Dirt Digits

So are you going to spice these together or what? Yeah, I'll throw it Don't worry about it. Okay. So again, we're taking the hole right here, going to light at the bottom, make sure it's not hanging off. And also, we're going to look at the top here. I'm going to pinch the center of the plate right here, pull it to the tip. It's going to slide around a little bit with the windex underneath the adhesive. But once you've got it down, it's going to stay. Okay. So again, we provide you with one of these. Don't recommend putting it directly on the vinyl because it can scratch the vinyl. For the initial tack, we can go ahead and put the liner back over it. I'm going to go ahead and cup the squeegee. I'm going to start about center. Move all the way to the back, move all the way to the front, all the way over the hole. It doesn't matter w Go ahead and ideas and want to overlap where you started and finished. So I'm going to start right here. Push the liner down a little bit forward more so I'm not dealing with the cutouts in the paper. Flip it around. It started right around here. I'm going to come back a little bit further. Push all the way to the end. Actually, I'm going to pick it up just a little bit. I'm going to turn the hair dryer on and heat t It'll start to relax the vinyl. It can actually stretch it. It's a little bit of a staffer market plastic, so it fits a little bit different than OEM. I'm going to go ahead and draw the material out a little bit using the heat gun. It'll stretch it easily. I also want to make sure that t It's hanging just a little bit. Again, t Just get that tack down initially. You can see it's buckling right here. We're not going to worry about that right now. Okay, keep going. See the material starts to draw in. It's just the heat as it shrinks up. That's to be enough. Now, I'm going to start using t We sell these squeegees online. They're felt squeegee. They don't scratch the surface and they're firm, so it gives you plenty of pressure you can apply. I'm going to go ahead and lift it up a little bit. Stretch it, long stretch it. I'm going to squeeze it forward. So that it's a little bit closer to the plate here. T It's going to come down by itself. No problem. T We're going to tack the harder area first. I Maybe put a little more Windex down there so it doesn't stick so quickly. I pull up the vinyl. It makes an even line here versus having a huge bunch sticking here and there. We've got t It's about an inch wide on both sides. I'm going to take the squeegee and write up perpendicular from that line. As you go, it will gradually get wider and wider. I've got about 2-3 inches wide now. Want some more heat? Scoot it up a little more under the bench. You don't want to stop too long one spot. You don't want to get uneven temperature. It won't melt the grap On t I don't want to stretch the vinyl as it's going down. I do want to press semi-firm so it doesn't leave an air pocket. See the bubbles coming out? Whenever you start to get these V-channels, these peaks Sometimes you're going to have to swoop on it and turn. See how perpendicular to it. Don't worry about that yet. A little more heat. What I'm going to do is before t If it's too hot, you'll stretch it and make it too much material. I'm going to go ahead and just position it. Again, you've got all then use the squeegee, whether you're using the yellow one or the felt squeegee, and dab it. Don't pull on it. Just dab it. That'll make a nice flat spot. You can come in and do th And work out the rest of it. So you may need to add more heat to get that to conform. Put it back on. Okay, so for t Just press all the heat out. We'll come back to all these little areas that are starting to wick up a little bit after we get t Again, I'm pulling it up so that I get a nice even line across here. Kind of right up to my flat spot.