How many patches can a tube have and still work?

[Night Train]

Went to mend it yesterday evening. I've swapped a tube with 2 patches on it for one with 27! The failure is where 3 patches are together and overlapping, and I've put the thing in the bin.

Could you get it back out of the bin and send it to me or Arch please?

We struggle to find tubes with patches on for making hand and shoulder bags.

 

[Peter Armstrong]

I Get a new tube each time

 

[Davidc]

Could you get it back out of the bin and send it to me or Arch please?

We struggle to find tubes with patches on for making hand and shoulder bags.

For what they cost you could buy new ones!

 

[tyred]

I once fitted 8 patches at one sitting on the tube of a 1970s roadster. I probably wouldn't have but I had taken it for a short ride before renovation as the tyres held air and I came home again and came out half an hour later and the back wheel was on the rim. Hmmm, puncture I thought. Took the tube out, started to pump it up, spotted a hole, patched it and tried to pump up, spotted another hole, patched that, repeat a few more times.

The tyre hadn't punctured at all but a few big sharp flakes of rust that had come from the inside of the rim had punctured the tube in several places. A few years later, the inside of the rim has been wire brushed and painted with new rim tape, the very cracked tyre has been replaced but the tube is still going strong. It is quite possibly original to the bike.

 

[avalon]

I don't have a limit to the number of patches I will use but they do sometimes fail on an overlap or seam.

 

[Enid Agnus Dei]

Never fix them can't be arsed!I'd rather buy a new one fit it and ride again!

 

[Chris S]

The tubes in these tyres had been patched around 50 times. I don't know if that was each or between the two of them.
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/lo...eigh-bicycle-comes-back-to-carnoustie-1.77025

 

[gavintc]

At £2 a tube - come on, puncture, replace, move on.

 

[potsy]

Hardly ever bother repairing, but I have got a stock of them waiting to be fixed if I get round to it.

 

[Peteaud]

Bin and new one.

I do carry the park patches but only for emergency.