How To Cut Your Nano and Micro SIM

I just got paid and i decided to get a Smartphone at the the nearest SLOT center in Abia state, which is close to where I'm schooling. After pricing stipulated phones in their slots, i still had to pay for the actual price offer. Maybe because my bargains fell on deaf ears or i wasn't agile enough, so my rants seemed as if i was begging rather than speaking authoritatively.

After the long walk, i had manage to get my eyed device for a fair price compared to what my mates had bought earlier. Now after test running the device to see if they where any manufacturer faults, i needed to get my Micro SIM smaller so it would fit into my phone and I'd start my surfing journey. The test guy then told me that it would cost ₦200 for both SIMs, i was stunned, so i used my magical speech deliverer and he ended up cutting both SIMs without a penny. 

Yes, i had manage to sway this test guy into cutting my SIM for free, what If someone else wanted to pay me to cut a SIM or i needed to cut my SIM and there was no SIM cutter available, what would i do? I told myself, so i came up with a plan.

Here's How To Cut Micro and Nano SIM

If you take a good look at a standard SIM, you'd see that the chip or contact area doesn't cover much space and that makes SIM very customizable. From micro to nano, then maybe Biro. The conventional SIM takes up alot of plastic so you could come up with biro SIM someday, maybe smaller than nano. 

1. SIM Cutter

This is the most convenient and trusted way to get a SIM cut, well marred like a cool hair cut. They are lots of SIM cutter variants (Nano and Micro cutter) out there in the market, it's left for you to get one.

• How to used a SIM cutter

Kindly place the SIM in the slot, press down the handle of the cutter and woah! Your SIM cut is ready. An advantage of using an engineered cutter is that the left over plastic can be used as an Adapter.

2. Craft Knife

The kitchen knife is not only for dicing onions or slicing carrots. It's a hack tool for your SIM solution.

You are going to be using a craft knife and not a kitchen knife. My first paragraph is to ensure you're reading this post vehemently without skipping any word. You can also use your K Knife if there are no C knife's available, but please be careful in cutting so you won't damage the chip area.

• How to Carve Out SIM using Craft Knife

You'll need a sample SIM in order for you to cut out your preferred SIM. You can borrow from a friend or college or rather download and printout SIM templates online and use it for cutting.

3. Scissors

This is probably the quickest and safest tool after the SIM cutter. Get a sample SIM, place it on it the standard SIM, then trace it with the scissors cutting through the plastic and you're done with the SIM cut.

If you're not too sure about the area, you can stencil before cutting through with scissors.

Disclaimer: 

Performing this DIY could be nerve bombing and disastrous (I'm joking about disastrous). Perform all tips at your own risks.
Images where wholly sourced from Google for illustrations.

Note: 

You can make a couple of bucks from these tips.

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