LCD Cleaning Maintenance
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LCD SCREEN & FRAME CLEANING & MAINTENANCE
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CAUTION
Unplug the power to the monitor BEFORE starting. Make sure you don't use a liquid cleaner containing chemicals such as Windex (Ammonia). Ammonia & chemical based cleaners are only safe for glass screens only.(Do not get it on plastics of any sort - trim or frame).
DO NOT get cleaners in eyes or on skin.
Follow ALL instructions printed on containers.
DO NOT inhale fumes.
Use a lint-free cotton terry cloth, polyester lens cloth, or other non-abrasive cloth.
Paper towels (even soft ones) risk abrasion since they are wood fibres held together by glue.
Recommended Screen Products
- Eye glass & CD/DVD fabric cloths seem to work pretty well for cleaning up the dust on the screen.
- Plastic lens eye glass liquid cleaning liquid is extremely good also. (Not contact lens cleaning/soaking solutions)
- Cloths that came with the PSP.
- Monster Cable makes a screen cleaning kit that works great.
- Use a very soft towel (bath towel / linen tea towel) dampened with distilled or distilled & de-ionized water (available at drug stores - cheap) and lightly rub (Never use tap water).
- Endust for Electronics (NOT Endust for furniture) - wax-free, oil-free, and amonia-free. It evaporates quickly & doesn't leave any sort of residue. Safe for non-reflective screens, including non-glare laptop computer screens & 2005FPW. (Look for the BLUE can)
- Any LCD screen cleaner sold in business stores (Staples etc.) that contains H20, 2-Butoxyethanol & Ethanol is safe.
- Sparkle from a company called A.J. Funk - "No smudges or film left over.....PERIOD. The best cleaner I have used."
- Audio visual stores sell TV cleaning kits with cleaner/polishes & scratch removers. They also sell packs of lint-free screen cloths.
- Microtex dust cloth. (sold outside the UK?) Fantastic for picking up dust.
- CleanDr. from Staples, left zero streaks. Comes with a cleaning cloth.
- Rogge Screen Clean - It's anti-static and cleans absolutely free of streaks. There's also a bundle of pump-spray with a Vileda micro fiber cleaning tissue, a hard to beat combination, tested and recommended by: Eizo, CTX, Samsung, Fujitsu-Siemens, NEC, Hyundai, Iiama. It's internationally available, more information here: Link and AM Demnark Link
Frame & Hardware Products
- Use any decent product that does not contain harsh chemicals or abrasive particles and also clearly specifies that it is safe for use on plastic surfaces, such as Armour All, Black Magic & such.
- Use extreme caution & exercise great care, so that you DO NOT get it on your screen. It may damage it or affect the anti-glare properties of your screen.
- You would NOT want to get it into any openings or in the spaces around buttons.
Disclaimer, Author & Feedback
The WSGF makes no warranty on the usage of this information/tutorial. Use this information at your own risk, and use common sense. This tutorial was originally authored by DougoftheNorth (with help from other forum members). If you have any questions or comments about this tutorial, please post into the original forum thread.















