need help with a zipper

[outby43]

Hopefully someone can help here.  I have a jacket and the metal insertion pin has fell off.  Can these be replaced?  I don't even know if that is what it's called.  Now where the metal piece was it is all frayed and I cannot zip my jacket because it will not fit into the actual zipper.   

[Princess L]

Hopefully someone can help here.  I have a jacket and the metal insertion pin has fell off.  Can these be replaced?  I don't even know if that is what it's called.  Now where the metal piece was it is all frayed and I cannot zip my jacket because it will not fit into the actual zipper.   

Go to a dry cleaners.  They often times have someone on staff or can refer you to someone who can fix it; like a seamstress/tailor.

[ToxicAvenger]

Hopefully someone can help here.  I have a jacket and the metal insertion pin has fell off.  Can these be replaced?  I don't even know if that is what it's called.  Now where the metal piece was it is all frayed and I cannot zip my jacket because it will not fit into the actual zipper.  

i recently got a zipper on one of my really old abercrombie jackets replaced ...i've had the thing since i ws 25ish....

it cost $30 ...just went to one of them asian tailor shops and they replaced it....

you wanna go to a gheetoish type mall/strip mall...they almost always have a tailor shop hidden  in some corner

[xxxLinda]

Are you aware that you are statistically more likely to have an accident indoors in your home than in a car?

Did you know that more people hurt themselves falling off the toilet than walking outdoors?



And yes, (you've already figured where I'm going...  it's true that more men have major bloody catastrophic A&E incidences with trouser zippers than women have with cooking

xL

[Playboy]

Hopefully someone can help here.  I have a jacket and the metal insertion pin has fell off.  Can these be replaced?  I don't even know if that is what it's called.  Now where the metal piece was it is all frayed and I cannot zip my jacket because it will not fit into the actual zipper.   

Ohhhhhh I hate it when that happens!

[Butterbean]

Hopefully someone can help here.  I have a jacket and the metal insertion pin has fell off.  Can these be replaced?  I don't even know if that is what it's called.  Now where the metal piece was it is all frayed and I cannot zip my jacket because it will not fit into the actual zipper.   

I'd take it to a tailor and get a whole new zipper.  Should be under $20 I think.

[outby43]

I'd take it to a tailor and get a whole new zipper.  Should be under $20 I think.

I was quoted 35 at one place.  It is an American Eagle jacket so it's not really worth it.  Maybe I will get my grandma to do it.  She hems my sweatpants since I have short legs.  She has MS and arthritis so who knows what it will look like when she is done...lol.  Could be a scene from Happy Gilmore with Ben Stiller making them grandmas sew all day. 

[tonymctones]

Are you aware that you are statistically more likely to have an accident indoors in your home than in a car?

Did you know that more people hurt themselves falling off the toilet than walking outdoors?



And yes, (you've already figured where I'm going...  it's true that more men have major bloody catastrophic A&E incidences with trouser zippers than women have with cooking

xL

How is this person allowed to complain about the way boards are modded around here???

goodness gracious

sorry ladies ban me is you must...but sometimes ppl need to be put in there place

[tonymctones]

I was quoted 35 at one place.  It is an American Eagle jacket so it's not really worth it.  Maybe I will get my grandma to do it.  She hems my sweatpants since I have short legs.  She has MS and arthritis so who knows what it will look like when she is done...lol.  Could be a scene from Happy Gilmore with Ben Stiller making them grandmas sew all day. 

lol as a guy who understands how hard it is to 1) find clothes that fit and 2) find clothes you feel comfortable in losing a piece of clothing that does both is quit disconcerning.

I would probably try the ghetto/home made way of clipping the end and taking a lighter to the end to harden the tip up(no comments)...its worked for me in the past for hoodies its somewhat of a temporary fix but its better than just throwing the jacket out.

[Butterbean]

I was quoted 35 at one place.  It is an American Eagle jacket so it's not really worth it.  Maybe I will get my grandma to do it.  She hems my sweatpants since I have short legs.  She has MS and arthritis so who knows what it will look like when she is done...lol.  Could be a scene from Happy Gilmore with Ben Stiller making them grandmas sew all day. 

Poor Grandma!