Update: The last cotter pin and the bottom bracket has been removed. I was able to polish the brakes and they now have a nice shine like EnzoRWD posted. It is amazing what a little polish will do! The crank arms and chain rings have been cleaned up as well as they can be, by hand anyways. They are not as clean as I would like and may have to look to an alternative to deal with them (either powder coating or re-chroming). At any rate, current images.