Crud between layers in LCD panel

[Scinik]

Hi, all.

Just repaired my Acer Ferrari F20 monitor (bad caps on inverter card) thanks in part to info gleaned from this site, so TYVM for that. :thumbup:

But, during the repair process, a couple of tiny pieces of crud (just big enough to be irritating) have somehow made their way down in between the layers in the panel itself. It is not a case of bad pixels (looking from different angles, you can see that the crud is actually in front of the backlight, but behind the LCD layer, and different pixels are affected by angle of view) (sorry for the emphasis, but getting tired of being dismissed by people saying "oh, it's bad pixels, nothing you can do" when it's obviously NOT :grrr: ).

Now the question: how difficult/dangerous would it be to take the panel itself apart to get rid of them (and some dust in the same interstice that's been there since I bought it)? I was happy to deal with the previous issue without delving further in to the guts, but the monitor is almost too irritating to use now.

Thanks in advance for answers/advice.

[stj]

Re: Crud between layers in LCD panel

it's doable,
but you will probbly make it worse.
the plastic layers build up static and you get loads of dust pulled in!

[canadaboy25]

Re: Crud between layers in LCD panel

I think it is very doable as long as your not throwing them on a carpet or something!

I have personally took apart many many many more that I can count because I needed to get to the CCFL's and when i put them together I turn on a white background and look for specs. A few times there was dust so I took it apart again and cleaned it out.

Although it is all about the level of confidence you have with this sort of thing. There is lots of crap that people are doing that I would never dare to try to do haha.

[Scinik]

Re: Crud between layers in LCD panel

...the plastic layers build up static and you get loads of dust pulled in!

Wouldn't a wrist strap deal with that?

Anyways, thanks for the answers, but I've kind of solved the problem (well, got the amount of crap in there down to a level I can [s]tolerate[/s] stop being tempted to possibly make it worse) by an embarrassingly low-tech method:

I tapped on the glass (using knuckle and fingernail) hard enough that they fell down out of view.

So if you guys want to file that into the old bag o' tricks...

[joshnz]

Re: Crud between layers in LCD panel

It took me many attempts to get stuff out of my screen