Restoring pliability to rubber recoil pads

[Bill Murphy]

The solution is to not buy any old NIB or NOS hard pads. Buy new Silver pads or soft NOS pads. Old hard pads are trash. Anyone who wants a half dozen of them, I have a drawer full of them. I have bought a few NOS pads over the years, and most of them were quite soft, but I guess I'm lucky.

[Drew Hause]

Stan: I've not used the product, but have seen reports that Simple Green will soften rubber. Apparently full strength leaves rubber tacky so a 50:50 mixture with water has been recommended. Soak for 10 minutes or so, then clean with water.
It's cheap by the jug at WalMart and Amazon.
Please let us know if you try it.