Can I polish out scratches on my mobile phone screen, and if so, with
what?

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"Mike Barnes"  wrote in message 
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> Can I polish out scratches on my mobile phone screen, and if so, with
> what?
>


If the scratch is deep you will end up with a dint in the screen if you 
successfully polish the scratch out.  Try filling it with varnish or wetting 
it with an oil or Mr Sheen.

Bob

Mike Barnes wrote:

> Can I polish out scratches on my mobile phone screen, and if so, with
> what?


If its an LCD chances are you might damage it with pressure being applied
to it.

However if scratches are very light on a plastic transparency the use of
brasso rubbed in a circular motion will erase most of the scratch.

Brasso is a fine cutting agent.

Mike Barnes  wrote:

> Can I polish out scratches on my mobile phone screen, and if so, with
> what?


That's a good reason to buy phones with cheap covers.

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> Can I polish out scratches on my mobile phone screen, and if so, with
> what?
>


Brasso or burnishing cream work well.

Henry

In article , bob@nospamplease 
says...

> 
> "Mike Barnes"  wrote in message 
> news:a5cmuclbNKJDFw+0@g52lk5g23lkgk3lk345g.invalid...
> > Can I polish out scratches on my mobile phone screen, and if so, with
> > what?
> >
> 
> If the scratch is deep you will end up with a dint in the screen if you 
> successfully polish the scratch out.


Unless you flat everything back with wet & dry first, in which case you 
just end up with a thinner screen.

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 21:36:27 UTC, Mike Barnes 
 wrote:


> Can I polish out scratches on my mobile phone screen, and if so, with
> what?


I once got some mobile phone screen scratch removal polish. It came in a
'refurbish' kit on special offer from Orange. I bought the kit because 
it was the cheapest way of getting a new antenna (also included)...

I guess it was a very fine abrasive (small tube, about superglue size). 
Jeweller's rouge?

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Mike Barnes wrote:

> Can I polish out scratches on my mobile phone screen, and if so, with
> what?
> 


Sounds far fetched but I heard of tobacco ash being used for TV screens.
Phil

Try T-cut and a duster. Also handy for scratched safty-specs.

Bax

> Sounds far fetched but I heard of tobacco ash being used for TV screens.


When I polished a piece of beach found amber for my wife I started with fine 
wet and dry followed by burnishing paste and finished with moistened 
cigarette ash as the final polish. It would take ages getting a deep scratch 
out with it though.

Henry

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:47:04 +0000 (UTC), Dave 
wrote:

| Mike Barnes wrote:
| > Can I polish out scratches on my mobile phone screen, and if so, with
| > what?
| > 
| If you are on contract with insurance, drop it on the floor from 
| sufficient height to kill it and claim a new one.
| 
| If on contract without insurance, then wait until up-grade time and get 
| a new phone for free. That is what I do with Orange.
| 
| If it is pay as you go, then it is time to throw it away and get a new 
| phone. :-)
| 
| The batteries die at about 18 to 24 months anyway.

Alternatively just buy a new case at a mobile phone shop. 
Avoid Harry Potter ones if not a child.

-- 
Dave Fawthrop <dave hyphenologist co uk> 
"Intelligent Design?" my knees say *not*.
"Intelligent Design?" my back says *not*.

This worked well on my Palm...

http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/product/3298.htm

Roy

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 20:35:46 UTC, "RzB" <Please@Reply.to.newsgroup> 
wrote:


> This worked well on my Palm...
> 
> http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/product/3298.htm


Yup, that's the stuff I mentioned I got in my Orange pack. Worked well 
for me too.

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In article <dg4if8$gpp$1@nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com>, 
davenpat@btopenworld.com says...

> 
> The batteries die at about 18 to 24 months anyway.
> 

I hope that this is not a proven fact.

If it's true then mine have been dead for 3 years!

-- 
Ziggur

"S'ils te mordent, mords-les"

In uk.d-i-y, RzB wrote:

>This worked well on my Palm...
>
>http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/product/3298.htm


Thanks, I'll give that a go. BTW it's a bit cheaper on eBay (but what
isn't?).

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Ziggur wrote:

> In article <dg4if8$gpp$1@nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com>, 
> davenpat@btopenworld.com says...
> 
>>The batteries die at about 18 to 24 months anyway.
>>
> 
> I hope that this is not a proven fact.
> 
> If it's true then mine have been dead for 3 years!
> 

Depends what you mean by dead for  3 years.
If a phone battery is still gong after 3 years, then the re-charge time 
will come around that much faster.

My last phone, a Nokia 6310, would last nearly 2 weeks on standby, after 
being re-charged.

How long does your phone last.

Dave

Watch out for postage on Ebay...

"Mike Barnes"  wrote in message 
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> In uk.d-i-y, RzB wrote:
>>This worked well on my Palm...
>>
>>http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/product/3298.htm
>
> Thanks, I'll give that a go. BTW it's a bit cheaper on eBay (but what
> isn't?).
>
> -- 
> Mike Barnes 

In uk.d-i-y, RzB wrote:

>"Mike Barnes"  wrote in message
>news:Uoy1KP1jHfJDFwvw@g52lk5g23lkgk3lk345g.invalid...
>> In uk.d-i-y, RzB wrote:
>>>This worked well on my Palm...
>>>
>>>http://www.mobilefun.co.uk/product/3298.htm
>>
>> Thanks, I'll give that a go. BTW it's a bit cheaper on eBay (but what
>> isn't?).
>
>Watch out for postage on Ebay...


It was 3.98 including postage and did the job perfectly. Unfortunately
my Nokia 6100 has (had!) a coated screen, so, as it says in the
instructions, once you start you have to polish *all* the coating off,
which took about half an hour of very hard rubbing before I ran out of
patience in the corners. Fortunately the advice to mask off the area
round the screen was unnecessary - masking tape simply can't stand up to
that sort of rubbing.

I now have one sparkling scratch-free screen (and a rather sore finger).
Thanks to all.

-- 
Mike Barnes

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 22:36:27 +0100, Mike Barnes wrote:


> Can I polish out scratches on my mobile phone screen, and if so, with
> what?


Toothpaste is often recommended on uk.telecom.mobile