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- From: bruceh@access.isc-br.com (Bruce Hogan)
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- Subject: Re: Magnetized Monitor = Junk ?
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- Date: 5 Jan 93 15:38:11 GMT
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- In article <THOMAS.TORNBLOM.93Jan5112747@beck.nexus.comm.se>, Thomas.Tornblom@nexus.comm.se (Thomas Tornblom) writes:
- >
- > In article <16B4D101F.LILMARA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu> LILMARA@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu (Martin Lilly) writes:
- >
- > My adventurous daughter wanted to see if our beautiful 13" Trinitron monitor
- > was magnetic- she touched a moderately powerful magnet to the screen and it now
- > has 4 large, ugly blotches on it.
- >
- > 2 of the blotches are green, and 2 are olive. Each pair looks like they would
- > superimpose on the other, but are separate. The rest of the hardware is fine
- > (except for the magnet:-)).
- >
- > Is my $600 investment shot?
- >
- > Thanks, Lilmara@Yalevm.YCC.Yale.edu
- >
- > I guess it'll work as a color TV, shut the monitor off for a few
- > minutes and back on. Or if the monitor has a de-gauss button, press it
- > and wait until the image stops waving. The procedure may have to be
- > repeated a few times.
- >
- > Thomas
- Right...it just needs to be de-guassed. Maybe you can take it to a TV repair
- shop and just ask them to waft a deguassing coil over it and 'voila', you're
- eyes are happy once again.
-