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Ep. 16: Oopsidizing - Why We Can’t Have Nice Parts
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Join Curt and Jamie as they discuss their week, including topics such as the Pins, Broken but fixable, and Anodizing lessons learned.
Links Discussed:
The Lone Machinist:
- Website: https://thelonemachinists.com/
- Merch: https://www.jspeceng.com/online-store
- Patreon: https://patreon.com/TheLoneMachinists
Jamie:
Curt:
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Transcript
Daily Reflections and Productivity
00:00:47
jamie peacock
ah it's good how are you doing today yeah carry on a long day but got some stuff done at least
00:00:49
Curt
I'm doing pretty fantastic. How are you doing Jamie?
00:00:58
Curt
That's, I guess, all that matters.
00:01:00
jamie peacock
yeah
Machining and Material Challenges
00:01:02
jamie peacock
yeah well um so the the making my own locating pins quest continues
00:01:02
Curt
Cool. What kind of stuff did coffee cup is sticking? There we go. OK.
00:01:14
Curt
Oh, yeah. That's hard turning the little dowel pins you're buying.
00:01:16
jamie peacock
Yes. Ah, no. Dial pins are oversized.
00:01:20
Curt
Oh, okay.
00:01:20
jamie peacock
So I did one better.
00:01:21
Curt
Carry on then.
00:01:22
jamie peacock
So dial pins, depending on which one of the dial pins I measure, somewhere move between 10 and 20 microns oversized. So between 4 and 8 tenths. So I was out Metadale side of the world, which was, I was out seeing a customer dropping, dropping stuff off at Anno and powder coat.
00:01:40
jamie peacock
On my way back, i was like, Hey, hang on. Um, well, I went to 3D printing store firstly, just go try by 10 millimeter linear shaft. They didn't have. So then I was going to CNC support to pick up a 5C collard.
00:01:53
jamie peacock
And I realized that my ex boss's son's company is right there. He does linear guides. So I hopped off the freeway, went in there. That was an hour and a half catching up. And yeah, like there's no hard feelings between me and and Dave.
00:02:09
jamie peacock
So we ended up we end up having a long chat and going through their showroom where I took a picture of that awesome two millimeter linear guard. It was insane. Like literally the that the square guard is too two by two millimeters. It's nuts.
00:02:23
jamie peacock
um So anyway, had a long chat to him and was probing about the tolerance on their... on their shafts. So I bought 670 millimeters of shaft and made them cut it into 20 millimeter pieces for me.
00:02:36
jamie peacock
And it comes in five microns under nominal.
00:02:36
Curt
Oh, nice. Oh, perfect.
00:02:43
jamie peacock
10 or 9.9, 9.9, 9.5. non point non nonfa So two tenths, two tenths under, between two and four tenths under is the actual tolerance.
00:02:48
Curt
Nice. and
00:02:53
jamie peacock
So those my brother-in-law picked up for me because I obviously didn't want to wait for them to cut out to get back. um So my brother and I picked them up. I got them yesterday and then this morning threw them in the lathe and did the little taper turning.
00:03:06
jamie peacock
And you can see because they are only case hardened.
00:03:10
Curt
Right. Yeah. yeah
00:03:10
jamie peacock
You can see where it goes from soft to hard on some of the parts. actually a line there where the cut fine. It's a clearance, but you can see exactly where that is. And it's a lot deeper than I expected.
00:03:24
jamie peacock
It's probably a good millimeter into the pin. the
00:03:24
Curt
Oh, that's good.
00:03:29
Curt
Oh, wow. Okay. That's significant.
00:03:30
jamie peacock
Yeah, so those those all um turn now to mill the diamond onto them. But that's ah that's a later in the week problem.
00:03:38
Curt
Nice.
00:03:40
jamie peacock
Right now, I'm busy pushing bodies through machining. also really like my LK because it's managed hold tolerances tighter than I can measure. So far on... Oh, let's do the maths thing again, except someone who's a freaking calculator because my wife will make a funny video of me again.
00:04:00
jamie peacock
So far, we're coming up on 80 holes that I can't measure deviation on.
00:04:07
Curt
And you're just interpolating the holes.
00:04:08
jamie peacock
Yeah, interpreting hole. I cannot measure part to part.
00:04:10
Curt
Yeah.
00:04:11
jamie peacock
I can't measure any deviation.
00:04:14
Curt
Nice.
00:04:14
jamie peacock
So I'm like, sweet, LK is doing the LK things. I know at some point there's going to be a chip stuck in the taper or something dumb, but... I've got a stop in the program, the parts brought forward to me, I'll check the size and continue.
00:04:27
jamie peacock
And that way I can try and mitigate as much as possible. But so far on like 70 holes, I haven't had any variation.
00:04:36
Curt
Oh, that's sick. That's nice. And how many of those? Oh, okay.
00:04:38
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:04:39
Curt
70 holes. How many holes per, uh, per body?
00:04:41
jamie peacock
So op 1 is 4 per body, 4 16mm holes, um using a 6mm angle.
00:04:47
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:04:48
jamie peacock
So just nothing super fancy, ah just more generic 6mm.
00:04:51
Curt
Yeah.
00:04:52
jamie peacock
And then on the top of the body, it's now some 9.98 holes. And those are 9.98 so far in 4 parts without incident.
00:05:01
Curt
Nice. Okay.
00:05:02
jamie peacock
Like exactly, exactly on.
00:05:02
Curt
So you've done.
00:05:03
jamie peacock
16.
00:05:04
Curt
I guess I should say, how many so how many bodies is that?
00:05:07
jamie peacock
Yep.
Production and Process Optimization
00:05:09
Curt
16 bodies? Okay, wow, that's yeah that's that's a lot of runtime too.
00:05:11
jamie peacock
not uh yeah it is a lot of runtime and yeah um uh you made me eat my words but uh guess that would happen that's what happens because remember how i was all like you know know can't see there being any problem running running 16 of these things it'll be easy yeah what works what worked for four does not work for 16.
00:05:29
Curt
Oh yeah, of course, yeah.
00:05:33
jamie peacock
so ah machining the k110 or the d2 um
00:05:33
Curt
what What problem did you run into?
00:05:39
Curt
Hmm.
00:05:39
jamie peacock
I held the piece last time, faced it, board it, did my OD, just the the front flange, and then I used a grooving cycle to groove out the back. And that is a really freaking stupid way to do it. It's fine when you're doing four, but when you're trying to do more than that, it's it's really not the most efficient way to do it.
00:05:57
jamie peacock
um So I did two in a row, but I could get four parts out of an insert, and then the insert would start to chip. on the grooving. So yeah, next time I'm going order, also end up wasting about 20 mils of material to be able to hold it in the chuck reliably.
00:06:13
jamie peacock
So next time I'm just going to order it like three or four millimeters longer than I need it, hold it hard jaws, machine up one, bore it out because those are the two features that have to be concentric. And then I'll machine soft jaws and just hold them in soft jaws and machine the back off.
00:06:27
jamie peacock
It'll probably cut three minutes off my cycle time as well.
00:06:30
Curt
Yeah.
00:06:31
jamie peacock
Yeah, so, but we're living and we're learning.
00:06:32
Curt
Yeah.
00:06:34
jamie peacock
like Yeah, I actually...
00:06:35
Curt
Oh yeah, no doubt. Well, and the finishes that you have, the finishes on like on my beta unit, they're like, that's it's a nice finish that you're getting on that material.
00:06:38
jamie peacock
Oh, yeah.
00:06:42
Curt
So it's it's it's working.
00:06:43
jamie peacock
Oh, yeah. No, that's hard and then ground. It's actually... ah should It should be ready. should have been ready today. It's probably going to be ready tomorrow. It's been heat-treated already, all 16 of them. Well, 15 of them went to heat-treat. I ruined one of them.
00:06:52
Curt
Oh, nice.
00:06:53
jamie peacock
um Yeah, one came up a little bit short, so i'm going to have a few random spares at the end of this run, but that is what it is.
00:07:02
Curt
Sick.
00:07:02
jamie peacock
So, yeah. cranking along with those so yeah the next thing to go off is uh is going to be the anodizing because we have a million public holidays coming up in the next three weeks we have four public holidays
00:07:04
Curt
Nice.
00:07:16
Curt
Oh, wow.
00:07:18
jamie peacock
this was my favorite summer year where i used to work we used to take six days leave and get like 15 days off because we would take a day yeah it's great when you're an employee
00:07:18
Curt
Yeah, that's
00:07:25
Curt
that's all fun and
00:07:29
Curt
Yeah, was just going to say, it's great when you're employed by somebody else and when you're working for yourself, you're like, oh, okay, I guess I'll just lose a bunch of time here.
00:07:34
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:07:37
jamie peacock
While I'm planning for it now, I might still get acid for my anode setup this week. I went to try a bar this morning.
00:07:45
Curt
Hmm.
00:07:45
jamie peacock
I they didn't have stock, so they've got to order it in. They're like, no, pay first, and then we'll order it in. So whatever, just take my money. like and I literally probably need half a liter, and had to buy two and liters of sulfuric acid. So I have enough when I need to change over again.
00:07:56
Curt
Hmm.
00:07:58
jamie peacock
um Because, yeah, we had a minor issue on the anodizing setup over the weekend. Yeah. Which is now holding up a bunch of money because i had I've got orders that need anodizing.
00:08:11
jamie peacock
But yeah, when I was
Balancing Work and Personal Life
00:08:12
jamie peacock
setting up the first anno run, had parts in the tank, was about to switch the power on, thought, let me just adjust the heat exchanger.
00:08:12
Curt
Yeah.
00:08:21
jamie peacock
And as I grabbed the pipe, the pipe broke off in my hand. off the heat exchanger and then contaminated all my acid with the cooling water.
00:08:25
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:08:28
jamie peacock
so i was like, well, I guess this is it now. So when, when my wife was out, she was buying us so I could carry on running Anno. um So when she got back, we drained the tanks, took them outside, went and bought drain cleaner and neutralized the acid, like 17 liters of acid, um which went so much quicker with drain cleaner.
00:08:49
jamie peacock
I used bio-carb last time and it took like four five kilos to do a two liter jug
00:08:55
jamie peacock
So yeah, caustic soda way more fun.
00:08:55
Curt
Yep.
00:08:55
Curt
Yep.
00:08:57
jamie peacock
And then we overshot the pH. So it was drain cleaner that I poured down the drain, chased it with, had the tap running, poured it slowly and then chased it with a bucket of water. So it's someone else's problem now. um But yeah, then we neutralized, they got rid of it. then ah had to And two, had seven liters of acid that was too strong from when I previously mixed. Because being smart, I went, oh, volume.
00:09:21
jamie peacock
No, it's mole. So it's weight. And I mixed my acid, yeah, too strong.
00:09:25
Curt
Right, yeah.
00:09:26
jamie peacock
So I had to decant like seven liters into little five liter things. So I had that, I threw that in. And then I topped up and I was just, just short of sulfuric that I had. So anyway.
00:09:38
jamie peacock
And those down for the moment, but it should be hopefully I'll get acid by Thursday because Fridays public holiday, Monday's a public holiday. And then the first of May is a public holiday. And I think there's another one in there somewhere.
00:09:49
jamie peacock
Oh, yeah, the 27 27th is a Sunday, but it moves to a Monday because we can't let a public holiday go to waste here.
00:09:50
Curt
Okay, yeah.
00:09:58
Curt
Yeah, it sounds about the same around here.
00:09:58
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:09:59
Curt
We have like a Friday, Monday, and then, yeah, it's just kind of all stacks up, but.
00:10:01
jamie peacock
Yeah. no yeah we have stupid amounts of holidays um but yeah 27th is freedom day the day i got married doubles as always having public holiday on my on my uh anniversary which is great but uh yeah freedom day yeah i thought it was quite fun so yeah ma yeah oh yeah easter's coming up yeah sorry
00:10:10
Curt
Nice.
00:10:16
Curt
That's pretty slick.
00:10:20
Curt
Now we got, uh, so me and my wife got married on. We got married on 7-Eleven. So i always joke that everyone gets free slurpees on my, on my anniversary.
00:10:31
Curt
So it worked out pretty good.
00:10:31
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:10:34
Curt
Totally by accident, but yeah.
00:10:34
jamie peacock
on i we Yeah. Well, we got engaged on the 27th of April and then we got married on the, cause we were down in Durban visiting my mates and my mom.
00:10:47
jamie peacock
And we went for a hike and I put on the edge of a cliff and i'm like, john you want to married? So she said, no, i' was just going push.
00:10:55
jamie peacock
I'm at the edge of cliff one time. Yeah. But yeah, I'd been down in Durban for work the week or two weeks before.
00:11:00
Curt
Nice.
00:11:03
jamie peacock
So my mom knew, my mate and his missus knew that it was coming. So yeah, she was surprised though.
00:11:11
Curt
Oh, that's awesome.
00:11:11
jamie peacock
But yeah, that was great fun. And then yeah, entire year so we could get the public holiday. It's also like my cousin's birthday and the aunt I used to stay with when I moved to Joburg's birthday on the same day.
00:11:21
Curt
Sick.
00:11:22
jamie peacock
and Yeah.
00:11:22
Curt
Well, lots of fun. That's good.
00:11:24
jamie peacock
see. ah to
00:11:26
Curt
Yeah. So anyway, well, yeah, you've been, you've been productive.
00:11:27
jamie peacock
let's see
00:11:29
Curt
I've been just sick AF this entire week. So I spent, uh, I spent all my time just relaxing, doing nothing, just mainly a cold, but cold with a fever that just takes you out and just like, can't do anything.
