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Ep. 23: Heat it up, Before you Go Go!
117 Plays4 days ago
Join Curt and Jamie as they discuss their week, including topics such as Vice Pallets, Aurora, and Resin Printing.
Links Discussed:
- PC Builder Site: https://pcbuilder.net/
- LogicalIncrements: https://www.logicalincrements.com/
The Lone Machinist:
- Website: https://thelonemachinists.com/
- Merch: https://www.jspeceng.com/online-store
- Patreon: https://patreon.com/TheLoneMachinists
Jamie:
Curt:
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Transcript
Introductions and Recent Projects
00:00:47
jamie peacock
Good morning Kurt, are you doing today?
00:00:49
Curt
I'm doing fantastic. how are you doing on this lovely evening, Master Jamie?
00:00:53
jamie peacock
Yeah, carrying on. I've got a job ticked off the to-do list, so I'm happy.
00:00:55
Curt
Yeah.
00:00:59
Curt
Oh, that's always a nice feeling.
00:01:00
jamie peacock
Yes, it is. It's also one that I think I may turn into a product.
00:01:06
Curt
Ooh.
00:01:08
jamie peacock
It's the compressor air controller or the pressure switch thing.
00:01:08
Curt
Exciting. Oh, OK. Nice.
00:01:11
jamie peacock
Yeah, I got that installed today and it works a bomb. Not like a bomb. It doesn't explode. It works really well.
00:01:19
jamie peacock
Yeah, i've got that in.
00:01:19
Curt
That's good.
00:01:20
Curt
That's good.
00:01:20
jamie peacock
and we Had to get into a funny boot loop, but it seemed to have stopped that ship when I left because obviously we've got contactor switching three phase. It's in a separate box, a little bit far away with a suppressor on it and it's still being a little bit weird.
00:01:37
jamie peacock
Yeah, but it seemed to be working when I left, so I'm happy. They wanted it to be 6 bar, 6 bar off, 5 bar on.
00:01:40
Curt
Did
00:01:44
Curt
you?
00:01:45
jamie peacock
So holding a 1 bar pressure thing, yeah.
00:01:45
Curt
did you
00:01:48
Curt
Did you end up using a standard Arduino for that, or did you go with that industrial one?
00:01:50
jamie peacock
Yeah. Net went standard Arduino because the sensor output is 5 volts, and I actually didn't check, but I'm assuming the industrial one is also only a 10-bit ADC.
00:01:57
Curt
Right.
00:02:01
jamie peacock
eighty c
00:02:03
jamie peacock
or 10-bit, so you're going to lose half your resolution.
00:02:03
Curt
OK, yeah.
00:02:04
Curt
yeah
00:02:06
jamie peacock
Not that it really matters, but I just used a normal Arduino. I'm thinking of making a PCB and just building an Arduino onto the PCB so it doesn't look like an Arduino. It looks like a custom solution. Meanwhile, it's just an Arduino Nano in a different form.
00:02:20
Curt
Nice.
00:02:21
jamie peacock
Yeah, because to get a board spun up, really, it's not expensive.
00:02:22
Curt
Why not?
00:02:25
jamie peacock
It's more just the time and effort of designing it and going through the iterations for prototyping.
00:02:30
Curt
Yeah, yeah, no, exactly.
00:02:32
jamie peacock
But yeah, I promised them...
00:02:32
Curt
but that's a That's a wild world, and how cheap that's gotten, how easily it's done now.
00:02:34
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:02:36
Curt
It's just insane.
00:02:37
jamie peacock
No, it's really silly. um Yeah, so I promised them a version 2 of the system when I get around to it. So when I get around to I'll just go replace theirs with the V2 custom PCB version of it.
00:02:50
Curt
Oh, okay. Okay.
00:02:51
jamie peacock
Yeah, that looks a little... lay They're happy. it looks expensive, so they're happy.
00:02:57
jamie peacock
I wasn't gentle.
00:02:59
Curt
No. what Hey, if it works and it gets them out of a bind.
00:03:01
jamie peacock
I quoted them for, yeah, I quoted them for an industrial Arduino and then put, yeah, not an industrial Arduino in.
00:03:10
Curt
Nice.
00:03:10
jamie peacock
But, yeah. I mean, I said to them, listen, I'm putting this in. If it's got any, gives you any trouble, just let me know. ah budgeted to go back there many times to fix it, so it's fine.
00:03:20
Curt
I was going to say, yeah, if it's close to you, like you've you've budgeted in the troubleshooting.
00:03:21
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:03:24
jamie peacock
um there Yeah, I'm there basically once a week anyway. So I can always just go and take my laptop with and push new code or shove a new Arduino in it.
00:03:28
Curt
Oh, all right.
00:03:33
jamie peacock
It's really not a but a major issue.
00:03:36
Curt
Yeah, exactly. it's not controlling an iron lung. Like it's not going to, someone's not going to die if it fails.
00:03:39
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:03:41
Curt
So yeah, whatever.
00:03:41
jamie peacock
Yeah, and if it fails in the on position, then the built-in pressure switch kicks in. And if it fails in off position, then they can cry me a river and turn the other compressor on.
00:03:51
Curt
and Okay. Yeah.
Postal Strikes and Printing Enhancements
00:03:52
Curt
Yeah. Fair enough.
00:03:53
jamie peacock
Yeah, like it's it's not in any way gonna like put them out of business if it doesn't do what it's supposed to do.
00:03:58
Curt
Nice.
00:03:59
jamie peacock
Right, and then I was playing with the a with their German eccentric press because there's the, you know, normal relay that goes into the little base block thing.
00:04:00
Curt
Smart.
00:04:12
jamie peacock
The Fander brand, I know they sell a wire that hooks into the base and retains the relay. I know this because I've had them in my fucking hand. But like hell, the locals can sell me one.
00:04:12
Curt
Okay.
00:04:21
Curt
okay
00:04:23
jamie peacock
So I was in there today with a piece of stainless steel MIG wire bending a custom hoop to just hold the relays in because it's on an eccentric press that's vibrating.
00:04:31
Curt
Oh, I get you.
00:04:32
jamie peacock
um
00:04:32
Curt
Okay.
00:04:32
jamie peacock
Yeah, so the relay was popping out of the socket.
00:04:33
Curt
Yeah.
00:04:36
jamie peacock
And while I was in there, I've knocked a wire loose. So then we turned the thing on to test it and not working.
00:04:41
Curt
Right.
00:04:41
jamie peacock
So eventually I'm looking in there like, ah hang on, turn the power off, reconnect the one wire, and then it's running now for them.
00:04:41
Curt
Yeah.
00:04:48
jamie peacock
I moved that cabinet for them like two weeks ago. Just moved it up by like, don't know, a foot and a half, just so the guys could actually work in it without laying on the floor.
00:04:48
Curt
Sick.
00:04:57
Curt
Right. That's when you had to extend all the wires or rewrote all the wires. And yeah.
00:05:00
jamie peacock
Yeah, reroute all the wires.
00:05:01
Curt
Yeah.
00:05:01
jamie peacock
It was tedious as hell, but yeah, that's done. I actually bought them a new fan. I need to just print a little adapter to go into their cabinet for the fan now.
00:05:10
Curt
Cool.
00:05:10
jamie peacock
But yeah, so what have you what have you been up to?
00:05:12
Curt
That's ah Just finishing all the pens. Got all those done last week, which is lovely because it's kind of rather annoying. It's one of my larger batches to finish. And I don't like finishing large batches, but I also very much like selling large batches because, yeah, it was my most ah financially ah financially
00:05:25
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:05:30
Curt
good month to date. So that was kind of nice. so um So yeah, those all went out. And hopefully they will get to their destinations before any kind of postal strike weirdness happens here because our postal... services wanting once again, like open to strike.
00:05:40
jamie peacock
ah
00:05:42
Curt
So it's kind of, we're there on a hair trigger again. They have a list of very weird, weird demands.
00:05:45
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:05:47
Curt
So see how that goes. don't know, whatever, like,
00:05:51
jamie peacock
Yeah. at the At the mercy of the postal service.
00:05:55
Curt
Yeah. Like I, I kind of warned everybody that one, I wrote it in their emails, like, Hey, if you're like, if you're at all concerned, use another carrier. Unfortunately, some of the carrier options are rather expensive, but some of them aren't all that much more.
00:06:01
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:06:05
Curt
and A ton of people were just either they didn't read it or they're just gambling.
00:06:07
jamie peacock
Okay. Nice.
00:06:08
Curt
so i'm like, okay, well, like I did did everything I can, like, it's kind of out of my hands now.
00:06:10
jamie peacock
yeah
00:06:12
Curt
So yeah.
00:06:13
jamie peacock
yeah and
00:06:15
Curt
But yeah, basically that. Now this week is a ah week of just play. So I want to kind of finish up that mechanism. That's my goal for this week is to get all the fixtures built for it and finish it and see if it actually works and and then start start the next run.
00:06:31
Curt
Exciting. Exciting stuff.
00:06:33
jamie peacock
Yeah, that sounds very exciting. Yeah, I you've been really into the resin things. All the topics are resin related.
00:06:39
Curt
Well, like
00:06:40
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:06:41
Curt
They're all resin-related because I've just been just been pissing around with that because I want to make this product so it's affordable. And to do that, I can print it. But I didn't want it to look like a gross printed product, so I put a shit ton of effort into printing well.
00:06:50
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:06:52
Curt
and like I should have done this a long time ago because it's absolutely transformed how that little printer functions. And now it does like super, super, super nice prints. I mean, the the TLDR of this entire podcast is going to be just like...
00:07:05
Curt
put a little heater in your resin, either like the way you said, just like using a little, a little reptile heating pad under your vat before you get going, or just put like a little air heater in the unit itself. That's way I went. Cause I'm just ah lazy. just want be able turn it on and walk away.
00:07:18
Curt
And ah yeah, it's made the print like at least two times as good, which is nuts. Like the surface quality is perfect. The results are perfect. There's zero failures. Everything is just like, yeah, I'm, I'm very happy with how it's functioning now. um Should have done it ages ago for how, for the price, it should have just been like included in printers. Actually now, nowadays I think some of the the fancier resin printers have auto heaters built into them.
00:07:39
Curt
I think it's just, yeah, I think it's like a, I think it's mandatory, especially if you live in a climate where you're not 35 degrees continuously.
00:07:49
Curt
Oh, you're, you're muted. We can't hear you.
00:07:54
jamie peacock
ah yeah there we go. I'm unmuted.
00:07:55
Curt
There we go.
00:07:55
jamie peacock
I bumped some things on the keyboard. I was busy adding
Weather Challenges and Merchandise
00:07:59
jamie peacock
the title to the podcast quickly. um Yeah, winter. Winter has arrived. I didn't want to get out of bed this morning.
00:08:05
Curt
Right.
00:08:05
jamie peacock
It was chilly because our houses here aren't insulated.
00:08:08
Curt
Right. Yeah.
00:08:08
jamie peacock
Like, it's cold for a few weeks and that's it. So we don't bother with insulation. Good God, it was cold this morning. And it's going to be cold tomorrow morning as well. I'm not very excited about this.
00:08:19
Curt
Oh,
00:08:20
jamie peacock
Even this stephens afternoon at like, half past four, five-ish. um What about half past four? I went and stood in the sun with the dogs and i'm like, screw this shit, I'm going back on inside. The slight breeze is making it cold in the direct sunlight.
00:08:33
Curt
oh no.
00:08:34
jamie peacock
Like, I might actually have to wear long pants.
00:08:37
Curt
I was going to say, what are you going to do? You're going to have to invest in the other half of your pants.
00:08:39
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:08:42
jamie peacock
Damn, I'm just going to wear two pairs of shorts.
00:08:44
Curt
Two pairs of shorts. yeah Just keep the important bits warm.
00:08:45
jamie peacock
Yeah. Exactly. but I mean, I've been running with, for the last two or three weeks, I've been wearing jumpers or sweaters all day. I'm trying to get Danikits to put things on them for me, but yeah, that's not going to plan yet.
00:09:02
jamie peacock
Yeah, there are some spiffy new things.
00:09:02
Curt
Yeah. like
00:09:05
Curt
was going say a whole new line of shirts is coming out this month, isn't it?
00:09:07
jamie peacock
Yes, well, it's out it's already.
00:09:08
Curt
Yes. Oh, haven't even, i haven't even pondered over there.
00:09:10
jamie peacock
So, yes. So...
00:09:12
Curt
So
00:09:13
jamie peacock
Let me quickly push that because my wife will appreciate it. So if anyone wants to get one of the fancy shirts that my lovely wife and producer of this podcast makes, you can head over to jspeceng.com and on our online store, you will find a couple shirts.
00:09:16
Curt
plug away.
00:09:28
jamie peacock
ah New ones include the Chipfans shirt, the FaceMill shirt, the... Jeez. This Warranty Isn't Gonna Void Itself shirt. and There's 10 Things I Want in Life, which is all regarding machining.
