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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: willowstreetguzziguy on April 27, 2024, 04:30:43 PM
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Have a pair of Tourmaster riding boots with zippers on both sides. Had them since 2017 and every time I put them on, the zippers are a bear to pull up. Decided to rub some of this beeswax oil on each of them. Well, I almost ripped them off the boot, they zipped up so effortlessly!
Then I wiped some on the zippers of my leather riding jacket and what a difference!
So why not put it on the zippers on my tank bag and same thing….wow!
It’s like oil on a rusty hinge.
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Sold. I have used paraffin wax on zippers and it helps but some are still hard. Going to give the bee's wax a go. Thanks for sharing.
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In a pinch I’ve used olive oil on my Sidi boots, I figured with them being Italian boots it would work and of course it did work. But the beeswax sounds like a better choice and I have a bottle of that furniture polish. :thumb:
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Liquid soap also helps.
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Liquid soap also helps.
Then I would risk looking foolish if bubbles started forming. I use silicone grease, like DC4 or dielectric.
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I put a bit of Dubbin on mine when they get a bit hard to zip up/doen.
Also works a treat.
Cheers
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I've used Obaaufs leather treatment products for the last seventy years. My boots, jacket, gloves, holsters, knife sheaths are still in good condition, all extremely used and abused.
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I use Breakfree CLP, a light gun oil. Its major benefit is it does not attract and hold dust and grit.
I keep a little container of the oil with a small cotton patch soaking in it. Every Sunday I go over the zippers. It makes a huge difference in use, and the zippers last much longer.
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I have brass Talon zippers in some of my gear from the '40s from LL Bean. They still work without lubrication.
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I use Chapstick on difficult zippers, it's cheap and readily available.
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coconut oil is the best, and if your tapping a thread into stainless steel it is magic eliminates chatter and galling, I gave up buying expensive cutting fluids a long time ago .
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While on motorcycle trips and a sticky jacket zipper occurs, I have used a motels bar of Complementary bar of soap. Simply rub it up and down both sides of the zipper, it’s immediate and last a long time in relieving a hard to zip sticky coat or boot zipper.
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When your zipper pulls wear out contact these guys...
https://www.fixnzip.com/
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Happy national zipper day,keeping stuff together since 1913.
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In a pinch, I've used greenleafguru (https://greenleafguru.com) olive oil on my Sidi boots, assuming that being Italian boots, it would work—and it did. However, beeswax sounds like a better choice, and I happen to have herbalhighsociety (https://herbalhighsociety.com) a bottle of furniture polish containing it.
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I bought that Howard Feed-N-Wax, works like a charm. Thanks!
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I bought that Howard Feed-N-Wax, works like a charm. Thanks!
YES! It works..
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They sell "Zipper Lube" in tubes like chapstick - various vendors.
They all seem to be beeswax based.
I've got several for the Aerostich and the leathers. They work great;
both on metal and plastic zips. Boat owners like the stuff too, for their
various zippered covers and stuff.
And those little chapstick-like tubes do give one a clever opening
gambit for those awkward social situations: "Lube your zipper?" :grin:
-Stretch
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This is getting to be like an oil thread?
I use conventional lube on metal zippers until the 1st service the full synthetic afterwards. Plastic zippers I use full synthetic from the beginning. I do change it at 1/2 the recommended interval and send samples off to Blackstone every other ride.
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This is getting to be like an oil thread?
I use conventional lube on metal zippers until the 1st service the full synthetic afterwards. Plastic zippers I use full synthetic from the beginning. I do change it at 1/2 the recommended interval and send samples off to Blackstone every other ride.
What no fancy shmancy automatic scottzipperoiler for hundreds of dollars for maximum performance and zipper life??!! :laugh: