It might sound embarrassing to admit, but the day you put your hand in to your camera bag and go to grab that lens or camera body you haven’t used for a few months only to discover the rubber parts have become all sticky and your fingers get coated in a black mess is not a good day….
However, there is a solution to this issue that I have used on a couple of my camera bodies and a couple of lenses that were functioning just fine, but the rubber grips on the bodies or the lens rings had started to become this sticky mess.
Yes it is a car care product that I had on the shelf already. With just a very small amount on an old fluffy hand towel and then rubbed carefully on to the grip and in to the rings on the focus/zoom ring. And then buffed using a clean part of the old towel the rubber came back as good as new.
Every couple of years I make a point or repeating this treatment. Making sure to not let any of the gel like product enter the camera body or lens and the rubber parts don’t seem to go bad ever again.
You can apply the gel with a cotton bud if you need to get it in to smaller confined spaces.
It will also work on any other gadgets that have some form of rubberised coating.
Keep your gear in top working order and don’t stop using it just because it has become sticky!!