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Great paint remover - Pirate - 05-20-2018 Mix TSP and water. Sorry, forgot mix ratio. Heat to just below boiling. Put object in, for a while. Check now and then. After paint is gone, it will make wood soft. I saw this in a. 1960+/- Popular Mechanics. It is amazing how well it works. Told a friend, who restores Victorian houses. Tried it, then had a welder make a shallow and long, trough to strip loovered shutters. Talk about a Time saver! RE: Great paint remover - MstrCarpenter - 05-22-2018 Only a day late. Yesterday I used the nastiest stripper I could find on some balusters. Sprayed them with lacquer this morning. I think there might be a little stripper still on them, the finish isn't looking too good. RE: Great paint remover - Herb G - 05-24-2018 I always used Zip-Strip. Nasty stuff, but cheap & fast. Caustic as all hell though. Burns your skin like a blow torch. RE: Great paint remover - Cooler - 05-25-2018 A great paint remover for old metal components encrusted with paint:  A little dish washing soap in a crockpot left on overnight.   I am on the prowl now at garage sales to locate a $5.00 working version.  I borrowed a friend's for the last stripping job (he uses it for stripping too--not for cooking). I recall seeing an ad in an outdoors catalog that listed tree-stands for hunting.  They also listed a "portable urinal" so as not to leave any human scent to scare off the game. The most memorable fact was that it was listed as "dishwasher-safe".   In any case use these for its intended purpose only.