Electrical adapter Italy

Even if you find an adaptor, the iron will not work. Italy (and all of Europe) uses 220 volt electricity. The US uses 120 volt. The iron will not get hot on 120 volt.

Laura, As Bob suggested, you may not be able to use the Iron here UNLESS it's a dual-voltage product. If you could post the nameplate data, it would be easier to offer more specific suggestions. The data will be written somewhere on the appliance, and may use the words "Tensione di Ingresso". Also, is the Plug on the Iron a two-pin model? You can easily buy a North American style Plug Adaptor from Magellans - here's a link: www.magellans.com/magellan-s-north-american-style-adaptor-plug Cheers!

I would doubt the iron operates under dual voltage. Therefore, for the iron to work properly and safely, you would need an electrical transformer, which is a quite heavy and expensive piece of equipment. If you really want to use the iron at home, check with a hardware or electical supply store, but you're looking at an additional $50-100 purchase. Because you live in Kaneohe... perhaps check to see if anyone in the military has a move planned to Europe?

Do you plan to NEVER travel to Europe again? Why not keep it for travel use? If you are done traveling...I'd sell it to someone who would use it. Craiglist or ebay.... you can't get what you paid for it, but if you aren't going to use it again, get what you can for it and figure the difference as a "rental" fee while in Italy.

A more interesting question. Why are even carrying a heavy iron? In the era of packing light, that should be the first thing to go.

Thanks to all of you who responded to my question. You're absolutely right that it's insane to carry a heavy iron around. That was the price I paid to keep my future daughter-in-law happy. She happens to be a hoarder and had stuff to iron every day so we had to buy an iron there. Not only were they expensive, they were HUGE!. I'm used to hotels having irons, even in other European countries (but not in Italy). I prefer traveling with as little luggage as possible, but we ended up dragging around the max you're allowed with 1st classa lot to lug around on 8 trains and 5 planes. And a lot of hotels don't have elevators. Unfortunately, since Italy is different than most of the rest of Europe as far as electrical outlets go. I think the suggestion I'll go with is try to sell on ebay or Craigslist. I learned a lot from your commentsthanks again.

Last comment. Just checked the iron (BTW, it's a beautiful Singer), and unfortunately, it's 220-240V. Thanks for the info about not being able to use it in the US, now I can stop trying to find an adapter. Maybe my hoarder daughter-in-law will go back there someday & take it with her. I loved Italy, but it's quite a long haul from Hawaii, plan on taking some vacations closer to home for awhile. If anyone's moving to Italy, or doesn't mind carrying a big iron, let me know & I'll send it to you.

Laura, "I loved Italy, but it's quite a long haul from Hawaii, plan on taking some vacations closer to home for awhile." That's the same situation for those travelling in the reverse direction. When I was touring Pearl Harbour a few years ago, I had a nice chat with a group from Sicily. They had just made the 22 hour or so trip to Hawaii a day or so before that, and were still very jet lagged. Cheers!

By the way... does the plug have the standard European configuration, or is it that strange three-prong set-up you sometimes find in Italy?