A couple months ago I was piecing squares into strips and pressing the seams as I went with the (3 year old) Black and Decker Classic iron, just had it on low to get the seams flattened, when I pressed a seam I noticed an odd smell, looked at the piece and it was scorched, almost burnt through. Somehow the iron just went wild overheating, after unplugging it, it took a couple hours before it was cool enough to wrap the cord around and take it to the garage. I went to Walmart and bought one of their 10 dollar irons, so far it's working just fine, heats quickly and no auto shut off to annoy me, or grabby steam holes that somehow constantly snagged the edges of seam allowances. Not all that unhappy to see that particular iron pack it in.