Zipper no longer closes on jacket
Who has not experienced this annoying situation first hand? You want to go for a walk in bad weather and only find out when you are outdoors that the zipper on the jacket is no longer closed.
Why the jacket doesn't close anymore
A very annoying matter when the jacket no longer closes, especially when you are at Standing outside in sub-zero temperatures and wearing gloves barely having the necessary feeling to be around the Zipper to close. In this case you can do the following:
- First, see why the jacket is no longer zippered.
- On the one hand, it could be due to the fact that a piece of fabric has got stuck in the zipper, which is why the zipper is jammed.
- If this is not the case, then it could be that you have not neatly united the two approaches of the zipper and thus the teeth cannot interlock properly.
- However, if you are unlucky, the zipper could be broken.
Broken zipper clip - you can do that
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Repair the zipper
To be able to close your jacket again, you should proceed as follows:
- Pull the teeth of the zipper out of the locking mechanism of the zipper again and carefully place the teeth one inside the other. Now try again to see if the zipper closes.
- If a piece of your jacket has got stuck in the zipper, you have to take it out again carefully. To do this, you should slowly open the zipper again and slowly pull out the piece of fabric at the same time. However, if the teeth of the zipper are bent, then the jacket will no longer go. In this case, you could just change the zipper. To do this, you need to pull out the zipper by opening the seams.
- You can then insert a new zipper and sew it up again.
- Make sure that you buy the right length of the zipper and that you sew the zipper on so securely that it actually stays in place.
