Gian Trotta

Bright

Bringing back broken-tabbed backpacks?

Ever get frustrated when a metal or tab breaks on backpack, purse or duffel bag, rendering it basically useless? I found that you can buy a snap swivel at a fishing tackle shop and attach it to the little opening in the slider. I've bought a few backpacks I've bought at the spring rummage sale at St. Paul's Church on Clinton street back from the dead this way. Here's an example of a barrel/snap swivel:

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/links/link.jsp?id=0011853112554a&type=product&cmCat=SEARCH_all&returnPage=search-results1.jsp&Ntk=Products&QueryText=snap+swivel&sort=all&Go.y=0&_D%3AhasJS=+&N=0&Nty=1&hasJS=true&Go.x=0&_DARGS=%2Fcabelas%2Fen%2Fcommon%2Fsearch%2Fsearch-box.jsp.form23&_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1

414 Clinton St., Brooklyn, NY