I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! I've been busy, and haven't sat down to post in ages. Tonight, though, I want to tell about how I conquered my ironing board.
Before I get to that, look at my surprise super awesome present from my husband! I am now the proud owner of a Canon Rebel T1i.
On to the ironing board. It's been stuck in the "up" position for the better part of a year, when the lever came out. I did a little searching online, because I couldn't see immediately how to put it back in, and got frustrated with the results. The "hire someone," and "just buy a new one (several times if needed)" attitude was a little irritating. Not to mention wasteful in the second case. It turns out it's not that difficult, it was just hard to see the mechanism!
If you just need to see where the lever goes, look at the last picture.
Otherwise here is an illustrated guide to replacing the lever in an ironing board.
This is what it looked like when the board was stuck open. You can see the metal plate covering the horizontal beam, making it hard to see anything except the vertical rod which has notches on the top (from use)
This is what the mechanism looks like, once it's been collapsed slightly. You can see the ratchet design, the plate with a spring underneath. The plate has an oval opening with the spring pushing it up, but when you press in the direction of the arrow, it becomes a circle, allowing it to move. This is why it will open but not close, in this case.
Here is a shot looking at the open board again. The arrow points to that same plate, which needs to be pushed toward the flat end of the ironing board with a screwdriver (or the original lever, which worked for me)
Once you get it open, here is where the lever gets put back. The dotted line shows the lever behind that horizontal bar.
This is how I made sure the lever wasn't going to fall out again. I think the small tab to the left of my pliers was supposed to hold it in place, but with both of them covering the lever, it should stay in place.
Before I get to that, look at my surprise super awesome present from my husband! I am now the proud owner of a Canon Rebel T1i.
On to the ironing board. It's been stuck in the "up" position for the better part of a year, when the lever came out. I did a little searching online, because I couldn't see immediately how to put it back in, and got frustrated with the results. The "hire someone," and "just buy a new one (several times if needed)" attitude was a little irritating. Not to mention wasteful in the second case. It turns out it's not that difficult, it was just hard to see the mechanism!
If you just need to see where the lever goes, look at the last picture.
Otherwise here is an illustrated guide to replacing the lever in an ironing board.
This is what it looked like when the board was stuck open. You can see the metal plate covering the horizontal beam, making it hard to see anything except the vertical rod which has notches on the top (from use)
This is what the mechanism looks like, once it's been collapsed slightly. You can see the ratchet design, the plate with a spring underneath. The plate has an oval opening with the spring pushing it up, but when you press in the direction of the arrow, it becomes a circle, allowing it to move. This is why it will open but not close, in this case.
Here is a shot looking at the open board again. The arrow points to that same plate, which needs to be pushed toward the flat end of the ironing board with a screwdriver (or the original lever, which worked for me)
Once you get it open, here is where the lever gets put back. The dotted line shows the lever behind that horizontal bar.
This is how I made sure the lever wasn't going to fall out again. I think the small tab to the left of my pliers was supposed to hold it in place, but with both of them covering the lever, it should stay in place.
Action shot!
Hopefully this helps others with the same problem.
And hooray for not wasting a few dollars, and not creating extra waste!
Thanks for all the positive comments so far! I'm so glad this has been helpful for so many people.
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And hooray for not wasting a few dollars, and not creating extra waste!
Thanks for all the positive comments so far! I'm so glad this has been helpful for so many people.
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361 comments:
«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 361 of 361KUDOS TO YOU for your superb help! I am at a rent condo and thought I was pretty handy but this d&$% ironing board was winning----until I found your fix. THANK YOU!! You saved me having to replace it since there was no way to get it down. MAN I appreciate your super incredible pics and help. I love you! ;,) KBS
What worked for me were the pics as once I saw what it was supposed to look like thgen I figured out how to fix. :-)
You are AMAZING!!!! I am so grateful for your blog and this very helpful hint! I have had my ironing board up for 6 months, since lending it to a friend and since has been a pain! I finally googled putting down ironing boards without the lever and your blog came up...I can not tell you how happy a collapsed ironing board made me...it made my night! Thank you so very much!
Such a simple mechanism, but because you can't see it when the board is in the open position, you're just jamming that metal rod all around blindly in the hopes of catching something.
Once I read your explanation, I had it fixed in seconds.
