David, as always, your advice noted and will certainly try that for the next batch!
Rob, when you posted your message, I'd not considered an alternative to hand crossing out. However, your message sparked my memory in that I'd just ordered a beefy 42A 12v supply for my CNC spindle that I hadn't yet tested. In fact, it has been sat on my work bench for over two weeks. It only took me 10 minutes to wire it up and my spindle was working again. Anyway, another 20minutes on v-carve drawing my crossing outs and generating some tool paths and a test piece was cut with the spindle not struggling one bit on the brass!! I then made a little jig to allow me to centre the wheel with the CNC spindle and home it all in and after 10 minutes I had cut a wheel..including tabs...all, in my opinion, looking very professional indeed....far too neat for my workshop!
So there it is...I've cheated and used CNC but hey ho...I built the CNC machine itself so that surely that scores me some points back!?!?

I'll clean up the tabs tomorrow and post some more pics.



Edit. Hope the img size is ok. Posted off my ipad but have tried to adjust them. If not, will edit images on the pc tomorrow.