Puncture - repair it or new inner tube??

[screenman]

Pays the same pitiful wages but to others, the only thing that can't be recycled is the glue as that is used. It goes use, re-use, recycle.

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You reuse patches?

I must admit I woke up this morning wondering why I put that last line up, I blame it on a too long day at work for by a hard swimming session, and of course old age.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

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You reuse patches?

I must admit I woke up this morning wondering why I put that last line up, I blame it on a too long day at work for by a hard swimming session, and of course old age.

I think we all suffer that from time to time, no I don't reuse patches but like tubes they can be recycled.

 

[Svendo]

What do you good people do when the smallest patch is a larger diameter than the squashed width of the tube when you have it deflated? That always stumps me.

I don't buy kits with a variety of patches as I only run 23mm tyres. I get a job lot of tip top f0s off eBay.
My other tip is to use a pair of the GFs Kirby grips (hair pins with one side wobbly) to mark the hole and hold the tube with the hole in the middle. Get them dead even and you know exactly where to put the patch even when the hole has disappeared under the dried glue.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

I don't buy kits with a variety of patches as I only run 23mm tyres. I get a job lot of tip top f0s off eBay.
My other tip is to use a pair of the GFs Kirby grips (hair pins with one side wobbly) to mark the hole and hold the tube with the hole in the middle. Get them dead even and you know exactly where to put the patch even when the hole has disappeared under the dried glue.

At the rate I have punctures I will be dead by the time I use that lot, or I will need to find more stranded cyclists with punctures

 

[cyberknight]

Another option for small tubes is to buy a patches as a sheet and cut them to the size you want ,
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Weldtite-...sure_Cycling_BikeLocks_SR&hash=item1e8cee3fa1

 

[Colin_P]

I don't buy kits with a variety of patches as I only run 23mm tyres. I get a job lot of tip top f0s off eBay.
My other tip is to use a pair of the GFs Kirby grips (hair pins with one side wobbly) to mark the hole and hold the tube with the hole in the middle. Get them dead even and you know exactly where to put the patch even when the hole has disappeared under the dried glue.

That is very clever.

The kits these days seem to not include any sandpaper, chalk and most importantly a bit of yellow crayon. The bit of crayon I have now is down to the nub so hair clips are the way forward!

 

[Nigelnaturist]

@Colin_P The kit the OH got me from Aldi a while back has chalk ect.... and quite a few patches, only used one to help a cyclist the other day to repair a rear tube, though as didn't have spanners (who does on a modern bike) had to do the tube with the wheel in place, having done this and getting the tyre pumped up, checked the front and found it woefully soft, so attempted to inflate that and the valve came away from the tube, nothing I could do about that so he ended up walking home anyway.

 

[Profpointy]

tea cups are so cheap in bulk I never bother washing them, just get a new one out of the box. It gives work to 3rd world potters.

 

[screenman]

tea cups are so cheap in bulk I never bother washing them, just get a new one out of the box. It gives work to 3rd world potters.

Good idea, they have lots of uses, much the same as an old inner tube.

You know this green bit you talked about earlier, is your internet connnection etc. solar?

 

[youngoldbloke]

That is very clever.

The kits these days seem to not include any sandpaper, chalk and most importantly a bit of yellow crayon. The bit of crayon I have now is down to the nub so hair clips are the way forward!

Or a ballpoint - see my post above.

 

[Colin_P]

Or a ballpoint - see my post above.

I'd have to obtain one of those nice blue pens from argos so it would fit in the puncture kit box

 

[youngoldbloke]

I'd have to obtain one of those nice blue pens from argos so it would fit in the puncture kit box

Ah, yes - I'm one of the replace with new tube on the road, repair at home faction. Though I carry patches etc 'just in case' (and I've got an almost new yellow crayon!)