In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 28 Oct 2019 10:47:31 -0400, Jim Horton
wrote:

On 10/28/19 6:21 AM, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On Saturday, October 26, 2019 at 11:54:03 AM UTC-4, Jim Horton wrote:
On 10/26/19 11:49 AM, micky wrote:


Two people said go to a seamstress or local drycleaner. Have you even
asked one for a price?

My local drycleaner wants to charge $14.99 not including tax, more than
I paid for the jacket. I don't know any local seamstresses.

You might not be able to find another one just like it. If you're as fond
of that jacket as you said, it might be worth it to have it repaired.
Even if you could find another identical one, it might cost more than
$14.99 now.

Cindy Hamilton



I decided to investigate this a little further. Turns out that when I
purchased the local Walmart zippers to try and harvest just the sliders,
they were not of the coil type like the jacket has. So it was no wonder
a #5 wouldn't keep the zipper closed because I was using the wrong one.
So, I have ordered a couple of coil sizes, in both #4.5 and #5 since I
wasn't absolutely sure. The original slider has a "5" in a small circle
on the back, which I assume is the size, but I also read that could be a
die number too, so I also measured across the zipper with a metric
ruler. The distance was either 4.5 or 5, so ordered in both sizes.
About the only place I found online with reasonable zipper slider prices
seemed to be a firm called Sailrite. Ebay venders had out of the world
prices by the time shipping was added, so that was definitely out. So,
for less than $5 with shipping, the zippers are on the way. If they
don't do it, time to trash the coat.

Instead of trashing it, why not give it to Goodwill Industries or the
Salvation Army. Goodwill will repair it themselves (if they still do
that) and sell it, and use the money mostly for job training for
handicapped people. I don't think the salvation army repairs things but
they may sell it to someone who can repair it, someone will wear it even
though it doesn't close, or ship it abroad to people who need clothes.

At any rate, it's not just you, but loads of people who it seems just
throw in the trash things they cannnot use instead of giving them to one
of these two places or another charitable thrift shop. It's wasteful
and I don't understand it, especially from someone who doesn't have
unlimited income himself.