XPost: alt.home.repair   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2022-09-20 06:03, Clifford Heath wrote:   
   > On 20/9/22 05:41, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >> On 2022-09-19 18:00, Bob F wrote:   
   >>> On 9/19/2022 8:52 AM, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
   >>>> On 2022-09-18 16:44, Peter wrote:   
   >>>>> On 9/17/2022 2:36 PM, Carlos E.R. wrote:   
      
      
   >>> Is there a rubbery or even plastic material there that could be   
   >>> breaking down? Some can release gooey liquid.   
   >>   
   >> Nope. None that I could see.   
   >   
   > The buttons are usually molded into a silicone sheet. The silicoen   
   > starts to de-polymerise and that's where the liquid comes from - it's   
   > silicone oil. You can clean it off with alcohol, but that just gives you   
   > enough time to look for a new remote control.   
      
   I wonder if that is the degradation process that happens to kitchen   
   utensils, that have parts made in some kind of non slippery rubber.   
   After some years, they degrade and leak something like a glue and have   
   to be thrown to the garbage, unless the rubber part can be removed and   
   the thing still works.   
      
   It is not, apparently, what happened to my remote, as the buttons are   
   still, apparently, intact.   
      
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   Cheers, Carlos.   
      
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