicists, yeah.
01:05:14
Curt
I'll listen to the ones with him, like ah him and Duncan. I dig Duncan Trussell, so I'll listen to him him, just rant with him.
01:05:19
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:05:20
Curt
But other most of them I just kind of skip nowadays. I mean, you're a little too bro-y for me, but
01:05:23
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah, used to listen to them quite a lot. Now it's like, meh, if it's not manufacturing, I don't really listen to it.
01:05:27
Curt
same.
01:05:28
jamie peacock
Like, I've got my list of podcasts.
01:05:29
Curt
Yeah.
01:05:31
jamie peacock
I read Lean Built this morning and then...
01:05:33
Curt
Yep, that was a good one actually just recently.
01:05:34
jamie peacock
finished making it yeah i listened to making it which is bob from i like to make stuff um the guy from making it and uh jimmy director and that's quite entertaining that's part of my weekly routine is that one and the wan show which i didn't finish this week sorry the the taiwan show because they were in taiwan yeah those works that's interesting they were at one of the
01:05:41
Curt
Yep.
01:05:47
Curt
Yeah.
01:05:55
Curt
Well.
01:06:02
jamie peacock
one of the big tech shows of the year. It was quite interesting to hear their takes on stuff. But that's why this thing sounds funny.
01:06:09
Curt
well
01:06:12
jamie peacock
My printer sounds funny.
01:06:14
Curt
say we're nearing the nearing
01:06:14
jamie peacock
I've been leaving it unattended. Yeah,
Workshop Setup and Equipment Considerations
01:06:16
jamie peacock
what time to pull out the Google box? What have you been googling?
01:06:16
Curt
the end of the hour should we do the time to pull out the googles uh um so i've actually a couple cool things um so was looking at uh like single once again from the uh print nc world does looking at like uh indexable single flute cutters to put on like um uh not monocrystalline diamond um
01:06:41
Curt
ah whatever
01:06:41
jamie peacock
PCD.
01:06:42
Curt
ah PCD, but MCD as well, the spendy ones.
01:06:43
jamie peacock
Polycrystalline.
01:06:45
jamie peacock
Yeah, MCD. Monocrystalline.
01:06:46
Curt
um just yeah Just to get like stupid stupid finishes on aluminum.
01:06:47
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:06:50
Curt
I was looking up some of those tools. Looking up some ah but but but spindle speeders, not spindle speeders, I should say in in taper air powered spindles.
01:07:03
Curt
So these are between 40,000 and 90,000 RPM, which are super sick. These ones are made by a national, the the website anyways is nationaltoolsales.com. Um, and they have an external air cause most of them are through spindle, the, like the tiny ones.
01:07:17
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:07:18
Curt
And I don't have through air in a reliable sense. Uh, these ones are external air, which would kind of, ah you can put a little mount on your spindle so it can still tool change. Um, but yeah, 90,000 RPM, no torque, but I mean, you're not going to be running, uh, you're not running a big tool at 90,000 RPM.
01:07:28
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:07:31
jamie peacock
You don't need to talk.
01:07:35
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:07:35
Curt
Um, so anyways, that's six, it's six grand.
01:07:36
jamie peacock
Unless you're tartan. And it's a foreign space mill.
01:07:38
Curt
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's it's six grand for that, but I mean, still something to consider. So kind of tweaking with those.
01:07:44
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:07:45
Curt
And then ah lastly is, yeah, looking up some filter oil, are looking at filter mist, which is actually the same company, Royal, but Sile carries filter mist.
01:07:53
jamie peacock
Okay.
01:07:54
Curt
And I still have that credit. They gave me a price for the um ah probes and whatnot. um But I don't know if I'm going to benefit from that as much as I think I am, just because I don't, I don't like so much of my work is production.
01:08:03
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:08:05
Curt
So I think I might just get a couple um big oil mist units for my machines and just
01:08:09
jamie peacock
yeah Okay.
01:08:10
Curt
I got to buy one eventually. I have a quote for a misfit, but it's like $7,000. It's it's like top of the line.
01:08:15
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:08:15
Curt
um And it's sized for like all my machines in here. And it's got like HEPA filters and everything. And they are kind of the cream of the crop when it comes to that. But I kind of want to use some of that credit to buy something. So yeah, um I might do that.
01:08:29
jamie peacock
I wanted to ask you about the fan above your head.
01:08:31
Curt
Oh, yeah, this one here.
01:08:32
jamie peacock
Your air filter thing. Yeah, I need to find out some details on that. I know you did. Did you post a video about it?
01:08:39
Curt
I don't know. i Yes, I think I did.
01:08:41
jamie peacock
You did. Okay, I'll go look for it on your channel. I need to do something similar. I'm noticing that I'm getting a lot of residue on the tops of my machines. So I think I need to just build something similar and just filter my air in the entire workshop.
01:08:53
jamie peacock
The problem we run into, furnace filters are not a thing in South Africa.
01:08:58
Curt
Ah, that would do it.
01:08:59
jamie peacock
Because nobody has furnaces because it's hot as hell.
01:09:00
Curt
Yeah, totally.
