I recently purchased a backpack from an online cottage company. I wanted to add a waterproof pouch to store small items such as car keys, wallet, etc. They created one, but the design was very bad. Essentially, they added a dual pull waterproof zipper on the outside of the pack. This creates a large hole in between the pulls, allowing quite a bit of water to leak into it, essentially making it worthless.
I’d really like to fix this major problem to make it truly waterproof (or at least as close as I can get). It’s made of X-Pac. Here’s what I was thinking.
Remove stitches A and slide one pull off
Sew or glue some small square pieces of X-Pac to cover the zipper (blue) on the inside and outside of the zipper OR
Leave it as it is and allow zipper to slide underneath the existing fabric (would look like orange)
Either way, I would need to re-stitch A. I would probably just add some seam sealant over the remaining part of seam A to prevent it from fraying.
Thoughts? Alternatives? I could send it back, but the shipping would probably not make it worthwhile. If adding the little X-Pac flaps would be ideal, I would certainly appreciate it if someone could mail me a small strip of X-Pac.
