Help! Have I ruined my irons??
#21
don't put oven cleaner on your iron. There is a iron cleaner that works great, you can find it in the section with the spray starch. you just put a dab on a clean white cloth and set the iron on hot and then iron over the iron cleaner the iron on a clean cloth, I have removed lots of gunk off of my iron with this iron cleaner. Also my mom used to use a warm iron on waxed paper, and I mean warm not HOT
#22
Also you might want to invest in one of the teflon ironing sheets, I use it all the time when doing wonder under and you never have to worry about messing up your iron, they are relative inexpensive and I think clotilde has them
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That happened to me a few days ago. At JoAnn's, I used a 50% off coupon (because it was rather expensive) and bought Rowenta soleplate cleaning kit, a hot iron cleaner. It worked like a dream and did not take a lot of elbow grease.
#29
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Did you try sticking the iron in the freezer for a while and see if the stuff would pop off? If it is not smeared on that might just work.
Originally Posted by jumpin' judy
I have been felting wool and decided a really good steaming would be in order-----only I forgot to turn my iron down to "wool". I now have little melted bits of wool on the bottom of two irons. I've tried Spray and Wash, Mr. Clean Magic Eraser, and just plain elbow grease. I am now reading the back of a can of oven cleaner. Anybody got any ideas???
#30
Thanks for all the different solutions. In my haste the other day I ironed right over a piece of webbing, of course I had it wrong side up. The whole bottom of my iron is a mess. I had another iron tucked away that I could finish my project with, although it's not a good one. I'll try some of these things before I go to the store and pick up Iron Off.
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