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Ep. 21: Interwebs: A New Hope
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Join Curt and Jamie as they discuss their week, including topics such as Internet breakdowns, UFO Shaped things, and Fusion Training.
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Transcript
Re-recording and Internet Issues
00:00:46
jamie peacock
Welcome to episode 21 and a half because we had to rerecord because my internet, ah yeah, it died. um Kurt and now tried to record and it did not go well. That will be bonus content on the Patreon, but we're going to basically rehash all the topics because now we can actually have a conversation.
00:01:04
jamie peacock
So how...
00:01:05
Curt
Oh yeah, that was a, struggle that was a struggle bus.
00:01:06
Curt
That was a struggle bus for sure.
00:01:07
jamie peacock
Yeah, that was a bit of a rough one. Yeah, judging by your face, my camera's a lot clearer.
00:01:13
Curt
Yeah, it is like incredibly clear.
00:01:14
jamie peacock
During the...
00:01:15
Curt
Your audio is better.
00:01:16
jamie peacock
Okay.
00:01:17
Curt
Latency is better. Everything is just like a hundred percent better.
00:01:20
jamie peacock
Awesome. Yeah, we finally got fiber pulled in here ah yesterday. So we tried to record on Sunday. I got annoyed with the internet on Monday. No, we recorded Monday morning for me. I got annoyed with the internet while we were on the call, ah ordered a fiber connection.
00:01:30
Curt
Right. Yeah.
00:01:35
jamie peacock
It was installed within 12 hours. And we now have a fiber connection here.
Fiber Internet Installation
00:01:41
jamie peacock
Like it was insanely quick.
00:01:41
Curt
That's bonkers.
00:01:42
jamie peacock
Yeah, that was silly.
00:01:43
Curt
I can't believe how fast that happened.
00:01:45
jamie peacock
I don't think there's a lot of people having installs done at the moment. Like when they first put the infrastructure there, it was just, you would wait weeks for connection. And now, yeah, apparently it's really quick.
00:01:57
Curt
nice.
00:01:57
jamie peacock
So yeah, we now have reasonable internet.
00:02:00
Curt
Nice. Well, yeah.
00:02:00
jamie peacock
Because, yeah, it turns out Fusion doesn't work without the internet.
00:02:01
Curt
hope
00:02:05
Curt
Yeah, I can imagine that being super, super annoying, having a hotspot every time.
00:02:06
jamie peacock
Oh. Also, yeah, I was literally running a hotspot then connecting to my workshop network to post files to my NAS, and
Software and OS Preferences
00:02:15
jamie peacock
then connecting back to the hotspot to carry on working. Yeah, it was a little annoying.
00:02:19
jamie peacock
um Have you updated to the latest fusion?
00:02:23
Curt
I don't.
00:02:24
jamie peacock
Like today's update?
00:02:26
Curt
ah I'm just checking right now. i have it open. ah No, I have not.
00:02:29
jamie peacock
Well, okay, so more importantly, what OS are you running?
00:02:33
Curt
ah Windows 10.
00:02:35
jamie peacock
Okay, when you get the pop up, please just screen grab it for me.
00:02:39
Curt
OK.
00:02:40
jamie peacock
Although it'll probably pop up on this computer when I update it later. Because guess what? Fusion is no longer going to support Windows 10 from January.
00:02:47
Curt
What? Really?
00:02:48
jamie peacock
Yes, quite honestly, if I could run Fusion natively on Linux, I would be running Linux right now. That is how much I dislike.
00:02:54
Curt
Same, yeah.
00:02:57
jamie peacock
I dislike the adware that is Microsoft these days.
00:03:00
Curt
Yeah, no, I'm with you. If I didn't have to run Fusion, I wouldn't be on Windows.
00:03:03
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:03:04
Curt
I'd be Linux, everything.
00:03:05
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, I've tried.
00:03:05
Curt
It's the only reason I play with Windows.
00:03:07
jamie peacock
I've tried in the past and yeah, just not not a fun experience. And I don't want to be like, yeah, we can make it work, but then you're not keeping up to date with updates and things and it becomes a problem.
00:03:20
Curt
Yeah, no doubt. No doubt.
00:03:21
jamie peacock
Yeah, so a bit annoying. So I got a little pop up when updated my PC today or updated fusion on the PC in the workshop because that's running Windows 10 saying that it will be discontinuing.
00:03:32
jamie peacock
Well, it's being end of life Windows 10. So for security reasons, fusion will not be supported on it from January.
00:03:36
Curt
Right.
00:03:40
Curt
Hmm. I mean, it does it does make sense.
00:03:41
jamie peacock
But it's
00:03:43
Curt
like Windows 10 is ancient, but 90% the world is still on Windows 10. So it's just like, go away.
00:03:48
jamie peacock
Do you remember when Windows 10 was launched? The last Windows ever was part of their marketing bullshit.
00:03:54
Curt
yeah Right, yeah, exactly.
00:03:56
jamie peacock
Like, yeah.
00:03:56
Curt
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:03:57
jamie peacock
ah The fact that it pops up by Xbox Game Pass. I'm like, you're an operating system, not an advertising system.
00:04:03
Curt
Yeah.
00:04:04
jamie peacock
it Yeah, a little bit annoying.
00:04:04
Curt
Yeah.
00:04:05
jamie peacock
But yeah, we're...
00:04:05
Curt
Well, then the weird thing is, I say the weird thing is like the hardware requirements.
00:04:06
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah.
00:04:09
Curt
Like this computer that I'm playing on right now is like, it's pretty fast still to date.
00:04:10
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:04:13
Curt
And it's like, no, Windows 11 not supported. I'm like, why? Like, why?
00:04:16
jamie peacock
yeah
00:04:17
Curt
This can run any game that's currently out there. Why can't I run your, I mean, I get it, but still it's just like frustrating.
00:04:21
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's a bit annoying. Though discussing it today while I went to go see a customer and Danik and were chatting. I'm like, when you turn your computer on, what is your intended use case? You've just turned it on. What are you going to do when the screen pops up?
00:04:36
jamie peacock
You're going to log the fuck in. No, you must press enter first and then wait for it to pop the thing up before you start typing your password.
00:04:38
Curt
Right, yeah.
00:04:42
jamie peacock
I'm like... I want to use the computer. I just turned it on. Like my Windows 11 machine drives me insane because you press enter, start typing in the password, and then it catches the last two letters of the password.
00:04:55
Curt
Right, yeah, yeah.
00:04:55
jamie peacock
i Yeah, just the user interface has gone down the drain. But yeah, thought that was a that was an interesting one that I saw this morning.
00:05:05
Curt
Hmm. Okay. Well, I guess I'm going to be building my monster freaking CAD rig sooner than later.
00:05:10
jamie peacock
Yeah, like this. Yeah, I don't know. Well, my laptop's running Windows 11. All my other PCs are somewhat better than my laptop, so it should be fine. Like apparently my house is very computer dense.
00:05:24
Curt
Hmm.
00:05:24
jamie peacock
considering there are two, there's two
Workshop and Home Tech Setup
00:05:27
jamie peacock
PCs and a laptop in the workshop. So there's my Trello PC, which is an Atom that should just get kicked out of a fricking window.
00:05:35
jamie peacock
It's running Lubuntu and that's okay. um I've got my CAD PC or my programming and like admin PC in my office. Then I got my laptop. Then upstairs I've got my old gaming PC, which Danica uses for podcast editing and we do the podcast on.
00:05:48
jamie peacock
And then she's got her laptop behind me for the vinyl cutter. And then we've got a computer in our lounge for TV. Like, yeah've got we've got a few computers.
00:05:57
Curt
So when they all become sentient, you're hosed.
00:06:01
jamie peacock
Pretty much. But john like, my mom and my mother-in-law keep trying to get us to get little Android TV boxes. And Danica and are both like, why? We both would be classed as power users on PC. So we'd rather have a PC there that if we want to, um what's the word?
00:06:19
jamie peacock
If we want to become privateers to watch something, it's not an issue. Yeah, figure trying to figure out a word that one nicely. But yeah, because obviously, in Africa, we can't get everything we want.
00:06:29
Curt
Of course, yeah.
00:06:30
jamie peacock
Show was like, so if I can't, if I can watch it legally, it's the same thing with steam. If you can do it legally, you're going to do it legally.
00:06:37
jamie peacock
That's where steam changed games is, if it's easy to get people are going to get it like they're not going to go to the extra effort.
00:06:37
Curt
Right, yeah, yeah.
00:06:42
Curt
Yep.
00:06:43
jamie peacock
ah But there's certain things we can't get here.
00:06:44
Curt
Yep.
00:06:45
jamie peacock
So we get elsewhere.
00:06:48
Curt
Well, that's, that's kind of even what fusion did to the CAD world is just like, they made it more accessible just to buy a proper, like before that's like, yeah, of course I'll pirate master cam.
00:06:49
jamie peacock
But
00:06:51
jamie peacock
yeah
00:06:57
Curt
Cause A, I can't afford it. I'm just a hobbyist. and B, what are my other options? And then I had a Libra, which was the next option, but now it's like fusion just kind of took over with that, you know, mentality.
00:07:01
jamie peacock
So,
00:07:04
jamie peacock
so I had my, my chat with John that I do every Tuesday morning. So we had a chat this morning, you're saying I was chatting someone in there, their annual bill for Mastercam is like, just shy of $30,000 year.
00:07:19
Curt
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
00:07:20
jamie peacock
Sorry, no, not happening.
00:07:22
jamie peacock
Like, yeah, just straight up not happening.
00:07:22
Curt
yeah
00:07:23
Curt
Yeah.
00:07:26
jamie peacock
yeah, no, it's interesting see how much people pay.
00:07:26
Curt
Yeah.
00:07:28
jamie peacock
And that's a one man shop. That's not like an enterprise situation.
00:07:32
Curt
Wow.
00:07:32
jamie peacock
i'm Like that, that is insane. I'm sorry, that is just nuts.
00:07:35
Curt
Yeah.
00:07:36
jamie peacock
Like I'm now apparently providing fusion 360 for milling courses.
00:07:42
Curt
Oh, yeah? Yeah.
00:07:43
jamie peacock
So I've got my cousin's boyfriend. He was meant to be out tonight. I'm like, hey, dude, let's give tonight a skip. I'm not feeling so lacker and I need to do some stuff him in that podcast. So he's coming through tomorrow, but basically getting him up to speed on how to program infusion, not Mastercam X5.
00:08:00
Curt
Right.
00:08:01
jamie peacock
And yeah, actually be proficient. Like, so ah he was here, he was here on Monday nights and I ran him through whatever was in memory in Fusion on the offline mode.
00:08:13
Curt
Oh, OK, yeah.
00:08:13
jamie peacock
So ran him through, I ran him through the tool library and explaining to him that when you pull a tool into the job file, it creates a duplicate of the tool and ran him through tool library and settings and showing him you could put hold these.
00:08:25
jamie peacock
Like, why would you want the hold? I said, no, use it for simulation to check you're going crash.
00:08:28
Curt
Yeah.
00:08:29
jamie peacock
Like, yeah. So I explained like, yeah, what you don't know, you don't know. So my thought on Monday, put it in his head, let him think about it. When he comes back, he's going to have smart questions to ask.
00:08:39
Curt
Exactly. Yeah, it makes sense.
00:08:39
jamie peacock
Yeah. So yeah, he's going to start programming stuff on the slowio from tomorrow.
00:08:44
jamie peacock
So probably some of the Tartan stuff just scaled down and changed to work with tools that I have on hand. But it'll get him get him going through the workflow of how to actually run a machine in the 21st century.
00:08:44
Curt
Oh, cool.
00:08:57
Curt
Oh, that's nice. That's nice to be able to have like ah yeah both sides of it, like the digital world, and then be able to go over and try it in the physical world as well. Like, oh, yeah.
00:09:02
jamie peacock
Yeah. So got to so ah mentioned this to one of my other customers.
00:09:03
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:09:06
jamie peacock
He's like, you're doing courses, please, can I come please? Like they've got a Herco, they're programming everything conversational on the machine. And he wants to I mentioned, he's like, please, can he come down? like Let me finish up a call.
00:09:17
jamie peacock
And then you're welcome to come through. And I'll run you through my systems that you can at least try and start to implement them at your guys
Automation in the Workshop
00:09:24
jamie peacock
business because yeah, they don't program anything offline.
00:09:28
Curt
Oh, that's insane.
00:09:29
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's a little yeah that's stupid. But yeah that whole company is run like, really badly.
00:09:34
Curt
I mean, I guess it make, I guess it depends on whatever part you're making, but still it's like, this isn't 1980 anymore.
00:09:35
jamie peacock
And
00:09:40
Curt
i'm Like,
00:09:40
jamie peacock
Exactly. Like, no, no, exactly. And they do some fancy work on that Herco. But yeah, come come to the 21st century where you can have your tool libraries pre configured and all these things like was explaining Carl, the tool library in Fusion mirrors what's on the front of my machine, because my machine is all tagged. So it is um it is a direct mirror of that. I ran a job this afternoon quickly.
00:10:02
jamie peacock
I had set up two new tools. I just quickly lasered new tool tags for them, set them up, they came out the machine, they're on the rack. I don't have to think about it.
00:10:08
Curt
Right.
00:10:09
jamie peacock
ah needed to change drills. I just put the drill and load the offset and hit go because the tooltags app right. It's been touched off. Like super. yeah Why make your life difficult if you don't have to?
00:10:19
Curt
No, exactly. Exactly. That's what I say. don't even mind now collecting just a whole host of tool holders because same thing. It's like, I don't want to change a drill out.
