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SactoTeddyBear
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Re: Pink!!!
Hey! I thought that was Beth Ann's Favorite Color!!!
Peace and Happy Holiday Cheer, Steve
SactoTeddyBear...
Hey! I thought that was Beth Ann's Favorite Color!!!
Peace and Happy Holiday Cheer, Steve
SactoTeddyBear...
Whoops
Maybe it is BethAnn's favourite, am all mixed up these days!
Launderess
Maybe it is BethAnn's favourite, am all mixed up these days!
Launderess
How the heck does one use a mangle, anyway? I don't get how you'd iron a shirt, or something like that. In fact, I don't understand how you'd iron anything with it! How could you iron a tablecloth or other large item?
Time for some education
I posted the link to these movies before, but you might have missed that. It's a demonstration movie of an Ironrite ironer.
I posted the link to these movies before, but you might have missed that. It's a demonstration movie of an Ironrite ironer.
Table top ironers like the one pictured were really meant for doing small items like pillow slips,napkins, placemats and such. In addition perhaps little girl's jumpers, boys pants, men's shirts etc. Large flatwork while possible would have be folded many times to fit the width of the roller. Had a small Beatty ironer similar to the GE pictured, and quickly sold it on to another person. Just was too small.
Ironers work by moving the item along a heated plate, thus smoothing,drying, and "ironing" such as it is. Pressing can be done by simply stopping the roller and allowing it to remain in contact with one area for a period of seconds.
All ironing really does is rearrange the "memory" of a fabric by flatening it out. Moisture in the form of steam helps certian fabrics (mainly natural). Tension is caused by holding the item taught with one hand, while the other hand goes over the area with an iron.
Simple really.
Small ironers like the GE pictured were also a answer for those housewives whom did not have room for the behemoth Ironrites, Bendix,Simplex, and other types of full sized ironers.
One has to remember ironers were in their heyday up until around 1960 or so when "Permanent Press" fabrics came out. Until then laundry day produced tons of things which had to be ironed, and "Her Indoors" was always looking for ways to lighten her load on ironing day. Giving up on ironing bed and table linen was the common method, but no self respecting mother/housewife would send her husband out to work in a shirt that had not been ironed, or her children to school in the same manner. OHHHHHHHHH how people would talk, especially the woman's MIL.
Launderess
Ironers work by moving the item along a heated plate, thus smoothing,drying, and "ironing" such as it is. Pressing can be done by simply stopping the roller and allowing it to remain in contact with one area for a period of seconds.
All ironing really does is rearrange the "memory" of a fabric by flatening it out. Moisture in the form of steam helps certian fabrics (mainly natural). Tension is caused by holding the item taught with one hand, while the other hand goes over the area with an iron.
Simple really.
Small ironers like the GE pictured were also a answer for those housewives whom did not have room for the behemoth Ironrites, Bendix,Simplex, and other types of full sized ironers.
One has to remember ironers were in their heyday up until around 1960 or so when "Permanent Press" fabrics came out. Until then laundry day produced tons of things which had to be ironed, and "Her Indoors" was always looking for ways to lighten her load on ironing day. Giving up on ironing bed and table linen was the common method, but no self respecting mother/housewife would send her husband out to work in a shirt that had not been ironed, or her children to school in the same manner. OHHHHHHHHH how people would talk, especially the woman's MIL.
Launderess
Pink Cutie!
Laundress:
Thanks for thinking of me! I've been eyeing some of those mangle irons, and this one happens to be in Texas. I'm just afraid that I would scorch the heck out of anything I tried to press! I'm bad enough with a Rowenta! LOL
Venus
Laundress:
Thanks for thinking of me! I've been eyeing some of those mangle irons, and this one happens to be in Texas. I'm just afraid that I would scorch the heck out of anything I tried to press! I'm bad enough with a Rowenta! LOL
Venus
No You Won't Girl
Just start out onwa lower heat setting than used to until you get the feel of the unit.
Ironers that small are great for tea towels, napkins, pillow cases and if one sews or quilts, ironing fabric before sewing.
While doing shirts on a mangle is an acquired art, collars and cuffs, and sleeves are pretty easy.
I say go for it, if nothing else will make an interesting conversation item. *LOL*
Launderess
Just start out onwa lower heat setting than used to until you get the feel of the unit.
Ironers that small are great for tea towels, napkins, pillow cases and if one sews or quilts, ironing fabric before sewing.
While doing shirts on a mangle is an acquired art, collars and cuffs, and sleeves are pretty easy.
I say go for it, if nothing else will make an interesting conversation item. *LOL*
Launderess
Brneyedgrl80
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Wow, thanks for the video foraloysius! Just like frigilux I had no idea how one would use something like that.
jasonl
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Venus is a turquise girl. Pink would stick out like a sore thumb in her kitchen.
-Craving some more Sunbeam C-50 made coffee.
-Craving some more Sunbeam C-50 made coffee.
