Cleaning bottom of iron
 

I have inherited an iron that was my MIL's and when I went to try it out and I used some older plain fabric.
I had noticed on the bottom that there was some yellow/brown stain on it. When I tried it out on my practice
fabric it was stained. Does anyone know of what I could use to clean the bottom of the iron I love the iron it is an
older model and is real heavy and it seems to press real good from being heavier it has a metal bottom.

I don't want to miss any help I can receive from all the helpful ladies on this board.

Thanks
Eunice


"Dogs are children in fur coats"

Try Mr. Clean Magic Eraser. It works great on my iron.

Hi Eunice,

I use an old 'dry' (no steam abilities) GE iron and love it! I clean the soleplate by "hot ironing" kosher salt on a brown paper bag. The brown gook from the soleplate transfers to the salt.
I save the brown paper bag for future cleanings.
Hope this helps :)

Jae

I use Hot Iron Cleaner. Mostly Rowenta's, but I have also used another brand that I can't think of right now. It is the name of a famous iron. I'm sure someone else will mention it. But I love the Rowneta.

I just heard of this at Guild last night so I bought one today!

sandy

Recently I bought a nice little travel iron, at a thrift shop. When I got it home and tried to use it I realized that it had a sticky area on the sole plate. I tried every thing that I've ever used for stickiness and nothing worked. Finally, I did some looking around on the internet and found my solution.

I sprinkled salt on a brown paper bag and ironed back and forth, back and forth (with the iron turned on) over the salt until the stickiness was gone. It worked great!! Maybe this will help your problem, too.

You might start with on old washcloth that is very wet and double folded. Run your hot iron over it. It's amazing how much comes off (unless it's totally turned). Then you can use the other cleaners. Hopefully this will lessen the work.

There are commercial iron cleaners -- ask me how I know. When the iron is clean but doesn't want to slide you can iron over wax paper to take care of that problem.

Like Sheri.a, I wash the someplace and if that doesn't work (for the stray iron on stabilizer), then I press a fabric softener sheet with a hot iron.

Yup. i use these too.. I also heard a damp fabric softer sheet is suppose to work too.. Havent tried as I always have the Magic erasers on hand..