You probably can't get the zippers stuck, but you may be able to use the
booties by having someone sew an extra strip around the top with a velcro
closure. I had a friend who does boat canvas do this for me and I'm making
my booties last a lot longer. It's comfortable too.
Peggy
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                                  Peggy Williams
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> From: Patty Jansen <[log in to unmask]>
> Reply-To: Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 13:27:34 +1100
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: a question
>
> Dear All,
>
> This is remotely shell-related, but I have a question.
>
> After a spell of more than nine years we have started to get back into
> snorkelling, and will in time get back to scuba diving as we did before the
> children were born.
>
> Before our daughter was born we had the sense to sell our expensive dive
> equiment, but kept our wetsuits, masks, fins, gloves etc. Imagine trying to
> squeeze yourself into a wetsuit you haven't used for nine years and that is
> supposed to be tight to start off with,  with a body that's gone through
> three pregancies. Well, it still fits (sort of), but what my question is
> related to is the dive bootees. Nine years of disuse have made the zippers
> so terminally stuck that no matter of pulling or pushing will budge them.
> It seems as if the zipper has corroded onto the zipper fabric, although it
> isn't rusty, but some sort of white stuff that isn't salt. Before I trow
> them in the bin and buy new bootees, maybe somebody knows a way to get
> these infernal zippers unstuck.
>
> Shell-related bit: I need the bootees to look for shells!
>
> Patty