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Old 12th April 2003, 21:10   #1
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When i took my 21" CRT on a trip yesterday, it accidentally tipped over on it's glass front when the bus stopped suddenly (transporting 35kg CRT's with public transport is my idea of fun).

Now i've got pretty deep scratches in the front. Is there anyway i can make them less visible? I tried toothpase (i've read at shrimp it should help on a TFT screen), but it didn't do much. Anything else i can try to remoe scratches from glass?
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Old 12th April 2003, 21:44   #2
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go to a specialized shop, there exist products for such things
but remember some CRT's have an additional protective coat on the glass, make sure the product won't damage it
 
Old 12th April 2003, 22:05   #3
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if u use products to polisch te surface (and remove scratches), the glass will get, euh, "mat".

Oh well, it's an old CRT. It's not a disaster.
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the glass will get, euh, "mat".
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better a scratch then a washed over look in my humble opinion
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better a scratch then a washed over look in my humble opinion
my thougths exactly. I'm going to leave it this way. No point in spending €25 on an expensive polish product to make it worse.
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Old 12th April 2003, 22:22   #6
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yeh.. you'll get used to it
 
Old 12th April 2003, 22:38   #7
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tried some stuff to remove scratches from a cell phone. it called diplex or something
 
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yeah, i heard it can be found @fnac. I'll go look for it next week.
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Old 13th April 2003, 13:02   #9
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Call CarGlass, maybe they have a solution.
 
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Call CarGlass, maybe they have a solution.
I work there,... we don't fix scratchings
 
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