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12-15-2014, 02:36 PM

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HouseDragon

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The reviews mentioning fires scared me away from the Rowenta, so I bought the Sunbeam at Costco.

It lasted a few months before it stopped heating higher than barely warm. Costco took it back without a problem and it was replaced by a second Sunbeam.

The second one lasted a couple of months before it started shutting off after about a minute. Returned it to Costco and got a refund.

Then I bought a cheap Rival at WallyWorld for under $10. It's small, lightweight, and doesn't have auto shutoff. The perfect quilting iron.

As per the thread of shutting off your iron, it's on a surge protector along with my Ott Light: I pull the serge protector plug at the end of my quilting session along with the plug of a second surge protector that my sewing machine is plugged into.

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