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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.
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Originally Posted by dullbird
) 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.
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 
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!!!
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