Originally Posted by Ray Dockrey
I have a friend who takes old tubes and cuts them into small pieces and uses them with super glue to make his own patches. I haven't tried this so I don't know how well they will hold up.
I've seen a couple friends do that where they take an old, heavily patched tube, carve it up, and use rubber cement for patches, or use parts of the tube as rubber bands (like how one recent issue of a bike rag showed how to make a ghetto parking brake by using a part of a bike tube to clutch a brake lever.) I don't know how well the system works compared to patches though, but I give them a +1 for recycling.