What is the easiest, cheapest way to strip enamel?

I bought some Purple Clean yesterday and a Tupperware container to put the car body in, poured the Purple Power in and sealed it up. 24 hours later the enamel just fell off. It worked beautifully. A little scrubbing with a toothbrush from the dollar store and a nice rinse and it's ready to repaint.

The Purple Power didn't touch the gloss white acrylic I applied to the roof or the black lacqure primer which is just fine. I didn't want to redo those paint jobs anyway.

Perfect, thanks.

Steve

Be sure to wear rubber gloves when using Purple Power or Super Clean.

Thanks all, I'll swing by Walmart and see what I can find. Both Super Clean and Purple Powers say they are biodegradable so that's good.

It's interesting a cleaner is caustic enough to strip enamel but I guess since it's concentrated and it takes a few days....

In addition to the Super Clean, I have tried hydraulic fluid, oven cleaner, and Purple Power.  They are all pretty messy, but they all work.  It takes awhile, and sometimes takes a couple of applications.

 

 

I use stuff called Chameleon I think from Squadron. It is reusable, which is nice and saves the trouble of appropriately dumping it.

I've used "Super Clean" pretty successfully for stripping enamel. It comes in purple bottle and you can get it at Wal-Mart for pretty cheap. I have a plastic tub that I put the parts in and put on some rubber gloves before I hose it down. I find it works better if the parts can soak in it though. I put the lid on and give it a few days before going at it with a toothbrush (not one you'd ever want to use again) and still wearing the rubber gloves. The paint will comes off after a couple of times doing this.