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Monitor Touch-Up

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burningrave101

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Hey guys, i just received a new Mitsubishi DP930SB from Newegg and its a great monitor except i noticed two or three TINY little hairline scratches at the top of the cabinet. It looks like it was just a place where the paint has come off a little and leaves a little green mark. They are hardly noticeable but i was wondering if there was special paint i could buy online some place just to cover them up. I need a color that matches it exactly though. Is this an easy touch-up job for a painting nOOb? Please help if you can. I'd just like to cover them up now so i will stop looking at them lol.

BTW is it pretty common with black CRT's to have a couple little places here and there where the paint scratches off? Their just little greenish/white dots like lint that wont wipe off.
 
Is it really worth the hassle for something so small?

or cpuld you even use a marker or something to cober it, pics would be helpful :)
 
BTW is it pretty common with black CRT's to have a couple little places here and there where the paint scratches off? Their just little greenish/white dots like lint that wont wipe off.
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well... i am actually surprised.. my guess would be that the monitor is made of black plastic itself... with no paint on it that could be scratchted off... i have a black NEC monitor.. and it is made of black plastic.. could there maybe be some green crap scratched into it?
 
I have a black case. Whenever I get a ding in it, out comes the sharpie! :p
 
scottatwittenberg said:
well... i am actually surprised.. my guess would be that the monitor is made of black plastic itself... with no paint on it that could be scratchted off... i have a black NEC monitor.. and it is made of black plastic.. could there maybe be some green crap scratched into it?
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I took a box knife and gently scratched on the places a little bit and worked on them with a damp wash cloth and got them to where you can't hardly see them even up close looking for them. They were just little whitish green specs that looked like it had been scratched there or something. I figured it was just what was under the black paint that was showing. O well, looks pretty good now to my naked and very paranoid eye lol.

And these black cabinets sure show every little spec of dirt and lint that gets on them. It gets all over it faster then i can wipe it off :p.
 
Whats that black stuff that they put around the edges of the monitor cabinet? Its around the edges of like mousepads also. My fUnc 1030 has it around the edges of the actual mousepad. It sorta peels off if you scratch it. Can you buy stuff like that? If so i could just buy a little to have on hand to touch up a hairline scratch around the edges of the cabinet.
 
if the plastic itself is black, then how could it be obvious?

anyways, u could fill it with a sharpie as mentioned above

or sand the areas around with high grit sandpaper so the scratches "blend in" and doesnt show as much anymore
 
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