20 Oct
2011
20 Oct
'11
1:03 p.m.
I have fixed a few Rainbow monitors suffering from screen mould.
It may be crude but I just removed the outer glass by breaking it into pa=
rts
and then peeled off the offending plastic layer.=20
It's not so mucwh crude and dangerous. And not just when you are doing it
either.
I am pretty sure that that outer glass layer, along with the goo sticking
ito the CRT faceplate is part of the implosion protection of the CRT. If
the CRT implodes (which is rare, I agree, but serios uenough that
manufacturers of TV sets cared about it in the 1950s) the user wil lbe
showered in glass and bits of electron gun. Certainly all the
books/datasheets I've looked at imply this.
Unless you _know_ the outer glass layer has no safety function, I
certianly wonldn't remove it.
-tony