00:09:43
jamie peacock
sorry and then there's also i didn't say it was fixed i said it would work shirt and then keep calm i'll fix it shirt so those are the new shirts available on the store and the proceeds of that go towards uh well my wife
00:10:00
Curt
Nice.
00:10:00
jamie peacock
so yeah go check them out i'm gonna get it to put them on my sweaters for me because uh because i wear sweaters all the time now because it's chilly
00:10:09
Curt
Yeah, fair.
00:10:11
jamie peacock
it's chilly for the next, there for the next three months or so, it'll be a little chilly. It's not too bad. Like by the end of August, it's getting warm again. Uh,
00:10:19
Curt
I like those. I like those shirts.
00:10:21
jamie peacock
yeah, this warranty ain't gonna void itself is my favorite one.
00:10:24
Curt
That's a good one. I think yeah i think i'm going to I have to pick up the chip fans, that one, and the face.
00:10:25
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:10:28
Curt
No one.
00:10:29
jamie peacock
Yeah, the, the Justin, I'm gonna send him one of those. He doesn't know it yet. He'll find out tomorrow. Um, he mentioned he wanted one of the ones for Pete. Um,
00:10:41
jamie peacock
your face. like Okay, so pizza is the guy started to chatter.
00:10:45
Curt
Oh, OK, OK, yeah, yeah.
00:10:46
jamie peacock
Yes, so I need to just arrest Justin and ask him what size Pete's shirt sizes. And then I'm just gonna send the boat to Justin.
00:10:52
Curt
Nice.
00:10:53
jamie peacock
Yeah, I won't say which one I'm sure he will share it when it a arrives. But I was checking with Danica if we have funds in the PayPal account to sort that out. So just gonna sort that out. we're gonna send Justin some shirts.
00:11:04
Curt
Oh, what the? Sorry,
Technical Troubleshooting and Machining Solutions
00:11:05
Curt
hold on. Instagram decided to start playing music for me.
00:11:05
jamie peacock
Last Yeah, because Justin justin keeps shouting me out on every podcast. It's awesome. Thank you, Justin.
00:11:12
Curt
What a gentleman.
00:11:13
jamie peacock
Yeah, shouted out the chips fan Chip Fans shirts on the latest with intolerance.
00:11:19
Curt
ah oo
00:11:20
jamie peacock
Yeah, i because they were discussing Zapatini going up to Canada. He's like, no, I'll just fly there and you just give me a tip when we're done sorting out your stories and I'll fly back. He's like, no, you're going to need to go in not only and the Chip Fans shirt.
00:11:32
jamie peacock
I was like, yep.
00:11:32
Curt
Sick. and think I'm halfway through that podcast.
00:11:34
jamie peacock
So, yeah.
00:11:35
Curt
So I like that.
00:11:35
jamie peacock
Okay, yeah.
00:11:36
jamie peacock
Okay.
00:11:36
Curt
I like those guys.
00:11:37
Curt
Those guys, they make a nice team all together chat. And it's it's very ah very entertaining to listen to.
00:11:40
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:11:43
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, it is. I thought I really enjoyed that that episode. took me a while to get around to listening to it, but yeah, thought really enjoyed it.
00:11:51
Curt
yeah Awesome.
00:11:52
jamie peacock
But yeah.
00:11:53
Curt
I know there's a, I think Henry Holsters is like last week or something like that they posted a picture.
00:11:53
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:11:58
Curt
Oh, what is it? Like, uh, born to, uh, born to flow forced to batch or something like that.
00:12:04
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:12:05
Curt
was like, I'm waiting for him to make that into a t-shirt. because I'm like, I will buy that instantaneously. Yeah.
00:12:09
jamie peacock
Yeah. No, that's, yeah, that's freaking brilliant. But yeah, anyway, so don't know if you saw my number one topic there.
00:12:13
Curt
Yeah.
00:12:18
Curt
Yeah, ah your little ah you probe that you fixed with tape and glue is ah not working anymore.
00:12:19
jamie peacock
ah
00:12:22
jamie peacock
The probe is, no, the probe is fine.
00:12:25
jamie peacock
The probe's not the problem. Yeah, the table probe's fine.
00:12:25
Curt
Or the table probe.
00:12:27
Curt
OK.
00:12:28
jamie peacock
It's the interface.
00:12:28
Curt
Oh. oh Oh, the interface.
00:12:31
jamie peacock
the interface yeah yeah So the interface is a stupid little optic coupler board.
00:12:31
Curt
I should i should read. Yeah.
00:12:36
jamie peacock
There's one shop in South Africa that I can find that sells these. It's an optic coupler board that pulls the signal high. So it pulls it high and it pulls it low.
00:12:43
Curt
OK.
00:12:46
jamie peacock
so it's got a um ah pull down resistor or whatever, pull up resistor, and it puts the signal high and low, not just float and then pull one way.
00:12:57
jamie peacock
which is needed in this application to signal the controller. But i've had I had one of these on the Emco and it caught the autism a while ago.
00:12:57
Curt
Right.
00:13:07
Curt
OK.
00:13:07
jamie peacock
And it also gets really hot. So I ordered another two now so can get my probe working again because I'm trying to finish a job and I can't touch tools. Well, I can, but I have to do it manually and I don't want to.
00:13:18
Curt
Yeah, like a caveman. Yeah, yeah.
00:13:19
jamie peacock
like Like I have a way i have a workaround I had to replace a tool I was running a job. I have a workaround. It's just tedious as hell. So I don't want to do that.
00:13:28
Curt
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:13:28
jamie peacock
I want my tool set it to do the tool setting things that go beep. And luckily I caught it I touched something off and and the beep was longer audibly longer than it should have been so I've got basically it's a four channel optocoupler and I think all three channels or all four channels are tied together.
00:13:44
jamie peacock
One of them signals the controller. The other one drives a buzzer. So if the tool setter trips, the buzzer, if the optocoupler is tripped, the buzzer runs. And it beeped for maybe half a second instead of 0.2 of a second, but I could hear it wasn't right.
00:14:01
jamie peacock
So I retouched the tool and it's comma one off.
00:14:01
Curt
Hmm.
00:14:03
jamie peacock
Retouched the tool, comma one off. Touched the tool setter, it's beeping like it's supposed to. It's just not signaling the controller.
00:14:10
Curt
Hmm.
00:14:10
jamie peacock
So I think it's the optocoupler. We will find out hopefully tomorrow. I'm not actually sure because i asked it to be shipped with a certain courier company and i got shipped with a different courier company, which only made me mildly annoyed because I asked for it to be shipped with the one that does 24 to 48 hours shipping, not three to four days.
00:14:21
Curt
Oh, okay.
00:14:25
Curt
Hmm.
00:14:32
Curt
this Yeah.
00:14:33
jamie peacock
Yeah, it was a bit bit annoying. So is what it is. can't undo it now. So it is in transit.
00:14:40
Curt
Yeah. Well, guess as long as you don't have a bunch of in-process probing or in-process tool checks, that you're probably
00:14:44
jamie peacock
I'm just checking where it is now.
00:14:50
jamie peacock
Well, the thing is, I've got a job coming up. Should get paid for this week, actually, Friday. That's going to need to do like 120 break So i kind of need it. I need it functioning.
00:15:03
jamie peacock
And it's been in there for two or three months, I think, um with the new interface. And yeah now the thing's being stupid. And this happened before. The same little chippy did a similar thing. I moved it onto a different channel on the Emco because it was it was talking to my...
00:15:22
jamie peacock
it was level shifting to the VFD, and then I blew the VFD up. And then when I put the new VFD in, I didn't need to level shift, so it was okay. um I think this thing is actually the reason the VFD blew up.
00:15:37
jamie peacock
I think something short, I don't know. Anyway, so yeah, not the biggest fan of them. I think I might just design up my own little thing, or try find a solid state relay that'll do what I want it to do, um and build up
00:15:48
Curt
I was going say, this sounds right sounds ripe for a quick little DIY, quick quote, quick DIY.
00:15:49
jamie peacock
yeah
00:15:54
Curt
But I mean, if you're hosed, you're hosed. So we'll see.
00:15:56
jamie peacock
Well, the thing is I can put a relay in, but then I'm relying on the switching time of the relay, which is fine.
00:16:01
Curt
Right. Yeah.
00:16:02
jamie peacock
We're doing 100 millimeters a minute. like The switching time the relay is going to be inconsequential, but I don't want a relay going and click, clack, click, clack. I would prefer to have something solid state, hence the optocoupling situation that I had.
00:16:10
Curt
Yeah, no.
00:16:14
jamie peacock
um i was actually thinking while I was driving earlier today, I could run a ULN 2003 chip. dr which can be used to drive steppers.
00:16:21
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:16:22
jamie peacock
I think I have some somewhere. I just don't know where that somewhere is. So might look around and see if I can find one those or just order some. They're not exactly expensive. And then use that to drive the input of the controller.
00:16:38
jamie peacock
Either that or just buy the $200 five-way tool setting that I want to buy off of AliExpress.
00:16:38
Curt
Gotcha, yeah, yeah.
00:16:45
jamie peacock
Should probably just do that. It comes with a little interface thing.
00:16:45
Curt
Yeah, I mean, I said them that might be cheap, might be cheaper in the long run that way.
00:16:51
jamie peacock
Yeah, so the only reason I can't go with a plunger one is because i can't figure out how to set it up. I was trying to read the manuals this morning and not having much luck. um I don't know how to set the actual tool probe position on Siemens without it touching on five sides the calibration routine touches.
00:17:06
Curt
ah Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:17:08
jamie peacock
Yeah. So I know it's a setting. I can't find the freaking proper manual for it.
00:17:12
Curt
Yeah.
00:17:14
jamie peacock
And the setup guide I have is for the TS27R, not for a plunger top toolsetter.
00:17:17
Curt
Right.
00:17:19
jamie peacock
Otherwise, i would have put my plunger top toolsetter in already, because I have one of those kicking around.
00:17:22
Curt
i I swear I remember being able to manually put in all those values. I wonder, like I thought, because they're grayed out normally when you're like, when you're in the calibrate probe position, whatever.
00:17:29
jamie peacock
i
00:17:35
Curt
But I ah wonder if you enter into manufacturer mode and then go into calibrate tooltale. I wonder if that's when it made it visible. I thought I did.
00:17:42
jamie peacock
Oh, speaking of entering into manufacturer mode or setup mode, what is the password on your controller?
00:17:42
Curt
Maybe I'm maybe i'm drunk, but.
00:17:50
Curt
Yeah. ah the Same as everything, I'm assuming, which is sunrise.
00:17:55
jamie peacock
OK, cool. I was curious.
00:17:57
Curt
Yeah, I think it's like worldwide. It's just sunrise for Siemens.
00:17:59
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:18:02
jamie peacock
After probe calibration, data should be saved at the below parameters.
00:18:02
Curt
so
00:18:06
jamie peacock
So I'm just busy reading here quickly because I've actually i've got the thing in my email. So I was just quickly having a look to see. they I've got the list of parameters.
00:18:15
jamie peacock
um
00:18:15
Curt
Oh, sick.
00:18:15
Curt
OK.
00:18:16
jamie peacock
Yeah, so it tells me where the min direction plus direction. OK, cool. So I could just type that shit in manually and not have to worry about it and then just calibrate the Z.
00:18:31
Curt
yeah Yeah, exactly.
00:18:34
jamie peacock
Yeah, minus the reaction.
00:18:35
Curt
Yeah, because now that you mention it, yeah, those those boxes are normally grayed out.
00:18:36
jamie peacock
Okay, cool.
00:18:38
Curt
Same thing, I was just i was moving my program. and i was like, I'm just going to just manually put these in because I'm like, ah wait, I can't.
00:18:41
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah.
00:18:44
Curt
I'm like, I thought I could.
00:18:45
jamie peacock
Well, when you're in God mode in the controller, you can do anything you want.
00:18:45
Curt
I swore I could, but maybe umm
00:18:49
Curt
Oh.
00:18:49
jamie peacock
You just gotta go look it up.
00:18:51
Curt
i have You can change one of the configuration bits so you just stay in God mode. I had it like that for a while and i was like, hmm, I'm going to flip this back.
00:18:58
jamie peacock
Does yours have a key on the front?
00:18:58
Curt
This seems like a bad idea. Yeah, but...
00:19:02
jamie peacock
Okay, ah mine lives in I turned it to the God mode and threw the key into the the little is little thing in the front of the machine.
00:19:02
Curt
ah
00:19:07
Curt
Well, you're in God mode, but you're not in manufacturing God mode.
00:19:08
jamie peacock
Fuck that's i mean well, yeah, no, no, no, not manufacturing God, we're just God mode like I want to be able to do everything on my machine.
00:19:14
Curt
Yeah.
00:19:15
jamie peacock
And then it's got setup mode and then user mode or operator mode.
00:19:16
Curt
Yeah.
00:19:19
Curt
Yeah.
00:19:20
jamie peacock
Mine's in God mode.
00:19:20
Curt
I know. I put... Yeah, I put mine in God mode too.
00:19:22
jamie peacock
Come on.
