What you can try is to unplug it, and let the energy drain out of it for at
least a week. It takes a long time for the energy to dissipate. Even then a
CRT will have plenty of power left in the coil.... enough to kill. However,
I have solved odd ball screen bleed problems just this way.
Rode
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At 07:56 AM 4/8/2005, you wrote:
>I have a CRT monitor to which a child has held a small but powerful magnet.
>Now, in the two places where the magnet was held to the monitor, the image is
>badly distorted. The distortion areas are about an inch square each. The
>rest
>of the display area is undamaged.
>
>Is there anything that can be done to correct this? I have tried
>degaussing the
>monitor, but it has had no effect on the problem.
>Dave.
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