Paint Removal

[LDK180]

I am in the process of stripping paint off a 1940-ish radio. White/green /pink/white. I can just imagine some high school girl painting this thing pink for use in her bedroom - probably sometime in the 60s.

Anyway, I still have the knobs to strip and they are most likely bakelite. Is it safe to use a chemical stripper with methylene chloride on these?

[ekimetsok]

I'd let them soak in straight ammonia for an hour or so, then hit them with an old toothbrush.

[sanford12]

You'd be surprised what just very hot tap water would do. I've stripped whole bakelite cabinets this way.

[j4570]

I'd try many other things before methylene choloride on the knobs.

It's pretty nasty stuff.