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Posted by Rollie on April 7, 2008, 1:48 pm
Are you using distilled water, that shouldn't have any iron in it. If not
try it as that's what I use and have no problems.
Rollie
>
>>I recently bought a brand new Black & Decker Steam Advantage iron (model
>> F2200). This is one with a "Ceramic Glide" soleplate. I've owned it
>> less
>> than a week and I am already having problems with it. The specific
>> problem
>> I am having is that on occasion it is staining my clothes. This happens
>> when I am ironing over a thick seam, say, the outside corner of the
>> pocket
>> on the front of a shirt. The iron is leaving a thin, brown stain there.
>> Sometimes I can brush off what seems to be some residue there, but
>> sometimes
>> not.
>>
>> When I examine the soleplate I see some brown stains immediately below
>> the
>> "top" steam vent, extending in a V-shape in each direction. This stained
>> area feels slightly rough, as though there is residue there.
>>
>> Compared with my old iron, which had a non-stick (Teflon?) soleplate,
>> I've
>> noticed that the ceramic soleplate of this new iron is more "sticky," and
>> I
>> have to let the steam flow really build up before I can move the iron
>> back
>> and forth easily. This soleplate also seems to get hotter at a given
>> fabric
>> heat/steam setting.
>>
>> I have ironed almost exclusively dress shirts, both 100% cotton and
>> poly/cotten shirts, with this iron. I am using the recommended
>> heat/steam
>> setting for the fabric. I have been filling the iron with store-bought,
>> distilled water.
>>
>> I have two questions:
>>
>> (1) What is causing this problem? Is the recommended setting too hot?
>> Is
>> this residue microscopic, burned, fabric particles?
>>
>> (2) How can I clean this material off the soleplate?
>>
>> Thanks in advance. I saw from searching Google that problems with steam
>> irons have been discussed in this group in the past.
>
>
> I solved this problem on my own by researching various solutions on the
> Internet and trying them until I found one that worked.
>
> This problem was being caused by the fact that this new iron gets quite a
> bit hotter than my old iron. In essence, the cotton heat/steam setting is
> too hot for the cotten/polyester blend shirts I usually wear. This new
> iron
> is getting so hot that it is, at the microscopic level, burning/melting
> the
> fabric and this burned/melted material is accumulating on the bottom of
> the
> iron. Enough of this residue had collected on the soleplate so that,
> after
> about the fifth time I used the iron, some rubbed off on the shirt I was
> ironing, creating the stains I mentioned earlier.
>
> I tried several methods to remove this residue from the soleplate. The
> one
> that worked was making a thick paste of water and baking soda and spooning
> some of this on a Scotch Brite "Dobie" scouring pad, then gently scouring
> the soleplate in a circular motion. It took about a half-hour to get all
> the residue off the soleplate, but I did not scratch the ceramic surface.
>
> I then experimented with lowering the temperature of my iron by setting it
> to the next highest setting, the "Wool" setting. This was hot enough to
> iron the cotten/poly shirts successfully without causing the burn/melting
> problems.
>
> I'm still trying to find a way to get the brown stains out of the shirt
> that
> I was ironing when I discovered the problem. Today I tried a "Magic Wand"
> stain remover stick. I rubbed this on the stains than laundered. It may
> have removed a little bit, but the stains were still there after
> laundering.
>
>
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