I hit it with some OOOO steel wool on the chrome, and some denatured alcohol to clean up the previous years of "toasting" history. Blew it out...plugged it in and voila....runs great! I had an old one similar to this before that was my grandmothers, but my ex-wife decided that it was "too old" and gave it away. Ahhhhh finally...a toaster with some style/ design/ and makes great toast! Not bad for a 68 year old toaster. Original price was about 8$ I think, I'm it it for 40 but I've spent more than that over the years on pieces of junk that quit, restored...they are 375$ on the toaster sites. Doug