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YCM Mill Crash from Fusion 360 Bug (Safe Start misnomer)
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Jem Freeman
Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
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Justin Brouillette
Portland, Oregon, USA
What's that?
Speaker:Oh, are you talking to Alexa, right?
Speaker:Yep, yep.
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Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:Be good morning.
Speaker:Oh, Justin, I wish I could play summits.
Speaker:God be satisfying.
Speaker:That's sexy.
Speaker:I don't see
Speaker:did you press the.
Speaker:Fuck, I didn't now.
Speaker:Now it's recording somehow.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:Do it again.
Speaker:Whew.
Speaker:it is recording.
Speaker:It's just the video that doesn't record.
Speaker:Breathe it out.
Speaker:3, 2, 1.
Speaker:Sometimes I just miss my own hands.
Speaker:I think like I used to be coordinated and play sports and now like, yeah,
Speaker:Those floppy, cat hands.
Speaker:it's the CAD hands.
Speaker:It's my cat hands CAD cap.
Speaker:Do you send your, your significant other friends, like all CAD cap text?
Speaker:shouting, CAD speak?
Speaker:CAD caps.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:What's.
Speaker:Um, I was lucky person to find a bug in the Fanic post that crashed the YC m y.
Speaker:Hm.
Speaker:Rapid plunge, Rapid plunge, straight Z pull.
Speaker:Verizon, A three eight s carbide tool straight into the palette.
Speaker:I No, Which not your beautiful, shiny palette, I hope.
Speaker:Not the big one, but a new one that I was making for the risers.
Speaker:Yeah, I'll bugger.
Speaker:digging through so far.
Speaker:I.
Speaker:Nothing is wrong.
Speaker:I have not machined anything.
Speaker:The spindle, as far as I can tell, without like more sophisticated
Speaker:tools of like a Ballbar test or something, I don't even know.
Speaker:I've never had to do this before, but like the run out on the
Speaker:tapers fine tools run out fine.
Speaker:It seems to be.
Speaker:Decently XY oriented to the table and like my pallet didn't
Speaker:move as far as I can tell.
Speaker:The only thing that seems to have changed, which is real creepy, is all
Speaker:of my tool heights are now like six thou what 0.06, longer than they should be.
Speaker:So I'm retool hiding all my tools.
Speaker:and they're all averaging, I'm keeping a spreadsheet roughly 6,000 longer,
Speaker:so that tells me that something moved.
Speaker:Not a good feeling.
Speaker:so it was a hard vertical crash.
Speaker:Yeah, I'm a I, This is why I wanted my audio to play, cuz
Speaker:I will you can hear it here.
Speaker:Oh, oh,
Speaker:What the fuck,
Speaker:Oh my God.
Speaker:I,
Speaker:right?
Speaker:It shook.
Speaker:It shook the machine like the camera in that room shook
Speaker:that, that I got that audio.
Speaker:And Ricky came running and yelling, Are you all right?
Speaker:He's like, That was afterwards.
Speaker:He's like, That was the scariest noise I've ever heard here.
Speaker:It's like the first scary thing I heard and I was like, Yeah, it, It was pretty
Speaker:terrible, like pretty terrible noise.
Speaker:Shh.
Speaker:rough, rough afternoon.
Speaker:it was a,
Speaker:Like shook my entire confidence in all of fusion.
Speaker:Like all I knew about machining, cuz I was just like, here, here's the crazy.
Speaker:It simulates fine still.
Speaker:There's no simulation errors.
Speaker:It is literally a bug in safe start all operations, which
Speaker:I started using last week.
Speaker:So you could restart mid program.
Speaker:So it cancels all, all things at the beginning of a, of a program.
Speaker:So like each operation.
Speaker:So I was doing a flat operation with the three eight cinema, and then it was
Speaker:going to a 2D contour with the same.
Speaker:The same file and it safe started there at the top of that operation.
Speaker:So it canceled all the offsets, brought it up to the top, but instead of setting
Speaker:the tool offsets again it first rapid straight down to the wrong height plane
Speaker:because there was no tool off height offsets until after, after the rapid move.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:And apparently I'm the first one to figure this out in all of
Speaker:the fanic post users of Fusion.
Speaker:I don't understand how that's possible, but I, I'm the luck,
Speaker:I, I hope I get a bonus for that.
Speaker:I like a White Hat Hacker award.
Speaker:What are you basing that on?
Speaker:Well I immediately posted the auto dust slack and was like, Hey, so this real
Speaker:bad thing happened and I'm pretty sure I didn't do it, which was weird, first of
Speaker:all, to like, have you ever had a crash where you the operator didn't cause it?
Speaker:Cause I haven't
Speaker:No.
Speaker:And so a couple of the developers immediately jumped in and were like,
Speaker:Ooh, yeah, that's in every Fanic Post.
Speaker:And Matt Sir.
Speaker:And a couple others in our prepository.
Speaker:So somehow nobody else has done safe.
Speaker:Start with like multiple tool, like whatever that clause is,
Speaker:wow.
Speaker:And they're like on fast fix binge.
Speaker:But the other side of that is like, I didn't realize there was a place
Speaker:to look for change notes for post.
Speaker:Infusion.
Speaker:I never even thought about it.
Speaker:I never would've thought like my working post was needing updates.
Speaker:Cause I don't pull them down.
Speaker:I just use the one always.
Speaker:you, you just pull it and use it, right?
Speaker:Mm.
Speaker:So I put a link to link to where you can check for those.
Speaker:So if you're if the, I sure they'll fix it after this, today's October 26th.
