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How to choose quality zippers for your luggage?

At the airports, traces of suitcases can be seen everywhere.  If you travel frequently, your luggage will be hit when passing through any airport. So zippers will often be broken in transit. The thread that sews the teeth of the zipper on the tape will break when a large number of suitcases are thrown on the conveyor belt or aircraft. Therefore, when you are selecting luggage, good quality zippers of your luggage are very important.

The components of a zipper

Zippers may be everywhere, but they are far from simple and consist of various parts. A zipper is composed of a zipper chain, teeth, tape, slider, puller, the top end, the bottom end, and so on. The bulk of a zipper consists of two rows of protruding teeth, which may be made to interdigitate, linking two rows, carrying from tens to hundreds of specially shaped metal or plastic teeth. These teeth can be either individual or shaped from a continuous coil and are also referred to as elements. The slider, operated by hand, moves along the rows of teeth. Insider the slider is a Y-shaped channel that meshes together or separates the opposing rows of teeth, depending on the direction of the slider’s movement.

The tips about selecting quality zippers for your suitcases

Choose zippers with double sliders

Buying double zippers of suitcases is a good choice because you can still use the luggage even if one zipper breaks ( just slide back the broken zipper and use the other one).

Choose large zippers

No matter what kind of zipper, the bigger the zipper, the stronger the zipper.

Choose a waterproof zipper

If people need to carry valuables while traveling, people need to buy luggage with waterproof zippers. Then people do not have to worry too much about the bad weather.

Choose zippers with large holes

If there are some valuables in your luggage, people often consider to use additional security locks to increase the security of luggage.  If the zipper head has a small hole, this means that the zipper may not let the latch pass through. Make sure to buy a zipper head with a large hole to pass the latch through, so as to ensure the safety of luggage.

Choose zippers with double sprocket reinforcement

If the quality of a zipper is not good, it means that a ballpoint pen or a knife can pry open your luggage. That is because the teeth of the zipper have a low bite degree. There are many kinds of zippers, and there is a big gap between quality and cost. In order to reduce the cost of zippers, many zipper manufactures are choosing cheaper parts of zippers. In other words, the cost of a good zipper is very expensive. And many zipper manufactures may not spend a lot on the zippers. Good quality zippers usually have higher hardness, such as metal zippers, which are slightly more difficult to break.

The zipper is the most faulty part of the luggage. When the luggage zipper breaks, you usually cannot use the luggage unless you replace or repair the zipper. So the quality of a zipper is a very important factor. By understanding the composition of zippers and the tips for selecting the luggage zippers in the above, we can also make better decisions when selecting luggage.