00:10:25
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:10:26
Curt
I'll change a drill out if it breaks, but otherwise, like I just want to put the holder away and like know that it's good.
00:10:28
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:10:31
Curt
Yeah.
00:10:32
jamie peacock
My drills have been in the machine a little bit long, but like I have all the standard drills from M, all the standard tapping sizes from M3 to M12 live in the machine.
00:10:43
jamie peacock
or They live in tool holders, they're dedicated.
00:10:44
Curt
Yeah,
00:10:46
jamie peacock
And then like now I've got funny stuff like a 5.9 for the 6mm RIMA and one a 6mm RIMA. And like funny stuff will get swing in and out, but the rest stuff is like dedicated holders. I don't want to be going looking for collets and tools that will just be set up.
00:10:56
Curt
totally.
00:11:02
Curt
Yeah.
00:11:02
jamie peacock
even now like all my core tools for steel, three mil, four mil, six mil, 10 mil and a six mil rougher live setup.
00:11:03
Curt
Yeah, no.
00:11:10
jamie peacock
and I don't want to mess with it.
00:11:12
jamie peacock
If I can avoid it. yeah So but you're either interesting, I had interesting begin like, yeah, you and I spoke on was it Sunday evening for you and Monday morning for me.
00:11:12
Curt
Yeah.
00:11:14
Curt
Yeah, no, exactly.
00:11:23
jamie peacock
um yeah so on top of all the stuff on the list had a customer come past we make re-rollers for uh debulging reloaded ammunition or spent casings so when you shoot it with a glock the glocks um the the end of the chamber and the breach there's a gap like quite a big gap so when you find around the brass actually swells
00:11:23
Curt
Correct, yeah.
00:11:35
Curt
Okay.
00:11:45
Curt
Oh, OK. OK. Uh-huh.
00:11:49
jamie peacock
And if you put it into a gun gun that has a full length chamber, it jams. So we build rerollers that roll these things. And I worked off a sample that he gave me and we're exactly as a sample, but the sample was a copy of the original.
00:12:02
jamie peacock
And in that, there's a comma two variance on the spacing between the outer wall and the
Building a Compressor Controller
00:12:09
jamie peacock
roller. So the old machine is a lot tighter. So we bought it here, we measured everything.
00:12:14
jamie peacock
so now I've got to rework a bunch of of rollers for them so that they now have a new spec that will actually squish the rounds in properly.
00:12:23
Curt
Oh, cool. Cool.
00:12:24
jamie peacock
that also fixed the case gauge issues we were having where factory rounds would gauge reloaded rounds wouldn't gauge properly.
00:12:33
Curt
Right. That was the guy that he wanted you to like make a bigger gauge or something.
00:12:33
jamie peacock
They would gauge. you so So they would gauge.
00:12:38
Curt
Same guy. Okay.
00:12:39
jamie peacock
Yeah, they would gauge in certain gate and certain different brands of gauges, but not an hour one, but our one meets factory spec. So it's like, yeah, it's really frustrating to deal with because I've got to make another 10 or 15 of them now this week of the gauges.
00:12:55
jamie peacock
But like that, that remit lives in a holder, the drills for that live in a holder, like green tool tags, they are dedicated to that specific job.
00:13:03
Curt
Yeah. No, that is the way.
00:13:07
jamie peacock
100%. Like, i yeah I'm still trying to get around to order purple PTG for my anchor point tools. But yeah, well, that'll happen when it happens.
00:13:13
Curt
Right. Yeah. yeah
00:13:17
jamie peacock
ordered a bunch of Audrinos and stuff today for the compressor controllers that we're building.
00:13:17
Curt
Yeah.
00:13:21
Curt
Yeah. Ooh.
00:13:22
jamie peacock
Yes, ah mine got feature creep the hell out of it.
00:13:25
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:13:25
jamie peacock
So I got feature creeped. So I don't want I needed to run on a on a five volt Arduino because the sensors five volt sensor. So my thought is to have a home assistant ESP32 next to it that will basically give it the run command, so turn the compressor system on, or actually cycle power to the Arduino.
00:13:49
jamie peacock
Then it'll read when the compressor is running so I can add that into home assistant. But it'll also give me two pin two pins that I can make an automation for that they alternate which one's on which day to prioritize which compressor I want running.
00:14:00
Curt
Gotcha.
00:14:02
jamie peacock
So then when the pressure clips compressor, the prioritized compressor turns on, if it isn't catching up by a set interval with a set, so I have bunch of variables I can mess with.
00:14:02
Curt
Right.
00:14:02
Curt
Yeah.
00:14:12
jamie peacock
If it isn't climbing in pressure fast enough, second compressor then kicks on till it reaches pressure and then back to running number one for the day or the prioritized one for the day.
00:14:17
Curt
Right. Yeah.
00:14:22
Curt
Right.
00:14:23
jamie peacock
So you're adding all the complexity to it. But chatGT and I will have a sit down with that at some point.
00:14:31
Curt
Nice. Yeah, that's awesome.
00:14:32
jamie peacock
Cool.
00:14:33
Curt
That's the same thing I do.
00:14:34
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:14:34
Curt
I was going to lead leg mine, but I use so much air that they just both fire all the time because it's stupid hard and it just sucks air.
00:14:37
jamie peacock
Okay. ah
00:14:40
Curt
So easier that way.
00:14:41
jamie peacock
Yeah. Now know john is interested in a controller because he's burned through four switches on his compressor.
00:14:49
Curt
Oh, yeah.
00:14:50
jamie peacock
Yeah, from switching on and off. So I'm like put big industrial contact and turn that on and off.
00:14:54
Curt
Yeah, yeah, I know.
00:14:55
jamie peacock
and when yeah And when you cook the contacts, then move them over to the other two contacts. Like You can be sketchy like that. Because, I mean, it's all it's a single phase.
00:15:03
Curt
I think I I think mine are just flipped I think I put ah like SCRs into mine because I was same thing I was tired of them sticking like it I'm just putting in like 80 amp SCRs and not worrying about it ever again yeah
00:15:04
jamie peacock
Ah, okay, yeah.
00:15:14
jamie peacock
I thought about that. I just didn't want to be generating heat unnecessarily. So I've got some SERS. That was my thought. But i'd rather be I'd rather just have a contactor pull in and pull out. so When it dies, you just go pick up a new one.
00:15:28
jamie peacock
And you know if it's died or not.
00:15:28
Curt
yeah they're cheap enough
00:15:29
jamie peacock
Because the idea there is we switch off before the original switch would trigger. and we switch on at a much closer to the full pressure. So we're keeping a narrow band. But if the contactor burns in or whatever, the pressure switch will then trigger and will turn the compressor off.
00:15:46
Curt
Right, yeah, that's the same.
00:15:46
jamie peacock
So it'll fail back. yeah It'll fail back to the original switch.
00:15:50
Curt
Exactly, it's the same game I played. I kept a mechanical switch in line.
00:15:53
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:15:53
Curt
So yeah, if something ever goes awry, at least I have a double backup before hitting the blow-off, which is, I guess, like a triple backup.
00:15:56
jamie peacock
Yeah. Well, I spent the day in the dark because with the new network, home assistant refused to connect to the network. Don't know why.
00:16:08
jamie peacock
Trouble shot it for most of the day. So I was in darkness because I have no backups on any of my lights in the workshop. I can switch them off. I can't switch them on. So yeah, that was a little infuriating working in the dark this morning.
00:16:20
Curt
I'm only laughing because I did this.
00:16:20
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:16:21
Curt
I did the same thing.
00:16:22
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:16:22
Curt
I built the little, the little smart devices and I didn't put like a manual button where i could just turn them on and off.
00:16:26
jamie peacock
yeah
00:16:26
Curt
So yeah, if my network goes down, no lights. like
00:16:29
jamie peacock
Yeah, so that's on the list of things to add is just a button that I can poke with a stick and turn the lights on and off. um There's actually a button on on the one at the back of the LK.
00:16:41
jamie peacock
So I just need to reassign that that actually puts Iron Man mode on. So if you hold it for two seconds, then enables Iron Man mode.
00:16:45
Curt
Hmm.
00:16:48
jamie peacock
um Now i' just walk in and I loudly shouted my Google speaker and it turns my lights on. Unless it says there is no internet connection. And then it gets sworn out a bit more and I go into my phone and do it.
00:17:02
jamie peacock
I doubt the joys of smart devices they smart right up until they aren't.
00:17:06
Curt
yeah exactly and then you feel like you're yeah victim of your own yeah stupidity or technology or whatever yeah yeah
00:17:08
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:17:11
jamie peacock
yeah
00:17:14
jamie peacock
So what have you been ah what you been up to in the last ah day and a half, two days?
Resin Printing Challenges
00:17:19
jamie peacock
don't number of days.
00:17:20
Curt
uh yeah uh
00:17:21
jamie peacock
have you more Most importantly, have you tested the DC holders?
00:17:25
Curt
I have not. I know I was going to pop them in the machine today, but I had to do some blasting and I do some tumbling this morning.
00:17:26
jamie peacock
Okay.
00:17:29
Curt
so I was like, oh, I will test them. I got to run them soon enough here. I want to start running screws again.
00:17:33
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:17:34
Curt
So yeah, I will test them soon, but very happy with them so far. They seem they seem quite nice. so see We'll see. Hopefully the run out is great. If the run out is great, I'm going to buy a whole gang of them because like I said, my tool pass don't really push metal removal rates or material removal rates.
00:17:48
jamie peacock
No.
00:17:49
Curt
So they'll be they'll be perfect for my my needs and great access. Like i was, yeah, I'm quite impressed with them.
00:17:56
jamie peacock
Okay.
00:17:57
Curt
But yeah, not much.
00:17:57
jamie peacock
Yeah, sorry. I'm just seeing if I had a picture for you of the things I made this afternoon. um
00:18:03
Curt
Ooh, what did you make?
00:18:04
jamie peacock
it are The cardboard-faced filing guards. I'm manufacturing them for a local.
00:18:09
Curt
oh I see.
00:18:10
jamie peacock
Yeah. You saw the...
00:18:11
Curt
I saw your story on that.
00:18:12
jamie peacock
Yeah, so I threw them in the Tumblr.
00:18:15
Curt
Oh, OK.
00:18:16
jamie peacock
How long do you think it took to get them all just nice and uniform?
00:18:20
Curt
ah Just the aluminum bodies, or did you put the carbide in there as well?
00:18:22
jamie peacock
Yeah, just no, just aluminium bodies just to take any tooling marks off, just make it a uniform finish.
00:18:23
Curt
OK.
00:18:28
Curt
ah Knowing your Tumblr, half an hour.
00:18:31
jamie peacock
Eight minutes.
00:18:34
Curt
That's ridiculous.
00:18:34
jamie peacock
Eight minutes. i was like, this noise is too noisy, pulled out, they were super uniform. So like, it's got the tumbled finish, but like, they came off shiny.
00:18:39
Curt
Wow.
00:18:42
jamie peacock
The problem is, you put them down and they're going to pick up a day. and they're going to be used for grind.
00:18:46
Curt
Right, yeah.
00:18:47
jamie peacock
So we're going to do that sort of kind of hards the it hards the the things for at least a little while, because we making them so those are 6082.
00:18:54
Curt
Right. Yeah,
00:18:58
jamie peacock
We're going to make them out of 7075. So they're a little bit harder. um They were made out of stainless by the other guys, but screw that shit. don't want a machine stainless if I can avoid it um
00:19:08
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:19:09
jamie peacock
Rather, like, it doesn't need to be stainless. So we'll do them out of 7075. And then I got screws. You saw the screws that I got in. I saw you liked my my thing, the little Torx scrub screws.
00:19:18
Curt
Yeah.
00:19:19
jamie peacock
Yeah, that that little envelope was freaking $100 worth of screws.
00:19:19
Curt
Pretty.
00:19:23
jamie peacock
um
00:19:23
Curt
Yeah.
00:19:24
jamie peacock
And most of that was shipping and import duties. like Like, shipping and import duties.
00:19:27
Curt
um
00:19:28
jamie peacock
um so quickly think here So I think the screws in total were $32. $32. The shipping with customs duties was $86.
00:19:36
Curt
Yeah.
00:19:41
Curt
Oh, rough.
00:19:42
jamie peacock
Yeah, it on Thursday. It was here this morning.
00:19:45
Curt
i I mean, that's nice. At least you're least you're getting it quick.
00:19:47
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:19:48
Curt
but
00:19:49
jamie peacock
No, it comes quickly. It's just freaking expensive. But we need the Torx countersunk screws because if we put a normal one in, we're going to lock tight the carbide faces in because if you leave it to the guys, going over tighten it crack them.
00:19:51
Curt
Yeah.
00:20:01
jamie peacock
So...
00:20:02
Curt
Right.
00:20:02
jamie peacock
We're to lock tight them. And then if we need to break the lock tight, you just heat the whole block up. And then you've got a Torx driver to actually be able to drive it out.
00:20:09
jamie peacock
but job
00:20:09
Curt
Yeah.
00:20:10
Curt
No.
00:20:10
jamie peacock
That's the theory at least.
Machining Projects and Tools
00:20:13
jamie peacock
We'll see how well it works in practice.
00:20:14
Curt
Nice.
00:20:17
Curt
cool cool yeah yeah
00:20:19
jamie peacock
Yeah, so I'm trying to oh yes, you making fancy things. um I'm looking through the the topics here. So those i know we discussed the the tools that came in the China tools, how extreme are these necks on these tools?
