Removing scratches from CRT tube

I wish! Constantly learning new stuff and can't ever see me being nearly as good as many other members. Just wished they'd impart their knowledge in guides ;-)

 

knowledge is only half-good if you keep it to yourself

 

My buddy did this a while ago to his new astro city screen. Looks great...but honestly the scratches didn't bother me enough to really care.

 

It depends on what type of scratches. The tiny surface ones in the anti-glare surface can get streaky and deflect the image underneath so it looks like water on the monitor. They really were tiny, but made a big difference.

 

Are you restoring that jalopy? (Said in an affectionate and respectful manner).

That is some project!

 

That was the plan, but it has been sitting in a field for a year now. I'm moving it up my friend's soon. We'll either try and flog it (yeah right!) or strip it and sell the parts.

The field is costing me, I owe back rent and that's the last thing I need in my financial situation right now! As sad as it is, I need to think of a way to recoup the costs on this one.

 

I know from bitter experience that sometimes a project needs to be nipped in the bud, even if it means making a loss rather than it becoming a money pit!

 

Indeed - nip it in the bud before it screws you up the butt :lol:

I'd rather it went to someone who'd do it up, but the problem with that is such a person would be a member of one of the Triumph clubs - and you often get people giving away parts, engines or even whole cars at those! Makes it hard to get anything back on it.

 

my my, you love them butt-jokes don't you retro?:O

 

You love them just as much. If not more :110: haha

 

Thats amazing.

I wish you woulda taken a couple pictures of that game with the scratches then a picture after had fixed the scratches.

 

Nice one parris, got a few scratches on my CRT tv but never thought about how to get rid of them so this might come in handy at some point.

 

Yeah, sorry about that. I thought the before & after with the screen off showed the light scratches really well, however it might have been more interesting to have seen the streaks on the screen that I mentioned.

 

Yup! A fair bit of effort, but a good result. I did kind of lose track of time, sense of feeling in my arms, plus it was so cold in the snowbound UK that I may have actually frozen solid throughout the entire thing! There was snow being blown under the garage door and my fan heater really made no difference.

I did time myself. It did take a whole 2 hours to get it absolutely perfect. Any less than that and I'd not have been satisfied with the result. I kept checking the screen. From a pile of tiny little scratches (I'll admit, I doubt anyone else would have really been bothered), I now have 2 left.

 

now that you've "fixed" the screen you need to preserve it I guess. Should you be covering it perhaps with a cloth until it's time to play the machine?

 

I am looking to see whether there is any kind of spray protector that could be applied, but most other people who have polished their Naomi screens report that the only disadvantage they have had was that the screen (devoid of anti-static coating) attracts a bit more dust and therefore needs cleaned more frequently, but needs no other special care.

A lot of older CRT screens never even had that coating applied, so once cleaned and polished they should be as good as new.

 

Clean it with an anti-static glass cleaner... or one of those specially charged cloths that pick up and repel dust :thumbsup:

 

Could do, but thought I would try and find something that would be a once only application to refurbish the screen completely.

Never heard of anything, but surely there must be an anti-static spray?

Bah, just invented it lol