Spider in my Plasma's Screen!!!

Try calling another "Best Buy" for a recommendation. I know a woman who took a microwave in for warranty repair and the asshole said it was looking too "used" to do so. HELLO - she didn't buy it to keep in the box! I told her that was bull shit - to go to another store which she did - and got "PROMPT" service.

QuibbsO, you have my luck, bad or none at all. I can't answer your question about the front and secondary glass clearance, but is the spider moving around? You probably don't want to hear this, but leave the set off for a day or so. The spider may interpret the light as a dinner bell (they tend to build webs around a light source). Personally, I would try what Spamfree suggested, and if this doesn't prove helpful, I would carefully take the front screens apart, and get rid of that bastard myself. Iv'e done this on my Hitachi 50" with no problem (son sprayed windex on front screen and it leached up from the bottom between both screens, leaving a big ugly dark spot across bottom). This ended up being the easiest thing to do when all was said and done. Good luck.

I would cross post to an entomology group to find what would attract or scare a spider out from a cosey niche. Borrow a stick insect, to scare him out ?

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With all those Plasmatrons loose in the back of the TV, that spider might mutate into something out of a 60's Godzilla movie... ;)

Bob

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Call for service and say that the picture is fuzzy when the serviceman arrives point to the area.

Thanks everyone for your suggestions...I actually thought leaving it on was the best idea beause it would fry him out of there eventually. Hopefully I was right. At one point I thought he had disappeared but then he reappeared in the opposite corner (hopfully not creating a web). But then again he disappeared lastnight and was not there this morning...

I was really flipping out about this yesterday and I couldn't even watch tv because it bothered me so much. So light makes them want to make webs you say? I hadn't even thought of that. I guess my hope was that the tv would get so hot that he would fry and fall to the bottom out of view. I may just have to go home at lunch to see if he's there.

Obsessing about this? Yes I am.

He must have got in there via some gap so can you find that and attach a tube there to a vacuum supply (vaccuum cleaner) and maybe the airflow might make him want to go that way and into the "vacuum".

I recently repaired a CD where the problem was where some bug had got into the optics area and made a cocoon.

-- Diverse Devices, Southampton, England electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on

The frequency of the plasma screen is a sexual attraction to the spider. I would just find a cute little mate for him and he will go after the snatch.