Dry steering wheel?

So I have a new project for this winter. A Massey Harris 22. After setting out for a few years, the steering wheel is all dry and leaves your hands black. The wheel is not peerfect but is all there. What would be best to clean it and make it sorta smooth?
I wonder if a heat gun would work. It works to make plastic bumpers look new.
 
My experience with wrapping something with tape is, with use the tape shifts or shrinks, and the old adhesive gets exposed along where the tape wraps overlap. The wheel/handle becomes a sticky mess.

Same deal with duct tape. Covered a 4-wheeler seat with the "sticks to anything, stays stuck" gorilla tape, and after a few hours of riding, the tape started to shift, again exposing adhesive at the seams. Any time I rode the machine, my pants would stick to anything I sat on for the rest of the day. I've got a tractor seat like that right now. There's an old seed bag stuck to the tape until I can take the tractor out of service for a complete seat overhaul.

Paint is on the right track but spray enamel isn't durable and will wear off quickly if you actually use the tractor. Epoxy is forever.
 
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I use fiberglass resin it take a few coats to work in and fill the cracks but when done you can smooth it off and then paint with black paint. I have saved several not perfect but usually fitting for old tractors.
 
I would like to know if you have ever found the secrut to keeping them from moving as you are trying to drive. I never could that is why I junk them as soon as I would get something with them on.
Nope, they'll scoot around some. AND the tractors I have them on have power steering with spinner knobs. I don't have to horse the steering wheel around.
 

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