>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.


Two suggestions  -  soak in soapy water, WD-40.
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