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Seems like all the rubber coated stuff in the house has gone all sticky. Two sets of salt and pepper pots, a Handpresso, a bread basket, various pens - all at the same time. Maybe coincidence, but whatever the case this stickiness seems impossible to remove. I naturally thought that WD40 would fix it, but it didn’t. Looked on mumsnet for a solution but just found moaning about prom handles. What does the hive mind have to suggest?
The common denominator here is you- its your skin that's gone sticky, sand or burn it off
At the same time as in overnight? Or gradually and you've just noticed it.
It's not you, it's the particular rubber compound.
I've had a cafetiere and the grips on a hercules guitar stand both do the same thing. Both rarely touched directly.
Other rubber stuff, bike grips, rubberised pan handles etc not having the same issues.
I found kitchen/bathroom wipes and polish caused the rubber to breakdown and become sticky. It would be a week or so later that it started getting sticky.
That's odd, I've got one pair of Odi grips that have gone like it, tried bike degreaser also warm soapy water to no avail.
Mineral oil can make some rubbers go sticky, it's the rubber itself dissolving rather than something you can wipe off it. If you've had it on your hands and handled these things you can cause this.
That’s odd, I’ve got one pair of Odi grips that have gone like it, tried bike degreaser also warm soapy water to no avail.
Almost certainly caused by oil on your hands as you handle the grips. I did this to my Ergon grips after servicing forks and getting fork oil on my hands.
This happened to me. I googled and found a solution, but can’t remember what it was. Might have been wipe with meths?
Think it was after I washed this stuff in hot soapy water
To me it's totally obvious this is an incident of alien origin.
Is your bottom a little tender even though you haven't been on a bike?
just found moaning about prom handles.
I need to know more about these prom handles.
I've a bread knife that has an incredibly sticky handle. Have tried all sorts to sort it, but it remains sticky. Shame. I liked that knife.
The on/off switch and handgrips on my nose and ear hair trimmer* has done this. I'd appreciate a solution that's not 'just buy a new one you tight arse' because who the hell want's to spend money on that??
Some kind of soap?
*you may mock, you smooth millennial ballbags, but it'll afflict you soon enough!
Weird, I have a hairdryer (not mine!) that's been in a carrier bag for 8 months that suddenly developed this.
Puzzled, and after failed attempts to remove it, I chalked it up as an unexplained weird thing.
Then turns out the same thing has happened to one of my Dad's Bluetooth speakers. In both cases all other plastic things are unaffected.
It's weird, like a waxy/greasy film that's impossible to remove - but scrapes up like a wax - and both instances are with very different plastics.
Ectoplasm?
My sister in laws hair dildo (curler thing) did this and I managed to sort it by removing all the rubber with isopropyl alcohol. Seems acetone could be viable as well.
http://www.howtocleanstuff.net/how-to-remove-a-sticky-surface-from-rubber/
It’s not you, it’s the particular rubber compound.
I’ve had a cafetiere and the grips on a hercules guitar stand both do the same thing. Both rarely touched directly.
Following on from this, it does appear that it's a particular type of rubber /plastic that degrades over time... Probably nothing you can do about it..
Have you started using a different cleaning product in or around the house recently?
I understand that products that are chlorine heavy, can affect all manner of finishes. For example, people with posh guitars with (particularly older) nitro-cellulose finishes, can find that putting the guitars in or near a chlorine heavy environment find the finishes can go sticky as they react to the chemical. Might be something like that if its all rubber, at the same time, reacting in the same way at the same rate.
I now wait to be slammed by a qualified chemist...
Not a chemist but I do know people with nitro cellulose finished acoustic guitars (mainly vintage or modern guitars made the vintage way) have to be careful about what stands they use as some plastics can react and ruin it.
That said I think this is slightly different. It's just a particular rubber compound or something that just brakes down and goes sticky after a while, come to think of it, I had a computer mouse that did the same.. It seems to be the soft feel type rubberised finish that's used on a lot of handles, grips and clamps and things.