Help!

Help!

(Penny=A0S)
Jay wrote:
Thanks for your replies... yes, these zippers are reversibles. Darn it.
I was hoping there are separate stoppers that one can buy to clamp down
at the bottom of the separating zippers so as to prevent the sliders
from coming off. You'd think that there is such a thing?
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I wish, if someone invents it I'd be the first to sign up. I charge
$45 an hour as an outerwear specialist, but someone ought to be able to
remove and replace a top stitched zipper ( without inset storm flaps or
snaps throught the tape) in half an hour.
Penny
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Yeah, the storm flaps and assorted sandwich layers can be a deal
breaker. I've done a few of them which I ought to have charged $60.00
for replacing.
I'd suggest to Jay that he contact a couple of the major zip mfgs,
and pick their brains for a solution. YKK has an online presence, and an
800 phone #. I found them to be very helpful.
Cea

The guys that work at the Zipper Source Company are incredible:
http://www.zippersource.com/

I have no affiliation with them, but if I were in the market for any zipper
supplies or information, this is the place I'd call. They will make up ONE of
any kind of zipper for you, they say.

Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati

CW wrote:
Let me guess. Made in China.

I don't buy the made in china must be crap argument. It should be, "made in
china by a company with low standards" argument. I work with many
companies that manufacture in Asia, and poor quality is a result of poor
quality control, poor standards, and the company choosing to let things
slide. Some of the companies I work pull contracts when the manufacturer
doesn't meet their standards and specifications. Of course I'm talking
about manufacturers of high end product, with "lifetime" warranties, not
cheap junk that's sold at big box stores. A company that makes a $400
goretex coat is not going to be very happy when they have to replace a run
of them due to a manufacturing process failure, and they will do anything in
their power to prevent it as it costs them a lot of . Also, If
designer/company specifies cheap zippers, bad thread or sewing processes
that make for a flimsy fall-apart product, that may not be the fault of the
factory it's made in.

just my 2¢ as usual

Penny S

Teri in HN wrote:
inferior
double sided zippers and would like to know what is the simplest
way of going about fixing this without having to replace the
zippers??!

The problem is that the 'stopper' on the zipper is plastic and it's
not very good, allowing the bottom slider to come out 'relatively'
easily if you yank it. Is there an item to allow one to clip to
the end of the zipper to prevent the bottom slider from coming out
easily?


OK just for haha's what about a dab of epoxy at the bottom of the
slider's stop?



Hippie Chic Teri

the trick is that you would have to be very very careful... the non-slider
side has to be able to thread all the way into the slider so that it will
zip, and this alignment is pretty deliciate.

I'm still thinking about taking a hammer to a zipper and trying Jenn's idea
to see if I can get it to work.

penny s

"Penny S" wrote:

Teri in HN wrote:
inferior
double sided zippers and would like to know what is the simplest
way of going about fixing this without having to replace the
zippers??!

The problem is that the 'stopper' on the zipper is plastic and it's
not very good, allowing the bottom slider to come out 'relatively'
easily if you yank it. Is there an item to allow one to clip to
the end of the zipper to prevent the bottom slider from coming out
easily?


OK just for haha's what about a dab of epoxy at the bottom of the
slider's stop?

Hippie Chic Teri

the trick is that you would have to be very very careful... the non-slider
side has to be able to thread all the way into the slider so that it will
zip, and this alignment is pretty deliciate.

I'm still thinking about taking a hammer to a zipper and trying Jenn's idea
to see if I can get it to work.

It worked on a zipper I needed to fix. I really don't know how well
it would work in this situation, since the separating zippers I've
seen all have alignment blocks at the bottom of the slider side which
keep the zipper from pulling apart at the bottom.

I don't know how well it would work as a 'real' fix, either, since
this was on a jacket that was only going to be worn for another month
or so. DS wrecked the zipper on his winter jacket in late February.
No chance of finding another winter jacket at that point, and he
needed a new one for the next winter anyway. (The jacket was already
in bad enough shape that it wasn't going to be handed down, and the
broken zipper was the last straw, but it was cold enough that he still
needed it.)


jenn
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Jenn Ridley

"CW" wrote:

Let me guess. Made in China.

That's called 'jumping to conclusions', and is uncalled for. I've had
'made in the USA' stuff fall apart far faster than stuff made in China
(or Turkmenistan or Vietnam).

"Made in China" doesn't automatically mean that it will be poor
quality. (Conversely, made in the USA doesn't automatically mean that
it will be good quality.)

Made by a factory/job shop with poor quality control, I'll buy.

Those factories are everywhere, and it has little to do with the
nationality of the people running the sewing machines. It has far
more to do with the people speccing the job, and what materials will
be used for it.

Sure, you can save 2cents per zipper by using a cheaper one, but then
you've got the problem that Jay has....

jenn
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Jenn Ridley

Jenn Ridley wrote:
"CW" wrote:

Sure, you can save 2cents per zipper by using a cheaper one, but then
you've got the problem that Jay has....

jenn

3600 of them right? ;-)

penny s