Use a soft zipper wax like gear aid s zipper lubricant stick to ensure the zippers in your high tech gear are doing their job.
Sticky zipper wax.
Close up the zipper and rub an old wax candle or a piece of wax up and down on the closed zipper.
Once you have it on the teeth brush away any excess wax.
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Use a heat gun or a really hot hair dryer to melt the wax.
Rub a bar of soap along the zipper to lubricate it.
Insert a paperclip into the hole in the zipper and pull the paperclip up to get the zipper going again.
You may need to apply soap to both the inside and outside of the zipper.
You ll want to remove any stray wax that may be on surrounding fabric because in the next step you ll be melting the wax.
You can rub the wax on both sides of the zipper.
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To help unstick your zipper you can add lubrication to the zipper teeth using chapstick crayon wax the end of a graphite pencil petroleum jelly and other waxy products or lubricants.
Use a paraffin bar of wax and run it over the teeth with the zipper closed.
Plus it protects against corrosion and repels dirt sand and organic residues so zippers last a lot longer.
Of course you can t go wrong with a couple sprays of wd 40 to get your zipper going.