Hi Rob,
It is a great project , I'm pretty much doing the same thing as you. I found our little trailer that lived in the pasture for probably 15 or 20 years.
I gutted the whole thing, and got a new frame build with a new
axle tat was build by Dexter in Calgary, and it is an original
boler axel with the arms facing forward.
I scraped 3 layers of old
paint off the bottom part, and used automotive
paint stripper for that. I was hoping to have the trailer primered this
fall but I don't think it is going to happen. For now she is in the garage and getting ready to put the inside back together and
windows refurbished.
I'm enjoying every bit of it and I'm sure you will too.