00:20:33
Curt
yep
00:20:36
Curt
Ridiculous. So like you, you told me a few the vendors you used, um you know, on AliExpress and stuff like that. So I kind of looked through all them and I bought, I kind of bought a sweep of budgets. I bought like the, some of the $4 tools. These are all 15 thou end mills, um all like four mil diameter or one eighth, depending on what flavor I could get.
00:20:55
Curt
So I bought them from like five bucks up to like 30 bucks per tool. And the nomenclature on every one of them is just like, you kind of have to like just infer what the manufacturer's talking about. And a lot of these were supposed to be like 4D tools, like four depth or four times diameter, whatever.
00:21:05
jamie peacock
yeah
00:21:10
Curt
And I got them in and they're like, they're like 15 millimeters long before the tool starts to taper back up to size. So they're they're like needles. They're like needles on the end of, you know, one eighth to or one eighth shanks. So
00:21:20
jamie peacock
yeah so for reference that's a 0.38 millimeter in more yeah it's freaking time yeah and
00:21:26
Curt
Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. And some are 0.3 millimeter end mills because they were easier to get and 0.4 millimeter end mills because metric is just easier to get.
00:21:33
jamie peacock
Is that a solid carbide shank or is fluted all the way up?
00:21:38
Curt
It's varying. Some of them I got with a really shallow depth of cut, so I'm hoping to be a bit more rigid.
00:21:40
jamie peacock
Okay.
00:21:43
Curt
but for in the most part, like they're all like maybe two millimeter depth the cut or maybe one or two millimeter depth cut.
00:21:43
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:21:49
jamie peacock
Okay. and But then just a really, really skinny carbide stick that it's on.
00:21:55
Curt
Yeah. Yeah. Like if they were on any other website here, they would be classified as like, you know, 20 D tools, like super long reach tools.
00:22:00
jamie peacock
A long reach. Yeah.
00:22:02
Curt
And I was, I was hoping they would be more, so more stubby, but they're, they're not.
00:22:03
jamie peacock
Yeah, or rib tool.
00:22:06
Curt
But anyways, if I blow them all up and it wasn't that expensive, so not too concerned.
00:22:09
jamie peacock
yeah So like I bought I now bought some rib tools of BB where they are 22 millimeter depth of cut. I bought one and a half two and three millimeter, but the length of cut is only like six millimeters and then the rest is solid carbide shack that's neck just under a comma one under so that it won't rub.
00:22:24
Curt
Yeah.
00:22:26
Curt
Yeah.
00:22:28
jamie peacock
yeah but Yeah, the small tools I've noticed with the guys I get from here. ah One millimeter is meant to have a six millimeter length of cuts or a four millimeter length of cuts. And the ones I had before projected eight mil from where it tapered down.
00:22:43
jamie peacock
And then I got a batch in that were like 12 or 13 millimeters. And those things, you look at them skew and they break.
00:22:49
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:22:50
jamie peacock
I'd made like close to a thousand parts with one of the short ones. I got one and a half parts out of the longer ones. And then died.
00:22:57
Curt
sort of
00:22:58
jamie peacock
I actually ordered... two flutes and single flute because I was hoping one of them would be shorter and more rigid, even if have to go slower, if it's not going to break, that's fine.
00:23:09
Curt
Yep.
00:23:10
jamie peacock
Because unfortunately, I only have 12,000 RPM.
00:23:10
Curt
Yeah, exactly.
00:23:14
Curt
Yeah, well, it's the same game I played. I bought some two flutes and some four flutes and some three flutes just to see if yeah if I could get a little bit thicker carbide shank on some of them.
00:23:20
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:23:21
Curt
and They're cheap enough not to not to want to experiment with them, so we'll see.
00:23:24
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:23:26
Curt
We shall see soon enough.
00:23:26
jamie peacock
Okay, I'm curious to see how it's going to go with the different strategies.
00:23:31
Curt
Yeah, I think I'll try i'll try everything. going to try some plunge milling. I'm going try all kinds of different things.
00:23:34
jamie peacock
Yeah, branch milling is surprisingly effective.
00:23:35
Curt
such as
00:23:38
Curt
It is so effective in the past when I've done it.
00:23:40
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:23:40
Curt
It's insane, like, but
00:23:41
jamie peacock
Well, I mean, I was on the Torx bits that I've made many thousands of. I was actually assembling those today. It's one of my least favorite things with my my little one ton, three ton arbor press.
00:23:50
Curt
yeah
00:23:53
jamie peacock
Turns out it's a three ton arbor press if you put one and a half meter cheetah bar on it.
00:23:56
Curt
Nice.
00:23:57
jamie peacock
The whole frame opens. It's great. Like the whole frame flexes.
00:24:00
Curt
Weird.
00:24:01
jamie peacock
Yeah, I don't why.
00:24:01
Curt
yeah who would have thought?
00:24:03
jamie peacock
ah But yeah, i went from coming inside on and machining it out like adaptive or just contour with step overs to plunge roughing and my tool life went from like 100 pieces per tool up to like 400 pieces per tool on the slowio.
00:24:19
jamie peacock
And now I do 500 pieces on a tool and then ah throw the tool away because the next batch I don't feel like it breaking halfway through or Maybe it'll go all all the way through.
00:24:27
Curt
Yeah.
00:24:27
jamie peacock
But for the price of the tool for a whopping like $5, I'll just use a new tool.
00:24:34
Curt
Right, yeah, yeah, no doubt.
00:24:36
jamie peacock
At that point, it's a couple cents per
Lathe Tooling Efficiency
00:24:39
jamie peacock
per pot.
00:24:40
Curt
Yeah.
00:24:41
jamie peacock
So that's worth worth just throwing it in the bin.
00:24:45
jamie peacock
But yeah, we're gonna be getting a batch of those in next month again. Yeah, another 500 talks bits.
00:24:45
Curt
Yeah, no.
00:24:51
Curt
Hey, if it pays, whatever. You dialed in for it, so.
00:24:53
jamie peacock
Yeah, it pays and I'm pretty well dialed in. Although ah don't know if I'm going to still have the setup dialed in next time, because the risers have to come out of the LK.
00:25:01
Curt
Hmm.
00:25:05
Curt
Hmm, okay. I don't know if you're still doing those on the s slow EO or if you brought them all over to the LK.
00:25:06
jamie peacock
you know
00:25:09
jamie peacock
LK has got a tool changer.
00:25:11
Curt
Okay, fair enough. Yeah, yeah.
00:25:12
jamie peacock
Yeah, like and I went from doing, so I was doing 30 parts in, I think, 35 minutes on the Slowio. I now do 20 parts in, I think it's 12 minutes.
00:25:21
Curt
Yeah.
00:25:25
jamie peacock
So, yeah, we're doing it considerably faster.
00:25:29
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:25:30
jamie peacock
Also, put my tool library through pretool, and that sped it up a little bit.
00:25:39
Curt
Sick.
00:25:39
jamie peacock
it was actually a little bit more conservative on the one tool then I know works.
00:25:40
Curt
Nice.
00:25:43
jamie peacock
so I just left it as it was.
00:25:46
Curt
Yeah.
00:25:47
jamie peacock
Like, yeah, yeah, that that piece of software has saved me many, many hours already.
00:25:47
Curt
That's cool.
00:25:53
Curt
That is like, yeah, that's my number one tip for for like newbies or if you don't know what you're doing, just start with that now.
00:25:54
jamie peacock
Like I
00:25:58
Curt
It seems it seems like super effective.
00:26:00
jamie peacock
Yeah, it gets you a good starting point. So I found the steel surface footage is a little bit higher than my animals like I've got a chart for my animals and they like to go a little bit slower. So I just update the feeds with what I know the animals like and then it's fine.
00:26:19
jamie peacock
Yeah, don't know why the surface speed requirement is lower, but it is so I don't argue with it.
00:26:19
Curt
Cool.
00:26:20
Curt
Yeah.
00:26:23
Curt
Yeah. Yeah. No, no doubt.
00:26:27
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:26:27
Curt
Cool. Yeah. Well, and I
00:26:28
jamie peacock
so
Advanced Machining Techniques
00:26:29
Curt
got the, but I say the fourth axis on the style is nice and happy now.
00:26:29
jamie peacock
you're yeah sorry yeah
00:26:33
Curt
So I will eventually put all the code into it. The little Kurt machined all the Canada pens this past week, which was kind of tedious. Cause I spent ah like, i don't know, 40 hours doing like surfacing work on that little machine, maybe 50 hours.
00:26:45
Curt
So it is, it put in its time.
00:26:47
jamie peacock
yeah that's a yeah so have you got fusion posting the code the way you want it or not yet
00:26:48
Curt
It does. It does great work. It takes a long time. Um, But yeah, just
00:26:57
Curt
beautifully. Yeah, it posts to the fourth axis perfectly.
00:26:59
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:27:00
Curt
I just don't know. i don't know if it's like some arc tolerance setting where I'm just like, because I'm 3D machining a chamfer on the fourth axis just to get it exactly to CAD because there's weird issues with fusion when you're machining on a rotary where it it's like, do you want to follow the like the outside circumference or the inside circumference because they're different and you have a straight tool.
00:27:16
jamie peacock
yeah
00:27:17
Curt
And so, and chamfers, they get weird. Like you look you'll get stretched chamfers. And you can like you can only like tweak them so much without driving them off custom sketches.
00:27:22
jamie peacock
okay
00:27:26
Curt
um Anyways, I'm like, you know what? I'm just going to 3D machine it. I got a high speed spindle.
00:27:29
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:27:29
Curt
Who cares? Then I'll get it exactly to CAD. But it's just getting, it's kind of blowing corners. Kind of funny. It's coming around corners. It's making a beautiful finish. Like it's glass smooth.
00:27:37
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:27:37
Curt
The step over is perfect, but it's kind of blowing corners.
00:27:40
jamie peacock
Mmkay.
00:27:40
jamie peacock
No. Yeah.
00:27:40
Curt
So I got to figure out what's up.
00:27:42
jamie peacock
Mmkay.
00:27:42
Curt
Something, something simple.
00:27:43
Curt
um But I just, I want it to come out of fusion. Perfect. Cause on the Kurt, I, I altered all the code by hand and I don't want to do that again on the style.
00:27:50
jamie peacock
no
00:27:50
Curt
Cause it's just so tedious and you can never update it. Like it's not, I'm set. So yeah. So lots of, lots little fiddling.
00:27:58
jamie peacock
Yeah. Oh yeah, I think I said on Monday I was going to make a new spinning stop for my lathe with a shoulder.
00:28:04
Curt
Correct. Yes.
00:28:04
jamie peacock
Yes, I did that. And guess what?
00:28:07
Curt
What?
00:28:07
jamie peacock
It didn't even move back because there's a bloody shoulder. I also discovered something interesting.
00:28:12
Curt
Yeah.
00:28:13
jamie peacock
So I thought the turkout on my lathe might be going. because it seemed like the drills were sitting down at an angle, like the tip was low.
00:28:17
Curt
Right, yeah.
00:28:23
jamie peacock
So as it was projecting out the holder, it yeah seemed like the whole bed might be tilting.
00:28:24
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:28:28
jamie peacock
Everything else was still on center though, so it was a bit weird. Anyway, I was putting the block back on for the stop, turned it over, stoned it, and are like, oh look, a shaving.
00:28:31
Curt
Hmm.
00:28:38
Curt
Aw.
00:28:38
jamie peacock
So I stoned the shaving, the hole it was right at the back, the whole block was just cantered down. So fixed it.
00:28:43
Curt
Yeah, that would do it.
00:28:44
jamie peacock
Also, it turns out if you put a big corner radius on your carbide boring bar, it lasts more than 100 parts.
00:28:51
Curt
Oh, yeah. Yeah, i guess instead of dead sharp.
00:28:52
jamie peacock
Yeah, so I broke i broke the the tip of this one on the last batch. And then I've got a tool and cutter grounder, so just reground the tip in. And then i just hand did a radius on the tip before I started it.
00:29:03
jamie peacock
And yeah, ran beautifully. Like no issues running.
00:29:05
Curt
Nice.
00:29:07
jamie peacock
Yeah, my chip evacuation isn't great, but it cuts, so it's fine.
00:29:11
Curt
Sick.
00:29:11
jamie peacock
Like, yeah, did 500 parts in a day and half.
00:29:15
Curt
Nice. Yeah.
00:29:16
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, that's all pushing.
00:29:17
Curt
That's the nice thing about lathes. Usually that the tooling just seems to last forever.
00:29:20
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:29:23
jamie peacock
Well, yeah, and this, ah so I had to change my parting inserts every 200-ish parts. I would see the shavings weren't looking so happy. And then while it was running, would just pause it, turn the coolant off, undo the insert, put it back in, and then let it carry on running the cycle.
00:29:39
jamie peacock
Because yeah at once it fails, it fails. So I wanted to be ah wanted to just be ahead of that.
00:29:42
Curt
right Yeah. Yeah.
00:29:45
jamie peacock
But no, it ran freaking beautifully. Tomorrow I've got work to go onto that lathe. And then I should have material arriving tomorrow for a bunch of hinges for armored doors. So the lathe's going to be busy for the next little while.
00:29:57
Curt
Yeah, that's that's Bertha now back up and playing nice.
00:29:59
jamie peacock
Yeah, both is back up and running full featured. There was one thing that was bugging me on it. I can't remember what it was or some stupid little thing other than ah having to have to manually connect it to the NAS when it boots.
00:30:12
jamie peacock
So I just open command prompt press up and hit enter.
00:30:12
Curt
Oh.
00:30:15
jamie peacock
It's not the end of the world.
00:30:15
Curt
Yep.
00:30:16
jamie peacock
That is one thing Windows doesn't do and it drives me mad. If you open command prompt, you can't just go to the previous commands.
