Miata Mailing List: May 1993, Message #26
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   From: (none)
Subject: Zipper tip...
   Date: (none)

For what it's worth...

A few weeks after I bought my '93, I noticed that the door locks were a bit
sticky.  A little powdered graphite from the local grocery store did the
trick -- although I got some strange looks and a ``Can I help you?'' from
folks in the parking lot as I was twiddling a slender metal thingy in the
locks.  Guess they thought I was trying to steal the car, or something.

Anyway, with all this zipper talk going around, it occured to me that the 
stuff might make the window zipper a little easier to work.  To my delight, 
it does.  It's a little messy to apply, but laying a bunch of paper towels on 
the rear shelf catches the overspray.  Just squirt the graphite out of the 
tube onto the zipper and then zip & unzip it a few times to work it in.  It 
helps to get a tube of graphite with a long metal tube for a nozzle.  
Hopefully this will reduce the possibility of breaking the handle.

Russ Croman
Design Engineer
Crystal Semiconductor
Austin, TX