...and out went all the lights!

[venta]

I just lifted the iron down from the shelf, and found its base was covered in rust. I cleaned it off with a brillo pad, but fear I might have got some water in the works because plugging it in shorted out the power for the entire house. Twice.

hendybear, maybe we shouldn't have used the iron to defrost the freezer after all.

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[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

A normal iron would not fill itself full of ice and then go rusty, if it didn't have steam bits on the inside.

Leave it outside in the sun! (What sun. Put it in the airing cupboard.)

[venta.livejournal.com]

What airing cupboard!

It definitely wasn't full of ice. I'm leaving it to dry out, though, in the hopes it'll work again.