On Thu, 28 May 2009, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I've run across 2-3 over the past 25 years. They
all had hard lives
but were still trivial to fix (cable/sensor/heater problems). I
didn't have to spend more than $20 in new parts to get any one of them
working. I haven't yet run across one with a problem in the base.
The connector for the cord from the base to the iron
occasionally the power switch