Canon Rebel EOS: Resurrected my 1st Rebel EOS while going through a cupboard. Hadn’t used it for over 12 yrs. Noticed very sticky grip and laterally, where you remove the...

BabyDoc Loc: Alabama

Resurrected my 1st Rebel EOS while going through a cupboard. Hadn’t used it for over 12 yrs. Noticed very sticky grip and laterally, where you remove the “CompactFlash” card the (?) rubber is just as tacky. Anyone with a cure?

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Alcohol works for me, but there may be a better solution. Anyone tried Goo Gone?

SteveInConverse Loc: South Texas

Goo Gone carefully applied should work.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

TriX wrote:

Alcohol works for me, but there may be a better solution. Anyone tried Goo Gone?

I had a pair of binoculars that did that, scrubbed with alcohol wipes seemed to work well.
Hopefully the Goo Gone will not attack the rubber itself.

leftj Loc: Texas

BabyDoc wrote:

Resurrected my 1st Rebel EOS while going through a cupboard. Hadn’t used it for over 12 yrs. Noticed very sticky grip and laterally, where you remove the “CompactFlash” card the (?) rubber is just as tacky. Anyone with a cure?

I have used regular rubbing alcohol on a number of vintage cameras that were sticky. Works well.

LXK0930 Loc: Souh Jersey

I use charcoal lighter to get rid of the residue from peel-off labels. Works great!
I don't know if the sticky stuff on cameras is the same, or if the lighter fluid will damage the camera materials.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

LXK0930 wrote:

I use charcoal lighter to get rid of the residue from peel-off labels. Works great!
I don't know if the sticky stuff on cameras is the same, or if the lighter fluid will damage the camera materials.

I wouldn't use lighter fluid on any kind of rubber/plastic as I would anticipate it to attack the material.
Might work great for label removal though, especially on glass, but I would expect it to make plastics cloudy.

BebuLamar

Longshadow wrote:

I wouldn't use lighter fluid on any kind of rubber/plastic as I would anticipate it to attack the material.
Might work great for label removal though, especially on glass, but I would expect it to make plastics cloudy.

But the rubber part is already cloudy. However, alcohol will remove the stickyness but does take a long time and afterward the rubber doesn't have the same feel like when it was new. It's kind of hardened and smooth.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

BebuLamar wrote:

But the rubber part is already cloudy. However, alcohol will remove the stickyness but does take a long time and afterward the rubber doesn't have the same feel like when it was new. It's kind of hardened and smooth.

I'll take "not the same feel as new" over sticky.

leftj Loc: Texas

BebuLamar wrote:

But the rubber part is already cloudy. However, alcohol will remove the stickyness but does take a long time and afterward the rubber doesn't have the same feel like when it was new. It's kind of hardened and smooth.

It's hardened and smooth because it's old. Why would you expect rubber that is old to feel like new. Shissh!

BabyDoc Loc: Alabama

Thanks all. Will give MeOH - rubbing alcohol- a try this morning and let y’all know how I fared.

BabyDoc Loc: Alabama

Agree!