Speaker:But if you use a Fanic or a Matura or a Sill or a couple others, Supposedly most
Speaker:of those, if you're using safe start all operations, you can crash your machine
Speaker:because it puts the offsets out of order, the the correct code parameters.
Speaker:So
Speaker:Mm,
Speaker:fun, fun, fun afternoon.
Speaker:Yeah,
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Wow.
Speaker:Okay.
Speaker:making such good progress too, and it just like shattered my world for.
Speaker:Yeah, it's so disconcerting.
Speaker:I've only ever had very minor post issues,
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:just like really little things like 2d not too deep contours.
Speaker:What's the other one?
Speaker:The one that fills the space, You know, What's the cult?
Speaker:That's 3D printing.
Speaker:Jim
Speaker:Oh my
Speaker:3D parallel maybe, or.
Speaker:That's more, It's in the, No, it's just a 2d,
Speaker:2D face,
Speaker:2D pocket park.
Speaker:It, Yeah.
Speaker:I had a post issue on our on Cameron.
Speaker:Just had some really weird glitches where pockets would, you know, simulated, right?
Speaker:But then the cut, depending on the part geometry, it would just
Speaker:step down in weird little ways.
Speaker:Kind of like ghost in the machine.
Speaker:It's just, it wasn't a big deal.
Speaker:Didn't, you know, didn't lose anything, didn't break tools,
Speaker:but like so disconcerting to have a machine like misbehave
Speaker:It is.
Speaker:It's
Speaker:really really strange, like.
Speaker:I'm not trying to over exaggerate this, but I legit felt like I
Speaker:saw like a car crash for a bit.
Speaker:Like no, obviously nobody died and it just, well, like such adrenaline
Speaker:and like it, it shook the floor.
Speaker:Like it was just very jarring.
Speaker:I don't understand like if it comes out of this unscathed except for
Speaker:like a little bit of z change, which, what did bolts move?
Speaker:Did I stretch the casting?
Speaker:I don't really know, like not good.
Speaker:I'll be pretty surprised if nothing's really wrong with it for how hard it is.
Speaker:I sent you, not that you have to watch it right now, but some photos
Speaker:and a video of of it happening.
Speaker:Cool.
Speaker:Thanks I dunno if I want to hear that noise again.
Speaker:Even like the low-fi version of it coming through, this is frightening.
Speaker:So where, where's it at now?
Speaker:Are you just still resetting?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:This morning I was between talking with Autodesk.
Speaker:going through, I'd gotten kind of a nice checklist from Al Fusion
Speaker:on what I was like, I don't even know where to start here.
Speaker:Like, what am I checking?
Speaker:Like I, I'm sure you kind of have to, be around a crash to
Speaker:know what to check for, I think.
Speaker:And I never had anything to this extent.
Speaker:just, yeah, dial indicated that like the machine to like the table.
Speaker:I never had before in that way, and like then checked the pallet to see
Speaker:if it had moved off of, but it's like dead on like indicator like
Speaker:doesn't even move when I'm run.
Speaker:Sweeping it, I checked, I'm just now currently at the state of going
Speaker:through each tool logging what it said in a spreadsheet for Tool
Speaker:Heights and then measuring it again.
Speaker:And they're averaging almost exactly six thou every one of.
Speaker:Like, it'll be like 4,006.
Speaker:How?
Speaker:Something's moved, huh?
Speaker:If this was like a Kern or you know, something pricey, this
Speaker:would be many digits to, to fix.
Speaker:I.
Speaker:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker:Anyway, How's your, how's your week,
Speaker:Well nothing, nothing of that level of excitement by any means.
Speaker:I guess that's good.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:No, no crashes.
Speaker:We did have a machine down over the weekend.
Speaker:Had a tiny little.
Speaker:Under Trinity.
Speaker:Trinity's kind of got more advanced vacuum hold down than Cameron
Speaker:Oh,
Speaker:and she's got vacuum zones.
Speaker:Cameron's just like all in
Speaker:Mm.
Speaker:hoovering, the full surface.
Speaker:Whereas Trinity, we can select I think quadrant, oh,
Speaker:sorry, sorry.
Speaker:Microphone can select quadrants, which is actually really, really useful cuz
Speaker:you can kind of just switch on the bottom left quadrant and get like amazing.
Speaker:Full, full power just in one spot.
Speaker:But yeah, one of the solenoids that controls one of the zones dropped out
Speaker:on the Wednesday or Thursday last week.
Speaker:So we had, I think two, two days with that machine down, waiting for a tech
Speaker:to come out and replace a $2 part.
Speaker:So we now have some spares of that little cheap part that we
Speaker:can replace ourselves for next.
Speaker:The part itself, you know, it's, I'm exaggerating.
Speaker:It's not a $2 part, but yeah.
Speaker:You know, it's a small
Speaker:just pneumatic oid that failed.
Speaker:So we should be able to do that ourselves next time.
Speaker:Cause I think that's the second time, second or third
Speaker:time, one of those has failed.
Speaker:I feel like that I hear those.
Speaker:Maybe it's like Saunders talking about it, but that those fail somewhat
Speaker:frequently, but maybe that's not true.
Speaker:I don.
Speaker:I don't.
Speaker:They're pretty simple little things
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:anyway so Trinity was down for a few days and Trinity is kind of our main production
Speaker:machine these days while Cameron's been locked up machining this acoustic panel
Speaker:job, we've had a lot of, lot of work.
Speaker:Doing that contract machining of that acoustic wood wall stuff
Speaker:this month, heaps more than usual.
Speaker:So Cameron's pretty much just been a dedicated set up, making
Speaker:a mess, machining that nonsense.
