Monocular is sticky .

[Pine]

I have a Brunton 7x18 monocular that I really like .
Trouble is , after a year it has become so sticky that it's miserable to use .
Is there any idea to fix it .

[hawkeye n pa]

I need the secret fix also.

[David Mitchell]

I have a pair of binocs that have the same problem.  Never saw anything like that before.

[Orion]

Are you saying the outside has become sticky?  Might try to wash it with soap and water, perhaps Windex or even something like Armor All.

[Tedd]

I don't know a fix. But just wondering could it be bug spray or suntan lotion causing a breakdown? Send them back!
No experience with those glasses but in general it is very frustrating when products have quirks like that.  I always wonder if they actually did real world tests. It's most common with large companies. I had a pair of boots about 2 yrs ago that were so noisy from the moment I put them on that there is no way anyone ever tried to wear them. I wore them all weekend trying to break them in. My wife could hear me walking 100 yards away across a pond. Sent them back.

[RodL]

I had a rubber coated scope on my rifle do that a few years back, I wrote to the company and got a very generic response about what might have caused/happened to the scope but never got a suggestion on how to fix the issue. They said temperature changes, exposure to very cold temps, exposure to very moist conditions could have caused the rubber coating to break down and become sticky.

Rodney

[Rough Run]

I have had that happen to binos.  It is the soft rubber coating breaking down.  It can happen regardless of exposures to weather, or indoors.  The only way I found to remove the problem was by using Goof-Off cleaner - it stopped the sticky problem, but removed all the soft rubber vibration/sound dampener.  The binos are still functioning perfectly, they just don't have the "armour" any longer.  Not perfect, but I couldn't use them as they were.

[Pine]

I'm going to try the goof off . Can't see what I've got to loose .

[FlintNSteel]

Not sure what's causing the stickiness, but this year a friend of mine was trying to fill a scent container of some kind in the dark on the way to his stand.  Turned out he was missing the container thing he was trying to put it in and he was filling the eyecups on his binocs!  In his case he ended up with STINKY instead of sticky!         I about fell off my chair as he told the story and how he was about gagging every time he raised his binocs up for a look around!

[Pine]

Contacted Brunton and they asked me to send it to them .
Just today I got a package from them with a new monocular in it .
I was surprised and wanted to post this on here that Brunton made it right .

[Terry Green]

Good deal.....

Might make a good thread....lots of bino threads over the years...and spotting scopes...but don't recall a monocular thread.....Hmmmmm

[KyRidgeRunner]

I've got a pair of range finders the same way.  A Norwex cloth will clean mine off but it comes back after some time.