I saved a very expensive touchscreen monitor (
Wacom Cintiq 15S, $1,900 new) today in about five minutes with about $14 worth of plastic polish and cleaner. That’s a good cost-to-benefit if I ever saw one.
My monitor got scratched moving (it was mounted to a heavy-duty monitor arm on my desk, and I figured it would be safer there—with some mover’s pads taped to it—than if I unmounted it and boxed it up. I did not plan on my desk breaking in two, obviously.)
Searching
Google for “scratched LCD repair”, I found out that some iPod lovers were using 3M’s Plastic Cleaner 39017 and Plastic Polish 39010 to clean and restore their all-to-easily scratched screens, and figured I should at least try it before contemplating living with a 12” scratch on a 15” monitor.
Standard polishing routine: quarter-sized drop on terry cloth towel, rub until dry. I always follow with a microfiber cloth to get any unseen residue off. First the cleaner, then the polish, and now the screen looks as good as the day I got it. I’m going to go around saving our cell phones, stereo receivers, dashboards, calculators—basically any optical plastic. Great stuff.
Source: I couldn’t find exactly what I wanted at auto parts stores, though they usually have some form of plastic care.
Froogle led me to
Levine Automotive Supplies, where they had 8 fl. oz. bottles for $6.99.
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