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Paint strippers
Introduction
Commercial products make paint stripping a lot easier than it used to be. But you still have to scrape - and you need to be extremely careful with these toxic chemicals.
We compared how well commonly available paint strippers did the job of peeling off old coats of oil-based and water-based paints. The active ingredients need to be powerful enough to cut through the layers of paint - and that's a potential problem.