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When you only have a hammer every problem looks like a nail.
You could scrape it off by hand with a tungsten scraper, maybe use an ir stripper to help the process, have it dipped in caustic soda, use chemical paint remover, use a mechanical paint remover, fix holes and use fine surface filler to match current paint level and repaint.
If you decide to sand, use a hoover and set the right suction level, move the sander quickly to stop the pads heating up. Think about how you will strip the mouldings. Sanding is only really a good option if you don't have any of the better tools to hand.
Airhead
rogan
wooden front door, currently painted with, needs to remain white, but has remnants of 50 years of door furniture and random bolts.
do i need to paint stripper before sanding? or do i just sand it down through the paint? have access to a festool rotex 90 sander