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Cleaning a screen - use spray polish or microfibre?
Zoozy wrote:
Sometimes I just have to touch the glass screen of my VDU to work through some data. Yeah, I know it's not a good way of keeping the screen clean. How do you guys keep the screen clean after it has got greasy? I used to think using a microfiber to life the grease off the screen was best. All the microfiber advertising suggested it was the very best. But now I am coming round to thinking that the old way of using a spray furniture polish or spray glass cleaner is better than microfibre. There are also some proprietary screen cleaner out there (not wipes but sprays) and I wonder if anyone can say how they compare to the other methods. Finally there is general purpose denatured alcohol (methylated spirits in the UK) but I am not so sure about using this method. Use a 50/50 mixture of 99% isopropyl alcohol and water. Mist the solution on a clean 100% cotton cloth. Apply to the screen. |
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"S.Heenan" wrote in message news:W3xcd.124911$a41.593@pd7tw2no... Zoozy wrote: Sometimes I just have to touch the glass screen of my VDU to work through some data. Yeah, I know it's not a good way of keeping the screen clean. How do you guys keep the screen clean after it has got greasy? I used to think using a microfiber to life the grease off the screen was best. All the microfiber advertising suggested it was the very best. But now I am coming round to thinking that the old way of using a spray furniture polish or spray glass cleaner is better than microfibre. There are also some proprietary screen cleaner out there (not wipes but sprays) and I wonder if anyone can say how they compare to the other methods. Finally there is general purpose denatured alcohol (methylated spirits in the UK) but I am not so sure about using this method. Use a 50/50 mixture of 99% isopropyl alcohol and water. Mist the solution on a clean 100% cotton cloth. Apply to the screen. I've always found Radox Spring Refresh Handwash with Lemon and Peppermint to be just great. Basically any detergent seems to work well. Having tried alcohol, I've found all it does is just smear the grease into a different place on the screen. |
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But now I am coming round to thinking that the old way of using a spray furniture polish or spray glass cleaner is better than microfibre. Many display coatings will be destroyed this way. There are also some proprietary screen cleaner out there (not wipes but sprays) and I wonder if anyone can say how they compare to the other methods. I use iKlear Apple Polish. It does an excellant job. It is a pain in the rer to use but the results are spectacular. This stuff is a polish and requires the effort of a polish to look its best. Finally there is general purpose denatured alcohol (methylated spirits in the UK) but I am not so sure about using this method. If you still have your display doc's I would check them to see if they say anything about chemicals that are not compatible with the screen coatings. |
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On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 16:27:34 GMT, "S.Heenan" wrote:
Use a 50/50 mixture of 99% isopropyl alcohol and water. Mist the solution on a clean 100% cotton cloth. Apply to the screen. Never use Isoprpyl alcohol on an LCD screen though. It will make it very streaky. I tried it once and had to wash it iff with water. |
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Bruce Mckown wrote:
"S.Heenan" wrote: Use a 50/50 mixture of 99% isopropyl alcohol and water. Mist the solution on a clean 100% cotton cloth. Apply to the screen. Never use Isoprpyl alcohol on an LCD screen though. It will make it very streaky. I tried it once and had to wash it iff with water. Hmm. The purpose of the alcohol is to absorb all the water. The purpose of the water is to absorb all the alcohol. I think the word in question is miscible. -- "I support the Red Sox and any team that beats the Yankees" "Any baby snookums can be a Yankee fan, it takes real moral fiber to be a Red Sox fan" |
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On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 10:44:10 GMT, CBFalconer
wrote: Hmm. The purpose of the alcohol is to absorb all the water. The purpose of the water is to absorb all the alcohol. I think the word in question is miscible. I don't care what the purpose is, it made the LCD screen streaky. You going to argue with the facts? |
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