Patty
If the neoprene is welded to the zipper your in trouble.
Otherwise WD40(or equivalent) is readily available at service stations etc.
Just spray on enough to lightly soak the white stuff and the zip and leave
overnight.
Good luck
Geoff


>From: Patty Jansen <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: a question
>Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 13:27:34 +1100
>
>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

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