00:30:19
Curt
Yeah.
00:30:21
jamie peacock
I'm like, Yep, this is made for for stupid people. Like I leave stuff stored there like I was pinging.
00:30:25
Curt
Yeah.
00:30:27
jamie peacock
So i was pinging Google from old internet connection. And you have to type it in every time you can't just up arrow to pull up old commands and I was getting very annoyed with with Windows. But yeah, I can fun times.
00:30:38
Curt
Yeah.
00:30:41
jamie peacock
But yeah yeah, I told you my gauges arrived and the new tool holders arrived.
00:30:47
Curt
yeah Yeah.
00:30:47
jamie peacock
Yeah, the ball marks.
00:30:48
Curt
And you say you're happy with both of them?
00:30:50
jamie peacock
Yeah, the tool holders are the same as I've always had. They seem to be fine.
00:30:53
Curt
Oh.
00:30:54
jamie peacock
I discovered my reamer that I bought. So bought, I ordered a reamer from my local tooling guys. It was meant to be on Friday. I got here today. um It's a hand reamer that I'm just putting in a CNC machine.
00:31:07
jamie peacock
But the whole front of is freaking tapered for like 20 mils.
00:31:11
Curt
o
00:31:11
jamie peacock
so it's got a long lead and so i i've reamed the hole the pin goes in and then stops and the hell so i look at the reamer and i can see where the edge is sharp up at the top of the reamer bottom of the reamer i can't see that sharp edge so it looks like it's really tapered because it's hand reamer and i just put it in a tool holder so i just reamed through 20 millimeters just went super deep because i've got clearance below the part so yeah we'll make a plan
00:31:27
Curt
Right. Yeah.
00:31:33
Curt
OK, yeah.
00:31:37
Curt
ah
00:31:37
jamie peacock
These will get on to get put onto fixtures once we go into full production on them. But like I programmed the third op with the op. So it's got four holes that need to be threaded on the one part and two on the other part.
00:31:51
jamie peacock
The middle holes on the same place. So programmed them as six operations. So spot drill, drill, and then thread mill. But the outer holes and then the inner holes are separate tool parts so I can make the outer holes optional.
00:32:07
jamie peacock
So I can run the same OP3 code and just depending on which part's loaded, I can swap between it quickly.
00:32:07
Curt
OK, OK.
00:32:13
Curt
Nice.
00:32:14
jamie peacock
Although that yeah that'll end up in a fixture because one at a time in a vase. It's doable for, I think we've got to do 80 parts. It's not the end of the world, but screw it, make a fixture.
00:32:24
Curt
Yeah, yeah, no, no doubt. That's so much better.
00:32:27
jamie peacock
Yeah, and this will hopefully go into production. These are probably going to end up around the world because once again, making shit in Africa is cheap.
00:32:35
Curt
Yeah, yeah, that's what this podcast has taught me.
00:32:37
jamie peacock
And yeah, and not be again, not because I'm not paying myself or like that kind of shows just our costs yeah are lower. So yeah.
00:32:47
Curt
Yeah. Yeah, i know. No, we can talk off air about things and i'm like, wow, that's very, very affordable.
00:32:51
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:32:52
Curt
But like you said, everything scales. So, it I mean, it doesn't quite scale because like some of your things there are just insanely cheap.
00:32:54
jamie peacock
Everything scales. yeah
00:32:57
Curt
Even and if you brought it over here, like I, I wouldn't, it wouldn't be affordable for me.
00:33:00
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:33:02
Curt
so yeah, it's interesting.
00:33:02
jamie peacock
Yeah. No, it's it's interesting the the different, like even you hear about guys, what people earn in different countries and you're like, oh, they earn so much money there. I look at my my sister-in-law. She was a doctor here.
00:33:14
jamie peacock
um Her husband was picking, he was a paramedic, but he was looking after their three daughters. He would pick up like a shift or two a month just to get out of the house. And they they owned a house here. They lived well.
00:33:27
jamie peacock
And they went to Ireland. They're now living in a house that should only actually have like three people living in it, not five. And they barely scraping bar.
00:33:37
Curt
Right.
00:33:38
jamie peacock
Like on a doctor's salary.
00:33:38
Curt
Yeah.
00:33:39
jamie peacock
Like it's, and it's not because they're living lavishly.
00:33:40
Curt
yeah
00:33:43
jamie peacock
It's they like having to really skimp to make it through on the one salary because he can't work there because he's, he had to write an English exam. Because he's from Africa, he had to write an English exam.
00:33:57
Curt
Okay.
00:33:58
jamie peacock
Yeah, so that he could then.
00:33:58
Curt
isn't Isn't Africa like chock full of English people though too?
00:34:02
jamie peacock
Exactly. He speaks spoken better English than most of the frickin English people.
00:34:06
jamie peacock
Um, yeah, like, you know, like, yeah, just stupid bureauc bureaucracy things. Uh, but he, I think he's finally in a position where can actually get a job there now and start probably contributing towards the the household.
00:34:06
Curt
Yeah.
00:34:15
Curt
Nice.
00:34:18
jamie peacock
But I mean, yeah, three daughters, it was cheaper for him to stay at home than for them to get a full-time nanny in South Africa that would look after the girls through the silly hours that they were working as a paramedic and, uh, and a doctor, because they worked some really dumb hours.
00:34:32
Curt
Right, yeah. I mean, that's kind of the same jig here.
00:34:34
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:34:34
Curt
So like unless you're making a decent, like if you're making anywhere close to minimum wage, and I mean, Canada, we have a pretty high minimum wage. But if you're making like around that and you have to you know pay for child care, it's like it almost doesn't make sense.
00:34:45
Curt
Like you might as well stay home.
Childcare Costs Comparison
00:34:46
jamie peacock
Yeah. So I know my my mates in England, he they had their first daughter. Michelle got nine months of maternity leave.
00:34:57
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:34:57
jamie peacock
I think the first like three months are fully paid and then the rest, they can't fire you, but they only have to pay you half. So she stayed at home for nine months, then got pregnant again, just had their second one.
00:35:07
jamie peacock
And same story, goes stay at home for nom nine months. Like, look after the kids, by that point, they can go off to daycare.
00:35:11
Curt
yeah. yeah
00:35:15
jamie peacock
And they get some rebates after like a year of them being a de at daycare starts to get a government grant or something.
00:35:15
Curt
Yeah.
00:35:23
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:35:23
jamie peacock
and like ah My mate Justin works from home on a Friday so that he can keep an eye on his daughter so have to pay for daycare on a Friday.
00:35:24
Curt
No, I...
00:35:30
Curt
Yeah. not so That's one area I can't bitch about at all for for our land here because like our maternity leave is insane. Our benefits for child care is insane.
00:35:36
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:35:37
Curt
like All that stuff is very affordable. After I just said you know if you make minimum wage, sorry, if you make minimum wage don't qualify for any of the subsidies, yeah, it sucks.
00:35:41
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:35:44
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:35:44
Curt
But other than that, you're golden.
00:35:47
jamie peacock
No, but that's...
00:35:47
Curt
Yeah, anyway.
00:35:47
jamie peacock
yeah I mean, even Ireland, um my sister-in-law gets a rebate for her one daughter. She gets like a couple hundred euros and then the other two are twins.
00:35:58
jamie peacock
So she gets more money per child for them.
00:36:01
Curt
Right, yeah.
00:36:01
jamie peacock
Like as ah as a rebate, don't have to be a citizen.
00:36:02
Curt
Yeah,
00:36:04
jamie peacock
You're living in the country, working in the country. Here's money to make sure your kids have a good could start in life.
00:36:09
Curt
yeah, it's kind of an important thing.
00:36:10
jamie peacock
So we've we've got the same thing here, except what happens is they have a child, dump it to the grandmother, and then that subsidy is considered stable income.
00:36:11
Curt
Oh.
00:36:19
jamie peacock
So you can go get a cell phone contract with it.
00:36:22
Curt
oh
00:36:23
jamie peacock
Yeah, so it's literally called the cell phone grant, you have a baby so you can go get a cell phone. Yeah, it's a huge, it's a huge issue. Like, should not a bunch kids leave them with your grandmother to look after them and raise them while you go carry on drawing.
00:36:35
Curt
Wow.
00:36:37
jamie peacock
Yeah, Africa is not for the faint of heart.
00:36:37
Curt
That's a good way to put it.
00:36:41
jamie peacock
It's yeah, no, this place, fuck. Yeah, this place is special.
00:36:47
jamie peacock
Oh yeah, those, uh, the pictures you posted from your little Canon printer.
00:36:48
Curt
Cool.
00:36:53
jamie peacock
I liked that the anchor points between your daughters, like fucking egg.
00:36:53
Curt
That's...
00:36:57
jamie peacock
Danica thought that was quite entertaining.
00:36:57
Curt
Wow.
00:36:59
Curt
Daughter one, anchor point, daughter two. so yeah know so
00:37:02
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:37:03
Curt
Exactly. Order of importance. Yeah.
00:37:06
jamie peacock
yeah
00:37:06
Curt
No, um I know we talked about it in the Super Broken podcast, which we'll probably allude to later.
00:37:07
jamie peacock
buts Yeah. Yeah.
00:37:10
jamie peacock
yeah
00:37:11
Curt
um But yeah, I bought one of those little Canon 1500 selfie printers. Amazing. and like if you want I do a lot of documentation. I just like to write stuff down because I make pens.
00:37:17
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:37:19
Curt
So kind of I do a lot of writing. But I like to like to take pictures of things and print them. And yeah, a little printer. Super cool. It's a couple hundred bucks Canadian. Prints are like, I don't know, 30 to 50 cents each. And they're super good quality, like 90% a photo yeah.
00:37:32
Curt
you know a photo labb so
00:37:33
jamie peacock
yeah
00:37:34
Curt
I was quite pleased with that. I've been playing with that and printing all kinds of dumb pictures now.
00:37:38
jamie peacock
Yeah, my mother in law. So we've set my mother in law up with a Google Drive that all the siblings can dump pictures of their children into. So she can make them photo books of all the kids and it it's archived monthly.
00:37:47
Curt
Nice.
00:37:51
jamie peacock
So monthly, they go dump all the stuff in that month's thing.
00:37:52
Curt
Yeah.
00:37:54
jamie peacock
And then all the photos is not Oh, can I have this photo? no It's fucking there. And then, yeah,
00:37:57
Curt
Yeah,
Living Challenges in Africa
00:37:58
Curt
yeah.
00:37:58
jamie peacock
the Irish ones were like, no, use this instead.
00:38:01
jamie peacock
So Danica was like, listen here.
00:38:02
Curt
Hmm.
00:38:04
jamie peacock
When there's a problem, she phones you.
00:38:04
Curt
ah
00:38:06
jamie peacock
I will not help her. I've devised a whole system with instructions. Like, Danica made full-on instructions for the shit so that any moron could do it. And, yeah, it was a little bit of a pain point for a while.
00:38:19
Curt
Danica scares me. She seems like a lovely lady, but she seems she seems scary. I don't want to anger her. I want to stay on her good side.
00:38:24
jamie peacock
She gets intense. Let's put it that way. She gets very intense. yeah If you hear, by the way if anyone hears anything funny in the background, they were watching Mormon Housewives or something. her and her friend.
00:38:35
Curt
Ooh, I would watch that.
00:38:36
jamie peacock
yeah It's Tuesday night. It's on, I think, Netflix or Prime.
00:38:37
Curt
Oh,
00:38:40
jamie peacock
don't know. It's about the the whole mom talk, ah swingers scandal story. It looked really dumb.
00:38:46
Curt
wow.
00:38:47
jamie peacock
Like, really dumb. were watching it while were having dinner. Yeah. So we are we're recording on a Tuesday. Tuesday night, Danica's friend comes for dinner. So they're down in the lounge talking loudly.
00:39:00
jamie peacock
There they go.
00:39:00
jamie peacock
Okay. Yeah, lots of fun stuff there. So how's your, oh, you mentioned anti-aliasing research for resin printers. Please spread your knowledge.
00:39:01
Curt
Oh, fun stuff.
00:39:10
Curt
yess
00:39:12
jamie peacock
How far, okay, we are 39 minutes in.
00:39:12
Curt
but
00:39:14
jamie peacock
So I'm going to take a note of how far we're in because I'm going to make my mate Dave listen to this. 39.
00:39:21
jamie peacock
Look out.
00:39:21
Curt
All right.
00:39:21
Curt
Well, my ah my research and my testing so far has shown me that for my stuff that I'm printing, anti-alias is... Don't use it. It's as and no help to me.
00:39:31
jamie peacock
but
00:39:32
Curt
But I'm also trying to print like super accurate CAD models where the surface finish is going to be dictated by finishing processes, not by what's coming directly off the printer.
00:39:38
jamie peacock
yet okay
00:39:40
Curt
However, a little bit of anti-aliasing on a print um turns out really, really nice. Like it it does smooth over details. Like if I was printing it like models or something to paint like Warhammer or something like that, I would crank up a little bit of anti-aliasing just to kind of reduce the voxels.
00:39:48
jamie peacock
yeah so i think his by default is on yeah oh no it goes up to like 32 or 64 or something
00:39:56
Curt
Fair, And that's already pretty high. um Like I ran it at two and I could notice.
00:40:02
jamie peacock
Like that was just the default.
00:40:02
Curt
ah wow.
00:40:02
Curt
Okay.
00:40:03
jamie peacock
so So he was asking me because being the good friend I am, i was like, Hey, Dave, come visit. Here's a printer. take it.
00:40:11
Curt
Oh, nice.
00:40:11
jamie peacock
I don't want to go learn. And then he went down that rabbit hole.
