Cleaning the Screen on a Mac (?)

I use the lens cleaner for my MBP and works great...

Yes, you can clean glue from screen without damage

I'm a middle school teacher. That may help to explain this post.

Yesterday, a vengeful student put a glob of gorilla glue on my macbook air screen. I got most of it removed with a nearby bottle of clear hand sanitizer, which is mostly ethyl alcohol. However, a grey blotch was left on the screen.

After panic, tears, and pressing charges, I decided that I had little to lose, and much to gain, if the hand sanitizer would do its magic gorilla-glue dissolving trick again.

I propped the macbook so that the screen was flat on the table, face up. Then I saturated the dirty spot with the clear (ethyl alcohol) hand sanitizer, and left it on for 30 seconds. I wiped it with soft tissue, and, voila!

Clean screen, no damage. Although I am still pressing charges. Anyway, wanted to share this tip with the community.

mj

I have this cleaner from Belkin called Pure AV. It is specifically made for TV screens and laptop/desktop monitors. I came with a micro fiber cloth and contains no alcohol. It's a low viscosity gel that I spray on the cloth and then wipe the screen down. It's also anti-static.
Been using it for over a year and works great.


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Joe

I got some LCD screen cleaning foam made by Phillips I believe. It has worked great, no streaks and costs about 50% less than the Monster stuff. To be honest though, I have used my glasses cleaning solution before and it works just the same. $1.99 at Wal-Mart. A Micro-fiber cloth is a prerequisite though.

+1 for iKlear and a microfiber towel. You paid all that money for a Mac. Do you really want to ruin it by trying to go cheap on how you clean it?

Don't use Kleenex or paper towels. They both contain wood fibers that can scratch your screen. That's straight from the Apple information about cleaning the machine.

I realise the post I'm responding to is way back, but Windex is TERRIBLY bad for most LCD monitor screens regardless of how you apply it. It has ammonia which eats the special coatings.

Now, recent Macs uses a form of glass and it MAY now be safe to use Windex, but I'd bet that glass is still treated with special coatings so I wouldn't. Just MO.

class77 said:

+1 for iKlear and a microfiber towel. You paid all that money for a Mac. Do you really want to ruin it by trying to go cheap on how you clean it?

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Well, no, but if you knew the chemical composition of iKlear, and could easily make your own solution for 1/10th of the cost, why not? Maybe it's the formula in my old post above. (?)