The Ryk Shrink

Well all, here is my video. Not a great quality, but it should show what I am doing. Heat and air under the film to hold it up and warm the underside. Then heat on the top to get the shrink. Check the time code and find that it is about 20 seconds per pocket and that makes for less than 2 minutes. Car is an 07 Nissan Altima. Not totally new but just a bit different. I have done 07ish Neon back glasses top and bottoms with the heat over and under. No pulling the top on them...

that is different. shrinking under and over at the same time. haven't done it. i'm a one heatgun kinda guy pretty cool though. pretty quick too.

just one of those weird thoughts that worked out. James, shwusyrtnts, was blown away. It worked on the Global HP as well....and was only a few seconds slower on each pocket.

keeps film off of the glass and the film doesn't cool off.

Kinda similar to how I do it, but I only use 1 gun

IMO, that's exactly the way you do it, but you don't heat up the paint on the car as much...

I thought he wet shrunk 90% of his back windows he did it wet in Marshall with the top of the finger sealed
Did you guys do another car while I was off with the ladies

I do, do most of em wet, but with the same style

I use to do it with one gun and blow under then work up and over. Let the pocket "close" off to hold the air, but this is even smoother than that and the heat is not on the paint long enough to matter. Look at the time. 20 seconds or less on each part.....and if you notice I lay my hand on the film immediately after the gun comes off. Not on it long enough to get it HOT....

Don't knock it until you try it...

cool

so you dont hit the top of the finger and seal it anymore
I had been playing around with this method while I was bored

Not knocking you at all dude... I liked it...

not knocking it, I was just saying similar style



ya, I still seal it

Ahhh fooey I'm going to bed, now I'm all confused.

Same here.

I will give it a shot tho. Who says you can't teach an old dog a new trick.

thats it willie is off to the drool chair to dream about the giant winning the supebowl

I like that. As mentioned, I too heat under the film when it starts to stick, but I never thought of doing it the whole time with another gun. And so the Ryk shrink was born

"There's the wrong way and the Ryk way"

The real question is this... Is the point spread bigger than the freaking gap in Strahan's front teeth???

What film you using?

pretty cool..i will have to give that a try...why dont you do the top part like you do the botton?

hot bubble shrink.........

holy shizzle i like that technique with constant heat on both sides i always blow heat under n curl the bottom but that was the shizzz props to lil details
tip of the week nomination

i will second it for tow its a good one

I believe he said it was Lulu ATR.

cool .

tip of the week

i must say that is something that im gonna try tomorrow. ill let u know how it is with global qdp.

good 1.

TOTW anyway

I ahve heard of that technique before. Never actually seen it done. It makes sence once tyou see it. "blowing air under a finger then heating it down at the same time"

thanks for sharing that with us

Always good to learn new things, I will have to try it. I am curious too as to why you didnt use the same technique to do the top

Right on Ryker. What the H%ll Ill try it tomorrow.

That is really cool dood....
I'll have to try it out soon....
Thanks for sharing..

I do that on some tops, but if I can pull the film up off the glass I just do it that way most of the time. I did do an 07ish Neon top with that method.....

And it worked for me on the Global HP. The only difference was I had to back off at the bottom as the film started to curl up. James pointed out that the Llumar is rolled the opposite and that was probably why Global did that.

Cool Global has a different polyester the best I remember also

Nice. I'll give it a shot tomorrow.

One question: What polish are you using to get rid of the marks and scratches caused by the heat gun cords banging up against the car over and over?

watched the vid again and sorry but the cords are not BANGING or even moving much on the car. Car was very clean so there was not dirt to make it an issue. If I have to reach far then I will drape the cords over my shoulders.

Never had it be an issue.

I've used a double heat gun for many yrs now ..I posted a video here a few years back similar idea blowing heat under, then chase it down, hakes only a couple of minutes on most back windows .. the only difference is you blow the heat in at the same time as chasing it down with the guns separate , I have 2 guns permanently strapped together , blowing the heat under first with both guns , then chase it down . Like you say though, takes way too long with one gun , wit h2 and the right flow, takes no time at all . So in essence if I was doing the bottom fingers first , I shoot heat up into the fingers underneath as the guns move up to the center of the bg, then heat the outside as the guns drop down again..same thing exactly..you separate the guns, I keep them together .

I've said it MANY times..don't knock 2 guns at once till you try it . I've had people try it and no like it till they watch me use them and then really like it ..once you get used to it ..going back to one gun sucks ..ask any 2 gun user


Nice video

I'll adress this question..I always have a drop cloth drapped over the rear of all trunks :I just pin it on either side then shut the trunk, I did have cord marks the first time I used 2 guns, never again after taking the 10 seconds it taked to put a drop cloth over the trunk (good idea IMO anyways..that way you can set squeges and such on the trunk without worry + when you lean over , etc. That's me though..if it's not a problem , then no need to do it

It's a fact that whenever you show a video to share knowledge , more often then not you'll have to defend some parts of what members view (not singling wndotint out at all , but rather speaking from experience ,that's why I don't shoot video much anymore..if you do..be prepared to back up procedure ) That's why I pipe up to defend the 2 gun shrink whenever someone films it

Some of you guys way over analyze this business

In respects to this thread..what do you mean

Instant TOTW I also added a link to this where the other shrink methods are listed.

The dragging the cord

TOTW is

Chuck Norris approves

didn't understand this stament at first....................



but,

when your working on some hi end cars with some hi end customers, , you don't wanna drag cords on the paint, it's a good practice to get into, I had a lady with a white shelby mustang say I put scratches in her trunk lid when I tinted it I'm looking, and looking, and finally she gets her nose on the trunklid @ an angle and says do you see all these (towel swirls in the clear coat) she said it was from me wiping the trunklid off wasn't me, because I never wiped your car down.




I'm gonna Chuckie

cool technique bro..is it done as a wet lay or dry