... year its worth a bit of investigation Have anyone ever tried milling them ?, nickel sliver at this dimension is not easy to hold, but the cutter can take the material away very slowly Last edited on 9 Dec 2015 13:29 by madscientist posted: 9 Dec 2015 14:06 from: David R There are many ways to skin a cat. Here's mine (no joggles required, all dimensions are full size, reduce to your modelling scale). The red lines show the rail-shape before work starts: 100_090834_280000000.gif 1. File the back of the rail until the web is just broken into. The prototype only reduces the end of the web by a sixteenth of an inch so don't go too mad! However, the web of most model rail is overscale so you may wish to reduce it's thickness to a scale eleven-sixteenths of an inch to avoid the switch looking too "chunky". It is essential to be as accurate as possible with the planing length as a few thou can make a lot of difference to the ...