velcro sucks
September 10, 2005 12:20 PM   Subscribe

I got a Chrome bag a month or so ago that's been working great. However, I don't like the Velcro. It's incredibly loud when it separates, which is fine for some things, but for getting in & out of it when I'm in a place I don't really want to make a lot of noise it's difficult.

Here is a picture of the bag... the velcro bar hits the two velcro strips to stick. I've tried putting seran wrap over the top velcro bar, but the velcro eats through that fairly fast, and looks tacky. Any suggestions for how to deal with this non-destructively but relatively long-term?
posted by devilsbrigade to Grab Bag (11 answers total)
 
How about buying a piece of velcro of the same size and attaching it to the offending piece(s) on the bag?
posted by firstdrop at 12:28 PM on September 10, 2005


Oh, and if you don't want the bag, I'll take it off your hands...
posted by firstdrop at 12:30 PM on September 10, 2005


Duct tape!

Me, I would try to remove the velcro, and possibly investigate a magnetic clasp or something. Assuming you don't put a laptop in there. Which you probably do.
posted by trevyn at 12:46 PM on September 10, 2005


Response by poster: Getting a piece of velcro is a great idea. I'll look around for something usable.

The bag flap can be secured with the snap-in-things (is there a name for these?) fine; the velcro is pretty much unneeded. It is sewn in, though.
posted by devilsbrigade at 12:55 PM on September 10, 2005


You can get velcro strips from just about any sewing/cloth store - most hardware stores will stock it, too, although these tend to have adhesive backing.
posted by PurplePorpoise at 1:20 PM on September 10, 2005


I know you said Non-destructively, but you can get a seam ripper that will remove the stitches that hold it without destroying the bag.

the name for the snap in things- plastic buckles?
posted by fake at 1:36 PM on September 10, 2005


The bag flap can be secured with the snap-in-things (is there a name for these?)

I call 'em 'buckles' but I could be wrong.
posted by fixedgear at 4:37 PM on September 10, 2005


I've got an original Chrome Metropolis that I got way back in 2001, before they came in anything but black with white linings.

I run into a problem with the velcro closure when I've got the bag absolutely stuffed, and it gets hard to close just right. The problem is that once the flap is closed, you can't effectively cinch it down with the buckles because the vecro will have already taken hold.

What I do to escape this is to put a sheet of paper over the spot where the loop-side of the velcro is as I close it. Then the velcro doesn't engage and I can cinch it down. Once it's cinched, I yank out the sheet of paper.
posted by blasdelf at 7:54 PM on September 10, 2005


trevyn: I'd be surprised if you managed to damage a modern HD with anything less than than an awkwardly powerful magnet, such as one out of a voice coil of another HD (I have one with a 25mm thick piece of wood in between, and seperating them is still pretty tricky). With densities being what they are aren't they pretty resistant to stray magnetic fields?
posted by Freaky at 8:32 PM on September 10, 2005


I'd be surprised if you managed to damage a modern HD with anything less than than an awkwardly powerful magnet

You're probably right, but I was thinking of a reasonably powerful (though perhaps not awkwardly powerful) magnet, and considering that it would be very close and subject to repeated exposure...I just wouldn't take the risk with my own laptop, and would find it difficult to enourage others to take the risk either.
posted by trevyn at 11:37 AM on September 11, 2005


get a bunch of black fuzz and use it to fill in the velcro rendering it useless
posted by jacobsee at 1:57 PM on September 11, 2005


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