Stan
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Hi,
Another cleaning trick is to use white vinegar. The mild acid will dissolve the minerals on the heater elements. It's a matter of putting a little vinegar in the inboard reservoir (not using the supply bottle here), running it for a couple minutes, then turning it off and dumping the vinegar out. One might need to do this a few times, but it will remove the residue. This trick works on coffee pots, tea kettles and the like.
As far as tea kettles spitting water, I find that the old fashioned kind with the long spout do not do this if you keep the water level below the outflow holes in the side of the kettle (visible with the lid off as you put the water in) where the spout is welded on. I only put enough in to cover the bottom, so the main body of the kettle becomes a steam chamber (as opposed to a water tank.
In fact, my one-year old Jiffy steamer spits more water droplets out than I care for.
I like the sound of the cook pot with the foil cone attachment. That's pretty clever. It ought to make for a nice dry steam. I'll have to try that one myself next time I want to tweak a hat in the house as opposed to wandering out to the workshop where the Jiffy is.....
All this said, the Jiffy is still a good thing to have if one gets into really reworking hats. As I say, I went for one when I decided I needed a hat workbench out in the workshop for 'getting serious' on hats. That makes it part of the machine shop, more or less, but then I tend to look at felt and straw as being just two more materials to be worked with.
later!
Stan
Another cleaning trick is to use white vinegar. The mild acid will dissolve the minerals on the heater elements. It's a matter of putting a little vinegar in the inboard reservoir (not using the supply bottle here), running it for a couple minutes, then turning it off and dumping the vinegar out. One might need to do this a few times, but it will remove the residue. This trick works on coffee pots, tea kettles and the like.
As far as tea kettles spitting water, I find that the old fashioned kind with the long spout do not do this if you keep the water level below the outflow holes in the side of the kettle (visible with the lid off as you put the water in) where the spout is welded on. I only put enough in to cover the bottom, so the main body of the kettle becomes a steam chamber (as opposed to a water tank.
In fact, my one-year old Jiffy steamer spits more water droplets out than I care for.
I like the sound of the cook pot with the foil cone attachment. That's pretty clever. It ought to make for a nice dry steam. I'll have to try that one myself next time I want to tweak a hat in the house as opposed to wandering out to the workshop where the Jiffy is.....
All this said, the Jiffy is still a good thing to have if one gets into really reworking hats. As I say, I went for one when I decided I needed a hat workbench out in the workshop for 'getting serious' on hats. That makes it part of the machine shop, more or less, but then I tend to look at felt and straw as being just two more materials to be worked with.
later!
Stan