00:11:37
jamie peacock
um
00:11:41
Curt
So I struggle, bust my way through getting the rest of the Canada pens out. Um, and once that was off my mind, I'm like, all right, not taking anything else on. I'm just going hibernate for a while. So, uh,
00:11:51
jamie peacock
Yeah. I'm hoping that doesn't happen to me because my little nephew was grumpy as all sin yesterday. And then this morning had a fever.
00:11:58
Curt
Oh no.
00:11:59
jamie peacock
So I got taken to the hospital.
00:12:01
Curt
Oh no. Yeah, but yeah that's that's my that's my cause.
00:12:03
jamie peacock
So I'm
00:12:03
Curt
my little My little Petri dishes. They just go around and they collect all the fancy viruses and mix them together and give them to me.
00:12:09
jamie peacock
So I'm not drinking coffee this evening. I'm drinking a hot ginger to try and solve this. This a third one since last night. This morning I was feeling like shit, so I had one while I was running the lathe.
00:12:21
jamie peacock
And then having one now, ah might have one again before i go to bed and just overdose on it and go to bed and just sleep it off.
00:12:21
Curt
Yeah.
00:12:30
jamie peacock
Nice.
00:12:30
Curt
Yeah, I know I'm drinking the same.
00:12:31
Curt
I'm drinking, i got kombucha on one side of me and I got black tea on the other side. So I'm trying to just hedge my bets.
00:12:38
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:12:40
Curt
but the ah
00:12:40
jamie peacock
im yeah did you Did you see those LED discs that I ended up making this week?
00:12:47
Curt
Which ones? Because I saw the ones that you making for the desks.
00:12:50
jamie peacock
Yes, yeah, those ones.
00:12:52
jamie peacock
think it was this week.
00:12:52
Curt
Okay, yeah, yeah.
00:12:52
Curt
did see those with the Slotinim. Yep.
00:12:54
jamie peacock
Yes, yeah, those ones. ah
00:12:56
jamie peacock
Doing all the slotting. Turns out when you've got flood coolant, you can slot aluminium without really worrying about it.
00:12:56
Curt
Yep.
00:13:03
Curt
Oh yeah.
00:13:03
jamie peacock
ah I was also using a corncob endmill, which helps. But yeah, was just slotting my way through it. I needed to cut cycle time on it I've got to do another hundred of them tomorrow.
00:13:12
Curt
Holy smokes.
00:13:12
jamie peacock
um ah well yeah I was told material would come today and it didn't arrive, so I'm assuming it's coming tomorrow. So my plan is to run bodies till they're finished, throw them in their crate, and then run those stupid things until they're finished, and then do one trip to anodize on Wednesday.
00:13:27
Curt
Nice.
00:13:27
jamie peacock
Because they're all going to anodize. But yeah, dialed that in, and then four minutes of cycle, which goes. print money was great yeah uh yeah i get it saw cuts saw cut plate uh throw it in the mill i machine the top machine the slot machine the hole and then it goes on a fixture and i machine the perimeter and chamfer the perimeter so super super straightforward like just a little bit annoying that it's only a four minute cycle
00:13:33
Curt
Nice. That's awesome. is ah And it's all coming in as plate, like just goes directly into the mill.
00:13:48
Curt
Nice.
00:13:53
jamie peacock
And I don't really want to build a proper fixture to run two at a time to gain a whole eight minute cycle.
00:13:57
Curt
Hmm.
00:13:59
jamie peacock
um When I don't know if it's going to come around again. Like it's kind of points of diminishing returns there.
00:14:04
Curt
Fair, yeah.
00:14:07
Curt
Oh, and before we before we drift too far off your acid stuff, um I don't know if you follow Dan Galbert on YouTube, but he released a new video.
00:14:07
jamie peacock
But yeah.
00:14:11
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:14:16
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:14:16
Curt
He has like the the air-bearing lathe and all. If you haven't watched his videos, Dan Galbert, Google him. Just find his YouTube video Watch every single one of them. They're all fantastic. um But he released a new one, and there's...
00:14:25
jamie peacock
Yeah, I went and watched the one you recommended.
00:14:28
Curt
Yeah, there's a little...
00:14:28
jamie peacock
I saw that recommendation.
00:14:29
Curt
Yeah, there's a little about two thirds way through. There's a spot on just rust. He talks just about rust in a machine shop.
00:14:33
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:14:34
Curt
And it's like talking exactly about like, you know, how you like you keep
Anodizing and Production Issues
00:14:38
Curt
hydrochloric acid. I have hydrochloric acid and I no longer have hydrochloric acid as of like a year ago because it just rusts everything.
00:14:39
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:14:43
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:14:45
Curt
And he explains why it.
00:14:45
jamie peacock
Rust everything, yeah.
00:14:47
Curt
Yeah, he explains why it does that. And he explains like how to like prep some of your tools so that they don't. Anyways, such a good video. Go watch it.
00:14:53
jamie peacock
Yeah, that was it was a really good one.
00:14:53
Curt
It's yeah, if you're if you're into that jazz.
00:14:55
jamie peacock
His accent's very entertaining too.
00:14:57
Curt
I like it. Yeah. Yeah, old guy with just a boatload of info.
00:14:58
jamie peacock
Yeah, ni it was great. Yeah, a guy who's full of like decades of knowledge and is sharing it.
00:15:06
Curt
Yeah, and like a million-dollar machine shop that he's just built for his, like, now for his enjoyment. Like, it's just, yeah, super, super cool.
00:15:12
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:15:14
Curt
I mean, probably many millions of dollars, but...
00:15:14
jamie peacock
So yeah, um ah like I've got the Anno still. I kind of want to not do Anno anymore, but I don't trust Anno.
00:15:23
Curt
Yeah, that's the problem. It's like, it's such...
00:15:24
jamie peacock
It's also the mag bases are such a high mix.
00:15:25
Curt
that
00:15:28
jamie peacock
Like the guys will order three of this, four of that, five of that color. And then, okay, cool. Do I make 20 of each and send them to anodizing and then just have them on the shelf and potentially never move them? It's, yeah.
00:15:41
Curt
Yeah.
00:15:42
jamie peacock
But when I look at the actual time that I spend anodizing, that might not be shit plan. Like, Buy 100 parts worth of material. Do 5 of each color. Sorry, 20 of each color. And just call it a day. like These are the colors we have.
00:15:56
jamie peacock
It's all we offer now. These are the stock holdings we have. If you want something different or you want more, there's a lead time involved. And just take it off my plate.
00:16:02
Curt
Yeah.
00:16:04
jamie peacock
Because at some point, I'm going to have to.
00:16:05
Curt
Yeah.
00:16:06
jamie peacock
As much as I like having Anna Earnhouse, at some point, I think I might have to stop.
00:16:12
Curt
Yeah.
00:16:13
jamie peacock
I don't want to, but I might have to.
00:16:13
Curt
Yeah, well, especially for all the, like, all the stuff it carries, you know, where you have to, like, have all the tanks. and Like, it's it's a procedure as opposed to, like, like I do a ton of titanium magnetizing, but it's it's voltage.
00:16:20
jamie peacock
yeah
00:16:23
jamie peacock
yeah yeah that's easy yeah i've got a whole corner of the workshop is just dedicated to anodizing i should probably put better ventilation and suck all the fumes out but yeah just blow them around and share them with the rest of the workshop just don't want hydrogen building up in the corner then it gets explosive it also gives you heart attacks which isn't uh super healthy
00:16:24
Curt
it's It's a way different kettle of fish.
00:16:25
Curt
Like, there's, yeah, it's it's way easier than aluminum.
00:16:32
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:16:36
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:16:50
jamie peacock
But yeah, anyway. Have you ever changed the FEP film on your printer?
00:16:50
Curt
Yeah, yeah, like, yeah.
00:16:57
Curt
Oh, many a time, many a time.
00:16:59
jamie peacock
Oh, okay.
00:17:00
Curt
Yeah.
00:17:00
jamie peacock
I killed my first one.
00:17:02
Curt
Oh, really? Oh, yeah, I'm nuked the first one by cleaning it.
00:17:03
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:17:07
Curt
I wiped it with paper towel because I'm like, oh, this is an easy way to get it all out. And it just scratched the piss out of it.
00:17:11
jamie peacock
Ah.
00:17:12
Curt
So yeah, no, I've changed FEP a billion times.
00:17:13
jamie peacock
Ah, okay. Yeah, I had to change my first FEP. It had two holes in it and was causing prints to fail.
00:17:19
Curt
Oh, wow, that. Weird.
00:17:20
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:17:21
Curt
Weird.
00:17:21
jamie peacock
So at some point, I think I didn't clean the bed oft or clean the vats after a print when I was printing some random crap and something got left in there and pushed a hole through.
00:17:30
Curt
Yep.
00:17:32
jamie peacock
The LCD is still fine. Just it then leaked through and hardened and then was causing rips on my prints. So then I swapped it out and works like a bomb again.
00:17:42
Curt
Sick. Yeah.
00:17:42
jamie peacock
Oh, less like a bomb. Less exploding.
00:17:45
Curt
Yeah, I find like if you have super, super optically perfect f FEP, your prints come out so much better.
00:17:46
jamie peacock
But yeah.
00:17:52
jamie peacock
Yeah, I printed another 20 of those things last week.
00:17:56
Curt
Nice.
00:17:56
jamie peacock
think those guys are, yeah.
00:17:57
Curt
That is
00:17:58
jamie peacock
I've gone through 10 liters of resin now. 10, 10, 12, I don't know, lots of resin.
00:18:03
Curt
so much.
00:18:05
jamie peacock
But yeah, they finally, you know, they've been bringing parts to get them laser marked.
00:18:05
Curt
That is so much.
00:18:09
jamie peacock
I'm like, I charge you enough for these, just bring them and I'll laser mark them. It takes me like 30 seconds each. ah Each one's got its own IMEI number and QR code.
00:18:14
Curt
Hmm.
00:18:18
jamie peacock
But in Lightburn, it's it's super, super quick. I'm just i like, bring the things, I'll sort you out for this, don't stress.
00:18:23
Curt
Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's awesome.
00:18:24
jamie peacock
But yeah, hopefully those clowns will play some real orders soon. Because I'm losing interest.
00:18:28
Curt
Are those still like the, are they still like, those are the production prototypes or are they just, they're now using them as, because I thought they were going to use them as, yeah.
00:18:33
jamie peacock
ah Yeah. No, they're making 40 units for testing. for data gathering and then they will have a mold spun up and inject them but i think they're using these to just finalize their hardware as well because yeah they developed everything from scratch because the ones they're buying from china would arrive so it's got a break-off thing to turn it on that arrive with the broken off on the box and the thing's battery's flat so yeah they developed their own and are dealing with all the fun that comes with that
00:18:40
Curt
Oh, okay.
00:18:44
Curt
Oh, okay.
00:18:49
Curt
I gotcha. Okay, that makes more sense.
00:19:00
Curt
Hmm.
00:19:07
jamie peacock
Like making your own product is not an overnight, they seem to think it's an overnight thing and it's really not.
00:19:08
Curt
Nice.
00:19:12
Curt
Yeah, no, there's a lot that goes to it.
00:19:13
jamie peacock
Especially when it ties in as much as theirs does. Like even the access control stuff, they were rewriting firmware like a week ago. They were meant to launch at the beginning of this month.
00:19:23
Curt
Ooh.
00:19:23
jamie peacock
Yeah, this week they having the internal demo and then if everyone in the company is happy, they will push it to customers.
00:19:24
Curt
Ooh.
00:19:31
jamie peacock
I'm like, stop dragging your feet because you're not getting the same price next time. If you order a hundred units, you ordering 500 or you're getting a higher price. End of conversation.
00:19:40
Curt
Right, yeah.
00:19:40
jamie peacock
Like I did the first hundred as like a small batch. Yeah. Sure. Thinking the
Printer Decisions and Innovations
00:19:47
jamie peacock
order was coming quickly and I'm tired of being paid in promises now.
00:19:51
Curt
Yeah, it's hard to pay any other bills with those things, so.
00:19:53
jamie peacock
exactly. Exactly.
00:19:54
Curt
Yep.
00:19:56
jamie peacock
And them dragging their feet has really put a ah complication in my life. Especially with trying to launch Anchor Point and having tight cash flow because these clowns aren't placing the orders they're promising. So my tolerance there has run out.
00:20:12
Curt
i don't I don't blame you one bit for that.
00:20:15
jamie peacock
Yeah, entirely run out. But yeah, other than that, busy with other fun things.
00:20:19
Curt
Yeah.
00:20:23
jamie peacock
Making a...
00:20:24
Curt
Nice. Well,
00:20:26
jamie peacock
i've got to make drone parts i haven't made them yet but the guy finally paid for them i've been making them for like two months that's because he didn't pay if you need them ask for them it's like it's one of my mates i'm like if you need them desperately just tell me and they'll go to the front of the queue but until then like they're just going to be skipped down the road while i do other stuff but now he paid me so i actually have to do the work it's rather annoying
00:20:46
Curt
Right.
00:20:50
jamie peacock
But yeah, I've done i've done like two-thirds of the one part. I've got to just build a fixture to do the last little bit. And that's, in my mind, is a huge task. So I'll get around to it hopefully later this week.
00:21:01
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:21:03
Curt
yeah And it'll probably be far less ah a task once you actually get into it, but build it up in your brain.
00:21:08
jamie peacock
It's going to be like a five-minute job.
00:21:09
jamie peacock
It's five-minute job.
00:21:10
Curt
Yeah.
00:21:10
Curt
Yeah.
00:21:10
jamie peacock
Like to design and machine and be running is five minutes.
00:21:11
Curt
Yeah.
00:21:14
jamie peacock
But in my head...
00:21:15
Curt
yeah
00:21:16
jamie peacock
is This giant mountain. like That's something I still struggle with is molehills that in my head are mountains.
