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Any Tips: Puncture repair minus a kit?

  • 07-08-2010 8:21pm
    #1
    f1000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 318 ✭✭


    Any suggestions?

    Switched over to Presta and fecking pinched the tube trying to get the tire back on the rim. Have superglue and an old tube.

    Could I do a MacGuyver job on it?


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  • #2
    petethedrummer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,604 ✭✭✭petethedrummer


    Superglue will just go hard and crack. I wouldn't waste the tube trying or the glue.

    I dunno what can be done.


  • #3
    f1000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 318 ✭✭f1000


    Cheers Pete, Tube is cut already, gonna wrap around the chainstay. Could I cut a wee piece of tube and glue it over the hole?


  • #4
    Golfanatic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 439 ✭✭Golfanatic


    no harm on tryin


  • #5
    petethedrummer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,604 ✭✭✭petethedrummer


    I doubt it will work. It may also f--- up a serviceable tube.

    Do you intend to go on a long spin on this in the morning?? Then I definitely wouldn't. If its just an experiment then sure why not.


  • #6
    f1000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 318 ✭✭f1000


    some good advice there. just found another fecking hole in the NEW! tube. glue is holding but I see that it cracked around the edges but have had put enough around the area that it is still holding at pressure.

    gonna try tube & glue on the new orifice.

    Again any tips on repair minus a kit or what measures have you taken to patch that hole?


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  • #7
    adrianshanahan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 502 ✭✭✭adrianshanahan


    Can I ask the obvious question?

    Why not just buy a regular puncture repair kit for a few € ?


  • #8
    Al Wright
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 168 ✭✭Al Wright


    This is not a suggestion, just describes an emergency puncture repair method I saw used back in the days when the most common tyre/tube was 28 x 1 1/2. (not today or yesterday). One pinched the puncture and tied it off like a baloon with strong twine, (fishing line or like).
    I doubt many members of this forum are of the age group that would familiar with this approach


  • #9
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,805 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    I don't think superglue will work. I think (but I'm not a chemist, so I could be misremembering this) that the rubber cement you get with a standard puncture repair kit is a vulcanising fluid, which means that it encourages crosslinks between polymer chains in the rubber of the patch and the tyre. It doesn't just stick them together.


    Richards' Bicycle Repair Book     has a section on emergency repairs, and it mentions that you can stuff the tyre with leaves or newspapers as a last resort for getting home from the middle of nowhere. You can't cycle very fast this way apparently.


  • #10
    DirkVoodoo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,504 ✭✭✭✭DirkVoodoo


    I think tomas is right here, it's not superglue you get in a patch kit it's a vulcanizing glue to bond the rubber patch.

    Superglue, like Pete says, will just harden and crack when you flex it.

    +1 on the tyre patch kit, they cost next to nothing and you get enough in it to repair plenty of punctures, I think you may be trying to solve a problem that has an existing solution.


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