00:19:23
Curt
And i was like, F this. Like, I know don't don't need to be remembering to turn. so Because then it's a weird thing. It's like, why don't I have permission for this?
00:19:27
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:19:29
Curt
I'm like, oh, stupid key click. So like, no, F this.
00:19:31
jamie peacock
Yeah, my key got thrown into the cabinets.
00:19:32
Curt
God mode, throw the key away.
00:19:34
jamie peacock
I'm like, screw that shit. I don't need that thing in my life.
00:19:36
Curt
Yeah. Yeah. like
00:19:37
jamie peacock
And yeah, I often get into the the parameters.
00:19:38
Curt
Yeah.
00:19:40
jamie peacock
And I was actually in the parameters the other day while I was machining something, just having a look at what the spindle torque, or not spindle torque, the axis torques. were and the access loads and things like because you can see it dynamically.
00:19:50
Curt
Oh, cool.
00:19:53
jamie peacock
It's like oo a whole four Newton meters of torque.
00:19:53
Curt
Right, yeah.
00:19:57
jamie peacock
It's like, it's freaking nuts. I can't remember what I was machining.
00:19:59
Curt
Yeah.
00:20:00
jamie peacock
But yeah, I was I was in there. I was seeing what the access loads and things were like because I was bored. I was running a short operation.
00:20:07
Curt
There's something I've been meaning to F around with on Siemens. You can do a circularity test where it like dynamically reports, and like it moves a machine in a circle and it dynamically reports what the axes are doing and it like plots it on the screen.
00:20:17
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:20:21
jamie peacock
Okay.
00:20:21
Curt
I briefly read about it and then just totally kind of, it's just kind of like a poor man's like ball bar test.
00:20:24
jamie peacock
Interesting.
00:20:26
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:20:26
Curt
I mean, it doesn't work because it's the machine telling itself.
00:20:28
Curt
So it's not like you can't, it's like using it as a measuring tool doesn't work, but.
00:20:29
jamie peacock
Yeah. Well, it will tell you but yeah will tell you what the following error is when it does that.
00:20:34
Curt
Totally. And it tells you if you get weird, have to have weird resonance because like if your tuning is out or whatever. So I've been meaning to piss around with that, but I mean, add it to the list of a thousand things.
00:20:38
jamie peacock
Yeah. When you figure that out, let me know.
00:20:42
Curt
I will. I will. It's going to be like in 2048, but I'll figure it out.
00:20:43
jamie peacock
Because... Oh, that's fine. Yeah, either that's just around the corner. um
00:20:48
Curt
Exactly.
00:20:49
jamie peacock
Yeah. No, so I was, ah
Measurement Tools and Recycling Efforts
00:20:51
jamie peacock
so I got my, but my, uh, bore gauges a little while ago that we discussed.
00:20:58
Curt
Yep.
00:20:58
jamie peacock
Those things are magic. So I was making um rollers for the rerollers that we manufacture, and I needed to dial in the bore.
00:21:05
Curt
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:21:06
jamie peacock
So I went and said, wear comp, set it so that told my cutter, I told it that the cutter was like 6.1 millimeters. Bought it, marked it, adjusted the amount I needed to adjust, which is really cool on where.
00:21:20
jamie peacock
So if you're doing stock, okay. So yeah, this is stupid, but it was awesome. So stock to leave. If you tell it to leave 10 microns, it will leave 20 microns on diameter because it's 10 microns aside.
00:21:33
jamie peacock
But if you bore it and you say your tool is 10 microns big, you mark it and it's 10 microns, the hole is 10 microns small, you tell your tool it's 10 microns smaller than that and it goes the same amount.
00:21:44
jamie peacock
There's no doubling shenanigans going on.
00:21:44
Curt
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
00:21:45
jamie peacock
It's really cool. So, you know, nerd things.
00:21:47
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:21:49
jamie peacock
Anyway, so like marking these things to like 15 plus 10 microns, like spot on. It's amazing to be able to easily measure round things. Like I'm going to have to buy bunch more of these ball gauges.
00:21:58
Curt
Sick.
00:22:02
Curt
Nice. Those were just the, like, ah the, like, AliExpress special or?
00:22:06
jamie peacock
Yeah, I think the the whole order was $300.
00:22:07
Curt
Nice. That's nuts. That's nuts.
00:22:10
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:22:11
Curt
Yeah.
00:22:11
jamie peacock
they come with a calibration ring. I want to buy calibration rings right on the size that I'm actually measuring, just to make sure that I'm correct, that it's linear.
00:22:17
Curt
Right.
00:22:20
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:22:20
jamie peacock
But as far as I can determine, it's as accurate as it needs to be. And just being able to easily measure that.
00:22:24
Curt
Cool.
00:22:26
jamie peacock
it's so nice. I made a palette for the, well, speaking of one of the things there, I made a palette for my vices. And well, some illiterate modeled the one hole the wrong size, but ah the other hole was the right size.
00:22:32
Curt
OK.
00:22:37
jamie peacock
And again, using Wear Comp, little bore mark, set it to, I board it to exactly 10 millimeters, take my 9.95 pin, fit.
00:22:47
jamie peacock
shrink perfect fit
00:22:49
jamie peacock
I'm like, it was 9.9, sorry, 9.95. So five microns clearance. Shrink goes in perfectly. I'm like, yes, this is what I want.
00:22:49
Curt
Sick.
00:22:56
Curt
That's awesome.
00:22:58
jamie peacock
I don't want to be dilly-dallying with freaking little, the ball gauges I was using or yeah, the other inside mark I had that should just be burnt.
00:23:04
Curt
Yeah.
00:23:08
jamie peacock
ah It's really, really sweet, those little ball gauges.
00:23:12
jamie peacock
I'm very happy with
00:23:12
Curt
Yeah, I don't have any need for one.
00:23:15
Curt
I mean, i I'll have a need for one right now that i after I've said this, but like, yeah, I've always wanted one just for that purpose of just like, you know, have to dick around with a little, yeah.
00:23:15
jamie peacock
yeah
00:23:18
jamie peacock
yeah But yeah, they're super cheap. Yeah, no not the biggest range, like two millimeters on my small one, so eight to 10 millimeter. And the other one is 14 to 17.
00:23:32
Curt
I mean, for the price, so like whatever.
00:23:32
jamie peacock
So exactly. Yeah, no, I'll buy 10 to 12 or 10 to 13.
00:23:35
Curt
Yeah.
00:23:38
jamie peacock
And then I'm pretty covered. Like for most common sizes, I need to actually measure, I'll be covered.
00:23:41
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:23:46
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:23:46
jamie peacock
ah john Being able to measure things accurately is reallyi really, really nice.
00:23:47
Curt
That's cool.
00:23:51
Curt
Yeah. Yeah, it's the key.
00:23:53
jamie peacock
yeah exactly oh actually i didn't find that out shit um i didn't find how many how much shavings i took in i haven't weighed it yet but but i've got a video
00:24:02
Curt
Oh, just.
00:24:06
jamie peacock
I'm actually, I'm going to be a dick and do things on the podcast that I shouldn't do again. ah Anyway, so I took my shavings in this week. I managed to get them onto my truck with relative ease, the aluminum shavings, but the tub was pretty full.
00:24:13
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:24:16
Curt
okay
00:24:19
jamie peacock
So I think there's probably like 150, 200 kilos there again, which is awesome because I like selling shavings because it gets me pocket money. um But yeah, took that in. But this this customer, they...
00:24:35
jamie peacock
They sent half a skip, and their scrap dealer was like, ooh, why are you sending half a skip? You're wasting our time making us come fetch half a skip. So they filled the skip up.
00:24:47
Curt
Okay.
00:24:47
jamie peacock
I sent you a video quickly, Kurt. Have a look at the video I sent you on Instagram. ah Yeah, so the video I sent Kurt was the first truck that they sent to pick up the skip.
00:24:51
Curt
Okay.
00:24:57
jamie peacock
We were all guessing on weight, so I did a bit of maths. I reckon that thing was close on 20 tons of punch-outs.
00:25:05
Curt
Oh, that's a lot.
00:25:06
jamie peacock
In the skip. Yeah. No, Kurt's going to see the video and now. I'm waiting for it. They sent a second truck today to try and pick this up. A double axle, a double rear axle truck to lift the skip. And it's still
00:25:20
Curt
For the listeners, it's like, yeah, little truck. And it's just, they're lifting it and the front of the truck is going up.
00:25:23
jamie peacock
The whole front.
00:25:25
Curt
Yeah, nothing else is happening.
00:25:25
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah, so it's in they're sending a flatbed tomorrow to come pick up the rest of the shavings and stuff. So then I'll find out how many cages.
00:25:32
Curt
There's also, there's lions everywhere. People are shooting guns in the air.
00:25:35
jamie peacock
and a giraffe
00:25:37
Curt
Giraffe, there's dust storms. Just exactly what you'd think Africa would look like. No, it looks like a metropolitan city.
00:25:41
jamie peacock
yeah 100% just like yeah yeah that's a bit of a shit hole that's a normal
00:25:43
Curt
But ah say that's awesome. Yeah.
00:25:48
jamie peacock
Yeah, that's fucking great. Yeah, so they they gave them shit for not filling the skip up. It was like half, three quarters full. Oh, don't send us half things. He's like, okay, cool. So they literally filled it to the brim with these punch outs, like one inch diamonds, a punch outs and smaller.
00:26:03
jamie peacock
So it's freaking, it's basically like, I would say about 60, 70% steel in that skip.
00:26:10
Curt
Right.
00:26:10
jamie peacock
Like there's not a lot of air in there.
00:26:11
Curt
you
Technology Upgrades: Webcams to PCs
00:26:12
jamie peacock
And yeah, they just kept loading it, loading it.
00:26:12
Curt
Yeah.
00:26:13
jamie peacock
And then they finally asked, come fetch, please. And yeah, their truck did that.
00:26:16
Curt
Yeah. You said you're giving him a hundred ton block of steel. Yeah. Yeah.
00:26:21
jamie peacock
Yeah, that was freaking great.
00:26:22
Curt
That's awesome. That's awesome.
00:26:22
jamie peacock
I got that video over the weekend. was like, can check here? Because asked him about scrap and he's like, yeah, no, it went well.
00:26:30
Curt
I love being petty like that. That's my favorite.
00:26:32
jamie peacock
Oh, yeah.
00:26:32
Curt
That's my favorite way to do things.
00:26:33
jamie peacock
It is.
00:26:33
Curt
Yeah.
00:26:34
jamie peacock
Maliciously compliant.
00:26:35
Curt
Yep, exactly. Yep. Not doing anything that breaks the rules.
00:26:37
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:26:38
Curt
Just being a cunt.
00:26:39
jamie peacock
Unfortunately, my wife also loves to be maliciously compliant.
00:26:43
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:26:43
jamie peacock
So, yeah, I get things hidden in the house. It's great. I've learned not to tell her she's messy because then she just hides all my shit.
00:26:51
Curt
ah yeah that's Yeah, that's how it works. and ah Oh, man. Too much fun.
00:26:57
jamie peacock
Yeah. So what is this ah HD stream cameras and monster PC? Good.
00:27:03
Curt
Okay, so 100%, this podcast is, yeah, pens are going to be my secondary source of income.
00:27:03
jamie peacock
Are you starting OnlyFans?
00:27:11
Curt
I'm going to have, and um what ah well, we do a podcast like every week and I set up like what we use for, web or what I use for webcam is like an old smartphone that's coupled to my PC with a piece of software.
00:27:16
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:27:22
Curt
And it actually works surprisingly well because smartphone cameras are ridiculously good nowadays.
00:27:24
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:27:27
Curt
But um I just want it super simple. So i was looking at webcams because webcams are dirt cheap nowadays. And especially through the through the wonderful people of OnlyFans and all the other streamers, um the price is just cratering because like everyone's buying. like Everybody wants 4K web cameras. um So the price is just insanely cheap. So anyways, I was looking at a bunch of those.
00:27:46
Curt
think I settled on a few I want um or one that I want anyways. So I might end pulling the trigger on that. Just once again, just to make it super simple so that when we do the podcast, like everything is connected. I don't have to set anything up.
00:27:56
Curt
um Might play with that. And then with Fusion dropping support for Windows 10, my computer runs Windows 10. It's not available to run Windows 11, even though it basically solves all the needs I want.
00:28:04
jamie peacock
in october by the way ah got a new new thing it's ending its support in october believe so ill i'll still find the picture now
00:28:04
Curt
So I'm like,
00:28:10
Curt
oh, they jumped it up to October now?
00:28:14
Curt
Okay, because it was January for a while. um But okay. Well, either way, I'm going to have a... ah Anyways, I'm building a new PC and I'm kind of going... Kind of going over the top on it now. so Because once again, PC hardware has just craters since last looked at building PCs like a decade ago.
