I have no useful information, but I want to know the story of why he thought this was a good idea.
I too am dyin’ to know why he did this. Sorry about the asking after you warned us not to, but it’s just… I’m dyin’ here. And unless the fool is, like, your kid or something, what the heck was he doing messing with your ibook anyway?
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Wouldn’t something oily be safer? Goo Gone and antiglare surfaces are a combination that makes me uneasy. Olive or mineral oil on a cotton ball or swab to get the adhesive off, then a mild cleaner to get the oil off sounds less likely to do permanent damage to me. Definitely what I’d do to a coated lens.
This might be a good time to introduce your “fool” to the concept of small claims court. You get a brand new ibook and he gets a lesson in why he shouldn’t do things like this.
Yep. He can pay up, or get dragged to court, or have Tony pay him a visit. There is no excuse for this, and let him know that from now on, he needs to keep his grubby little paws off of your belongings. You need to get your iBook REPLACED by him, not repaired. He can have the old one as a souvenir and reminder.
Stoid’s OP makes me think the tape itself is still there, not just adhesive. Will the Goo Gone still work for that case?
I don’t know if ibooks can handle extreme cold but some adhesives will be loosened by freezing.
Seriously? The mounting tape will do cosmetic damages, at worst, unless I am seriously mixed up here. He hasn’t actually broken it.
What about bringing the computer to an Apple Store and asking someone at the Genius Bar for advice?
He put tape on the part you look at. If the tape can’t be taken off, he damaged the display.
Bump.
How’d it work out?
I can’t tell if this is supposed to be a joke, but I laughed.
There are two types of “Goo-Gone”, citrus based, and naptha based, naptha based goo gone is the one you want, it’s also known as “deglazing solvent” and was commonly used to remove printers ink off offset printing presses.
It’s nasty, evil smelling stuff, highly volatile, but it shouldn’t affect the display, and iBooks have the standard polymer coated LCD display
I did a test a while ago on a dead PowerBook G4 display that was bad (vertical lines in display), I wrote on it with a sharpie permanent marker and let it dry, then used the goo-gone, it removed the permanent marker ink in seconds and did not affect the screen at all
I’d take the naptha goo-gone, put one to two drops on the tape, let it soak in for a bit, maybe a half hour or so, then try to remove the tape, it should come off with no residue and no damage to the screen
I’d also like to know why this idiot did this…
Even cosmetic damage will lower the resale value (if any) of her computer. And the point is, he had no right to mess with her computer in any way. He needs to learn this. Usually, the best way for fools like this to learn things is to hit them where they’ll feel it the most.
Well, it’s quite possible the display will never be right again - even if the OP is VERY careful when removing the tape, it may mess things up. This is assuming it’s on the LCD screen.
A whole new computer? overkill.
A replacement display? ABSOLUTELY.
The thing is Stoid has never come back to this thread and said if the tape came off without damage or not. A new unit when it actually was removable without damage when tried would be overkill, and cost you money to take to court and get a judgment. There is no opposition raised by anyone to the thought the guy was a jerk and idiot, just to the practical solution to the problem Stoid now has.
Stoid, come back!
We want to know what the idiot thought he was going to accomplish by doing such a stupid thing.
And how things turned out.
Please, the suspense is killing me!
Hi all… here’s the update:
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He’s my roommate, soon to be gone.
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He has a deposit with me.
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He had just given his notice a few days before.
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He works as an art director on music videos.
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I was in his room, with his knowledge beforehand, and decided I’d just take back the computer, which I"d asked him to return so I could work on it abotu 10 days earlier and he’d never answered.
I opened it up, saw the tape, and my jaw fell open.
I emailed him when I found it as follows (he’s always out, email is easiest)
He came home around 6. I heard him enter through the back, which is where he enters normally. About 10 minutes later he slammed out, got in his truck and peeled out in a way I’d never heard. Obviously angry.
I checked my email abotu 4 hours later, and saw email from him that had arrived at 6:05:
Oh.
48 hours later I got this email:
I wrote a receipt and slipped it under the door with this note:
That was last Saturday. He hasn’t spoken a word or written anything since. I was out back in the garage doing laundry the other day when he came in the gate and he was inside his door almost instantly. He’s also apparently moved his girlfriend in, but he’s given notice, so…
And that’s the status. Every time I start to pick at the tape I am reminded that it isn’t coming off easily. I stop, set it aside, and do something else.
And that’s the latest.
I am consistently surprised that people can become adults (he’s 30) and fail to learn that copping to one’s errors is a far less unpleasant than not doing so. If he’d come home the day it happened, brought it to me, explained and said he was sorry… it would have been nothing. People screw up - take responsibility.
Instead, he’s busy avoiding me, he’s ashamed of himself for fucking it up, for not telling me, for being shitty to me when I busted him on it… how ridiculous.
Sigh…
So, he’s letting you take the cost of a new ibook., or screen/replacement?
Does his friend have access to mounting tape? That would be my first interviewing question…
Either way, with the immediate situation of himself and girl looking like they’re departing soon, and action on the ibook, it’s looking up.
The best explanation for the problem has come to light now. A roommate problem is the root cause of so many nasty problems.