00:40:13
Curt
Yeah.
00:40:14
jamie peacock
So like he phoned me to get me to explain supports like, why does he need supports? Like, in his mind, you put it on the bed, you print it, you take it off.
00:40:20
Curt
Right.
00:40:22
jamie peacock
And I'm like, No, you do that, and then it breaks. So you put it on an angle also constant exposure size, like there's a whole bunch of factors that that go into it.
00:40:25
Curt
Yeah.
00:40:31
jamie peacock
So I was trying to explain all this to him. And then yeah, he's gonna run down a rabbit hole with that. Like he was printing stuff for his drone.
00:40:36
Curt
Well, and then there's...
00:40:40
Curt
Then there's also the aspect of like the exact flavor that you're exposing the resin with. Like most of those like masked LCDs are naturally going to have just a little bit softer because they're casting a shadow.
00:40:45
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:40:48
Curt
Whereas like the printer I'm using is a DLP. So DLPs have like, they're not as high resolution, but they're also incredibly sharp per pixel. So if you don't like you get really crisp voxel lines, if you don't have any aliasing on, which is fine for my needs, but if you're printing models, you might want to crank it up.
00:40:57
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:41:04
Curt
and it's like, there's a thousand different things to consider.
00:41:07
jamie peacock
what is you
00:41:08
Curt
And then
00:41:09
jamie peacock
ah What is your pixel size on that?
00:41:11
Curt
Uh, 50 micron.
00:41:14
jamie peacock
ah that's huge.
00:41:15
Curt
fifty Is it 50 micron or five micron? Whatever. Or maybe it's, maybe it's, maybe it's 50 micron.
00:41:17
jamie peacock
I think it's 50 micron.
00:41:20
Curt
Yeah.
00:41:21
jamie peacock
So my micro-realities are 51 micron. The any cubic I gave Dave is 34 microns.
00:41:24
Curt
Yeah.
00:41:27
Curt
Right. But see, and that's another weird thing.
00:41:28
jamie peacock
And that's literally the cheapest printer you can buy is the Anycubic that I gave him. He was having issues with scaling.
00:41:33
Curt
Yeah.
00:41:35
jamie peacock
For some reason, the printer, the default pulled in at 35 on the printer profile, not 34. So printed something 60 mils long. He's like, it's 62. Did the maths.
00:41:46
Curt
um
00:41:47
jamie peacock
61.79 is what it actually was.
00:41:50
jamie peacock
So yeah, he had his pixel size wrong. So I'm trying to find you a picture quickly.
00:41:50
Curt
Right.
00:41:53
Curt
Well,
00:41:54
jamie peacock
Let's get count on that.
00:41:55
Curt
And I might be speaking out of school, but like, that's the thing too, is like res, like this, this little DLP, it's got a tiny, it's, it's effective resolution is only like, i don't know, whatever, 2k, but it prints the same as an 8k printer because you just, you have just crazy sharp cutoff.
00:42:03
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:42:08
Curt
Cause you have like black and white, like there's no shade difference. Cause it's mirrors that are reflecting the light as what's that.
00:42:12
jamie peacock
You can see my face right now, right Kurt?
00:42:16
jamie peacock
The 8K, 4K, it is the biggest marketing wank ever because your screen size, it's it it is literally your pixel size is what counts, not how many pixels there are.
00:42:18
Curt
It's, it's such, it's such a, yeah.
00:42:28
jamie peacock
Because if your pixel size is four but four or 40x40 microns and it's a 4K printer and you've got some dude with a 2K printer but it's got a 20 micron spot size, well, hello, 20 micron is more accurate.
00:42:28
Curt
Yeah.
00:42:32
Curt
And it's, yeah.
00:42:39
Curt
Yeah.
00:42:39
jamie peacock
so No, that annoys me a bit.
00:42:40
Curt
Yeah. No, don't. There is so much marketing like thing. And then there's like, there's just a million things to consider. Like I didn't realize actually when the, like when a bed comes down on a resin printer, there is a significant amount of pressure that's pushing against the resin.
00:42:54
Curt
Like I thought it was also like a zero pressure, but no, like to squeeze resin down to like whatever, 20, 30, 40, 50 micron, like you're putting a lot of force into it.
00:42:55
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:43:02
Curt
Enough force where you're probably bending the Z axes.
00:43:02
jamie peacock
Especially, yeah, especially if it's cold.
00:43:05
Curt
And like, there's just all kinds of things to consider. Totally.
00:43:09
jamie peacock
Like, yeah.
00:43:09
Curt
Right. Yeah. Like heat your resin. Yeah, for sure.
00:43:12
jamie peacock
So I'm trying to find this.
00:43:12
Curt
Yeah.
00:43:13
jamie peacock
i want to show you this. want send this picture quickly, but can't find it. This riveting podcasting. Oh, okay. He only sent me, I thought he had sent me proper stuff of his drone, but he only sent me the glue up examples.
00:43:21
Curt
I need...
00:43:25
jamie peacock
He was actually quite shocked how well the glue worked. So he had a scrapped radiator because I gave him the scrap ones. Smeared glue on it, didn't clean it. No surface prep, just smeared the glue on, took a carbon tube and stuck it on.
00:43:38
jamie peacock
Left it secure. Was expecting to just grab it and snap it off. No, no, no. Bent the radiator.
00:43:44
Curt
Oh, wow.
00:43:44
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, that that's the same glue I used to glue the carbon-filled PTFE to Bertha when I replaced the Turquoise.
00:43:45
Curt
Oh, that's cool.
00:43:53
Curt
Hmm. ah Okay.
00:43:54
jamie peacock
And yeah, it sticks shit to her blankets.
00:43:54
Curt
Yeah. yeah
00:43:58
jamie peacock
I also was smart when I did that and I put a lip on each end. So I had the Turcotte or the PTFE made a little bit shorter. And when we glued in, I made sure there was glue on each end. So it's being held in place and it can't slide out because there's a stopper made of glue on each end.
00:44:14
Curt
Sure. yeah Yeah. Okay.
00:44:15
jamie peacock
Yeah, because I knew it wasn't going to stick properly.
00:44:15
Curt
That makes sense.
00:44:17
jamie peacock
Like it's PTFE. Nothing sticks to it.
00:44:19
Curt
I say you're gloom PTFE and like there's a couple of things you can do, but yeah, it's hard to bond.
00:44:22
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:44:24
jamie peacock
We scuffed it up and yeah, that stuff stuck actually really well, like shockingly well. I know John and I are discussing today about replacing his PTFE on his sharp mill because the PTFE dropped out of one of the ways.
Machine Maintenance Challenges
00:44:37
jamie peacock
So he just put a ah fixture plate the size of the machine and machined it square.
00:44:43
Curt
Nice.
00:44:43
jamie peacock
So running is fine. Cast iron on cast iron. You can run like that for a little while. um
00:44:48
Curt
Right. Yeah.
00:44:48
jamie peacock
So he's looking at now that he's got the second mill up, he's looking at stripping it and re-tourcouting it. But it is a bit of a, it's a bit of a thing. Like, I don't think it'll ever, you'll never get it perfect like it was in factory.
00:44:57
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:45:01
jamie peacock
But if he puts it in and re-skims his plate, he's going to be good enough. Might have to just skim the plates every six months to make sure it stays true if the turkout wears it all.
00:45:06
Curt
Sure, yeah.
00:45:10
Curt
Right, yeah.
00:45:11
jamie peacock
Because interestingly enough, my turkout was scarved, or my carbon PTFE.
00:45:11
Curt
Yeah, it depends what you're trying to do.
00:45:16
jamie peacock
So they machined a block, the size I wanted, and then scarved it off to thickness.
00:45:22
Curt
Oh, interesting.
00:45:22
jamie peacock
Yeah, it was very interesting. like because i asked them how they're doing that, they'll scourge it. So they machine it to your finished size, and then they scourge the thickness. So they'll scourge the top, and then they'll scourge your layer.
00:45:29
Curt
I don't know.
00:45:31
jamie peacock
So it's super consistent in thickness.
00:45:33
Curt
Interesting.
00:45:34
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's the most expensive little roll of plastic I ever bought.
00:45:34
Curt
Cool. I didn't know that.
00:45:39
jamie peacock
Literally, it coiled up to about this big. It was about 20 miles high.
00:45:42
Curt
Yeah.
00:45:43
jamie peacock
And that cost me, I want to say it was like $200.
00:45:43
Curt
ah
00:45:47
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:45:48
jamie peacock
Yeah, me all $1,000. two hundred dollars on a machine that cost me all of a thousand dollars
00:45:53
Curt
Right.
00:45:54
jamie peacock
Yeah, was a bit a bit put out by that one.
00:45:59
Curt
No doubt.
00:45:59
jamie peacock
But yeah, so yeah, I told you I went fishing.
00:45:59
Curt
I can understand that.
00:46:03
Curt
You did. Yeah.
00:46:03
jamie peacock
Yes, tomorrow I'm going to buy a new boat.
00:46:06
Curt
Uh-oh. What happened?
00:46:06
jamie peacock
that what it does Yeah, I know. So I messaged on Marketplace. There's a plastic boat I want. um Messaged them on Saturday. Nothing. Replied to my message this morning.
00:46:17
jamie peacock
So I sent a message. Cool. I'm interested. Where are you? Can you send me a WhatsApp message with some more pictures? So I got some more pictures of the boat.
00:46:23
Curt
Hmm.
00:46:25
jamie peacock
Turns out he's just up the road from one of my customers who I have to go see tomorrow. So I'm going to go pick up a new boat and then I sold my boat to the guy we're fishing with on the weekend.
00:46:29
Curt
Oh, cool.
00:46:34
Curt
Oh, cool.
00:46:34
jamie peacock
Yeah, with a trawling motor. So my new boat ended up costing me like $120. hundred and twenty dollars
00:46:40
Curt
Nice.
00:46:40
jamie peacock
Yeah, that's cheap boat. And yeah, and then we go we're planning on going again on Sunday. And then we'll go in two boats and go fuck around on the water.
00:46:49
Curt
Oh, that sounds like fun.
00:46:49
jamie peacock
Yeah, yeah, it's ah important to get a disconnect from the workshop. Because I'm battling with that at the moment is actually just clean disconnecting from the workshop.
00:46:56
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:46:59
jamie peacock
Because like i come in the house, I'm still kind of thinking about work. I go to bed, I'm thinking about work. But at least when I'm fishing is a bit less of that going on.
00:47:08
Curt
Yeah, yeah, exactly. yeah You got to kind of find find one of those hobbies that just kind of forces your brain to not think about it.
00:47:13
jamie peacock
Yeah. No, that's the thing.
00:47:14
Curt
Yeah.
00:47:15
jamie peacock
Like, I'm desperately trying to do that now. Because yeah you can't be working all the time. That's how burnout happens.
00:47:21
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:47:22
jamie peacock
And if you're still listening, Dave, you're the reason that I'm doing things.
00:47:23
Curt
Yeah.
00:47:26
jamie peacock
Because I saw what burnout does. Yeah, Dave, put the candle on both ends and the middle and yeah it ended not so nicely. um So yeah, I'm very cognizant of not not pushing myself that far.
00:47:35
Curt
yeah
00:47:41
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:47:42
jamie peacock
No, it pushed him so far that he's become a homosexual fly fisherman now.
00:47:42
Curt
No, it makes sense.
00:47:48
jamie peacock
He goes on romantic camping trips with one of our other friends, because they're both into fly fishing.
00:47:53
Curt
Hey, whatever turns your crank.
00:47:54
jamie peacock
ah don't want to look yeah I don't want to look like a autistic person when I'm fishing.
00:48:01
Curt
I do like fly fishing for that aspect.
00:48:01
jamie peacock
oh
00:48:03
Curt
I'm like, ooh, i like i like all the detail and intricacy of this game, but...
00:48:05
jamie peacock
So that's the thing, Dave dave got gets really into the detail and intricacy. Like he ties his own flies and he's like really into that side of it.
00:48:11
Curt
Of course.
00:48:13
jamie peacock
Like we used to go fishing for, well, catfish or barbell here. I'm like, hey, we're going fishing. Let me make bait quickly before we go. He's been making bait for the last week, trying new and fancy things.
00:48:20
Curt
Right.
00:48:23
jamie peacock
I'm like, Jamie pitches up with beer and fishing rod. Let's go.
00:48:26
Curt
Right.
00:48:27
jamie peacock
but Yeah, i don't
00:48:27
Curt
Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
00:48:30
jamie peacock
I don't get that into into the minutia of it.
00:48:30
Curt
Yeah.
00:48:35
jamie peacock
oh that actually reminds me ah just saw a cool desk ornament just wipe the dust off of it
00:48:42
Curt
Oh, that does look cool. It's like a little micro spool.
00:48:45
jamie peacock
it's a diving spool for your marker boy so they put a rope through the middle and then it yeah so i made these samples for someone they were meant to order lots and they never did but i kept one and this is clocked the the slots are offset because i could
00:48:47
Curt
Oh.
00:48:50
Curt
OK.
00:48:59
Curt
Right, yeah, yeah.
00:49:01
jamie peacock
Yeah, so i machined it on Bertha and then put it in the mill and milled the ah spokes.
00:49:01
Curt
ah that's cool.
00:49:06
Curt
is that That's, a I'm assuming, aluminum, judging by its color.
00:49:09
jamie peacock
Yeah, and then anodized. Yeah.
00:49:11
Curt
Yeah. That's sick. It looks pretty.
00:49:12
jamie peacock
It's my favorite material. Yeah. and i have
00:49:14
Curt
It looks for the listeners.
