CRT mold

[Jules Richardson]

On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 14:00 -0800, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> Jules,
> 
> Those monitors are suffering from a fungus or mold (are they the same?)
> that is literally feeding off the laminate adhesive.  One of the folks
> here (I forget who it was) fixed a monitor with this problem by using a
> heated wire to remove the protective outer laminate and replace it (or I
> think he might've just left it that way) in order to "restore" the
> monitor.  He forced the wire between the CRT face and the protective outer
> laminate to cut it off like a saw.

Hmm, interesting. I wonder if there are any chemicals that'd either kill
off the mould (if the CRT was left to soak in a bucket of them) or
destroy the glue in order to remove the outer layer (so it could be re-
glued) - all without totally destroying the tube completely.

Probably not - the heated wire trick sounds difficult on anything but
the flattest tubes though :(

At least the tubes aren't dead in the case of our HP stuff though, which
is good news :) (an HP 250 with a mouldy screen is way better than no
250 at all)

Funny how - apart from a couple of other screens out of maybe 300 - I've
only seen it really affect the HP stuff. 

> Bottom line: pain in the ass.  No known solution...to us at least.

Well certainly with car windscreens there's no cure that I know of
except for a new screen, but then that's a much bigger and more complex
piece of glass...

cheers

Jules