Speaker:And so yeah, losing our main production machine was a bit of a hindrance
Speaker:this month, but I think Johnny's catching up now getting back on track.
Speaker:And yeah, we've been a little bit short staffed with people
Speaker:away, but hasn't been too bad.
Speaker:John's been keeping a handle on production management with
Speaker:Ben overseas at the moment.
Speaker:Hmm.
Speaker:And yeah, no production's going pretty well.
Speaker:That's good.
Speaker:of smoothly.
Speaker:Smoothly, which is, you know, always feels.
Speaker:Still feels weird to me when things are just like going smoothly.
Speaker:what's wrong?
Speaker:What if, what have we missed?
Speaker:enough people to pay attention to all of it.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Just, just could do with another couple of people at the moment,
Speaker:but they'll be back soon.
Speaker:Otherwise, what are we doing?
Speaker:We've had a terrible month of sales.
Speaker:Sam we're like half of what last was,
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:that was like one of our best ones ever.
Speaker:So, but that's like so characteristic of like, I just swear I'm always, two
Speaker:years ago maybe, where maybe before pandemic, where it was just like steady.
Speaker:We'd get the same amount every month ish, maybe a couple thousand.
Speaker:Now it's just woo woo.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:I reckon we're seeing greater variability too,
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:so yeah.
Speaker:I dunno what's going on there.
Speaker:I don't know if it's market, a market thing.
Speaker:It really depends who you talk to.
Speaker:Like some people are like, Oh yeah, of course it's cuz of the
Speaker:economy, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Speaker:Spending habits, and then other people are like, Mm, nope.
Speaker:people.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:I don't know what's going on.
Speaker:I haven't changed my spending habits, so
Speaker:Did we ever talk about this?
Speaker:I don't know where.
Speaker:I probably think I found it on TikTok maybe, but I found this marketer,
Speaker:it's called Stacked Marketer.
Speaker:I'll put a link to it if you're interested.
Speaker:I don't read at all, but it's like a daily email for marketers, which I
Speaker:barely find myself approaching that.
Speaker:they'll often have really interesting, like kind of big announcement
Speaker:news about like, you know, Instagram's gonna start doing this
Speaker:or like just that kind of stuff.
Speaker:Or like, you should look at this type of.
Speaker:In, you know, real ad or is now doing this creepy thing, or
Speaker:Yeah, that's the kind of thing I need to sign up to.
Speaker:it's a lot, honestly.
Speaker:Like I barely skim.
Speaker:Usually I like scan it, but sometimes there's some really good stuff in there.
Speaker:But they, I think yesterday it said some, oh no 3:00 AM today.
Speaker:The subjects slowing.
Speaker:Good morning.
Speaker:It's slowing down.
Speaker:Big number of tech co share their Q3 earnings this week.
Speaker:There's some good and bad news.
Speaker:The bad Google's advertising revenue dropped.
Speaker:Microsoft dropped, Spotify dropped.
Speaker:So
Speaker:Hmm.
Speaker:like it's not just us.
Speaker:They have weird slowness.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:that's not even weird.
Speaker:No, just is, huh?
Speaker:Hmm.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So yeah, slow month there.
Speaker:Trying to, We've got a couple of days left, so we've done a little
Speaker:campaign, dropped, put free shipping on everything yesterday, so I'll
Speaker:try and promote that today to get a few more web sales in, in the door.
Speaker:And what else?
Speaker:Yeah, just chasing up a few custom leads to try and close those
Speaker:out for the end of the month.
Speaker:But yeah, I don.
Speaker:I feel like I'm just sort of in a world of social media metrics and Premiere.
Speaker:I had like crazy fever dreams on the weekend.
Speaker:I think I must have been fighting a bug or something.
Speaker:I was, my daughter was sick and I must have got a bit of what she had and.
Speaker:Saturday and Sunday night.
Speaker:I just had these horrible cyclical fever dreams of like script premier,
Speaker:why am I, Why am I editing in premier?
Speaker:I should be editing in script.
Speaker:And it was just like this cycle of like, Descript script, premiere
Speaker:script, like all night long.
Speaker:It was pretty horrible.
Speaker:Anyway, I got in Monday and I was like, Okay, maybe I
Speaker:should do something about that.
Speaker:And I did.
Speaker:I ran some, like, I dropped the same 4K footage into prem and into script and
Speaker:was just comparing sort of functionality and playback speed and Descript
Speaker:script was struggling, to be honest.
Speaker:It takes some time for the clips to kind.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:load or what buff process or whatever they're doing in
Speaker:the ma, the Magic des cloud.
Speaker:And also then the just editing playback with that 4K footage was a little bit
Speaker:slow and clunky, whereas in prem, I'm fighting on this computer in prem.
Speaker:It's just like boo perfect playback.
Speaker:I couldn't scrub.
Speaker:It's quite fast.
Speaker:But
Speaker:do really like the editing workflow in the script though, so I don't know.
Speaker:Like, like this speed of what?
Speaker:I mean, it's totally different to edit a podcast than like, One of
Speaker:your, our marketing videos where it's more like, you're thinking more and
Speaker:like, Oh, I gotta put this clip here.
Speaker:It just, you know, speed through it basically.
Speaker:But like the speed of which you can cut stuff out and like move through it.
Speaker:Like, I love the, the zoom and like using the keyboard commands and
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:It works so beautifully with even just little things like track pad
Speaker:functionality versus mouse functionality is just like really intuitive in group.
Speaker:Whereas in Premier it's you like Zoom is a bit weird and like unresponsive.
