This grandpa hates to slow down! I have also found the time for the glue to dry can be dependent on the relative humidity. I have now added a lighter to my bike repair kit to speed things up. A related method is to stretch out a small piece of road tar, use a lighter to get it really melty, and then press it onto the tube. Useful in a pinch, and I rode on such a patch for miles before swapping tubes and not because the patch gave way! Good tip, but can you share the details? Thanks for the help.
With thick-edged patches I tend to run a bit more glue round the outside, and this was no exception, then I used talc after that had dried, to stop it sticking to the tyre. It held for light inflation as a test so I installed it in the tyre. But I wouldn't trust the raised edges long-term.
Real patches are tapered to nothing at the edges so they can't catch on things. The patches with the orange edge and no self-adhesive layer e. And small tubes of vulcanising glue are available online on their own. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group.
Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. Tube patches: dedicated ones or recycling old tubes? Ask Question. Asked 3 years, 5 months ago. Active 3 years, 5 months ago. Viewed 3k times. Before I discovered puncture less tires, I had often to patch my inner tubes.
Is any of the two to be preferred? Improve this question. Dutch L. Dutch 6, 1 1 gold badge 27 27 silver badges 59 59 bronze badges. Which patches did you have? I have never seen a bike tube patch that would be thicker than tube. I can't say that I have ever succeeded in using pieces of inner tube as patches.
Real patches have a foil sealed un-vulcanised layer which can bond, Other things don't seem to. Dutch sounds like you bought a bad product.
I think most of us have worked for that same employer or at least his brother. The customers liked to see the flames shoot out of the incendiary under the clamp.
The more flames the better. I still have some of those and they are about 46 years old now. Texaco station: "Trust your car to the man who wears the star".
Thats funny, I was patching a front on my last night and the neighbor and I had a chuckle about how we used hot patches in the old days. I honestly didnt know you could still buy them. I use a 90 grinder to scuff the tube and never had one fail. Thats pretty wierd!
While browsing our local TSC store I spotted the Monkey Grip hot patch kit complete with clamp as well as separate packs of refill patches.
It was back on the rack with tire tools. I really did not have great results with it as the patches seemed to want to lift, could be the made in Asia tubes or my technique. Try TCS on the net. That's definately old technology. Must be a good reason they don't make 'em any more. The ones I like are for bicycle tubes.
They're like a clear stretchy bandaid with a peel and stick adhesive - no glue in tubes to mess with. It will hold psi no problem. No chance you'll melt your tube either. Probably only good for small punctures in a tractor weight tube though.
It's been a long time since I've seen a hot patch.
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