Waffle Iron Troubles
Posted: Tue Dec 29, 2015 5:04 pm
Hello there! I am hoping that you may be able to help me with my waffle iron troubles....
A while ago I stumbled across this working Universal 1920's (?) waffle iron. The previous owners said that they used it often some years ago and assured me it worked. And so began my dreams of fresh waffles.....
Once we got it home, my husband and I carefully took it apart and cleaned all the years of black goo off the outside (picture is before cleaning). The inside workings is very simple and looked to be in great shape (a heating coil weaving around ceramic posts for both top and bottom plates). The wiring from the plates to the plug was original and in "ok" shape, however my husband went ahead and replaced it with new wires, which happened to be a slightly larger gage. The cord may not be original, but is indeed very old.
Sadly it did not come in an instruction manual and my working knowledge of waffle irons in general, is slim to none.
My trouble is that although it will get hot, it seems to just keep getting hotter and hotter, with no means of regulating the heat and/or shutting off. It will warm its little self to the point of smoking and becoming almost too hot to touch the base or handles.
This does not seem right to us. The only things we could think of is maybe the gage of the new wire is allowing it to heat too much. Or we are missing some sort of control, possibly on the original cord? Any ideas or thoughts?
A while ago I stumbled across this working Universal 1920's (?) waffle iron. The previous owners said that they used it often some years ago and assured me it worked. And so began my dreams of fresh waffles.....
Once we got it home, my husband and I carefully took it apart and cleaned all the years of black goo off the outside (picture is before cleaning). The inside workings is very simple and looked to be in great shape (a heating coil weaving around ceramic posts for both top and bottom plates). The wiring from the plates to the plug was original and in "ok" shape, however my husband went ahead and replaced it with new wires, which happened to be a slightly larger gage. The cord may not be original, but is indeed very old.
Sadly it did not come in an instruction manual and my working knowledge of waffle irons in general, is slim to none.
My trouble is that although it will get hot, it seems to just keep getting hotter and hotter, with no means of regulating the heat and/or shutting off. It will warm its little self to the point of smoking and becoming almost too hot to touch the base or handles.
This does not seem right to us. The only things we could think of is maybe the gage of the new wire is allowing it to heat too much. Or we are missing some sort of control, possibly on the original cord? Any ideas or thoughts?