OK, now I see how a mangle is used. However, I think I'll stick with my flat iron. Does anyone else here iron on the wide end of the ironing board? I started doing it because I didn't know any better. It looked like that's where you'd place a shirt. Anyway, I've never ironed at the narrow, tapered end. Of course, I only iron tablecloths and dress shirts. I've never pressed dress pants; maybe they would do better at the narrow end.
I'm buying myself a steamer for Christmas. I see they're available for around $200. I bought a little hand-held steamer, but it doesn't do much. It's OK for hotel-room use, although whenever I book a room, I tell them to have an iron and ironing board in there for me. I'm not a meticulous suitcase-packer, so my shirts usually look like they've been run over.
I'm buying myself a steamer for Christmas. I see they're available for around $200. I bought a little hand-held steamer, but it doesn't do much. It's OK for hotel-room use, although whenever I book a room, I tell them to have an iron and ironing board in there for me. I'm not a meticulous suitcase-packer, so my shirts usually look like they've been run over.
TE HE HE
My first partner showed my how to iron properly in 1981.
So..in my seond marriage I would also iron a shirt for the partner every morning when when doing my own. That MF had the B... (er Christmas tree ornaments) to complain about the job I did.
I was late for work, otherwise that iron would have been so far up the ying-yang that the cord would have been able to come out the mouth.
NEVER touched the iron again. Pay the laundry servce.
And I just smiled every time the cost was bitched-about.
My first partner showed my how to iron properly in 1981.
So..in my seond marriage I would also iron a shirt for the partner every morning when when doing my own. That MF had the B... (er Christmas tree ornaments) to complain about the job I did.
I was late for work, otherwise that iron would have been so far up the ying-yang that the cord would have been able to come out the mouth.
NEVER touched the iron again. Pay the laundry servce.
And I just smiled every time the cost was bitched-about.
So there it is--
--the ONE thing Tolggle won't do.
Well, the one thing we can discuss here, anyway.
--the ONE thing Tolggle won't do.
Well, the one thing we can discuss here, anyway.
michaelman2
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Venus..I use an ironer all the time and other than melting the idiotic tags in the back of shirts, no scorching just a really nicely ironed garment. I am not sure about the use of this particular ironer, but I would imagine that it would be as simple as the ones I have used.
veg-o-matic
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And if anyone wants to know the OTHER
thing Toggle won't do, just email me
veg
thing Toggle won't do, just email me
veg
Actually the square end of the ironing board was designed for ironing the front and back of men's shirts. The narrow end is for doing the yoke/shoulders.
Have a vintage Proctor flip ironing board which is rectangular, but one can flip down the ends to make a narrow board for shoulders/yoke ironing. As a rectangle it is perfect for doing large flatwork ironing as one can use the entire length of the board.
Launderess
Have a vintage Proctor flip ironing board which is rectangular, but one can flip down the ends to make a narrow board for shoulders/yoke ironing. As a rectangle it is perfect for doing large flatwork ironing as one can use the entire length of the board.
Launderess
Launderess--- That makes sense. However, I've been ironing at the wide end for so long, I don't know if I could adjust to using the pointed end. You must have had a DAMN good home ec. teacher, girl!
Toggle--- Does everyone in NY send their laundry out to be done? Both the NY'ers I know have two things in common; They no longer own a car and they both send their laundry out to be done. There is a shirt laundering service at my local dry cleaners, but it's never occured to me to use it.
Toggle--- Does everyone in NY send their laundry out to be done? Both the NY'ers I know have two things in common; They no longer own a car and they both send their laundry out to be done. There is a shirt laundering service at my local dry cleaners, but it's never occured to me to use it.
Most laundries in Manhattan charge between $1 to $3 USD for a shirt,machine washed and "ironed" (if one can call it that), with the average price about one dollar. For that price most people don't bother doing shirts at home and send them out. However these laundries mainly all are either "drop stores" or even corner laundries that send shirts out to wholesale laundries. As anyone who has owned a laundromat/laundry can tell you, laundry is a volume business. That is no one makes money on doing one shirt at $1, but do several hundred a day and you MIGHT make some money.
Needless to say quality is not a strong point, even with the laundries that advertise "hand ironing" may or may not get the washing part correct. More often than not stains are not totally removed, and there is heavy reliance on very hot water and bleach/harsh detergents to get the job done. Ironing is done by hand with tons of spray starch and viola, one has a "clean" shirt that is stiff as a board.
There are a few "French Hand Laundries" left that will wash and iron by hand, but the prices start around $5.00 and up for one shirt. At those rates only certian clientle can afford to send their shirts to that sort of laundry.
L.
Needless to say quality is not a strong point, even with the laundries that advertise "hand ironing" may or may not get the washing part correct. More often than not stains are not totally removed, and there is heavy reliance on very hot water and bleach/harsh detergents to get the job done. Ironing is done by hand with tons of spray starch and viola, one has a "clean" shirt that is stiff as a board.
There are a few "French Hand Laundries" left that will wash and iron by hand, but the prices start around $5.00 and up for one shirt. At those rates only certian clientle can afford to send their shirts to that sort of laundry.
L.