00:28:29
jamie peacock
well
00:28:31
Curt
And you look at the pricing now and you' it's like, wow. like You can get a lot. you know If you have a $2,000, $3,000 budget for a PC, you can build a pretty monster PC these days. um yeah anyways just trying to balance between fusion and the two pieces of software that are kind of cpu intensive or computer intensive i should say is uh fusion is one side and then i use uh video editing and normally video editing doesn't use your graphics card so i didn't really have to worry about it but i use davinci resolve and that does use your graphics card so now i have to get like a really powerful cpu because that's what fusion uses fusion doesn't really use a graphics card and then
00:29:06
Curt
a really powerful GPU, which is just kind of and makes a price go way, way up. But I also want a future proof for like a decade.
00:29:11
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:29:13
Curt
So I don't mind buying like top tier stuff and then just not.
00:29:15
jamie peacock
Yeah, buy into the AM5 platform then, because AMD have committed to support it for at least the next three or four years, and AMD's the best.
00:29:22
Curt
Yeah. Yeah. I think I'm going to go with like a Ryzen.
00:29:24
jamie peacock
He says on his Intel computer, you ah all my other PCs are Ryzen's.
00:29:31
Curt
Yeah, I'm going like Ryzen 9 series. um Yeah, just full ATX build.
00:29:35
jamie peacock
I sent you the pop-up.
00:29:36
Curt
Yeah, it'd be it'd be cool.
00:29:38
jamie peacock
do um ah Do a mini-RTX build. Come to the dark side, Kurt.
00:29:41
Curt
No, ATX. ATX.
00:29:42
jamie peacock
Mini RTX. Mini RTX.
00:29:43
Curt
No, ATX. I want all the room in the world. I want to put like a RAID array of like 40 hard drives in there.
00:29:46
jamie peacock
Oh,
00:29:49
Curt
I need all the room I can get.
00:29:50
jamie peacock
jeez.
00:29:51
Curt
I actually kind of do i kind of want to do do want to do a RAID array, but I won't do it on Windows.
00:29:52
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:29:55
Curt
I think I'll do a RAID array in ah Linux because it doesn't make sense to do that on Windows.
00:30:00
jamie peacock
No, it makes no sense to do it in Windows. I sent you the message that popped up on my Fusion. 26th of October. think. 15th of October. think
00:30:08
Curt
Okay, tick-tock, Mr.
00:30:08
jamie peacock
fifteen of september
00:30:09
Curt
Filipowski. Yeah, 14th of October, but yeah.
00:30:11
jamie peacock
Yeah, that one. A number of October. but So yeah, I'm going to have to upgrade my stupid computer to Windows 11 so that I can be frustrated every time I turn it on because why does the login thing not just frickin' pop up?
00:30:20
Curt
Oh, no.
00:30:24
Curt
No, see, it says um Windows 10 will no longer be supported by Microsoft on October 14th, 2025.
00:30:29
jamie peacock
Oh, okay.
00:30:30
Curt
Fusion product support will require Windows 11 or later with our January 2026 release.
00:30:33
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:30:36
jamie peacock
Oh, okay. Same. Meh.
00:30:36
Curt
So I think you have until January, but either way,
00:30:39
Curt
Sooner is more better.
00:30:39
jamie peacock
Yeah. It's the most frustrating thing that it doesn't just open with the login doodad. It's like, I've turned the computer on. I don't want to look at the pretty picture. I want to log in and use my computer. But come on.
00:30:50
Curt
Yeah.
00:30:51
jamie peacock
It's just daft.
00:30:51
Curt
Yeah.
00:30:53
jamie peacock
But yeah, unfortunately, we're going to the last Windows ever again.
00:30:57
Curt
Sick. Can't wait for 10 years from now to Windows 12.
00:30:58
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah, if Fusion, even if it's supported a very only a very specific list of Linux distros, I would be freaking over the moon.
00:31:11
Curt
As would As would ass what i
00:31:12
jamie peacock
Because it is the only reason I have Windows on any computer. It's because of Fusion.
00:31:17
Curt
Yep.
00:31:18
jamie peacock
Well, okay, I lie. My downstairs lounge computer's on Windows, but that's just because it's easy.
00:31:24
Curt
Yeah.
00:31:24
jamie peacock
I can store Chrome and we watch TV on it. It's not the end of the world.
00:31:28
Curt
Yeah. Yeah. I know. A lot of things to bitch about, I guess. buts That's a minor one.
00:31:33
jamie peacock
Yep.
00:31:33
Curt
Yeah.
Machining Education and Equipment Comparisons
00:31:35
jamie peacock
One of the things that I don't want to bitch about, I actually want to shout out Alex from the Taps and Patience Discord, because he heard in the podcast I was complaining about the drawings of the Titan...
00:31:42
Curt
Okay.
00:31:48
jamie peacock
but what up their building blocks or their basics, whatever parts.
00:31:52
Curt
Oh yeah. yeah Yeah. Yeah.
00:31:53
jamie peacock
I was mentioning that the drawings looked like they were drawn by someone at Autodesk.
00:31:57
Curt
Yeah.
00:31:57
jamie peacock
And he sent me a link. He had a student redraw them all properly. So he sent me a link to all the files. Thank you very much, Alex. It's greatly appreciated.
00:32:04
Curt
Oh, cool.
00:32:04
jamie peacock
I gave it to Carl today so that he can go and model all the parts um because we're moving through training him through all the the building blocks parts. And I think...
00:32:16
jamie peacock
not He's here tomorrow night, then he's not here on Wednesday, then he's here Thursday, for Friday. So, yeah, we we finished M1. it was It was quite fun because we ran both machines to make M1.
00:32:24
Curt
Cool. Yeah.
00:32:30
Curt
I've heard people like doing that. I never did that game, but I heard people like playing that Titan thing.
00:32:32
jamie peacock
Except, well, I was ah was running production, so I had to finish my production run first. So we got Cole going, and...
00:32:43
jamie peacock
One hour and a half later, he had finished his op one.
00:32:46
jamie peacock
So then I started op one and op two and then carried on running production and then we set him up for op two. um The LK took 10 minutes. The slow EO took an hour and a half.
00:32:46
Curt
Right.
00:32:59
Curt
But, but if I remember the story correctly, yours has a flaw in it.
00:33:05
jamie peacock
Mine?
00:33:07
Curt
Yeah, you had a gouge in your floor, didn't you?
00:33:07
jamie peacock
Oh, yes. No, i have pieces left over in my floor.
00:33:10
Curt
Tough, tough, tough guy.
00:33:13
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, I didn't catch that in my simulation. but or what's it The flat toolpath left little cusps, which is really annoying, but yeah, it's fine. Just don't measure there.
00:33:24
Curt
Exactly.
00:33:25
jamie peacock
It'll be okay.
00:33:25
Curt
yeah Tell QC that. Yeah.
00:33:27
jamie peacock
Yeah. kiy and Yeah, QZ. Bring me your reference-only caliper, please. um But yeah, so like it was interesting to compare the Slowio versus the the LK, and how the hell I made any money on that machine blows my mind.
00:33:37
Curt
Yeah.
00:33:40
jamie peacock
like It is like watching molasses. It's worse than paint dry. It is glacial take a comma comma five cut with a face smell and the spindle bogs down.
00:33:40
Curt
Yeah.
00:33:52
jamie peacock
Yeah, comes Jamie on the LK two millimeter. Oh God, and it's a mirror. It's freaking great. But yeah, it was very it was actually very interesting to see them compare them side by side.
00:33:58
Curt
yeah
00:34:02
jamie peacock
Like his wall finish wasn't great, but he was using an old end mill. Like I didn't swap in a new end mill because he's learning program not learning to make rocket parts.
00:34:12
Curt
Right, yeah, no, exactly. Makes sense.
00:34:13
jamie peacock
And he's like, no, don't don't waste your time putting in a new end mill.
00:34:14
Curt
That makes sense.
00:34:16
jamie peacock
Like, it doesn't matter. So, yeah, fair enough.
00:34:18
Curt
Yeah.
00:34:19
jamie peacock
So, yeah, he got to thread mill and all that. We were looking through all the drawing packs for the rest of the building block series now. So we can plan how we're going to make all of those. Or how he's going to make all of those. I'm not really interested in making any more of them.
00:34:33
jamie peacock
Like, I'd rather make useful.
00:34:35
Curt
It seems cool. like It seems like a good a good way to get your feet wet if you're not, like if you're kind of a raw rookie.
00:34:38
jamie peacock
Well, yeah.
00:34:39
Curt
It kind of steps you through it all.
00:34:40
jamie peacock
So... Yeah, and like we were running something and there was a little bit of a, the chamfer didn't quite clean up. I'm like, just post the chamfer bigger. Post the chamfer runs it. It's like, oh, wow, okay, cool. He's used to having to hand code this crap. And I'm like, nope, just go Fusion, shut off the code, come refresh it on the controller and hit go because it's also connected to the network.
00:34:58
jamie peacock
So, yeah, you just refresh code, hit go, and yeah.
00:34:58
Curt
Right.
00:34:59
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:35:02
jamie peacock
If the first tool doesn't crash, the next tool ain't going to crash because everything's set up correctly. and Unless you call the wrong tool number like he did.
00:35:06
Curt
yeah
00:35:08
jamie peacock
um yeah, his tool library and the physical world did not match. And he used stupid tool numbers.
00:35:13
Curt
Ooh.
00:35:14
jamie peacock
He numbered his tools 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. on two to four five Meanwhile, they're actually meant to be tool 69, tool 2, tool 1, tool 9, and then tool 25. Because that's my numbering convention. But it's fine. He can do them how he wants to do them.
00:35:29
jamie peacock
He doesn't have to follow Jamie's stupid numbering system. Because tool my face mill is tool 69, because it's a really cool tool, and I needed an awesome number for it. So...
00:35:38
Curt
of course yeah of course oh boy
00:35:39
jamie peacock
Yeah, obviously. It's all 69. But ah yeah, and then I made that fancy vase palette, which is awesome. And I'm going need to make another one.
00:35:48
Curt
yeah i think i saw that it looks looks nice
00:35:50
jamie peacock
Yeah, so it can take three vast three self-centering vases with the jaws closing in the x-axis or two with them closing in the y-axis. Because depending on what you're doing, you kind need a bit more clearance sometimes.
00:36:04
jamie peacock
So I made a dual-station pallet that does that, and I really need to make another one. That's the one that I blew the one-hole tolerance by, like, comma, one over mil because I modeled it. Instead of 10.015, modeled And guess what?
00:36:18
jamie peacock
The robot does exactly what you tell it to do.
00:36:22
Curt
yeah exactly yeah weird
00:36:22
jamie peacock
Who would have guessed? But yeah, it's fine. If it's out by a degree or two, it's not going to make any difference. That's used for up zeros or up ones. So it really, if it's out by half a mil, it's not going to make a difference because the guys, our auto material oversize normally by about three millimeters.
00:36:31
Curt
Yeah.
00:36:39
jamie peacock
And it normally comes in six mils oversize because they always air on the side of bigger rather than smaller. which used to be really, really frustrating, but not so much anymore.
00:36:51
jamie peacock
Because now the machine just goes burr, and then there's no more material.
00:36:54
Curt
Right. Yeah. yeah
00:36:56
jamie peacock
ah Yeah, compared to the slow here, oh my word. So we chopped up a screw piece of scrap I had, we cut it half, and then just gripped it by the bottom three mils and machined everything away. But the part was like 10 millimeters bigger in one of the axes.
00:37:09
jamie peacock
And a tut it took forever on the Slowio. In two step downs and like 0.75 step over. Yeah, dropped it on the LK with the but the dust maker and just went like formal step over.
00:37:22
jamie peacock
Full depth, evaporated it in like 30 seconds and was moving on to finishing the part.
00:37:28
jamie peacock
But I mean, yeah, that's what you get when the machine literally costs 16 times as much.
00:37:28
Curt
Yeah.
00:37:33
Curt
Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. and yeah And someone that knows how to build machines, like no offense, but I mean, we don't, we don't, we don't build machines for a living.
00:37:38
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, no, 100%.
00:37:40
Curt
So someone that does it probably can be a little bit better.
00:37:41
jamie peacock
No.
00:37:43
jamie peacock
Well, I did build machines for a living, but not the point. um
00:37:46
Curt
Yeah. yeah
00:37:46
jamie peacock
They weren't milling machines. Speaking of, that company is, I think, shut down as of, well, this weekend.
00:37:48
Curt
Right.
00:37:54
Curt
Oh, like your old job or. Ooh.
00:37:56
jamie peacock
Yeah, they finally went out of business. I really thought it would be sooner.
00:37:59
Curt
Ooh. Wow. mean.
00:38:00
jamie peacock
Yeah, really thought would sooner. So my one but one colleague, he's been subcontracting to them since, because I left and it he
00:38:06
Curt
Mm.
00:38:08
jamie peacock
He was employed as a workshop staff person, never meant to go to site, like just workshop staff.
00:38:12
Curt
Mm.
00:38:14
jamie peacock
And when I left, he took he got dumped with all the on site work. So was like, Okay, cool. My kids still in school. Soon as my kids out of school, I don't need to be anymore. Like then his monthly commitments went down enough that he could afford to go do his own thing.
