 Hello, I'm Steve and welcome to today's retro tech episode. I want to thank anybody who's been subscribed to the channel for a while and Comments, I've really appreciated a lot of feedback and I'd really love any kind of feedback Anybody want to add to this video would be great. I do try to answer every single comment I get Today I'm back with a part 2 where I'll be cleaning the outside of this PVM This is the Sony PVM 1954 Q it is the NASA monitor where we clean the inside previously and Today I'm going to be cleaning the outside of the monitor. We're going to clean this bezel We're going to get a lot of these stickers off. I'm going to leave this tag here, but I don't want these little stickers So we're going to get rid of them We're going to clean the screen the button area and then we'll clean the shell separately afterwards So first I'd like to show you some of the things we're going to be using today and some of my tips on how I clean pvms first off One of the items that you use is this is just a generic bottle, but Windex Specifically, this is just a commercial line original Windex, but Windex does not really damage anything So it's not going to harm anything You can clean your screen with it because it is glass, but just so you know, you don't want to spray it directly on the screen I'll show you how I'll do it with my pvm Now if you have a BVM or some other high-end with a mask on it You don't want to use this then you can't get a specific screen cleaner But for my uses I've always used just a high-end Windex and I spray it on the towel and then wipe the screen clean So I'll show you that Some of the other things that you can use to clean one of the water, but also isopropyl alcohol I'll use that to clean off a lot of the residue from stickers and it also helps off getting any marker Any kind of residue from markers or sharpies You can get really a lot of that cleaned off by just rubbing it a lot with rubbing alcohol even on the metal So that'll be something we use today now. Sometimes you might run into something where we need Maybe some WD-40 on some of the metal or something. That's not really going to damage anything So WD-40 sparingly can be useful for cleaning some hard to clean areas And then one other thing you're going to want to have is plenty of compressed air I use an air compressor, but this is if you don't have an air compressor you can buy packs of these And they should help Let's talk about some other things cleaners that first off goof off. I Highly recommend it not using goof off on your PVM or really any kind of electronic stuff with metal or Plastic because it tends to just eat away at the outer layer It gets discolors everything and it can even start eating away at the plastic Something that chemically happens with goof off and plastics that it's very very not it's and it's almost Irreversible the damage it will do so don't use goof off You can use goon if you need to get off some kind of residue. That's really tough I always say alcohol first, but then if you can't go gone is safe and So some of the tools that you might need. I mean I'm going to use mostly paper towels but for some of this These stickers I might need to scrape off some of that Sticker and just get a Plastic putty knife. That's what this is. So you won't do any damage It's got it's got an edge to it so you can kind of just push Long on some of these if you need to get some of that you could put some of your Cleaner there let it soak in and then scrape it off might have to do that a little bit on these two stickers We're going to be getting off here so also For dusting I like to use swiffer dusters You can just swiffer dust to give it a lot of the dust in the areas to begin with it does a good job Capturing all that along with the compressed air and then some to this paint brush You can do a good job can end those corners and it doesn't do any damage nice soft bristles Also, there's these vent holes on the side that you can brush a lot of dust out to using it that way and then When I start to clean I always leave the shell together to first clean the bezel That way none of the cleaning agent will end up back on the inside of the PVM where we don't really want it This is our last item to use for cleaning that is just some distilled water There's no this has been basically ultra filtered So there's no hormones or chemicals nothing just straight water and that's what I used to finish off cleaning the outside of the PVM, so let's go ahead and take a closer look at the front. We'll start cleaning and You can watch us as we go remove these stickers in the residue and get this PVM looking very great Back to the front of the PVM And I'm going to start with this corner down here. This is just that thing I've already pulled a little bit off of my Scratchy with my finger and I'm just going to rip that off so you can see that came off pretty easy and then We'll clean this area. So let's move up a little bit. We'll try to get this other sticker off also Just one in the top corner. It's just playback monitor Try to get it off too. It might not come off as easy We'll try so you just It's good to have a little bit of fingernail to do this this helps get under these stickers and You don't damage I try not to use tools unless I really have to because I don't want to accidentally scratch even put a little scratch in My case at all my bezel so there we go stickers are gone now and the first thing I'll do then is rub the areas with some of this isopropyl alcohol And I'm just going to dab it straight onto my paper towels just dabbed it on there right there and just I'm going to use it like a wipe and Just clean up that area where that sticker was Gonna go over it a lot Just go over the whole front One motion and you can see just how much you know build up there was of dirt There's a wipe it off quickly. Don't let alcohol even sit on there too long So you can see even after the first run There's still a lot of dirt on there So sometimes then I'll just even take the same towel and start spraying some windex right on it See and that can help too You know just go over the other areas It's always good to start at the top of the monitor and work your way down Also, most people probably do that but you'd be surprised if you get going you think you're going to clean at the bottom But you have to reclaim the bottom after you've cleaned the top. It's always good to work your way from the top down When you're cleaning So yeah, I'm just going to rub it some more Don't really want to lose my sticker on the top side here So I'm not going to use alcohol on the top and I'll show you I'm talking about this top sticker I don't want to lose it. So I'm not going to Put alcohol on the top of the bezel just going to use basically what I just did was just used the windex So if you feel it and it feels really really clean and smooth Then you're good to go, especially if you can't see anything See sometimes you won't be able to see it with the naked eye right away if you still have some