Removing anti glare coating 17” Apple Studio Display CRT

[Ih8reno]

I came into possession recently of the crt Studio Display whose coating on the screen was mostly scratched up and gone from the bottom right corner. I have used a micro fibre cloth with windex and have removed about half the anti reflective coating that remained but there is about half that’s very stubbornly not coming off. Does anyone have any experience with this type of removal? If you do can you point me in the direction of an easier method?

Thanks!

 

[velocityg4]

I used a baking soda and water mixture for my MacBook Pro. Then scoured it off. It should have a paste like consistency.

You can look up staingate MacBook removal.

It’s a slow process. Maybe a bit faster for a CRT. Since it’s more durable. You can put more elbow grease into it.

 

[B S Magnet]

I came into possession recently of the crt Studio Display whose coating on the screen was mostly scratched up and gone from the bottom right corner. I have used a micro fibre cloth with windex and have removed about half the anti reflective coating that remained but there is about half that’s very stubbornly not coming off. Does anyone have any experience with this type of removal? If you do can you point me in the direction of an easier method?

Thanks!

I do, but only in the context of removing the entire anti-glare sheet at once. I’ve done this on a few 12" LCDs and on one 20" Cinema Display.

I’ve used a method involving layers of paper towels, lots of water sprayed from a spray bottle, and at least 4–6 hours (or even longer, which may be better as LCD size increases) of making sure the layers of paper towels resting flat and flush over the LCD (removed, of course, from the bezel and assembly) remain completely saturated and soaked from the mist pumped from the spray bottle — usually re-upping every half hour or so to account for some of it evaporating. It’s usually a good idea to do all of this over, say, a bath towel.

After the requisite time of soaking underneath the layers of soaked paper towels, the anti-glare sheet should be both damp and pliable enough to be very gently and slowly peeled from a corner — minding places where that saturation of the anti-glare sheet might be a slight bit more stubborn. If that’s the case, I continue with soaking a bit longer, maybe an hour more, and that usually helps.

I used a baking soda and water mixture for my MacBook Pro. Then scoured it off. It should have a paste like consistency.

You can look up staingate MacBook removal.

It’s a slow process. Maybe a bit faster for a CRT. Since it’s more durable. You can put more elbow grease into it.

The staingate circumstances are a bit different: that’s a chemical anti-glare coating, much like that used with eyeglasses and camera lenses (the display, whilst glare may be removed, is still “glossy”). This is the case with retina displays. Older TFT standalone displays, such as the Cinema Displays, use a sheet of film to effect anti-glare properties.

Vendors like LG often make the same display with both a glossy and a matte coating. A good example would be the aluminium and unibody MacBook Pros which had an anti-glare option: it was possible because the displays were otherwise identical. Those displays still used a sheet of anti-glare film.

EDIT: I erroneously parsed the original post as an LCD Cinema Display, not a CRT Studio Display. I apologize.

 

[bunnspecial]

Pretty sure the CRT AG coating will come off with 100%(or at least relatively high purity) IPA. It's a bit stubborn to remove, but will come off.

If you get one of these displays with good AG, prize it as nearly all of them are flaky and terrible looking. This really, IMO, is the best CRT Apple shipped, AG not withstanding. I find them more useable and easier to read at 1600x1200 than the 21" B&W/Graphite Trinitron(the ADC has a Mitsubishi aperture grill Diamontron, and I think by that point they were every bit as good if not better than Sony tubes).

 

[Ih8reno]

I used a baking soda and water mixture for my MacBook Pro. Then scoured it off. It should have a paste like consistency.

You can look up staingate MacBook removal.

It’s a slow process. Maybe a bit faster for a CRT. Since it’s more durable. You can put more elbow grease into it.

That seems to work pretty well. Still an exhausting process but more and more is coming off. I wouldn’t have bothered doing this but the coating was coming off the bottom and I wanted a uniform finish. Thanks so much!

Edit

Well I just finished and it looks great. The most tiring cleaning I’ve ever given a Mac but it worked well. Thank you all for your help.