00:38:24
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:38:28
jamie peacock
So literally a year after I left, he left. And then they needed help. So they got hold of him like, ah Can you come and just subcontract to us? They've owed him $2,500 since December.
00:38:40
Curt
Ooh. Yeah, that's rough.
00:38:41
jamie peacock
Yeah, they're They've owed another one of my customers a bunch of money. Well, not a bunch, like $250. It's like, it's fuck all. Just pay it. um
00:38:50
Curt
Yeah.
00:38:51
jamie peacock
But yeah, apparently they're selling off assets now or something. I know. really could not be bothered.
00:38:54
Curt
o
00:38:56
jamie peacock
um But yeah, surprised it took this long, quite honestly.
00:39:00
Curt
Yeah, well, sometimes it's nice to nice to get off a ship before it starts to sink, so, yeah.
00:39:05
jamie peacock
Yeah, ah but so when i after I left there, I spoke to the guys from the local Omron guys who've dealt with them for years. And he said, no, this is what happens. They'll do really well, and then they won't invest in staff and support, and then they'll tank.
00:39:20
jamie peacock
And then they'll find something new, and they'll do really well, and then they'll tank. And that's what they've been doing for 20 years.
00:39:24
Curt
Yeah.
00:39:25
jamie peacock
And I think this time it was just the boss man didn't want to carry on doing it.
00:39:30
Curt
Yeah. Well, I mean, and the wiggle waggles are fine.
00:39:31
jamie peacock
Mark. Yeah.
00:39:33
Curt
Like the boom bust cycles are fine.
00:39:33
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:39:34
Curt
As long as it's trending up or I mean, if it's trending, if it's turning down, it's going to end too, but trending up is better.
00:39:36
jamie peacock
Well, yeah. further the
00:39:40
jamie peacock
So the issue I saw there was it was they wanted to sell like 10 or 15 machines a year overseas, but they didn't want to invest in having support staff on staff.
00:39:50
jamie peacock
So they didn't want to have more technicians or more software guys.
00:39:53
Curt
o
00:39:54
jamie peacock
And sorry, you've got 20 machines on site. At some point, two of them are going to break. And if you tell your customer, oh,
00:39:59
Curt
Yeah.
Selling and Upgrading Machinery
00:40:00
jamie peacock
don't worry, we'll be there as soon as we're done with the other customer.
00:40:02
jamie peacock
you that'll work for a day or two. But three weeks down the line, the customer's telling you, get your shit out of my shop, out of my factory now, we'll find someone else, thanks.
00:40:05
Curt
Yeah.
00:40:10
jamie peacock
And that's literally what happened.
00:40:11
Curt
Yeah.
00:40:12
jamie peacock
So yeah, it's, I learned a lot from that. A lot of what not to do.
00:40:18
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:40:19
jamie peacock
So yeah, we will remember them fondly. like Like I said, the owner and his son, their personal assets, not going to get affected by this.
00:40:31
jamie peacock
Like they were smart enough to separate it from the business. Um, the business will liquidate assets and move on. Local resigners, some will go find another job or do something
00:40:39
Curt
Ooh.
00:40:42
jamie peacock
I mean, when I was there, he spent $50,000 on roof installation, bringing another brand into the country. It arrived and it was all the wrong size. And they eventually sold it all off and got their money back, but didn't really make any money on it.
00:40:57
jamie peacock
And I was like, oh, that's fine. It's only $50,000. I'm like, dudes, you've got to be kidding me. Like, you want a start a business, you can just throw bucks at it.
00:41:02
Curt
yeah
00:41:04
jamie peacock
And then if doesn't work, it doesn't work. Oh, no. And yeah, the that was the mentality, unfortunately.
00:41:11
Curt
yeah I don't know. I like when people are...
00:41:13
jamie peacock
ah john
00:41:14
Curt
ah like I mean, obviously, it's nice when people... like when When you put yourself in a situation where you're protected, but I also like the situations where like you're working for a company where like the owner has skin in the game and is like scared.
00:41:19
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:41:24
Curt
Not scared, but like wants needs the company to so to succeed so he doesn't...
00:41:26
jamie peacock
yeah
00:41:28
Curt
like Those are the best companies I've worked for because they're the ones that ah push and advance as opposed to if this doesn't work, I'll try something else.
00:41:29
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:41:34
Curt
It's like, well, I'd rather you didn't have that mentality because I want this to work because you pay me.
00:41:35
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:41:38
jamie peacock
Yeah, make this work.
00:41:38
Curt
Yeah.
00:41:39
jamie peacock
Like, yeah.
00:41:40
Curt
Yeah, yeah. Oh, bummer.
00:41:42
jamie peacock
No, that's, yeah. But anyway, it was interesting chatting to Ruben, game boss this week. is because I sold him my old generator, and he phoned me to ask me how to start it.
00:41:48
Curt
Cool.
00:41:52
jamie peacock
So it's battling to start it because you've got to it's a two person job.
00:41:54
Curt
Right,
00:41:56
jamie peacock
Someone has to hold the little clutch thing and choke out because when you pull start so it latches out. But as soon as you pull it, it creates vacuum on the on the carb and pops it back in.
00:42:07
jamie peacock
then won't freaking stop.
00:42:08
Curt
right yeah, yeah.
00:42:09
jamie peacock
So I used like Danica come hold the thing. rule it would Start and then you let go. And then it's fine.
00:42:13
Curt
Right. Yeah.
00:42:14
jamie peacock
So I sold a term and he's like, no, I haven't forgot because I'm like, just take it. It's in the way. Sort me out when you got money. Sort me out. And he's like, no, I haven't forgotten about you.
00:42:21
Curt
Right.
00:42:23
jamie peacock
Just waiting for them to still pay me. I'm like, no, don't stress. So he came here and we helped him out with some documentation. and whatnot he's now looking to he's going to start uh so he does a lot of maintenance for all the ex-customers of this company so the guys are looking for grease um you get those little grease cartridges that you basically pop the seal on the back and as the air gets in it reacts and pushes grease out over like three months so i'm like dude just sell these oaks oilers they're the same price as a single grease cartridge and the guys put oil and when the oil runs out it goes beep
00:42:30
Curt
Nice.
00:42:53
Curt
Yeah.
00:42:55
jamie peacock
and they know the oils run out so i had a spare oil i'm like no come grab it go sell to your customer and then order replacements like do something different like oiling is the way especially in like woodworking and stuff it's the only way to keep stuff from breaking like to the point that i've got customers that it's worked so well i haven't had to sell them replacement guards in two years it's a little annoying because i make really good comm on selling them guards
00:43:03
Curt
Yeah,
00:43:11
Curt
yeah. Yeah.
00:43:21
Curt
i' Time to make a site visit.
00:43:22
jamie peacock
But obviously, yeah, like, I'd rather their stuff just just work and I don't have to climb into these stupid CNC machines.
00:43:27
Curt
so
00:43:29
Curt
Totally. Yeah. Totally.
00:43:30
jamie peacock
Because they are made by Italians. That should say everything it needs to say.
00:43:37
Curt
There's nothing wrong with Italian-made product. All their cars are...
00:43:42
jamie peacock
Always break down, yes. um No, this machine literally you've got to take the you got to get a um it's an eight millimeter hex drive so eight millimeter Allen key in a socket, but it's got to be a short one.
00:43:56
jamie peacock
You've got to put it you've got to lean in put it into the weldments into the socket a cap screw. feed in from the bottom and extension through a hole into that socket and then another extension from outside the machine through the hole into that extension.
00:44:11
jamie peacock
The holes are big enough to pass it through. So you clip it into three pieces.
00:44:13
Curt
yeah
00:44:17
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:44:17
Curt
Nothing wrong with this.
00:44:19
jamie peacock
Yeah, you see my delight for working on these machines. Yeah, no, they really they are and stupid. and they use omron servers well actually no they use just our servers they're not that bad but their documentation is uh to call it this port would be a compliment i actually replaced one of their controllers in july last year august last year just before imts um i replaced a controller on a smc machine these guys bought this machine for hang on imperializer tom just because it's easier
00:44:27
Curt
Oh, fuck.
00:44:54
jamie peacock
They bought the machine for, according to this, $200,000 for this router.
00:45:01
Curt
Dispendulo router?
00:45:03
jamie peacock
Sorry, They bought for told new controller $16,000.
00:45:05
Curt
That's better.
00:45:11
jamie peacock
think they said about four years before the controller died and then they were told new controller is sixteen thousand dollars
00:45:19
Curt
up there.
00:45:20
jamie peacock
So along came Jamie and installed a Raspberry Pi 5 with a Mesa card for them for like, I think, $2,000 or $3,000.
00:45:31
jamie peacock
Got the machine running. So I bought a seven seven r seventy seven board. For the life of me, could not get this thing to work. So I ended up switching the Skyward drives from analog drives different differential analog to drive them to step direction and ran it on step direction.
00:45:48
jamie peacock
The guys were here last week and they're like, the thing runs beautifully. It runs smoother than it ran on the SMC controller.
00:45:51
Curt
Nice.
00:45:54
Curt
Nice.
00:45:55
jamie peacock
Yeah, like they reckon it used to, it used to be like on a curve, you could see the thing like trying to keep along the curve.
00:46:02
Curt
Right, yeah. Right, yeah, yeah.
00:46:03
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's a frickin if you within within a millimeter, it's fine, they're cutting wood. um
00:46:08
Curt
right yeah
00:46:08
jamie peacock
Yeah, I got them set up and they they're ecstatic. i actually sold them the old MPG off of the LK. So the MPG when I got when I got the LK when I saw it in Cape Town, was like, MPG doesn't feel right.
00:46:15
Curt
Oh, nice.
00:46:22
jamie peacock
It just it feels like it's missing clicks. It's not going fast enough when I spin the wheel. And turns out it only logged every like second or third click. So I bought a replacement from China land and I just swapped it when I, when I did this retrofit and they're like, oh, they want to feed override knob.
00:46:40
jamie peacock
So like, no worries. He has an MPG. It has one setting. You spin it this way. It goes fast. You spin it that way. It goes to zero feed rates. And they're like, sweet. They're happy. So I sold them my old MPG to use as a feed rate knob.
00:46:52
Curt
If it works for the purposes, yeah, exactly.
00:46:53
jamie peacock
It does the thing.
00:46:55
jamie peacock
Yeah,
Learning CAD and Educational Reflections
00:46:56
Curt
Like, whatever.
00:46:56
jamie peacock
like, you know, oh no, it's got to click four times to go 10% down on spin on feed rate.
00:46:56
Curt
Yeah.
00:47:02
jamie peacock
So yeah, they were happy with that.
00:47:03
Curt
yeah Nice.
00:47:03
jamie peacock
But yeah, it turns out the Raspberry Pi 5 does the line extension ISO at the time did not support SPR. So you couldn't use a 7C81.
00:47:13
Curt
Gotcha. Yeah, yeah.
00:47:13
jamie peacock
So had to use a 7R96S that I had laying around.
00:47:14
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:47:18
Curt
and Okay. Okay.
00:47:19
jamie peacock
Because I tend to have all the Mesa cards laying around apparently.
00:47:22
Curt
Yeah.
00:47:23
jamie peacock
Like at the moment, I have a one over here, literally next to you've the the big breakout board for the PAR your machines.
00:47:23
Curt
Since they have a whole host.
00:47:30
jamie peacock
I got this one. Yeah, the cheap one. got seven c eighty though the big breakup board pa on your
00:47:37
Curt
Correct. Yeah. Yeah. Correct.
00:47:39
jamie peacock
like this one
00:47:40
Curt
it's sick. Yeah. It's just, that's a little, it's a little brother.
00:47:41
jamie peacock
yeah the cheap one
00:47:42
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:47:42
jamie peacock
Yeah, and I made my own breakout boards for it, so I just get boards spun up and then jumper out, so I've got all that sorted, like, can feed in three encoders on it, like, fully featured boards.
00:47:53
jamie peacock
No opt-a-coupling or anything fancy like that, but yeah, it works.
00:47:54
Curt
Yeah.
00:47:57
Curt
Yeah, exactly.
00:47:58
jamie peacock
Like, god that's what was that's what I put in Bertha two weeks ago.
00:48:02
Curt
Yeah.
00:48:03
jamie peacock
And it now works.
00:48:03
Curt
Yeah, I'm happy with them.
00:48:05
jamie peacock
Oh, did I talk about that last week? Hang on. Yes, boats, boats, boats, boats. boats ah Did I say I drilled holes in the EMCO's turret?
00:48:16
Curt
I don't know if you did.
00:48:18
jamie peacock
And I said I was going to.
00:48:21
jamie peacock
Yeah, I think I did. Anyway, it's working beautifully.
00:48:21
Curt
I don't remember if you did it
00:48:22
Curt
Oh, to pit. Sick. That's awesome.
00:48:24
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's working beautifully. I made some stuff. That's all I, the only machine I turned on today was the EMCO. I made some little pin things, and then I got distracted and built compressor controllers and faffed around, went sites, and did things.
