What's do you use to clean a CRT TV screen?...

[dave4shmups]

I have 100% cotton rags, so that's no a problem, but I'm wondering what to use as far as liquids go. I've read that water is OK to use, but I'm skeptical. I don't think something like Windex would be OK, so I'm confused at this point.

[NWrain]

I use microfiber cloths. They work quite well without any cleaner.

[Fudoh]

I used bottled water. Water from the tap is harder and tends to leave stripes.

[rolins]

I use a swiffer cloth to remove all the dust, and usually that's enough. Sometimes I'll wipe the screen with a little water + newspaper.

[drunkninja24]

I've always used a little spray of windex with a cloth on mine Is that harmful?

[Ed Oscuro]

Depends on the presence of a coating. Windex is a super bad idea for an LCD, but on most glass and regular plastic surfaces it'll be fine. I wouldn't use Windex myself.

Probably products designed for lens cleaning will be fine too, although I laugh to think of somebody running a Lens Pen across a CRT.

For LCD screens Scott's "liquid gold Clean Screen" seems okay. A bit expensive though. Don't know how it would work on CRTs.

[dave4shmups]

I used bottled water. Water from the tap is harder and tends to leave stripes.

OK, I'll try that. I was skeptical about using just tap water.

[system11]

Damp microfibre cloth, or any standard window cleaner will be fine on CRTs, they don't have an outer coating. Don't use anything that will run off, so if using a cleaner just spray mist it.

[shmuppyLove]

A dry Swiffer or microfibre cloth I find works best to get dust off.

Microfibre cloths are great because you can use them dry and then wash them when they get dirty.

[Ed Oscuro]

Damp microfibre cloth, or any standard window cleaner will be fine on CRTs, they don't have an outer coating.

Except some CRTs do have a coating that can be ruined, as seen in the link I gave. Although it looks like Windex isn't universally bad for plastic screens...personally I wouldn't chance it, there's cheap ways to clean screens for the one time per decade I might consider it (I don't touch my screens so I don't have to clean them often).

[system11]

Oh yeah, totally forgot about the antiglare ones. Peels in strips when it starts to go.

Well if you're using it for arcade stuff, clean that coating off anyway

[mookie3three]

microfibre cloth, and the spray stuff for cleaning Glasses.

[hakujin]

Cheap paper coffee filters work pretty well in the absence of microfiber cloth. No lint.