sticker residue And I've actually got a little bit still left up here Then I couldn't see with my eye, but if I rub it I can feel the residue with my finger so Again, just take your time Rub it with a little bit of alcohol. There you go. The residue comes away pretty easily with alcohol so flip it over the other side right ahead the Windex on there give it a good wipe And I'll come back after I've done all that and probably clean it a couple more times with Windex As well as rub it down with that the still water So let's just move down here To this other spot You can see there's a little bit of build up around there. Let's go ahead and clean that spot up and while I'm doing this if If you're watching this right now, you've been watching my videos for a while. I just want to say thanks for being supportive and Subscribing to the channel My goal is to try to have everybody, you know kind of learn their ways around some of this old tech and also talk about things that I feel are enjoyable to me and and probably to other people that There's not a lot of not a lot of coverage of anymore So first off I want to say thanks to Charlie Kat Anthony One of the best subscribers I've had he's definitely Always commenting and and giving me good ideas and good feedback And I just wanted to give him a subscriber shout out for this. So Anthony you're the man But When you're cleaning This I just keep using that alcohol You don't need to use a lot of different towels paper towels work good and one Worked pretty good. So let's see here I can still see a little bit of color change. So I feel like it needs a little bit more And I don't need color change. I just well, that's where the sticker's been for so many years And it was a white sticker So there might be A change in color due to UV exposure a little bit that Would need Some retro brighting possibly but that's not something I'm going to be doing to this because you have to take the whole thing apart to do that Okay, so that's definitely gotten all the residue. I'm going to finish up by cleaning the bezel outside with alcohol and then windex And then I'll come back And we'll take a look at just cleaning the screen real quickly Again around the top areas I'm cleaned with the alcohol and the other mix of windex Then I'll go over and rub it with some water when I'm done, but very smooth Very clean. It's good time to hit it A little compressed air up there And let's go ahead and talk about how I clean my screens I will take these softer paper towels High-end paper towels bounty or something in and then like I say I always just spray My windex directly onto the paper towel And that is to prevent If I sprayed my windex directly on the screen It would go in between the bezel and the screen glass And then it would just go all the way and I just don't want to think about that going inside The pvm And making a mistake like having some kind of electronics malfunction on my buttons or something due to Some kind of Windex getting down there. So I usually work my way again from the corners out And Just motion like that And that's most of the time how I clean the screens if you get some build up on there A lot of times people will immediately think there's a scratch on a screen And there's tape Residue glue and tape people will put tape on the front of these tape Some kind of note on the front of them a lot of times I've seen that when I salvaged them And it leaves a nice looking You know streak like it's got a scratch on it only to find out it's just been some kind of tape That was left on it and I'm not putting a huge amount of pressure on here when I'm doing this right here I'm just going back over this with a fresh paper towel to softly wipe off all that Anything that was left over And this screen is beautiful, but again if you need to work on it hardcore you can use I've used dugon and alcohol and windex to scrub Residue off the screen this particular monitor when I first got it had a spot like that from tape And I think for the longest time thought it wasn't Uh, I thought it was a scratch because it looked like a scratch I cleaned it a lot with windex a little bit and I just wasn't really getting into it until one day I put some Alcohol or dugon on it and and worked it a little bit more and realized it's just started to come free It took a while to work it but it did come free and Even if you need to put pressure You can say grab your putty scraper And fold a nice thick piece of paper towel in there And put your cleaner on that edge And then just basically work That you can put extra pressure and and get a good point of contact of pressure to get that Glue or adhesive off that's they could go for any spot But it works well on the screen because you're not going to damage it And that even works well to get in your corners to help you get a nice clean edge so let's uh That's looking at the screen Let's go down here and focus on the buttons Are the buttons It really depends on the condition of the buttons. These ones aren't bad. I'll clean these the same way. They don't need to be overly cleaned so Uh, again, I don't like to just spray Spray the cleaner on You do want to be careful when you're going over your speaker here. That can be A little tricky you can get some Dirt caught in there if you're not careful, so be careful when you go over your speaker But uh, I'm not a big fan of spraying the stuff all over the pvm Uh, when you're not taking the whole thing apart to clean it Now when we clean the back it'll be separated from the shell And it will get a good cleaning and spraying off And we'll go through that some more But that's just how I get in between the buttons with the alcohol a little bit on there wipe Get around your pull rack books and then some One last step here. I will take my water and stab it On my towel a new towel And just rub that over that And then dry it off I'm just going to do that on some of these spots where I don't want any kind of chemical stain on there especially the outsides That's pretty much all you need But you don't want to do it on the inside here of the bezel I don't want to hit the screen with it because I don't want it to mess up and streak my clean glass We'll go over everything else nicely Make sure to get any kind of cleaning agent off there So it doesn't stay on there and accidentally change of color on something I don't want it to Still get a little bit of dirt too off so Well, that's about the time limit for this video So we're going to try to come back on a third video and clean just the Out outward shell really well I'll show you how I disassemble it And then we'll do the same kind of alcohol rub and we'll actually hose this one off that side let it air dry And I'll come back and reassemble it and reassemble it back too So we'll do that and a future video if you liked what you saw Please give it a thumbs up and let me know what you think on the comments again If you haven't subscribed yet, please go ahead and do so. 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