Yesterday I cut the foam housing core, and today, I cut the bezel. This is actually a test piece, cut from a couple glued-up pieces of .500" particle board, but it turned out so well, I may use it as a casting plug. There's an investment casting class spread over the next two Saturdays and the guy was going to take another shot at my bike's headlight for a demonstration piece. I am going to ask him about doing this piece instead of, or along with, the headlight housing. If that fails, I might just machine it from billet aluminum or brass.
The small gouge was my biggest error of the day. I have been fighting a huge migraine all day, and keeping my focus was challenging to say the least. I was trying to make sure the machine was still zeroed, after another dumb mistake, and somehow got the Z axis origin off. I was trying to sit the end mill over a hole, stop the machine, and manually lower the end mill into the hole to check the origin. It lowered and plowed straight in to the bezel before I could get my fuzzy head to hit the stop button. Good thing it was particle board or my 0.0625" end mill would have been toast! Easy fix...
It's going to mount to a custom little pedestal mount, based on what was going to be a gate plate for the electric drive system switches. Those levers are now destined to be part the column shifter, so I'll figure out something else for the electric drive switches. This will sit in a little cradle mount that swoops down off the dash bar. The dual pivots will allow me to point it at my eyes, and also towards a sexy little "navigator's" eyes, when I'm busy trying to keep the car aimed in the right direction. A new dash is in the works...