00:48:30
Curt
Hmm.
00:48:40
jamie peacock
People keep trying to get me to teach them how to use Fusion.
00:48:40
Curt
Oh.
00:48:42
jamie peacock
And I keep telling them to go to the I like to make stuff of course.
00:48:46
Curt
Yeah. Yeah, there's tons of online courses that are a good way to just to start off.
00:48:48
jamie peacock
That course is the one our that's the one I recommend. It's like $120, but it goes through everything from fundamentals.
00:48:51
Curt
Yeah.
00:48:55
jamie peacock
And the problem is I don't teach fundamentals because they're just something I do.
00:49:02
jamie peacock
It's not something I think about doing, so it's not something I can teach easily.
00:49:02
Curt
Yeah.
00:49:06
Curt
Well, and I think like, I mean, it depends on the generation. I know some of like, It seems like there was ah there's a generation of time, kind of, I mean, our generation roughly, works just like, most of us just want figure it out by doing, where it's like, just open the software and just start pissing around with it.
00:49:20
Curt
And like, yeah, like...
00:49:20
jamie peacock
Push button, and see what happens.
00:49:22
Curt
Yeah, Google some things to figure out when you get jammed.
00:49:23
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:49:24
Curt
But like for the most part, like that's how i learned fusion. That's how i learned any CAD system was like, yeah, I read a little bit of tutorials. But for most it's just like, hey, I want to try drawing this and just struggle bus through it and be like, okay, that's how you do that. And like every step and like you could teach yourself fusion.
00:49:37
Curt
Like you could be decent at fusion in like a few weekends. Like it's not, it's not rocket science.
00:49:40
jamie peacock
yeah So I learned AutoCAD. So in high school, we had AutoCAD 2007. It's very fancy. And on the school server, there was a copy of 2000 with a crack.
00:49:49
Curt
Yeah.
00:49:52
jamie peacock
So I liberated a copy of that and to put on my home PC.
00:49:53
Curt
Yeah.
00:49:56
jamie peacock
And we had our first AutoCAD lesson in, I think, 11th grade and we got given our assignment for the term and got told we'll we'll teach you how to draw this yeah i went back on that was on like the Thursday or Friday I went back on the Monday I'm like a teacher how do I make a hole if I don't have the press pull tool so he explained to me how to create a body and boolean it off I'm like sweet oh next day flash drive here's my project for the term Done.
00:50:22
Curt
yeah
00:50:22
jamie peacock
Learned how to draw it at home. Why am I going to spend whole term learning to draw something but i can learn that I can learn in a weekend? And then, yeah, obviously I went and studied ah how to draw shit in AutoCAD for a living, which is mind numbing as all hell.
00:50:32
Curt
Yeah.
00:50:39
jamie peacock
And then that that's where how I got into engineering, I was draftsman. And then my boss bought Fusion. Not Fusion, SolidWorks. was too cheap to send me on a training course. So I learned how to draw on that learns how to do joints, watch one or two videos or not joints. They were, do they call them?
00:50:55
jamie peacock
That's
00:50:58
jamie peacock
Hmm. No, not constraints. Anyway, joints. Learned how to do that. I modeled the entire machine that we were manufacturing with moving assemblies. Everything moved as it was supposed to fit, check.
00:51:09
jamie peacock
And then I moved us to Fusion before, like, year a half before I left there, because I figured out, oh, wait, I can actually just program out of this instead of using Bobcat, which, to call it god-awful, was a compliment.
00:51:17
Curt
Yeah. Well, nus that's, that's problem is like, well, like me, you, and probably 90% of the people listening to that, like that's, that's our MO is just like, this is it's what we're interested in.
00:51:28
Curt
So of course we're going to excel at it. So you take a course in it, like, yeah, it's going to be a cakewalk because you're interested in it. Whereas like, if you want to you know grow up to be a fricking hockey player and you took, you know, this course as an elective or whatever, and it's just like, yeah, you're going to suck at it.
00:51:37
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:51:41
Curt
Cause it's not your passion. You're not going to go home and just like obsess about it or dream about it. Like,
00:51:45
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:51:46
Curt
Same reason I stuck at, you know, whatever history.
00:51:46
jamie peacock
room
00:51:48
Curt
Because, like, I like history a little bit, but, like, I'm not, I don't obsess about it. Whereas, like, I obsess about this stuff.
00:51:54
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:51:54
Curt
So.
00:51:55
jamie peacock
Well, Danic and were discussing, since we were driving the other day, discussing our 12th grade or finals, results and i was like no i don't speak of recons because well firstly it's a stupid language um but the first two terms of of 12th grade i got 21 i could not give two shits about that language and come into the year i managed to pass it above 50 and i got distinctions in the three subjects i enjoyed which was mechanical engineering um
00:52:15
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:52:28
jamie peacock
technical drawing and computers because, well, they were easy because I enjoyed them. Everything else could just go da. I didn't really care. Like my mom was, as far as i'm mom was concerned, if I'm passing, that's good enough.
00:52:41
jamie peacock
Like as long as I'm not failing, carry on.
00:52:41
Curt
yeah
00:52:43
jamie peacock
Boys, do you have homework? No, we're going fishing. Okay, she believed us. We said we had done our homework. If we hadn't, we did it on the way to school in the morning. Like as long as we're passing, she was happy.
00:52:52
Curt
yeah
00:52:53
jamie peacock
Whereas you look at some of the kids like, they must have 90% in everything. I'm like, no, come now.
00:52:58
Curt
yeah yeah i don't know
00:52:59
jamie peacock
But yeah, anyway, my opinions on schooling are bit special.
00:53:04
Curt
mean ah Me too, man.
00:53:04
jamie peacock
I did not enjoy AC work.
00:53:06
Curt
dudet like i like yeah i didn't i but Same thing. I didn't excel at things that I didn't find interesting or was like, why am I going to learn this?
00:53:11
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:53:12
Curt
If I'm going to need this in later in life, I'm just going to Google it or refer to somebody that knows it better than I do. like It's not my passion.
00:53:17
jamie peacock
Well, that's it.
00:53:17
Curt
I don't need to put this in my head. Why are we playing this memory game of I have to recite? Anyways, I'll get off that soapbox because I could rant forever about education.
00:53:22
jamie peacock
Yeah,
00:53:25
jamie peacock
yeah no, my mom was not a fan of the education system. Just put it that way. But yeah, so, yes.
00:53:30
Curt
Speaking of, said, speaking of education, I'll tie this into this before we leave the topic of PCs. um Since I don't know a ton about building PCs, because like I said, I haven't dabbled that in forever. um There's two cool sites. Actually, the one one cool site I found, pcbuilder.net.
00:53:42
Curt
You can just like put in all your hardware that you want to use and it tells you if it's ah compatible or not.
00:53:45
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:53:46
Curt
So yeah, there's crazy cool sites out there. We'll link them in the show notes. If you're into that kind of nerd stuff, check it out. um Yeah. Yeah. Fun stuff.
00:53:55
jamie peacock
Yeah, I was watching a Linus Tech Tips video yesterday, where he bought an $8,000 GPU because it's got real gold on it. While he was in Taiwan, had a custom build made with it, $4,000 custom build, and then realized he couldn't bring it back to Canada.
00:54:11
jamie peacock
So he gave it to the first fan that that he ran into in the street, like $12,000 PC.
00:54:15
Curt
That's awesome.
00:54:17
jamie peacock
He just like doesn't know how to compute this. It was hilarious.
00:54:22
Curt
I was, uh, I was specking a graphics card and I was like, okay, I want like, I'm like, oh, how much for like the, whatever 32 gigabyte VRAM graphics card, which is quite high.
00:54:28
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:54:29
Curt
And I looked at the price and I looked at my, cause it, it auto tallies the price. And it was a $16,000 graphics card.
00:54:34
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:54:36
Curt
I was like $16,000. I'm like, okay, I think I like i can, I can square down or, uh, level down a few steps.
00:54:44
jamie peacock
Graphics cards are just stupid expensive. Like, depending on what you're trying to do like, I've got a, I've got a, what's it, it's a 1050 TR.
00:54:46
Curt
They're insane.
00:54:54
jamie peacock
It plays GTA V fine.
00:54:54
Curt
Okay.
00:54:56
jamie peacock
That's all it needs to do.
00:54:56
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:54:57
jamie peacock
It played Apex fine when I used to play a lot of games. I don't need it to be at 1,000 FPS on a monitor the size of my house. I'm playing in 1080p. I look at some of these specs that the guys spec out for PCs, and I'm like, you've got to be kidding me.
00:55:12
jamie peacock
ah
00:55:12
Curt
Well, nowadays, nowadays, 1080p and like 60 frames is considered like kind of the bare minimum for like the bottom end of gaming.
00:55:13
jamie peacock
This is just over the top. so
00:55:20
Curt
And it's like, what? It's like, and everyone's like,
00:55:22
jamie peacock
I used to play GTA on high at like 45 FPS and I was hundreds. I'm happy. Like, it doesn't need to be stupidly fast refresh rates.
00:55:28
Curt
Yeah, I know.
00:55:32
jamie peacock
Like, I mean, this PC's only got 16 gigs of RAM.
00:55:33
Curt
I know.
00:55:35
jamie peacock
I upgraded that when I was doing a job. It made a big difference in Fusion when you've got a model that's got like 4,000 components, which Fusion really doesn't appreciate at all in any way, shape, or form.
00:55:42
Curt
Absolutely, yeah.
00:55:48
jamie peacock
And then my PC, when I built the PC in the workshop, because my laptop died, 32 gigs of RAM. It's a Ryzen, I want to say 5500, 5400G.
00:55:59
jamie peacock
So it's got integrated graphics. It works perfectly adequately for Fusion.
00:56:03
jamie peacock
Like you don't, i if I'm doing really big assemblies, I'll come inside because the dedicated graphics card does actually make a difference.
00:56:03
Curt
Totally.
00:56:04
Curt
Yeah.
00:56:10
jamie peacock
But that's only on large assemblies, on simple stuff, day-to-day work.
00:56:10
Curt
Yeah.
00:56:14
jamie peacock
That little Ryzen APU works beautifully.
00:56:17
Curt
Oh, yeah. Yeah, no, Fusion doesn't, unless you're rendering, it doesn't really tax anything other than the CPU.
00:56:18
jamie peacock
not yeah yeah but yeah people seem to think they need a giant gaming pc oh if you yeah in 100
00:56:22
Curt
And yeahs yeah, it's a racket.
00:56:28
Curt
Well, I mean, if you look at some of the games nowadays, like they're pretty savagely like crazy amounts of like graphic processing. And you're like, what kind of like you look at the RAM usage for like just and you're just like, that is insane. Like.
00:56:40
jamie peacock
You know, 8 gigs of RAM is not enough anymore. Like, it's just really not enough.
00:56:43
Curt
No.
00:56:45
jamie peacock
ah Even Zencaster shits itself if there's less than 16 gigs of RAM.
00:56:49
Curt
I know. I know.
00:56:49
jamie peacock
Like, it's...
00:56:49
Curt
And then you throw in streaming. Like if you want to play like, yeah, 14, you know, 4K gaming on a huge monitor at 100 frames per second and stream like, yeah, you start you start eating up RAM quick.
00:56:53
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:56:59
jamie peacock
Yeah. But then again, are you playing 4K games at high refresh rates while streaming them, Kurt?
00:57:00
Curt
Anyway.
00:57:05
Curt
ah Yes, 100%.
00:57:06
jamie peacock
Not yet.
00:57:06
Curt
ah hundred percent No, not at all. I'll play some No Man's Sky ah quietly at night with no one watching. That's about the only gaming I play.
00:57:13
jamie peacock
Oh, that's the thing. like ah There's also on on LTT, there's the compensator builds, which are always hilarious.
00:57:20
Curt
Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:57:20
jamie peacock
It's basically the most expensive PC they can build. It's the fucking best. But yeah, I ah thoroughly enjoy that that channel.
00:57:26
Curt
Yeah.
00:57:30
jamie peacock
I think I've mentioned before that the WAN show is part of my Saturday routine.
00:57:30
Curt
Sick.
00:57:33
jamie peacock
Three hours of listening to WCUC.
00:57:34
Curt
Yeah, I've been poed um been poking around on um that a lot lately, just trying to bring myself a bit more up to
00:57:39
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah.
Lab Testing and DIY Cleaning Solutions
00:57:40
Curt
speed.
00:57:40
jamie peacock
Well, they've got the labs website as well, which actually does proper testing of things.
00:57:40
Curt
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
00:57:46
jamie peacock
Which is really interesting. I'm not, yeah, not mainstream by any measure, but very interesting. They tested a bunch of supplies. And they're like, we would not recommend this brand, because it's going to explode.
00:57:54
Curt
i I was just watching that last night. Yeah.
00:57:57
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:57:58
Curt
I was just watching that last night.
00:57:58
jamie peacock
i
00:57:59
Curt
I love the geek details of like, this is the ripple on the five volt rail. I'm like, oh, tell me more.
