Originally Posted by
wphamilton
If the patch's glue is going to be ruined by that temperature, it wouldn't do you much good on the tube either. I'm tempted to take a heat-gun to one, let it cool and patch a tube with it just to see. Except that I really don't like them anyway, and even though I have some scattered about it's only because they take up no room and don't weigh anything. Beyond trivial amounts.
Slightly different. Unused glue under pressure vs already stuck glue.
But, it can be handy to have everything together when you need it (thus I like my pump with the patch kit in the handle).