Zipper Repair

[pOrk]

Anyone here know how to sew? My jacket zipper has seperated at the bottom 15 or so inches, and they want almost 40 bucks to fix it at seems-b-fitting. I only paid 70 for the jacket, but I hate to toss it and buy a new one since its in great shape.

[Holeshot]

Is it leather?

[pOrk]

No, its a Dickies work jacket, real thick coarse material

[Holeshot]

Well I can hand darn it with some thick black nylon thread and a carpet needle. Yeah I know how to sew. Its not pretty but I can. You can drop it off at my work if you want I can do it some time this weekend after work if you want.

[Poncho]

Dan, can you cook and do laundry too? ::goof

[Holeshot]

Your damn right I can. I separate my lights from darks. bleach whites only, colors in cold. I can cook and clean as good or better then most woman.

[Poncho]

Jesus, all that and you drive a GTO, you're like the perfect person, cept you aren't a 23 year old, smokin' blonde. :rolf

[That_Guy]

Jesus, all that and you drive a GTO, you're like the perfect person, cept you aren't a 23 year old, smokin' blonde. :rolf

dont lie you thought about it:rolf

[Holeshot]

^^^^ LOL I am blonde tho

[Poncho]

these days danno, you're about as blonde as old man puffer is young.

[Holeshot]

Umm the gray sides dont count. LOL

[Cryptic]

this thread got gay too

[Voodoo Chick]

this thread got gay too


And it did so quickly, lol!!

[pOrk]

Well I can hand darn it with some thick black nylon thread and a carpet needle. Yeah I know how to sew. Its not pretty but I can. You can drop it off at my work if you want I can do it some time this weekend after work if you want.

That would be mint, where do you work?

[Holeshot]

this thread got gay too

Sorry Andy I keep my Russian Mail Order Bride off the forum from now on. She must have figured out my password again. :goof:rolf:rolf

[GRAMPS SS]

Jesus, all that and you drive a GTO, you're like the perfect person, cept you aren't a 23 year old, smokin' blonde. :rolf

and what would you do with a 23 year old smokin' blonde......NOTHING......:thumbsup:goof

[Poncho]

and what would you do with a 23 year old smokin' blonde......NOTHING......:thumbsup:goof

ouch.. you left the cave just to say that? Can you get back and finish those drawings, we are supposed to discover then any day now.

[GRAMPS SS]

come visit the cave...you know where it is.....you can show me how to finger paint.....

[Silver350]

There is a sewing place on 76th and oklahoma in the strip mall by Red Carpet Lanes. They replaced my motorcycle jacket zipper and fixed a couple holes for $25 bucks. But of course it is a dickies jacket you can probably by a new one for that price at farm and fleet

[Poncho]

come visit the cave...you know where it is.....you can show me how to finger paint.....

I only paint with one finger, my middle finger. You have my number, I'd gladly come and hang out in the cave.

[LIL EVO]

Something like this: http://cgi.ebay.com/Fix-A-Zip-Universal-Zipper-Repair-Kit_W0QQitemZ380085391544QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_Def aultDomain_0?_trksid=p3286.m20.l1116

Fixed all my zippers

[pOrk]

There is a sewing place on 76th and oklahoma in the strip mall by Red Carpet Lanes. They replaced my motorcycle jacket zipper and fixed a couple holes for $25 bucks. But of course it is a dickies jacket you can probably by a new one for that price at farm and fleet

This isn't a $25 dollar jacket Scott. If it was, I would have bought a new one.

[pOrk]

Something like this: http://cgi.ebay.com/Fix-A-Zip-Universal-Zipper-Repair-Kit_W0QQitemZ380085391544QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_Def aultDomain_0?_trksid=p3286.m20.l1116

Fixed all my zippers

That looks like its actual parts of the zipper, I'm not missing any parts. The zipper and the strip its attached to has pulled away from the jacket, it just needs to be sewn back in.

[LIL EVO]

Ah. Well if the zipper ever stops zipping or the zipper pulls apart when zipped, those work great.

[Voodoo Chick]

Fixing zippers is a pain in the a** most of the time, at least in my experiences..........

[Windsors 03 Cobra]

Are the metal zipper teeth pulling off the zippers fabric tape or is the zippers fabric tape pulling away from the canvas material of the coat ?

I could sew a the zipper tape back onto the coat pretty easily I would think, depends on the thickness at the edge, and I'm sure its pretty thick dense stuff there. In the 1900's here and have a sewing "machine".
I read you are in Racine "here and there".

[pOrk]

I'm in racine every sunday night / monday morning. The zupper tape is pulling away from the jacket, zipper is still firmly attached to the zipper tape form what I can tell.

[Windsors 03 Cobra]

Ok well its probably like a 5 or 10 minute job, I only have 2 or 3 colors of thread, black blue and white I think and it probably wont look factory as I am a rank amateur sewing but I can say it sure shouldnt ever tear away again.

[pOrk]

Black works, and I don't care what it looks like :)