Originally Posted by
Looigi
Seems kinda funny that it's a lost art. Patching tubes was something all we kids learned to do and did as a matter of course back the '50s and '60s, usually taught to us by our fathers or friends.
Does anyone remember the old-fashioned hot vulcanizing kits? They had a clamp like this
Vintage Tire Tube Patch Vulcanizing Repair Clamp | eBay
and the patches came attached to a tin container filled with some fibrous compound which you clamped to the tube and set afire to heat the patch and complete the process.
Vintage J w Speaker Corp Match Patch Vulcanizing Unit Giant Oval GU 5 | eBay