Soft Touch Surfaces – Plastic Edition

[BeoMatthew]

I found a thread on solutions for the tacky soft touch surfaces that are metal, but has anyone sorted out anything on plastic? BeoCom 2 bases and now the backs of my BeoLab 9s are starting to degrade and the BeoLab 9s especially, have me very concerned.

Anyone tackle this?

[matador]

This surface coating, very “à la mode” in the nineties, always turn into a sticky mess.
I won’t hesitate to call this one of the major industrial fails of that era!

Now, I can’t answer on large surfaces even more if yo can’t take appart the part, but I’ve stripped it of a Beosound 3 wall mount, leaving it satin black where it was before velvet mat black. If I remember well I did this rubbing the coating with warm water.

They are various articles on the web about coating again the part with “Plastic-dip’ paint.
Often Beosound 4 and Beolab 3.

Luckily the back of my Beocenter 6 doesn’t show any sign of stickiness but I’m afraid it won’t last forever.

 

[BeoMatthew]

I appreciate the reply. At the moment they’re still in good enough condition. I just wanted to potentially get ahead of them. Maybe I’ll just wait until they get really gross and throw caution to the wind.

[Guy]

I once removed the stickiness from most of the interior and centre console of a Mk4 VW Golf – that was mostly plastic underneath. I remember using IPA and finding quite a few advice videos on the subject, such as this one:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbrznLcQwNg

[matador]

Guy wrote:

I remember using IPA

You use… Beer?   😉

[Author]

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