paint removal

Hi, it's nice to meet you all. I wanted to put up a thread on a project I've recently started. I live in the middle of nowhere - well, not quite the middle of nowhere, but you can see it from here - in northern Alberta and so I haven't been spoiled for choice in terms of used machine tools I...

Picked up this derelict for the price of a couple of bags of groceries. Perhaps not a steal but certainly below the typical asking, around here. Anyway, I can go a few days without food... Looks like she was pretty rusted at one point and repainted, is that red-lead primer peeking through...