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This is a LCD Chemical Burn
This morning I had my entire upper lips numb from the dental filling thats I had earlier. I was starving but could not eat so I was sipping on a bottle of apple juice. I accidentally choked on it a bit and started to cough after I took a big swig of juice. I tried to keep my mouth shut but since I could not move my upper lips I ended up spraying the apple juice all over my flat screen monitor at work like a lawn sprinkler.
One of my coworkers handed me a bottle of glass cleaner for my monitor and I told them thats using chemical cleaners on the plastic layer on a LCD screen will eat holes in it and will leave bad scratch marks. The same goes for PDA and notebook screens. CD and DVDs to I guess.
So thats is what I wanted to share with you all.
1. Never use any cleaners but water on a LCD screens
2. Be damn careful drinking anything when your mouth is numb.
Jake at January 23, 2004 
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The best screen cleaner is isoprophil alcohol, it removes dust, debris, and unfortunate drinking accidents and quite honestly that is all that is in the "professional" screen cleaners anyways. But I deffinatly agree that the only thing to be used on an lcd is water, and since I am so neurotic anyways I normally use spare distilled water(origionally intended for batteries).
Posted by: shawn at January 24, 2004 10:30 PM
I am almost 100% positive that alcohol will scar plastic screens.
Posted by: Jake at January 25, 2004 5:08 PM
Alcohol is bad for plastics because it has drying properties. The stronger the alcohol the more it will dry out a plastic screen. Polyethelene or polystyrene will become subject to drying agents in just the same way any plastic will because it is a petroleum based material and is dependent on an oily character to sustain its clarity and elasticity. Plastique explosives must also be free from drying influences such as isopropyl alcohol...just so you know.
Posted by: pete at January 25, 2004 8:08 PM
