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Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Mark Tyson

UV resin injection cures ancient, cataract-inflicted CRT monitor — repaired 20-inch Trinitron would have been an enviable display in the mid 1990s

Fixing a vintage 20-inch Trinitron CRT, suffering from cataracts, by injecting UV resin.

TechTuber Epictronics has shared a video documenting his attempts to fix a vintage 20-inch Trinitron CRT monitor suffering from cataracts by injecting UV resin. Spoiler alert: the exploration of a syringe, heat, UV, and patience-requiring method of fixing this old Apple-branded Sony monitor ended up being “a mega-successful repair.” Indeed, under normal lighting/magnification, as evidenced by before and after photos, the unsightly air pockets appear to have vanished.

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