Speaker:Anyway, anyway,
Speaker:It sucks when I'm like, I usually end up editing the podcast in bed
Speaker:with inverted color mode cuz I'm like, Oh, I gotta hit this tonight.
Speaker:Get
Speaker:it just just choose through battery compared to everything
Speaker:else, which is surprising.
Speaker:Oh dear.
Speaker:No, I can't, I can't talk.
Speaker:My editing is usually late at night too.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Speaking of, we're trying to change that.
Speaker:How are we trying to change that
Speaker:you just slipped into like a script, Justin's script mode.
Speaker:I
Speaker:are trying to
Speaker:planned.
Speaker:I've been reading a script the whole time.
Speaker:What do you mean
Speaker:Well, yeah.
Speaker:Should we shout out to our inaugural?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:Is that appropriate?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:He's been a good supporter of everything I've done lately.
Speaker:Oh, that's sweet.
Speaker:It's a good dude.
Speaker:Oh, well, if he's your dude.
Speaker:Oh,
Speaker:you, Scott.
Speaker:Over to you, Justin.
Speaker:So we're starting a Patreon.
Speaker:We've started a Patreon for parts department, and this isn't like
Speaker:some money grab because podcasts don't usually make money, Right?
Speaker:Especially these kinds.
Speaker:So there's a few costs with the show hosting and editing software and our time
Speaker:to do it, which we kind of just wash away.
Speaker:But it is a lot of time and we're trying to find enough money here so
Speaker:that we can have a podcast editor.
Speaker:so that we don't have to do it anymore because we enjoy doing it.
Speaker:We enjoy talking, but it is a decent amount of time to
Speaker:make a, an output every month.
Speaker:So we have a few tiers that for what you're comfortable with,
Speaker:and there'll be a link below.
Speaker:But one of which I think my favorite tier is at $10 or higher, you get a secret
Speaker:show episode, which will be, I think we're thinking like every month, and it'll.
Speaker:You've, you've had a lot of thoughts about what do you think
Speaker:will have in the secret show?
Speaker:I would like to just go a bit more in depth with financial stuff cuz
Speaker:something that frustrates me in life, but particularly in this sort of content is
Speaker:people not going quite deep enough for my
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:or not sharing things.
Speaker:And so I'd like to be able to sort of share a bit more about, you
Speaker:know, how much should we spend on digital marketing last month.
Speaker:did that result in which I don't always feel comfortable going to
Speaker:that level of detail in a regular episode, but yeah, perhaps in that
Speaker:sort of bonus content episode with a much smaller audience than that
Speaker:would be a fun, fun thing to touch on.
Speaker:So for me, yeah, it's talking finances in more depth.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Or maybe like sharing the intimate details of how your machine
Speaker:crashed, which I already did, but
Speaker:Even more
Speaker:doesn't happen again.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Bring you inside.
Speaker:come inside the mill room with
Speaker:Justin.
Speaker:we've, been kind of teasing the, the details of it for trying to figure
Speaker:out, you know, how to make it something that you all would wanna support and.
Speaker:You know, we're a fairly small show, but we get a lot of comments
Speaker:from people appreciating it.
Speaker:So we like to think of it, I think, I like to think of it, I think
Speaker:we've talked about this, it's like business therapy for Gemini.
Speaker:And I guess my pitch to you is like, this is a very cheap
Speaker:business therapy for you as well.
Speaker:Hopefully it's way cheaper than hiring a consultant if you
Speaker:support a Patreon for a podcast.
Speaker:So, make it a donation.
Speaker:That's expensible.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So thank you.
Speaker:Thank you to Scott Bennett of House Fish Design.
Speaker:Thank you Scott.
Speaker:First he, we had some stories and he was the first to jump on it without
Speaker:any question, which is how he has been supporting our new products too.
Speaker:I think he has a shop saver similar to ours, and he's.
Speaker:A couple of our newest things within a couple minutes of them
Speaker:going live, so I've appreciated
Speaker:Oh, awesome.
Speaker:Super cool.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:Well, the other thing I'd say, we're not intending to change the show.
Speaker:Don't freak out.
Speaker:This is gonna stay the same.
Speaker:We're just gonna probably go a little deeper on a few things.
Speaker:The other option, I think the highest tier we have right
Speaker:now, $25, there's going to be?
Speaker:All right, so at Dawn's, Deb Burgers at $25 a month.
Speaker:Have a quarterly hangout as well.
Speaker:So does, so does gem's robots at $10 a month.
Speaker:So the $25 a month.
Speaker:Also get you random surprises, which we can't tell you about obviously,
Speaker:because then they wouldn't be random.
Speaker:But pick what you feel comfortable.
Speaker:And we appreciate it.
Speaker:Either way.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:No.
Speaker:Any support would be amazing To feed the editing.
Speaker:Beast.
Speaker:The editing effort.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:The beast.
Speaker:Don's getting tired.
Speaker:It's
Speaker:Poor dawn.
Speaker:Poor dawn.
Speaker:It it, it's coffee time.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I made two coffees this morning.
Speaker:I've got them lined up on my desk for one.
Speaker:One gets cold, I can work onto the next, No, it's mine.
Speaker:So I went to a trade show yesterday,
Speaker:was it local?
Speaker:No, I was in Melbourne.
Speaker:Wow.
Speaker:I guess that's local, right?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker:Seems seems local enough.
Speaker:local enough.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I went to a trade show about waste,
Speaker:Ah,
Speaker:was interesting.
Speaker:It was kind of you know, it was big boy waste, you know, big recycling.
Speaker:Plants soil reclamation, shredders for like huge metal, you know,
Speaker:recycling lines and stuff like that.
