You know, till I dragged it out from under the sink, I didn't really see how awful this iron is. It still works, as far as I know ~ I was only getting rid of it because I forgot I owned an iron at all, & haven't used it for a decade or more. Here it is in front of the ugly babypoop-beige walls of my sordid little tenement. A tenement that is my home & that I love, & my house gets nicer every day. It's a long project: there aren't going to be pictures of the improvement for quite a while. Trashing this is an improvement.