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so I'm on a TN t--'s prepaid plan and so what I have here is a go phone SIM card and yes you can use prepaid with iPhone yeah just have to set up the APN settings and I'll put a link in the description on how to do that now I don't want to use the sim that came with the the iPhone 5 I want to use my own SIM and use my own phone number and everything like that so I've got to cut this down and I'm gonna do it sort of the old-fashioned brutal way I might regret this I might not I think I can do it right so what you're going to need to do this is a razor blade yeah you know where this is going you're going to need a straight edge to get a nice even cut you're also going to need some sandpaper this is 180 grit you want to go with 180 or higher somewhere around 240 would be ideal because actually then this is going to be an interesting experiment I must say the nano-sim is less thick than the micro-sim so we're gonna have to shave off about a quarter of a millimeter it's it's possible that it will fit in there at the same width but who knows so let's start this okay so I don't cut my desk here I'm going to put a piece of paper underneath of the sim here and again this might not work okay this is a bit of an experiment but I did this before actually this used to be a regular sim and I cut it to a micro sim and it worked just fine and you know the theory here is that this is just this with less plastic so what I'm going to do is kind of size this up and determine how much plastic I need to cut off and it looks like I literally need to come right within that golden contact so I'm going to take my straightedge here and let's zoom in so you can see what I'm doing and you might even see me cut my finger off if you're lucky and I'm going to go right into the edge I definitely don't want to cut off the gold contacts and I'm going to hold this down pretty tough and now I'm going to score this I only want to score it I don't want to cut it all the way through because I'm going to and as you can see if you don't hold it down enough this might be a disaster if you don't hold it down enough it's going to move so you want to press real hard on that coming here kind of gently rub the blade against it a few times and don't stab yourself with the razor blade okay and success I got the right side nice and tightly cut around the plastic and now what I'm going to do is just go around the other edges I need to take some off the top and then it should fit I'm then I'm gonna have to sand it of course and I might need to round the edges just a little bit but again I'll be back after I do the top and we'll see what happens okay so after many minutes of finagling sanding and cutting I finally got my what once was a micro-sim into a nano-sim shape it's pretty much identical but now I need to shave off a tiny bit from the top of the card because it's not fitting into the iPhone 5 because like I mentioned the nano-sim you can see it is slightly slightly thinner so I'm just gonna take some sandpaper here and just give it a few kind of movements along the sandpaper and I'm going to keep doing it until it fits okay so I shaved off not that much actually you can see I kind of shaved off the word GoPhone and guess what it works it fits so that is how you cut a micro sim into an annus I mean you might be wondering what if you want to go back the other way well I've got here a nano-sim de micro sim adapter and it was actually pretty cheap it was about seven or eight bucks and you know it's a good thing to have on hand in case you change phones when you decide to go to a phone with a micro sim I'll put a link in the description on how to get this hope you enjoyed this video tutorial please give us a thumbs up if you like what you saw and thanks for watching that's it for now you