Double Installing

By: Exact-Oh
Apr 29 2006, 01:59 PM

First we talked about double cutting, then came double shrinking, now I want to introduce double installing.

I save myself so much energy, crawling into the back of two-door cars, installing the quarter windows in one shot. With reverse-rolling, I just prep both quarters simultaneously, crawl out of the car and reverse roll both pieces, crawl back in and install both. I have to hold one in my mouth while I crawl in and install the first, but I just do a quick squeegee on the first, then do the second, and then hard-card both pieces, and done.

I have always been concerned with contamination. Even when I started reverse-rolling all installs, I didn't start pre-peeling them until a few months ago. It has worked well, without contam.

I also did this on a large flat glass job last fall. I would pre-peel a piece right after cutting it, roll it, lay it aside, prep the window, then do the install.

I don't taste the slip solution... or I never noticed at least. I do squeegee out the extra during the peeling/rolling manuever.

The only things I DON'T double cut/shrink are cars earlier than 1990. I learned real quick that back then, quality control/tolerances on window size wasn't quite what it is now, and double cutting easily leads to scrap.

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