Thread: Patching near an existing patch, likely to succeed?
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Old 10-29-14 | 01:27 PM
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Originally Posted by JiveTurkey
I've done it successfully.

You can also rip off the old patc.h and apply one of the longer, rectangular patches over both holes.
If you can rip off an old patch, it wasn't applied correctly. Done right, the patch to tube bond as as strong as the tube itself, and any attempt to rip the patch off is likely to tear the tube with it.
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