21-12-2018, 03:42 PM
For years I struggled fitting the front axle assembly to the chassis, then after painting the chassis for it's last rebuild I was coming back up the stairs from the cellar to the garage and my eyes looked down the length of the chassis and I could see a nice hump in the offside longitudinal. I pondered it for a while then contacted the Moseley Railway Trust who kindly lent me a Jim Crow (rail bender), it took a while to clean and lubricate it but I was surprised how easy it was to straighten the member without marking the paint. The Moseley Railway Trust even thanked me for making their Jim Crow operational.