00:58:03
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:58:05
jamie peacock
yeah they like super overkill uh yeah interesting it's i'm glad someone's doing it in the in the space it's just not going to be profitable anytime soon all right yeah that's but yeah anyway uh what other fun things are making filing guards for knife makers
00:58:05
Curt
Whisper it to me.
00:58:06
Curt
yeah Yeah.
00:58:15
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:58:19
Curt
Cool.
00:58:25
Curt
Yeah, like the same ones, the little carbide face ones.
00:58:28
jamie peacock
yeah so i'm making the aluminium bodies for them and the little pins and then i tumbled them today for a whole 30 minutes and there are no tool marks
00:58:29
Curt
Yeah.
00:58:35
Curt
Nice.
00:58:36
jamie peacock
tumbled 40 of them at once.
00:58:36
Curt
Nice.
00:58:38
jamie peacock
It was great.
00:58:39
Curt
Yeah. Well, you got a big tumbler, so.
00:58:39
jamie peacock
It was noisy as all hell, but yeah. The big tumbler.
00:58:44
Curt
Cool. The big tumbler, yeah.
00:58:46
jamie peacock
The big tumbler, yeah.
00:58:48
jamie peacock
And then I'm trying to...
00:58:48
Curt
Yeah, you know.
00:58:48
Curt
Talking about.
00:58:50
jamie peacock
Yeah, ultrasonic cleaning.
00:58:52
Curt
Oh, I see. Yeah, I was just messing with that. um That's another thing that I found is fantastic. Take a jar, container, whatever, of alcohol and just put it inside your ultrasonic. And then I put my all my...
00:59:01
jamie peacock
was going to say, drink it like moonshine.
00:59:03
Curt
Yeah, sure. um And then throw all my resin parts in there because a lot of these parts I'm making are like lots of deep holes and stuff like that.
00:59:09
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:59:09
Curt
So good. It's so good. Like I should just been doing ultrasonic. clean Now I use my big like cleaning station to just get like it roughly clean and just throw it all in the ultrasonic with alcohol.
00:59:17
jamie peacock
Nice.
00:59:17
Curt
Obviously not alcohol in the ultrasonic, just in a separate container because it makes it easier. and Yeah, it works so well. Just trying to automate that process so I don't end up
00:59:24
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:59:25
Curt
If this product does end up working well and i end up selling a bunch, I don't want to just be sitting there hand cleaning a million parts and just yeah trying trying to front load things.
00:59:31
jamie peacock
Yeah, that would get old.
00:59:34
Curt
Totally.
00:59:34
jamie peacock
ah Yeah, so I bought a... allegedly ultrasonic cleaner off of our local amazon time store called take a lot it was cheap i was dubious it arrived and i opened it and guess what's inside
00:59:40
Curt
OK.
00:59:43
Curt
Yeah.
00:59:46
Curt
OK.
00:59:49
Curt
What's inside?
00:59:51
jamie peacock
a rumble motor from a gamepad just a
00:59:52
Curt
ah
00:59:53
jamie peacock
by It works astonishingly well for cleaning out collets because you just need to agitate them.
00:59:58
Curt
It's a sonic cleaner. yeah
00:59:59
jamie peacock
Yeah, Sonic.
01:00:00
Curt
It's a sonic cleaner.
01:00:00
jamie peacock
You just need to agitate the coolant.
01:00:01
Curt
It's not ultrasonic.
01:00:03
jamie peacock
So I actually want to go buy a little Tupperware that I can magnet to the side of the...
01:00:03
Curt
Yeah.
01:00:06
Curt
Yeah.
01:00:08
jamie peacock
um of Bertha, that I can drop the collets in and I know it's not going to vibrate away because this thing vibrates across the table and then spilled, which was frustrating.
01:00:16
Curt
Right.
01:00:17
jamie peacock
It also required batteries.
01:00:18
Curt
Right.
01:00:18
jamie peacock
So that got USB conversion. So I could run off USB port.
01:00:21
Curt
Hmm.
01:00:22
jamie peacock
So I'm thinking of just porting it into another shape of Tupperware, sticking it to the side of my machine, just to clean collets between toolchangers. It works super well, just properly agitating it.
01:00:30
Curt
Yeah.
01:00:33
jamie peacock
Like the stuff just falls out.
01:00:33
Curt
Yeah.
01:00:35
jamie peacock
It's great.
01:00:36
Curt
I know. that's
01:00:36
jamie peacock
ah Cheap solution.
01:00:38
Curt
It's the way. Yeah. For the price of ultrasonic cleaners nowadays, yeah, everyone should have one because they're they're so good for just that.
01:00:40
jamie peacock
yeah they are yeah i've um got a big one yeah
01:00:44
Curt
Collets and stuff. Pop them in there and hit go and they're clean.
01:00:49
jamie peacock
i use mine only gets used for these days for cleaning uh stuff before paint but yeah it's in the house because i have nowhere really decent to um hang on those are spelled the same um nowhere decent to put it in the workshop like where my sink is i don't have anywhere next to the sink to put it so it sits on a table next to the sink and then the table gets wet so i want to shift everything on that wall down by like a foot because maybe a little bit more than a foot towards the door except the workbench weighs like 150 200 kilos so it's a little problem so i'm gonna convince my brother-in-law to come there and just big stick
01:01:07
Curt
Hmm.
01:01:11
Curt
Hmm.
Product Packaging and Custom Computers
01:01:27
jamie peacock
yeah push it along and then make a little stainless steel table next to my sink for the ultrasonic to live on then it'll get used a lot more right now it's in the house in my kitchen where all ultrasonics belong so yeah it's a bit of a yeah well that's where the sinks are so that's where i use it but it's full of uh we learned that degreaser will strip anodizing
01:01:33
Curt
Hmm. Yeah.
01:01:39
Curt
exactly
01:01:49
Curt
oh really no oh no on
01:01:49
jamie peacock
and not Yes, I learned this on a batch of parts that I'd anodized and was cleaning the oil off of, and then they became more fucked. It was a bit annoying. Yeah. That was like a year and a half ago.
01:02:01
jamie peacock
Actually, speaking of that, I need to arrest that guy tomorrow. I sent him a sample, and I haven't heard back. It arrived last week, and I don't know if it fits the Smith & Wester, so we will find out, because I wouldn't mind getting an order from him, because those are relatively easy to manufacture.
01:02:14
Curt
go go.
01:02:19
jamie peacock
now let me stop playing with the table desk but yeah cool so let's uh do the things what have you been googling good
01:02:19
Curt
Right on. Well,
01:02:28
Curt
sure. like i have been Googling a whole host of fun and interesting things. If I can open up my Google box fast enough here, get away from Jamie's videos that he sends me.
01:02:40
Curt
um A ton of them have just been around fusion computing requirements. Obviously i'm building a computer. So I got a million tabs open on that.
01:02:50
Curt
We'll just gloss over all 40 tabs of those. A bunch of product box ideas.
01:02:53
jamie peacock
Nice.
01:02:55
Curt
Cause this little widget I'm making, I want to box it up differently.
01:02:56
jamie peacock
Yeah. Nice.
01:02:57
Curt
Once again, I'm trying to like, trying to streamline everything.
01:02:57
jamie peacock
Okay. Yeah.
01:02:59
Curt
So I don't like, ah my I wanted to be, I'm like, I'm goingnna laser my own box. I'm like, nope, no, you're not doing that. going buy a box and you're going to put it in a box and it's going to, like, I want it pretty still. So I found some cool plastic cases. They'll snap close and laser some foam to hold them.
01:03:10
jamie peacock
okay
01:03:13
Curt
This is really putting the cart ahead of the horse.
01:03:13
jamie peacock
yeah
01:03:14
Curt
Like if this thing, if I build this thing and I hate it and that's kind of. But I mean, what else am I going to do at night? Like, I mean, they're going to just, you know, piss around on YouTube or look up this stuff.
01:03:21
jamie peacock
yeah
01:03:22
Curt
anyways, Googling a bunch of that stuff. And, uh, yeah, I mean, that's literally all my tabs are associated with that. So I won't go over all the nitty gritty, boring computer tabs. Cause they're all just super dorky.
01:03:33
Curt
And I'm just, once again, um I might just honestly go on marketplace and then just steal someone's gaming rig that they built last year and then just modify it to my needs. That might be the cheaper way to go about it. But my,
01:03:42
jamie peacock
That is, marketplaces are really cost-effective where to find stuff.
01:03:46
Curt
Yeah, my heart kind of just wants to build my own. So we'll see which way I go.
01:03:49
jamie peacock
Oh, I know the feeling.
01:03:51
Curt
I know it's just like I'll spend more, but I'm like, then I can make it exactly how I want it. And like, it's going to live under my desk. So I don't need like RGB and all kinds of craziness.
01:03:59
jamie peacock
Pardon, you always need RGB. It makes it 10% faster. My desk is 10% faster right now.
01:04:04
Curt
I don't know. Is it?
01:04:06
jamie peacock
My wall is 10% faster.
01:04:09
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
01:04:10
jamie peacock
My PC's in Sith mode. It's just red. Yeah.
01:04:14
Curt
yeah Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's mine. Mine's red too. But yeah, i don't know We'll see. We'll see how long it lasts. It might just end up being a giant rainbow of color, but with LCD screens inside playing CNC crash videos or something. I don't know. We'll see.
01:04:27
jamie peacock
Yeah. Over the top as usual.
01:04:29
Curt
Yeah.
01:04:30
jamie peacock
ah yeah
01:04:30
Curt
How about you?
Nostalgia for TV and Online Content
01:04:31
Curt
What are you Googling?
01:04:31
jamie peacock
I am one i'm one day away from tying my streak in Wordle.
01:04:37
Curt
Ooh.
01:04:37
jamie peacock
I'm at 60 currently. And then obviously strands and all that stuff.
01:04:39
Curt
Ooh.
01:04:41
jamie peacock
Then we've got the collective noun for a whale because the quiz night, the guy was wrong. um So I Googled it to make sure he was wrong.
01:04:47
Curt
Okay.
01:04:49
jamie peacock
um Then i was looking at Mumbos, which is a place that makes... Okay, so locally we've got Westpac, which is like an... um It used to be an amazing place to go by Tupperwares and storage stuff. And it's gone to shit.
01:05:00
jamie peacock
Mumbos is way better. They got all the fun stuff. I can find rack and stack trays. I bought all their stock. I literally walked up the shelf, grabbed everything, then counted how many there were and bought them all. It's all trays use in the workshop for just production runs and stuff.
01:05:14
jamie peacock
And I haven't been able to find them in like a year. I bought 20 or so and they've kind of been stolen by my customers.
01:05:17
Curt
Thanks.
01:05:22
jamie peacock
Yeah, and then i was looking at the Anchor Point available at jspeceng.com. because on I want to make some tweets to the website, looking up that four-channel optocoupler that keeps shitting the bed, and then looking up Doctor Who, because we just finished watching the last season, and have mixed feelings about it, but it was, in the and all, it wasn't the worst season I've ever seen, so that's a positive outlook.
01:05:37
Curt
Hmm.
01:05:48
jamie peacock
Yeah, so I was looking up some stuff, how many episodes there were in previous seasons, looking for specific specific episodes to watch with Danica, because, yeah, we both enjoyed Doctor Who. She's really only been watching since Capaldi, which is, I haven't really enjoyed it since then.
01:06:03
jamie peacock
ah yeah know But, to this sometimes yeah, fun times, yeah.
01:06:06
Curt
Nice. Yeah, why not?
01:06:08
jamie peacock
The latest two seasons have been a little bit, in my opinion, a little bit on the nose, but it's fun. It is what it is.
01:06:15
Curt
Yeah.
01:06:15
jamie peacock
A tad too woke and a tad too like, look at me, trying to like force plot points down your throat. But all in all, not the worst.
01:06:23
Curt
No, they...
01:06:24
jamie peacock
60
01:06:25
Curt
They've got to be running out of ideas. That show's been on for like a century, hasn't it?
01:06:29
jamie peacock
years. 60 year anniversary was two years ago.
01:06:30
Curt
Yeah, so... Yeah, so a while.
01:06:33
jamie peacock
Yeah. Oh, wow. They've still got leg room. um But yeah, we'll see what what happens in the next season. you know and yeah I don't watch a lot of TV, but like that show, we re-watched a couple episodes from season four yesterday afternoon after finishing season...
01:06:44
Curt
Cool.
01:06:52
jamie peacock
Well, it's now season two because it's on Disney, but it's actually season like 17 since the reboot. ah But yeah, went watched some classics like Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead and The Doctor's Daughter and everyone's favourite, Blink.
01:07:08
jamie peacock
It's the creepiest fucking episode ever.
01:07:09
Curt
yeah
01:07:11
jamie peacock
But yeah, anyway...
01:07:11
Curt
I like you watch. Those are classics you watch. The classics I'm watching are like Moana, Frozen, How to Train Dragon, and Tangled.
01:07:21
jamie peacock
I went to my mate's house.
