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Nils Anderson specializes in zipper fixes at Great Lakes Gear Exchange. "Beyond the financial incentive, I think for a lot of people, it’s a sentimental thing," he said. Nils Anderson sews a new ...

A life jacket, like any other item of equipment, eventually gets old and worn, and must be replaced. How do you know when yours must be replaced? Broken zippers and frayed webbing are indicators of a ...

Five sewing machines and a serger stand at the ready. Racks of jackets wait their turn, and sacks of bags fill two corners of the small workspace. One hundred zippers hang from one board and ...

From caught fabric to zips that won’t stay up, it’s often possible to fix them on the fly; and what cannot be repaired can always be replaced The zipper might be the most underappreciated of all the ...