Originally Posted by Salamandrine

Thanks for scanning that! good history. Oh, a tube extractor. Of course! Some of you guessed right, not me. Hmm, I guess it's so you can snip only a few threads, and then fish inside the tire casing for the tube. Less sewing back up to do. But the instructions say snip open 4 inches. With that much room fingers are the preferred extraction device.

The "solution" is the same as the vulcanizing fluid in a standard patch kit. Apply to tube, let it get tacky, apply patch. The rim cement is for gluing tire to rim.