After some delays I am back on my kicker. I was told that to have it cut out via an EDM would be costly as they are quite slow especially at the thickness I have. They sent me to a water jet guy. He said he was two months behind but I left him a copy of the print to quote it anyhow but that was two weeks ago!. Mostly I was just trying to utilize a different method for fun. Ended up back on the mill. I used a piece of A2 tool steel which will give it some physical integrity. From what I have read A2 tempers at low temperatures and maybe it will assume some tempering in the powder coating process. I have about 4 hours in it now and still have about that much to go I think. Comparison picture shows obvious work left. In reality I will have about 20 hours into the entire set-up making it pretty easy to understand Wayne's pricing. Planning on staying on it so I am ready for the Plain City meet in May. I will get it powder coated and also the battery box. Just want to group together all of my stray pieces for powder coating. By then I will have the 'easy-on' tachometer installed.
