On Friday, 27 September 2019 17:04:10 UTC+1, Bob Eager wrote:
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.

Rubber flex is rated to 60C. It tolerates far higher, but it does it no favours. The cloth cover prevents direct contact, reducing peak temps.

It should not be hard to find online. Locally you likely won't get it, as it's only used for clothes irons these days, and few folk repair their stuff now.

Immersion heater flex is completely unsuitable. It's too thick & stiff, and is 90C rated PVC. A momentary touch of that on a hot iron will melt it.

Silicone is more £ & very soft.


NT