Not about the compressor, but about NaOH:
I cleaned the old furniture (chairs) with NaOH solution (about 10-20% by volume in water in a 0.5-1l jar, which was waiting for the next use). I applied it with a brush (necessarily artificial bristles, and at the washing of a plastic bucket) and waited until it clearly softened everything - a few dozen minutes in a cool cellar; if I did not have a given day of time, collect the dissolved layer, I wrapped it in a stretch foil. Then a sponge and water or a spatula (flat surfaces) to wash or collect the resulting "pudding" of the dissolved layer. Sometimes I soaked with water again if I did not have any more time and the element dried out (I worked in the friend's cellar at night). At the end repeatedly or several times washing with a sponge with a change of water. However, this did not remove the yellowish color that I found under the paint and was soaked in wood to a depth of about 0.5-1mm. But just this yellow residue later facilitated the application of varnish.
A carpenter selling refurbished "antiques" told me that he uses perhydrol for old coatings (eg polish).
A little (but not everything) about security:
When playing with soda (NaOH) I used thicker rubber gloves and tight protective goggles (goggles, not ordinary glasses), ordinary clothing covering the body (long sleeves, long pants). And I always had with me a bottle of vinegar and water in case of skin contact with NaOH, garbage bags, cloths ... NaOH solution never burned me right away - if you wash quickly and abundantly, it's rather difficult to get these nasty burns. Only eyes must be ruthlessly watched.
It was a little faster than mechanical removal and at most the floor was dirtied, it did not dust. Quite cheap - probably PLN 10 costs 1 kg of NaOH in granules.
In this work, of course, it is worth to consider at the outset: how to pour water in gloves sapbed in sodium, where I put away dirty tools, clothes, etc., not to know after a few minutes that we "smoke" somewhere in the clothing or hand is burned; which is clean and what we treat as dirty with NaOH solution and we do not touch without gloves. If the soda would then drip onto the lawn or other plants, it is worth to say goodbye to them. In addition, I recommend reading with what the NaOH solution (metals, organic materials) reacts to use a non-reactive vessel or tool. Plastics and glass - "that's it!"
Direct combination of vinegar and soda in larger quantities surely results in a rather dangerous geyser.
NaOH certainly will not violate contemporary acrylic paint - I fought with it mechanically.
because maybe you can see the beautiful world in your own eyes 
. Spraying a caustic soda solution (NaOH) with spray gun is obvious idiocy, straight from You Tube. A concentrated sodium hydroxide solution is applied to the object only using a paint brush or roller, using - safety goggles and rubber gloves as a minimum protection. 
Reacts violently with acids, emitting CO2.
