MisterSkippy said:
I have a 955DF Samsung monitor which has small spots along the bottom
of the screen where the anti-glare coating has come off. Is there a
work-around for this? A search has several sources suggesting using
ammonia, alcohol, or acetone to completely remove the coating. Is it
feasible to do so and then install an anti-glare screen? Which screen
would be best if that is the final determination? The monitor has
never been cleaned with anything but some monitor wipes I bought so I
am at a loss to explain the origin of the problem. Any guidance would
be most appreciated.
TIA
DFB
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Wear polarized sunglasses. "I wear my sunglasses at night"
(
http://www.anysonglyrics.com/lyrics/c/corey-heart/sunglasses-at-night.h
tm).
While it sounds feasible to remove all the anti-glare coating, are you
really sure that you can actually remove it all without leaving some
behind? When you try, also be ready to get a new monitor if the
experiment goes awry and you end up with a far worse monitor screen. It
would have to be an extremely poor quality coating to be removed with
isopropyl alcohol (which is what is in some monitor wipes and why you
should use distilled water to dilute vinegar onto a cloth and not
sprayed on the monitor) and probably gets damaged by oil from
fingerprints, too. If you use acetone, be sure it doesn't run onto or
into the monitor as it will dissolve other plastics (assuming you won't
be removing the tube from the case). If the wipes caused the damage,
well, just more of them to damage it all over so the effect is total
across the monitor's face (i.e., all the anti-reflective coating has
been removed).
However, it may not be an anti-reflective coating, especially since you
said it came off in spots (and presumably you were using the wipes to
clean the whole monitor face and not just at those spots). It may be a
plastic film affixed onto the monitor face (so you'll have to remove the
tube and peel off the film "sticker" and use something like GooGone to
remove the glue residue to end up with a very shiny monitor face, hence
the suggestion to wear polarized sunglasses). Is there the feel of a
slight "edge" at those spots which would indicate that the AR coating is
really an stick-on AR film?
You might just try using an AR panel on the monitor althought the AR
coating/film is still there on the monitor. This might reduce the
contrast between the good and bad areas on the monitor to be less
offensive to you but you'll probably also have to turn the brightness
up. The extra AR panel will reduce brightness by about 30%.
Page 6 of the user manual (
http://snipurl.com/S995manual) but note they
never tell you what is THEIR recommended "detergent" (which, to you and
me, equates to "solvent" since they aren't talking about using some
dishwashing detergent). Maybe the "detergent" is diluted vinegar, like
Windex with vinegar (and NOT any ammonia since ammonia will damage the
AR coating).
