The height adjusting handle turned into a sticky gooey mess and disintegrated around the pins that hold it onto the stand

To my dismay, the height adjuster and the base tightening knob had become a sticky mess rendering the stands to being useless

These handles have deteriorated into a sticky gross mess

There is a solution to throwing this stand out or having to put up with a sticky mess,

The plastic and rubber components on both stands has disintegrated rendering them both useless: the moulded plastic pieces literally crumbled while the rubberized compnents turn in to a sticky mess!

The plastic parts degraded into a sticky mess that transferred to the hands and my guitar

This is a user friendly and solid unit, but inexplicably the grip and adjusting pieces melt into a toxic mess with no temperature abuse

After owning it since 2011, recently the comfort grip became a sticky mess and just began to disintegrate were eventually the push button popped out and the grip crumbled on it's own, (my guitar dropped to the floor but luckily it wasn't damaged)