Here's today's adventure in sanding. The switch pods and controls started out looking like this, which is pretty common on older bikes:
This is after going over it with a fine grit disk in my pneumatic grinder, followed by a ScotchBrite disk:
That got the corrosion off, as well as some of the sand cast texture, but it left sanding marks, so it was 220 grit hand sanding time:
About half way through I considered bagging it and just painting or powder coating the pods black. But I plugged along, and now everything looks like this:
It should be easier from here now that the rough surfaces are gone.
Later that day: