Resolute parts

[blue key]

Any idea where I can get a door handle and a door pin for an older Resolute? It was installed in my basement in 1980 and has "1979" on the inside. It has served me well for a long time.

Also, how can I get it from its old, gray, weathered look to something nicer? Any suggestions?

-bluekey

 

[DAKSY]

Try here:
http://www.woodmanspartsplus.com/

 

[coaly]

Very easy to make hinge pins. Do you have a bench grinder, hand grinder, file or electric drill?

Door handle should be #4377 at Woodmans.

Black is either stove black used on cast iron or paint. Stove black is water soluble, so a wet cloth rubbed on the surface will remove the black coating. If you've had the stove for that length of time, (and no one else applied stove black) you would have been renewing the stove black regularly, so it's probably paint.
If water doesn't remove the coating, paint with high temperature paint. Stove Bright by Forrest paints is one of the best. Satin Black will give it a slight sheen and is closest to original. Open windows when curing paint by firing stove for final cure.