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>Major downgrade for maintainability and ability to repair.

But it seems the exact opposite is true. These zippers should be easily removable, leaving the fabric mostly intact. After that you can put in a normal zipper.



This looks much harder to seam-rip to me, as the stitching is going between the individual zipper teeth.


But you can just cut it off entirely, with minimal losses to the fabric, which is preferable to pulling out the seams, which will leave damaged fabric behind.


Cutting it off is even easier since one side is fabric and the other side is metal (for which you can push against).




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