How To Clean Iron Melted Plastic

With the cloth covering melted plastic run the iron back and forth over the affected area.

How to clean iron melted plastic. To know the technique watch this video from the beg. Use a fabric softener dryer sheet to clean your iron. Place a piece of cloth over melted plastic. To clean a sticky iron start by heating it on a low setting. Rubbing a paste made of baking soda and vinegar into the melted plastic stain can sometimes do the trick as well.

Take a piece of cloth and place it over the melted plastic. Remove the remaining traces by unplugging the iron and placing it with the soleplate down in a tray of ice cubes for 5 10 minutes to allow the plastic traces to freeze. Make sure that the cloth you choose is thin but does not burn easily. Before you start this method you need to open all of your windows and turn on the fan. The owners manual for your iron if you still have it will have cleaning instructions.

Using a very common item available in every house you can easily clean burnt stains from iron soleplate. Iron with a warm iron to remove stuck on plastic or other residue. If not our friend vinegar can be used to remove the brown gunk from the bottom of your iron. Pick off small bits of remaining polyester with a pair of tweezers. If the iron is still sticky mix some dish soap and warm water and scrub the iron with the mixture using a sponge or nylon mesh pad.

Next you re going to turn on the oven to its lowest setting and let the plastic melt a bit. For leather warm the wax or plastic with a hair dryer being careful not to damage or burn the leather. Let it sit for 5 to 10 minutes to allow the remaining plastic to freeze. As the iron heats up the plastic will become malleable. A wooden spatula removes melted polyester without scratching the iron plate.

If you have a self cleaning oven the warm method works a lot better for cleaning melted plastic. Either moisten the fabric softener sheet and scrub the bottom of a the warm iron or place a damp washcloth on the ironing board and lay the dryer sheet on top of the wash cloth. Then remove them with a metal spatula by scraping. Sit the iron in the pan making sure that only the base of the iron with the debris of melted plastic is sitting in the water. Remove the melted plastic from the soleplate with a metal spatula first remove the large pieces and then small ones.