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I’ve moved closer to Philadelphia to live with my girlfriend and along with that has come the move of all my screens for daily use, TVs/Monitor, etc.
For many years now I’ve looked online for the best way to clean a screen. Usually the recommendation I see is damp cloth, however there are often other things people recommend. With this move has come… let’s say… less awareness of not touching the screen. So now I have some cleaning to do, on two TVs and I’ll throw in my PC monitor just because.
What say you QT3? Other than drilling holes to relieve the pressure, what’s the best/safest way to clean a screen?
Thanks to both you and @schurem. She’s awesome and we’re very happy. We bought a house together and it’s been an easy adjustment for both of us. It’s pretty cool when you both finally find someone who’s totally ok with you being you.
It just requires a little more TV cleaning time.
And now that this has been here awhile, I think it’s notable that there are different approaches to the cleaning! That’s what I was seeing online, so it’s good to see it’s confirmed that people do it different ways!!
One of life’s funny gifts is when you reach the point where you realize you don’t have to find the perfect puzzle piece to attach to. Instead you find someone else that wants to puzzle with you, and you mold yourselves together.
For what it’s worth, Dave if I have heavy dust on a TV I dust it first, then clean it with a little window cleaner sprayed directly onto a microfiber hand towel. No scratches, crystal clear cleaning.
That’s right, and it’s my FAVORITE cleaning product, SIMPLE GREEN!
Simple Green is nontoxic, 100% biodegradable, and highly effective! Use it with a scrub sponge to clean the soap scum out of your tub! Use it with a microfiber cloth to clean your mirrors and keep ammonia out of the environment! Soak your greasy kitchen sink strainer in it and be amazed as that forever grease slides right off! Spray it directly onto carpet stains, let it soak, then wipe the whole mess up! Spray it directly onto laundry stains and let the washer machine lift it out! It’s Simple Green!
For screens, just spritz a small amount onto a microfiber cloth, wipe it on, and wipe it off. Hey presto!
Oh, and you know what works amazingly well for the kind of dust buildup you get on electronics? This shit, which comes in many brands and varieties but I think is basically the same stuff as the old toy Slime:
Pull off a ball of it, roll it on the dusty surface until it stops absorbing, then throw it away and start another ball. It too is biodegradable. Leaves none of that ancient dust that has somehow integrated itself with the surface.
