BATTLE: Monitor vrs. My kids magnet

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troc99

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so my kid tried to stick a magnet toy to the monitor. A 17" crt. And now it has a blue and orangy/yellow spot I cant get rid of. Deguassing doesnt help. Did the magnet win and is my monitor screwed?
 
A similar thing happened to our family pc's 17" crt. What i did was i degaussed it a few times a day, and then as time went on it faded away. And now you cant even see it.
 
Someone did the same thing to a monitor at school and to fix it he just turned it on/off several times until it went away, but that may not be very healthy for the monitor.
 
turning a monitor on/off degausses it. So doing either a lot should fix it eventually. That drill 'technique' was pretty humorous to watch and may be worth a shot if you don't want to wait.
 
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i hear the old electronics back in 1990s,,, will get messed up when the magnet is close to them,
the magnet screws the "metals" inside the muchine???
 
CRTs use electromagnets (called steering coils) to direct the rays to the right area of the screen. Holding a magnet close to the screen can screw up those steering coils. I couldn't explain how that drill method fixes it even if I wanted to but if you figure your monitor is toast without trying something give it a whirl
 
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