And speaking of old 'rusty' stuff, here's some photos of some stuff which was at one time a bit rusty but which has since been restored to their original condition.

When I retired in 2016, after working 49+ years in engineering, I decided to restore a few old items that I had been wanting to, but had been putting off, however, now that I had the time, I went ahead with the projects.

The first project, was the my most complex, restoring a 1927 Singer 66 Sewing Machine. This sewing machine was once owned by my wife's grandmother and in fact, my wife, when she was a young girl, learned to sew on this same sewing machine. Anyway, it had been stored in less than ideal conditions in a garage up in Washington state for the last 30 years or so, before we rescued it in 2013. Anyway, it was a project which took me almost three months to complete. I had to take the metal parts down to their bare metal and repainted them. The old finish was removed from the wood parts and refinished as well.
Great restoring!
And before you ask, I have no plans to sell this sewing machine, first because of it's sentimental value to my wife, but also because, despite its fully restored condition, these old Singer machines are not worth that much because there were millions of them manufactured and thousands have been restored (it was very easy for me to find a couple of reproduction parts that were missing, as well as the leather belt used by the treadle mechanism to drive the sewing machine and the decals used to put the final touches on it).