00:21:18
Curt
yeah
00:21:23
jamie peacock
I know. ah know. Reality, it's going to take me a few minutes, but getting that... that Yeah, getting the mental inertia going towards that is as a problem.
00:21:36
jamie peacock
and finish it was Yeah, there was a really clever wording for that, but I can't remember it.
00:21:42
jamie peacock
Okay.
00:21:42
Curt
Yeah, no, it's easy to do that.
00:21:45
jamie peacock
yeah like getting started on stuff is the trickiest but even today uh was making pins my tooling order finally arrived and i'm like okay let me set up bodies i was waiting for that other disc aluminium to arrive probably not going to arrive let me just start getting bodies going but i know it's going to be a hell of a task to get it all dialed in and all the tools set up because i had new tools added to the mix It took me probably an hour and the first part was running and there were a bunch of tweaks after that.
00:22:15
jamie peacock
And then by the third part, the cycle was locked in. like had the optional stops where I wanted them and I just ran. like I only ran another two parts, but it just ran.
00:22:26
jamie peacock
Tomorrow morning I'll turn it on, warm the machine up and I can run.
00:22:27
Curt
Right.
00:22:30
jamie peacock
it's a It's all done.
00:22:32
jamie peacock
All the bugs are worked out now. Like with all the new tools and couple blend lines I was trying to disappear and whole bunch of stupid little things.
00:22:32
Curt
yeah
00:22:41
Curt
Yeah, no, I do the exact same thing here with like just even like four taxes parts when I have to switch the mill over to run whatever the late the run over.
00:22:41
jamie peacock
But it's all
00:22:48
Curt
So I'm like, oh my God, got to switch it over to run this. And then like, I'm like, well, I'll just I'll postpone that. Maybe I'll do it tomorrow. I'll do something different. And then i'm like when you get to it you're like, okay, that took me a minute and 42 seconds. Like, why was I?
00:22:59
Curt
Why was I psyching myself out for a minute and 42 seconds of war? Like, but you just yeah.
00:23:03
jamie peacock
yeah Well, this morning ah ah turned the LK on, made a 5C stopper because I needed one that had narrower pin.
00:23:14
jamie peacock
So I designed it quickly, programmed it, did it in one arm, turned the LK off and went and stood in front of the lathe and turned out all the pins.
00:23:14
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:23:23
jamie peacock
Then we turned the LK back on and then... did something. I assume it was putting in the the mirroring point because that went in.
00:23:34
jamie peacock
I indicated that some idiot made the T slot on it the wrong size because I made the model parametric and was messing with it and left it the wrong size and didn't check before I machined it. so So it's perfectly 12 millimeters except my T slots are 14.
00:23:48
Curt
Hmm, nice.
00:23:49
jamie peacock
Yeah, fucking great. So I ended up just taking two of the the unit, the rulers, because they have 0.9 stainless, putting them in there and pushing it against it.
00:23:55
Curt
Okay. Oh,
00:23:58
jamie peacock
And when I indicated the side of it, dead, dead square. Because the T-slot keys are machined in the same op as the pyramids of the body. And then, yeah, indicated that all in, got it all locked down, ah probed the top of it, and then took the last comma 25 off of the flat surface.
00:24:08
Curt
okay.
00:24:16
jamie peacock
And then, yeah, I think everything just went together. It was quite, yeah, put it in, check the squareness of the anchor point unit, and it was awesome.
00:24:20
Curt
Nice.
00:24:28
Curt
Sick.
00:24:28
jamie peacock
Yeah, so that worked. Yeah, that, again, only it took me like half an hour, but in my mind, massive task.
00:24:36
Curt
Right, yeah.
00:24:36
jamie peacock
Also, couldn't reach the riser.
00:24:36
Curt
You just build it up and seg yourself.
00:24:39
jamie peacock
Couldn't reach it with my standard 12mm end. Well, that's used my stupidly long one.
00:24:43
Curt
Hmm.
00:24:43
jamie peacock
And that could only go two millimeters below the top of it because drill tap machines.
00:24:48
Curt
Right, yeah, yeah.
00:24:49
jamie peacock
yeah like that was a bit but tedious but yeah figured out how to machine those in a somewhat uh somewhat reasonable manner i had to square up my two vases which is more effort than i want to put in but uh took again two or three minutes and they're squared to each other they're in line squared and in line with each other so i could clamp the thing between vases
00:25:12
Curt
Right.
00:25:12
jamie peacock
But yeah, in my mind, giant mountains. So yeah, did that.
00:25:15
Curt
Yeah, no, exactly.
00:25:16
jamie peacock
I machined that yesterday on Sunday. I machined the mooring point, including slamming a thread mill into the bottom of it.
00:25:20
Curt
Yeah, looked at that.
00:25:25
jamie peacock
I'm very good at machining. Yeah.
00:25:25
Curt
Oh, perfect.
00:25:27
Curt
to
00:25:27
jamie peacock
Stir weld and refaced the bottom because the stir weld's still there. ah just ah faced it so it would be true it would be flat. Like, it's fine. Have the idiot mark. It's my one.
00:25:39
jamie peacock
I thought, no, I should be able to threadmill, then it'll be fine. Yeah, no, the threadmill wasn't sticking out enough. So then just hand tapped.
00:25:45
Curt
Okay. Okay.
00:25:46
jamie peacock
yeah
00:25:49
jamie peacock
it was ah It was a Sunday afternoon kind of story.
00:25:53
Curt
Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, the top side of those looked really pretty.
00:25:54
jamie peacock
so
00:25:57
Curt
So.
00:25:58
jamie peacock
Yeah, the top side top side came out really, really well. Bottom side looks pretty too, except for that one little stir weld.
00:26:05
Curt
Yeah.
00:26:05
jamie peacock
I haven't actually hit a tool into things rigged often on that machine. think I've done it maybe twice in the over a year that I've had it.
00:26:13
Curt
buts That's a good thing. Yeah.
00:26:14
jamie peacock
No, it is a good thing.
00:26:15
Curt
yeah
00:26:15
jamie peacock
now
00:26:16
Curt
hey
00:26:16
jamie peacock
It's not a stir welding machine, but yeah generally not.
00:26:18
Curt
I say, yeah, they don't like they don't like to do that.
00:26:23
jamie peacock
ah yeah I got a, yeah, now now I'm going to have my my favorite part of the show where call Roger out.
00:26:24
Curt
Oh boy.
00:26:29
jamie peacock
Hello, Roger, because I know you listen. um He sent, his customer who I make parts for. And Roger and I collaborate on the design generally and find issues.
00:26:41
jamie peacock
um Like his 19mm dial pins that actually needed to be 18. He sent me the model. I have a look. I'm like, um is this where these go? Because these are 18mm holes and you're asking for 19mm pins.
00:26:52
jamie peacock
But they want me to make a whole bunch of custom stepped dials. So like 8.4mm down to 8mm. ah Really daft things for a big assembly jig.
00:27:03
Curt
So why? I mean, they have the reasons I'm sure, but okay.
00:27:06
jamie peacock
Big. The hole's 8.5 in the Tufnel, and they want an 8.4 dial. So it's within comma 1 of a mil. But this job this assembly is like, and it's not small. It's like 2 meters by a meter.
00:27:21
jamie peacock
It's freaking huge.
00:27:22
Curt
Oh, okay.
00:27:23
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, it's big.
00:27:24
Curt
That's sizable.
00:27:24
jamie peacock
So I'm making all the, yeah, making all the fixturing and jigging and stuff for them. So I'm just waiting for finalized models so that I can actually get material pricing together for them.
00:27:29
Curt
Oh, cool.
00:27:34
Curt
Nice. Yeah,
00:27:35
jamie peacock
Yeah. Again, weird, weird things I get to do.
00:27:42
Curt
yeah well, honora on our last chat about printing a Voron, so i was I started printing all the Voron parts because, i don't know, just felt like starting to print.
00:27:47
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:27:51
Curt
out Like I said, I'm sitting on just pounds and or kilos and kilos of ABS. So I'm like, I'm just going to make use of it, start printing them. Then I started looking at the kits online and I realized, like nowadays, there's especially the Trident printer I was looking at.
00:28:04
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:28:04
Curt
There's like, there's a kit with CNC parts and like four motors to drive the core XY mechanism. They call it all wheel drive.
00:28:12
jamie peacock
Yeah, or wheel drive.
00:28:13
Curt
Um, So you get like way more acceleration, like just crazy over the top kits with like Eddie current plate sensing. So that when you're doing bad leveling, it can just like fly over the plate as opposed to like probing it.
00:28:23
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:28:25
Curt
And anyways, these like top of the line kits are like two grand and the printed kits or the the kits without like any of the printed parts are like 1400 bucks plus 200 bucks shipping.
00:28:31
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:28:36
Curt
So i'm like, okay, for like four or $600 difference, Canadian pricing too.
00:28:39
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:28:41
Curt
I'm going from like me not having to do anything and having like all the top of the line stuff or me having to print, you know, spend days.
00:28:41
jamie peacock
yeah
00:28:49
Curt
I'm like, it makes no sense to print these parts.
00:28:52
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah.
00:28:53
Curt
And then furthermore, looking at my printer, I'm like, hey, I have no need for a Voron printer. like i do Like I've said in the past podcast, I sometimes so wait 10 months between printing.
00:29:00
jamie peacock
yeah
00:29:03
Curt
So like, the reason I wanted is because right now my extruder is kind of crap on my printer and the Z axis is really slow. So i'm like, well, I could just put new lead screws on the Z axis. So I bought some of those and I'm like, I could just literally machine any single part for the extruder.
00:29:17
Curt
Cause I have an entire fricking machine shop sitting in my garage. Like there's no part I can't make like, Ooh, I need to make a fancy hobbit bolt.
00:29:22
jamie peacock
yeah
00:29:24
Curt
Like, yeah, I could, I could do that with any material. I can make a hardened, like I can do whatever I want.
Tooling and Machining Precision
00:29:30
Curt
So I'm like, okay, let's just,
00:29:30
jamie peacock
just just by knockoff bmg yeah
00:29:34
Curt
That's exactly it. I'm like, or I could spend the $22 for a knockoff, whatever.
00:29:35
jamie peacock
yeah
00:29:39
Curt
I'm like, so that's what I did. I just ordered a bunch of just cheap components. I'm like, I'm just going to put this thing back together and just let it run. And then when I have a good printer, then I can make the proper decision if like, I want to actually invest all this time into building a fancy Voron for something probably just going to sit on my bench and collect dust 80% the year. So...
00:29:55
jamie peacock
No, that's, that I mean, my printer, I think the last thing I printed was last week was the imperializer stand.
00:29:56
Curt
so
00:30:04
jamie peacock
It's the last thing that I ran for the printer.
00:30:05
Curt
Right. yeah
00:30:06
jamie peacock
Like, I'll use it like excessively for a few weeks and then I won't touch it for a month. Like, yeah, from robots, then I print a shitload, but otherwise it stands.
00:30:14
Curt
Totally. Yeah. Yeah. And so sometimes that sometimes it's. Yeah.
00:30:21
Curt
Yeah, sometimes I just want to have something in my hand to be like, how big is this thing going to be that I just designed? So I print I'm like, cool.
00:30:26
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:30:27
Curt
And then I throw the print in the trash. So I'm like, that's mainly what it's used for. Or I need like a weird widget to hold something in the shop here or a weird soft jar or something bizarre.
00:30:35
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:30:35
Curt
That's when it gets used. And 90% of the time it just sits or my wife wants something silly and I print that. But like, yeah, I was like, I don't need to go down this rabbit hole quite, quite yet.
00:30:45
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:30:46
Curt
So
00:30:46
jamie peacock
Not yet.
00:30:48
Curt
Yeah, I got it.
00:30:48
jamie peacock
Avoid the urge.
00:30:49
Curt
That's I get spun up. I mean, we all do. I think we all get spun up on the new hotness so quickly.
00:30:53
jamie peacock
Oh yeah.
00:30:54
Curt
So it's like I just got to sometimes sit. My wife's really good at telling me that, too. She's like, why don't you just like dream on this for a day or two? And just again, good point. Good point. So keeps me sane, keeps me from doing stupid things.
00:31:04
jamie peacock
Yeah, it keeps you in check a little bit.
00:31:09
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:31:10
jamie peacock
Yeah, just tend to YOLO, which is less than ideal.
00:31:15
Curt
Yeah. Well, like my time is so like, i have so little of it already.
00:31:17
jamie peacock
But yeah, ma so mentioned,
00:31:19
Curt
So.
00:31:21
jamie peacock
yeah, yeah, the dwarfs don't help with that.
00:31:25
Curt
Well, just that, and there's like a million things I want to do. It's like, do I want to like pick, go down my list of things that I actually want to play with?
00:31:28
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:31:32
Curt
And do I want to add to the list?
00:31:33
jamie peacock
Yeah, printer is not one.
00:31:33
Curt
Like, or do I want to pick off something that I want? Yeah. Yeah. Right. Exactly. So.
00:31:36
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah, I felt old this week. I was on of on Friday, my mate Justin works from works from home on a Friday. So he was on discord. So I popped on to discord to catch up with him.
00:31:49
jamie peacock
And the whole 45 minute call, all we did was talk about his daughters and my nephews. was like, I'm officially old.
00:31:58
jamie peacock
like we used to play video games we don't anymore like yeah he still plays games but that's that is his hobby like it's pretty much as yeah that that is what he does as a hobby so that's why he has time for it whereas my hobby is trying to not be poor look it's not easy but yeah anyway my tooling order finally arrived kurt finally
00:32:03
Curt
Yeah.
00:32:08
Curt
Right.
00:32:18
Curt
good yeah yeah exactly
00:32:29
jamie peacock
I was hoping it would be on right now.
