Originally Posted by HillRider
I've been using Elmer's Rubber Cement with Rema patches (bought by the 100 patch box also) for years with excellent results.
As to the cement in the patch kits being "vulcanizing fluid", that chemically incorrect. It's thin rubber cement, plain and simple. Tubes are already vulcanized. Nothing more is going to happen to them and certainly not at room temperature.
I actually go one step further. I cut patches out of an old tube and glue them with rubber cement.
Bob