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Paint removal from antique pipes of church organ

Our church has an organ whose pipes designs have been painted over and a few artists of our parish will be trying to remove the outer paint coat - without removing the original design. As we cannot afford professional assistance, I wonder if you could be so kind to give us some idea.

Thank you.

Margaret Mary Hurtubise
head of renovation for church organ - N. Tonawanda, New York, USA
2003

You can use methylene chloride based paint stripper(or dimethyl formamide based), it depends on pipe metal(tin or tin/lead alloy), work carefully, use rubber rubber gloves ⇦this on eBay or Amazon [affil links] !

Goran Budija
- Cerovski vrh Croatia
2004

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