01:09:02
jamie peacock
So yeah, it's a bit of a challenge to find filters for them, but I'm sure I managed to find some. Just go buy some box fans and make myself a box fan thing in the middle of the workshop to just try a filter stuff out of the air.
01:09:11
Curt
Totally.
01:09:12
jamie peacock
I think it'll be worth the endeavor.
01:09:13
Curt
Yeah. like The color those filters get. I mean, I keep my furnace running just cycling air in here. And I look like you look at the filter of that thing and you're like, oh, like that could be in my lungs.
01:09:19
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:09:23
Curt
So yeah, it's.
01:09:23
jamie peacock
Yeah. So out the Bertha, when I did Bertha, I bought a roll of like disposable towel stuff that's over the air inlet. And it's the best. You put it down every few few weeks or so, and it' just frigging caked with brown.
01:09:36
jamie peacock
but like,
01:09:37
Curt
Yeah.
01:09:37
jamie peacock
you Like the the LK's got filters on the back. It's pretty well, the back of it's pretty well insulated. I've now put a lid on it to try and get as little spray out as possible.
01:09:48
jamie peacock
But yeah I've noticed on the top of the machines, it's not super tasty. So I want to try and mitigate that. So that's on the on the list of things I want to do.
01:09:57
Curt
Nice. What's in your what's near Google searches but you can tell that you can tell us about?
01:09:58
jamie peacock
Yeah. ah As usual, Wordle 53.
01:10:03
Curt
Getting up there.
01:10:03
jamie peacock
Almost there. Yeah, getting up there.
01:10:04
Curt
Yeah.
01:10:06
jamie peacock
Then I was looking up silver PETG, looking up what the active ingredients in my fancy...
01:10:17
jamie peacock
ginger tea things are because I'm still a bit sick and trying to kick that. So i just wanted to know what the active ingredient was. It's a shitload of panacetamol.
01:10:27
Curt
Oh.
01:10:27
jamie peacock
Rand dollar, looking at how depressing that Just want to quickly see how depressing it is. So I checked it this morning. It hasn't gone that much worse. ah Yeah, it actually went up about two whole Rand cents, which is basically nothing.
01:10:39
jamie peacock
Then
Diverse Interests and Recent Searches
01:10:40
jamie peacock
I was looking up how many amps I can put through 8mm square wire. because building a battery, so i kind of want to know how many amps I need.
01:10:45
Curt
oh
01:10:50
jamie peacock
um Looking for chargers, looking up a horse riding place for my lovely wife because she wants to ride a horse again.
01:10:58
Curt
Oh, nice.
01:10:59
jamie peacock
Looking up muskies, which we don't get here, but we're watching a video about catching muskies. um And then looking for a large tablecloth cover, or not table, table cover, like outdoor table cover to cover my boat.
01:11:12
Curt
Oh, fair. OK.
01:11:13
jamie peacock
yeah like easy just buy the elastics on the boat sorted but it's covered so yeah that that's all that's in my yeah in all my googly things nothing too crazy this week yeah and trying to yeah trying to get my home assistant unbroken has been a bit annoying but now i have a light switch on the thing that'll work without being connected to the network so i can poke it with a broom that is a big big upgrade
01:11:17
Curt
I guess.
01:11:21
Curt
Fun.
01:11:35
Curt
Well,
01:11:39
Curt
maybe it caused you frustrations with Home Assistant, but I will say it is very nice to be talking to you on a high-speed connection where we don't have latency.
01:11:45
jamie peacock
Oh, yes.
01:11:46
Curt
It is so much easier to have a conversation.
01:11:49
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, Danica was swearing at my computer today. She was in the workshop. For some reason, my PC connected to my neighbor's network because I have his password.
01:11:56
Curt
Oh, nice.
01:11:57
jamie peacock
So I connected to it when we had no internet. And yeah, it was sluggish as hell. So I unremembered it so that it doesn't auto connect to it. Because
Current and Upcoming Machining Projects
01:12:06
jamie peacock
I should like, so I came and changed my DNS settings on this router, then my workshop and internet broke.
01:12:12
jamie peacock
So I need to go and just give that a static IP tomorrow. And then it should all be sorted out. Hopefully. Otherwise, the top networks to push things to drives, it's a bit tedious.
01:12:19
Curt
sick
01:12:23
jamie peacock
But I'm sure I will get that resolved. Because everything's on a different subnet because I'm special. And yeah, well, we'll leave it at I'm special.
01:12:32
Curt
perfect
01:12:33
jamie peacock
Done networking is annoying as hell. So yeah, wait, where's the... Sorry, I'm trying to find where to... Oh, there we go. Okay, cool. So what are you up to today? Oh, no, calls of action first.
01:12:46
jamie peacock
Calls to action. Where can people find your things?
01:12:49
Curt
confoundedmachine.com. I have the lottery open for the Canada pens. Probably you'll probably catch it for a few hours um before it closes. It closes on Tuesday um when it's clock strikes midnight and Wednesday, we're going to start pulling names.
01:13:02
Curt
So I only have like 140, 547 or something like of those that I'm making and then they'll be gone.
01:13:07
jamie peacock
Okay.
