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I had the opposite problem, I brought a soldering iron from Europe to Canada, and despite using a step up transformer, it just couldn't get hot enough to melt the solder!
You should have used 200% duty cycle
Splice on a second plug, so you can use two outlets at the same time.
(/s, mostly... this can actually work, if you can find two outlets on opposite phases.)
There's an actual commercial product that does this. It even meets UL and CSA standards.