stripper

Has anyone stripped alloys of paint/lacquer at home? Any recommendations on what is good? I have a polished set that need the lacquer removing, sanding down to remove the imperfections and then polish it back up to a nice shiney wheel and finally re-seal them.

I am cleaning up the rubber sill covers of my W114. One is fine, the other has overspray from the car it came from, and no amount of Nitromors is shifting a lot of it - it's old hard paint. Anybody know of a good stripper that won't eat the rubber? (sourcing any replacement, new or old...