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All right, now that he's actually placed a large sheet of film on the back of the glass, he's going to roughly cut out around the edges. Now the reason he's doing this, as I learned, is the inside of the glass is going to mimic the outside of the glass. And as most of you would imagine, that window tint and the film, when he's all done, is not going to go on the outside of the glass. It's actually going to go, of course, on the inside to protect it from the weather and things of that nature.

But for him to physically get inside the car and cut it would just be too crazy. And it would start to come down on him, obviously, because it's on the inside. So what window tinters do is they measure the outside of the glass to, again, mimic the inside. Afterwards here, he very quickly sorts of lays out the film. Now it's not perfect in terms of he's flattening the whole thing out, but, if you think about it, what he's really doing, it's sort of like wrapping a piece of paper around a basketball.

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He didn't want it to stick. So now, what he's doing is actually stretching everything out after he used the heat gun. So he wants to make sure that the sides are going to be perfect along the edges. So he's straightening it out. And as you straighten out and flatten it out, it's actually going to lengthen a bit. So we'll have to cut that around.

Now, this last little part here, in terms of measuring, if you will, is he's using his razor blade to cut around my break line. Now when we got inside-- that's actually me inside the car holding the light-- we tried to get inside because I wanted to pull the light down. And I wanted the tint to go flush. I didn't like the idea of cutting it out. But as we tried to pull it down, part of the light fixture around the edge there, to the right of the red actual light, was stuck to the glass.


So we had to cut around it. Now, going back to the last part, what he's doing here is as he stretched it out, you could imagine that the tint actually got a little bit longer, meaning there wasn't any air pockets, and that sort of thing. So it got closer to the edges. So he's using his razor blade right along the edge to cut around. Now, the interesting part is that if he miscuts just a little bit, light is going to pass through. And he'd have to start all over again.

Now, this board is also very common in-- and he has a portable one on the left hand side there. And what he does is he kind of picks out anything, any little dust or lint, or what have you, puts it on this board, so he can see. And then he's going to trim the edges because when it was on the glass, you have black glass.

You have black trim looking into black carpet. So it's very hard to for the eye to catch it. So when he puts it against this wood board, you can see the little pieces that he's actually shaving off to have it perfectly fit into the glass.

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