Originally Posted by
ILoveToQuilt
I bought my Continental from VCS, too. Have had it now for about 6 months and love it. It did stop heating after third use. DH is an electrical engineer and he took it apart. Apparently a "spade" connector (the part that attaches the cord inside the iron) had come loose. He tightened it and viola! Works like a charm. Love the heft of the iron. Have used many different brands over the years, but this is the first true dry iron I've had. Won't go back to steam irons.
Since your DH is an electrical engineer, maybe he could enlighten us on the matter of electric
irons. I heard that the iron still use power when leaving the iron "off" but not unplugging.
It's like a dimmer switch.
BTW, back to the Continental iron, don't know if it's the same problem we're talking about
but my iron cord gets squished if I stand it up. To solve that problem I always put set in
a brownie pan (at an angle). No more squished cord.