Sorta depends what's wrong with the zipper --- I thought mine was done --- I
googled zipper repair -- and found that what I needed to do was very
carefully, and with the right tool, squeeze the zippery thing so it's little
parts would dome together. Try the google -- you'll learn a lot about
zippers and may fix your problem. My wife thought I was a genius after I
fixed this problem :-)

Cheers,
Doug

On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Jonce Fancher <streetbugs@verizon.net>wrote:

> Hi Rob
> Ive come up with a way to do it and but have not had the time to put
> somthing together for that sort of fix.
> How bad is the zipper? sometimes you can use your finger nail and
> straighten the teeth of the zipper and Then gently move the pull over the
> bad area to
> retrain teeth to work again. Now if it is real bad then your sorta doomed.
> But  I do make the screen kit for the screen only but nothing if you need
> zipper.
> BTW velcro will not stick to canvas with rubber cement or much of any
> cement. They are to completly different substraits. Now is your zipper bad
> for the
> Privacy part or the screen part?
> Sorry for all the Qs?
> C-ya Jonce
>
> >Anyone had any luck with velcro to replace a bad zipper on the front
> >of a poptop?
> >I tried with sticky velcro but it wouldn't stick to the canvas... I
> >thought about rubber cement (to stick the velcro to the canvas) but
> >figured it would bleed thru the canvas.
> >i just wondered if anyone had done this successfully.
>
>
>
> >Rob
> >becida@comcast.net
>
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>
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