Hot Vulcanizing Tire Patches

[malykaii]

Any idea where I can buy these things? The old school style ones.

Thanks!

 

[Rkbuell]

Have not seen hot patches in years. I still have the clamp, just not used this century.

 

[malykaii]

I figure I'll use a regular c clamp if and when I find the patches. Those clamps do look cool though.

 

[lilredex]

Think you are SOL on those, unless you can find an old tire repair supplier that has some hidden away.

When I worked at the local Imperial Esso station in the fifties, we installed many, many of those as tubeless tires were only beginning to show up around 1957. Patching tubeless tires was a new experience then, and we often just installed tubes in the difficult ones.

If you'd like to check out our suppliers, here is the Canadian Google link. Let me know if you need help around the Toronto area.

https://www.google.ca/?gws_rd=ssl#q=tire+repair+suppliers

I still have two patches and the clamp. They might have come from Princess Auto a long time ago. They are cool to both look at and use.

 

[WhiffySpark]

No reason to use them these days.

 

[fatfillup]

See those presses now and then at auctions, never used one though. I worked in a gas station in the late seventies and we had the glue you set on fire then put the patch on and roll it with a stitcher (thin, knurled roller wheel with handle). I got pretty good with them but with the new glue you don't light, i don't even try

 

[3 Gun Shooter]

When I still had motorcycles with tube tires I carried on with. Not sure what happened to it but it worked great.

 

[malykaii]

I'll bump this up. No one?

 

[Richard Cranium]

I have used that kind when I was a kid, and I still have one of the presses here some where. I have not seen the patches for years. Good luck.
I do the yard sales and estate sales a lot, and don't recall seeing any either. I do see the glue on patches some.

 

[ez-duzit]

Too much risk and liability issues to be repairing crappy tires.

 

[Smiliesafari]

Try these guys. Patchboy.com.

 

[malykaii]

^That don't list anything as such on the site... But they are somewhat local to me. I'll give them a call. Thanks!

 

[theoldwizard1]

Not a chemist or an expert on rubber, but I believe that once rubber is cured ("vulcanized" - the last step in making a tire) it can not be re-vulcanized.

True vulcanization bond the elements of rubber together at a molecular level. Even a "hot patch" will not do this.

A LOOONG time ago, I patched some rubber waders with whatever the common patch material and glue was back in the 60s. The trick was to clean and rough up the surface and use a roller/stitcher to get the body and edges of the patch to adhere.