00:32:29
Curt
uh oh that was the one with the oh okay was that the one also that replaced the grenaded lathe friction stir weld parting tool oh okay oh okay gotcha sick okay
00:32:31
jamie peacock
I got a new face smell.
00:32:40
jamie peacock
No, no, that was a different order. That I ordered locally. Yeah, so that that and already made all K110 parts, the new one. also bought a 25mm left-hand boring bar to test out with the W&MG insert.
00:32:51
Curt
Right.
00:32:52
jamie peacock
Yeah, I haven't had a chance to run that yet.
00:32:52
Curt
Right.
00:32:54
jamie peacock
Or the left-hand insert part. um No, i got a new face mill with a some WN weird, the triangly one ah inserts, like six tips per insert, and they're numbered, which is pretty cool.
00:33:06
Curt
Hmm.
00:33:15
jamie peacock
when you rotate them, you can work through the numbers. And started running that today. And oh my word, it cuts really well. So I'll push it a bit harder at once I'm done with ah but the Anchor Point production.
00:33:15
Curt
Oh, nice.
00:33:22
Curt
Oh, yeah.
00:33:26
jamie peacock
I bought it to do the back of Anchor Point. Like I wanted something that really super smooth.
00:33:32
Curt
Mm. Mm.
00:33:32
jamie peacock
Where's my, what's it, AMPT eleven thirty five s they I'm getting weird finishes on that. So I'll just yeet it and put in the new one.
00:33:43
jamie peacock
just don't need reprogram everything to be face mill, not face mill.
00:33:49
Curt
Mm.
00:33:49
jamie peacock
Like, I didn't even bother reprogramming it for the anchor point. I'm like, meh, it'll be fine. Extended one of the lead-ins, and it's okay.
00:33:54
Curt
right
00:33:56
jamie peacock
Like, oh, no, it's cutting a little more than it's supposed to. It doesn't really make a difference.
00:34:02
jamie peacock
But yeah, i also broke my record for number of tools in a single program today.
00:34:03
Curt
Nice.
00:34:03
Curt
Yeah.
00:34:08
Curt
Ooh.
00:34:10
jamie peacock
ah Fourteen.
00:34:11
Curt
Was...
00:34:13
Curt
ah Okay, as as long as it's not over the Magic 16.
00:34:16
jamie peacock
Well, no, the magic 15, because number 16 is a probe in my machine always.
00:34:20
Curt
oh I guess. Yeah, yeah.
00:34:21
jamie peacock
Yeah, so 15 tools is the limit. And yeah, there's one tool in there that isn't being used. Everything else is being used in this one job, which is pretty sweet.
00:34:30
Curt
Nice.
00:34:30
jamie peacock
like Yesterday I set the record at 13, and then today I broke it at 14. Because I got a, yeah, I'm running 32 diameter, 12 millimeter length of cut T-slot cutter.
00:34:35
Curt
Ooh.
00:34:42
Curt
Okay, that's a beefy one.
00:34:44
jamie peacock
It's a freaking beefy one. So I'm roughing it with a 4mm high, same 32 but 4mm tooth, roughing out the slots, leaving comma 1 and then just cleaning up the back of it with the big one.
00:34:55
Curt
Mm-mm-mm-mm.
00:34:55
jamie peacock
Just so that it doesn't have ugly marks at the back of the slot because, you know, the back of the slot, everyone's going to judge me for there being marks there.
00:35:01
Curt
ah
00:35:05
Curt
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
00:35:05
jamie peacock
Yeah, like being pedantic as hell on these things, but... like ah I was dialing in some of the other little little things like champers and things today. Just trying to make it as good as it can be.
00:35:17
jamie peacock
like There's one more thing, like easy low-hanging fruit, and that's buying a hydraulic holder to get better wall finishes.
00:35:17
Curt
Right. Yeah.
00:35:23
jamie peacock
And that will happen on the next batch.
00:35:24
Curt
Mm.
00:35:25
jamie peacock
I'm not going to time to do it on this batch. So I'll order one when these sell, and then I'll have a 12mm hydraulic for just specifically the perimeter with my silly long...
00:35:28
Curt
Nice.
00:35:36
Curt
Nice.
00:35:37
jamie peacock
like four times diameter 12 millimeter cutter i mean it's the finish you can put your finger there and see your finger quite clearly it just could be better so we'll make it better i also noticed when i indicated the side of the part uh as the load on the cutter increases as the because it does a arc like this as the load increases there's a little bit of deflection and it's measurable
00:35:42
Curt
Nice. Nice.
00:35:48
Curt
Right. Yeah.
00:35:59
Curt
Right.
00:36:04
Curt
Mm.
00:36:05
jamie peacock
when I was indicating the side of the thing, it's like it's 10 microns or so, but it definitely it goes up and down and up and down as you go back and forth.
00:36:06
Curt
Oh, cool.
00:36:09
Curt
Right.
00:36:12
jamie peacock
was like, that's friggin cool.
00:36:13
Curt
That's like all around the unit or there as the they kind of go over the peaks in the center.
00:36:16
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:36:18
jamie peacock
Yeah, because then your your cutting load goes, oh yeah, so I could do like 17 finish passes, but why?
00:36:19
Curt
Oh, that's cool. That's cool.
00:36:24
jamie peacock
Like it doesn't doesn't really matter.
00:36:24
Curt
Right. Yeah.
00:36:26
jamie peacock
Like, oh well, there's a high spot in the middle. Just go to the ends. You'll be fine. But yeah, put the the mooring points in and the indicator didn't move.
00:36:31
Curt
Cool.
00:36:34
jamie peacock
i was like, this is awesome.
00:36:36
Curt
Nice. Yeah.
00:36:36
jamie peacock
And then I indicated the indicate at the top. So I haven't skimmed the bottom of my the anchor point that's in my machine now. And it has about 10 microns of deviation across the whole pad where the contact point is.
00:36:51
jamie peacock
I like, that's close enough for today. i'll make When I make the fixture, I'll skim the back of it as well. um But yeah, was pretty impressed that that whole stack up is like 10 microns of flatness.
00:37:02
jamie peacock
I was pretty shocked.
00:37:02
Curt
yeah
00:37:04
jamie peacock
I'm like, sweet. Granted, it is only two things bolting together. It's the pad and the body. So they should be pretty coplanar. But yeah, I was pretty impressed with how coplanar it was.
00:37:12
Curt
Yeah, well, a ton, like 10 micron isn't very much either. That's what? Three, four tenths.
00:37:17
jamie peacock
It's really not. It's like a tenth of a hair. It's a tenth of a human hair.
00:37:20
Curt
Yeah, yeah.
00:37:21
jamie peacock
It's really nothing.
00:37:22
Curt
Yeah.
00:37:22
jamie peacock
And that that was the thing, the discussion I had with Danica with the the locating pins as well. Like, it's over by 20 microns. That's eight tenths. It's not even a thou.
00:37:32
Curt
Yeah.
00:37:32
jamie peacock
But that being over means you can't use a drill bush. So that's why I took my 50 dowel pins and put them in my drawer for using as dowels and bought linear shaft because I'd rather have it undersized and sloppy than oversized and someone's got to use a pry bar to get it off of the anchor point.
00:37:36
Curt
Right.
00:37:49
Curt
Right, yeah, yeah, no doubt.
00:37:50
jamie peacock
Yeah, so chose to err on the side of undersize. And it's a lot tighter than I expected. I was honestly expecting minus 9 microns to minus 15 microns because that's the actual spec.
00:38:02
jamie peacock
But it's,
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00:38:03
jamie peacock
as far as I can measure, between minus 5 and minus 10 or so, depending on where and how I measure it. And, like, super consistently across all the pins. So I was like, good enough.
00:38:12
Curt
Oh.
00:38:13
jamie peacock
Like, quite frankly, 10 microns is more than adequate.
00:38:14
Curt
Yeah.
00:38:18
Curt
Yeah. Yeah, well, probably covers.
00:38:19
jamie peacock
Yeah. we're we're not youtube We're not YouTube machinists making lathe handles.
00:38:24
Curt
ah I was just going to say, like, it covers probably 95% of the use cases most people will ever run into.
00:38:27
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:38:30
Curt
Like, everybody wants to be machining down to tents, but there's, like, very little instances where that's where that's needed.
00:38:30
jamie peacock
So, yeah.
00:38:33
jamie peacock
In reality, why?
00:38:35
Curt
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
00:38:36
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:38:36
Curt
Why? Yeah.
00:38:37
jamie peacock
Why?
00:38:38
Curt
Yeah.
00:38:39
jamie peacock
So i was I've got to shoot a video this week. It's on the to-do list of putting all my palettes in and just running through the different use cases and recommended use cases for the Anquan. I'm busy trying to get documentation together before the release because it's kind of important to have documentation. um So I've also got to make another palettes machines, a little brass reeds for...
00:39:03
jamie peacock
what they called accord no accordion i don't know the freaking dutchman squeeze box uh it's easy thing and push the keys and it makes some music it's not an accordion there's there's afrikaans version of it
00:39:12
Curt
Oh, ah accordion? Yeah.
00:39:16
Curt
Oh, um okay. ah ah smaller Smaller than an accordion?
00:39:20
jamie peacock
i call it a dutchman squeeze box but yeah it's small yeah they're they they're quite they're octagonal
00:39:24
Curt
Yeah. ah Oh, what they're called too. I know a guy that makes them on YouTube or on ah Instagram. Whatever. oh
00:39:32
jamie peacock
I know, multiple multiple people who make them because I make parts for them.
00:39:36
Curt
Oh, yeah?
00:39:36
jamie peacock
um i think A thousand nuts, um little brass nuts. He's like, can you just make me a thousand of these? ah like Next to nothing. ah ran them out in a day.
00:39:46
jamie peacock
uh so our rigid tap m concertina that's it yeah concertina dutchman squeeze box um so yeah so i make all sorts of bits for him so he was messaging me i've had some reads on my table for like three months four months that i meant to make a palette for and then forgot about so so i need to go look through all his dxfs of what he wants make a palette but then i'll do another video of making the palette and covering
00:39:47
Curt
kind of
00:39:47
Curt
concert Concertina? k Concertina. Yeah, yeah.
00:39:53
Curt
Dashboard Squeezebox.
00:40:12
jamie peacock
how to do that kind of work on the thing. um But yeah, getting all the documents together, drawings of the palettes and ah making quick start guides, all the excessive amount of paperwork that I have to get in line to be able to sell something.
00:40:31
jamie peacock
So Danica's been working on that.
00:40:32
Curt
Well, that's awesome. I've had a few people kind of drop through my DMs and say that they're definitely interested in your product. So I pointed them your way.
00:40:39
jamie peacock
Yeah, the...
00:40:40
Curt
Hopefully they bumped bumped into you in the digital world.
00:40:43
jamie peacock
Yeah, I've noticed a lot more um an uptick on new followers on Instagram and also had a couple sign up for the Anchor Point newsletter, which there should be one going out this week, just updating guys that it's in production.
00:40:56
Curt
Sick.
00:41:00
jamie peacock
We're targeting the end of the month. If they're already early, the guys on that mailing going to be the first to know. like Unless you're trolling ah unless you're like scraping the website and keeping an eye on it, they're going to be the first ones to know.
00:41:07
Curt
Nice.
00:41:13
jamie peacock
No, because we'll and we'll release it and we'll message them first and say, listen, it's now available. Get one while it's hot.
00:41:19
Curt
Nice. Yeah, exactly.
00:41:21
jamie peacock
um Yeah, I've still got a redo packaging because we're now using a double wall stock box 2 because it's double wall. um and I now need to reinvent all my packaging, which is a little annoying, but it's just par for the course, I guess.
00:41:36
jamie peacock
So I've got some fancy thoughts on that, but that's like... Right now my push is to get the things that are out of my control done, which is anodizing, heat treating is done. Everything else is kind of in my control from here on after the anodizing.
00:41:36
Curt
Yeah.
00:41:49
Curt
Right. Yeah.
00:41:50
jamie peacock
So like I've got material for the pistons and the bases sitting there. I just need to make some time on the machine and run them, make fixturing and whatnot.
00:41:58
Curt
Right. Yeah. yeah
00:41:59
jamie peacock
Because as we go along, all this stuff's going to move on to anchor point fixtures.
00:42:05
jamie peacock
Because why not?
00:42:06
Curt
Nice.
00:42:07
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:42:07
Curt
Yeah.
00:42:08
jamie peacock
May as well use my own product.
00:42:10
Curt
Yeah, no doubt, right? Yeah, exactly.
00:42:12
jamie peacock
Like, as it is, I'm machining the op 2 of the bodies on an anchor point, and it is noticeably more rigid than the V2 that was in my machine.
00:42:22
Curt
Oh, yeah?
00:42:22
jamie peacock
Turns out, when you actually have proper contacts, it makes a big difference.
00:42:26
jamie peacock
Because the V2, it was a turned, the pad was turned, and it actually went up towards the center, so it was contacting in the center, not across the whole pad.
00:42:26
Curt
OK, I see.
00:42:26
Curt
Is that? there's
00:42:35
Curt
Gotcha, gotcha.
00:42:36
jamie peacock
Now it's touching across the whole pad. Also, the greatest thing I've ever done was making that O-ring retained Because now this is the first time I've used one.
00:42:43
Curt
Oh, okay.
00:42:44
jamie peacock
of the It's from V3. That was a feature. So yours has got it. V2, if you glue on the top of it, the O-ring would shoot out.
00:42:52
jamie peacock
The main top seal is really annoying.
00:42:52
Curt
ah
00:42:54
Curt
Yeah.
00:42:54
jamie peacock
So now i was like, ah, blowing at it. It doesn't go anywhere.
00:42:58
Curt
ha
00:42:59
jamie peacock
god It's a small thing.
