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Doug Miller

In article , (GregS) wrote:

What disolves oil paint. Lacquer thinner and mineral spirits. You
can mix them together. You can also try the other hard stuff like
MEK and Toluene. Add some acetone and you got paint remover.

Mineral spirits is used to thin oil paint, and clean brushes, while the paint
is still wet. It does absolutely nothing to oil paint that has already dried.

Lacquer thinner is *already* a mixture of MEK, toluene, and acetone (among
other things), so there's hardly any point in adding them.

If you want paint remover that *works* you need one that contains methlyene
chloride.