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Originally Posted by cyccommute
I only really work with cans of vulcanizing fluid at my local co-op.
OK, that was a fun explanation, and I'm softening my position a little bit because I didn't realize how cheap those cans are. An 8oz can is roughly the price of five 10g tubes. So the calculation now is this: assume the can will yield acceptable glue for ... five years before it's unusable. If you use more than one 10g tube per year for patching, it would be cheaper to buy the can. Financially, you could save SCORES of cents per year.

But if you bugger up the threads on that cheap metal cap, or don't get it on perfectly just once... it's not there next time you need it.

Rema is mostly Naphtha, which is a blend of hydrocarbons and can have a boiling point as low as 40C... way way way lower than xylene.

https://www.rematiptop.com/assets/te...2020%20JFO.pdf

Originally Posted by dscheidt
Getting close to empty, though.
Well, that would be true whether you used any or not
Do you agree with the 1000 patches per can estimate?

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