Appreciation post: That cheap seam iron I bought on Amazon died after 3 weeks

I spent $35 on a no-name seam iron and it literally stopped heating up halfway through a living room job in Des Moines. Has anyone else had bad luck with those budget irons or did I just get a dud?

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umac713d ago

Did you check the voltage rating before you plugged it in? I see a lot of those cheap imports labeled for 110v but they're really built for 220v and just burn out fast. My buddy runs a flooring crew and he went through three of those $35 irons in one winter before he figured out the wiring in his van was putting out 125v and the cheap transformers couldn't handle it. If you ran that thing on an extension cord in an old Des Moines house, the power could easily be a little high or low and cook the electronics. Might not be a dud, might be the tool wasn't built for your actual power.

troy_palmer763d ago

Huh, I gotta call BS on blaming the power grid for a dud tool. A quality iron should handle 125v just fine, that's a standard tolerance, the problem is people buying $35 junk and expecting it to last.