How to stop black rubber from leaving dirt on shirt FAQ

If you don't mind the appearance, consider a thin tubing, which is split to allow wrapping the wire without disconnecting

$1.14 for 5"

I won't like the appearance, but I don't have many choices. I hear well enough 90% of the time, but meetings, lectures, doctor's appts with some doctors, are a problem. (I found an app that records what we say and transcribes it. That helps a lot. Even when I hear everything, I can't remember it all.)

That's a pretty good idea, that I would not have thought of. (I though of heat shrink but it gets too wide at each end.) I used to have a big box of that stuff that I used when I ran 3 controls, a wired cable channel selector, wired, on/off, and wired volume control to my bedroom tv and my workshop tv. I still have lots of it left, especially the small sstuff, but it would be hard to find after 40 years.

On a sunny day (Mon, 14 Oct 2024 14:02:17 -0400) it happened micky snipped-for-privacy@fmguy.com wrote in snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

I have some headphone and just put grey tape around the rubber...

That might be a good idea too. Yours also were making your shirt dirty? Not when new but a couple years later?

This is probably the same as the sticky rubber coating problem discussed here many times.

Almost certainly. Of the commonly available solvents likely to be found in your garage brake fluid is just about right for removing the nasty tacky surface gunge whilst not damaging the remaining good polymer.

I was surprised how well it worked...

That's one I have never seen before. I will keep it in mind for the next time I have that problem.

It's not sticky. It doesn't even seem dirty until I push down a litle when I rub it. I've had the sticky one, on a power-thing for recharging phones etc, and I finally did get rid of almost all the stickiness, and I actually used the ppower-pack my last day in florida to recharge an almost dead phone. It was good to have.