Thank you for saving another ironing board from the trash heap.
20 minutes of fiddling, prying, hammering and no luck. But 2 minutes after seeing your post all is well again. Our 30 year old ironing board will probably last another 30 years. You should win a prize for this!
OMG!!! What a lifesaver! I'm so glad I found your blog. Thank you so much!
That was amazing - thank you so much!!!! I found nowhere else on the Internet that could help! You are awesome!
Holy smokes! Was ready to blow my top until I came across your easy ironing board fix. Thanks a bunch! BTW: I lived in Santa Cruz for 10 years in the 80's and miss the woods. All the best. - Jeff
I LOVE YOU CRAFTY REDHEAD
Only took a few minutes to have it fixed and begin receiving the appreciative hugs and kissed of my wife. I had to give credit where credit is due so I told her, "Honey, the Crafty Redhead taught me to fix it" to which she responded,"WHO???" After an explanation she's even happy having had her belief that she has an honest husband reinforced. : ) thanks again and blessings
wow!!
I had lost hope
and was going to move the board
to new apt
in stand up position
Thank you!
Thanks soooo much! My toddler pulled it off, and we just relocated, so we are pinching pennies... buying another one regardless of the price was not an option for me! Ur the best for posting "how to's!"
I blessed you a lot, thanks so much!
Thanks so much!!! Clear instructions and a solution to a really annoying problem.
Gracias!!!, Very helpfull
THANK YOU! SO glad I came across this. Our ironing board has been stuck for months...unfortunately we lost the lever so we are going to buy a new one anyways.
Thank you. You saved another ironing board :-)
Just fixed my ironing board. I am so excited, your details were great. The lever came completely off and then what are you supposed to do. I have no doubt the extra bending of the tab will solve this problem. Someone tell China.
Thanks for the step by step instructions..solved the problem
Thank alot! You're awesome. Thank you for posting this!
Hi, a million thanks to you for this post! Your good karma continues into 2013 for keeping my ironing board out of a landfill. After trying for an hour to repair, shopping, being dissatisfied with choices and more spending, and then coming home to try again, I found your post and it saved the day! Best wishes, Karen
Hi, a million thanks to you for this post! Your good karma continues into 2013 for keeping my ironing board out of a landfill. After trying for an hour to repair, deciding to buy new, then being dissatisfied with choices and more spending, and finally coming home to try again, I found your post and it saved the day! Thank you!
Thanks a lot.
I still can't get mine to collapse!! HELP! This is so unbelievably frustrating!!! I want to SCREAM.
Excellent! Searched forever found your link in a forum and ...presto!.fixed. Thanks!
You definitely would think this would be easy to figure out. Not!
Just fixed by board. Thank you!
Same as the other. I refused to give up, though I was sure it was impossible to fix. Found your site, fixed it in two mins. Thanks a bunch
You saved me $15 and got my mother in law off my back. I'll let you decide which has more value...thank you again!
Thanks Alot !!! Next time, when my iron board it stuck, I will have a better understanding of how to solve the problem.
Thanks! Even several years later the same solution still works!
Thanks so much for the helpful guide!
Thanks for taking the time to post this most informative fix for a simple ironing board.
Many thanks - your awesome photos and directions helped me fix my ironing board (now I'm a hero, lol)!
million thanks!!! this happened to me while i was staying in a friend's house and i was freaking out about it but after reading your post i managed to fix it! thank you ever so much!
Thanks a million !
Wow! This was sooo helpful! Never would have thought this many people have experienced a similar problem! You helped a lot of people!! Thanks again!
Was getting ready to toss it/ burn it/ take out all my anger on it until I came across this. THANK YOU!!! :-))* happy dance* happy dance*
THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Thanks a million!
I was frustrated and getting ready to toss the board and buy a new one when I decided to look online for suggestions how to fix and I came across the link to your blog on another web site.
What turned out to be a pain in the you know what turned out to be a relatively quick fix and helped me to save whatever money I was going to spend to buy a new board.
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awesome! couldn't figure the mechanism out once the bar fell out, but after reading your blog..had it fixed within minutes! thanks! you're the best :)
Thanks a million! This fixed our board in a matter of seconds!
Thank you so much!!! Luckily, I didn't have to google for hours, as someone posted a link to this blog on another forum. Great instructions!
