@chemteacherphil: Rubber tires are essentially composed of a single molecule of cross linked polyisoprene. The old tire patches I use in this video are little more than metal discs filled with a combustable mixture with a thin rubber patch on the underside. When the mixture is ignited, it gets hot enough to cause the rubber in the patch to vulcanize with the rubber in the tube, creating a strong airtight patch, in spite of the fact that these patches are more than 75 years old! #c#chemistrychemteacherphil #LearnOnTikTok
Why would they stop making those things, they seem awesome
2024-04-09 16:35:43
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Priscilla :
I remember my dad used to use these on my bike 😂 They really work
2024-06-06 15:15:17
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Nathan Huff :
Those were the best tire patches ever. I wish they still sold them.
2024-03-11 17:26:28
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Deelite540 :
As a 70s kid, I remember the patches you had to cut to the shape of the hole of your bike inner tube and a tube of glue. We also used tire inner tube as a float at the beaches good old days. 🥰
2024-03-11 17:06:38
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user072042 :
Why don’t we still have these?!
2024-03-13 03:40:34
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incorrectcaveman :
used them many times
2024-03-11 16:19:40
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ser.nyc :
They are the best, was sad when I used my last.
2024-03-12 03:03:36
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Top Hat Gabriel :
why can't tires be recycled? I never understood that.
2024-03-12 00:59:57
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COJoe27 :
We called them "sizzle patches" when I was a kid in the 70's.
Nice post friend! ✌️
2024-03-19 15:17:00
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iya7878 :
Oh my gosh my dad used to have big inner tubes like that with patches in them that we used to go float the river with I never knew that that’s how the patches got on there
2024-03-12 17:12:34
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JenniferDJMK :
That’s very cool.,. And a great vintage box.
2024-03-14 01:05:53
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bsryan991 :
Soapy water test or it doesn’t work
2024-03-21 16:57:58
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user2224266093050 :
The smells of my childhood
2024-03-12 19:57:09
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✨PinkStarGazer✨ :
Vulcanization just reminds me of Star Trek 😅🤓
2024-03-12 21:28:19
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anon2121ymou :
Someone said the reason they don’t make things how they used to is because everything is cheaper and flimsy. So the rubber on a tire we have now is cheap and flimsy that this tool would melt it.
2024-03-19 05:59:52
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iispada :
мазелов озвучивал?
2024-03-23 13:32:19
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J :
You gotta do the soapy water test
2024-03-11 18:24:01
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anthonyholguin952 :
I remember these
2024-03-13 21:14:29
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mabghost :
This is cool
2024-03-11 15:34:46
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GimpScam :
Not only do I feel like it’s not a thing is because capitalism and it wouldn’t surprise me if that was toxic
2024-04-10 00:46:23
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chula :
i was today years old cuando supe porqué se llaman vulcanizadoras.
2024-03-12 06:07:15
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BearlySteve :
This is how we fixed our bike tires when I was a kid. They were much smaller though.
2024-03-11 23:04:34
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