Eyelash in LCD screen

[horacelau]

I think I have an eyelash inside the LCD panel. It's not on the surface. It's not super noticable but annoying when I happen to be looking at the area of the screen. Anyone know if it's possible to disassemble the screen to get the eyelash out?

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[killer]

It could be a lot worse than an eyelash.

I understand that removing the LCD panel is tricky. IMO I'd learn to love the eyelash.

[sparta.rising]

Its possible top open the LCD, but very difficult, and unless you are doing it in a clean room, you are likely to get more stuff (dust) between the glass. If you don't have access to a clean room, I'd learn to live with it.

But if you really want to, download http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-46464

It will tell you how to remove the panel form the rest of the laptop. After that, it takes a little bit of hunting to remove screws, undo latches, and cut tape. To replace the tape, its usually a metallic tape, you can find a roll in the plumbing section of a hardware store. But it aint cheap.

I've read you can get rudimentary clean room conditions in your home by going into your bath room, running the shower on hot till the room gets nice and steamy, turn the shower off, let the steam settle, and go in keeping the door closed. Supposedly the steam will catch all of the heavy particles in the air.

[ajkula66]

I've seen this more than once and have yet to figure out how the actual hair/eyelash got in there.

Unless you know what you're doing extremely well, and have access to a completely (and I mean hospital-grade) dust-free room, don't even attempt to remove the nuisance. Learn to live with it, or get rid of the machine altogether...or change the LCD as a whole.

My $.02 only...

[underclocker]

I had a hair in a T23 LCD, see this thread for the history --> http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=32427

Sometimes, you can get the hair to move to a non-offensive location (like to the bottom, under the LCD bezel) by shaking the machine a little!

[dr_st]

Sometimes, you can get the hair to move to a non-offensive location (like to the bottom, under the LCD bezel) by shaking the machine a little!

It happened to me with my T42 once. I had an annoying dust spec, and one day while the machine was in my bag, it moved to under the bezel and hasn't bothered me since.