00:42:59
Curt
That's cool.
00:43:01
jamie peacock
And then i don't know if you i don't know if you saw the post from today.
00:43:01
Curt
Right. Yeah.
00:43:04
jamie peacock
I put the new slide valves. They're freaking huge. They're like this big.
00:43:07
Curt
Yeah. yeah yeah
00:43:07
jamie peacock
They're like double.
00:43:08
Curt
Yeah. I did see
00:43:08
jamie peacock
Yeah, they're freaking massive. Like, but yeah, they were also like a tenth of the price.
00:43:11
Curt
the, the,
00:43:15
Curt
the amount of DMS I got from people being like, that is such a cool valve. What does that valve call? I'm like, it's pneumatic slide valve.
00:43:22
jamie peacock
Slide valve.
00:43:22
Curt
Like I didn't know they existed either, but everyone's like, that is such a cool valve.
00:43:23
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:43:26
Curt
What are they? I'm like a slide valve. I don't know. Talk to Jamie. He knows like, but yeah.
00:43:29
jamie peacock
Yeah, I posted a thing a while ago and had the same response. People are like, what the hell is that valve? It's so awesome. I'm like, it's a s slide valve.
00:43:36
Curt
Yeah.
00:43:36
jamie peacock
Like...
00:43:37
Curt
Yeah. I didn't know they existed.
00:43:38
jamie peacock
Yeah, if you don't know they exist, yeah.
00:43:39
Curt
Yeah.
00:43:40
jamie peacock
Like, I...
00:43:41
Curt
everyone's used to like the big Pearson, like the the one he designed is nice.
00:43:43
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:43:44
Curt
Obviously it does like a, it tells you if it's on or off, but like, it's a big production.
00:43:46
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:43:48
Curt
Like, I don't think people realized that there's just like a small little like version.
00:43:51
jamie peacock
yeah I looked at making them myself, but when I can buy them from China for the price I can buy them from China for, it's not worth it. If I buy them locally, it's worth me making them myself.
00:44:02
jamie peacock
But buying from China in this case is the easiest option.
00:44:03
Curt
Totally. Yeah.
00:44:06
jamie peacock
They're a bit bigger than I would have liked, but it is what it is. um They do the thing, so and they don't get them they don't get in the way. They're not so big that they get in the way, so it's okay.
00:44:16
Curt
Right. Yeah.
00:44:17
jamie peacock
yeah and Then I need to still sort out the internal porting on mar on my mooring point.
00:44:23
Curt
Yeah. yeah
00:44:23
jamie peacock
I need to make the little plates. I need to order a piece of 180 by 30 by whatever width I choose. And then I'm going to machine it and slitting saw it off. Because just holding it is such a freaking schlep. I'll just make a bunch of them out of a bar.
00:44:39
jamie peacock
I think it's going be easier.
00:44:39
Curt
Right. Yeah.
00:44:41
jamie peacock
Yeah, slitting saw all the things.
00:44:44
Curt
That's what I think I'm going to do. I'm going to look today. I'm just going to do some kind of brain simple stuff on the computer, but I'm going to look up those little self-centering vices, see how tiny can get them. um And I want to see if I can populate your palette with one or two of those.
00:44:57
jamie peacock
Okay.
00:44:58
Curt
um
00:44:58
Curt
Because there is some work that I need that don't need, but it makes a lot easier to have a vise for because the raw stock is not... It's not perfectly uniform.
00:45:05
jamie peacock
Not so nice.
00:45:07
Curt
Yeah. So it's just, and I, I have massive tolerance on it. So if I can just squeeze it, I don't care. Um, but yeah, then if I can squeeze them in little vices and then just, cause they're so inexpensive, those little offshore vices are like a hundred bucks.
00:45:16
jamie peacock
Yeah. So I've got, I have a model for a palette that takes one of the little Zang Dai, whatever they're called, vases.
00:45:24
Curt
Yeah. like Yeah. Yeah.
00:45:25
jamie peacock
because I've got one of those. so um I bought a bigger one than that. That's, ah I think, a little bit better built. It's it's not, I assume you've seen them where they've got, it looks like threads, but straight on the side, it like fingers on each side. That's what retains it from lifting.
00:45:44
jamie peacock
So it's not a T-slot. It's like fingers on each side, which I feel like are going to wear out a lot quicker than a giant freaking T-slot.
00:45:44
Curt
Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:45:49
Curt
Okay.
00:45:54
Curt
Yeah, possibly. I have no idea how they're I haven't seen any of them close up, so.
00:45:57
jamie peacock
yeah so i've i've got both kinds and i'll send you the the actual t-slot ones were a little bit cheaper as well well this was shipping to me yeah um oh yeah no no not worth making them uh what about using a just a mighty bot and uh and a hardened rail
00:46:04
Curt
Wow.
00:46:07
Curt
I mean, the price they're making any of these is insane. Like, it's mind-boggling. Like, No.
00:46:18
Curt
I was thinking about that too. Yeah, i was thinking about that too.
00:46:20
jamie peacock
like it depends what the range is yeah what is the stock range
00:46:20
Curt
The problem is the stock is... Yeah, the stock is... a but it's an it's an it Well, the stock is really uniform. It just sometimes... It's rectangular, but it's not...
00:46:31
Curt
Like it sometimes tapers at the... How do i explain this?
00:46:33
jamie peacock
Oh, so it's rhombus.
00:46:34
Curt
So if the rectangle is like this, it's sometimes a little fat in the center and kind of...
00:46:35
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah, okay.
00:46:38
Curt
It's like it almost gets pinched on the ends, which is totally fine.
00:46:40
jamie peacock
yeah
00:46:41
Curt
um but But I'm burying about 80% of it in a vice and having about 20% stick up. um
00:46:47
jamie peacock
ya
00:46:48
Curt
So whatever fixture I make, it has to sink in pretty far, which is that's doable too. um That's the only complicated one for your palette. Every other part I make is really easy to put on your palette.
00:46:59
jamie peacock
yeah that one yeah raw stock is always tricky like i've got i've got two self-centrings i do all my op ones and the self-centrings they're going to end up on a mirroring point uh mirroring pallet soon so double spam that i can take them in and out the machine super quickly and then because they they get used they are dedicated to op ones like everything i do is done in there as an op one
00:46:59
Curt
um But that one is the one I've been like, hmm, am going how am fixture this?
00:47:05
Curt
Yeah.
00:47:13
Curt
Hmm.
00:47:16
Curt
Yeah.
00:47:23
Curt
Well, and I was even thinking instead of self-centering vices, what I could do is because like right now i I use two like but essentially four inch machinist vices in my mill or grinding vices because they're just stupidly, you know, they're nice and rigid for their price.
00:47:31
jamie peacock
Oh, yeah.
00:47:36
Curt
And I was like, you know what? I could buy itty bitty baby ones, like two inch ones and slap two of them on a pallet. So I'd have like four of these little itty bitty vices on your pallets and that would work perfectly fine.
00:47:42
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:47:44
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:47:46
Curt
And they're cheap enough that like that would be my little op one fixture for holding these titanium, you know,
00:47:48
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:47:53
Curt
Just raw stock parts. And it wouldn't matter if they're annoying to load because like I said, I go put two in, ch look hit go and then go and load the next two.
00:47:59
jamie peacock
You did it offline, yeah.
00:48:02
Curt
And like, yeah, so I was thinking as was like instead of making a complicated fixture, I might just buy a bunch of these little vices and bolt them down.
00:48:03
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:48:08
jamie peacock
Well, yeah, that that is literally my plan. Well, I can't buy the vices that I bought. I'll just check now to try find the link for them. And they no longer listed. So I'm gonna have to buy different vices, I think, because I wouldn't mind another set so that I can do the exact same thing.
00:48:08
Curt
It would be the cutest things.
00:48:25
jamie peacock
Quick swap over, drop in two that I loaded, let it run.
00:48:27
Curt
Yeah.
00:48:30
jamie peacock
ah need to still design the dry dock for the two and four pallet systems because that's going to become necessity. I'm just going to buy a thick piece of HTPE and you just drop it into that and you lock one of the pull studs that can't lift.
00:48:44
Curt
Mm-hmm.
00:48:44
jamie peacock
Yeah, so i was I was actually thinking of signing up for Teleport, which is Slant 3D's print-on-demand service, and loading them there that if someone wants one, you can literally buy it.
00:48:53
Curt
OK.
00:48:56
jamie peacock
It gets printed in the US and fulfilled.
00:48:59
Curt
Oh, wild. Okay, yeah, yeah.
00:49:01
jamie peacock
Yeah, then you if you want one, you just order order it through the web store, and it just arrives. Printed, finished. So yeah I was thinking of doing that, but I don't know. Kind of like the idea of a big chunk of HDPE because then I can also machine out where the the pads contact so that there's no chance that you would have contamination dinging that because you obviously don't want to ding where the Z reference plane is.
00:49:27
Curt
Yeah, less than ideal for sure, yeah.
00:49:29
jamie peacock
Yeah, that's that's on the to-do list, but not at the top of the to-do list currently. Like all my lovely process boards I made have to get remade now for the next batch because we bought some stuff in-house and I realized there's some things missing.
00:49:43
jamie peacock
But I mean, that's what happens when you make things.
00:49:47
jamie peacock
You
00:49:47
Curt
Yeah.
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00:49:48
jamie peacock
learn because everything is a learning opportunity.
00:49:51
Curt
Yeah, I did the same thing when I made my first process boards. I made them really pretty with lots of colors and spent hours doing the layout and printed them.
00:49:56
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:49:58
Curt
And like a week later, i'm like, this is stupid. I need to like reorganize so many of the steps and then just like redid them all. Like, why did I waste so much time?
00:50:04
jamie peacock
So I've just got a, I've got an x Excel document and I go and edit it.
00:50:04
Curt
I should just did it on graph paper.
00:50:09
jamie peacock
Then Danica goes and colors it in. She's got a rainbow going down the side for some freaking reason. And then we go down the road and it costs us $5 to print and laminate it on A3.
00:50:14
Curt
Nice.
00:50:18
Curt
Oh, that's dirt cheap. Yeah.
00:50:20
jamie peacock
Yeah. Now it's color, print and laminate for two sheets. was like a hundred bucks. So $5.
00:50:25
Curt
Wow.
00:50:25
jamie peacock
um Yeah, the dollar doing all sorts of weird shit. It's really annoying. I was making lots of money per palette system and now making less money per palette system. Like it was actually a conversation to put the store into euros instead of dollars because that whole story is a, yeah.
00:50:41
Curt
Yeah, but that's why that's why I flip my store over to Canadian just to be like, I don't, like, yeah, it works. and For the most part, it's old's been beneficial to me because like the dollar is always, like usually the Canadian dollar is always lagging.
00:50:49
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:50:52
jamie peacock
Yes.
00:50:54
Curt
So like I'm usually always making more, but I'm like, ah what like no, I need to like, I need to stabilize this.
00:50:59
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:50:59
Curt
So at least stabilize it for my income.
00:51:02
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:51:03
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:51:03
Curt
i just don't want to keep, i don't I don't need to keep charging people more and more and more.
00:51:06
Curt
it's i mean, it sounds cool, but like let's just stabilize this.
00:51:07
jamie peacock
Yeah, well, I mean, wea've we've swung 50 cents, 50 rand cents, so South African rubles. um we swung 50 cents in the last two days so it went from 19 rand 53 to the dollar down to 19 rand to the dollar this morning it's wild at the moment and yeah cool it's not that much but it it adds up on on a 500 purchase that becomes a decent amount of money that is just swinging for no reason so yeah i might switch currencies up there just to be and just have it more stable
00:51:30
Curt
Yeah.
00:51:39
Curt
Yeah.
00:51:46
Curt
Yeah, well, like, I did all my...
00:51:46
jamie peacock
Because then it would come, it would come down in price, it would 450 euro products, or whatever. So, I'd like to...
00:51:55
Curt
Yeah, like ah I think I did i did all my cost all my costing at like $1.32 or something Canadian, and now it's like $1.40 Canadian, which is fantastic.
00:52:02
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:52:04
Curt
I made great money, but it's like, no, like I don't, like, it's okay.
00:52:05
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:52:09
Curt
Like i'll just I'll flip it over. Like I don't need to keep charging my Canadian and international customers more and more and more for something that's like, it's not, like, yeah, it's fine.
00:52:11
jamie peacock
Well,
00:52:15
jamie peacock
yeah.
00:52:18
jamie peacock
It's not costing you anymore. luck
00:52:18
Curt
Yeah.
00:52:20
Curt
it's not costing me anymore. And for the most part, I'm on shoring like most of my suppliers.
00:52:22
jamie peacock
was
00:52:23
Curt
So it's costing me less. So it's like, I don't need to be triple dipping here.
00:52:24
jamie peacock
yeah
00:52:26
Curt
Like,
00:52:27
jamie peacock
Well, that's the thing. like With our aluminum, well, laser cutting. I sent off an RFQ on Friday. They only got back to me this morning. For $5,000 of one of the small components we make, it was $2.50. So that would be... Let me quickly put this into the...
00:52:44
jamie peacock
just for context here so that would be that's millimeters 14 US cents per part ask for a price on 5,000 of them and the price went up to 16 US cents per unit so it costs me an extra 43 cents per item
00:53:05
Curt
Okay, yeah.
00:53:09
jamie peacock
granted we print money on this, it's it's rather stupid. Like, we order the parts, we pick them up from laser cutting, peel that stupid laser film off, bend them quickly in the arbor press, I do 60 of them in like four or five minutes, and then they get thrown in the tumbler, tumbled, and they leave.
