HELP - Deadly monitor smear...!

[White Widow]

Ok, my nice roommate decided to place a funny sticker on my monitor as a joke and generally funny graduation prank. However, when I tried to remove it, it left a really nastly sticky reside on the screen. I told him to clean it off, and he decided that acetone would be the best idea. However, it seems that while the goo was removed, several annoying streaks were left behind - I can only assume that the acetone dissolved some of the anti-glare coating. What should I do? Soap and water don't do anything, and I am leery about trying to use more acetone to completely remove the coating. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

Thanks,
Aaron

 

[joeyjojoe]

windex maybe? i don't know what to recommend if the ar-coating is removed.

 

[Dragnov]

Dude man, your not supposed to put those chemicals on your monitor! Acetone will remove your anti-glare coating AS WELL as Windex! Looks like the only way is to remove all your anti glare coating with something though. The basic way to clean a monitor is water only...

 

[TheHeadFL]

Yea, especially since anti reflective coatings are only like a quarter of a wavelength of light thick. It doesn't take much to hurt them.

 

[White Widow]

Well, I was pretty sure I wouldn't be able to undo the damage. If I just take some more acetone and try to clean off the rest of the AR coating from the screen, will it all come off nicely, or will it just streak around forever and become even more unusable? I really don't care too much if the AR coating is gone in the end, I just don't want to make the situation worse. Is it so thin that wiping it off will be an easy proceedure? As it is, I think most of the coating is still on the screen, it's just that some got dissolved and spread around in one particular area.

Thanks,
Aaron

 

[OhioDude]

Methinks your roommate owes you a new monitor...

That anti-glare coating also provides protection from UV emissions and it's not a good idea to be constantly staring into a particle accelerator without UV protection...