Thanks! Yeah... They are all completely different. Luckily some font matching AI tools gave me a good jumping off point. I actually got an even better match on the keep hands clear one after looking around a little more. Pretty sure it's roboto something something. I did take a tape measure to the letters to get the right size and spacing. Honest to God it's almost random with how they decided to do it. I couldn't have done it without some free Adobe trial that let me use some archaic fonts and play with letter spacing really easily. The trick now will be figuring out what to print this on.
I forgot there's a label on the guard, too. I also forgot I need to strip and paint the guard.
Pics from tonight's cleaning session:
Before close-up
The base has been a ***** to clean. The pitch buildup was thick as a Kardashian and took a lot of hits of acetone, a wire brush, and a wire wheel to get it all off. There wasn't a great deal of surface rust, but what was, and kind of still is, there was just in hard to scrub places. I think another evening of cleaning should just about do it. I'll maybe also hit it with the Boeshield rust remover (not T-9) tomorrow night to get any minor rust spots before hitting it with primer. That's nasty stuff that'll take rust off in a wipe, but I don't want to use it if I don't have to.
ETA I'm also a little torn on whether or not to remove the serial number and cut depth plates. They're riveted, and if I put them back I'm just tapping the holes for screws.
