Re: FW: Sticky Metal zippers...

[Season Tse <Season_Tse@xxxxxxxxx>]

When our zippers get sticky, my grandmother
would rub plain wax candles along the zipper, it always seems to solve
the problem. It's certainly an option to consider.

Season
Season Tse
Senior Conservation Scientist/Chemist
Conservation Research
Canadian Conservation Institute
Canadian Heritage
1030 Innes Rd.
Ottawa, ON
Canada
K1A 0M5
Tel: (613) 998-3721 x-187
Fax:(613) 998-4721
email: season_tse@xxxxxxxxx
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"Ballard, Mary" <BallardM@xxxxxx>
Sent by: Textile Conservators <TEXCONS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

25/04/2007 02:29 PM

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Subject	FW: Metal zippers...dry teflon lubricant

Hi everyone: My esteemed colleagues tactfully
assured me that DW-40 was not a feasible idea (it would spread unstoppably),
but suggest that a dry teflon lubricant would be successful. Mary
 
 
From: Smith, Corey 
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 2:16 PM
To: Ballard, Mary 
Subject: FW: dry teflon lubricant
 
Here are a couple of websites
for the Teflon spray!
 
http://www.idealtruevalue.com/servlet/the-29933/Detail
and this is Elmers.
 
Kress Fellow in Objects Conservation
Museum Conservation Institute,
Smithsonian Institution
4210 Silver Hill Road, Suitland,
MD 20746
301-238-1273

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From: Williams, Donald 
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 2:13 PM
To: Smith, Corey
Subject: dry teflon lubricant
 
http://www.finishlineusa.com/products/teflon-plus-lube.htm
 
http://www.miller-stephenson.com/
 
http://www.benojgundlachco.com/applications/CatalogManager/default.asp?gpcid=1&cid=5&scid=143&ItemID=1261
 
 
 
From: Textile Conservators [mailto:TEXCONS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Jennifer Hadley
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 4:33 PM
To: TEXCONS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: metal zippers
 
I am looking for advice on metal zippers.
 I am working with a silk dress from the 1940s.  The silk is
somewhat fragile and the 2 metal zippers are very stiff.  I am afraid
that I will rip the silk in my attempt to use the zippers.  Does anyone
know of an inert substance I could use to lubricate the zippers?  I
thought about not using them at all, but I would need another method of
closing the opening and I don't want to introduce more holes to the silk
by stitching it closed.  If anyone has an alternative to using the
zippers I would be interested to hear it.
 
Thank you,
Jennifer
 
Jennifer Hadley
Collections Care
Museum of Church History and Art
(801) 240-0297
hadleyj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx