How i make my frogs, easy, simple and accurate?

[justme igor]

By goodness I think he has got it. Yup that is the solution, glad to have been of help.

That made me laugh....Told ya: the zloty has fallen, sorry Zloty is a Polish currency, equivalent to ~20 euro cent.
Yes thank you very much for your help.

In real life they are not so "big", they widen a bit more

Templot Club Images

But to be sure i will combine the best

 

[dunnyrail]

That made me laugh....Told ya: the zloty has fallen, sorry Zloty is a Polish currency, equivalent to ~20 euro cent.
Yes thank you very much for your help.

In real life they are not so "big", they widen a bit more

Templot Club Images

But to be sure i will combine the best

Know the Zloty quite well, first time I went to Poland to see Steam around the 80’s I wasa Zloty millionair for a few days as the exchange rate was so god to the UK pound. Zloty been re done since so pound probably worth less these days, a long time since I have been over despite the Regular Steam Hauled Passenger Trains still at Wolstyn.

 

[Paul M]

I slip with the saw blade as you can see, did not payed enough attention, was for a example anyway.

Fortunately it was just your frog, not your fingers!

 

[justme igor]

Captains log experimental rail date 0.0157:

By the guidelines of the real captains on this ship, i made some progress on the experimentation on the frogs.


Adding some extra cutting lines, notice that there is one line that does not cross the throat of the frog properly, i saw it to late, but the cut was good.
The lower one is the "original" with out the "lead in"
The top one will get a longer lead in. it is easier to machine that longer one out.

A bigger and a smaller in radii frog. As some of you will see i need to improve my sawing jig, the saw blade slip off, giving a undesired extra cut.
At the short one at the lower right part.
With this "bigger" lead in improved frogs i will trim the outside edges more to match.
When i tried to cut the "short" lead in, it toke so much time and i was not happy with the result.
Some drawings to clarify it a bit more


Needed cutting with a knife and a chisel.
It toke to much time and did to much damage, plus i did not like the appearance.
So i tried it this way:


For the looks those frogs are "satisfying".
Flange bearing depth is 2.5mm btw.


The aluminium strips are pieces of thrash, left overs used for all i can think of exept for the rail itself.


Due to the fact that i had to enlarge the lead in the wing rails needed to be in a angle.
All the cuts had there center at the frogs throat, to keep true to the angles/radii and enlarging the lead in, it had to be a little wider.
Thus i had to put a angle on the wing rails.

Thank you for reading and trying to understand what i am writing in my poor technical english.
I came this far, i won't give up, so if any of you has a thought, idea, comment, improvement or would like to see the frog different ect, please let me know.
Its really appriciated.

Thanks in advance, cheers