Thanks for your post!! I couldn't quite figure it out with the pictures because the plate was covering EVERYTHING so I kept staring at your mechanisms and playing around with the handle to try to hit the spring and I finally did it. I was able to then use your pictures to fix the problem and not have to waste a(n) (almost) perfectly good ironing board!
Your post is still saving people from extra expenses! I have 2 ironing boards to fix! Thanks so much! :)
Great explanation!! Thank you!
Wow!Outstanding!You've saved the day. I was just about to wrap the cheesy unit around a tree. Thank you for feeling our pain and taking the time and effort for the post. You could take over for Tim Allen or Bob Villa with your own DIY TV show or at least be Time Magazine's next Woman of the Year.Keep up the great work!!
Richard and Chestnut are very grateful. You are awesome. We were flummoxed for sure.
Bless you.
Thanks for the help! I told my wife that there's gotta be a link somewhere when you google it. Thanks a lot!
It is folks like you that make the internet such an incredible thing. Need an answer on how to fix something, check the internet.I thank the Crafty Redhead for showing me how to fix it. My wife on the other hand -- well that's a different story. She wanted a new ironing board!
Thank you very much for posting and saving another ironing board going to the recycle. You save our air and environment.
Your baby is real cute.
Mather nature will bless you and your family.
Thank you this worked Perfect!!!
Three years later and you're still relieving anguish. Thank-you.
Kept me from having to buy a new ironing board. Great, easy to following instructions! Thank you!
This really helped me out with this one...I was so very frustrated at first thinking dang I just broke it. I really appreciate you posting this !!!!
Pure genius. Who would have thought that such a simple mechanism could stump so many of us for so long? You have made a lot of foreign ironing board makers really mad because we won't be buying their junk to replace their other junk nearly as often.
Thanks - you made the repair simple. Great photography and explanation of steps.
Ralph
Thanks for making a repair simple and easy to understand.
This was great advice, thanks so much!
Thanks from Canada eh!
works great now
Hubby did me the favor of putting it away one night --- and next time I took it out it wasn't working right + the lever popped out! Of course he blamed the cats lol. Anyway... I was able to fix mine in 2 minutes!! :) Thank you so much!!
Love this, mine is stuck as well and the lever dropped out. Doesn't quite look the same but it probably works the same. I am going to try and fix it as soon as I get back from walking the dog.
This was very helpful! I intuitively see how nearly everything fits together and fix everything myself. However, when my son he-manned the lever off of this thing, I was at a loss as to how it was positioned. It didn't make any sense how it could push on the tang to release the prop-rod. Thanks again!
Thank you so much! My husband was struggling with this for about 20 minutes when I discovered this site. Problem was soon fixed! Yeah, thanks for posting.
YES! I feel triumphant! I could not have done this without your post. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!
Just to let you know, three years later and you're still saving ironing boards from landfill. Thanks
THANKS SO MUCH! Seriously, the only DIY how-to for this problem I could find on the whole wide interwebz. Now the ironing board has finally left our living room for greener pastures (the storage closet).
awesome! thanks so much, i'm so glad my ironing board works again, hurray :)
Awesome fixed mine in 10 minutes!!! Thanks so much this was truly helpful!!!!
Aren't you the crafty red head! Like everyone here I think you are a genius and deserve an award. The less waste policy is absolutely lovely. Now I will spend all that money on a thick ironing pad :)
Nice solution! Thanks.
Thanks, nice solution!
THANK YOU. I suggest your title as BRILLIANT BEAUTIFUL REDHEADED BLOGGER!!! My husband accidentally disllodged the lever then went away to a family funeral for 5 days leaving me with an ironing board stuck in the up position. I fooled with it for a while because I love puzzles but couldn't fix it. I googled "ironing board mechanism" checking images first. Your pics were by far the best so when I checked out your blog and got how the mechanism worked thanks to you, I was able to repair it and tightened up the notches which were bent that hold the lever in place. The hardest part was slipping that right angled part over the sliding rod though I think leaving it on the other side would have worked also. I just thought I could minimize the chances of it coming out again by placing it over that sliding bar. Anyway I'm so grateful you took the time to share this with pics no less.
You just saved my @$$. Thanks.
You helped me. Thanks !
Thank you very much. It helped me a lot.
