Originally Posted by
DrIsotope
AFAIC, there's no such thing as a "real patch." Tube is patched on the road to get me home, tube is discarded when I get there. Tubes are cheap.
A real patch is a patch that holds air now and will always hold air. It does not prevent your tube from getting a puncture somewhere else, but that puncture is done. If you're having patches fail, you have either bad technique or bad equipment. I do not consider "glueless" patches to be real patches; they don't last for ever.