01:13:09
Curt
So yeah, jump on that. If you want any more information, how about you?
01:13:12
jamie peacock
Nice. ah Yeah, you can find me at jspeceng.com or jspec underscore engineering on Instagram. We've got some anchor points in stock still. Those will hopefully be sold very soon.
01:13:24
jamie peacock
And yeah, the shirts on the website will be disappearing at the end of the month. So jump on it now because I think next podcast, they will no longer be on the website and the new designs will be there, which I will hopefully be modeling this week on Instagram.
01:13:38
jamie peacock
If i can convince my wife to actually make me t-shirts. Yeah. yeah I've been trying for like six months to get new shirts out of her. And also my my jumpers. I want them on the jumpers because it's now winter and I wear a jumper all day because it's a bit chilly in my workshop.
01:13:52
Curt
Jumper.
01:13:54
jamie peacock
Jumper, yeah. It's the British word for it.
01:13:55
Curt
Jumpers.
01:13:56
jamie peacock
It's a sweater. if again A springer. Let's offend all the Afrikaans people that listen. All one of them.
01:14:04
Curt
Yeah, exactly.
01:14:05
jamie peacock
Yeah. But yeah. Well, maybe now that they're the US they'll listen to it because a whole bunch of Afrikaans people went there. Yeah. Anyway, what are you up to today, Kurt?
01:14:17
Curt
Thay's just finishing. More of making my hands bleed. Hopefully getting all those pens assembled. And then, ah yeah, then I can start playing. And then I have a week. I give myself about a week to play. So I'm excited to get them done because then I can play.
01:14:26
jamie peacock
Okay.
01:14:27
Curt
So yeah, how about you?
01:14:27
jamie peacock
Yeah. I am going to go sleep because it's the night time.
01:14:31
Curt
Good idea.
01:14:32
jamie peacock
And then, yeah, have tomorrow morning I'm John while I get machines up and running. I actually know what's, yeah, I've got to go, I've got to go to a meeting tomorrow morning to just go sort out month end stuff with the one customer. They like me to sit there and go through all the invoices with them.
01:14:44
jamie peacock
It's a bit tedious, but it means I get paid. ah So yeah, I'm going to go through to them, dump shavings and then come back and do things.
01:14:47
Curt
Mm-hmm.
01:14:54
jamie peacock
No idea what things. I've got some dimpled eyes I need to machine out of year 90 condition tea, which is going to be exciting. ah But to do so, I have to put my four-jaw chuck into Big Bertha and that in my mind is a mountain.
01:15:08
jamie peacock
When in reality, it's like two minutes and it's done. So yeah, get that set up tomorrow morning and then run off those stupid year 19 conditioned T parts. And then I think I might get the Emco running. I've got a thousand parts to machine.
01:15:23
jamie peacock
It's like four days worth of production. So i might procrastinate that just a little. while I run some PTFE because then everything I need for the month in for another customer is done on the EMCO and I can start running that that job.
01:15:36
jamie peacock
It's 1000 little parts and they've got to go into the LK to be drilled and rigid tapped as well and brass. So we're going to see our rigid tapping in 1.6 goes. Yeah.
01:15:45
Curt
I'm curious.
01:15:46
jamie peacock
Yeah, it should be fun. I'm going to drill 1000 little holes with carbide drill, slitting saw the parts and then tap them.
01:15:48
Curt
Yeah.
01:15:53
jamie peacock
Last time I hand tapped 1000 parts.
01:15:53
Curt
Yeah.
01:15:55
Curt
Yeah, it sounds horrible.
01:15:55
jamie peacock
with a battery drop. pe
01:15:57
Curt
That sounds horrible.
01:15:59
jamie peacock
Didn't break a single tap either. So yeah, we'll see we'll see how it goes. That's also on like one of the small jobs that's just on the list that needs to disappear so that I can be less stressed.
01:16:09
Curt
Cool. Cool.
01:16:10
jamie peacock
No, and then making stupid pins. I'm gonna make a whole bunch of 303 stainless pins. So I'm gonna go with the bolt cutters and cut like literally formal material with bolt cutters, sand the one end down on the belt grinder, and then face off like three or four millimeters to get rid of the pinch.
01:16:24
jamie peacock
And then just dome the ends. Stupid little job. But it's one of those things that I've got to stand and change the part every 30 seconds. So it's going to be annoying as hell.
01:16:33
Curt
Good podcast work.
01:16:35
jamie peacock
ah Yeah, pretty much.
Podcast Conclusion and Listener Engagement
01:16:36
jamie peacock
um But yeah. Anyway, thank you to everybody for listening. Thank you to our Patreons for your support. And we will see... Oh, wait. You can find us on YouTube and Spotify. I should probably write this stuff down.
01:16:48
jamie peacock
ah YouTube, Spotify, and Apple Music or Apple Podcasts. ah Please consider sharing the podcast with someone that may be interested in it. And otherwise, give us a review or thumbs up or star or whatever the rating system is on your appropriate player.
01:17:04
jamie peacock
But yeah, thank you very much thank you very much to everybody for listening, and we will catch you next week.
01:17:10
Curt
Take care all.