00:53:25
jamie peacock
Like, It's free money effectively. But now they want 5,000 of these things. So we will we'll see if they come to the poll come with that order. It'll be a nice order because, well, Danica's going to liberate most of that money, unfortunately, because I'm going to make her do all the work.
00:53:40
jamie peacock
Like i have to I have to buy another Tumblr. Story of my life.
00:53:43
Curt
Yeah.
00:53:44
jamie peacock
I've got to buy a proper rotary Tumblr because there's 5,000 components are not going to do so well in a bucket.
00:53:53
Curt
Yeah. Yeah.
00:53:54
jamie peacock
I could probably throw 500 at a time.
00:53:55
Curt
That might be a lot.
00:53:56
jamie peacock
Like, I'm just going buy proper time, but there is a second-hand one for sale somewhere locally, or I'll just build a proper one. um So, like, I've told you, I've like, okay, cool. Some budget for that and some budget for a hardened tool steel tool, because right now it's a mild steel tool that I reckon we'll get about 1,000 parts out of I could just machine five of them because it takes me half an hour to machine.
00:54:17
jamie peacock
So just machine five of the fucking things. When it wears out, put in a new one. But I'd rather just have a ah hardened tool that I don't ever have to think about again.
00:54:27
Curt
Right, yeah, yeah. yeah
00:54:28
jamie peacock
Yeah, because that, I mean, on that, we we only make about, yeah, about 50 US cents per pot by the time it leaves the door for labor. But on 5,000 pots, it starts to add up very quickly.
00:54:40
jamie peacock
especially considering processing that is like three or four days worth work.
00:54:40
Curt
Yeah, no doubt.
00:54:45
Curt
Yo, 5,000 is a lot. like I don't care what you're making. 5,000 of anything is a lot of thing.
00:54:48
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:54:50
Curt
It's a lot to even count.
00:54:50
jamie peacock
It's not that much. One of the first, one of the first big jobs I did on, on Bertha was 4,000 lawnmower bushes. So 25 diamonds of steel with a 14 mil hole through the middle and then parts it off.
00:55:00
Curt
Ugh.
00:55:04
jamie peacock
And I could do like 250 of them a day or of them a day or something stupid
00:55:05
Curt
Yeah.
00:55:08
Curt
Yeah. Nope. Pass. Unsubscribe. Nope. I don't want that. I don't want that. It's a lot.
00:55:15
jamie peacock
ah lot of fun okay let me yeah no that's uh yeah once you get it dialed if you can run it automatically it's fine
00:55:16
Curt
Yeah. Yeah. You know what? Honestly, if I had to make like 5,000 bushings, sure. But like, yeah, it's not my, not my idea of fun.
00:55:30
jamie peacock
Let me quickly shout out our Patreons. Well, Patreon, who's on the top tier there, Jade from Benchmark20. And thank you to you and all the other Patreons who make this ah whole party happen.
00:55:41
jamie peacock
ah
00:55:42
jamie peacock
Greatly appreciate If you guys are interested in checking it out, you can check out the Patreon. It's The Loan Machinists on Patreon. ah You can also check out The Loan Machinists website, theloanmachinists.com, where they're...
00:55:42
Curt
Thank you.
00:55:56
jamie peacock
awesome fun things there's the companion guide which has all the fancy language that i use um there's also a link to the online store where you can pick up shirts and some other merch to help support the podcast as well so thought i'd just get that out of the way quickly yeah there's hats and water bottles i believe yeah danica i blame her um yeah i wanted to get one of the hoodies but then i was like uh no by the time i get it here it becomes absurd
00:56:09
Curt
there's hats too or something now.
00:56:13
Curt
Isaiah, there's new things popping up. I'm like, hey, when did these come here?
00:56:26
jamie peacock
that's yeah So what is happening with your with your shrink-fitting story?
00:56:32
Curt
So that is actually something I'm going to play with today because I went through and I found all the new MOSFETs that I got to buy for it. I don't have to buy, but I will buy for it. so I'm going to buy some beefy MOSFETs. And then I also realized I took out some
00:56:41
jamie peacock
ah assume assume that's to rebuild the smoke machine.
00:56:45
Curt
Rebuild the smoke machine. Yeah. So when I took the MOSFETs off there, I also checked, I checked all started checking traces and I realized that a couple of the diodes were toasted as well. They're all like logic level. Um, so I think they just got kind of caught in the crossfire.
00:56:57
jamie peacock
yeah
00:56:58
Curt
Um, so I'll replace all those. I'll replace some, uh, resistors. I think they're all like, Oh, I forgot the size of the component at one Oh three or something like that. SMD. They're crazy tiny. Um, maybe 603 i don't know they're like one millimeter by two millimeter really really really tiny ones yeah look like grains of sand anyways um so i'll replace all of those get that functioning again um that's besides the point that's an easy kind of play thing if that plan doesn't work uh there's a commercial shrinker that one of my local friends has and uh it's a oh i actually have the the website open here it's made by i think pioneer it's an offshore unit um
00:57:10
jamie peacock
yeah that ah horribleable yeah
00:57:34
Curt
HSK 6K heating unit. So it's got a six kilowatt output, um, which is nice.
00:57:36
jamie peacock
Ooh.
00:57:39
jamie peacock
Jeez.
00:57:39
Curt
Cause then it should, yeah, it should heat up the, um, uh, tool tool way faster, uh, which will, you know, negate the heat exchange between the two parts.
00:57:43
jamie peacock
The tiny holder. Okay. Yeah.
00:57:49
Curt
And let me pull it out. Uh, the one problem is it's broken. He does know it'll fix it. It's about $1,800 fix, but it's about 10 to 12 K to buy one of these, um,
00:57:56
jamie peacock
okay
00:58:01
Curt
new. So he's like, Hey, if you want it, he's like, I can ship it to you.
00:58:02
jamie peacock
yeah
00:58:05
Curt
You can suss it out. We can come up with a price. Um, everything works on it, except it just doesn't produce, like it doesn't drive the current to the coils, um, which is kind of nice.
00:58:12
jamie peacock
ah Everything except the actual functionality.
00:58:16
Curt
everything except the one thing that you need it to do um like everything else i could have hacked around by getting that to work i'm like oh i mean it's easy because it's like you said it's an oscillating circuit you just drop you just drop the straight you know voltage and current right to the to the circuit and it starts to oscillate and it does what it needs to do um so i'm pretty sure i can just kind of bypass it and i'm sure it's just a big scr that's you know flipping the the
00:58:18
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:58:22
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:58:31
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:58:38
jamie peacock
yeah
00:58:38
Curt
ah power over to it anyways that's something uh that i'm probably gonna end up just picking up and uh and toying with it if it ends up being a paperweight it ends up being a paperweight um but if my uh if my first little plan with my little diy cobbled together unit doesn't work i'm kind of hosed so i'm trying to hedge my bets in another sense and this is kind of an easy way to get into something that works if i really wanted to i guess i could just buy it off him and then pay the
00:58:47
jamie peacock
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:58:56
jamie peacock
yeah
00:59:04
Curt
you know, whatever, 1800 bucks to the manufacturer to get all the parts that would actually make it work. Cause they're like, Oh, this is pretty much guaranteed to make it work and function just like the brand new units. I was like, Hmm, that's an option too.
00:59:13
jamie peacock
yeah
00:59:15
Curt
Um, but it's just, it's just a lot of shekels to spend. Um, so I don't know.
00:59:19
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, that's not a cheap endeavor.
00:59:22
Curt
I'm a fan of just kind of seeing if I can hack my way through it. It's not, it's not that complicated. they're pretty simple circuits. So lots, lots of power.
00:59:31
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, they're not particularly... Yeah, lots of power, but yeah not particularly complicated. um
00:59:37
Curt
No.
00:59:38
jamie peacock
Just out of interest's sake, have you looked at the Haas heat shrinker?
00:59:46
Curt
i have not, but I don't I looked or even considered Haas for a Shrinker.
00:59:53
jamie peacock
Yeah, $6,007.
00:59:56
Curt
That's so cheap.
00:59:57
jamie peacock
Yeah.
00:59:58
Curt
That is so cheap.
00:59:59
jamie peacock
six thousand one hundred dollars It's on special because everything's always on special with Haas.
01:00:05
Curt
I know, yeah.
01:00:07
jamie peacock
But yeah, I thought I'd just mention that. Might be interesting.
01:00:09
Curt
That's a good point. No, that's a good point. No, that's that's a wise point.
01:00:11
jamie peacock
Yeah, except it doesn't do BT-30. Yeah, 100%. Make an adapter. Like...
01:00:16
Curt
Oh, it doesn't think it can do BT-30.
01:00:19
jamie peacock
yeah hundred percent making it after now
01:00:21
Curt
Like, what? You can do BT-30. I'm sure you can. Just got to use a little bit of little bit of help.
01:00:26
jamie peacock
yeah no you definitely can just put some tape on your holder and shove it in there
01:00:33
Curt
Yeah, like, yeah.
01:00:36
jamie peacock
how much are their attention knobs okay let me not get distracted on their on their website yeah but yeah i thought i'd just check that out because i know they do everything under the sun because it's harsh these days
01:00:46
Curt
i I'm amazed with Haas producers. It's just like they just... yeah they just They make everything. it just it's yeah
01:00:53
jamie peacock
I'm curious to see how their pricing is going to be affected in the the near future.
01:00:54
Curt
They don't...
01:00:57
Curt
Oh! I think they're going to get hosed.
01:00:59
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:01:00
jamie peacock
Yep.
01:01:01
Curt
yeah
01:01:01
Curt
Especially if things consider the way they're going right now.
01:01:01
jamie peacock
I think.
01:01:03
Curt
I think they're going to get just murked.
01:01:05
jamie peacock
ah You just declare everything as electronics. It's fine. Because apparently there's an exemption on electronics now. I've stopped following the shit show because I just, yeah, it was hurting my brain.
01:01:12
Curt
Everything is... and
01:01:15
Curt
Yeah. Yeah. I did that a long time ago.
01:01:19
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:01:19
Curt
i was like, I can't deal with this anymore. This is too much, too much of a roller coaster.
01:01:21
jamie peacock
I've been following it a bit more the last two weeks because of the Anchor Point release coming up. And that's going to affect me. So I've been following it a bit more, but it's a freaking clown show.
01:01:35
jamie peacock
It's a total clown show. It's great.
01:01:39
jamie peacock
It's entertaining as all hell, especially because i don't live there. makes it even more entertaining. But yeah, it's...
01:01:44
Curt
Yeah.
01:01:46
jamie peacock
it What they've done is going to have some of the long-term effects that they are going to kind of battle with. But we'll leave that a little bit off the podcast because it's a bit of a hot topic at the moment.
01:01:54
Curt
Yeah.
Machining Techniques and Philosophies
01:02:01
jamie peacock
Anyway, I made a 5C stopper today. Do you ever use dead stops in your collards?
01:02:09
Curt
Yeah, i have ah I have a brand new inbox one sitting on the other side of my lathe right now that's been there for like a month because I bought it because I thought i would need it and haven't used it.
01:02:14
jamie peacock
Uh-oh.
01:02:19
Curt
because i had this grand idea that it would work great.
01:02:19
jamie peacock
I will send you a...
01:02:21
Curt
And now I just realized I just buy collets and ma machine them instead.
01:02:22
jamie peacock
So, ah...
01:02:25
jamie peacock
Yeah, that works too. So, I needed one today for the 10mm pins. And the one I have uses 16mm threaded rod to be adjustable. So, drew one up quickly.
01:02:36
jamie peacock
Turns out you can thread a 24 TPR with a 1mm pitch thread mill. Kind of. There's a little bit of error.
01:02:45
Curt
okay
01:02:46
jamie peacock
There's 50 microns per rev. um It's really, like, over 8mm, you're not going to actually notice it. So I just told it that it was 24 TPR with a 1mm thread mill.
01:02:59
jamie peacock
Thread milled it until it went on, and then I bought it for an 8mm shaft.
01:03:00
Curt
Mm.
01:03:03
jamie peacock
I need to make another two. One for a 3mm shaft and one for a 4mm shaft for some stuff that's coming down the pipeline where I need to make tiny-ass little pins.
01:03:15
jamie peacock
But yeah, works super, super well. And yeah, if anyone if anyone is interested in that file, just DM me and I'm happy to share it. um Just, yeah, useful thing. It literally is 16 millimeters long.
01:03:26
jamie peacock
Threads into the back. Smaller than it. It's 28 diameter. So it'll fit down the throat of most machines. Because that's the issue with my one. My other one. It doesn't screw deep enough in. So I can't actually lock the collets.
01:03:40
jamie peacock
Like the anti-rotation feature.
01:03:41
Curt
Mmm.
01:03:42
jamie peacock
we've We've made thousands of parts with it, but ah would I wanted it to go all way in.
01:03:42
Curt
Gotcha, gotcha.
01:03:47
jamie peacock
So I made a new one. But yeah, works works really well and super super, super simple to make. You need you need a tc key seat cutter to do the hex if you want to do it one-off. So I machined the threads, key seat cut the hex, which is undercut, and then slitting sword it off.
01:04:03
jamie peacock
So I've got a 24 hex on there to tighten it into the collet.
01:04:06
Curt
Nice.
01:04:07
jamie peacock
But yeah, it worked like a bomb. Okay, Kurt, and then your very deep and philosophical topic there.
01:04:10
Curt
Nice, nice.
01:04:16
Curt
Oh, yeah, my, the whole thing of time and health are the only currency you should ever be concerned with is, yeah, that, uh, a good reminder this week where thankfully I was in a position where I've kind of set myself up where if I lost a week, it didn't always trust me out or anything, but like, that'd be the worst. Like, especially working for yourself, that's something you don't really consider so much. You're like, oh, I'll always feel good. It's like, yeah, you will feel good until you don't feel good. And like,
01:04:39
jamie peacock
Yep.
