Making the Psone screen look better.....

If you're making a portable you probably need something to watch it on. (Unless you want to guess what's happening in the game, but I wouldn't advise that) Anyway, this forum is your "Hacking a pocket TV/screen" one-stop solution. Share your experiences and knowledge here.

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Hmmm...it's an hour now!
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Kurt_ wrote:Hmmm...it's an hour now!
Patience Danielson. 8)

Seriously if you don't wait you will get "stress" marks from pulling it up and it will be ruined.
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Wasn't planning on it. But I re-wet it.
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Okie dokie. Things did not go as planned. I waited 4 hours, as it was so imperative to do. I wet it with 3 layers of near-dripping wet paper towels. The results?

Numerous stretch marks on half the screen, and about 1 cm squared of the corner is missing the polarizer.

All in all, the screen would have looked better had I performed this properly. But to remove a few scratches, I would not recommend, because now instead of scratches, I have stretch marks that will never be removed. And a white corner.

Grrr. :cry:

Oh well, at least it didn't all get destroyed. It looks fine head on. Minus the corner, which only just touches the SNES display's viewing corner. How do I get it back on? Superglue?
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Did you pull evenly and smoothly or did you pull some and stop then pull some more ?

4 hours should be plenty. On all 6 Psone screens that I've done 4 hours and it peeled up like butter.

Maybe I should make it 6 hours in case it's an older stubborn panel ?

And how did you manage to pull up some of the Polar?
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Yeah it was kind of sticky, but I was tired and really needed to go to bed (Discrete test next day, WHICH WAS MMOVED!!! :evil: )

Being tired, I panicked when it was sticky and didn't know how to proceed. Perhaps that should be part of it. What is the maximum soaking time, approximately?

Also, I'm in Canada, with a lower relative humidity (2nd T-shirt day yesterday, we're at roughly 20-25 C at 30% relative humidity. Pehrpas that's a factor.

However, I cleaned it, and a lot of the problem was the glue. Now it looks like minor surface scratches.

As for the polarizer, I used an exacto knife to seperate a corner of the polarizer, and It looked fine. Oddly enough, a bit of polarizer came up too, but thank-god-fully tore.

How do I get it back on? Can I? If not, time for some black paint!

The stretches I can live with, they aren't so bad.
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