Awesome!! Thanks so much. This is really helpful.
Thank you. You saved another ironing board from the trash. Your post was a big help.
Thank you so much!!
Ironing board was stuck open for 2 years, now it works perfectly!
Recently had this issue, but the thing didn't fall out completely, just went limp (guess it was falling out)
It helped that you showed what specifically that level was meant to interact with. thank you so much!
Thank you for saving a rather horrible week. The ironing board survived...
thank you so much for this blog entry, it was so easy to fix after reading...great description and pictures
Thank you for your excellent description with the pictures! My son fixed the lever in a couple of minutes :)
Super helpful. Thank you for this!
Thank you so much. I thought I was going to have to go out and buy a new ironing board. Just bought a new iron 2 days ago. Your pictures really helped me out putting the handle back on.
I just KNEW someone would've run into this problem before. Mine was that someone forced the legs closed and stripped the rivets on the wide end of the board. While sawing off the rivets, flattening the plate, drilling new holes to put in new nuts & bolts, I accidentally pulled the little bar described in this blog out, plate, spring and all. Your descriptions helped me figure out how to get it all back together and working again. My wife is "thrilled". Actually, it's only the second ironing board she's owned in 45 years of marriage so she was glad that we'll get a few more years of service out of this one. Thanks!
Neil Copeland ( neil@neilcopeland.com )
Thanks! You Rock.
The last comment written was on my Mom's birth of 2012, but I am now in 2014, and I needed the same help as the others because the lever fell off my ironing board. Like the others, I spent hours googling and watching video on You Tube, my husband and a litte friend ofine tried everything. Finally, we gave up. The worst part, I let it stand in my room as part of my bedroom furniture, thanks to you! After 4 months, I finally have the chance to remove it. That was Awesome!
OMG Thank you!!!! My ironing board has been sitting open for months and has just become another surface to clutter in between ironing. Thank you for helping me get myself organized!!
Thanks bunches and bunches. It's amazing how a simple thing can cause so much frustration. Once if found your directions it was smooth sailing! It is GREATLY appreciated.
Lifesaver! Thanks a million!
You are an angel! I don't particularly enjoy ironing but it is one of those activities that when you need it, you need it. So after hours of trying to figure out how to close the contraption I just gave up. Then I found your post I realized the lever was broken. THANK YOU SO MUCH! Please keep your post open because I'm sure many people need help closing/repairing the ironing board.
Thank the Lord for this instructional fix it blog! Save me some money and going to buy another board!
Thank the Lord for this instructional fix it blog! Save me some money and going to buy another board!
This post was a life saver for me .... Thank you sooo much. I had been having a tough time closing my board too. I googled and thankfully found your post!
Thanks a ton!!
Just terrific! Thank you for the explanation with pictures. You should post this on ehow and some other sites as well :)
Yippee!!!! Done!
This was great! Your instructions rock and they live on! Thank you so much!!
THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!!! You saved us so much time. You saved us time and frustration to the max. I was so leary of telling the Mr. that the lever fell off the ironing board when he came home...in upright position no less! He just put out a ton of money on dental, medical, office necessities for me, and now he needed to get a new ironing board! LOLBNF... so after an hour of frustration and sorries.. he said whatever... Ill just go get a new one... I said,.. oh, don't worry... I'll try to fix it.. (Yeah, right!!).. He is a scholar and tech savvy... not handy.. sooo, after 2 frustrating days I made a phone call to a friend. she suggested google how to fix it... then I thought "eHOw!!" it worked your site came up, along with others.. the others didnt help at all... but thank you so much for your detailed info... our ironing board is a little different... but the big info for me was that little latch and pushing down on it... it worked enough to get the board to slide a little to work on getting the lever back in. I then had to take it back out... open the little tabs a bit t make a better fit... slide the lever back in.. then use a needle nose plier to secure those tabs around the lever. VOILA!!! I was so proud of myself... of course, I immediately went and told him... thank you for helping save time, money, frustration, and even give us something to laugh about!!! Hope you have a blessed week.
graciously, Cathy B*****y
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Thank you for this helpful post. My ironing board now folds up, but I have to do some work to get the lever back in...guess I've bent some parts on the horizontal bar. I'll just keep a butter knife or screwdriver handy!
