Heat Shrinking

[Mdog]

All I remember was a friend of mine went to arizona for a year or so and came back and told me, man you gotta see what I learned and he showed the technique to me, that was in like 92-93 time frame.

[Guest haroldshouseoftint]

Depends on who you ask, I know a couple people out here one from south of Tucson area that was ahrinkin little stuff jeep back glass and stuff late 80's, I also know a guy here in Phoenix who is about mabye 60 now who claims to be the first tinter in AZ but the technique has been around that I know of since late 80's, don't have a clue who was first

[TINT]

you guys ever heard of The Preferred Image

thats where it all began and filing process too, our company sold the procedure/techniques to film manufacturers to create more tint shops and such.

[tintnfool]

Question....so window film back in the day would react to heat (shrink) and no one even knew about it and it wasn't manufactured to do so but it was just one of those hidden perks?

[lorenzotint]

The first time I heat shrinked some store bought Madico Good Lookin back in 81 I blew a hole through it. It reacted in smoke.

[Guest willie]

Depends on who you ask, I know a couple people out here one from south of Tucson area that was ahrinkin little stuff jeep back glass and stuff late 80's, I also know a guy here in Phoenix who is about mabye 60 now who claims to be the first tinter in AZ but the technique has been around that I know of since late 80's, don't have a clue who was first

Thats probably close to my best recollection also as far as years go.

Wet shrinking was introduced to me in the late 80's, I cant recall the dry shrinking

[Guest darkdan]

Question....so window film back in the day would react to heat (shrink) and no one even knew about it and it wasn't manufactured to do so but it was just one of those hidden perks?

Polyester is a thermoplastic.

That ability is what makes a thermoplastic a thermoplastic.

[Protint]

My brother in-laws were doing it in the early ninetys up in Northern CA with TINT's dad. I heard about it in 92 from my father in-law who owned at the time Ace Window Products in San Pedro, CA. He had a guy named Ferman (spelling?) that was wet shrinking at that time.

When my father in-law explained it to me over the phone I had it all wrong. I played around with it until late 92 until I made a trip to CA and watched Ferman do it in person. Once you see it in person it makes makes the learning curve alot less curvey.

[Mdog]

I didnt hear about dry shrinking till 96...baby powder.

[Protint]

For me dry shrinking didn't come till late 96 early 97. I bought a video from MSC and learned that way. They showed both powder and sheets.