Ahhhhhhhh!!!!! This is going to help me so much! I've literally going through ten tubes this year at about $9 a piece for my mower's sulky. Constantly tearing the valve stems. I make for certain when I install the tube inside the rim that the valve stem pokes through the rim without any bind on it. So I think the tube is somehow shifting inside the rim causing the stem to wear against the hole in rim. Atleast now I can fix them! Your channel has so many of out of the box diy things that I've put to actual use. LOVE YOUR CHANNEL! Can I come be your shadow? In the meantime ya got a patreon?
aadoublea, if your tire is slipping on the wheel rim, you might be able to use a method of motorcycle racing and drill holes in the side of the rim of the wheel, and run SS screws, at just the right length, into the tire bead.
That's a peculiar problem for a non-driven wheel. A tire (and tube) shifting like that usually only happens when drive power or braking is applied to a wheel and then usually only because of additional factors such as lube on the tire bead or under inflation. When installing a tube it should be inflated twice. First to allow the tube to untwist and shift inside the tire and then reinflate to seat the bead. It can be difficult just by looking to tell whether the tire bead has seated against the rim so release the air and press around the rim edge to be sure it has seated then reinflate.
I have a gun cart I use for sporting clays I made from a jogging stroller. Here in the Sonoran Desert we have mesquite thorns among other stuff that flattens tires. Patches didn't hold. On the last flat I coated the hole with Permatex Ultra Black Maximum Oil Resistance RTV Silicone Gasket Maker. I applied a slight vacuum to the tube to suck some inside the hole, then just enough pressure to keep the RTV from sticking to the opposite inside wall. Applied enough around the hole to make a patch and let it sit for 24 hours. That was a couple months ago and it hasn't leaked. The Permatex Ultra Black Maximum Oil Resistance RTV Silicone Gasket Maker sets up into an extremely tough neoprene rubber like material that is useful for many applications beyond the one it was designed for.
About three weeks ago Just for the heck of it I did a repair on my son's dirt bike tube. His tube has a straight valve stem. I normally clamp my tube repairs between two wood blocks. For his tube did the same just drilled a hole for the stem in the wood and clamped it down and let it cure/dry. Worked like a charm!
What you should have done first after cutting the hole in the patch is to slide the patch over the stem then apply the glue with the brush and then press it onto the tube
When replacing an old tube with a new tube, cut out a round section about 2-3” diameter of the old tube. Use a hole punch like in this video and slip it down over the valve stem.
Good tip I’ve never thought about trying that.as you say either a new tube or the expensive glue in valve And I agree on the Rema tip-top patches that’s all I will use and all the tyre repair places seem to use over here (uk)
Heya Moe! I was checking out my analytics and realized that you along with many of my friends are NOT subscribed to my channel lol. Apparently RU-vid likes to boot people off their subscriptions randomly. Just thought I'd let you know so you can get notified of my uploads easier. Cheers! And Awesome Fix as always. Zip~
I just went to your channel page and you last video and both show that I'm subscribed to you. I just went to the "Cummunity" tab then "Subscribers", sorted by most popular and you're listed as a subscriber on my channel for the past 4 years. I wonder if it's glitch?
Man its been ages since I patched a tube! Over the years I had many semi tires patched. I even plugged a few. I rarely got less than 450,000 on a set of drives, even after being patched.
BCtruck, rebuild, repair,repurpose 450,000 miles on a set. I’ve had a lot of tires but none that were that hard of a compound. Usually ran a softer cap called winter grip had them siped and still places where chains were required. I’d get 3-4 seasons out of them. Ran Yokohama mostly in the summer months and get 4-5 summers out of them.
Great idea! Not sure if it will work on 100psi Presta bike tire tubes, but will try it and report back. I don't think I have the space to use two patches though. Are you surprised that nobody has posted about rebonding the valve stem assembly to the tube? Well, I've looked everywhere and not found any kits or mention of this.....
I already did all that on my own, gosh darn electric scooter tube still leaking, tried three times. Ordered three tubes just to keep spares on hand. Whoever idiot assembled the thing at the factory left the nuts that are supposed to keep the valve stem out on the wrong side. 😅 And of course it was the back wheel that popped with all the gizmos on it which are a pain to take apart, which you must to replace the tube. Really wanted the patch job to work to avoid that mess.
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it. Years ago I was looking for a better patch and virtually every forum I looked at has someone saying Rema was the best. I bought a Rema Tip Top patch kit for $5 shipped and I will never use another patch.
I attempted to repair the valve stem on a road bike with a presta valve. Probably because I only used one patch and do not have much experience, it did not hold pressure
Have you ever used the old burn patches? I don't remember the proper name for them, some of them had primers that you would hit with a hammer to set it ablaze. The heat vulcanized the repair. I think I'm telling my age.
