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For me the annoying failure mode is when the metal ring on the puller which attaches to the slider eventually wears through and breaks (this seems to happen on
by tomatocracy 4y ago
For me the annoying failure mode is when the metal ring on the puller which attaches to the slider eventually wears through and breaks (this seems to happen on bags and luggage a lot for me). The important parts of the zipper are all still working, it's infuriating that there isn't an easier way to replace the puller easily like for like (at least that I'm aware of).
- 2muchcoffeeman 4y agoZip tie. Even a paper clip. If you have a 3D printer you can even make nice little pulls for the zip ties to attach to.
- tomatocracy 4y agoYes, I've usually just used a short piece of string. But I'd still like to be able to replace them with a proper puller.
- kube-system 4y ago“Zipper pull” returns a good variety of results in Amazon.
- jdfellow 4y agoSplit rings (key rings) work well in my experience.
- hilbert42 4y agoYes, paperclips are wonderful for this purpose, especially so when used on one's fly zipper as they've a low profile and can't be seen. The best paperclips for this purpose are the V-shaped type that are narrower at the top. They've saved me from having to replace a zipper on a number of occasions. If you read my comment about washing powders attacking the crappy alloy material that's so often used in those pull tabs and causing them to fail then a paperclip is the ideal solution.
- tokamak-teapot 4y agoI have a bag of replacement pulls. Sometimes, though, the mechanism breaks in such a away that you can’t attach a new pull to it. Not YKK, of course!