Originally Posted by
peugeophile
I learned to patch tubes in my father's service station--sometimes five or six a day (flats come in bunches, in case you hadn't noticed). One trick he taught me was to strike a match to the cement in order to burn off the solvent and shorten set time. Looking back, this seems questionable, but I never had a patch fail, and I used the trick just last week. (fingers crossed)
Jon Z.
tubes? service station? Jon your dating yourself. I doubt half the people on this form know that cars had innertubes at one time. I have used the match trick off and on over the years, but not much lately.
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