Repairing long hairline cracks in laptop glass?

[GodisanAtheist]

Does anyone here have expirence using a "windshield repair kit" to fix hairline cracks in a laptop screen's glass?

So I came into possession of a newish laptop that the owner was getting rid of due to some cracks in the screen glass.

To be clear, this isn't a chip in the glass like you might get from a rock hitting your card window, but long hairline cracks that run the length of the screen.

The monitor below the glass works great and the cracks are fine enough that they're practically invisible looking at the screen head on with no glare, but are definitely noticeable otherwise.

I can see why the original owner didn't want the laptop anymore, as the cracks are just distracting enough to make some productivity tasks difficult to do, and also look like a definite structural weakness when opening and closing the laptop lid.

At the same time, it seems incredibly wasteful to discard an otherwise perfectly functional laptop with a 7th gen i5 due to such seemingly minor damage.

YouTube videos on the subject seem to revolve around fixing chips in cellphones rather than hairline cracks on a laptop (longer overall than a laptop screen) and have been informative but I'm curious if anyone here has tried on the larger scale I'm dealing with.

 

[heymrdj]

What’s the model? Is it actually glass?

 

[boomerang]

You don't throw the laptop out, you replace the screen. There is no methodology for repairing the types of cracks you have in glass.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

What’s the model? Is it actually glass?

Its an Acer R15.

You don't throw the laptop out, you replace the screen. There is no methodology for repairing the types of cracks you have in glass.

-That's disappointing to hear. To keep the original story as short and sweet i didn't include the part where I ordered a new screen already, and the replacement screen itself got damaged in shipping. That's a separate issue; now I'm just wondering if I can do a "good enough" repair on the existing screen to mitigate some of the structural issues and make the cracks less noticable.

Maybe I'll just give it a shot and come back and let you guys know how it goes.

 

[Raduque]

You could try using this stuff to fill the cracks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_optically_clear_adhesive