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HI` To all I hope the input given here would help others to decide, In my later days trying to restore every thing I bought for a bargain it would mostly be either rusty seized or broke,Lets face it the worse it was the cheaper I would get it for, I always imagine I would bring the item back from the dead and most of the time I would, but at a cost £££,I found that the older the machine the harder it was to get original parts and at a price but we persist,not so much these days as internet solves most, I my self is fascinated with the workings and quality and cleverness of the engineers back then, ,There is always some thing magical beautiful when seeing machines in motion and they were built to last,Even the simplest of machines were built with quality.Buy keeping machines true to there original state tells the history to any one seeing it, This gets to my question I have a 29k4 leather patcher this I think is not the original name of this machine but I am sure some one would put me right,Any way after finding original part that was not to worn down I began to look more closely at its decor and the flaky paintwork due to the rust in places,Now this is a hard decision for me what to do,do I strip the machine down to its metal and loose 85% of its decor or save the decor and let the rust under the paint work carry on eating away the machine,The reason for the hard decision is removing its decor in this situation. Well as I love items original and most of the time replacing the paint and decor with closely matched transfers would in my opinion will loose its originality and loose its value and characteristics, but would solve its rust problem,I could treat expose rust and touch up paint work to blend in with the rest, I would like to know what would you do? and how you would go about this situation.