Small questions thread

[Espresto]

Anyone have experience shopping with svmoscow, Eth0s, or Ink?

Eth0s is local for me, so I've only bought in-store. Love the place.

[newp]

Anyone have experience shopping with svmoscow, Eth0s, or Ink?

svmoscow is a great store for both online shopping and personal visit.

[Faust]

Anyone have experience shopping with svmoscow, Eth0s, or Ink?

These stores are here for a reason. Of course they all have excellent service.

[galia]

I have one of the wallets, not the horse one and actually have no idea what the hole is for either, kind of interesting, because I hadn't thought about it much until now, but I do not think it serves a unique purpose.

The hole is the eye of the whale IIRC, or maybe theblowhole. If you lay the whalet flat open it makes a kind of whale with its tail folded back over itself

[TriggerDiscipline]

The hole is the eye of the whale IIRC, or maybe theblowhole. If you lay the whalet flat open it makes a kind of whale with its tail folded back over itself

I would like to see that from sruli himself lol not all the whalets are made from whale foreskin.

[scifim]

Hi everyone!

Not sure if I'm posting this in the correct thread, but some of the teeth came loose and I lost them-- zipper is still intact though, but can be tough to zip up and down at times. Anyone know if there's a possible fix for this? I'm assuming sourcing these teeth will be fairly difficult?

Edit: if I paste the image it comes out as massive so will provide a link instead.

http://imgur.com/MMJKIt1

[jimmycs]

Hi everyone!

Not sure if I'm posting this in the correct thread, but some of the teeth came loose and I lost them-- zipper is still intact though, but can be tough to zip up and down at times. Anyone know if there's a possible fix for this? I'm assuming sourcing these teeth will be fairly difficult?

Edit: if I paste the image it comes out as massive so will provide a link instead.

http://imgur.com/MMJKIt1

Never seen case like that with teeth falling off.
Seems to me that the next best thing to do is replace the whole zip, no ?

With the missing teeth, it seems difficult to recover.

[lowrey]

I'm pretty sure it will be impossible to make it work perfectly, I would consider having a tailor replace the whole zipper

[eleves]

I'm pretty sure it will be impossible to make it work perfectly, I would consider having a tailor replace the whole zipper

Going to second lowrey here. From firsthand experience, you'll definitely have to replace the whole thing

[zamb]

third lowrey and eleves,

best bet is new Zipper and this is from a man who works with Zippers daily and nightly

[jimmycs]

One would think that with RO price/quality, they would be using non cheap materials and to see something like this happen...would be a total disappointment to me. Could it be that RO is mass producing and falling behind in quality control ?

[nvsnli]

One would think that with RO price/quality, they would be using non cheap materials and to see something like this happen...would be a total disappointment to me. Could it be that RO is mass producing and falling behind in quality control ?

My old RO Hooded bomber jacket was so poor in quality that i dont miss that particular jacket at all.
First week three buttons fell off and pockets tore up.

H&M has better quality than that jacket was.

[jimmycs]

My old RO Hooded bomber jacket was so poor in quality that i dont miss that particular jacket at all.
First week three buttons fell off and pockets tore up.

H&M has better quality than that jacket was.

That is a revelation. Maybe I am assuming too much.

[headpower]

My red Guidi boot zipper tape is ripped apart from the stitches. I emailed Guidi support and they told me to contact the store and ask them to contact Guidi directly. I emailed re-porter.ca and haven't heard back from them. Anyone know how can I get a replacement zipper from Guidi?

Alternatively I am thinking ordering a red excella zipper tape from YKK Japan. I know you can reuse the slider and top stopper but what about the bottom end stopper. Can a cobbler reuse the original bottom end stopper on the new zipper tape?

[Guun]

^ I emailed Guidi when my zipper tape ripped a few months ago and they sent me replacement zippers free of charge. They are usually pretty nice with this kind of stuff. Maybe their policy has changed since...