Replacing drysuit zipper 

I never thought of covering part of the area as the new zipper is being applied, thank you!

Excellent video!! Thanks very much mate!

Great videos! I managed to replace the original metal zipper of my Ursuit dry suit for the first time with a new plastic TiZip and everything works! But I just used another two-component glue better available in the Czech Republic (Unilep D418) Thank you

Brilliant video! So many people have told me that once the zip is gone in my drysuit, I'd pretty much have to replace the entire suit. It's good to see how a drysuit can be kept in service rather than filling up the rubbish tip with my lack of initiative to fix it. While watching you working, it made me wonder if you could possibly use some contoured foam so that the zip lays flat the entire time you work with it...just an idea. Thanks heaps for putting this together. "Throw out the suit myth"...busted! :)

I’ve just done this and it didn’t work. The glue didn’t bond with the zipper (tizip). What have I done wrong?

Very nice videos on the channel. I'm wondering what type of glue do you use? is it neopren glue? would that work with a neopren semi-dry if I want to replace my tizip zipper? thank you

What is the reason for not having the zipper done up to help with alignment?

I didn't notice if you removed the old zipper or did you just leave it? I'm going to try this with a Thule brief case for a laptop computer. This won't be a drysuit, and I believe your type of materials will glue to top and bottom halves of the brief case and allow for the zipper to be replaced and bonded permanently for restoration. Since the Thule is semi waterproof, I will replace the old zipper with an airtight water resistant zipper glued on. To prep, I will remove the old zipper clean up and roughen the top and bottom areas that will be glued too. Then glue together the two sides with a new piece of urethane over both sides (as if it were permanent but not later will cut down the middle). This will hold the two halves together while gluing the air tight zipper of the brief case together. At this stage, after glue dries and the zipper on top and bottom inside still "uncut" will bond the airtight zipper around the corner curves, top and bottom. When all is dry open the zipper and cut the inner piece carefully down the center (this should be perfect conforming to corners). This won't be 100 % waterproof, but water resistant. The Thule brief cases are warrantied for 25 years, but the zippers always wear out because too much power cables and backup disk. I'll try and make the two halves of the briefcase zipper expand out, and handle extra equipment, and more accessories, backup disk, etc. The case will be just a bit thicker so more stuff. Thanks for your great presentation and materials types.

Thank you very much for posting, this is great info! Do you have any tips/advice on attempting a zipper replacement on the curved, front-entry zip of a Fusion drysuit? Or is this best left to AquaLung to handle?

Great video, very instructional. What glue are you using?

Great video. 👌👌 Is it hardener E-40 or ER-42 you use with the SC4000 ?

Thanks for sharing your experience. Tell me please, are you planning to publish a video on the repair of a zipper dry suit made from neoprene?

Excellent Videos. Do you have a recommended supplier for the Aquatape?

What process ist the best to remove a dry zip from a neoprene drysuit? Does the glue you use also softens with heat or whats the process if you ever need to replace a zip the second time?

Thank you for sharing, will definitely try that. The only thing is I can't find the glue Rema Tip Top SC-4000 to buy here in Australia (have sent Rema an email in regards to this). Do you recommend any other brand? Thank you!!!

Thanks for this video! Where can I find the aquatape? thickness? name? sticker?

Great video. Going to try it. Did you use both Aquaseal with Cotol AND the Rema SC-4000? Which would you suggest? Amazon doesn't seem to have the SC-400 at the moment.

Where and in what quantities do you buy the glue and everything else? Thanks, Eric

Thank You for share your experience! It's very interesting and useful! Please answer for my question: is the difference to use this way to instal a zipper YKK aquaseal to trilaminate ''Hollis DX300X'' ?

Please, let me know in comments if there are any other types of dry suit repairs you want me to post here. Here I'm replacing the metal dry suit zip to plastic dry zip (from TiZip) The dry suit is an Otter dry suit and the zip is the diagonal front zip. However, the process would be virtually the same for most other dry suits out there.

Hi, do you know how much glue you use for a zip replacement? cheers.

maybe you told million times but I can't find the answer. which glue are you using? thanks!

What temperature do you set your heatgun to in order not to burn or melt the suit while removing the zipper ?

which clue you used? and is the procedure the same for metal zip?

Do you think this would work for a DUI drysuit? My current zipper is sewn in and then Aquasealed on the inside, I hear it can be hard to remove the aquaseal completely. Is there no need to seal the outside of the zipper?

I decided to attempt to replace my zipper on my Santi E.lite. I removed the old zipper and soon realized that this is sewn. I assume that I can still do this method without an industrial sewing maching?

Hello, thank you for the videos. I fitted a YKK Aquaseal a couple of years ago and the outside black material of the zip that was in contact with the glue (Stormoprene 2-part Contact Adhesive 250ml) eventually cracked and flaked off eventually exposing the white material underneath (both inside and outside the suit). Have you ever seen that happening?

Where on gods green earth did you get the plastic for in between the suit and zipper?

Can you name the exact materials needed?(glue) I see acetone and SC4000 cement, what else might I need?

The zipper doesn't look quite as difficult as mine (mine follows the neck seal) but it gives me confidence.

Received a dry suit second hand off from eBay today and theres all material thread all along the zip line, does that mean I need a new zip or do I just need to cut the thread off? Just been quoted £170 for a new zip from a dry store but don't want to pay that because the dry suit only cost me £110, any help would be much appreciated

Where do I get one of these rollers? Does anyone know what there called in German?

what glue do you use here?

Is their no need to roughen the new zip before applying the glue? I heard about some issues of bad glue adhesion on the material of the zip.

The new zipper is an ykk plastic zip?

As one who sees, I always start attaching zippers from the base, not the top.