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I want to know which bright spark thinks its a good idea to use metallic zips on surf gear...

mathew said...

I want to know which bright spark thinks its a good idea to use metallic zips on surf gear...

I think KA started it.

I wonder why wetsuit zips never get stuck...

Haircut said...

pee pee

Actually, if you drink lots of cranberry juice, that's supposed to acidify your pee pee. Maybe that could work better than vinegar. Any volunteers I should stand upwind of?

What about Silicon spray? I was struggling to zip up my weight vest over my, ahem, protruding belly a while back and the zip was really hard to move. A fellow sailor pulled out his can of Silicon spray and gave it a squirt and it suddenly worked like a dream. Where do you get that stuff and can it save crappy metal board bag zips from corroding to white dust?

windjunky said...

Thats it... I now officially have at least one stuck zip on every piece of windsurfing stuff that has one.

Anyone have a sure fire way of unsticking salt-stuck zips?? Its giving me the zip-pip.

Get a large pair of pliers they really help to get a good grip on the tab, then pull really hard swearing as much as you like until the tab comes off, them throw the pliers and sail down in disgust and tear the zipper open with your bare hands,

Always works for me..

sinker said...


Get a large pair of pliers they really help to get a good grip on the tab, then pull really hard swearing as much as you like until the tab comes off, them throw the pliers and sail down in disgust and tear the zipper open with your bare hands,

Always works for me..

I had one zip that refused point blank to move.. despite crc, grunting, big pliers etc.. It was beaten in the end though with a pair of vicegrips (hands would probably work too.. but I had more vicegrips than hands at the time) on each side of the zipper pulling outwards, and another pair moving the zipper itself.

It even still has the tab!

Pulling the stuck part of the zipper outwards seemed to do the tick.

Ive had this problem alot with my board bags. NEVER use oils or dw40 ect. think about it. zips work on friction to keep the bers together. if you put a lubricant on them they are going to slip out and the zip will alwys come apart...

the guy with the boiling water comment is rite on the mark!!!

WD40 turns into a sticky mess after a couple of weeks anyway.

Easier and better to use some graphite, like... say... drawing on the teeth with a lead pencil. 2B is better than HB but both have worked for me in the past.