Hi all, Hope you guys here can help me out. I bought a used 21" computer monitor recently and it has a small (~2mm dia) nick on the screen. It's very shallow, I can barely feel it with a fingernail, but it's very visible and annoying as it's close to the center of the screen. Is there any way to make it less visible? There might be some sort of coating on the glass, I can't tell for sure. Thanks Yahya Farooq
Probably not, but ... If it is into the glass, it can't be fixed and it may be rather dangerous, since you have a vacuum bomb aimed at your face. If it is in an antiglare coating, you might be able to scrape all the coating off, with the risk of not getting all off and of scratching the screen. Although I would find it a nuisance, you could make it less visible by ... 1. Touching it spot with clear nail nail polish which MIGHT reduce the sharpness of the visible nick or 2. Put a little tiny smiley face :-) label over the spot, which would make the nick less visible or 3. Put a smudge on your glasses in just the right spot so the nick is blurred if you sit very still, making the nick less visible.
Dymax has a UV crystal clear potting compound as does Loctite. After Googling both, call either Dymax or Loctite for their advice or to find a distributor where you live. The potting compound is liquid and should fill the nick. When exposed to a UV light, black light or sunlight it will harden and make the nick almost invisible. You can purchase in very small quantities.
Henry Halem wrote in news:BDD74D36.760A% snipped-for-privacy@glassnotes.com:
You could try the auto windscreen repair folks. They can fix cracks and chips in non-pressurized screens ;-) Phil
There are repair kits available in auto supply stores for filling nicks in windshields you might try one of those.
And be sure to have an ambulance standing by.
Why? The kits for windshields just use some kind of epoxy, don't they? Why would that make anything happen if it hadn't already imploded?
Mike Beede
The ones I was thinking about have a small diamond burr included that is used to drill out the "chip" down to the laminate film so that there is a place for the epoxy to go to. I just had an image of someone taking a diamond burr and his Dremel to a CRT.
Oh. That would certainly be a bad idea. A _really_ bad idea.
Mike Beede
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