How to use waterproof zipper & airtight zipper
Instructions for Using and Maintaining Airtight Zipper
No matter for what you choose our airtight zipper, once you choose it, maintenance is required. Airtight zipper is an exact metal set, so it should be kept well in a clean and lubricative state as well as it has a strict criterion for operation and maintenance. The proper operation and good maintenance will ensure that the airtight zipper can be used for a long time. For a dry divingde, its use life even is longer than the things on knee, elbow and joints. Foreign data indicates that the proper use will guarantee the airtight zipper more than eight years life-span. But there are also some cases proving that the improper use will shorten the life of airtight zipper to less than three months. It is obvious that the proper use and maintenance are so important to airtight zipper and its products.
Fixing instructions of airtight zipper:
The zipper shall be fixed after laying off products. During the fixing, two belts shall be straight.
When fixing the zipper, gumwater cannot be smeared on inner rack rail or outer rack rail. Otherwise, the gasproof of airtight zipper will be broken or the zipper will be damaged for it is astringent when zipping it. If gumwater is smeared on the zipper immodestly, use a soft cloth with thinner to clean off the gumwater.
Using instructions of airtight zipper:
Before using the zipper, please use clean water or brush to clean off the dust or bedload attaching on two sides of the zipper, because these adhesive materials will influence gasproof of the zipper and even damage the zipper.
When zipping the zipper, you must zip the pull head along the rack rail. If you zip it slanting, the rack rails will not in anastomosis with each other, then the gasproof will be reduced, and the zipper may even be damaged.
Zipping velocity shall be controlled within 10-15m/min. Don't zip it again and again for a long time, in order to avoid the pull head being euthermic which will lead it to be astringent or be damaged.
If clothes or cloth lock the zipper, you should zip the pull head back a little, and remove the things, then zip it slowing. Be sure to keep in mind that don't pull it rudely, or the zipper will be damaged.
If the zipper is fixed on the back or the flank of the clothes, you must zip it with other's assistance.
After using the zipper, you shall use clean water or brush to clean off the dust or bedload attaching on two sides of the zipper, then open the zipper, and clean the inside. Try your best to avoid feculency entering inner rack rail, which will reduce gasproof or damage the zipper.
After using and cleaning the zipper, you shall smear the beeswax on outer rack rail, and zip it back and forth for several times to ensure that the zipper is lubricative next time. But the beeswax only can be smeared on outer rack rail, if you smear it on inner rack rail, the gasproof will be reduced.
If airtight zipper you need is more than four meters, we advise you adopt double pull head to avoid superfluous abrasion.
When using PVC airtight zipper, please don't use it if the environment temperature is under 10? or higher than 40?. Because under that temperature, the character of PVC will be changed and gas proof will be reduced even it is will be non-hermetic.
For polyvinyl chloride in contained in the zipper, the character of PVC airtight zipper will be reduced with change of time and temperature.
Preservation instructions of airtight zipper:
For the airtight zipper in store, you shall keep it be open in shady and cool area.
For the airtight zipper is stored for a long time, you should keep it in a close case far away from ventilated area to avoid the rock rail being oxidized and changing color.
After fixing airtight zipper on the clothes or other products, under non-working state, you shall keep the zipper be open with wax in shady and cool area.
When packing the clothes, you can roll up the clothes along the end of zipper and leave the zipper facing outside, and then encase the clothes. When rolling up the clothes, the zipper cannot be folded, and the outside of wrappage cannot be pressed by other things.
If there is no packing, you can hang the clothes well and keep it be open. When hanging the clothes, you shall try your best to reduce tensile force of rock rail to avoid deformation of the zipper.