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Magnet touched to screen discolored it?

Can a t.v. that has been touched by a magnet on the screen be fixed? The center of the screen now looks like a faded yellow circle. My child touched a magnet to the screen and now it appears discolored. Can I do anything to corrct this?

Joseph Culbert
October 2005
none of this works u hookers!

hooker
April 2011
We just tried the trick on our 4 year old Magnavox with built in dvd and vcr. It work it out until a small dull blue spot that is much less noticeable. The poles have to be the south points of the magnets as putting the north made it worst on our first try.

PepperAnn Saltz
March 2011
Nov 2010. still works. try turning your tv on and off. still didnt help. used to magnets taped to a spade bit in my cordless drill for 10 seconds....all fixed

Rod - australia
November 2010
My 5 year old son set a 4 stack of magnets on top of his tv over nite it was so badly discolored when we truned it on we were gonna toss it out. i tired the drill fix and it totally WORKED!!!!!! That just saved us at least $300.00 we would have spent on a new tv.

Abby
July 2010
Tried the two magnets taped to the end of a drill, spin at high speed near tv while its on....all the colors went weird, but when i pulled the magnets away... the spot was gone...I was very surprised and pleased...thanks

jeff n
January 2010
The fix provided @ http://woil.ws/fixmonitor/ works great! I saved my 6 year old cousins behind the other night after he put a magnet on the center of our tv.

Chris
January 2008
Ohhh, My God!!! I just tried a fix from another site I have to tell you all about. I read; if you strap the magnets to a drill and point it about an inch from the discolored spot, then spin at high speed it will fix the problem....Well it did!!! Wow!!! I was so impressed I screwed the TV up again just so I could fix it!!!

Dave
December 2007
Hey-
I wanted to thank you for the turning the set off then on, i touched my computer monitor with magents by mistake had them in my handed and pointed to something for my daughter DUUHH-- thought I would have to replace the monitor.. turned it off then back on... all set THANK YOU!

Sue
October 2007
I checked this site out while searching how to fix my tv that my kid put a magnet to and made it all crazy green.turned it off and back on and it was fine,,,,,thanks so much

julie thompson
May 2007
check the guide at
http://woil.ws/fixmonitor/

cakedonstripes
May 2006
Also, if the TV's built-in degaussing circuit is unable to clear it an engineer can manually degauss the TV's shadowmask with a portable electromagnet designed for the purpose.

For that you shouldn't be charged much for the job, as it takes all of 10 seconds to do.

The worst scenario is..a very powerful magnet could in theory warp the shadow mask which would require a new cathode ray tube.

Most likely it will disappear with normal use.

Cobweb
October 2005
If its not to bad then switching the TV on and off a few times should fix it or at least improve it. Most TV's these days do an automatic degauss when they are switched on. Some that I've seen have this function built in to a setup menu. Check through your user guide to if this is one of them.

Linz
October 2005

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