repair scratches / tatters in black coating on lcd screen

[cashkennedy]

I recently bought a 32" for like 10 dollars or something super cheap and fixed it for a few dollars more, but the screen is one of the ones with a very "loose" black film coating that can de laminate from the panel. The person had gotten some scratches on it which dragged the laminate off and thus nearly white lite comes through in those sections. I could try to straighten the snagged portion and glue it down flat, but I wasnt sure if anyone had a transparent black coating that could be put on instead. Perhaps you can even respray the whole screen with something to smooth / cover scratches, although probably not worth it unless the screen has major scratches / white areas like this set.


These scratches are around 2mm wide, by 5mm at most, so were not talking a "huge" area, the tv is still watchable / sellable. I could just use sharpie or something, but since that's not transparent / it would block the picture on the little spot if I used something like that.

[Kiriakos GR]

Re: repair scratches / tatters in black coating on lcd screen

I did have some identical thoughts when scratched by accident one dead 17" CTX PC monitor which I found for free and successfully repaired it.

I was lucky as the scratch is at the low end which is the known Windows task bar.
Yes there is white light coming from it but it is not an eye magnet which will stress me emotionally.

But I have witnessed one story where the angry girlfriend took her revenge by scratching the 40"SONY of her boyfriend.
The material ( coating ) is from soft nylon, nothing can help, I did even try specialized scratch remover cream, capable at cleaning transparent acrylics, it does not help.
Actually it can turn against you as it makes the area flat but prone to sun light reflections.