Originally Posted by
Bigbus
I got me a bunch of single use tubes from China a while back and only carry non-opened glue with on the road. So far I've never popped one open that wasn't still good and they're going on 4 years since I got them. I think I paid like a buck for 20 of them with free shipping, that was before things went crazy. Can't even find them anymore.
It doesn't matter in the least whether you open the tube of glue or not. Either the carrier leaks out through the crimp at the bottom of the tube or through the metal tube itself since I have an entire box of patch kits that I bought to hand out to people and they are almost entire worthless now. Since the disappearance of the carrier is so slow, one trick is to get a large size of Rema glue that is about 4 ounces. This lasts damn near forever. But I'm still liking the glueless patches because they don't have any carrier to begin with.