The Vermont Country Store carries the Black & Decker Classic. I've
loved the Classic for many years, and when my old one died, that was the
first replacement I ordered. And returned after a few days of earnest
trial. It leaked like crazy, and there was something seriously wrong
with the temperature, the auto-cutoff, or both. I could never get it to
heat and stay hot long enough to iron everything. So. it still has the
old-fashioned manageable size, the better positioned handle that gives
the iron better balance, the visible temperature dial . . . it just
doesn't work. Another minus for cheap appliance manufacture in China.
I concluded that the way to get an old-fashioned iron was to just buy an
old iron. There are a lot of them out there. I am very hopeful about
my upcoming vintage GE (and since it has a polyester setting it can't be
an antique!), but if that does not live up to its unused-looking shiny
promise in the seller's photo and description, I will just keep buying
old irons till I get one that works.
Fran
Lavolta Press
On 5/20/2012 1:20 PM, Mary + Doug Piero Carey wrote:
Fran complained about modern irons.
<snip>
p.s. I seem to recall a catalog with some old-fashioned irons in it
-- maybe Vermont Country Store? I'll have to go look.
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