how can i clean the meters front panel inside

[Phil.c]

It can be done but it won't be easy to get that deep into the console.

But is it worth it, there's no end of trouble it could cause if your not very carefull.

Phil

[bastafuerte]

here is a picture of the problem.

[anyhorizon]

That looks like damage to me. The isopropyl alcohol has eaten away at the perspex. Either that or you haven't peeled away the protective plastic membrane that is placed over the display lens prior to delivery.

Peter

[FrankH]

The isopropyl alcohol has eaten away at the perspex.

Hard to say from the photo....but as you described the adhesive layer as masked screen pass (no glue) only where displays/meters show through...it looks like the alcohol interacted with the glue in that area of the photo.

Either that or you haven't peeled away the protective plastic membrane that is placed over the display lens prior to delivery.

Now that's genuinely funny.

Even if bastafuerte removed the lens without incident (no chipping, cracks or silkscreen paint damage), the glue residue presents a nightmare to remove without compromising the silkscreened paint next to and under it.

My advice? Leave it alone and chalk it up as a nasty lesson learned.

[Crash]

If it doesn't mess wth your productions and getting good stuff out of the studio, then what Frank said.

[anyhorizon]

Now that's genuinely funny.

I was serious. Mine had a plastic protective layer over it to stop it from being scratched during shipping, just like an iPhone or whatever. The photo looks awfully like it hasn't been removed and the IPA has reacted with it. Just a simple matter of peeling it off. I can't possibly imagine how that much gunk could get behind the perspex lens.

Peter

[FrankH]

I was serious.

Yes, gathered that. I thought it was funny because if it turns out to be the case, it will be the easiest fix imaginable. If this is, indeed the solution, I will again post: "Now that's genuinely funny".

I can't possibly imagine how that much gunk could get behind the perspex lens.

Considering the age of the glue, it has probably shrunk and hardened enough to permit a liquid like alcohol, easy access behind the acrylic.

[Crash]

Mine had a plastic protective layer over it to stop it from being scratched during shipping, just like an iPhone or whatever.

Peter

I wonder when the supplier started making them that way? I don't remember the protective film during my tenure at the mother ship.... Then again, my memory of events is fuzzier with every passing day.

[Phil.c]

They had been in production about three years before I bought mine new, there was no protective film then

Phil

[anyhorizon]

They had been in production about three years before I bought mine new, there was no protective film then

Phil

Well, there was on mine.

Peter