Is there still an iron on the market WITHOUT auto shut-off?
01-07-2016, 05:56 AM
#11
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Dollar General sells the Continental Steam iron with no auto shout off for $10.
http://www.dollargeneral.com/product...uctId=11786921
http://www.dollargeneral.com/product...uctId=11786921
01-07-2016, 08:28 AM
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Originally Posted by cheryl222
I did this also and loved my old irons because they got so hot......UNTIL one started on fire! Fortunately I was right theire and was able to snuff if out before any damage. Now I am afraid of old irons.
I have a small one that doesn't have it, and I am always forgetting to unplug it.
01-07-2016, 08:58 AM
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I like auto shut-off as well. My sewing area is in the archway between the guest bedroom and what would have been a trunk room in my 100 year old house. My ironing station is a board on top of a small table placed at right angles to the left side of my sewing cabinet--very convenient, since I just have to swivel my chair to press seams. Buuuut, Bubba, my dog, likes to lay on the guest bed while I work. Sometimes Bubba likes to come visit me at the sewing machine which he does by squeezing his 80 pound self in between my sewing cabinet and my chair-- he's never yet knocked himself or me (in my rolling chair) into the iron, but I feel better knowing that it has auto shut-off. 
Rob
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01-07-2016, 09:41 AM
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Think I read this tip here. If you have an iron rest, those ones that you sit your iron in on an angle, some ironing boards have them. Rest your iron there with the tip of your iron pointing down. Your iron will not shut off.
Originally Posted by sewbizgirl
It drives me nuts and wastes much time when I'm quilting all day and have to stand and wait, shaking the iron, to "wake it up" and then wait for it to reheat. Seems like every time I need to use it, it's already shut off and cooled down. Are there any old fashioned irons that don't have the auto shut-off feature? I would love to have one for quilting.
01-07-2016, 10:08 AM
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I just pick up old irons at yard sales and thrift stores, they're cheap and have been reliable for me, if one goes out, I figure I only spent a couple of bucks, then go on to another one. Right now I only have about 10 of them. LOL
01-07-2016, 10:28 AM
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I second this, TOTALLY LOVE my Reliable Digital Velocity V100.
Thinking about getting me another for back up.
Thinking about getting me another for back up.
Originally Posted by dunster
The Reliable Digital Velocity V100 can be used either way. If you press and hold in a button it turns off the auto-shut-off mode and the iron stays on as long as it's plugged in. It has the best steam of any iron I've owned, and can't leak.
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