Yeah My Name Is Launderess & I Have A Problem. Wanna Make Something Of It?

[launderess]

Needed another vintage iron like a hole in the head, but....

 

[launderess]

Austinado16, This Is All *Your* Fault

*LOL*

 

[launderess]

There's More Stuff In The Box

A manual, price sticker, and a rather large metal trivet as well.

Everything will need scrubbing up. You never know, may fetch a bit towards the widow and orphan fund! *LOL*

 

[statenislandgwm]

You're as bad as me.....

When it comes to "collecting" I am trying to eliminate stuff now as I hope to be moving in the near future...seems I can't even give the stuff away...ANY TAKERS?

 

[bellalaundry]

Great iron...

I can't leave them at the store either!

Guy

 

[laundromat]

Hey launderess,

Looks like you are now a celeb. I see you've chosen "Meet the Press"

 

[hydralique]

Problem?

I'm not so sure about this being a problem . . . more like Launderess is a smart shopper (not that we didn't already know this). In the last two years I've had two modern Sunbeam irons bite the dust. Now I'm using a cheap little Toastmaster bought at Target until I have time to find a good quality older iron at a thriftstore. I don't even iron that much, but the new ones just don't last.

 

[toggleswitch]

Hoarding for no good reason, dears, is ALWAYS a problem (or the beginnings of one).

Especially when one (the OP) has already said is it causing relationship problems in real life.

 

[launderess]

Actually Only Wanted To See What The Hub-Bub Was All About

With this iron. If it doesn't have any moxie on the ball, I won't bother with it long.

Have actually been throwing away and or sending to thrifts lots of things that are surplus to requirements. Many in my family were shocked but happy when I arrived home at holiday gatherings as well.

For steam ironing have two commercial versions (Sussman "Aqua Steam pump system, and a Naomoto gravity iron), that are streets ahead of anything modern or present when it comes to that sort of ironing. However there are times one has the one odd shirt or something that needs steam ironing or a touch-up and don't feel like hauling out the big guns.

Had an older Rowenta for such work, but it leaks like a sieve and is in the "give away" pile.

Scrubbed up the Presto iron last night including a vinegar cleaning of the inside (the stuff came out blue, not sure what is up with that), then did some ironing to see what all the noise was about.

Yes, the unit makes lots of steam. This is not surprising as "National Presto Industries" maker of this iron was huge in the pressure cooker market of the period. It seems the inventor of this iron took Presto's knack for making pressure cookers and applied it to irons, in short one of the first "steam generator" irons.

One odd thing and one did find it off putting after a bit, the thing cannot be stood up on it's heel like other irons (hence it came with the trivet), and there is no way to shut off the steam. Upright, prone, whatever position one places the unit it will shoot out steam. So while one has the iron on it's trivet say whilst arranging whatever you are ironing, it is all the while spewing out steam.

First, I find this a waste of water/steam . Next can only imagine how quickly uncomfortable ironing on a hot day or in a hot area would become with a constant spray of semi-pressurised steam sprayed about.

Still, all and all the iron is heavy (which always gets my vote), and did a decent enough job on some test sheets. Another cool thing is the amount of research that went into the owner's manual. Much like my vintage Proctor's ironing book, it clearly states that Madame can get most of her ironing done with steam (this during an era when most laundry was damp ironed dry), but certain items such as tightly woven textiles (such as cotton percale sheets), still must be dampened before ironing.

 

[polkanut]

Hey StatenIslandGwm,

How about posting some pics of what you want to get rid of, and what your asking prices are?