don't do the TINT DANCE

today at my shop i saw something done that i havent seen in like 4 years. my partner told our cleaner to peal and bring in a suburban quarter glass piece in to him. he peeled it, sprayed it, peeled it off the board and then he proceeded to spin around two and a half times to get the right entry angle into the car. we call that the tint dance. hope you guys know what im talking about. luckily the window still came out clean.

Ive never done that I just go right in.

Swan why do you set yourself up like that. Im not even gonna comment so TD' doesnt think my minds in the gutter

The only "tint dance" I've ever done is if I've lost my grip on a piece during transfer from wall to window and I flail about to retrieve it without creasing it

Ive done the dance. (head hung in shame)

yes yes, i go right in as well


i know what this dude is talking about....

that or slip on the rocker panel or door jam when steppin in and bust a shin
now thats when the dance starts

imagine a guy holding the tint to a chevy truck backglass spinning around looking like he doesnt know why hes doin it.

did you ever figure out what he was on

how about a trailer hitch

Ah man ! ..I've hit few of those..my knee lines up right up with some of them where it hooks right under my knee cap and jams it so hard and high up into the testicles !...Fukkin' kills for a week!

forgot about those shinbusters for sure

Or trying to slip into a 2 door car with the entire back glass only to fall face first into the film into the back seat.


Nope, never done that

oh chiat that would suck

Thought I read somewhere they were tinted? No (thermal) shock protection in the tint, eh?

I hit a trailer hitch just yesterday. Even thought to myself I ought to charge more if a truck has one of those from now on.


On those quarters accessible only from the back end with no hands free, I usually sit backwards first and then walk in on each butt cheek individually till I get where I'm goin'. Might look like a dance.

he missed that shot I took at him last night while he was at the tawdy house

how about slippin' on a wet release liner. wwwoooo hoooooo.

that would be tint break dancin' or sumpin like that.

Oh jeez! have done all of the above several times!! Face-plant into a backglass piece after getting hung up on a seatbelt is my fav!!! I h@te TRAILER HITCHES!!!!!

I have to agree with TW. I worked so hard at improving my quality and reducing dirt, and in my shop, the only way to do that is reverse-rolling (when you have a mechanic with an acetelene torch behind you).

And trying to catch everything I drop has been a nasty habit of mine in the past... like catching your blade when you drop it... that sucks. I have caught many dropped blades and knives, and have been lucky... most of the time.

I got caught on a trailer hich once holding a piece
and started to fall, trying to save the film
I wound up upside-down, hanging by my twisted belt loop
the stereo guys had to help me get off the hitch

and the film .... sticky side down in the dirt

did you hose it off and put it on any way

on days when we're slow we put down a door glass liner and see who can slide the farthest down the shop. or who can make it out of the bay door. suprisingly it works better when the floor and the liner are dry. wet spots hang you up.

we've all tried to savem havnt we

Thats the only tint dance I have ever done

is that similar to the thizzle dance?

I can see that.
Devil