17 replies to this topic

[Eggy]

Oy... I hate magnets... My little 3 year old cousin found some magnets? What did he do? he went straight to my TV and started RUBBING the magnets against the screen... Now its all purple What do I do?!

[Sean]

Normally on my screens, it fades within a couple days

[Brad]

http://en.wikipedia....wiki/Degaussing

this is what degauss is for! it's on monitors, but not tvs for some reason.

rather than wait a few years for it to fix itself, use a degaussing coil. you can either buy one somewhere, or build your own.

http://www.twobits.com/degauss.html

try it I guess, or find a professional service to do it for you. either way, don't let the kid have magnets again!

[Noitidart]

Hahah the first thing? lol man I remember when I was 7 I was trying different places where a magnet could stick and tried the monitor, it was purple for I can't remember exactly how long now lol but it was purple and im like ooo lets try it on this monitor then I got yelled at lol

Edited by Noitidart, 04 January 2006 - 06:32 PM.

[Vegas]

lmfao
no man magnets are cool...try stickin one on a compass,it'll start dancing
also if theres a guy u dont like and he has a digital watch,put a magnet on it and I heard it'll completly kill it

Edited by Scope, 04 January 2006 - 06:51 PM.

[Shadow]

That happened to mine as well, After a few months it went away. =/

[SupermanFTM]

That's never happened to me...but now I am tempted to try it xD

[Eggy]

Dont there is still a huge purple blob right in the middle of my tv

[stefan]

dont' try it lol

[hey]

Dont there is still a huge purple blob right in the middle of my tv

I'd buy that cool looking degaussing tool if I were you.

[Eggy]

Ill buy it whenever I got to walmart or something

[Melchoire]

This happened to my moniter once when I moved a magnet around it. I turned it off and on and it fixed. I heard of the coiling rod thing before Im pretty sure it works fine.

[Elemental]

I did that to my computer once accidently, I was looking for something to hold down f5 and I found something that apparently was a magnet but didn't seem like one, anyways I forgot about what they could do and it screwed up the screen badly

[TheWu]

First thing I'd do with a magnet.

Put a magnet on the floor. A disabled ant on it. Inch the second magnet closer to it from the top.

Or you could just smush it .

[Lemonblood]

I made a power generator with wood and a magnets

[juju]

Ouch that sucks, hopefully you can get it fixed.

My mom's friend told me that one time at his job, they were giving out a nice flat 19" monitor, and he had won it. A jealous co-worker decided that if she wasn't going to get it, no one would. So she got a magnet and screwed up his brand new monitor. Sucks.

[Eggy]

Lol that sucks jul

[darkmaster]

if yur screen doesn't fade, well than yur screwed buddy your going to have to buy yourself a new tv, and yeah I hate magnets to