Originally Posted by
DENviaLAX
There are two types of zipper damage that I see all the time. The pull tabs getting broken off, which happens because they get caught in the belts or in cracks in baggage carts. But usually the zippers are still functional in those instances, just harder to open with nothing to grab onto.
I kept losing the pulltabs on rollaboards, so I went to a hardware store and got a couple key rings (just the kind-of chrome spiral ring, no fob on it.) About 25 cents each. They fit through the zipper pull and work fine.