tomdownard wrote:

Wrap it up and send it to me!

Great suggestion! If you send me your checking account coordinates I
will make an electronic transfer for being so kind to accept the
toilet... :-)

Apart from jokes, I am surprised that nobody has given me some
suggestion on how to treat bronze. Frankly, I am not familiar with it
and I am sure that people in this NG could be of great help.
What I would like to know if there are special tricks to clean a bronze
surface an keep it shiny.
Is it possible to coat it with transparent epoxy, for example? Is a
primer required? Should I have the surface sanded?
The item will be under deck, no UV but with salty water running inside
and occasionally seeping out.
I wonder if I could epoxy coat also the inner parts like the cylinder of
the pump.