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I have a number of zippers which, while perfectly serviceable, have
lost the little puller that allows you to pull the zip open or closed
easily. I've replaced a couple of these with paper clips but these
aren't ideal really as they're not quite stiff/strong enough.

Has anyone got any ideas for alternatives to paper clips which would
be cheap and easy to implement? The zippers in question are quite
small, the original pullers were about 1cm diameter disks in one case
and the more normal rectangular piece of metal (10mm x 5mm ??) in the
other.

Why not use a split rinmg ... type used as key rings ... when I played about
with the boys in Green, the pull ring from an L2 fragmentation grenade used
to a popular item for repairing zips.

Consider plaiting a leather or nylon thin rope ... plastic version is
popular with kids at the moment ... used to be called Scoobydo when I was a
kid, don't know what it is called now.

On a large canvas holdall I use for diving kit ... I used a thin 3 ply rope
and spliced it on ... i.e. formed an eye-splice though a key ring split ring
and fitted that.