I'm stripping a butler's tray table that I built about 30 years ago, it got scuffed up in our recent move and I just wanted to start over on it. Today's strippers without methylene chloride just don't work like the old stuff did. Tried 3 different products and finally found one that works - marginally - if I don't mind waiting 45 minutes and multiple applications. I added lacquer thinner and it improved the performance somewhat.
Then I got on line and looked for methylene chloride, which was available just a few months ago. No go; not a single supplier has it, even those where I have purchased other chemicals. Waiting for a friend who is R&D VP for a specialty chemical company to get back to me.
Our EPA, in their infinite wisdom, have once again protected us from ourselves by banning a product taht actually works. I read their statements about how many people were exposed stripping furniture and how many theortical lives would be saved - and I call BS. Having dealt with EPA, I can say that the agency is comprised mostly of activists who do not allow science to get in the way of their agenda.
Just blowing off steam, must do that more frequently as our government invades our daily lives more every day.
CM