Lockable Zippers

[EndoftheTrail]

Where can I buy lockable zippers – like the one below?  This is to help secure a travel/hiking pack — to keep honest people honest.  Thanks.

 

[EndoftheTrail]

Ah, never mind, found it.  Anyone else interested… click here padlock slider.

[David Thomas]

Looks like $10 for 2 including shipping.

Go to Goodwill and buy an old piece of luggage. Depending on the style, it will come with 1 or 2 or 3 sets of lockable zipper pulls plus zippers, handles, straps, wheels, nylon materials, etc.

[Mark Fowler]

Why not put the padlock through the holes in the zip pulls? All you are really doing is stopping the zip pulls from working open and spilling your stuff across the ground.  Zips are so easy to pop and a small blade opens up your luggage in an instant – as you say, a padlock only stops the honest ones.

[Franco Darioli]

One possible practical advantage of the lockable slider is that the padlock sits further up so that it has less movement and it is stronger than just a zip pull so  less likely come off in transport.

[Greg Mihalik]

Ben – You are probably aware but –

Size does matter, as does coil vs tooth.

I didn’t see either in the Amazon link. A quick search turned up sliders with specs.

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