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Originally Posted by barrymagrec
Leevers used to use Adcola irons that suffered from the same problem - the machine shop chaps made a special jig to hold the element so that the bit could be drilled out on a pillar drill.
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My Dad always bought Adcola irons, and that was the big problem with them until they changed the barrel to Metric sizes and added a nickel shim sleeve to stop the tip freezing in place. The trouble was, going Metric rendered the old "L" Series and "M" Series instantly obsolete because the new tips wouldn't fit the old irons and they stopped making the Imperial sized tips on the introduction of the new irons. It needn't have happened if they'd just made the shim sleeves a tenth of a millimetre thicker. Of course they sold more irons that way, but I hated them for it!
Did you have the "M" Series irons in Britain?