Speaker:So it was kind of cool to see a bunch of, sort of big industry stuff, but
Speaker:also had some good conversations with people about, you know, met a couple
Speaker:of companies that potentially take something like our sawdust product.
Speaker:Whether it's pre-cost or post compost, but like people that could potentially
Speaker:deal with the volume of sawdust.
Speaker:With that, we generate,
Speaker:Hmm.
Speaker:That's cool.
Speaker:people that sell shredders, some of which were potentially small
Speaker:enough or suitable for us to be able to like, cuz we, you know, we're
Speaker:holding all the sawdust that we.
Speaker:With the aim to compost it, turn it into soil but then we're still putting,
Speaker:you know, all the smaller, useless little scraps of plywood and stuff in
Speaker:the bin, which is going to landfill, which we, we ultimately, we want
Speaker:to get rid of landfill completely.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:And one way to do low, vast majority of that would be to shred all those smaller
Speaker:off cuts down to a size that they could then be fed into the compost stream if we
Speaker:can get this compost thing up and running.
Speaker:So, Yeah, getting some prices on shredders.
Speaker:I think the cheapest one was about $40,000, but you know, it was good to
Speaker:see one operating and get a sense of scale and investment and stuff like that.
Speaker:I'm sure there's cheaper options out there, which might
Speaker:be more suitable for us, but
Speaker:So this could intake like plywood and like chunk it up into, like, then do
Speaker:you pe do you, could you like compact it or is that a completely different
Speaker:type of machine that's also $40,000?
Speaker:Another , that's another 40 k I think.
Speaker:No, this, this just shreds it.
Speaker:So, you know, you know, like when you're packing a bin with random off cuts
Speaker:off the sea and here it tends to be pretty inefficient in terms of space.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:So first, and you know, first and foremost, it would just reduce our volume.
Speaker:It's not like we're throwing out any less, but it would reduce the
Speaker:volume in the bin, which is a small.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah,
Speaker:but then the, the main thing for us would, it would achieve is just being able to
Speaker:switch where that waste output's actually going and put it into our compost stream.
Speaker:So yeah, I'm just kind of cool.
Speaker:Looked at, they had like a clean energy expo next door, so had a quick look at
Speaker:some like three phase battery systems?
Speaker:That could potentially be tacked onto our solar system here.
Speaker:Cause at the moment we feed excess solar back to the grid, but we get a
Speaker:very small return for that feed in.
Speaker:So if we could store that energy and use it ourselves, it'd be much more valuable.
Speaker:So, down the track, I'd love to get a battery pack, but it's,
Speaker:again, it's a big investment.
Speaker:So,
Speaker:Did they put this, this, this expo on for you specifically?
Speaker:Cuz
Speaker:seems like, it seems like
Speaker:I was the only one there.
Speaker:to your interests.
Speaker:No, there were heap of people there.
Speaker:Like
Speaker:it was, It was interesting walking in and trying not to be like, I'm not a
Speaker:cynical person, but like in this sort of area, a little part of me goes, Or
Speaker:there's so much money in the, you could just smell the money, like the sort
Speaker:of people trying to capitalize on the sort of clean energy movement, but also
Speaker:just like how to, how to put more shit in the ground for a, for less money.
Speaker:Differently.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:How to, How to bury shit differently.
Speaker:But yeah, that's good.
Speaker:Good.
Speaker:It was just nice to get away.
Speaker:the workshop too
Speaker:and just take a joint by myself in the car.
Speaker:Had no other appointments.
Speaker:I dropped in, had a cup of tea with Sarah in the Melbourne office.
Speaker:Had a nice chat.
Speaker:It was good to see her in a native habitat, and
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:it was a good day.
Speaker:Sounds nice.
Speaker:It's nice that you can
Speaker:Retu.
Speaker:do that and not feel that you know, you've got the situation, which we've
Speaker:talked about at length, how you.
Speaker:Integral.
Speaker:You're not running the machines every day.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:Like you can leave and stuff's stuff's fine and people are
Speaker:getting stuff done and it's nice.
Speaker:I'm pretty useless.
Speaker:It's great.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:. Yeah.
Speaker:That's why you got the cubby.
Speaker:The carby.
Speaker:I'm designing some new cubbies actually.
Speaker:Hmm.
Speaker:Having been enjoying my cubby so much, I want everyone else to have a cubby
Speaker:Please tell me you're building like small, portable offices.
Speaker:almost, almost.
Speaker:with a piano that plays sound clips.
Speaker:No, no.
Speaker:Main client I've talked about a little bit.
Speaker:We have, weekly design sessions.
Speaker:Which often end in whiskey and
Speaker:why you like them now.
Speaker:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker:We just hang out in his child's cubby and drink whiskey at the end of the day.
Speaker:Umm, what?
Speaker:It's a good thing.
Speaker:No, we've been working on.
Speaker:We share a lot of ip, so like his product design feeds into
Speaker:ours and our feeds into his.
Speaker:It's kind of one of the few client relationships where
Speaker:I'm quite happy sharing.
Speaker:threading and clip crate technology to sort of assist
Speaker:cuz it's a very bidirectional, Anyway what was I gonna say?
Speaker:We're working on a little, I'm doing some work on the office here to try and make
Speaker:it a bit more useful for the guys now that we have quite a, you know, heavy
Speaker:admin component to our business like Jay.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:Aaron spends a lot of time in the office doing sales.
Speaker:Jay's full time in the office.
Speaker:Like I'd like to make the office a little bit nicer cuz it's always just been
Speaker:really ad hoc and I'd like to give people a little bit more sort of sound privacy
Speaker:and just like the ability to get put blinkers on and focus when they need to.
