Jesse Skeen
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While re-arranging my equipment rack I stupidly side-swiped my 75-inch LG TV and put a slight scratch on it. It's very slight and could have been worse, only visible on bright material and usually only if you're looking for it. I'm prepared to just live with it, but I'm still quite upset that it happened as this TV is irreplaceable. I wiped the scratch and you can feel it with your fingers.
I did some research on any kind of way to fix this and found wildly conflicting info- most discussion boards I saw this discussed on, there was no final answer as to whether it's worth trying to fix or not. A general Google search says that you can use Vaseline to smooth out scratches on TVs, but some of the sources are a bit dubious. I wouldn't want to try this and end up making it worse.
Does anyone here have first-hand experience with this and can say how it turned out? I don't want any speculation, just real answers. The most "speculation" I read was just not to do it, so I'll leave it alone unless anyone can tell me it can be successfully fixed.
The thing that is pissing me off is that I was going to test any screen repair by intentionally putting a similar scratch on my laptop screen- It turns out my laptop screen is more scratch-proof than this TV! Even trying to scrath this laptop screen similar to how the TV got scratched, it won't scratch the same way!
I did some research on any kind of way to fix this and found wildly conflicting info- most discussion boards I saw this discussed on, there was no final answer as to whether it's worth trying to fix or not. A general Google search says that you can use Vaseline to smooth out scratches on TVs, but some of the sources are a bit dubious. I wouldn't want to try this and end up making it worse.
Does anyone here have first-hand experience with this and can say how it turned out? I don't want any speculation, just real answers. The most "speculation" I read was just not to do it, so I'll leave it alone unless anyone can tell me it can be successfully fixed.
The thing that is pissing me off is that I was going to test any screen repair by intentionally putting a similar scratch on my laptop screen- It turns out my laptop screen is more scratch-proof than this TV! Even trying to scrath this laptop screen similar to how the TV got scratched, it won't scratch the same way!