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Atlas Code 100 Frogs!! Help me power them better please!
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I see when I used the industry catalog name for a certain file type on the post that started this thread that the dirty word filter didn't like it. There are two types of files to consider for the purpose of filing the frog to level, double-cut and single-cut. They come in different levels of cut. The dirty word cut, second cut and smooth cut. The dirty word cut is most commonly available and is adequate for this application. The profiles to consider is mill or flat file and half round. The second thing to know is that files get finer as they get smaller. A 4" file is probably the best size for this operation used in a draw file technique. The draw file technique is place the file perpendicular to the surface and pull the file the length of the surface being filed. Clean the file often as chips lodged in the file teeth will spoil what would otherwise have been a nice surface. I don't use powered frogs because my needs have been met by correcting the frog height. I'm sure there is a purchase out there that I'll make that will have me powering frogs but I'll wait until it occurs.
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