Header shipping paint removal??

I have to ask, what better paint remover? I had 2 wheels stripped by powder coater, the bead area repolished , sand blast the spokes, paint and then repowder coat the wheel. A 55 gal drum of what he uses for stripping is $900, and you can't just go to the hardware store and buy it. The last gallon that I bought of the good stuff was the last gallon a hardware store had. I told the owner the problem that I was having with the new strippers and did he have any of the good stuff left. He had 1 gallon left and said he just wanted it out of his store, I paid $20 for it, that was 2 years ago. Sand blasting is probably the easy way to go.