00:49:15
jamie peacock
I mean, that's been on my desk for like three or four years.
00:49:16
Curt
It just looks like a little threaded spool, but yeah, it's pretty cool looking.
00:49:19
jamie peacock
Yeah, I think I've actually a picture somewhere on my Instagram of the whole batch of these.
00:49:23
Curt
Oh, cool.
00:49:24
jamie peacock
Yeah, so they wanted them with just holes, then I made a couple that had big pockets because it looked cooler.
00:49:29
Curt
Yeah. Neat.
00:49:30
jamie peacock
like obviously make things that look cool.
00:49:31
Curt
Yeah, yeah it helps.
00:49:34
jamie peacock
right, let's quickly shout out our Patreons. So thank you to all our Patreons who make the the show happen. ah The top tier Patreons get a shout out. So Jade at Benchmark20, thank you for your support.
00:49:47
jamie peacock
And Luke from Fabtastic. think Fabtastic, made that sound weird. Sorry, Luke from Fabtastic, thank you for your support as well. um Yeah, that's going we're going to have to drain the Patreon account because I think Zencastle did some sketchy stuff.
00:50:01
Curt
Oh.
00:50:02
jamie peacock
Yeah, so I don't know, you've you've been listening to Taps and Patients. do you remember when AJ accidentally bought a year's worth of Zencaster?
00:50:10
Curt
I don't recall that, but OK.
00:50:12
jamie peacock
Oh yeah, he accidentally bought a year. Guess what happened today?
00:50:15
Curt
OK. About another year.
00:50:17
jamie peacock
We accidentally bought a year.
00:50:19
Curt
Oh, fancy, fancy.
00:50:20
jamie peacock
So we up well, we updated to the to the top tier Danica selected monthly for the plan.
00:50:24
Curt
Right.
00:50:27
jamie peacock
Double check that because she knows AJ did this double checked and then today I'm in the workshop and I get and SMS or a message for like 200 and something dollars.
00:50:27
Curt
Yeah.
00:50:36
jamie peacock
And I'm like, Oh, what the fuck is this Zencastr for a year? I'm like, Well, guess what we're doing another 52 podcasts.
00:50:36
Curt
Yikes.
00:50:44
Curt
Exactly.
00:50:46
jamie peacock
I was a little annoyed, but yeah not the not the end of the world. Just yeah surprise.
00:50:52
Curt
Oh, yeah. That's exciting.
00:50:54
jamie peacock
But yeah, yeah, and no, we upgraded so we can do video um when we have internet that works. And yeah, that's ah resulted in my account being debited for a whole bunch. Yay.
00:51:07
jamie peacock
But yeah, yeah, shit happens. ah Could be worse.
00:51:11
Curt
well thank you to the patreons for keeping jamie eating noodles
00:51:11
jamie peacock
So yeah, Yeah, thank you. Yeah, keeping, yeah keeping me fed with noodles. Yeah, I mean, that's what it is. Could have been worse. ah So yeah, how's your development on your UFO going?
00:51:27
Curt
ah Fantastic. ah So as background, I wanted to, I i got some shirts printed um from a print on demand service that I wanted to do for, because we have such lovely shirts for the loan machinists podcast.com. Check them out, go buy them.
00:51:39
Curt
Danica's uploading more as far as I know. um So I wanted to join the the fray and have some that are kind of more in line with my pen world.
00:51:41
jamie peacock
Yep.
00:51:46
Curt
um And I'm just, I got my samples back. Super not happy with them. Just kind of alignment all over the show. I'm using a like huge, one of the huge fulfillment ah companies, which is shocking. So I sent him an email basically saying, like, hey, is this like, can I pay more to get him better? Or is this like, they were middle of the road price. So Anyways, not pleased with them, but, uh, that led onto the aspect of, I wanted to make a machine, but I need a I need a, I want to have a UFO in it i have really cool design, but ah I need a UFO and I like to tie my products in with like the things I make.
00:52:02
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:52:13
Curt
So I wanted to design a UFO shaped product and it came out super well. This was just going to be something for me. Um, That's why I'm doing so much resin printing lately is because I'm trying to make a low cost version of it so I can have something that I can sell to people that is not hundreds and hundreds of dollars um or, you know, give away to friends or whatnot. So, yeah, that's been been tinkering away on that. It was supposed to be a super easy project. Now I think I've sung 40 hours of CAD into it.
00:52:37
Curt
So it's it's feature creeped because that's what we like to do is. make things way more complicated than they should be so hope they'll have more details on that soon enough it's kind of like a fidgety thing it was supposed to be a mechanical counter and now it's kind of turned into like a weird fidget toy something or other so i don't know i'll see where it progresses to it it looks super cool so that always helps
00:52:59
jamie peacock
Yeah. No, it looks quite cool. You posted that on your Instagram.
00:53:01
Curt
yeah thanks yeah i think i just did some stories on it just
00:53:04
jamie peacock
You posted some pics of it yeah or something of it.
00:53:05
Curt
Yeah, I don't but't want it to. i don't i don't I try not to post like a ton of details about things that I kind of still have in the works now because like so many people just like jump on an idea that I have and then execute it poorly.
00:53:10
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:53:16
Curt
and i'm so like I'm so annoyed by it.
00:53:16
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:53:18
Curt
you I'm like, I don't care if you steal my idea, but make it better. Don't just make a shitty version and then sell it Because then I'm like, well, now if I sell it, like people are going to be like, well, that other one was not very good.
00:53:21
jamie peacock
Better yell.
00:53:27
Curt
So yours was like, no, I was the original. I had a better idea, but someone else jumped on it and made a shitty version.
00:53:30
jamie peacock
yeah
00:53:31
Curt
So anyway, I try to keep everything close to the chest now.
00:53:35
jamie peacock
yeah no looks quite cool yeah well the fidget bringing back fidget spinners oh nice bringing back the fidget static yeah okay
00:53:37
Curt
Thanks, man. Thank you. yeah The funny thing is it doesn't even spin. like It looks like it should spin, but it doesn't spin at all. It's like all just mechanical movements and slides and Bringing back the fidget something other.
00:53:52
Curt
It moves. like ton Every part on it moves. But ah yeah, I don't know. It's going to be... I think I'm going to actually... and Looking at my sample prints I did this morning, I think I'm just going to machine some Delrin parts for it as well. It'll be Delrin and Ultim and then Titanium and Ultim for more spendy versions.
00:54:03
jamie peacock
but
00:54:06
Curt
I'm just not super happy with the resin prints yet, but we'll see.
00:54:06
jamie peacock
Yeah. Okay.
00:54:09
Curt
We'll see how progresses.
00:54:09
jamie peacock
god
00:54:11
Curt
Yeah.
00:54:12
jamie peacock
yeah I was chatting to Ben from from Toolpath.
00:54:12
Curt
Never. Never.
00:54:15
jamie peacock
He's taking the anchor point that I sent to, to Justin and Ben on grave with Justin and Ben Toolpath labs, with the intention of Ben taking it to make his knives.
00:54:16
Curt
Mm-mm.
00:54:23
Curt
Cool.
00:54:26
jamie peacock
So he was making a riser with Toolpath today.
00:54:26
Curt
Sick. Yeah.
00:54:29
jamie peacock
So designed the riser had Toolpath program the whole thing.
00:54:29
Curt
Cool.
00:54:32
jamie peacock
not
00:54:33
jamie peacock
he's taking that home. He's just finished renovating his workshop as well, so that he doesn't need to build the warming box of insulation around his machine.
00:54:33
Curt
Nice.
00:54:43
Curt
I love that. Yeah.
00:54:44
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's great. It's literally a hotbox around his machine, so his coolant wouldn't freeze in winter.
00:54:50
Curt
Yeah, ah no I love I love I'm like, i' like you just go in there and you're just in the box of noise and heat.
00:54:51
jamie peacock
Yeah, oh like, here Africa, so at the dam on the weekend, last time I was there was six months ago, like middle of summer, and the lilies were wild, like,
00:55:10
jamie peacock
20 meters of lilies from the bank.
00:55:12
Curt
Wow.
00:55:13
jamie peacock
And we went there and there's no more lilies. There's no more of the big lilies. So I'm assuming the big lilies were are tropical lily and die off in the winter.
00:55:17
Curt
Okay.
00:55:21
jamie peacock
And then the small lilies can survive through the year. um But that reminded me that our climate here is like super mellow. Like, oh no, it's really cold.
00:55:30
Curt
Yeah.
00:55:32
jamie peacock
10 o'clock in the morning, you're wearing a t shirt drinking your coffee in the sun like it's we get a little bit of frost in the morning. Oh, no, like we've really got it.
00:55:41
Curt
and
00:55:42
jamie peacock
We've got a good year compared to a lot of places in the world.
00:55:44
Curt
Right. Yeah. Oh,
00:55:45
jamie peacock
Like even summer is not brutally hot in Johannesburg.
00:55:49
Curt
okay.
00:55:49
jamie peacock
Durban Durban is unreasonable.
00:55:49
Curt
Okay.
00:55:52
jamie peacock
It's yeah, you don't need to shower because you're frickin wet already. um Yeah, no, it's humid as hell and like 30 degrees every day, 30, 33 degrees Celsius every day.
00:56:01
Curt
Oh,
00:56:03
jamie peacock
It was up here in summer, we get 25, 27, really hot day, we might come up on 30. And winter, winter, you'll drop down to, in our area, minus two overnight.
00:56:10
Curt
OK.
00:56:16
jamie peacock
And by 10 o'clock in the morning, it's around 12 degrees already. And by the afternoon, 16, 17 degrees.
00:56:21
Curt
Oh.
00:56:24
Curt
Oh, OK. That's reasonable.
00:56:25
jamie peacock
That's like shorts and t-shirt weather.
00:56:25
Curt
Yeah. Totally. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:56:28
jamie peacock
no That's why we shorts all year round.
00:56:29
Curt
Yeah, that's fair enough. Yeah, I get that.
00:56:31
jamie peacock
It's against my dress code to wear long pants.
00:56:36
Curt
Long pants.
00:56:37
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, I never.
00:56:39
jamie peacock
But yeah. Oh, let me quickly shout out my lovely wife, Danica, who edits the podcast for us and designs the shirts on my website on jspdng.com.
00:56:39
Curt
Yeah.
00:56:40
Curt
It's like.
00:56:48
jamie peacock
The shirts are leaving in 10 days. So if you want what's on there now, I suggest you grab one soon.
00:56:51
Curt
Oh.
00:56:55
jamie peacock
There will be new designs coming and they are coming the first of next month. So go and check them out.
00:57:00
Curt
hey
00:57:03
jamie peacock
So yeah, by the anchor points are nearly sold out, Kurt.
00:57:07
Curt
ah Yeah, you told me that. You told me some psychopath from Africa about a whole wackadoo.
00:57:08
jamie peacock
Yeah, because I'm some crazy dude in a garage. um Yeah, I'm sure we've discussed the Tufnel job in the past.
00:57:19
Curt
Yeah, I believe so.
00:57:20
jamie peacock
Yeah, so that is finally coming out. I got a call on Monday.
Customer Quote Process
00:57:24
jamie peacock
The guy's like, please, I need a quote for making this first part of it. and We're going to start with the one and then we'll move through the rest. So he's going to get a very interesting quote with all the setup fees because he needs to buy four anchor points for my machine.
00:57:38
Curt
Oh, nice.
00:57:38
jamie peacock
but effectively. Yeah, well, I'm not putting them on there for free. Like I need to do it for his job. I've got to build all the fixturing for his job. He can pay for it. um So I'm waiting for Roger who listens. Hello, Roger.
00:57:51
jamie peacock
um I'm waiting for him to send me the file. I'm going to chase him tomorrow morning for it. So that I can start planning how the hell I'm in a machine this. I think it's it's going to come in at 30 millimeters thick.
00:58:02
jamie peacock
So like inch and a quarter. face it, put some features in it, then turn it over, bolt down, and then machine all the perimeters and some chamfers and stuff. it's not It's not a shitload of machining.
00:58:15
jamie peacock
It's just a lot of setup and prep. Like, I'm going to probably spend a week and a half just on making the mooring points, getting them into the machine, making the vacuum pads for those so I can machine the fixture so that it can drop into the anchor points, um and then I can swap out the entire bed of my machine.
00:58:18
Curt
Right.
00:58:30
Curt
Right.
00:58:33
Curt
Nice.
00:58:34
jamie peacock
So then I'm going to make a system for making my probe removable, my tool setter.
00:58:39
Curt
Oh, OK. Just to gain more space or?
00:58:40
jamie peacock
Yes. um I need to, I need the entire travel of my machine.
00:58:45
jamie peacock
And it's, so yeah, it'll be in the way, so it'll get removed.
00:58:45
Curt
Oh, gotcha.
00:58:46
Curt
Okay. Yep. Right.
00:58:49
jamie peacock
So my thought is, so obviously you and I have both seen the titles of CNC, system a little kinematic company thing like screw that shit that's way over the top plate some dowels drop it on it repeats in z x and y it can be off bar a thou or two i don't really care all i'm doing is testing so i'm just literally going to make a little plate with some locating features that it's two bolts to take it on and off
00:58:55
Curt
yeah
00:59:04
Curt
yeah
00:59:07
Curt
right
00:59:15
jamie peacock
that it can come off easily if I'm not using it or I need the space and can go
00:59:16
Curt
Nice.
Influencer Marketing Opportunity
00:59:20
Curt
Oh,
00:59:20
jamie peacock
easily.
00:59:20
jamie peacock
I might even I got I got a message from a US company wanting me to wanting to send me free products to review as an as an influencer.
