DIY Quick Repair of defective zipper

It happens oftentimes when you're out of town and the zipper of your backpack has defunct unexpectedly or you have favorite jacket, short or pants which has zipper malfunction. If you encounter such situation, do not immediately cast your things into scrap, recycle them  instead.

There are two types of defective zipper: one is non-repairable.
This defect has no other solution than bringing them to a sewer to replace with a new zipper. The zipper is non-repairable if it has missing teeth. The other type of zipper defect is the one which is repairable. When all the  teeth are still intact, the zipper can be repaired easily and quickly.

 The common reason of zipper malfunction is because of a loose slider. A zipper slider is the zipper head with two sides sliding to close a zipper. If it gets too lose, it won't be able to zip a Zipper. It's very simple to repair a lose slider. You just need a pliers to tighten the sides of the slider.

Here's the DIY procedure to quickly repair a zipper.

• Get a pliers 
• Tighten the sides of the slider 
• Then zip and you're done! 

 There's another diy procedure of repairing a worn out zipper. It requires a little stitching but you can do it by following the procedure, please refer to the images.

• First find a used zipper from your old pants, shorts or jacket. 
• Cut both sides of used zipper 
• Pull the slider and disjoint from the zipper 
• Untie the stitch of the top Zipper you wanted to repair( see the images)
• Insert both sides of zipper to slider as a replacement 
• Slide down the zipper 
• Then restore the untied stitch of the pants.

You can use this diy procedure to repair all kinds of zippers. If you find this article helpful, please share!