![]() Lastly, you need to be able to cut off the metal pull tabs, so get one of these.Remember you have to do this while on your bag, so you don’t want to burn/damage the bag with a blowtorch. You can use a lighter, torch, or hair dryer to shrink the tubing but the results will be inconsistent, so I recommend one of these.You need heatshrink tubing, I bought this, but it is out of stock.They even make glow in the dark variants for extra 1980s fun. Black is standard, but you can buy any color you want, I use pink on the bags for my girls. But, if you are like me, you might want to DIY this a little more, so here’s the tools and gear you need to replace zipper pulls on all your bags: You can even buy the official GORUCK Zipper Pull Kit to do this, and you have almost everything you need. All you do is take a loop of paracord, remove the inner strands, slide it through the zipper, slide on heatshrink tubing, tie the knot, and shrink the tube. You might need to replace the tubing at some point in the future as well. Just remember to tighten the knot every year and you are good to go. Also you won’t confuse them with other parts of the bag, or get them tangled together, since the tubing works in your favor here. The heatshrink tube makes them stick out a bit, so they are easier to find.No matter if you have gloves on, cold hands, wet hands, sweaty hands, there is always something to grip. (Don’t confuse this with thinking that this means you can unzip the bag quietly, because that is not what I mean here.) No matter what, they don’t make any noise and that’s frankly how it should be. On most of my bags, if I think the looks warrant it, I cut the zipper pulls off and put on these GORUCK style pulls. GORUCK has nailed the zipper pull, nothing has even come close to it. Since then I have reviewed a ton of bags, and that line still stands out to me as prescient. My absolute favorite part about the GORUCK is the zippers - actually it’s the zipper pulls not the zippers themselves. GORUCK calls them “silent zipper pulls” which is to say they don’t jingle around when you move the bag about.īack in 2012 when I initially reviewed the GORUCK GR1, I wrote this about the zippers: They are paracord shells with heatshrink tubing and a knot at the end. ![]() There are a myriad of options out there for these, and my favorite are the GORUCK style pulls. One aspect that can make or break a bag is the zipper pulls: those little metal, plastic, or rope tabs we yank on to open our bags.
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