DSEAH@WPI.BITNET (03/24/88)
Our computer labs have been overrun by AT&T PC6300s! Only a few dismally maintained Apple II+ systems and some mangy Apple //es remain to remind us of the Glory Days. The Monitor II monitors have this grungy nylon anti-glare coating that has become opaque. Someone told me that you can "peel" the coating off, pop on a new one and it's all better! Has anybody ever done this?
mackay@dalcsug.UUCP (Daniel MacKay) (03/26/88)
> The Monitor II monitors ASSUME you mean monitor IIIs. Monitor IIs don't have the screen. > have this grungy nylon > anti-glare coating that has become opaque. Someone told me that you > can "peel" the coating off, pop on a new one and it's all better! Has > anybody ever done this? I was a service manager for an Apple dealership here in Halifax and saw these things all the time. Unless they're torn badly you SHOULD be able to clean them with a piece of cheesecloth LIGHTLY oiled with lemon oil (yah, that's right, Hawes brand). The monitors originally came with a little yellow rag with some special silicon oil but the cheesecloth + lemon oil is the Apple-suggested replacement. This arragement picks up the dust and slime on the screen. If you have used standard glass cleaners on your monitor III, it will be a real mess and will take many cleanings with the cheesecloth & oil before it looks like anything, but it will gradually get better. Try cleaning a small corner of your monitor first to make sure there's no weird junk on it already that reacts with the lemon oil. You can't peel the screen off really as it's fastened by a clamp band right around the CRT- whole monitor has to come apart to replace it. Hope this helps. --- +---------+ Dalhousie University | _ | From the Halifax, Nova Scotia | (_)===| Disk of ... Canada | | Daniel mackay@dalcsug.UUCP +---------+ ...{utai,uunet}!dalcs!dalcsug!mackay