I have several Insulfrog turnouts on my railroad.  The frog is a metal frog, but appears to be similar to a white metal casting.  I want to power these frogs since I run several short-wheelbase steam locomotives, but conventional solder does not stick to what appears to be a connection tab with a hole in it adjacent to the frog.  Does anyone have a suggestion for making a solid electrical connection to this type of frog?  My only option seems to be drill and tap a hole and insert a brass screw in the hole to hold the connection.

Any thoughts appreciated.

I have been away from the hobby for a bit, due to family.  Our daughter returned home to finish college, We  support all our children in their endeavors. Unfortunately she came with two cats. We love our daughter, not so much the cats.

Hi,

I'm about to start wiring a bunch of Peco Electrofrog turnouts for my layout and am thinking about using a Tam Valley Hex Frog Juicer. According to the Tam Valley Hex Frog Juicer manual PDF on their website it states:

"Do not modify your electrofrog - just wire the frog juicer to the frogs (silver wires on bottom of turnout) as they come. The frog juicer will take care of the rest."

I started a blog in 2017 to document the creation of my Z scale Alpine layout (all Marklin locos and rolling stock with mixed products for just about everything else). You can see my posts at the end of this page.

I went with Z scale because I wanted to make the most of a layout in a limited space and I had bought some Marklin Z rolling stock, locos and track many years ago for "the day" I would start a layout.