BarnyardEngineering
Well-known Member
- Location
- Rochester, NY
When I was a kid, Dad patched tubes ALL THE TIME. Not so much in the last 20 or so years, so all the tire patching supplies and tools have dried up or disappeared.
Yesterday a tire on the dump trailer was flat. Hole in the tube. I scrounged around and found an old patch and a tiny tube of "rubber cement" in a tire plug kit. Needless to say it was a waste of time. Put it all back together and the tube split wide open.
I'd like to find a set with all the essentials. I've tried the slime brand which is all you can find in regular stores, and haven't had much luck.
Didn't the patch glue used to be called "cold vulcanizing" or something like that? Now all you can get is "rubber cement" which. I can't even get two pieces of paper to stick together with rubber cement.
Yesterday a tire on the dump trailer was flat. Hole in the tube. I scrounged around and found an old patch and a tiny tube of "rubber cement" in a tire plug kit. Needless to say it was a waste of time. Put it all back together and the tube split wide open.
I'd like to find a set with all the essentials. I've tried the slime brand which is all you can find in regular stores, and haven't had much luck.
Didn't the patch glue used to be called "cold vulcanizing" or something like that? Now all you can get is "rubber cement" which. I can't even get two pieces of paper to stick together with rubber cement.