I'm melting!!

I can’t explain why, but I know certain types of rubber turn to glue in a few years. I have a Vizio TV and don’t use the remote because I use the cable remote instead. I bought it several years ago and recently found the Vizio remote in a drawer. It stuck to my hand as if it had syrup on it. I recall having similar experience with other remotes in the past so I’m not blaming Vizio, only their choice of coating on the remote.

As to replacement feet for audio equipment. I had good luck with the sorbothane feet available from Audio Advisor. They completely eliminated the external hum from a McIntosh preamp.

Rubbers are noted to react to atmospheric 'additives'...note your car's wiper blades.   Even those are complex compounds...

I'll still stand pat on my observation; the mfr. should send a new set gratis.  They're feet, FGS.  How much can they spend on a set after all?  A 'chump change' item that should be able to be replaced without too much difficulty or a degree in engineering.  Especially when y'all drop that level of cash into the unit....

I'd be annoyed if told that replacements would be a 3 figure charge...light up someone's ear up the food chain over it with the WTF question....;(

But that's me...

This is a drawback of a natural rubber. As all Linn Sondek users know, and I have learned in an unpleasant way! I have pARTicular rack (approved by The Boss!!!) and its a light birch veneer... Melting black rubber totally destroyed it! 
Re. the price of a set of new footers: it is not just us, when I bought a set of new footers for an Eppendorf vacuum-centrifuge for my lab, I thought that I am buying a new centrifuge! But what can a poor boy do? We just pay the price... ;-(