Goodsounds wrote: > A belated "second" for rubbing alcohol. I bought a couple of lightly > used SB Touches a few months apart last year on Ebay. Both arrived in > excellent functioning condition (thankfully that's what mattered to me > most) but both with sticky remotes. Rubbing alcohol removed a bit of the > glossy finish of the remotes along with the stickiness but not the > lettering. > > It's funny because none of the remotes I bought new with other SB > devices have gotten sticky. That includes remotes for a boom, two > Touches and even a SB Classic v3 that's obviously older. I wondered at > the time if for the ones I bought, the stickiness was from an adhesive > that had held on the plastic coverings that were on the remotes when > new, and that perhaps the sellers I bought from had just removed the > plastic? You know, how you sometimes have to peel plastic from the > surface of something you've bought? The plastic on the remotes fit > precisely with exact cutouts for the buttons.
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