Plevier
Active member
I have a pair of binoculars, the stubby ones with built in compass. Mine are Tasco but same are/have been sold as Seago, Talamex, Force4 etc.
They were lovely to handle at first but now a few years old the soft feel outer layer on the body has gone sticky. It doesn't come off on your hands (yet!) but holds fingerprints and feels horrible. I'm not referring to the ribbed rubber grip pads but all the rest of the casing such as the rings round the objective lenses. I've seen the same happen before e.g. on a SkyTV remote control that had the same soft feel finish.
Does anybody know a solution to this please? Don't say chuck them, they are about £100 and optically pretty good!
They were lovely to handle at first but now a few years old the soft feel outer layer on the body has gone sticky. It doesn't come off on your hands (yet!) but holds fingerprints and feels horrible. I'm not referring to the ribbed rubber grip pads but all the rest of the casing such as the rings round the objective lenses. I've seen the same happen before e.g. on a SkyTV remote control that had the same soft feel finish.
Does anybody know a solution to this please? Don't say chuck them, they are about £100 and optically pretty good!