Where do you people come up with these ideas? I never said I needed patches. I bought 100+ in varying sizes about five years ago and I have most of them left. The wax paper on top doesn't come off any more due to the heat but they work pretty well. What I'd like to use the tire scraps for are 4"+ long splits that I can't use the patches on. I just picked up some auto rubber cement so I'll see how that works with the tube patches in a bit.