Plastic spacer to cut around borders
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hi,
i don't know if this was already posted, but for the sake of sharing, here it goes:
when cutting around the bg or wshield after shrinking, i use a small plastic thing that will glide easily on the glass surface to cut around the border. this does not only help in preventing scratches, but it also helps in seeing how close you are to the border. believe me, you won't need a light inside the car just to see the border. i did this on a 3m bc20. you just got to have a well lit environment. as for the material used for the plastic thing, i nicked an empty olfa blade casing to approximately not more than 5mm square.
after the film has shrunk to your desire, place this plastic spacer between the film and the bg/wshield just off the edge of the black frit. with a freshly cut olfa, push it in the film and let the point rest on the spacer. tilt your olfa on a low angle and glide around.
its hard to take a picture of this, but i'll show a simple diagram. the olfa is the blade on top, gray is the film, green is the spacer, and glass is the lowest layer.
i don't know if this was already posted, but for the sake of sharing, here it goes:
when cutting around the bg or wshield after shrinking, i use a small plastic thing that will glide easily on the glass surface to cut around the border. this does not only help in preventing scratches, but it also helps in seeing how close you are to the border. believe me, you won't need a light inside the car just to see the border. i did this on a 3m bc20. you just got to have a well lit environment. as for the material used for the plastic thing, i nicked an empty olfa blade casing to approximately not more than 5mm square.
after the film has shrunk to your desire, place this plastic spacer between the film and the bg/wshield just off the edge of the black frit. with a freshly cut olfa, push it in the film and let the point rest on the spacer. tilt your olfa on a low angle and glide around.
its hard to take a picture of this, but i'll show a simple diagram. the olfa is the blade on top, gray is the film, green is the spacer, and glass is the lowest layer.
#2 By "Murray"
Removing acid rain
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You can use steel wool and car wax to remove acid rain spots. It is actually the hard way to do it compared to using acid or whink, but it is alot safer than getting the acid on your skin or breathing it. It is also better for windows that have windshield wiper marks etched in the glass, the acid will make it worse. It does take alot of rubbing! You have to do a small area at a time, but it turns out good. It probably wont work on all acid rain but it should work on most. Alot of times you tint a car and you are proud of the way it turns out but all you see is acid rain spots, so this is just one option of removing them.
