Dry Shrinking vs. Wet Shrinking

[Guest Scottsfire]

Thanks TD for the link......very interesting.

I'm going to try that on my next job and see if I like it better than Bounce Sheets.

[TintJunkie]

Wow, I would have never guessed more people dry shrink. I dont know if I do both close to 50/50 or not, but I put wet shrink. I use wax when dry shrinking.

don't you also work at a nissan dealer though? Most of their hatchback windows are relatively easy aren't they?

I am a VENDOR for a nissan dealership. I dry shrink the Altimas b/c the def lines cause "bananas" when I wet shrink, but everything else is wet shrink. I do more dry shrinking at my shop. The only difficult back glass Nissan has is the Altima coupe, and after doing 100 or more, they are really easy to me. Its more difficult to squeeze my ass in the back than it is to shrink the back glass. The easiest is the 370Z hartop, and vice versa for the vert......what a nightmare to get to. Way more difficult than the 350Z's.

[Guest scottydosnntkno]

well I knew you tinted a ton of nissans

[TintJunkie]

well I knew you tinted a ton of nissans

Yeah, a bunch. I was there last week for 3 days and completed 32 vehicles. They still have another 30 or so not done. Sucks fg is been slow. Im tired of doing automotive.

[Guest Scottsfire]

Holy crap....you gotta be making bank though... I would love to be in your shoes. Atleast I think ha ha!

[TintJunkie]

I wish. Its a lot of vehicles that are discounted heavily from retail, which amounts to a lot of time, for little money compared to a simple 200-300sq ft flat glass job that takes half a day for the same profit. But, it keeps me busy for our slow weeks.

[VIP tint + glass]

mostly dry shrink

use alcohol soap mix

regular slip solution when shrinkin 1/4's and dodge ram back glass

[SWT]

and dodge ram back glass

HUH ?!?

[Guest Darknesswithin]

seriously? this can be found in MANY threads.... it is really a dead horse in a general sense.

Explain? Got a point, I'll delete thread.

Edit: (Lil Details) Ok just returned from 6 page search in this column and no one is actually asking question which gets used the MOST. Many threads on "how to" and the likes but think this is somewhat new content.

TD: If I'm wrong on this and have over looked something here in "search" and this is a worn out topic, then feel free to delete this. I'm not here water down the usefullness of this forum but to find answers to my curiosities.

if you were to read farther, soap is by far the most popular one. No mess, no contamination, and the film stays down when you squeegee/hand it down.

I dry shrink every single back glass out there, except for SUVs that have smaller flatter windows, since wet is faster in that case.

whatever

[TITAN500]

I dry shrink 98% of the time with spray wax

wet shrink with snap-gel