its a tampertorx screw for a reason, i did the same few years ago trying to save a few quid went to local elec wholesalers, got some flex (foc perks of the job) rewired it sorted, kerching!

12 months later phone call from jec, iron burst into flames :flame: got home to find jec and kids on back street in tears smoke, firebrigade everywhere ****ing scary. luckily all were ok bit of smoke damage burnt carpet.you can pick up an iron fairly cheap nowadays we got a cordless now.next time i'll get the iron to go with the flex:rolleyes:

TBH I have rewired many irons and never had a problem.

I have seen newish irons that have not been touched blow up completely due to lime scale build up on the heating element.

to be honest if it uses security sockets, i doubt if it will be done up tight enough to need anything more than 1/4 drive

what i meant Tom , was that because they had 1/4 sockets on them , they would be no good if the hole the screw was in wasn't big enough to get the socket in

the Snap-on set i have are separate screwdriver bits and a 1/4" socket to put them in when necessary