Soldering iron to patch tubes?

The idea is just as it seems... melt the rubber to seal the hole.

Anyone done this before? Success?

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Phil, Squid-in-Training

"Phil Lee" wrote in message . ..
The idea is just as it seems... melt the rubber to seal the hole.

Anyone done this before? Success?



I expect that it will just smell bad and make a bigger hole or weaken
the inner tube at best. I don't think this type of material can melt
again. You need to use a solvent of some kind.

Patch kits work perfectly and are cheap and you can take them with
you. If you run out of patches and all the stores are closed, you can
make your own patches from old inner tubes.

The butyl rubber was vulcanized in the manufacturing process and can
only be "undone" by maceration and plastic deformation at low
temperatures. The heat from a soldering iron would burn the tube, not
melt it.


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