Reassembly Panic!!

AAAAGGGHHH!!!

Despite my stern admonitions to DOCUMENT EVERYTHING, I FAILED UTTERLY to record how this horrific stack of iron goes together before I dismantled it!!

Trying to put it all back together was like trying to herd cats!  All the plates are layered, lapped, bent, arched, butted together.  Everything is on different planes - there was no laying everything down FLAT to reassemble!

And all I had to go by, to reassemble everything, was one lousy picture of the buggy the day I brought it home!

What was I thinking!!!

Anyway, as you can see, I have remedied that problem, so that now, after a break to catch up on my OTHER life, I'll be able to attack the left side spring with confidence!

 So, after a week or so of frenzied work, I have stripped, de-rusted, surfaced, primed and reassembled the right side spring.  I've attached the wooden bolsters to make sure of spacing and also to stabilize things.  They'll be taken off and painted separately.  None of the bolts are tight, as there is bound to be a lot of grunting and pushing and pulling to reattach this assembly to the axles!

So these are just some pictures of progress. Amazingly, there was very little 'reassembly rash' to sand and re-prime.

This picture is looking from back to front.

Front to back.

Step also bolts to the cross bar under the bolster.

The first time I saw the carriage I thought I had some broken spring plates.  The little crack is actually where the ends of the crossbars come together.

Just like new!  :o)  Sound and solid for another hundred years of driving pleasure!!