First best step, whether you plan on tearing it completely down or not is to go rent a hot pressure washer, one with the diesel-fired burner. They're not cheap machines to buy, and they don't rent cheap so line up anything else you've got, and if the neighbors want to share the cost, have them bring some of their stuff over, too. It will strip anything away for the crud and oily, greasy chaff that accumulates in all the nooks and crannies and will take away any paint that ever thought of being loose. That'll give you a good head start.
From there it's your choice. All the advice of keeping any blastin medium well away from something with a moving part, unless you plan to open it up and clean it thorughly is well worth heeding.
Also, sand should be your last choice of a blasting medium. OF all the stuff it is the most dangerous for the amount of free silica it puts into the air. It takes specialized equipment and great care in its use to blast with sand.
I've used Black Beauty (basicaly processed slag) but for fast cutting, it's hard to beat glass bead, or a glass bead/alluminum mix.
Whatever it is the warnings about getting too aggressive with blasting on sheet metal are wicked good advice, too. Maybe for a little touch-up, but the wire wheel is the way to go at that stuff.
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