[leftwing25]

I've seen two others Ed!

Starting into the physical restoration,  I really didn't want to remove the original black paint on the face.  The face is some type of brass alloy - I thought it to be possibly brass and copper but I'm not a metallurgist.   So I brought out my secret weapon.... KETCHUP!   Yep, Ketchup.  I put it on a small section of the dial, waited 20 minutes, rubbed if for about 5 minutes with my finger and it worked!  I'll let the Chemisty majors out there explain the reason.  Here was the first pass:

At this point I'm trying to separate want and need into two different catagories.  They do tend to get confused at times.  Ed