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Problems with decomposing/sticky rubber on Canon gear

Started Nov 7, 2017 | Discussions thread
Arthur Stanley Jefferson Contributing Member • Posts: 809
Oil or solvent based beauty products...
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...that may be the cause. If it's affecting your  headphones and things you handle.

Is it possible you use hair wax, hand moisturiser or suntan lotion, most contain oils or solvents that react with rubber. Even after washing your hands residues transfer, get pressed in and build up.

Once it starts becoming sticky, the reaction is well under way, maybe you could scrape off a top layer but I think it's already too late. Rubber does naturally oxidise too.

I think that white stuff is something else, ground in skin, salt and general grime that comes off with a pec pad and warm water. There was another recent thread on here about it.

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Canon EOS 5D Mark III Canon EF 85mm F1.8 USM Canon EF 135mm F2L USM Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 Macro USM Canon EF 70-200mm F4L IS USM +4 more
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