Wonder if a dilute vinegar/water mix would work well?
They strongly recommend not to use vinegar or ammonia.
Apparently some companies recommend not using alcohol, even 90+%.
For something like a television or monitor screen (or polished painted surface), you gotta be real careful about any debris on the rag. Even a seemingly invisible crumb or speck can leave swirl and wipe marks you might not see till later when they become blindingly obvious. It’s not as big a deal with glass which is easier to clean and harder to scratch.
I’ve worked at places that have a rag service pick up and launder dirty rags and deliver washed ones. As I understand it, these used rags come in different types and standards of ‘clean.’ Certainly, I’ve reached into the clean rag bag and found them all lightly oily, totally unsuitable for glass or …anything you wouldn’t want cutting oil smeared all over. And smelling like machine tools.
I remember one disaster where a device keypad and display got wiped and a metal shaving hidden in the cloth was dragged back and forth across that most conspicuous surface and left ugly scratches.
They have. This is what I use. Works very well.
For screen-cleaning purposed, is “deonized” water the same as distilled water? I’m thinking no which is why I didn’t get any deonized. It seems its general use is for cars and it still has minerals in it. So probably better than tap water but not distilled. I’m sure I’ve seen the latter in supermarkets just haven’t found any round here.
I think deionized water would be fine, and in fact is even better than distilled water as far as mineral content. Deionized water has (almost) all minerals removed. Distilled water is very pure but may still have some minerals. For example, this says that distilled water conducts electricity (and thus contains mineral ions) while deionized water does not. This agrees that deionized is “purer” than distilled.
Cool. Will try next time. Back then I bought some of those tissue-cylinder screen cleaners which work fine till they dry out.
Interesting ingredients:
Phenoxyethanol
Iodopropynyl butylcarbamate
No mention of Dihydrogen Monoxide of any kind.
I reckon the woman in the Pharmacy I asked for distilled water (nope) and then if she knew the difference between that and deonized would have reckoned I was shopping around for pre-cursors to something if I inquired on the top two.
I used to make my own certain-thing where the precursors were NaOH (Sodium Hydroxide) and to steer clear of modding (assuming I have thus far) the other ingredient could accuratetely be described as hopefully medical-grade floor cleaner!
I’ve used DeoxIT screen cleaner, when I remember where I stored it. Seems to work well. Probably bought at MicroCenter years ago. It’s available on Amazon of course.