Stripping well applied sprayed on paint

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I am hitting this thing with Citristrip. After 30 minutes, no bubbling. No difference after 1hr, 2hrs. At 2hrs, I am tackling it with my plastic putty knife and it is like scraping tarter from the gum line. Also, when I do get it off, seems the clear coat is going with it. I am definitely going to have to spray back on a gloss coat after this is done to get the luster back. I hit it with denatured alcohol and it just laughs at me. Well done sprayed paint is infinitely harder to tackle than a roll on job.

What else can I do here besides letting it sit even longer? Pic below after 2 days this is as far as I got.
 

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If you are finding that the citristrip is drying, you may need to cover it with plastic wrap to allow it to work. It shouldn't take that long. Maybe it's oil paint.
 
I just pulled quite a bit of spray paint off my Defender. I didn't go CitriStrip (Although I love the stuff) I used a bunch of magic erasers and 90% alcohol. It took some time but I was able to totally save the art. Removed spray paint and tons of specks from someone painting a room and leaving poor Defender un covered.

To give you an idea everything from the dude up was black and the top 8 inches was speckled white.
 

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citristrip full strength, leave on for 3-5 minutes, scrape and repeat.
 
This wasn't applied with a shaker can. This was sprayed with like an HVLP gun. It is so well done. I think this is going to require lots of elbow grease. Any more pointers would be helpful. Citristrip works to some degree but it is tough.
 
It loses it's strength tho after just a short bit that's why i recommend the steps above. Basically the answer isn't more time, but less.
 
Use pure acetone. They sell it at beauty supply stores and the nail polish isle at your local walmart. Use that and some magic erasers and the cab will clean off the black paint nice and preserve the art from my experience.
 
Use pure acetone. They sell it at beauty supply stores and the nail polish isle at your local walmart. Use that and some magic erasers and the cab will clean off the black paint nice and preserve the art from my experience.

I'll give the pure acetone a shot. The paint on this cab is just laughing at the Citristrip. Also, it is dulling the OG art.
 
Magic erasers could very well remove the art underneath too. You have to be careful with those things. I've seen pics of people going right through pinball (playfield) clearcoat with them and pull up paint.
 
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