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I woke up this morning hurting quite a bit. I chalked it up to being old. After that, I remembered that yesterday I did about an hour's worth of grinding and filing - wearing headphones because it was so loud, and then I spent about an hour with a multiple horse buffing machine cutting the lacquer off of a large tuba bell inside and out - because they won't allow us to purchase and use lacquer stripper anymore.

Stripper?

I don't even know her!

VERY talented...In C, I'd assume...

I used it to strip silver paint from an ancient silver plated King sousaphone recently...outdoors, with the sousaphone in front of me, and with a breeze to my back.

That stuff is really bad, but it's also really good.
Used in the way that I used it, I'm pretty sure that the fumes harmed me no more than gasoline fumes when filling up my irresponsibly owned internal combustion engine car, and - though I did it on pavement (corrugated cardboard, etc.) and on my knees - my back didn't hurt the next day.

I still have a can of the "good stuff." Don't know what to waste it on yet.

The stuff that my friend gave me seems to be better than any that I ever purchased in the past. It's actually pretty freaking amazing, and I was able to strip the entire sousaphone body using very little of it.

Realize that stripping enamel paint is a lot messier than stripping epoxy clear lacquer, yet the previous statement.