01:04:39
Curt
That's yeah, it's it's all that matters is like your health and your time.
01:04:43
Curt
It's the only things you can never get more of. You can always get more money like anybody will give you my it joke that you can go to 7-Eleven and get money. All you got to do is, you know, set at the cash register or pump gas and they'll give you money for that.
01:04:54
Curt
But nobody will give you time and nobody will make you healthy.
01:04:54
jamie peacock
yeah yeah
01:04:57
Curt
And like if you don't have any of those or either of those you're hosed. especially like us, like I know you're guilty of it and I'm, I'm guilty of it too. I mean, thankfully my kids keep me from, you know, just working incessantly, but like, otherwise I would work like 12 hours a day, nine days a week.
01:05:08
jamie peacock
yeah yeah it's something
01:05:12
Curt
Um, but with them, you know, they, they, yeah.
01:05:16
jamie peacock
It's something I'm actively trying to not do is work myself into an early grave.
01:05:19
Curt
Yeah.
01:05:21
jamie peacock
Like Sunday, I had the Anno tank failure. And I was like, that was my plan for the day it was run Anno, get that done and deliver today.
01:05:25
Curt
Yeah.
01:05:28
jamie peacock
And that failed.
01:05:29
Curt
Yeah.
01:05:29
jamie peacock
And then i was like, okay, cool. Let me make the mooring point. We had a family lunch. So when they got here, I was setting up for the mooring point. so I ran that. And then when I was doing the finishing pass, I went back, spent time with the family and like took yeah Sunday afternoon off.
01:05:45
jamie peacock
I don't normally, but took some time off.
01:05:46
Curt
Right. Right. Yeah.
01:05:48
jamie peacock
Even though, yeah, I'm in a crazy push at the moment because we're trying to get stuff through processes that of my control before the stupid season hits with all these public holidays.
01:05:59
jamie peacock
um Just getting stuff done like a lot of places. Oh no, we closed for 10 days. um heat treat is closed for six days they close on the 18th and they're open on the 25th like it's insane so yeah i'm i'm pushing for that but i do actively try not to work all the time like i also i don't like working at night because don't really want to annoy my neighbors too much especially now with like the bodies that t-slot cutter sings holy cow
01:06:04
Curt
right
01:06:10
Curt
yeah
01:06:18
Curt
Yeah, one like...
01:06:26
Curt
Yeah.
01:06:27
jamie peacock
Like, it's not quiet.
01:06:28
Curt
Yeah, I bet.
01:06:30
jamie peacock
It's doing 6,000 RPM and through the side of the pot.
01:06:34
Curt
Yeah.
01:06:35
jamie peacock
It sings. So, like, I try not to annoy my neighbors more than necessary. um
01:06:39
Curt
Yeah.
01:06:40
jamie peacock
But, yeah, like, I am very much guilty of working seven days a week. And that's mostly because on Saturday and Sunday, my phone doesn't ring.
01:06:45
Curt
Oh, we...
01:06:50
Curt
Yeah, we all are. That's the problem is when you when you run your own world, you can like, and we all like it.
01:06:53
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:06:55
Curt
That's the problem. It's not like we're doing this because we we don't like It's like, yeah, we enjoy what we do. So we do it all the time. And then before you know it, you're doing that all the time.
01:07:02
jamie peacock
so
01:07:04
Curt
And then like, yeah, it's just like, it's going to kill you slowly.
01:07:05
jamie peacock
So Friday, i think it was Friday.
01:07:08
Curt
Yeah.
01:07:08
jamie peacock
So Friday night, we went to dinner for my cousin's birthday. And I was chatting to someone there. And I'm like, yeah, know. I didn't like my 925. So I got myself a 24-7.
01:07:18
Curt
Yeah, exactly. Right? Right?
01:07:20
jamie peacock
that That is it.
01:07:21
Curt
Yeah.
01:07:21
jamie peacock
At the moment, especially as one-man shop, it's really hard to work on the business, not in the business.
01:07:27
Curt
Yep. Yeah.
01:07:28
jamie peacock
knock ah Danik and I will take a more... like Unfortunately, there's a restaurant about 50 meters up the road from my house and their food has gotten good again. It was bad for about four years and now it's gotten good again.
01:07:40
jamie peacock
They're going under new management.
01:07:41
Curt
Perfect.
01:07:41
jamie peacock
But they do a breakfast.
01:07:42
Curt
Perfect.
01:07:43
jamie peacock
So I'll take a walk up there in the morning.
01:07:43
Curt
Yeah.
01:07:45
jamie peacock
Instead of turning the machines on at like half past seven, eight o'clock, I'll take a walk up there and go and sit and plan, okay, what are we getting through today? What is urgent? Like just stop, reset, plan what needs to be done.
01:07:57
jamie peacock
Because otherwise I get into the workshop and I will faff around in there all day and achieve nothing.
01:07:58
Curt
Yep.
01:08:02
Curt
Totally. Yeah.
01:08:03
jamie peacock
So I have been trying, trying to manage my ADHD, but not always easy.
01:08:09
Curt
Yeah. Well, and you don't have to always succeed at it, but like, as long as we're all like conscious of it, because like, I mean, my wife said that, yeah, my wife, she gets every other Friday off or something like that.
01:08:12
jamie peacock
Yeah. As long as you're trying.
01:08:18
Curt
And I'm like, you know what, you know what my next goal is going to be is like to get myself into a position where I've got enough things automated, enough processes going where I can like take a Friday off with you, even if it's just the Friday morning off with you and not be stressed about it.
01:08:30
Curt
Cause like, yeah, could I take a Friday off like this week? No problem. Like, ah of course I can, but will I, will I be stressed about it?
01:08:34
jamie peacock
Sure, yeah, but then what yeah what falls behind in that problem?
01:08:37
Curt
Of course. Cause yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I'm already behind. So if I take another Friday off, going to be like, oh, then just like, it's not going to be enjoyable for me.
01:08:43
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:08:44
Curt
So like, yeah, my next, my next goal is to be able to take a her Fridays off with her, not be stressed about it and be able to go out for like breakfast or like if she wants to go antique shopping, like, yeah, let's go do that because it's, maybe it's not something I want to do precisely, but it's like, it's, it's,
01:08:49
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:08:55
jamie peacock
No, don't do that. Don't antique shopping.
01:08:59
Curt
I don't, it's, I can turn my brain off. I'm not thinking about machining.
01:09:02
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:09:03
Curt
Like I can go enjoy the sunny air. I can have a fricking coffee. Like that's good for my brain case. Like in the long run, that's super good for my brain case. Like even in the mornings, I usually, I exercise the mornings typically. And always like, oh, this impacts, you know, I could get an extra hour of machining done. It's like,
01:09:18
Curt
or I could not and I could keep exercising and keep my body you know decently healthy and you know potentially do this another 15 years longer than if I you know short change this one hour of my day and you know it's just like the yeah exactly yeah it's the yeah exactly don't take care of your bone mech yeah it's not important it's the one thing that's yeah yeah I know it's
01:09:21
jamie peacock
yeah
01:09:32
jamie peacock
No, exercise the devil code.
01:09:40
jamie peacock
No, not at all. I'll deal with that when I'm old.
01:09:44
Curt
it's the dumbest thing. I'll sleep when I'm dead. It's like, no, you'll die. Like, you gotta sleep.
01:09:47
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:09:48
Curt
and Like, just, just.
01:09:48
jamie peacock
Well, I mean, I bought a six pack of Monster or four pack of Monster today because I figured I was going to run all nighter because if you weren't going to podcast, I was going to keep running. And I was going to pull all nighter get my anodizing stuff finished.
01:09:57
Curt
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
01:10:00
jamie peacock
But then material didn't arrive. That's only going to arrive 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. So there's no point in me burning the midnight oil when I've got a machine another eight, no, geez, another 12 parts.
01:10:07
Curt
Yeah.
01:10:10
jamie peacock
ah That can wait. Like I'll run into the night tomorrow.
01:10:12
Curt
Yeah.
01:10:14
jamie peacock
and then drink four monsters to stay awake like I actively avoid monster but uh when you gotta pull all night out
01:10:22
Curt
We all do it. Like, I'm not like, I'm, yeah, I'm totally hypocritical. Cause I definitely like, I definitely won't get good sleep and I definitely won't eat well. And I definitely will have like weeks where I don't get a good amount of exercise and like yada, yada, yada.
01:10:32
jamie peacock
yeah yeah
01:10:33
Curt
But like try for all of it. Cause like at the end of the day, we're all going to die. And like, let's all not, let's try not to die sooner than we have to.
01:10:41
jamie peacock
exactly like yeah no you got a point there we actually took the dogs for a walk the other evening i don't i don't normally like walking because i have petrol in my f freaking car why the fuck am i walking somewhere um but we took the dogs but geez the big uh the boy was so excited he was uncontrollable like i was walking him i was getting annoyed with him because he wasn't uh staying next to me danica was eventually like
01:10:42
Curt
yeah, I don't know.
01:10:52
Curt
yeah
01:11:06
jamie peacock
must she take him i'm like yeah you try this so i took the girl and danica was she was getting annoyed with him does the training with them every week and he was just so excited to be going out that he was a little bit of a hazard And then I decided to run back the last little bit with the but the female. And she didn't know what was happening because I've never run with her before.
01:11:27
jamie peacock
I would run with Drax.
01:11:28
Curt
Yeah,
01:11:29
jamie peacock
But ran with Kana. She was trying bite my hand. She was like, we're playing. This is best.
01:11:33
Curt
yeah.
01:11:34
jamie peacock
And Drax took off when I took off and dragged her along.
01:11:34
Curt
Yeah.
01:11:38
jamie peacock
It was great.
01:11:38
Curt
so
01:11:38
jamie peacock
But yeah, like doing a bit of exercise is always a good idea.
01:11:43
Curt
well yeah and and a dog is like ah that's a great life hack to like guilt you into it like i have i have a dog and she looks at me every night and hey are we going for a walks like of course we are girl like it doesn't matter like if if i don't feel it it's like she does so let's let's go and you know what i always i always feel better i go on a walk i throw a podcast on chill in the night air like i got no one no one to bug me just like that's one of my favorite times so it's like
01:11:47
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:11:55
jamie peacock
she wants to go yeah no yeah
01:12:05
jamie peacock
yeah that's i swore it's someone today on the phone so our bank with fnb who quite frankly can go jump off a freaking bridge at this point um i'm tired of that bank but anyway been getting a call from their funeral cover
01:12:14
Curt
Hm.
01:12:19
jamie peacock
So I answer the phone. see So I see it's F and B. So I see assume it's something I need to speak to me about. Answer the phone. And then it hangs up. Then it phones me again, like 30 seconds later, hangs up.
01:12:32
jamie peacock
So I blocked the number. And then unrelenting, like six calls a day. Eventually got through to someone today and asked them to politely leave me alone with lots of Fs thrown in there. I've had enough. And then I blocked the number. I'm like, I'm done with this.
01:12:46
jamie peacock
I was on, I think, in the course of last week, four or five times, I was on a call with a customer and got a call. And then my true caller doesn't work because I'm on a call. And it ended up just being spam calls and wasting my fucking time.
01:13:00
jamie peacock
Like, yeah, i it's been and it's been relentless the last two weeks, this number of spam calls I've been getting. It's like, yeah. So they've been politely told to go jump off bridges.
01:13:10
Curt
Got
01:13:13
Curt
to quit putting your phone number and all to those bad sites, Jamie. You need to use the fake phone numbers for those.
01:13:17
jamie peacock
Well, i've had this but I've had this phone number for... No, now feel old. For 19 years, I've had the same phone number.
01:13:30
Curt
yeah, yeah. Yeah.
01:13:32
jamie peacock
So it's been out there and yeah, it's been around. Like, I don't want to change my number. but Then i have to memorize a new number. Screw that. But yeah, literally have this phone number for 19 years at this point.
01:13:39
Curt
yeah
01:13:41
jamie peacock
So yeah it gets a lot of bullshit. Like even spam SMSs. yeah And other than that, customers phoning and wanting things.
01:13:49
Curt
Oh, yeah.
01:13:52
jamie peacock
Ridiculous. Just give me money and go away. You don't need work from me.
01:13:55
Curt
Yeah.
01:13:56
jamie peacock
Come on.
01:13:58
jamie peacock
Yeah, like we do. The thing is we do a lot of that.
01:13:58
Curt
ah
Personal Priorities and Business Shifts
01:14:01
jamie peacock
Well, used to do a lot of consulting and fixing machines and things. And I'm trying to move out of that.
01:14:08
Curt
Right. Yeah.
01:14:09
jamie peacock
Because I can make a lot more money in my workshop than I can doing that crap.
01:14:10
Curt
Yeah.
01:14:15
Curt
Yeah. No fair. Fair, fair, fair.
01:14:17
jamie peacock
yeah i actually just while we were on the podcast i was doing maths again uh i did some maths on how many because now i actually know what the cycle times on the uh on the anchor points are now that i've actually run the production code and all that uh and i did the maths on how many i can actually make in a month it's not as many as a thought but yeah we'll save that for the after show
01:14:21
Curt
Nice.
01:14:38
Curt
Well.
01:14:40
jamie peacock
For the people who actually care.
01:14:40
Curt
Yeah, fair enough.
01:14:41
jamie peacock
Like, don't need to be spouting that too much.
01:14:43
Curt
Yay.
01:14:45
jamie peacock
So yeah, the Patreons get an aftershow.
01:14:45
Curt
No.
01:14:47
jamie peacock
um Anyone at one of the paid tiers gets access to the aftershow, where Kurt and I discuss super-secret things, usually. Or we rant about things, or tell people that Imperial's horrible.
