Paint/Finish Removal

Is there a best way to remove an existing paint/finish on a pedal in order to get down to the raw metal and do a custom paint job? Thanks.

If you're putting paint over top, just get it clean, maybe fine sand it a bit, shoot a little primer, and then put your new color on.

If you want to put some sort of translucent color over the bare metal, you'll need a stripper to remove (what I'm assuming is) the old powdercoating.

Stripper is nasty stuff, and removing powdercoating is particularly tough. While you could get it bare with regular stripper, I recommend "aviation" stripper, because it works, FAST.

Thanks.