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cleaning of a Apple TFT display....
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Have a questions regarding the cleaning of my 22" Cinema display (applies also for other transparent Apple displays). Not for the screen itself, but for the transparent stuff around it, especially the lower zone with the "feets". It seems to me, that there has some dark dirt like stuff built up on the inner side of the feets. One can see such dark dirt (dunno how to call it, maybe dark stain) on lots of plastic covers like on printers for example. This dark stuff seems to built up on these plastic surface easily after some 6..12months and is simple to wipe away.
But not for the display- How can I reach this inner side? It annoys me a lot - and infact I don not want to dismantle a 26lbs cinema display just to clean it there. any ideas ?
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sounds like lint to me.
there really isn't much you can do to clean the inside, unfortuantely.
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Topic: displays
Forum: Peripherals
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Can't answer the first question, but maybe someone can answer this trivial little related thing:
What is the best way of cleaning the screen area of an Apple LCD? Mine's got a bit mucky lately.
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Originally posted by Octafish:
Can't answer the first question, but maybe someone can answer this trivial little related thing:
What is the best way of cleaning the screen area of an Apple LCD? Mine's got a bit mucky lately.
Get some screen wipes. They likely sell them at your local electronics store. We can get them at Fry's here.
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You know those compressed air thingies for cleaning out your computer? They have something like tetraflorouthane in a liquid state, under pressure it stays like that, but when it can come out it turns into a gas...
Anyways. Try using one of those to blow it out. They cost like $8 and you can get them at pretty much any computer store.
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I just use low-lint, soft paper towels and a bit of diluted windex or 409. Then wipe off any remaining lint with either the cloth included with the screen, or with a swiffer cloth (don't press down with a swiffer cloth, or the dust-grabbing coating will leave residue on the screen).
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For the LCD cleaning, I do much the same as tooki, except using Isopropyl alcohol, which I find to be more effective for removing greasy marks such as fingerprints.
As for the dark dirt on the inside of the feet, it may be the infamous mould release stuff that plagued the cube. I had similar problems with the feet/handles of my G4, in places where lint wouldn't be able to find its way in, fortunately for me they're trivial to remove and clean. for the display, if you can't get in any other way, you have no choice but to dismantle, or live with grubby feet.
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Endust for electronics works pretty well cleaning screens
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