On 10/28/2019 10:51 AM, Jim Horton wrote:
On 10/28/19 12:28 PM, wrote:



I find it puzzling that you would expend this much
time & effort to save your beloved coat -
yet balk at paying the local Portuguese lady ~ $ 15.
to professionally install a new zipper .
John T.

2 reasons: 1) limited income, and (2) been cheated too many times in the
past just blindly paying someone to do something. Once you've been down
#2's path, you think twice before you trust anyone to do anything. This
time, I decided to try actually learning enough about zippers so maybe I
can fix all or most future zipper issues. I've done the same thing with
my cars.



Over the years I've saved quite a bit of money fixing zippers. There
definitely are two flavors, the ones with teeth like on your jeans, and
the coil type. Sailrite is good. I've gotten the #10 metal sliders for
my motorcycle jacket from them. 10's are hard to find locally,
particularly the metal ones. Plastic wears a lot faster on metal teeth.
I do have an old 60/40 parka with plastic teeth that takes a #10 and
plastic sliders work fine for that.