@@sixtyfiveford would like to see a video of them in use, just for nostalgia, good times, good times, can you still buy them? I would like to have a few .
I actually looked to buy some 8-10 years ago and couldn't find anyone selling them. The only ones I could find were old stock for collectors on Ebay. I finally found some at an estate sale a year or so ago.
good tip, just one thing. Whenver I put a patch on a tube, the instructions say to let the glue dry before adding the patch (presumably its stronger this way) . Why did you not let it dry?
Nice to know...i have air leaking from stem where rubber meets the threads of value...i ruffed it up with sand paper and brushed vulcan cement...i will wait a day or two before i fill with air...if its a fail i will just buy a new tube..
While I am about to try this technique 1st, I did find that Milton makes entire valve stem replacement patches.... search for Milton 462 and/or Milton 473 for them. But once you try one of these entire valve stem replacements you are stuck with them and if they don't work the tube is trash, while trying this 1st gives you a 2nd chance with one of the Milton stem replacements if this doesn't work. I have a rear tractor tire with a cracked tube stem, this tube is only 3 years old and costs over $100 to replace so.... what do I really have to lose but a few more days time? Just wish it wasn't 100F outside here in Texas right now... ughhhhh! 😕
I love your videos. You do a grate job of telling what your talking about in just a few sentences. what brand of patch and where can I purchase them please? and thank you
German made "Rema Tip Top" patches are all I use anymore. They seam to be made from high quality rubber and don't dry rot like so may other cheap brands. They're pretty inexpensive so I put links in the video description.
I just tried to do the same fix a couple of weeks ago but my hole wasn't clean (no jokes please, although you owe me one) and it failed. I was also using whatever Walmart sells for patches (crap).
haha. Years ago I was looking for a better patch and virtually every forum I looked at has someone saying Rema was the best. I bought a Rema Tip Top patch kit for $5 shipped and I will never use another patch.
Absolutely. But also prevention is not allowing the tire to run low on air so the tire spins in the rim. You can also use a bead sealer on the tire to rim to help stick it in place so the tire doesn't want to spin on the rim.
Do you have video on just patching an inner tube for tractor tire? Maybe these Rema patches your using will work better then the common inner tube patch repair kit that are at Wally world, they have small square patches and I cant seam to fix my tube with them, they still leak and peal right back off easy...........
That's so frustrating. I stack Rema patches all the time to fix holes in bigger tubes. They don't fall off like the cheap patches. You can essentially build whatever size patch you need.
Your dogs eyes, 'You're looking at me?, what did i do wrong' :-D. Such a nice old smart frend :-D I'm supprised that patches would work well enough, they are normally only used for pin pricks in the surface, ideal for outer tube leaks. I was going to say something stupid.... ahh ok go on then :-D, "I would never use that stem fix on a car innertube", yep yep i know it's an ancient innertube that no one uses now lol. Shoot me quick lol.
Great video Moe! Its wild what you can learn on youtube... I watched this video late last evening and today I went to the bike parts store and bought some of these patches. They were selling them for 25c each though. I wanted to buy a box of 100 but they wouldn't sell me a box grrrrrr. Thats a great tip on repairing the tube around the valve, I had 2 tubes tear a cm from the valve earlier this year but I had to replace the complete tube... Where did you get the whole punch?
sixtyfiveford Cool, I'll try looking for one or maybe make one. Today I put that green slime stuff in my bike tire tube. Last weekend I had a flat tire so I put a new tube into it and pumped it up to 80psi and a day later its at 20psi. What a pain! I figure if the green slime works on cars and motorcycles it should work on a bicycle tube too.
I've had great luck with the slime, but only in tubeless tires. I have had poor success with slime in bike tubes, but I know they sell tubes with slime preinstalled???
punched a hole in my best rubber airline pretty much in the center of its length. tried to patch it. fail. 100 psi resting rate is a lot to ask of a patch. any ideas?
Moe, another great tip video. I appreciated your product links as I know you are not getting rich off of the pennies Jeff Bezos is paying you for selling his patches. Do you have an Amazon Influencer list for the products you buy and like a lot? I add an Influencer list to my videos so people can see what I have bought and liked on Amazon. if you make a list on Amazon I would be interested in seeing what you buy and recommend as I sometimes find out about products I never knew existed by seeing what other people are buying and saving to their list.
I have my main Amazon influencer page linked off of my RU-vid Channel page. I should really spend more time with it. I notice you don't have yours linked on your channel page.
First, that would make for a crappy video. Second, I can permanently fix the tube faster and cheaper than I can go buy a new one. Third, in this day and age when everyone is too lazy to learn how to fix stuff I like to show people what is possible.