You are awesome and thank you so much. The description you have given finally worked after 2 weeks of me trying to fix it
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I also did not want to go buy a new board. And I'm a fellow redhead. :) Thank you...board is working great now. :)
Great instructions. Thanks
Thank you VERY much for your post! Now I can fold my ironing board once more and put it away!
Still great info 4 years later! Thanks
So good! It's the little things in life...this post is like a commercial for the internet!
Awesome. Took me 2 seconds after looking at just your last picture. Thanks!
Looks like I finally found solution thanks to you. I will try tomorrow. Thank you.
Thanks for the post. I could fix my board and it is working fine
You are a genius. Thank you so muxh. As a chore kid this helps alot. When people leave it up and expect you to take it down because you're a guy.
Thank you for the awesome post! I hope you never take it down because this is my second time visiting the site in 2 years. I should be saying: THANKS AGAIN!!!!
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Do you supposed that all these ironing boards are made in the same factory these days? Your photos helped so much!
Thank you so much for posting this wonderful way of getting the iron board down. Mine has been up for almost a year now and I was bound and determined to figure it out. You are truly a lifesaver, plus I didn't have to waste money on a new iron board
I fixed my ironing board thanks to your post and pics. Thank you so much!
Thank you so much for the help. You just made me look like a super fix-it husband to my wife, thanks again
Thank you so much for the help. You just made me look like a super fix-it husband to my wife, thanks again
After we moved, we discovered the movers had removed the pin and bent the rails underneath a bit.We did not want another issue with these movers nor did we want to scrap the ironing board.With your helpful directions and great photos...the ironing board is fixed!Thanks so much! We are very imPRESSED!
Here it is five years after you posted this how-to, and it's still helping people like me. Thanks
Thank you sooo much! Your information was excellent and I now have a functional board!
Thanks so much! The handle broke this morning and I couldn't figure out how to fix it. When I searched Google, this came up first. The pictures were really helpful. I was able to close it and fix it in 5 minutes!
THANK YOU SO SO SO MUCH!!!!!!!
How can I thank you enough!!! My stupid ironing board has been "up for years and I finally had enough. I waged war with it and due to my temper I completely broke the handle off. Thanks for the great description of how the mechanism works and the instructions of how to put it together again. If only I had googled it sooner. You made my day!
You're awesome. The pictures were incredible. Fixed it in 30 seconds. Thanks!
OMG!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!! You saved my ironing board and my sanity. I have been trying to figure out how this thing worked and I finally found your post. I agree that there isn't much online about it just a lot of jokes and stuff. I'm going to spread the word because I'm sure there are many others out there who have this problem or did and ended up buying a new board.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.... You saved me. I spent an hour trying to fix this and cannot do it (well cannot even close the legs). So glad to find your site - fixed it within 5 minutes.
This totally worked and I was able to quickly fix my ironing board. Thanks! Best tutorial on the web!!!
Excellent illustrated explanation! Thank you for posting it.
Thanks for your precision. I also didn't want to throw away my old ironing board. You saved the day. Thanks for your help! :)
Worked great for me! Three of us struggled with the ironing board for 15 minutes before I searched the web for a solution. I thought I'd have to buy a new one because the lever was broken, but I at least wanted to get it folded up first before discarding it. Now it's back to working just like when I bought it. Saved a few dollars and avoided creating extra waste.
So glad I found this. Thank you for the detailed instructions!
Yayyyy! Your post helped me fix and close my ironing board!!!! More than five and a half years later, you're still helping people with this problem. THANK YOU SO MUCH!! This is the first time that I leave a comment on a blog. I just had to let you know how helpful you've been! My board has been open for well over a year too. I'm so glad to have avoided waste with your help! 😄👍🏼😄👏🏼😄👍🏼😄👏🏼😄
Thanks for your amazing explanation with pictures it help me a lot to fix my ironing board.... Godbless u:)
you helped out some Philadelphia suburb folks to fix it...at least now next time I (may) (will) remember how to re-insert the rod!
maybe I'm stupid but it didn't work for me as I wasn't sure whether the arrow pointing to the plate as shown on picture three was the same as mine because it chipped my screw driver but still won't budge.
Sept 5,2015
You are the bomb!!! Thanks to you another ironing board has been kept from the junk pile!!
