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Hey everyone, I was looking for a service that would replace just the glass on a 2019 iMac 27 inch. The glass on mine is broken but the LCD is fine. I could not find a service that does this. So, as Thanos says “I’ll do it myself.” I have the glass removed and the LCD works fine but it is covered in tons of the laminating adhesive. Its a gooey paste like stuff. Its sticky but flows, it does not peel up. So I am looking for a good safe adhesive remover for such a project. Alcohol does not work. It just smears and smears, it does not remove this stuff. Thanks!! Joe
Hello from down under. I unfortunately must say that one of your (Very limited) options is to use an ifixit spudger and slowly remove the adhesive. I’m glad to hear that your LCD is fine so if you get a glass panel for the display it should be good to go. BUT don’t make the same Mistake LTT did a while back where they 1: Broke the screen (Glass) 2: Shorted something out All the best and good luck getting this repair done
While I fully understand the desire to salvage the display Apple doesn’t make it easy ;-{ The cover glass is not just a plan sheet of glass it is masked off with a painted on bezel rim to hide the light leakage from the displays backlight. So while it maybe possible to cut the glass to the correct shape to fit smoothly around the edge getting the proper baked on enamel paint at the correct thickness will be tricky! In the end we found it just too much work to hobble things back together at least we had a bad display to steal the cover glass. And as you discovered the foam seal Apple uses makes a mess when you try cleaning it off. We never was able to clean it without leaving streaks and if you press to hard you also leave artifacts in the displays image.