00:59:31
jamie peacock
i was like, cool, I will take your stuff. They've got the push button ball locks. So might just go with those that it's literally two push buttons releases the balls and the unit comes out because it doesn't need a lot of force.
00:59:40
Curt
oh yeah, yeah, yeah. yeah, yeah. No, right. Yeah, exactly.
00:59:45
jamie peacock
It just needs to be held, held reliably. So I was thinking, hmm, that might not be a bad plan. At least that it's being used for something constructive.
00:59:52
Curt
Right, yeah.
00:59:53
jamie peacock
But yeah, we'll see. We'll see if they actually send me stuff. I don't know if they realize I'm in South Africa. Okay, surprise, $100 shipping.
01:00:00
Curt
Wow.
01:00:02
Curt
i I mean, it was the price of the part. like it might ah It might be a total wash.
01:00:05
jamie peacock
yeah.
01:00:06
Curt
so
01:00:07
jamie peacock
So we've got a, it looks like they do knobs and ship by the looks of it.
01:00:12
Curt
Hmm.
01:00:13
jamie peacock
So yeah, I'll see that they obviously see that I make my own shit. So then I'll hit them up for some free knobs and things.
01:00:21
Curt
and Nice.
01:00:21
jamie peacock
Because our local guys are you on a bar? No, six weeks delivery. We send it with a drunk donkey from Europe. And I'm like, guys, get with the program, please.
01:00:26
Curt
Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
01:00:30
jamie peacock
Like, that's the reason I make my own locating pinzas because of that supplier.
01:00:34
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
01:00:35
jamie peacock
yeah they are Beyond, beyond uses.
01:00:35
Curt
it's
01:00:38
jamie peacock
Oh, speaking of suppliers, the last set of the last batch of springs have arrived for the anchor points.
01:00:43
Curt
Oh, sick. Yeah.
01:00:44
jamie peacock
really like a few weeks
01:00:44
Curt
you've been waiting on this for a bit. Yeah.
01:00:46
jamie peacock
So they've got another 70 in stock and they're going to order another 100. So he'll hold 120 in stock for me.
01:00:51
Curt
Hmm.
01:00:53
jamie peacock
So I'll buy those up as soon as I'm less poor. And then I'll have stock of a month's supply.
01:01:00
Curt
Nice.
01:01:01
jamie peacock
Or what will hopefully become a two-week supply.
01:01:04
Curt
Yeah.
01:01:05
jamie peacock
Because that is a yeah reasonable turnaround on making 20 units.
01:01:05
Curt
Play it by ear.
01:01:10
Curt
Yeah. That's awesome.
01:01:11
jamie peacock
Yeah, so that's your next batches in the works, but a little way out.
01:01:11
Curt
That's awesome.
01:01:15
jamie peacock
So of the seven anchor points that I think are still in the garage.
01:01:21
jamie peacock
think I said, don't know, there's a number of them to have been set aside for the guided pre order for batch two, so that he can, he's i've reserved two of the units form.
01:01:21
Curt
Mm-hmm.
01:01:29
Curt
Mm-hmm.
01:01:32
jamie peacock
So I don't have to hit the pre order date of end of this month. I think I'm actually going to push the pre order dates out. I'm goingnna still manufacturing whether we get pre orders or not. um
01:01:42
Curt
Right, yeah.
01:01:43
jamie peacock
But yeah, it's just if you want to reserve a spot you can kind of story because yeah, there's one on the way to Canada, I think it landed in Canada today.
01:01:47
Curt
Slick.
01:01:51
Curt
Oh, cool.
01:01:51
jamie peacock
the first actual production anchor point in Canada because all the rest have gone to the US.
01:01:57
Curt
Nice. Nice.
01:01:58
jamie peacock
Yeah. Oh, also got, i don't know if I told I got an email from Milton Australia. One second.
01:02:06
Curt
I don't think so, no.
01:02:07
jamie peacock
um Oh, yeah. He filled out the, on Sunday morning early, he filled out the, the anchor point interest form and then popped me an email as well.
01:02:16
Curt
Oh,
01:02:19
jamie peacock
And we were chatting back and forth. um Sorry, this is the best looking stuff up on on the podcast. Oh, there we go. Found it. Okay.
01:02:30
jamie peacock
ah Byron from Milton, Australia, who says he and he listens to the podcasts and has been following the Anchor Point build.
01:02:40
Curt
ah cool
01:02:41
jamie peacock
So yeah, shout out to Brian. Thank you for contacting us and I will respond to your email. He potentially is looking at getting an X5. in the near future as well.
01:02:50
Curt
Oh, fun stuff.
01:02:51
jamie peacock
So yeah, I wanted to actually get you to talk about your X5. Not that you ran it like excessively.
01:02:55
Curt
Yeah.
01:02:57
jamie peacock
Okay.
01:02:58
Curt
No, it's fantastic. QC sucks. what's the That's what I've come across so far.
01:03:01
jamie peacock
Yeah. And it seems to be that seems to be the the just with the solid machines at the moment.
01:03:08
Curt
Totally. Yeah. And i mean I knew that going
01:03:09
jamie peacock
Yeah.
CNC Quality Control
01:03:10
Curt
in is like, I knew I'd have to check with a fine tooth comb.
01:03:10
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:03:12
Curt
If I wasn't comfortable checking everything over, I wouldn't have bought one. But I mean, if you got basic skills, which you probably do if you're running a machine shop, because you have to kind of be a jack of some trades.
01:03:15
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:03:18
jamie peacock
yeah all trades.
01:03:21
Curt
But yeah, I think it's worth it.
01:03:22
jamie peacock
But no, what you do is you buy one from from Titans of CNC and then they have no service calls. It's quite impressive.
01:03:27
Curt
That's a great idea. Yeah, I've heard this.
01:03:29
jamie peacock
Yeah, they just they don't break.
01:03:29
Curt
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. and I know. i've Yeah. but that's that's all That's a podcast in itself right there.
01:03:37
jamie peacock
It is. Yeah, it's cool that Aaron from CNC support, CNC repair repairman.
01:03:39
Curt
Yeah.
01:03:46
jamie peacock
He's actually like, if you phone the sales port line, you get through to him.
01:03:46
Curt
Yeah.
01:03:49
Curt
That's cool.
01:03:50
jamie peacock
in the US.
01:03:50
Curt
That's cool.
01:03:50
jamie peacock
yeah So he's he's handling all of that. Nat Oak knows way too much. I spent a bunch of time with him at yeah, at INTS.
01:03:56
Curt
Oh, yeah. Yeah, no doubt.
01:03:58
jamie peacock
We actually went to dinner with him and spent quite a bit of time with him. I was called a unicorn.
01:04:02
Curt
Yeah.
01:04:03
jamie peacock
um but No, we were discussing retrofits. He's like, yeah no one ever finishes them. I'm like, finished one last week. He's like, No, you don't count.
01:04:10
Curt
Yeah.
01:04:11
jamie peacock
Because we're chatting. i regular I've done like 15. I think at this point, I've done like on with Raspberry Pi, I think I'm on like seven of them that I've deployed with
Retrofitting CNC with Raspberry Pi
01:04:20
jamie peacock
Linux CNC.
01:04:21
Curt
Yeah.
01:04:22
jamie peacock
Now I've deployed a bunch of them.
01:04:24
Curt
have you, and have you ever seen that meme? It's like talking about like, i don't know, like kids and like computers or something like that. And it's like, i forgot something, whatever. And it's like, well, what if you, what if you run Linux whatever?
01:04:34
Curt
And it's like, oh, autistic kids will be eliminated from this study because they skew the results. It's just like, yeah, pretty much. It's like not a lot of people play that game.
01:04:42
jamie peacock
yeah
01:04:43
Curt
So.
01:04:44
jamie peacock
Yeah, but yeah, a lot of people start retrofits, not a lot of people finish them.
01:04:50
Curt
Yeah. it's hard. It's hard.
01:04:51
jamie peacock
Yeah, I wouldn't I wouldn't call my machines finished mine.
01:04:51
Curt
Like,
01:04:53
jamie peacock
I said it would work. I didn't say it was done.
01:04:55
Curt
Yeah, they'll never be done, but yeah. Yeah.
01:04:58
jamie peacock
No, I've got the wooden panels still because I laser cut them and then just didn't bother cutting the acrylic ones because there were some small tweaks and I didn't feel like doing them.
01:05:03
Curt
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.
01:05:05
jamie peacock
Nothing more permanent than a temporary solution.
01:05:08
Curt
Yep, exactly.
01:05:08
jamie peacock
I actually I need to go tomorrow on the list of things to do is to see if the emco's tool changer is working because think I might have got some water into it.
01:05:08
Curt
No.
01:05:17
jamie peacock
And then the other main plane bearing gets a little rusty.
01:05:22
Curt
Ugh.
01:05:23
jamie peacock
So if that's the case, I'm drilling a bloody hole in it this time and adding an oiling screw so that I can literally just pump oil into it once a month and not worry about this.
01:05:28
Curt
Oh, yeah, yeah.
01:05:32
jamie peacock
It was a little sticky, but I've got error correction on it now.
01:05:33
Curt
Yeah.
01:05:35
jamie peacock
So it does a tool change, checks it's done the tool change. If it hasn't achieved the position, it then reattempts the tool change and it'll keep doing that.
01:05:44
jamie peacock
So at least it doesn't slam the freaking drill into the collared chuck anymore because it did that a few times before we fixed it.
01:05:44
Curt
Nice.
01:05:49
Curt
Yep.
01:05:52
jamie peacock
ah We I mean, my lovely wife Danica and I, because she is better at programming things than me.
01:05:52
Curt
Yeah.
01:05:58
Curt
Ooh, impressive.
01:05:59
jamie peacock
She's very modest about it, but yeah, she, her problem solving skills are fucking right up there with and reading code. Like ah when I was setting up the MCo tool, tool turret, I couldn't figure out how it was deaf differentiating between the different tools.
01:06:08
Curt
ah Yeah.
01:06:11
jamie peacock
i'm like, all I'm seeing is the freaking sequences. She's like exclamation mark. I hadn't seen them in the code. And that's how it was obviously inversing the logic.
01:06:21
jamie peacock
So yeah, she came in like, oh, idiot. There we go. But yeah, it took us, I think it took us like four or five hours to implement error checking on that, on that Python script.
01:06:22
Curt
Right, yeah.
01:06:25
Curt
don't know.
01:06:29
Curt
Wow.
01:06:30
jamie peacock
because neither of us programmed Python.
01:06:32
Curt
Right. Yeah.
01:06:33
jamie peacock
And like we are literally went through and figured out logically what's happening.
01:06:33
Curt
Yeah.
01:06:38
jamie peacock
And then you the syntax things to make it do what it was supposed to do.
01:06:38
Curt
Yeah.
01:06:42
jamie peacock
And literally 10 minutes later, it caught the first missed tool change.
01:06:46
Curt
Yeah, exactly. Like you could, yeah, that's, that's where it pays for itself. It's like, even if it took you weeks to put that in.
01:06:49
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, i was doing something the other day and it and it caught one and i'm like, fucking hey, that is why it's implemented.
01:06:53
Curt
Yeah, totally.
01:06:54
jamie peacock
Like I actually pulled a new backup of it the other day.
01:06:55
Curt
hundred percent.
01:06:59
jamie peacock
so that I've got a yeah fresh backup of that, of that whole system, because there's a bunch of code on there that's been hand edited that I don't want to lose. so
01:06:59
Curt
Nice.
01:07:08
Curt
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
01:07:10
jamie peacock
Yeah, I actually need to go through and disable the Wi-Fi on all of my Raspberry Pi. But the what's it are the Raspberry Pi dash config doesn't work.
01:07:23
jamie peacock
You've got to use Conf menu dash config.
01:07:26
Curt
Oh.
01:07:28
jamie peacock
That's a 45 minutes endeavor to figure that shit out every time because I forget it. And then on this specific build, you can't save the ah the PNC config if your locale is not the US.
01:07:33
Curt
Right, yeah.
01:07:44
jamie peacock
It just shits the bed. Yeah, it just shits the bed and you can't you can't do anything.
01:07:44
Curt
Oh, that's convenient.
01:07:46
Curt
yeah. Weird.
01:07:49
jamie peacock
You can't save what you've typed in, what you've configured. You have to scrap it and go change the the locale and then you can... you can save it out.
01:07:56
Curt
Weird.
01:07:57
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's really annoying.
01:07:57
Curt
Weird.
01:07:59
jamie peacock
Yeah, that also took me a day or two to figure out. Searching through forums and, yeah you know, the normal troubleshooting steps.
01:08:07
Curt
yeah well now you know what you can forget about it for the next few years until you have to do it again and then you can repeat the process all over again oh okay hopefully I'll hammer home yeah right yeah yeah
01:08:11
jamie peacock
Well, no, I can't because i have and another retrofit or build that I've got to do in the next like week or two. So hopefully, yeah hopefully it'll be fresh when I do that. I still need to design and program all of that stuff before my vices come out my machine.
01:08:27
jamie peacock
Because that's 400 mil long parts and I need both vices.
01:08:31
Curt
nice
01:08:32
jamie peacock
But that's one thing I do love about this machine and having all the tools set up. Oh, I need to put in a bunch of threaded holes, drill hole, thread mill done.
01:08:40
Curt
Right. Yeah.
01:08:41
jamie peacock
Now, super, super easy, like not not.
01:08:41
Curt
um right
01:08:45
jamie peacock
not stuffing around with setting tools up for every every job. Like, in this case, it's just the mental inertia getting over the mental inertia to actually start the job.
01:08:56
Curt
Totally. Yeah. No, it's that's most of it.