Stumbled across this while almost loosing my mind! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Thanks for sharing your story, pics and suggestions. Great topic.
In case you thought your post was only helpful for a couple of years, it wasn't as I just used it yesterday to collapse my ironing board after it had been standing for over a year. The lever from mine is missing, any suggestions for a replacement tool?
Thank you so much!! we were able to fix ours!
Wow! Very clear and helpful instructions. I was ready to give up. Now my ironing board is like new. Thank you!
Wow! Very clear and helpful instructions. I was ready to give up. Now my ironing board is like new. Thank you!
Brilliant! You area GEM! Thank you!
Six years later, and your instructions have saved yet another ironing board from the landfill. Thank you for your clearly written guide and the helpful photos!
- Ned
Westminster, CO
Thank you for posting. I did not have a lever to put back in place (got thrown out/misplaced) but the bit about pressing down on the pad with spring underneath to release the rod is what did it for my board.
I just want to add my thanks here too. I concur that this is the best help I've found for this ironing board debacle. I've actually used this advice twice in about a year and a half; first when this first happened with my ironing board, and again when I forgot how the lever worked! Thanks again for taking the time to post this -- you've helped a lot of us!
Thanks a million ☺👍! You helped me alot. Keep me from buying another one. Keep up the great job!
THANK YOU!!!! you made it easy :)
Very nice and impressive post with the details of your comparison with ironing board and you. Thanks for the sharing.
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Thank you! All the YouTube videos are terrible at explaining how to fix this problem. Your photos are fantastic. I'm going to go tackle my perma-open ironing board right now!
Very informative options sharing within these post for the ironing board placement. Thank you so much.
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The mechanism is the key. It has a strong spring and you push it towards the flat end of the board. Thanks for the solution! Now I'll add another exclamation mark, too!
I found this blog after i broke the legs off the ironing board. Thanks anyway!
This worked for me! Your saying that "making the oval into a circle" did the trick. Like you, I used the pliers to get the lever back in place.
7 years later, and your post is still helping people ... it just helped me fix my stuck ironing board. Lots of thanks from a guy in Tokyo, Japan.
This was SUPER helpful. thanks for posting this!
Thank you for this post! You saved my ironing board!!
Rachel
Thank you! This is the only description that made sense. You've made the world a better place for ironing people for 7 years :)
Great photos with arrows and explanation, to show how the mechanism works. You made good use of your new camera!
This happens to me every year or two and I have to keep coming back to the internet to relearn.
Wow saved the day for us! Your pictures and drawings were key.
Thank you for figuring this out and blogging it so we could fix ours too!
Hi. I know this is a very old article, but it really helped me out just now. As a manual labourer, I haven't much experience with ironing and its tools.
I actually first saw this article on another website, copied in full with no mention of it being a guest post, on a Wordpress site called worshiphisholinessflags. It was the first viable thing that came up when googling "ironing board stuck," and this page did not. Viewing your test shop shows a different name than is on Wordpress, and the Wordpress site did not seem to have a blog where this post would make sense, or any real blog. At the end, it's mentioned it came from here, but until then, it looks like it originated there. I know a lot of plagiarism happens online, especially when someone is greedy for hit count, so I just wanted to make a note of this, incase that is not you or someone who had permission to copy your article.
These photos help on other repairs as well. My spring came out. Looking at the photos provided, see where the spring goes. But to put it back, I had to work from the top. I took off the fabric top. Then with a tin snip I cut about one inch of the top mesh out, right where the plate and the spring fit into the pole piece. I had to push the spring into place with one hand, while holding the plate piece with my other hand. The spring then holds the plate piece into place. Next, thread the pole piece into the holes, while keeping the pole inside of the spring. The pole piece is bent 90 degrees at the end which must be turned to the correct angle to grab the crosspole on the ironing board to hold the ironing board in place. Then, when I extended the legs of the board, I could get the pole piece to hold up the ironing board with the legs extended. It holds now. It still doesn't work perfectly, because when I use the adjuster to lower the legs to fold up the ironing board, the pole piece looses its hold at that 90 degree bend. That's OK, however. Later on, when I extend the legs again, I have to move the bend of the pole piece back into place to get it to hold again, but the spring does remain in place, so it still is basically functional. I don't have to throw out the whole thing and spend the money on a new one. The legs will remain in place and I can move it around.
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