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If the sealant won’t fill it has anyone made diy dog turds/anchovies to plug the small hole in the tyre using strips of old inner tube and vulcanising glue?
Or are the ready made packs so much better?
I don't know, but can I say, loving the emoji's in the thread title.
If you sanded the surfaces of the rubber (as you do to patch a tune) it might work. Never tried it though.
Patch on the inside, Hutchinson do thicker blue patches with superglue for the job.
Given that the proper ones are so cheap, I don’t see the point in fannying around trying to bodge something
cut up tube is OK for a small hole, but the anchovies bought in bulk from ebay are so cheap it's hardly worth the effort. 50 odd just turned up for me for about 3 quid.
Are you talking anchovies or mushrooms?
Tried repairing a small cut in between the tread with one of those anchioves. Lasted half a ride and needed to put a tube in.
When home I roughed up the inside of the tyre and fitted a normal tube patch with some decent glue.
Held fine for the past month or so including uplift day at FOD.
In my experience the Anchovies work just fine, either in the tread or down close to the rim (after a pinch flat). Only place I've not managed to put one in and its lasted the lifetime of the tyre is the side wall (a mushroom patch fixed that). For what they are to buy I can't see the point in using anything else. However, Antonio @ Basquemtb has used the cut up innertube out on the trail and its worked well with no issues, and has lasted.
I find that if they are the real thick ones, jusrt pull them in half length ways, and that putting some glue on the Anchovy before insertion, then twisting before removal is the key, then trim the straggly bits to say about 10mm .
They're so cheap it's just not worth trying to diy bodge.
That said the permanent weldtite type repair kit is based on a Swatch of rubber that you cut up cover in rubber cement (not vulcanising fluid) that you insert before cutting down so you can do exactly the same with an inner tube.
I've never got on particularly well with those anchovies, they're generally good for a small/temporary repair but I'm always nervous about them letting go suddenly.
I may well invest in some tyre mushrooms though.
I've patched up tires uling a bit of old innertube, it works fine. You could also patch the hold from the inside if you sand off the sealant first and glue a patch over. But like the others say, anchovies are cheap and probably better
I bought a Panaracer kit that was essentially using cut up iner tube material to create plugs. It didn't hold as well as the Weldtite anchovies.
Never heard anyone call them dog turds though, last thing you want on a tyre. :vom:
I’ve never got on particularly well with those anchovies, they’re generally good for a small/temporary repair but I’m always nervous about them letting go suddenly
ive got 2 in my tyre that have been in there for around 2 years now. One in the tread, one down at the bead, both plugging cuts. IME they are fit and forget
I've pulled one out riding along but I didn't cut it down. Apparatus from that in about 12 years or so of using them, theyve all last the lifetime of the tyre.