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is the kickstart lever on a kz steel or aluminum? is it cast?

Steel, and I think it's forged.

steel,im pretty sure its forged;)

It rusts

kwakagoose wrote:

It rusts

Then it's probably not stainless steel

Speaking of stainless steel, I am the mechanic for a excavating and demolition company, so all kinds of strange stuff that is found on job sites ends up at our yard.

About three months ago I was looking for an iron bar to use to drive out a 4" diameter pivot pin on a dozer, and I found a 4' piece of 1 1/4" hex stock laying in the weeds. According to others this thing had been laying there for over a year. and it had no rust on it, it was just kinda stained brown.

This stuff it hard!! I have been beating on it for three months now, using it as a drift to get the large pivot pins out of various earthmoving machinery, with a sledgehammer, and have still not mushroomed it! I don't know what this stuff is, but it sure is tough.

I guess I went aways off topic with this post