andrewb
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Kill it with fire.
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Could you just keep using a heat gun one small area at a time and just break those pieces off as you go?
The razor knife did nothing. You slice into it and it's like it heals itself.
This is EXACTLY the only way to do it.
***USE EYE PROTECTION OR BETTER YET A FACE SHIELD***TINY GLASS FRAGMENTS WILL BE FLYING****
1. Get a metal scraper and heat up a corner of the glass to around 250F+
2. Pry and break the glass in a little section(it will decide itself the size) and slowly pry it away from the adhesive which will still be stuck to the CRT.
3. Spend about 2 hours doing this.
You will be left with this:
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*THAT'S NOT GLASS, THAT'S HARDENED ADHESIVE*
Now you have to deal with the adhesive. I'm using Rustoleum Aircraft Remover. It's available at Autozone. I figured since it's safe on aluminum it would be less abrasive on glass. I haven't noticed any ill-effects on the CRT glass but use at your own risk.
https://www.autozone.com/paint-and-.../rust-oleum-32-oz-aircraft-remover/660022_0_0
1. Slather on the remover and let it sit for 30 min.
2. Use a plastic paint scraper to remove as much adhesive as possible.
3. Repeated the first 2 over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over.
4. When it gets thin enough, use acetone and a paper towel.
5. Vow to yourself to never take this on ever again.
holy crap if i ever ran into this on my game i would get a different crt monitor and pitch that thing in the trash. WOW that was alot of work and still more to go it looks like. good luck.
Agreed. I could understand only if it was the last tube on earth.
Bingo. The entire face is adhesive under the touchscreen. Here I thought the perimeter was a pain.
After breaking away some of the glass I found that sheet of adhesive which has now hardened into and extremely hard rubber-type material. On a hardness scale of 1-10 with glass being a 10, this stuff is easily a 9.
My next thought is to treat is as rubber and find something to dissolve it. This seems to be the ticket:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006SOK9YY/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1
I am quite confident that paint stripper would make quick work of it as well as perhaps oven cleaner but I am not confident that they wouldn't etch the CRT glass. Open to thoughts...
By the way, this is for my Baby Pac-Man that I have been restoring for 4 years. This was the final piece of the puzzle. I expected to receive it and be finished. Here I am going into day 4 in getting the digitizer off. Heartbreaking.