Top 20 Euro-Pro Shark GI490 Iron Questions & Answers

I would get a new iron. It is eight years old.

-Most likely time for New one. Good luck Mai

Pour all the water out of the iron, and fill it with white vinegar. Heat it and let it spit vinegar for a while. Chances are there is simply a bunch of crud in the iron from the water, most likely calcium carbonate. The vinegar is the cheap and easy fix, but if that does not do it you;ll have to bring out the "Big Gun" and use some "CLR" cleaner, available at most grocery or hardware stores. "CLR" stands for "Calcium, Lime and Rust", and a small jug of it is about $6 USD, It will clean the crud out for sure. Ironing seems to be a "lost art". Congratulations on being a smart desser!

A solution of white vinegar and water is a good cleaner for irons. Steam irons get clogged with mineral deposits, and vinegar works well to dissolve those deposits. Make a 50/50 solution of the vinegar and water and pour it in the iron, and place the iron on steam, allowing the solution to work thru the iron. You may have to do the cleaning a few times, depending on how clogged the iron is. For future reference, use distilled water in the iron, because distilled water does not contain any significant amount of minerals. Distilled water can be found in the supermarket in one gallon jugs.

Just get a new one you don't have to do all that.

change its metal heat plate .

More than likely your power cord has a broken wire. Plug the iron in and mover the cord around. See if you can find the broken wire. Typically where the cord comes out of the iron and right at the plug. Or replace the whole cord. Your local hardware store, youtube, or menards can show you how. Very easy to do. I tend to stay away from home depot.

the best way is to use the little screwdriver for to open with the help of some plier. Or use the tools for open the back light in car, is the same type .God bless you

see the diagrams . God bless you

6 screws hold the cover on, 4 are visible, two are under bumpers on bottom. pry out the bumper.

Mine just did the same thing, I think the controller fried. There is aburnt smell coming from it

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there are 4 screws that you can see and two more under the large rubber stand off at the bottom. I also need you post the wire in the back because I took mine apart and now don't remember the position of the wires

Hi,Those types of problems are usually one of two things... the cord where is enters the iron, the wires are broken. Or the thermostat has gone bad...The iron will need to be taken apart and the wiring checked witha meter to find the problem for sure...heatman101

you prolly have a 1 year warranty, return it to walmart or they will have the address of the local repair depot or contact shark for the local repair depot they use

You'll have to remedy or better replace the cord. Just buy similar to hardware store and put it to your iron. It's simple to replace and you have to have a analog tester to be able to test the cord without plug-in to AC wall voltage.
Thanks for asking.

on this and any iron that requires water use distill water it is free of minerals that way your iron is always clean and free of any sediment.

Hi!!
It should be an access plate fasten by a couple of screws right below the power cord, remove them and fix the cord's terminals/contacts or the cord itself.
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Hello,

First thing you have to do is to check the power cable if it is okay, the power cable normally have fuse which you have to check, if otherwise you have to open the Iron to check for the faulty part, The Iron consists of three parts namely the element, the thermostat and the fuse, so check the one after the other with the use of a multimeter to which is bad or not in which it will be replaced...

Hope this will helpout in solving the problem....

Hi, i think you are experiencing a faulty thermostat which is gradually failing to regulate the heat produced by the element in the iron beyond a certain level as you have said. Or it may also be as a result of the contact to the element at the base of the iron are broken which makes the high setting inaccessible...
Let an electrical technician check it out....