Where does Patagonia get there Ykk zipper for their jackets? I have never had so many zippers fail from a single outerwear manufacturer.
Now I have allot of guccie shit, outlet near here and whatnot but I also have allot of arc and older cloudveil and newer brands, BD and whatnot. Nothing fails like the guccie zippers.
Many people are saying this, not just me-but really they are. This is a pervasive problem.
The insertion pin delams. The coil sheds, or it just straight stops meshing -this is a slider problem.
I have done allot of talking with YKK about zippers, even been to the Macon plant for a full tour.
Much of the issues they see are in the sliders or the slider coating being worn and then causes the coil or vislon to get damaged. Paint worn, plating fail etc.
So where does Pataguccie get there sliders and coils? They make much in Sri Lanka right? So where is the African plant for YKK? Do they buy from the Indo plant?
WTF? buy some shit from Japan or another better factory. YKK has like 200 plants worldwide, clearly they are not all created equal.
First world non pandemic problems but I'm pretty over this BS. Wife has 5 jackets she needs to get repaired, all zipper fail. She has like a million jackets so its not like these got used an exorbitant amount.
This is mostly on the non coated zipper and I assume they are buying all RC coil and sliders as its made overseas? all our shit says C. Are they putting C sliders on RC coil?
I have crappy cotton hoodies that the slider and coil have lasted longer then a guccie puffy coil.
My last puffy coil lasted not even 1 winter, its a 7 month winter but whatev. Are they just using 4-5 when the should be using a bigger coil and slider?
FYI Coils is stronger for separation than Vislon.
I assume we have some technical outerwear people here as I work in this sports industry as well.
WHERE DO THEY BUY THIS SHIT?
FUCKIN FIX IT.
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