Speaker:So I've been working on some little like office pod things using
Speaker:thread of Dell and what woven felt.
Speaker:So it's been fun little project and I'll.
Speaker:Prototype one of those in the coming week, I think.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Be good.
Speaker:Very fun.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Hmm.
Speaker:Should be
Speaker:what's, what are you guys banking at the moment?
Speaker:What's Ricky
Speaker:are making more dust boots.
Speaker:Hmm.
Speaker:Great.
Speaker:We just had a rash of sales in the last couple days, which is nice.
Speaker:And we were just about out and They're, they just go on spurts.
Speaker:It's like, I swear, it's like everybody, they, they get seen at the same
Speaker:time or I don't know what happens.
Speaker:But making those,
Speaker:you keeping?
Speaker:Mm.
Speaker:Are you keeping the printers busy?
Speaker:they, we've where we're ahead for a bit there, so they've been sitting,
Speaker:they'll probably start up again.
Speaker:We only have basically one working one.
Speaker:I'm still working with Perus on trying to get the other one.
Speaker:To work again.
Speaker:So it's been good to have two.
Speaker:And actually the second one is now having y crashes as well.
Speaker:Oh no.
Speaker:I don't understand like what causes this because it's not the same files and just
Speaker:like suddenly it had like 50 y crashes.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:And they, they like Bruce's support's there and helpful.
Speaker:They're always willing to help, but you can sit for an hour and go through
Speaker:all the same diagnostic checks and like tests and then like, I have to leave,
Speaker:or Ricky's gotta go work another job.
Speaker:Or like, we get to this place where like, well check on this and come back to us.
Speaker:And then we have to like kind of start over the next time with a new person.
Speaker:It's like never consistent, like which is, I get it, but it's also
Speaker:like, man, there's gotta be some better way that we've been working on.
Speaker:Seemly like six weeks.
Speaker:Cause it's like whenever we have enough time, somebody will
Speaker:jump into fixing that again.
Speaker:And my fix of the week is now the middle.
Speaker:So hopefully it's fine and we'll move forward.
Speaker:I guess, oh, here's a question just to come back to that.
Speaker:This is the thing I keep thinking about.
Speaker:I mean, we're pretty not to.
Speaker:Not to steal from the secret show, but we're pretty, you know, cash tight
Speaker:right now with like waiting for a new product and spending a lot of r and d
Speaker:money on the new product stuff, thinking it was gonna be out, which it's not
Speaker:as I thought in October would you, if you were me, have a tech come in
Speaker:to look at this thing at this point?
Speaker:gut feeling, quick response.
Speaker:No.
Speaker:And I think, Cause yeah, if you're cash tight, I don't know.
Speaker:It's not crucial.
Speaker:Like, it's not like you've.
Speaker:A product.
Speaker:I know it's crucial to this new product line, but it's not like you've got
Speaker:a product line that's was already in
Speaker:Being make, Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:That'd be different for.
Speaker:Then you'd be like, Right, how do I get this back online as quickly as possible?
Speaker:But because you're still in that kind of pre-launch r and d mode to
Speaker:some extent, I guess that gives you a lit little bit more time whether
Speaker:you wanna spend that time or not.
Speaker:yeah.
Speaker:As far as I can tell, what we would suffer from is accuracy or like, I don't think
Speaker:there's anything that could be further broken cuz the spindle sounds great.
Speaker:Great.
Speaker:So I think it could be just more like tweaking diagnostic stuff
Speaker:that I don't fully understand.
Speaker:And it seems, I'm hoping by the end of the day I'll know whether
Speaker:or not cutting more stuff came out.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:But I also don't like have a CMM to check all of it anyway, so I never
Speaker:But that's the
Speaker:kind of thing.
Speaker:like, if it sounds all right and sort of checking out mechanically, then like why
Speaker:not just get it back online and run parts
Speaker:I, that's what I'm thinking too.
Speaker:as quickly as possible, like get it cutting chips again as quickly
Speaker:as possible so you can verify.
Speaker:And then if you find anything really weird, then.
Speaker:Mm-hmm.
Speaker:. Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Which,
Speaker:then you call the text
Speaker:yeah, if I can
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:still, my probably at least capable machinist skills or metrology.
Speaker:I just don't have a lot of metrology tools.
Speaker:And also it just wasn't really a thing with the router.
Speaker:So I spent most of my years.
Speaker:Not being concerned with any other than like a cheap Cper , you know,
Speaker:like nobody, nobody cared.
Speaker:So I think my concern at this point is I was in the middle of making a fixture
Speaker:that I have to, like, I'm bringing the height down on all of it and leaving
Speaker:one of those areas that the, the bits I'll probably share some photos.
Speaker:The bit is injected into, and I'm just, luckily that was just an extra alignment
Speaker:pin area for this bar that goes on it.
Speaker:But my concern is like if this machine isn't square and like tight
Speaker:now and I'm making a fixture, then everything after that is shit.
Speaker:Potentially, I don't
Speaker:know, but just kind of gotta roll with it, I guess.
Speaker:Tell a
Speaker:It's got a probe in it.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:You've got a reassure or something.
Speaker:Can you put one of your pallets that you've already
Speaker:made back in it and probe it
Speaker:Probably.
Speaker:to try and work out if there's anything?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Like, cuz that's kind of the pallet you've just made is kind of a known dimension.
Speaker:Should be known location on the bed.
Speaker:mm-hmm.
Speaker:If you could then probe
Speaker:can tell.
Speaker:Seemed to have
Speaker:stretched though.
Speaker:stretch other than that Z stretch.
