I’ve seen this happen over the years, and it isn’t pretty if it’s your own screen. But one of our readers shows us a little DIY for fixing this damage in the video above. Almost TOO easy, if you ask me… though I guess fitting a magnet to a drill isn’t the simplest of hacks.
Is this fix old news, or is this one clever SOB?
Thanks Mike.
Jared
Monday, June 4, 2007 at 10:18 AMDegaussing a magnet damaged CRT is very easy, and this is very old news. The easiest way to fix it for the power drill deficient is to unplug your TV from the powerpoint for 24 hours, and for more serious cases, simply sweeping your tv with magnet will also do the trick. No need for any power tools.
Tobias
Monday, June 4, 2007 at 10:19 AMDoes anyone even have CRTs anymore?
steven
Monday, June 4, 2007 at 10:32 AMthe discolouring probably would have gone slowly anyway. he didn’t affect it for very long prior to fixing it. i’d like to see that after leaving the magnet on the crt for a week.
Penguinister
Monday, June 4, 2007 at 12:23 PMyeah, Im a bit of a ludite when it comes to monitors too but even I have swapped to LCD’s.