I have a Panasonic iron I bought at Wal-Mart ($25) several years ago and it is a workhorse! It is a lot lighter than my cordless so that one is tucked away somewhere???. Anyway, this iron is indestructible apparently because I dropped it yesterday, it fell flat on the soleplate onto my cement floor with no scratches and still works! The only thing that almost happened was that I started to catch it and it was on!