Oh man I feel like an idiot. The acetone must have been going straight to my head. All this time I’ve been applying it to a cloth and then rubbing vigorously. Turns out if you just put the damp cloth on the section you wish to remove and leave it for 5-15mins, the lacquer lifts right off. Then it’s a quick rub down and move onto the next section.
Suffice to say I’m all done. There’s a few more bits I might tackle in time, but I really want to put this pipe back into rotation so I’m happy with where it’s at for now.
In hindsight, this really was only an hour or so worth of work, the perfect thing to do over a rainy weekend where you can pick the pipe up and down and remove a bit here and there.
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