Help! Melted fabric onto my iron!
#11
I use fusible web by the bolt and sometimes get careless in the middle of the night. For fast, safe, non-scratching, low-chemical, no-fail removal of the glue from an iron, turn the iron on to a medium-low heat setting and rub the soleplate with a scrunched up dryer sheet, a used one works just fine. Don't forget to check the steam vents, too. If you prefer, you can put the dryer sheet on a piece of newspaper and iron it, not press, iron.
If that doesn't work because of the spandex, I'd try Iron-Off.
If that doesn't work because of the spandex, I'd try Iron-Off.
Last edited by ghostrider; 07-06-2014 at 01:52 PM.
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Have you tried peeling the stuck fabric off the iron? I have had good luck doing that. You might try heating the iron just a little--you have to be able to touch it without burning yourself. I have done this many times and sometimes just kept on using the iron and the sticky just wore off. It doesn't really matter what you do, the iron is no good like it is.
Sue
Sue
#14
I have had a couple of "iron incidents" and because of this I always buy an iron with a shiny sole plate so I don't know about the Mr Clean eraser tip for you. I have used this and it worked wonderfully for me. All the gunk from starching and ironing came off.
The other thing I did to get plastic off my iron was to freeze it. I didn't have room in my freezer so I sat it on a bed of ice cubes. This freezes the plastic and gets it brittle so you can peel it off - chip it off. I got my iron clean with this and I had a lot of plastic on it. Got the tip off the internet and it worked. You might try it with yours. I had tried getting the iron hot and rubbing it back and forth and it only made it worse.
The other thing I did to get plastic off my iron was to freeze it. I didn't have room in my freezer so I sat it on a bed of ice cubes. This freezes the plastic and gets it brittle so you can peel it off - chip it off. I got my iron clean with this and I had a lot of plastic on it. Got the tip off the internet and it worked. You might try it with yours. I had tried getting the iron hot and rubbing it back and forth and it only made it worse.
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I would do as previous post said, heat up the iron and try to get as much of the junk off when the iron is hot. It happened to me when making a T-shirt quilt. You might try the Mr Clean. That type of sponge has saved my bacon most then once. I own a Rowenta Soleplate Cleaning Kit and it seems to always get the little bit of crude from using Heat n Bond.
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