Speaker:Maybe you could verify like x, Y and variance in Z by probing the pallet
Speaker:so that you've just made, I don.
Speaker:yeah, yeah.
Speaker:Maybe somebody has some ideas.
Speaker:I'll, I'm gonna keep, Autodesk has been pretty helpful and I'll keep
Speaker:reaching out to other people I think that have experience smashing
Speaker:machines and what to do with them.
Speaker:So other than that, I.
Speaker:Crushing it.
Speaker:I felt like I had, I just felt like I made a ton of base parts, like nine different
Speaker:parts in one day, like on Friday.
Speaker:It was just like I made all of the sizes and all of the new parts we needed in like
Speaker:two thirds of a day, which was crazy fast for how fast I was moving with all the
Speaker:rest of it, but just like I don't know, it just suddenly clicked and that that
Speaker:last pallet of fixtures just went super.
Speaker:And so I was moving on to the next one and had this weird issue.
Speaker:So
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:Hmm
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Speaker:I haven't, Yeah, I've been really failing to make time for r and d.
Speaker:I've been quite focused on making videos for like web and marketing
Speaker:purposes, which feels crazy.
Speaker:What am I doing?
Speaker:I mean it,
Speaker:I can see both sides though.
Speaker:It's like both are what?
Speaker:Supposed to be doing, and like I'd, I suppose if I would use your medicine
Speaker:against you that you've, you've injected into me is do a little of both each day,
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Huh?
Speaker:which has been helpful and I've kind of ignored, I've basically been completely
Speaker:locked into like, finish pedestals.
Speaker:But like, you know, when I do do the, a little bit every day, I do
Speaker:feel like that's the best outcome.
Speaker:How I can work and how I feel.
Speaker:I feel like I've done all the right things every day versus when I'm
Speaker:just like sucked into one process.
Speaker:I'm like, Oh, what did I do?
Speaker:I'm like, You feel like you're like unconscious a little bit.
Speaker:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker:No, I mean that space at the moment, just a little bit too
Speaker:obsessive about it, and then.
Speaker:at the same time, trying to keep myself consistent.
Speaker:So I'm when I have those doubts about like, what am I doing, Just
Speaker:making Instagram videos for a job.
Speaker:This is crazy.
Speaker:It's like no jam.
Speaker:It's only been a couple of weeks.
Speaker:Just hang tight.
Speaker:head down, keep going.
Speaker:Are they working though, is the
Speaker:but I need to, I need to reset my default diary.
Speaker:Well, I mean, nothing really is working in sales at the moment, so who knows?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:But yeah, no, I got heaps of things on my to-do list and some
Speaker:fun ones on there too, so, yeah.
Speaker:I had a weird thought the other day as we were packaging up all the duck
Speaker:towers that we shipped, which was sweet.
Speaker:All the first round went out yesterday and The UPS driver pulled up to pick
Speaker:up, and I had accidentally mistaken which day I was shipping some of 'em.
Speaker:So he thought he was picking up three and he was like, Oh, well
Speaker:no, I need to go get the truck
Speaker:And I was like, Yeah.
Speaker:But I was thinking about this is kind of a, a next level, probably, maybe
Speaker:something that you could get into.
Speaker:We were talking about job costing and I kind of relate that to how I
Speaker:price products and the profitability of them, especially related to like
Speaker:this stack of unprofitable products.
Speaker:And
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:in particular, when you have a more complicated to package prep for shipping
Speaker:product like that almost has to be accounted for in the cost of the product.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:Like,
Speaker:Absolutely.
Speaker:and it's like something that you were saying, you don't account for
Speaker:your packaging costs, but it's.
Speaker:I, I will do like a vague number of packaging costs, but I've
Speaker:never consciously thought like, Oh, it's taking Ricky two-thirds
Speaker:a day to pack all these boxes.
Speaker:That's not accounted for in any way.
Speaker:You know, like cost-wise, it's just kind of always been like,
Speaker:Oh, I'll do it, you know?
Speaker:Yeah, you gotta get that time in there.
Speaker:I mean, I can't talk.
Speaker:Yeah, as you say, we've excluded c and t time for carton cutting, which is silly,
Speaker:but certainly at that time that it takes to package a product bundle, put it in a
Speaker:cotton, even just like booking the cour.
Speaker:Getting the customer details right, booking the career, like
Speaker:all of that just eats time.
Speaker:Oh
Speaker:We've gotten better at it over the years and we have more templates
Speaker:in our, like where we log in and book the jobs and stuff like that.
Speaker:But still, yeah,
Speaker:Mm.
Speaker:it eats hours and has to be part of the product price, I reckon.
Speaker:Because it's, it is an interesting, we made some pretty
Speaker:cool packaging for those parts.
Speaker:, I accidentally ordered catering boxes for the duck towers to ship in.
Speaker:So it looks like we shipped lasagnas to people with like our packaging tape on it.
Speaker:It ended up working great because if you just would've put some
Speaker:paper in there, they would.
Speaker:Smashed around and hit each other.
Speaker:And like I was saying last week, so it came out perfect on my
Speaker:Chester, caught us some cardboard for it, and Ricky designed it.
Speaker:It's folded up and it went out super well.
Speaker:I guess I don't, I have, I've only heard one person that has received it locally so
Speaker:far, so I'm hoping it gets to everybody.
Speaker:I just struck me.
Speaker:I was like, Man, so if you had a really complicated to pack product, . It
Speaker:absolutely is costing more than, Anyway, I'm rehashing, but it hit me
Speaker:for the first
Speaker:I get you.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:How do you do your product pricing?
Speaker:You in just a spreadsheet or
Speaker:make a spreadsheet.
