I'm not sure that I understand the rationale of buying lightweight tubes and filling them with Stans.
What’s the physics behind TPU tubes?
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I'm not sure that I understand the rationale of buying lightweight tubes and filling them with Stans.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Just seems a plastic waste problem in the making. Bin at first puncture is terrible, given what we know.
N0bodyOfTheGoat
Über Member
- Location
- Hampshire, UK
I thought there were TPU tube specific puncture repair kits.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Not very reliable and when they do work not long lasting from what I’ve seen posted in a few places.
derrick
The Glue that binds us together.
- Location
- On the edge of London
Love them no punctures yet been using them for a couple of years, though not much milage this year,
derrick
The Glue that binds us together.
- Location
- On the edge of London
There are i have them but not used so far.
I'm not so sure that the alternatives are that much better.
Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
A butyl tube repair done well is pretty much permanent.
Tubeless wastes just sealant. (TBH I'm not sure what's in tubeless sealant, and whether it's Very Bad Stuff)
Somehow in over forty years of trying to repair inner tubes. I have never achieved permanent.
True, but I bin after 3 which makes them around par on a weight of material basis.
Dogtrousers
Lefty tighty. Get it righty.
I've probably only had one or two fail out of dozens and dozens of repairs and they were my own fault for not doing it properly. Tubes do eventually get binned but the patches are still holding well.
Milzy
Guru
The patches work and pool patch kits work even better on them. I was talking about putting maybe a few grams of stans in.
Edit. Don’t bother putting sealant in tubes. Sloshing unevenly and cheap TPU can leak from the valves still.
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