Does anyone have a tut for a zipper?
My guess is that you’ll want to use dupliframes if this is a close-up zipper.
http://www.blender.org/modules/documentation/htmlI/x9547.html
Or are you talking about modeling say a jacket which will be zipped up by a character? In that case you probably don’t need that much detail in the zipper. In that case you might be best off using hooks.
http://www.blender3d.org/cms/Object_Hooks.391.0.html
Then again, you might want to use both.