/vr/ - Retro Games

People often toss CRTs as soon as they get a scratch on them, thinking it's totally hopeless to restore them.
Despite this, I've undertaken the project of restoring a scratched Samsung Syncmaster 900IFT. This thing has some of the best colors I've ever seen on any monitor (including modern flat-panel technologies), 1600x1200 at 86Hz, and both VGA and 5-BNC inputs, so I've decided it's worth saving. When I got it, it had a damaged anti-glare coating and had spots where the brightness was significantly greater than the rest of the image. I had to use an abrasive glass cleaner to remove it, which did a good job, but I rubbed for too long in two places and created enough micro scratches to cause a moire effect. I've done my research, and to finally restore this thing to its former glory, I will be polishing it with a rotary buffer (thanks to a friend who works on cars, who will be giving me a hand with that) and a cerium oxide paste. I'm about to go to the hardware store and buy some lumber so I can build a harness-type thing to hold the monitor steady while I'm polishing it, and I'll probably get around to the actual polishing next weekend. If all goes well, I plan to make this monitor into a daily driver for years to come. Wish me luck, anons.