sandblasting is a barbaric custom! would you like to be sandblasted?
it is even stuck? surely you will be able to unjam, you, oil, wd40 and time.
for repainting, this is a great temptation, terrible for me, because I'm used to paint something,and ancient drawing of various kind.
so I thought: painting is not too filologic restore, and I will never remove the most little bit of old painting.
but if the machine just lost ALL own paint, one may give it a new one with removable colours.
I tried even by eye-lip paint.
you could reproduce the curled decors of a complete wheeler and wilson . you may add a little something your, for the future archologists
the history of the young man loving a not too young lady ' in a hundred years we will have the same age'
certainly it seems these last hundred are a thousand...
however I would paint the poor sabled ww. there are others, quite safe, it is not the only
well. I wait your work.....