hot patches update

caterpillar guy · Aug 30, 2020

I posted earlier to day about some old hot patches I have. The update is I used one and it worked like they are supposed to. Though I didn't think it stuck quite as well as it might have as places on the edge looked like they didn't stick good when I folded the tube some to check how well it stuck.
Could I use them as a cold patch with glue like the newer ones I have. Just not pull them off the steel plate till after they are stuck. Or would they not work well that way?

old · Aug 30, 2020

To bad you don't have the device I have. It is a hot patch machine and it would fix the edge problem you have

caterpillar guy · Aug 30, 2020

What is the device you have might be able to duplicate it to some extent.

old · Aug 30, 2020

It is a very old hot patch install tool. It has a heating unit that plugs in to 120 volts after you have clamped the tube into it and let ti heat up for around 30 minutes then unplug it let it cool and the patch is on. It even works on the new glue down patches with or with out the glue. I got it decades ago and back then I had no clue what it was but do now. I also have a truck tire bead breaker tool that I found in a junk pile that I was told I could have want I wanted out of it comes in handy for breaking down tires of any type and size other then motorcycle and bike tires

Kansas4010 · Aug 30, 2020

Anyway you could post a picture of it sometime? I know you talked about it in another post in tool talk. If it works like you say it does it would be a vast improvement over the garbage patches and glue they sell now.

Jim.ME · Aug 30, 2020

(quoted from post at 18:56:26 08/30/20) What is the device you have might be able to duplicate it to some extent.

Here is a picture of a clamp for the type hot patches you have. Not all had multiple size spiders to hold the patch's tin pan down. You could make similar spiders to use with a C-clamp.

old · Aug 30, 2020

Posting pictures any more is a very big pain. The new computer does not like to old camera I have. Maybe some time I need to look this thing over and see if I can at least find the company name and maybe model number etc. on it and then maybe some one can goggle it. I'd have it for decades and got it at an auction in a box of stuff and never knew what I had till I worked for a tire place and told the owner what I had an he told me how it worked and that was 36 year ago. It has an arm that will flip up and the bottom plate has a big rubber pad that the tube lays on. You lay the patch on the tube then flip the arm down and lock it in place and screw the arm lock screw tight and plug it in and it heats up and sort of welds the patch to the tube

old · Aug 30, 2020

Here is more info on this tool.
The Ken-Tool MFG
Akron Ohio
Model # T-75

old · Aug 30, 2020

Here is more info on this tool.
The Ken-Tool MFG
Akron Ohio
Model # T-75

By the way I just did a search and there still in Business and still doing tire tools

Kansas4010 · Aug 31, 2020

Thank you for trying. At least with a name to go off of I might be able to find more about it.

miangus · Aug 31, 2020

I have one like that foxed a lot of tubes in its day. Nobody local carries the patches any more and the cold patches seem to work well.

dr sportster · Aug 31, 2020

I have a two clamp metal casting to hold the patches mounted outside my shop .Never used it because I have no hot patches and tend to buy new tubes.

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