Question silicone rubber elastic

[lucas88]

rubber and elastic of the silicone material stored over the years it melts and sticks to the surface it is stored on, I have stored In-Ears KZ EDX Pro and KZ EDC Pro headphones and their eartips the material is silicone

 

[MintJulep]

Actually, there's no question amongst those words.

 

[3DDave]

This is capacitor guy.

 

[MintJulep]

I know.

These are $4 earphones, so probably no capacitors in them.

Do you think that's what causes the silicone to melt?

 

[lucas88]

???

 

[3DDave]

Same sort of question, same demands for answers, same responses.

Why has <fill in> degraded? What can be done to fix it? What exact air temp and humidity will stop it?

 

[lucas88]

you answered capacitor the question here is silicone
my temperature varies 34-36C humidity 58-70%

 

[3DDave]

The answer to every question you will ever have is entropy.