01:07:22
Curt
All of which are savage.
01:07:22
jamie peacock
He was... well
01:07:23
Curt
So good.
01:07:25
jamie peacock
um His son wanted to watch... What's it? Looper? It's the one with the mermaids.
01:07:30
Curt
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
01:07:31
jamie peacock
My mate's sitting on the couch. We're having... I think we had programmed the CNC or something. It was running. We're having a beer. He wanted to watch this. He looks at me and he just starts in time telling me the words of the movie.
01:07:44
jamie peacock
He's watched it so many times with his boys that he knows every single word. I'm like, yeah. i remember when my nieces were like that what want to watch frozen one watch frozen again one watch frozen again yeah i know the struggle my nephew currently venomous snake so okay that boy in this freaking stakes oh nice
01:07:49
Curt
yep
01:07:55
Curt
yep oh i know it I threw Shrek on for my oldest one. She was she didn't like it as much as Frozen, but i was like, this is this this is a good one. Trust me.
01:08:10
jamie peacock
well danica Danica didn't want to watch whatever he wanted to watch, so she started making him watch Cartoon Network shows that she used to watch as a kid on YouTube.
01:08:11
Curt
Shrek is solid.
01:08:19
Curt
Okay, yeah, yeah.
01:08:20
jamie peacock
And then he enjoyed a couple of them, was a bit scared by a few of the other ones.
01:08:21
Curt
Yeah.
01:08:25
jamie peacock
But yeah, I mean, he's five, so still a little one.
01:08:25
Curt
Yeah.
01:08:27
Curt
Yeah, I know my wife. My wife got my, once again, my older one hooked on a Sailor Moon. She's still a little young for it, but you can't find Sailor Moon anywhere. Like, to try to like, so I'm like, but you can't even steal it.
01:08:38
jamie peacock
Well, yeah.
01:08:39
Curt
like We tried to buy it. You can't, it's even hard to steal. So anyway, we found sources, but.
01:08:42
jamie peacock
So ah was I watched a YouTube video there. Okay, well, would assume you would know what American Gladiators is.
01:08:50
Curt
Oh, heck yeah.
01:08:50
jamie peacock
The TV show. Yeah, okay. So South Africa, we had MTN Gladiators.
01:08:54
Curt
Oh, this sounds good.
01:08:54
jamie peacock
So the one cell phone, yeah, the one cell phone brand, MTN, they sponsored the show. And it had Gladiators. And I guess I'll lie to you, it was awesome. i Absolutely awesome. there are no episodes available anywhere.
01:09:06
jamie peacock
The guy was saying, he put on the videos, like, this is the only known footage of the one chick, her name was Fire, of her intro.
01:09:06
Curt
home
01:09:15
Curt
Wow.
01:09:16
jamie peacock
144p. That is the only found the clip on Reddit somewhere.
01:09:17
Curt
why
01:09:19
jamie peacock
He's like, if you have it on VHS, please upload it, because it's a ticking time bomb. Like, it's going to, it's going to, like, please, if someone has it, upload it.
01:09:24
Curt
Wow.
01:09:28
jamie peacock
Because that's only way that the masters have been lost by the SABC.
01:09:29
Curt
Oh.
01:09:32
Curt
Oh.
01:09:32
jamie peacock
Like, yeah, I remember, like, I'm getting the signature of one of the guys when I was a Lighty, because it was, like, they were, like, super, like, they were, yeah, they were super famous.
01:09:33
Curt
Bummer.
01:09:38
Curt
Oh, cool.
01:09:43
Curt
Of course. Yeah, of course.
01:09:43
jamie peacock
It went for, like, four seasons or something. But, yeah, that was ah a very interesting thing to look, like, the nostalgia of it, and, like, everyone in South Africa knows MTN Gladiators, like, everyone
01:09:54
Curt
Cool.
01:09:55
jamie peacock
Yeah, and yeah, I think there was ah the SA versus the UK at one stage where our gladiators went and competed against their gladiators.
01:09:55
Curt
Oh, that's awesome.
01:10:03
jamie peacock
And yeah, we had a guy named Spider. He's like, everywhere in the world, there's spiders, but only South Africa has spinacoppa. And I'm like, oh my God. Like, yeah.
01:10:12
Curt
This sounds fantastic.
01:10:14
jamie peacock
Yeah, old TV's great. Like, yeah, some of the stuff.
01:10:17
Curt
i Yeah.
01:10:18
jamie peacock
Like, yeah.
01:10:19
Curt
Yeah, I agree.
01:10:19
jamie peacock
There's, i don't know. I'm sure I told you about Joshua Wiseman. the cooking YouTube channel.
01:10:23
Curt
I think so, yeah.
01:10:24
jamie peacock
Yeah, he did a cartoon foods video yesterday.
01:10:24
Curt
I think so, yeah.
01:10:27
jamie peacock
It dropped. Ranking all the cartoon like specialties. I think there were 12.
01:10:32
Curt
Oh, I love that.
01:10:33
jamie peacock
Yeah, it was freaking good. Shockingly, the Krabby Patty one, who would have guessed?
01:10:37
Curt
Oh, yeah.
01:10:38
jamie peacock
um Yeah, but he had a whole bunch of really interesting ones. And yeah, it was a good video. Danik and I watch them together.
01:10:45
Curt
Cool, cool.
01:10:45
jamie peacock
Hopefully, he'll actually do a tutorial on how to make the Krabby Patty.
01:10:49
Curt
and Maybe Benjing with Babish will hit that up.
01:10:53
jamie peacock
I wouldn't be surprised if he has already hit that one.
01:10:55
Curt
He might, or yeah, he's kind of dabbled in all those areas, yeah.
01:10:56
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah, no, his stuff's also very, very entertaining.
01:11:01
Curt
Yeah, cool.
01:11:02
jamie peacock
But yeah, anyway. So Kurt, where can people find you?
01:11:05
Curt
Well, you can find me at confoundedmachine.com where I have basically nothing for sale right now because I just got over a thing, but you can sign up for the lotteries if you want any of those pens. I'm going to be doing this weird little widget whatnot thing. I'll have more information coming out about that if it ends up um being something that I like, which is kind of funny because I've sunk so much time into it. If it doesn't turn out, I'm going to make it turn out.
01:11:24
Curt
And yeah, other than that, ah how about you, Jamie? How can people find your stuff?
01:11:30
jamie peacock
Yeah, you can find us at jspeceng.com. You can find the anchor point there. There's still a couple of units from batch one available. We did send out some more newsletters reminding people that they're available, including the person who bought pre-order, who hasn't bought the actual order yet.
01:11:45
jamie peacock
So we sent out another follow-up on that one. so yeah, a couple of those. And then there's also the new shirts, which are very spiffy, and I look forward to getting some of those and sending some to some other people.
01:11:53
Curt
OK.
01:11:55
jamie peacock
And then, yeah, you can find the podcast at theloanmachinists.com. We have a Patreon. Thank you to our Patreons for supporting the show. Thank you to Jade from Benchmark20 and Luke from Fabtastic for supporting on the higher tiers where you get a shout out. Sorry, the shout out's late. I forgot to it in the middle of the show.
01:12:13
jamie peacock
I should really... wait, I do have notes. I just don't read them. ah But yeah, thank you to to all the Patreons. You make the wheels on the bus go round and round. And i actually just messaged Dylan from WithIntolerance to ask him what microphones he...
01:12:27
jamie peacock
is sending out these days. So we will look into the Patreon pool and we might raid that for some microphones.
01:12:36
Curt
Nice.
01:12:37
jamie peacock
Because, yeah.
01:12:37
Curt
Nice, nice.
01:12:38
jamie peacock
Yeah, like he seems to have gone around and followed all the podcasts. It's quite entertaining. Also, really looking forward to the next Taps and Patience podcast because since I'm on the Patreon there, I submitted a question to the Patreon.
01:12:43
Curt
Yeah.
01:12:52
Curt
Ooh.
01:12:53
jamie peacock
I'm going to go to the to the Discord. i'm just going to go look it up quickly because it's freaking hilarious. On the scenes. There we go. Questions. Q&A. question now I have two questions.
01:13:05
jamie peacock
First one AJ, have you played with the Anchor Point yet? And secondly, you guys listen to the Loan Machinist podcast? Because I'm a savage.
01:13:14
Curt
Self-serving.
01:13:15
jamie peacock
Yeah, 100%. so So I'm looking forward to seeing how that they respond to that one.
01:13:21
Curt
That's awesome. And to all the people out there, if you, ah if you want to do a podcast around this kind of content, do it.
01:13:22
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:13:26
Curt
Cause I'll listen to it. Cause I am like starved for this kind of content.
01:13:28
jamie peacock
Yeah, 100%.
01:13:29
Curt
I listen to everybody. And then I even listened to like industries that don't quite play in because there's just, there's like, there's not enough. There's not enough. So just, yeah.
01:13:35
jamie peacock
yeah
01:13:36
Curt
If you want to go rant on microphones about dumb machinist stuff, I'll listen to your podcast.
01:13:40
jamie peacock
yeah likewise i'm always starving for content yeah no i actually need to get another set of headphones for the workshop because my one's batteries keep dying
01:13:42
Curt
We all, we all consume tons. Yeah.
01:13:50
Curt
I see. Yeah.
01:13:51
jamie peacock
I'm very, very tempted to buy the China special ones that are found on AliExpress.
01:13:52
Curt
Hmm.
01:13:55
jamie peacock
I just don't like the way the band interfaces with the cups. But I mean, I can always just make a new interface there. It's not the end of the world. The fact that they have a 40 hour battery life is what is really appealing to me that I only have to charge them like once a week. Well, realistically, twice a week.
01:14:11
jamie peacock
But yeah, we will, we will see. Mine are being stupid. One day I'll get eight hours, one day I'll get like three hours. and they get put out plugged in all the time when they're not on my head. Like, it's not like they're not getting charged. It's just, yeah, being stupid.
01:14:26
jamie peacock
They were cheap as hell. I think they were like all of $15. Yeah, that might be the reason.
01:14:29
Curt
Okay, that might have something to do with it.
01:14:32
jamie peacock
Also, the battery's loose. So if I shake my head, it goes tick, tick, tick, and it's a little annoying.
01:14:36
Curt
I think you should make like a big backpack battery with like a cable that runs up to your head so you can like and just huge lipos.
01:14:41
jamie peacock
Can't just run forever.
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01:14:43
Curt
Yeah, run for a month. yeah
01:14:44
jamie peacock
yeah yeah speaking of huge lipos did i tell you i built that uh 50 000 milliamp hour battery yeah yeah used it again on the weekend all
01:14:50
Curt
I think so for your boat. Yeah. you're And I spoke wrong. It's not a, it wasn't a Fisher price boat. I looked it up. It's little tykes, little tykes are what make those little cars.
01:14:57
jamie peacock
right little tucks yes oh speaking of stupid little things i saw dgr drone yesterday while walking the doggos yeah it wasn't like was being a do-us um yeah it's it's one of the small where you're flying with the little handheld thing i was like
01:14:58
Curt
So it's a little tyke boat.
01:15:05
Curt
Oh, cool.
01:15:07
Curt
No. Oh, yeah.
01:15:12
Curt
Oh, yeah. I don't like that.
01:15:13
jamie peacock
Yeah, be less lame. But it did kind of inspire me to maybe charge up the packs for my three-inch and go rip the three-inch around.
01:15:23
Curt
Nice. I did a...
01:15:24
jamie peacock
Because it has been a while. Did you do anything with the world's smallest drone, Kurt?
01:15:29
Curt
No, but I did open up the simulator last week and just pissed around a little bit because i haven't flown on the simulator in a while.
01:15:32
jamie peacock
Ooh.
01:15:35
Curt
And yeah, you just you don't forget it.
01:15:36
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:15:37
Curt
Like immediately, was like, oh yeah, I remember how to do everything.
01:15:37
jamie peacock
No, it's like riding a bicycle.
01:15:39
Curt
Yeah. I was like, oh, okay.
01:15:39
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:15:40
Curt
And I want to go fly my quad again. It's been a while since I've been buzzing around with it.
01:15:43
jamie peacock
Yeah, I kind of want to go tiny so that I can rip around the house.
01:15:43
Curt
So yeah.
01:15:48
Curt
Yeah, I think I'm going to do that. I'm going to buy a little one.
01:15:50
jamie peacock
I think I might just... Did I give that one back to Roger? might actually have one downstairs. Yeah, I might just pick up a Banggood special and do that, just I can rip around the house and have some fun. But anyway, on that...
01:16:01
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
01:16:02
jamie peacock
I think let's call it there. We'll go into the final after show where we can discuss super secret things.
01:16:06
Curt
Sounds good.
01:16:08
jamie peacock
Thank you, everybody, for listening.
Conclusion and Next Episode Announcement
01:16:10
jamie peacock
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01:16:21
jamie peacock
And until next week, we will see you similar time. Well, actually, same time because Danica is a slave driver. um We'll see you next week at the same time. Thank you very much for listening.
01:16:33
Curt
Take care all