Your optician is on the money. Although I personally don't go that route, many serious people do, and with great results.
Look, the palmrest is a replaceable piece of plastic. You can try Goo Gone on it - got me nowhere when I attempted it to remove the "shades" that came from the stickers. A lot of small things come into the equation here: how long the stickers were there for, any scratches that you'd need to buff out...etc. The only reason I use the Staples wipes I had mentioned (no I don't work for Staples nor do I own their stock...LOL) because I found them to be streak-free. As always, YMMV. Have a great weekend everyone. Cheers, George -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Webber <[email protected]> To: ThinkPad List <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Mar 4, 2011 9:54 pm Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] T41p: Goo Gone okay? Thanks everyone for the answers. I'll just reply to this one message to avoid overwhelming the list. First, someone pointed out off-list that "rubbing alcohol" is not good stuff or this, and he's right. Rubbing alcohol has a bunch of stuff in it, and it's not what I've got. The dollar-store stuff (from Dollarama or Dollar Tree, $1 for 473mL/ 1 [US] pint) is "50% isopropyl alcohol. From the label: >Active ingredient: isopropyl alcohol 50% >Inactive ingredient: water I've only seen 50% outside a pharmacy and 70% or 99% only in pharmacies, I assume it's a regulatory thing. Of course this is all inference, based on never seeing >50% outside a pharmacy and only seeing 70% or stronger in pharmacies. If I'm going to take expensive 100% and cut it with water, I figure I might as well use the Dollar Tree stuff. Tried the 50% on the T41p's palm rest and it's not moving the glue. I may have to true Goo Gone, or is it actually bad for that material? (George said Goo Gone is really for the lid). I would never consider GG for the screen A local optician recommends putting a spray head on a bottle of 50% for cleaning eyeglasses (and that's what he does in his store). I'm thinking this might work for the screen. I used to use screen wipes as a client had boxes of them for this purpose. They used to leave streaks though, and I'm thinking of a piece of paper towel with some 50%. I never used the wipes on my eyeglasses (though it said you could, or perhaps they were a different wipe) because it said not to use with coated lenses. Thanks again everyone! -- Andrew mailto:[email protected] Sunday, February 27, 2011, 8:27:26 PM, you wrote: > Andrew Webber <[email protected]> asks: >> And is 50% or 70% recommended for cleaning the screen of the T41p (and >> the X300)? > I've been using half alcohol (100% alcohol) and half water. It works > quite well. What's the other half of your 50% alcohol? > Billy Y.. _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
