Magic Tricks

This is such a cool gimmick. I used it twice in my show and both times, it absolutely killed.

I had expected the gimmick to be durable to last a few years at least from looking at it. However, I'm now trying to set up for my third show ever using it, and it's simply impossible. I'm going to try to be vague to protect the secret but suffice it to say, sticky stuff is making from prior uses is making it impossible to set this up and there's no way to take it apart to clean it without breaking it.

I assume the issue is because I left it set up between shows for a few weeks, but why should I have expected that to be an issue?