No, not your sharp verbal commentary, your Snark brand clip on tuner.

My older Snark tuner, a dark brick red in color, well used and on it's 4th battery change, has turned up feeling gummy all over the red plastic parts. It reminds me of the feeling of old waterproofed camping gear gone bad, as if the substance were disintegrating, not something placed on the surface. This tuner has slways been kept in an instrument case, usually autoharp, but in recent years it's lived in my bowed psaltery case in the accessories section that also contains a brick of rosin for the bow. Is it possible that it's the rosin causing a reaction to the plastic? Can it be the plastic deteriorating on its own?

The thing works fine, but handling it is unplesant, and makes you want to wash your fingers afterwards. What on earth is going on? I really don't want to hear a usual response to my technical queries: "oh, my, never seen (whatever it is) do THAT before!"

Hoping to get out of a sticky situation,
Joanne in Cleveland