Fixing an Iron. How hard can it be?

[Ian Geary]

Sorry to drift off the iron topic towards cars, but if I read the above posts correctly, tumble drier condensate is equivalent to the bottled water sold at garages (not mineral water obviously).

So would I be ok swapping de-ionised water with tumble drier water when refilling the car radiator?

Its a 12 year old banger, but I still avoid using tap water to dilute the coolant down with.

Thanks

Ian

[Sheepshanks]

Condi said:

Pints said:

dickymint said:

The instructions expressly states NOT to use tumble dryer condensate.

I wonder why not. It's clearly not doing my iron any harm, although mine is the more traditional steam iron.

I wonder why too. Its only water which has been evaporated and condensed, so should be fairly pure. Unless you get a lot of fabric condition or something in it as well.

My missus buys Comfort Ironing Water which presumably has fabric conditioner in it. I've never looked closely as it fks me off - we have ridiculously soft water from our taps.

[AW10]

Pints said:

I wonder why not. It's clearly not doing my iron any harm, although mine is the more traditional steam iron.

Are there fine lint particles in the water?

[OneDs]

I'm not sure why this steam generator iron has survived longer than the others in our very hard water area but it seems to work more like a pressured kettle rather than a combi boiler, so any scale builds up in the main vessel which is easily washed out every so often with out buggering up all the gubbins.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Philips-GC6510-02-Pressuri...

[BoRED S2upid]

I love these 1st world problem Pistonheads posts. Send the butler down to Argos to buy a new one!

[Sheepshanks]

BoRED S2upid said:

I love these 1st world problem Pistonheads posts. Send the butler down to Argos to buy a new one!

Reminds of being in the old fashioned electrical shop in the main village in our area and there was a frightfully posh lady ordering a kettle for the tack room - and arranging for it to be delivered and installed!