Sergio, I patched both Butyl rubber and Latex tubes using tube scraps:
vulcaizing compound on the butyl, and liquid latex on the latex tubes. Make
sure you get the tube clean and free of talc before you try to patch.
Greg Boggs
Waterford, MI
> On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 j.mccoin@comcast.net wrote:
>> Back in the"Day", everyone I knew who rode tubulars, and that was
>> EVERYONE,
> patched their inner tubes with a piece of inner tube from a dead tire.
>
> Yes, everyone!, myself included.
>
> However, recently I have run into many failures in patching inner tubes,
> whether of tubulars or clinchers, that good old way.
> I have a suspicion here, folks: some present day tubes are made of
> rubber which is a lot more difficult to be vulcanized.
> Is it really so, also for you?
>
> Sergio
> Pisa
> Italia
>
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