Oh Sh!t: I accidently damaged my monitor's anti glare coating

[PCMarine]

I was cleaning my CRT monitor with some generic cleaner "Glass Plus", it didnt say it had ammonia in it though. I was dragging the paper towel along the base of the glass to pick up the excess cleaner which ran from the top and then bam, all along the bottom it looks like parts of the anti glare coating peeled off.

This seems very surprizing to me, because I have cleaned the glass several times before and nothing happened. Now my monitor looks terrible with parts of the coating missing. Is there some way for me to either replace this coating, or peel off the rest to make it look better?

 

[Stealth1024]

I used to clean a CRT with an anti-glare coating with windex with amonia and never had a problem...


sure its not a streak?

 

[optimistic]

I haven't had the same thing happen to me but, I chipped mine, so I want to know how to replace/peel it too, if possible.

 

[Twista]

this CRT os LCD?

 

[Blackroot]

it's prolly safer to clean a CRT with water if it has anti glare, no chance to lose coating then.

 

[dkozloski]

What is a big mystery to me is: Why all this trouble with anti-glare coating on monitors? Any commercial television set, whether foreign or domestic, has exactly the same coatings and it never seems to be an issue. People wipe the dust off the TV with everything from their shirt tail to a hundred different kinds of waxes and glass cleaners and you never hear of damage....???????

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

Originally posted by: Twista
this CRT os LCD?

Um...Re-read the post.

 

[GonzoDaGr8]

Is there some way for me to either replace this coating, or peel off the rest to make it look better?

Probably no way to replace it, But you might use the same cleaner with a little elbow grease to get rid of the rest of it. Maybe carefully use a brand new razor blade?

 

[Amorphus]

Originally posted by: GonzoDaGr8

Is there some way for me to either replace this coating, or peel off the rest to make it look better?

Probably no way to replace it, But you might use the same cleaner with a little elbow grease to get rid of the rest of it. Maybe carefully use a brand new razor blade?

razor blade won't scratch the glass, it shouldn't be rusty, though. a clean cutting edge is fine.

 

[ArmchairAthlete]

I always thought Windex was ok. It's been fine on my NEC FE991SB as far as I can tell anyhow.

 

[astroview]

Originally posted by: dkozloski
What is a big mystery to me is: Why all this trouble with anti-glare coating on monitors? Any commercial television set, whether foreign or domestic, has exactly the same coatings and it never seems to be an issue. People wipe the dust off the TV with everything from their shirt tail to a hundred different kinds of waxes and glass cleaners and you never hear of damage....???????

ditto dkozloski, I am not paranoid about the glass cleaning stuff like everyone else. I use glass cleaner on my tv, monitor, lcd, no problems here...

or just put your damn screen in a place where the sun or light won't directly shine on it!!!!

 

[50]

Originally posted by: Sephiroth85
bump

This guy is a thread crapper...mods please take action

Do a search, almost all his posts are bump's...

 

[syberscott]

I used windex on my NEC 95F and some of the coating came off after about a year. I argued and got a new one because the manual said to use "glass cleaner" as maintenance.

 

[magomago]

Hrm...I'm still puzzled on how to clean my Moniter's screen (NEC Multisync FE770) - it has all this crap over it but i'm afraid to touch it for fear of messing up the coating...hehe you should see it

 

[PCMarine]

Originally posted by: magomago
Hrm...I'm still puzzled on how to clean my Moniter's screen (NEC Multisync FE770) - it has all this crap over it but i'm afraid to touch it for fear of messing up the coating...hehe you should see it

Try good old water first.

 

[ZapZilla]

I had a similar problem on a donated 19" monitor.

The monitor came from someone who smoked heavily and used who-knows-what to clean off the smoke residue from the glass. For all I know, the smoke residue could have damaged the glass too...

The glass coating was mottled, ugly, and in waaaay bad shape.

I used some graffitti remover, some pen and ink remover, and a lot of elbow grease to wipe away all remnants of the coating.

It now has some very small imperfections that are noticable to me (because I know they are there), but others don't seem to notice them at all and use the monitor without complaint.

Good luck.

I normally use only a soft cloth and plain water to clean the glass on my monitors.

 

[NOX]

Been using Windex for years and never had this problem... I currently use it on my CPD-G410R.