Originally Posted by
countilaw
So with the cost of the baby powder, you could have bought new rubber bands and be safe. It's not the oil that destroys the rubber bands. It's ultra violet light and the breaking down of the elasticity from being stretched.
Frank
You know, it's funny. I never lost an airplane due to "rubber band failure" because I stored them in baby powder. Of course you know better than I do and I was just offering an idea. And the baby powder didn't cost me anything extra at the time, I had a boy in diapers.