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vjp...@at.biostrategist.dot.dot.com
Dec 3, 2019, 12:23:54 PM12/3/19
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My laptop screen looks like it has two curving crisscrossing wite threads on
it. Turned off, it looks like they are cracks, but not to the feel. Else
works fine. Is it hazardous (eg mercury)? If I do nothing, will it get
worse. I may have leaned on it, but don't recall any accident.
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it. Turned off, it looks like they are cracks, but not to the feel. Else
works fine. Is it hazardous (eg mercury)? If I do nothing, will it get
worse. I may have leaned on it, but don't recall any accident.
- = -
Vasos Panagiotopoulos, Columbia'81+, Reagan, Mozart, Pindus
blog: panix.com/~vjp2/ruminatn.htm - = - web: panix.com/~vjp2/vasos.htm
facebook.com/vasjpan2 - linkedin.com/in/vasjpan02 - biostrategist.com
---{Nothing herein constitutes advice. Everything fully disclaimed.}---
John-Del
Dec 3, 2019, 5:36:22 PM12/3/19
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On Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 12:23:54 PM UTC-5, vjp...@at.biostrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
> My laptop screen looks like it has two curving crisscrossing wite threads on
> it. Turned off, it looks like they are cracks, but not to the feel. Else
> works fine. Is it hazardous (eg mercury)? If I do nothing, will it get
> worse. I may have leaned on it, but don't recall any accident.
>
If it's old, it could use CCFL back lighting which has a small amount of mercury. I don't believe there's any in an LED based display.
> My laptop screen looks like it has two curving crisscrossing wite threads on
> it. Turned off, it looks like they are cracks, but not to the feel. Else
> works fine. Is it hazardous (eg mercury)? If I do nothing, will it get
> worse. I may have leaned on it, but don't recall any accident.
>
You may have cracked it if you closed the top and there was something inside just a wee bit bigger than the gap between the screen and keyboard/mousepad.
If you can see the defect with the laptop turned off in a bright light on an angle, then the inside glass layer is cracked. These cracks do generally get worse. If it's a newish laptop, you can change the screen.
Brian Gregory
Dec 4, 2019, 8:39:16 PM12/4/19
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and it didn't seriously mess up the display, like large areas near the
cracked not working much if at all.
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Brian Gregory (in England).
vjp...@at.biostrategist.dot.dot.com
Dec 5, 2019, 4:47:40 AM12/5/19
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In <b6ec1ca0-1454-4df2...@googlegroups.com> by John-Del <ohg...@gmail.com> on Tue, 03 Dec 2019 17:36:18 we perused:
*+-On Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 12:23:54 PM UTC-5, vjp...@at.biostrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
*+-> My laptop screen looks like it has two curving crisscrossing wite threads on
*+-> it. Turned off, it looks like they are cracks, but not to the feel. Else
*+-> works fine. Is it hazardous (eg mercury)? If I do nothing, will it get
*+-> worse. I may have leaned on it, but don't recall any accident.
*+->
*+-If it's old, it could use CCFL back lighting which has a small amount of mercury. I don't believe there's any in an LED based display.
*+-You may have cracked it if you closed the top and there was something inside just a wee bit bigger than the gap between the screen and keyboard/mousepad.
*+-If you can see the defect with the laptop turned off in a bright light on an angle, then the inside glass layer is cracked. These cracks do generally get worse. If it's a newish laptop, you can change the screen.
Many thanks. It is a ten year old Acer Aspire ONE>
*+-On Tuesday, December 3, 2019 at 12:23:54 PM UTC-5, vjp...@at.biostrategist.dot.dot.com wrote:
*+-> My laptop screen looks like it has two curving crisscrossing wite threads on
*+-> it. Turned off, it looks like they are cracks, but not to the feel. Else
*+-> works fine. Is it hazardous (eg mercury)? If I do nothing, will it get
*+-> worse. I may have leaned on it, but don't recall any accident.
*+->
*+-If it's old, it could use CCFL back lighting which has a small amount of mercury. I don't believe there's any in an LED based display.
*+-You may have cracked it if you closed the top and there was something inside just a wee bit bigger than the gap between the screen and keyboard/mousepad.
*+-If you can see the defect with the laptop turned off in a bright light on an angle, then the inside glass layer is cracked. These cracks do generally get worse. If it's a newish laptop, you can change the screen.
Many thanks. It is a ten year old Acer Aspire ONE>
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