Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 04:35:54 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] LCD Screen films - Need L20-L70 screen size! Is $5 okay? Rough or Oversized?
Hey David, Wow... that was fast. The film arrived today. Your cutting job looks pretty good. Without trimming the piece you've sent me, there will be about .5mm around the edge that should overlap the edged of the screen nicely without running into the metal frame. That should give a good starting point to grab onto if for some reason one should want to remove the film. I have a warning/suggestion for anyone who may first want to apply a test patch before application of the full-sized film as I just did. (Those who tire of my prattle quickly can jump to the last paragraph from here.) I was to see just how much light would be blocked with the film applied. Putting a piece of the film right against the screen without removing the protective plastic on each side of the film results in a substantially dimmed screen. So I went ahead and removed the protective skin from both sides of a test piece, and only intended to press the left side down enough to see what the difference of brightness was going to be. To my surprise, I couldn’t really detect any substantial dimming of the screen to speak of. Additionally, the glossy reflective property of the surface disappears when the film is gently pressed one, and the adhesive properly bonds. But without having pressed on the right edge of the test patch, somehow it got well fastened on its own. I couldn’t get my fingernails under any of the edges, and a fairly stiff and thin piece of plastic I had sitting around couldn’t get under any of the edges or corners of the patch. I’d put the patch right in the middle of the screen along the edge of a white/grey window frame. Ever have a recurrent ‘fear’... well, not really a fear, but an idea that pops into your mind about something that would be freaky to have happen. For me, that was having the point of my Swiss army knife go through the screen of the Libretto. Don’t know why that thought pops into my mind once in a while, even though my knife is always put away. Well, I couldn’t think of any ideas better than using the scalpel-like edge of the Swiss army knife, with its rounded tip up out of the way, to get underneath the test patch. Sure enough, it got underneath and grabbed the corner. So I pulled gently, slowly and evenly, basically straight up from the edge to pull the film off as David recommended. I >could< see the LCD’s own plastic coating pulling outwards too during the process, but it snapped back nicely when the patch came off. So my recommendation (which might be obvious for a lot of people), would be to re-insert a little of the protective plastic skin under one of the edge of the sticky side of a test patch before applying it. That’d make it a lot easier to get hold of the edge of the film in order to remove it. M(S) _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
