yep , that works.
I had been trying the instance method remove_appender and was getting the error message...

C:\home\erickn>test.pl
No such appender: Screen1 at  :/Perl/site/lib/Log/Log4perl/Logger.pm l
+ine 604.
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Which lead me into the internals.
The class method eradicate_appender seems to work perfect.
I'm going to have to revisit the pod to see if I can figure out the difference between the two.