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I replaced the zipper on my zpacks duplex out on trail, and now keep a couple in my diddy bag. The reason they fail is because the aluminum zipper starts separate open and no longer catches the teeth of the zipper to lock it together. One short term fix, is to gently squeeze the sides of the zipper with pliers to try to restore it to its original shape. This worked a couple times for me but ultimately kept failing. The next option, the one I did, was use a small knife to cut the stitching at the end of the zipper. Slide off the old slider, and replace it with a new one. You can keep the tracks from the previous zipper, you’re just replacing the slider. Then give it a few new stitches at the bottom so that the slider don’t fall off. https://a.co/d/0esbUy3X https://youtu.be/9ADaDTEuPf0?is=jE3lHYGc4gmOJsjZ