Zipper Failure?????

[Raul Perez]

Had a really funny comment on one of my youtube videos and a funny scenerio....

The scenerio concluded if the zipper failed in the blackbird....

I've had mine for about 1 year and no signs of zipper failure. How long have you had your black bird and has the zipper failed it's function or had signs of failure beginning?

I want to do my research before I comment back to this person.

Thanks,

Raul

[optimator]

I'm about a year on mine too, not even any signs of wear. I cant remember EVER reading about any zipper failures on the BB? I remember one post about some guy that bonzaied into his and ripped out the back seam, but that wasn't anybody's fault but his own.

[Cannibal]

I got one of the very early ones back in Aug/Sept of 2008. That one is still my primary BB and it gets used...ummmm....often. Haven't had a zipper failure yet beyond snagging the fabric of my top or bottom quilts from time to time. But, that's user error in my book so can't blame the zippers.

[moski]

I got mine slightly after Cannibal and never had a problem !
How often do zippers fail in general ?
Not very often in my book.

[Raul Perez]

I got mine slightly after Cannibal and never had a problem !
How often do zippers fail in general ?
Not very often in my book.

yeah my point exactly

[Cannibal]

Even if it did fail, it wouldn't be that bad.
Ask me, or several other people here, how much fun it is to get out of a Hennessy when you awake to discover you've flipped upside down at some point in the night. I'll take a busted zipper any day.

[moski]

Even if it did fail, it wouldn't be that bad.
Ask me, or several other people here, how much fun it is to get out of a Hennessy when you awake to discover you've flipped upside down at some point in the night. I'll take a busted zipper any day.

I would love to see that in real life.
B/c my mental picture of a a guy in that peculiar situation ,
cracks me up.

[Mustardman]

I got mine in Oct 2008, and the zipper seems perfectly fine.

and I HAVE woken up laying on the bug netting a time or two, when I was using the hammock without the tieouts and doing a lot of acrobatics inside my sleeping bag


The guy who fell through the back of his Blackbird prompted a slight re-design and reinforcement of the shelf area. Brandon offered to fix any of the ones that had been sold up until the design change, but I didn't see any need to waste the time to send mine back in. No problems so far, and I will be avoiding swan diving into my blackbird's shelf

[Raul Perez]

So far people have had the BB for about 2-2 1/2 years with good use with no zipper issues at all. With one random act of swan diving into the hammock which turned out to be a bad mistake

[Cannibal]

With one random act of swan diving into the hammock which turned out to be a bad mistake

I heard it was a back-flip.