Product Description
Features All-Temp Steam gives you the flexibility to select steam at every temperature setting, allowing you to use steam on your delicate and synthetic fabrics. The easy-to-read digital display indicates the selected fabric type in your choice of English, Spanish or French. Innovative All-Temp Steam Technology. Gives you the flexibility to use steam at any temperature setting! INOX Stainless Steel Soleplate. Provides superior gliding performance over time, while resisting buildup and corrosion for a longer life! Backlit Digital Display. Easy-to-read, multilingual display lets you choose between English, French and Spanish. Anti-Drip System. Protects fabrics from water spotting, even at low temperatures.
B&D IRON DIGITAL LOW TEMP STEAM CERAMIC
Popularity: 1% [?]
November 5th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
This model (D6500) is no longer featured on Black & Decker’s web site. Perhaps there is a good reason. I was initially hopeful when I purchased this iron and valued the fact that it was able to produce steam at lower temperature settings than other irons. I dubbed it ‘the SUV of irons’. It was bulky, clunky, and a less nimble than the mid-line Rowenta I tried but it just plain flattened any wrinkles in its path better than anything else I used!
I loved the precisely “detented” digital temperature settings and the cool blue-lit LCD display. I was even able to get used to resetting the temperature (pressing the temperature button multiple times) each and every time the iron shut itself off automatically. This typically happened when I was ironing something larger (a sheet) and not moving the iron with great gusto – which was, without a doubt, a cue for the auto-shutoff to kick in.
My major gripe, however, was that the iron produced a prodigious amount of steam – so much that it sputtered and spouted steam/water when returned to its vertical rest position (ouch) like a snarling Triceratops right out of “Jurassic Park”. I sent this iron packing and opted for a second sample which turned out just the opposite: little to no steam was produced.
Thinking I would give Black & Decker one more try (a la Goldilocks …) I returned the second iron to Applica for a warranty replacement. My request was approved, but 10 months have come and gone and I have not heard or received anything despite periodic calls to their 800 number and promises that a new unit would be shipped.
Life goes on and I have since gone out and purchased a Tefal iron which is fine and am now awaiting a refund promised by Black & Decker. Call me picky, but this snazzy iron did not deliver the goods.
Rating: 1 / 5
November 5th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
After having enough problems with my overpriced Rowenta iron I bought a Black & Decker D2030 and was very pleased. When the new B&D all-temp irons came out I could not wait. I purchased the D6500 which has a ceramic sole plate and I have been exceptionally pleased, this iron makes the chore of ironing as easy as possible. Being able to use steam on low temps allows me to actually be able to get the wrinkles out of synthetics that can’t take high temps, this iron also saved me from purchasing a separate steamer. This is my first iron with a ceramic sole plate and it makes a slightly different sound gliding across the clothes when ironing than a stainless plate, but to me it seems to heat very evenly, and maybe it’s just me but my clothes just look better with this iron than my old iron no matter what temp I am on, maybe it’s the ceramic. Just a note; the ceramic does glide across fabric as smoothly as anything I have tried. There is also the B&D D6000 all-temp iron which has the Stainless sole plate if you prefer. I totally recommend this iron as it has made the job easer and does a better job. I’ll never again have an iron that does not steam on every temperature setting.
Rating: 5 / 5
November 5th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
This iron worked very well for about 4 months. Then, one day, my wife asked me to come look at the iron because it was leaking rust colored water. I knew something was very wrong at this point. I called the manufacturer and they told me they would send out a new one, but it was backordered and wouldn’t be shipped until Dec. 15th. Sometime in January, I received a letter stating that it was determined that I had a valid claim and please cut off the plug and send it to them (it has a code on it, which I gave to them back in December), which I did. On Feb. 16th, I called them again because I still had no iron. They tried to send me a cheaper model in it’s place because it was still backordered. They also couldn’t tell me how long it would be because they didn’t have that kind of information. At this point, I threatened to send the rest of the iron to the consumer product safety commission (mainly because rusty water and electricity don’t mix). She put me on hold and offered to send me a different iron (still cheaper than the one I bought). I told her no thanks to that also. On hold again. Finally she came back and told me they were going to refund my money. Now I have to fax my reciept back to them and wait some more. This iron seems to be popular, but
Rating: 1 / 5