On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 16:41:05 +0100, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article ,
dennis@home wrote:
On 26/09/2019 23:29, John Kenyon wrote:

Also the thing has a sensible strain relief where the cable emerges -
the cable is easily threaded through. The thing is the antithesis of
Apple design - cheap and completely repairable (if you can get the
sodding cable...)


It doesn't have to be cotton covered, heat resistant silicon cable
should be fine, immersion heater cable is temperature resistant and
fairly flexible too.

True. If it's good enough for a soldering iron, a smoothing iron should
be OK.

Only reason these days for a fabric cover is looks.

I think the fabric cover was supposed to be better than rubber (not
necessarily silicone) because it didn'r bind on the edge of the ironing
board.



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