What happened to vulcanising patches?

Thanks team for the replies, I am glad I am NOT ALONE in wondering what happened to..............
Never the less I have entered the 21st century (reluctantly) and bought some "green slime stuff" to put in both of the lads tyres which they assure me will keep plugging any punctures in the future??? So far so good.

I would still like to buy some "real" vulcanising patches so I can at least so junior "How Dad use to fix tyres" just for nostalgia if nothing else. Where around Adelaide might I find such animals?

Now that I have some time I can listen to my 33rpm LP records whilst I rebuild a carby for my Holden Ute (LOL)

Thommo
D1V8ES

Both our small local independent spare parts shops have tins of them. As far as repairing bicycle tyres goes, in my youth both vulcanising and cemented patches were available. The cemented patches were always regarded as suspect and had the reputation of letting go. I used hundreds of vulcanising patches on truck tubes. In the late fifties through the sixties in Western Queensland a vehicle rarely completed a run without a puncture or damaging a tyre. We always had a number of wheels and tyres in the workshop waiting to be mended. On some of the mail runs the drivers made a point of loading as many spare tyres as could be carried and tyre mending gear was on every vehicle.

hmmm looks like I'll have to put all my vulcanising gear into my museum collection alongside the wash board, the foot lasts, the coal irons, the 78's and the gramophone, not to mention the 8 track etc etc etc

I read the title and thought finally something to help those star trek geeks :D.

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Originally Posted by dullbird

I read the title and thought finally something to help those star trek geeks :D.

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Ha! I was going to suggest that the Klingons had got them all, but didn't think anyone would get it.

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Originally Posted by 303gunner

Ha! I was going to suggest that the Klingons had got them all, but didn't think anyone would get it.

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You underestimate us DB :cool:

Now I see glue-on patches being advertised as 'vulcanising' .. so beware!
:o

Chemically vulcanized.

Realizing this is an old thread (then again I'm an old bloke:p) I remember using vulcanizing patches on the tubes of the cross ply tyres on my first car, an FJ Holden would you believe. Yes, I burnt myself too and believe it or not I still have the clamp that I used to clamp the vulcanising patch to the tube.:D

Vulcanising a patch to a tube was WAY stronger than glueing one on.:)

Yup! I remember Vulcanising patches only too well :( and the struggle to remove a 6.70 x 16 cross ply (non radial/conventional)tyre from a Ford Custom and Custom line rim,and also from FJ Holden rims 5.90 x 15inch with a set of hand tyre levers after driving over the rim edge to break the seal :mad: pulling out the tube,finding the hole,feeling for the culprit (nail/stake/pinch) then getting the Vulcanising kit and doing a roadside/garage repair,and was envious of the Toyota Landcruiser mob with split rims like the trucks had,but in later life I hated Truck tyre repairs with a vengance!!!

Now the only vehicle that runs tubes is my Series 2a GS in both the Steeltreks (road) and the Bar Treads (display) :)