Speaker:I kind of usually copy like the most recent or one that makes sense and then
Speaker:I'll, Most of those things tend to work and then I update the things that don't.
Speaker:don't update it frequently, but although, you know, the cost of things has changed
Speaker:so much, you know, all over the place that it feels like you need to kind of keep
Speaker:updating it more often now than I used to.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:like resold one of those CNC carts that we've had on our, on our
Speaker:shop, somebody bought like two of
Speaker:'em, which was random cause we never sell them.
Speaker:And it had Baltic or like Russian birch pricing.
Speaker:Oh,
Speaker:bridge pricing from like pre pandemic
Speaker:That's all
Speaker:that cost of, So I literally had to just, it was like one of the first times, I
Speaker:just can't, I just emailed the customer.
Speaker:I was like, I can't take this order.
Speaker:Sorry.
Speaker:Like we would be paying
Speaker:you.
Speaker:to take this and I update the price and they, it seemed
Speaker:kind of like a scam almost.
Speaker:Cause like the person never responded at all anyway.
Speaker:Maybe they just didn't see it, but you would've thought if they can't, they
Speaker:bought something and then it didn't ship.
Speaker:They would be concerned too.
Speaker:But anyway, it almost doubled in cost after, because of that.
Speaker:Yes.
Speaker:Gone are the days of Baltic Birch.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:We've, we've got all of our product pricing.
Speaker:In air table, which at times feels like a real chore, but it's from, in
Speaker:that respect of being able to keep it updated with changing material prices,
Speaker:cuz it's all linked to our inventory.
Speaker:It's been really good just being able to crosscheck and look at the variance
Speaker:of like, cool hoop pine just went up 5%.
Speaker:What does that do to this product?
Speaker:Okay, it's still within the right margin.
Speaker:Let.
Speaker:Fiddle with that price for now, but review it again in six months and see.
Speaker:Does it go as does it go as far as each product pulls in its own cost
Speaker:and that gets fed into Shopify?
Speaker:Yeah,
Speaker:Oh my God, that's amazing.
Speaker:it's manually pushed to Shopify, like we have to, It doesn't, you know,
Speaker:if a material price gets updated in inventory, it's not like Shopify.
Speaker:It suddenly gets new prices.
Speaker:consciously go, right, we're gonna update the five upright set of
Speaker:shelves, push, you know, push this one cuz that one's now we're losing
Speaker:money on that, or whatever it is.
Speaker:But yeah, it is all linked, which is nice.
Speaker:Just a little overwhelming at time
Speaker:that's where I always find myself, like we tried to do that with Na qut.
Speaker:frankly, like Andy built it and it was a good it.
Speaker:He did nothing wrong, but it was so complicated to mess with
Speaker:that I just never touched it.
Speaker:I think I've talked about this before.
Speaker:So now everything, the way I'd always done it, which I, I would like this air table
Speaker:system, but frankly, if it's gonna stifle me from working on a new product now I'm
Speaker:just like, Nah, I'll make a spreadsheet, a Google sheet I can update at any.
Speaker:And it's not linked in any fancy ways, it's super easy to, to modify
Speaker:and edit and create and it's all a little bit more manual, but
Speaker:we don't have a million things.
Speaker:I'm sure at some point that'll become a problem, but just hasn't been worth it to
Speaker:try.
Speaker:Yeah, it's unfortunate.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:to be a little better than that.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Ricky's hair.
Speaker:Ah, it's really
Speaker:Sorry.
Speaker:It's
Speaker:my applause button?
Speaker:The peg holes didn't go through.
Speaker:Oh, okay.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:We'll do that later.
Speaker:Sorry.
Speaker:Here.
Speaker:uh, I don't really have anything else, I guess.
Speaker:Um,
Speaker:Here.
Speaker:pretty good.
Speaker:Sounds good.
Speaker:Nice.
Speaker:Hmm.
Speaker:This is where I could wish I could just play us out with a little
Speaker:Oh my God, that'd be amazing.
Speaker:You could just have a song that looks like piano playing and
Speaker:you're just like, miming it.
Speaker:Play like Elton Jem.
Speaker:Ah, yeah.
Speaker:I'm sure there's a function for that.
Speaker:Cool.
Speaker:Alright, well, are you back to the mill?
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:I
Speaker:gotta finish measuring tools and then make sure that my.
Speaker:REM machining works cause I don't want to cut carbide with carbide.
Speaker:I don't think that works very well, but it, it puled it so far in there
Speaker:and it broke that I actually can machine on top of it and not hit it.
Speaker:I'm pretty sure.
Speaker:Wow.
Speaker:And somehow it didn't, like the first thing Ricky said when he came in is
Speaker:like, Did it hit the Pearson base?
Speaker:And I was like, picked it up and I was like, Oh my God.
Speaker:It didn't go through.
Speaker:Like, it just, it's, it's gonna be entombed in that.
Speaker:Yep.
Speaker:always staring at you.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:Anyway, if you have advice on recovering your mill from
Speaker:a crash, I'd love to hear it
Speaker:Hmm
Speaker:and look for your fanic, Fanic and matura.
Speaker:Si Syntec ethereal halo.
Speaker:I don't know what some of these are, but those are all ones
Speaker:that potentially have this flaw.
Speaker:So look in the notes if you have one of these machines, cuz you
Speaker:could also crash your machine.
Speaker:Unfortu.
Speaker:Good.
Speaker:Well, I hope you get that Autodesk Trophy and
Speaker:would like a trophy.
Speaker:we'll see you next week.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:See ya.
Speaker:It just, just keeps going.