01:14:56
Curt
or were Or I just watched watch all right to say you're now watch Jamie do math.
01:15:03
jamie peacock
Yes. It's super, super exciting to watch me do maths. Yeah, I shared that on my Instagram. Danica making fun of me.
01:15:13
Curt
What have you been Googling this?
01:15:15
jamie peacock
Yeah, the music made it so much better.
01:15:17
Curt
The music she music was perfect.
01:15:19
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:15:19
Curt
like You couldn't have picked a better. I just, oh, yeah.
01:15:21
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:15:23
jamie peacock
Yeah, no, no. She knows how to make make fun of me properly. So let me see what I have been Googling. I've been watching on YouTube.
01:15:23
Curt
i just oh yeah
01:15:29
Curt
Yes.
01:15:30
jamie peacock
I've been watching Brightside Films. He does a series called Bankrupt. And there's another there's another series he does.
01:15:39
Curt
Okay.
01:15:42
jamie peacock
Yeah, very interesting. Like TWA and Pan Am. um All these big companies that went bankrupt and how that all came about. Quite interesting stuff.
01:15:53
jamie peacock
ah Okay, let's see. What have I been goggling? So and ah along with doing the Wordle every day, now do Strands, which is also a New York Times game thing.
01:15:53
Curt
That's cool.
01:16:07
jamie peacock
And then... looking at the Rand dollar was also Googling what the ah how many milliamps a 50 watt laser tube should draw because my laser wasn't lasering because I put the long lens in and it was touching the house the nozzle.
01:16:24
jamie peacock
So the nozzle was chowing all my energy. Yeah.
01:16:26
Curt
right yeah
01:16:27
jamie peacock
Googling linear shaft trying to find where I can buy solid boring bars locally, um but can't look I Googled Rand dollar again. um um i'm looking at a battery powered uh circular saw for breaking down sheet sheet goods for the laser like when i order a sheet of plywood so i kind of want to convince myself that i need to buy one of those um yeah that that's all that's in the googly things and except for this what is this uh oh laboratory supply equipment to people who don't have stock of the acid that i ordered
01:16:48
Curt
Yep.
01:16:50
Curt
Yep.
01:16:53
Curt
Oh.
01:16:57
Curt
oh
01:17:04
Curt
Hmm.
01:17:05
jamie peacock
One would expect that laboratory supply place would have stock of acid, but they don't. And they made me buy two and a half liters of it, which I didn't really want.
01:17:14
jamie peacock
But yeah, what have you been Googling, Kurt? How to heal from a cold.
01:17:14
Curt
yeah uh i've been googling uh actually i had i did definitely google some weird things because i was like how long can you have a fever before your brain starts to like expand and squeeze out of your ears or something bad so uh
01:17:30
Curt
Apparently a long time. um Anyways, ah yeah, some stuff related to that. A lot of stuff related to Vorons that basically led me down the rabbit hole of printing my own Voron is silly. So now I put all those parts into a bin of my bin of regret, which is full of other printed parts that I've started for other printers and never finished.
01:17:47
Curt
And it's just like, it's probably kilos of plastic where I'm like, wow, this was neat and fun at the time, but I will never ever do anything with this.
01:17:47
jamie peacock
I don't
01:17:54
Curt
But I Can't throw it out because they're pretty parts. So I'll put them in a box for year and then all then I'll throw them out. So yeah, I've been Googling that.
01:18:05
Curt
Googling a bunch of MOSFET stuff for those circuits, bunch of heat shrink stuff. i actually found... a bunch of articles. I can't remember the company right now. um i so I linked their stupid site and now they send me PDFs every single day about all the technical details around like induction coils and whatnot.
01:18:19
jamie peacock
Oh, jeez.
01:18:23
Curt
it's like I'm not trying to make my own and industrial industrial like smelter, but they think I am. so
01:18:30
jamie peacock
Gotta watch where you put that email address, Kurt.
01:18:33
Curt
I do, yeah, exactly. and and I also Googled um how old Canada is.
01:18:34
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:18:39
Curt
Because on all the Canadian pens I made, i they're all, they're going to be a limited series run. Canada is 150. Yeah. Canada is 158 old.
01:18:46
jamie peacock
oh
01:18:47
Curt
only going to make 150. Yeah. Yeah. We're not very old all. like, so i'm only going to make a hundred and fifty
01:18:50
jamie peacock
Is that all?
01:18:53
Curt
yeah yeah we're not very old at all no i like
01:18:54
jamie peacock
i say, is that all? i mean, we've been around for like 400 and something years in sunny South Africa.
01:18:59
Curt
Yeah, no, yeah yeah, exactly. There's, I i was sitting in a bar in Boston couple or a of summers ago now.
01:19:00
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:19:06
Curt
And I was like, huh, this bar is twice as old as Canada. And yeah, kind kind of laugh at that. But anyways, I'm 158 years old, which means I'm only making 158 of these pens. So this is, actually, I haven't even announced this yet.
01:19:16
jamie peacock
Nice.
01:19:18
Curt
I'm going announce this eventually. But um all the pens that went out, they got a little card that says like, one 158, two of 158. yeah, once I max out on those, I can make any more of those.
01:19:26
jamie peacock
ah Okay.
01:19:29
Curt
um So it's kind of be a little bit more fun for people.
Space Exploration and Personal Interests
01:19:32
Curt
Either people will be mad because there's only going to be that many or people be happy because they'll be limited. I don't know.
01:19:37
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:19:38
Curt
I'll get it from both sides.
01:19:38
jamie peacock
Well, every year you can make one more.
01:19:41
Curt
That's true. Yeah, every year I can release one more.
01:19:44
jamie peacock
Okay.
01:19:46
Curt
Anyways, that's ah it's basically been, yeah.
01:19:47
jamie peacock
oh okay
01:19:49
Curt
And that and just say a bunch of dumb stuff, but that's the most interesting stuff I've been Googling. Everything else is just kind of lame. Oh, and the satellite. we're trying to like They're trying to recover one of the oldest satellites that they put into space.
01:19:59
Curt
I think Vanguard 1.
01:20:00
jamie peacock
Oh, okay.
01:20:01
Curt
vanguard one Yeah, they pushed it up into like...
01:20:02
jamie peacock
Oh, wow.
01:20:02
jamie peacock
Okay. and Into a parking orbit.
01:20:02
Curt
ah Yeah, they pushed it up in...
01:20:04
Curt
a hundred art Yeah, in 1958, I think, is when it went up there. and They put it up into a far enough orbit that it doesn't degrade. and They're thinking about you know picking it up and bringing it back, which is...
01:20:13
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:20:16
Curt
That's kind of cool.
01:20:16
jamie peacock
Oh, cool.
01:20:16
Curt
i don't know. I kind of like that stuff.
01:20:17
jamie peacock
yeah Yeah, that's really cool. Now, I dig space stuff.
01:20:19
Curt
I remember...
01:20:20
jamie peacock
like
01:20:21
Curt
Oh man, so do I.
01:20:21
jamie peacock
I really do. Like, Scott Manley's videos, I thoroughly enjoy them every, like, his deep space update. That's where get most of my, like, update-y stuff is from him.
01:20:29
Curt
Yeah, I remember being little and being like, I wonder if I could see Sputnik.
01:20:30
jamie peacock
Fuck.
01:20:33
Curt
And it took me a long time to realize like, no, Sputnik deorbited like a few months after it was put into space.
01:20:36
jamie peacock
Fuck, two weeks after.
01:20:38
Curt
But I was like, I was like, I want to go look at it.
01:20:39
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:20:40
Curt
It's like, no, you can't. I'm sorry, little friend. But anyway, yeah, so I kind like that stuff.
01:20:44
jamie peacock
oh yeah know scott i I used to watch a lot of the stuff when ah Starship and they were doing Starhopper and whatnot and they were like weekly update channels and I've just fallen off the bat now.
01:20:56
Curt
yep ye Yeah.
01:21:00
jamie peacock
It's like I'll watch Scott Manley. He generally covers everything I'm interested in and if there's something interesting I'll go dive into it myself. And obviously Everyday Astronaut.
01:21:10
Curt
yeah
01:21:11
jamie peacock
He doesn't post that much anymore.
01:21:14
Curt
Yeah. yeah no i post
01:21:14
jamie peacock
He posts really long form stuff.
01:21:17
Curt
yeah Yeah. I'll watch. I'll watch some of his stuff or I'll put it on while I'm in the shop here when I'm watching a, you know, listen to his giant Q and A's for all the live streams whatever.
01:21:21
jamie peacock
yeah yeah this week's been this week's been very light on podcasts because there's no pfg live this week and next week it's two weeks without it so i had the lean build podcast this morning where they discussed uh um holsters and gun nomenclature which was really actually quite interesting um yeah because um
01:21:33
Curt
Yeah.
01:21:46
jamie peacock
i said Andrew is also, he's like obviously really into that. So he was going in like, he was saying, no, the Sig, they made the the handgun modular, but their naming his convention is insane.
01:21:58
jamie peacock
And then also Glock, their naming convention is insane. And he was going through it all like, because he knows it all off by heart. Like he was running through it all with Jay. And that was very, very interesting. um ah but yeah that's like that's part of my monday routine is them and uh pfg because i generally don't catch pfg live because it's a bit late here um but yeah i've been listening to a shitload of music because there's been nothing to listen to like since saturday ah finished wan show and then there's been nothing it's been a bit rough
01:22:08
Curt
Yeah.
01:22:13
Curt
Yeah.
01:22:29
Curt
Yeah.
Content Updates and Closing Remarks
01:22:30
jamie peacock
Like, Saturday, part of my routine is WAN show.
01:22:30
Curt
yeah
01:22:32
jamie peacock
It's like three hours long from Linus Tech Tips, and ah just put that on on a Saturday and keep up to date with tech. yeah They have the, what do they call this? Sail?
01:22:43
jamie peacock
um The ship show. Sail or something. Like, beat the ship show because, yeah, they're trying to move inventory now before craziness happens.
01:22:52
Curt
yeah
01:22:55
Curt
yeah i know everyone's everyone's getting all those people that are well yeah that's it that's another testy topic so we can just glaze over that but yeah
01:22:56
jamie peacock
Yeah.
01:23:00
jamie peacock
Yeah. That's whole other thing. Yeah. Okay, well, where can people find your your information, Kurt?
01:23:10
Curt
Well, if you want to find the lack of anything that I've put out in the last week, you can visit confoundedmachine.com where you will find links to here and links to sales. Actually, I have a whole wackadoo of pens that were supposed to go on sale last week. um But since I was in hibernation, um they'll probably go on sale sometime near the end of this week if I can get my act together. They're like 80% complete. So that's kind of nice. um Yeah, all the information's over there.
01:23:35
Curt
How about you, Jamie? Jamie?
01:23:36
jamie peacock
yeah you can find uh my things at jspeceng.com got a section there for the anchor points if you sign up for the newsletter there will be one coming out very shortly there's also a link to the old newsletters on there on the anchor point page um you can also find some shirts and goodness that is uh available there i think they're only available for a few more weeks before danica releases a new uh set of artwork so she's doing that every four months or so she's releasing new artwork um
01:24:04
Curt
Nice.
01:24:05
jamie peacock
And there's also the FrameLock Utility Now available on the website, which is probably not going to be available when I release the Anchor Point because I don't want to have to ship from two different locations because that stock's all sitting in the UK.
01:24:18
jamie peacock
So I think I might pull those down while I do the Anchor Point release. But we will see how that all shakes out. close to the time and then you can find the podcast at the loan machinist.com where there's an online store for merch and a link to the patreon and a bunch of other fun things that danica has put on there for us so yeah what are you going to be up to today good
01:24:25
Curt
nice
01:24:40
Curt
ah Today, I'm probably going to sit at the computer and do much CAD work and do a bunch of um part ordering. And I'm going to order probably some more end mills for those tiny screws because i have to make more of those. And ah yeah, just a bunch of stuff where I don't have to move around because I don't want to push my luck.
01:24:55
Curt
Still feeling a little not 100%. ah hundred percent So I don't want to want give it too much gas then set myself back. But yeah, how about you?
01:25:02
jamie peacock
Yeah. um Well, I'm going to go sleep for the rest of the day. Going to probably have another hot ginger.
01:25:08
Curt
Oh, yeah, I guess.
01:25:10
jamie peacock
But tomorrow morning, we're going to carry on with with machining the Anchor Point bodies. And then once those are done, they can head off to Anodars. um I just got a message from Justin Gray.
01:25:23
jamie peacock
So he's the reason that the Anchor Point has the 96mm pull stud holes.
01:25:23
Curt
Hmm. Hmm.
01:25:32
jamie peacock
And, yeah, he says, yeah, I don't know why anybody would want 96 millimeter studs in this thing. Quote is attributed to the great Jamie Peacock, because he asked for that.
01:25:43
Curt
to
01:25:44
jamie peacock
And I'm like, that seems like a really stupid thing. And now I'm using it to mount them and to machine them. But yeah, like that that is very much courtesy of Justin Gray, the reason that the we rolled to a V4 of the product. because And it is a significantly better product for it.
01:26:01
jamie peacock
So thank you, Justin. He's also one of our Patreons. um But yeah, you messaged me right at the end of the podcast. Well done. So anyway, guys, thank you very much for listening.
01:26:10
Curt
That's awesome.
01:26:12
jamie peacock
um You can find us on You'll find us on words are hard. ah You can find us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and I think most of the podcast players at this point.
01:26:23
jamie peacock
We're also on YouTube. There isn't any video yet, but I think that is coming down the pipeline. And then ah you can watch our faces while we talk. But yeah, thank you very much for listening.
01:26:33
Curt
Yay.
01:26:33
jamie peacock
And Patreons, we'll see you in the after show.
01:26:38
Curt
Take care all