01:08:57
jamie peacock
That's the
01:08:58
Curt
Yeah.
01:08:59
jamie peacock
That
Productivity and Procrastination
01:09:00
jamie peacock
is most of my day is fighting mental inertia. Because things seem like mountains when they are truly molehills.
01:09:03
Curt
Yep.
01:09:05
jamie peacock
I've actually got a bunch of stuff that I need to run on the mill that's going to take me half an hour to set up and then and another half an hour to run the stuff. And then it's it's off the to-do list. But just getting around to actually saying, okay, this is what I'm doing now.
01:09:15
Curt
Right.
01:09:19
jamie peacock
The stupid little 30-second task, 30-second cycle for 20 parts.
01:09:20
Curt
Yeah.
01:09:24
jamie peacock
Getting to that is the ah really tricky bit.
01:09:27
Curt
Yeah. I have like a, after this podcast, i have like a three minute setup I have to do on the lathe and I still don't want to do it. It's just like, it's three minutes and then it'll run for like six hours of parts.
01:09:32
jamie peacock
yeah
01:09:35
Curt
i'm like, ah, can I do something else before that?
01:09:37
jamie peacock
yeah know yeah i watched i watched danica procrastinate all day today she wasn't keen to do something so she literally farty asked around the house for the whole morning uh yeah yes justin special yeah
01:09:38
Curt
It's like, you lazy. Nice.
01:09:43
Curt
Nice.
01:09:50
Curt
it's it's It's fun doing like ah constructive procrastination. like kid Doing other shit that needs Yeah. Yeah.
01:09:58
jamie peacock
Justin special, procras productive procrastinating.
01:09:59
Curt
Yeah.
01:10:02
jamie peacock
ah I can always find something to do that isn't what I need to be doing. Like, yes, what's today?
01:10:05
Curt
Yeah, totally.
01:10:07
jamie peacock
Today's Tuesday. Yeah. Yesterday, that i spent most of the day waiting for the fiber guys. So I got production running on one machine. No, meant to be at hop was 10. So then I didn't want to get too involved in anything because waiting for them to come through. And then, yeah, that's challenging.
01:10:22
jamie peacock
But that's the joys of being a one man operation. You have no one to really hold the to hold you to stuff. That's all.
01:10:28
jamie peacock
That's one of the purposes of the podcast is that when you say we're going to do stuff, we have someone saying, Hey, did you do it?
01:10:28
Curt
Yeah.
01:10:31
Curt
Yeah.
01:10:35
Curt
Yeah. No, exactly.
01:10:36
jamie peacock
Yeah, especially if it's an interesting thing.
01:10:36
Curt
how' Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. and That's where it's fun. Oh, we're getting long in the tooth.
01:10:42
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:10:43
Curt
Should we do our should your Google searches?
01:10:43
jamie peacock
Yeah, let's let's Yes, yours is neatly written down. I'm going to see what's in mine.
Random Google Searches
01:10:50
Curt
I guess you have free ball years.
01:10:52
jamie peacock
Yeah, I'm gonna go look quickly. Go away, robot. Okay, so, yeah, no, I've cleared mine since yesterday.
01:11:03
jamie peacock
But anyway, we got the Wordle.
01:11:03
Curt
ah Fair.
01:11:04
jamie peacock
We're on 47. um And then, yeah, basically my ISP and speed tests.
01:11:14
Curt
Yeah, that was a lot.
01:11:16
jamie peacock
Yeah, that that has been my last day. So, yeah, sorry, got nothing super, and oh, Rand dollar watching it fall through its ass.
01:11:24
Curt
that's like That seems to be the theme for the last like four weeks for you.
01:11:27
jamie peacock
Yes, because I'm selling things in dollars, but I'm manufacturing them in rands.
01:11:31
jamie peacock
I also had the Oriari in there, which is the Madagascan currency, which in order to be a millionaire in their currency, you need to draw a whopping $200.
01:11:31
Curt
Right.
01:11:36
Curt
Right.
01:11:39
jamie peacock
The rand dollar
01:11:42
Curt
That's cool.
01:11:43
jamie peacock
the ram dollar has actually changed. Oh, geez. Cool. Quick announcement. My store's going into euros tonight.
01:11:52
jamie peacock
No, the rand dollar's dropped 40 cents since yesterday.
01:11:55
Curt
Wow. That's
01:11:57
jamie peacock
40 rand cents so on every every dollar i sell i lose 40 cents like it starts to add up very quickly so time to move to a stable currency
01:12:04
Curt
right. Yeah, no doubt.
01:12:09
Curt
Yeah. That's kind of why I jumped ship like last month.
01:12:11
jamie peacock
well my imperializer is now out by almost one rand per dollar from when i programmed it earlier in the year yeah it's yeah no store's gonna go to euros screw that shit no
01:12:12
Curt
Just I'm just getting tedious.
01:12:16
Curt
Wow. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. That's nuts.
01:12:24
Curt
Yeah. I mean, thankfully I was on the other end of it. Like I was just constantly making more money, but it's just like, it doesn't seem, it doesn't seem, and just, I like just uniformity.
01:12:27
jamie peacock
yeah
01:12:33
Curt
ah So it's just like, yeah.
01:12:34
jamie peacock
you know 100% I just want to see how quickly but yeah what what have you been googling cuz while I do things in the background
01:12:36
Curt
Um,
01:12:41
Curt
ah Yeah, I'll just rip through it on. We went we talked about the anti-aliasing. I was Googling a bunch of that. um Variations on the blue resin. So I like i like the Sarai Tech blue series of resins, which aren't blue.
01:12:53
Curt
They're black and sometimes a little bit blue. But yeah, mean I just bought a big jug of the lava black, which I think used to be the obsidian obsidian black. It's like their strongest one. So I did some test prints on that.
01:13:03
jamie peacock
yeah
01:13:04
Curt
Super happy with it. um i would ah it's It's tedious to set up, but it' I really like it. um Let's see what else. Thickness of a U.S. corridor, seeing if it compares to a Canadian corridor, just for some machining.
01:13:14
Curt
I want some tool-less parts, corridors are nice flathead drivers that most people have. And then a mechanism resource link. it We'll link in the show notes.
01:13:22
jamie peacock
Yes, that will definitely be in there.
01:13:23
Curt
It's a... Yeah, it's a MakerMuse...
01:13:25
jamie peacock
The Maker's Muse video, yeah.
01:13:27
Curt
Yeah, so good. um bunch of Bunch of old text that's now like out of copyright so you can view it online. ah Go check it out. or His video, he has it all linked in the, we'll link we'll link his video in the show notes and then the video links to all the literature, which is super interesting to seeing these just crazy complicated mechanism broken down into like patent drawings. Just, i don't know I love mechanisms. So I love just kind of let my brain feast on that stuff.
01:13:50
Curt
And then, ah yeah, fun stuff is just a i came across a thing called the world's smallest FPV drone. Not sure if it's the world's smallest, um but it's ah a guy that made little tiny one. And it's like the size of a bumblebee. And I want one.
01:14:01
Curt
um So I might going down i' like go down that rabbit hole so I can rip around the park without, you know, terrifying the children with a giant scary quad because my other one is noisy. But yeah, a little bumblebee size one be fun.
01:14:13
jamie peacock
Did have you seen the the drone that flies up on a rocket?
High-Speed Drones
01:14:20
jamie peacock
So it is a rocket's payload.
01:14:22
jamie peacock
And when the rocket separates, it shoots out, folds out, and then flies back.
01:14:22
Curt
I don't think so, no.
01:14:29
Curt
Oh, cute.
01:14:30
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:14:30
Curt
Was that like a flight test video? Oh, okay.
01:14:32
jamie peacock
No, it was some other random YouTuber that came across my my feed.
01:14:37
Curt
Okay, no, I don't know if I saw that one.
01:14:39
jamie peacock
Yeah, yeah, apparently the the world speed record for drones is approaching the speed of sound.
01:14:40
Curt
I remember when, like...
01:14:46
Curt
That's insane. I've watched a few of those.
01:14:47
jamie peacock
Yeah, it's like 500 and 500 and something kilometers an hour. Dave wants to do he's been wanting to do a speed run for a while.
01:14:53
Curt
That's ridiculous.
01:14:54
jamie peacock
And now with where he's working, he can probably get all the bits sponsored, which would be great.
01:14:59
Curt
That's not how fast so fast.
01:14:59
jamie peacock
He did a speed run.
01:15:00
Curt
Oh,
01:15:00
jamie peacock
he did a speed run probably. ah It was before COVID. They did a speed run and they were clocking like silly speeds to the point that between the gates, they were, I think he said they were running 6S.
01:15:15
jamie peacock
The camera was starting to fade out. That's how much they depleted the battery during that run.
01:15:22
jamie peacock
So, yeah, 6S depleting down to like sub-fucking-couple volts as they were running, like draining, and then you come off the throttle and everything comes back to life.
01:15:27
Curt
yikes
01:15:31
Curt
right yeah yeah that's that's bonkers i don't think people realize how much power these drones like my little drone my little four inch is like uh three kilowatts of power at peak like that is an ins and that's that exactly as i say that's nothing nowadays that's and that'll make it that'll go from like like oh say i love when
01:15:31
jamie peacock
Like just absolutely abusing it.
01:15:37
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:15:39
jamie peacock
Well, yeah.
01:15:43
jamie peacock
Oh, that's cute.
01:15:47
jamie peacock
No, no. Dave showed me that Dave showed me an ESC. Dude, it's it's stupid. 30 millimeter mounting pitch or 30.5 mounting pitch. So the whole thing is sub two inches square.
01:16:01
jamie peacock
How many kilowatts do you think that ESC can do?
01:16:04
Curt
no idea no idea that okay
01:16:05
jamie peacock
It can handle 8S, so 30 volts. 100 amps continuous per ESC, and it's four in one.
01:16:14
Curt
that's nuts that's that's that's not i mean mind you is for fra like seconds but still that's an insane amount of power
01:16:14
jamie peacock
150 burst. 12 kilowatts continuous, 18 kilowatts burst. That's more power than my machine shop uses.
01:16:25
jamie peacock
Well, 100% continuous. Like, what are you going to use to feed that thing? Power. Like, it yeah, it's insane.
01:16:30
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
01:16:33
jamie peacock
And I mean, that thing's tiny.
01:16:35
Curt
I know it's my favorite thing to do in the park is just like, if I'm standing out there and people are like, Oh, how high does a drone go?
01:16:35
jamie peacock
Yeah, right.
01:16:39
Curt
And I'll just hover it like really slow at like, you know, just barely above idle. And it's just, and then I'll just punch it. And it just, it'll just, you get a little flash of like dust on the ground and it's just like, and it's gone.
01:16:45
jamie peacock
yeah
01:16:49
jamie peacock
disappears. Yeah.
01:16:50
Curt
And it's, you know, it's 300 feet up before you can even, you know, crank your neck. And it's just like, Holy. And everyone has the same arrayt reaction. It's just like, Holy, it's like, yeah.
01:16:57
jamie peacock
yeah My lovely wife did that to me. I was trying to teach her to fly. Line of sight, in a hover, starts drifting towards us.
01:17:02
Curt
Oh, nice. Sure.
01:17:05
jamie peacock
I'm going to just give it a nudge away. It was in auto level. Give it a nudge away.
01:17:08
Curt
Sure.
01:17:09
jamie peacock
She bumps the throttle up. Oh, gives me the thing. Gives me the remote. The thing's in front of the sun. So now it's going up. I chop throttle, and now I'm listening for where this thing is descending so that I can hop back on the throttle and catch it.
01:17:21
Curt
Right.
01:17:23
jamie peacock
yeah the good old days yeah back when i had multiple drones not just this one little cute guy my little three inch check how the props are facing down from flying into stuff yeah they've been bent and bend them straight but yeah this yeah this thing's tiny like but so out of date like hilariously out of date no yeah is that i think there's actually picture on my instagram like back in the day of this the previous version of this drone next to a banana for scale
01:17:26
Curt
Yeah.
01:17:30
Curt
That is cute. Oh, so sad looking.
01:17:37
Curt
Yeah.
01:17:40
Curt
Yeah.
01:17:42
Curt
No. Yeah. Yeah.
01:17:46
Curt
Yeah.
01:17:53
Curt
Nice.
01:17:54
jamie peacock
Yeah. But I mean, I used to i used to take a drone to work on the way home from work go fly in the park quickly. And then like weekends used to be fly fly Sunday morning, drive drive 20 kilometers to fly with the cars drive back put everything on charge.
01:18:01
Curt
hmm.
01:18:08
jamie peacock
Three o'clock in the afternoon fly with the
Podcast Conclusion
01:18:10
jamie peacock
guys again somewhere else like yeah, that used to be my that used to be my hobby.
01:18:15
Curt
Yeah.
01:18:16
jamie peacock
And then I got a machine shop that happens.
01:18:16
Curt
Yeah. Yeah, same. Yeah, no.
01:18:19
jamie peacock
But yeah, all right, cool. think we're going to, yeah, we'll wind it up there.
01:18:21
Curt
Come on.
01:18:24
jamie peacock
Thank you, everybody, for listening. and This went much better than the attempt. yesterday then the last attempt yeah no it's uh living in the first world now with my fiber internet so yeah thank you everybody for listening um if you've enjoyed the show please consider sharing it with someone you think who will enjoy the show as well uh you can give us a like subscribe or rate depending on which platform you're on we're on spotify apple music and youtube i think we're on a couple others but i'm not entirely sure i know we are on those three but yeah anyway have a good one and we will see you next week
01:18:31
Curt
So much better.
01:18:59
Curt
Take care, all.