When my husband was redoing a room to be my sewing room, the ends of the counter, that were formica, had sticky formica end shaped pieces, with instructions about how to heat them with an iron to apply them. So he just went out and got a Proctoe-Silex iron, for $10. No auto shut off, just a basic iron. He left it in that room and that's what I've been using. It's plugged into an outlet in the iron wall cabinet that has a timer that lasts 30 minutes, and it's nice, when the timer cuts off the electricity to the iron, it also shuts off the light, letting me know it's off. So far, it's working