Brace yourself, here come an angry rant.
A) brown water stains. B) brown spit
My iron is doing me head in! The reason why my ironing board looks like **** is because my iron continues to puke brown-ish crap. Just look at the photo, there are small pieces of I-don’t-even-know-what-that-is all over the place. And what’s worse it that one of these days I swear, that thing is gonna spit all over my wedding dress and I will end up crying in a corner.
I’m having a hard time believing that I’m mistreating it in some way. I mean, it’s an iron, not a space rocket. So if you’ve got any ideas, I’m all ears!
July 15, 2013 at 23:35
Sometimes it helps to clean out the filter. If I don’t do that with my iron for a long time it spits brown too :-)
July 16, 2013 at 10:05
Filter? Where? I don’t think mine’s got a filter? I think it’s supposed to clean itself :S
July 16, 2013 at 16:56
Ohh… okay well mine has a water reservoir (so that it also produces steam) and that water reservoir needs to be cleaned from time to time. If it isn’t, it will produce ‘rust’ or water with a high ‘chalk’ level. (don’t know how you should call it, haha)
July 28, 2013 at 22:18
Finally, I found a hidden magic stick! Upon removal, the water floods out of the water reservoir :) Until now, I’ve just been pushing the steam-button like a mad man. I’m so happy that it took care of the cleaning problem but the root cause remains. A friend told me that her iron never spits like mine does. I think I’m gonna head over to the petrol station on my way home tomorrow to get some distilled water.
August 3, 2013 at 20:52
Good thinking right there!! But still, you now know how to clean that thing, maybe it will prevent the ‘over-spitting’ in the future ;-)
August 3, 2013 at 21:06
Yeah I hope you’re right :)
July 17, 2013 at 18:01
http://www.howtocleanstuff.net/how-to-clean-an-iron-2/
:)
July 17, 2013 at 19:23
aha, perhaps I should start removing the left-over-water. And I’m gonna try using distilled water. But that means I gotta buy a shitload of water :S
July 18, 2013 at 22:36
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Distilled-Water sinds you are pretty handy this will do right :)
July 18, 2013 at 22:37
went on that web site you recommended btw loved it soo much steampunk stuff was awesome :)
July 19, 2013 at 08:00
Hehe, yeah I thought you’d like it. I’ve thought about making my own water but it just seems like such a hazzle. I’m gonna have to buy it instead. The only problem then is to carry it home but I guess i could always send Martin out on a quest to get me some :D
July 19, 2013 at 15:25
aye let him feel the pain of collecting stuff for the quest giver :)
July 19, 2013 at 18:25
Haha, yeah and while I’m at it, I should send him out to snatch some candles from the local kobolds :)
July 20, 2013 at 00:23
you not take my candle ;)
July 20, 2013 at 00:26
http://www.darklegacycomics.com/241.html
July 20, 2013 at 09:36
:D