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It is ironic of how topic come up, last week I was working on a small expantion of my small layout and was hand laying some track and though about trying to make my own switches again as I require two for my expantion. I agree with you what they are selling is not exactly what I was looking for neither. <br />I was thinking, ohhh thats scary!!, some where I have in my boxes of supplies a jig that I got from a person in the US to make me. I was down visiting some railroad friends who happen to know of this person who had a large basment layout so we went over, he handlays all track and makes all his own switches. He also has a metal milling machine so he made himself a small jig out of aircraft illuminum, soder will not stick to it. it is about two and one half inches long and about an inch and one half wide and very thin, maybe about 40 thou thick. Being aircraft stuff it is extremely light. You file your frog rails to the points then stick it in this jig, clamp the rails down and do your sodering. Again the soder will not stick to the aircraft alluminum. You pull it out and do your final filing of your gaps where the wheels run and you have a precice frog. He made me one and I have it somewhere. Tried to contact him again, no luck some of his friends say he got moved by the company that he works with. we have a small airport locally,and on the weekend, found a place that does small aircraft repair and I managed to talk him out of a few scraps of aircraft illuminum. I have a friend locally that has a small metal shop and he has a large milling machine along with ther large metal manufacturing machinery. He said that if I can find the origional jig that he could easily make me another one. Unfortunately he is very busy this week but if I can find it he will see what he can do next week. I have one of the old copies in the old binders of the NMRA standards and I am going to look up the specs for a number four and six turnouts and if it can be done will get a couple made. We do not as yet have a digital camera so I can not send you any photos when I find it. Although we recently purchased a scanner so I will try to take some pictures and scan them to you, first I have to find the jig. I do not know if this is what you are looking for or not. Let me know. <br />Well got most of the housework done and animals fed so it 1:15pm here, have an hour before the wife come home so may just go down and do some searching for the jig. <br />Ron.
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