oscillate feature
Whoah, this is a fantastic machine, congratulations! (I love ironers anyway, but this one is really something).
What is behind the little door on the front side of the right-hand "standpost"?
Oscillate: I can only guess, but when it is what I think, then ABC did a marvellous job making it automatic:
Just recently I've even learned how to iron more "complicated" items on a roller-type ironer (such as shirts, pants, jackets.)
Quite a few of these are made of darker fabrics that cannot stand excess heat (they get somewhat shiny or "shimmering" from that). (You can iron them easily when you put a wet thin cotton sheet onto them, ironing this all along the way). When done you need to soak it in water again, wring and reuse the same way. Quite tedious, all your saving time is gone.
All in all it just means "steaming" those darker garments. (But you need the full heat to produce the steam).
Now what I do is this: I dry those pants only to a point as to contain enough moisture to produce some steam. Fold the front crease, step on pedal halfway down (shoe will press), release. Repeat with back crease, release. Now that the main creases are made and to iron the remaining "side surface" of that leg, I put it in at the very bottom, 1 cm peeping out under the shoe and the rest hanging down in back of the roller. Then: Press down, release, pull a handwidth, press, release, pull, press... etc, all the way up to the upper part of the pants which were ironed before.
If I was ironing the fabric in some gliding motion (as would be the case with a contiously running roller), the dark color would get shiny. But with press, pull, press, pull I get a perfect steaming job keeping the colors all dark as they should be. (To be on the safe side not to start the roller motor, I select no speed = off.)
It might be that the ABC corp. had automated this job. What a great idea!
But I am just guessing.
Maybe this on-off motion is just a short in the wiring... (I hope it is NOT)
