Fixing a cut in a tubeless tire Hutchinson kit didn't work.
I had a negative experience with Hutchinson's tubeless repair kit.
1) Instructions are so inadequate as to be unsafe, IMHO. For example, no mention of the the fact that cyanoacrylate glue fumes affect your eyes, nor any safety notices about the cyanoacrylate glue itself.
2) No mention of how to remove cyanoacrylate from fingers (acetone is pretty much the best solvent)
3) Easy to get glue on said fingers
4) The patches come with foil (on one side) and clear film (other side) protectors. No mention in instructions about removing this packaging. Pretty obvious, but its hard to get a foothold (fingerhold) to get those things off.
5) The patches come with one side all blue, and the other side with a black dot with blue surround. Anyone know which side goes towards the tire? Wasn't in the instructions.
6) Instructions say to apply glue and then wait 15 seconds, then to apply the patch. How much glue (just wet, thin layer, thick layer)?
7) Instructions say to hold patch on for a minute. Firs of all, how? Too easy to glue yourself to tire. Next, glue had not set even after the allotted time.
8) From testing, I can tell you that neither side (blue or blue/black) sticks well after being applied. Both patches leaked after I reinstalled and pumped up the tire. A complete fail.
9) One leak was a small cut. The patch did not appear to have sufficient strength (or maybe it was just that it wasn't adhering at all) and so the cut appears as a little zit or bump on the tire. Avoiding this was why I bought the kit! I wanted to add some structural integrity to the tire so that it wouldn't have a "zit" to avoid the "zit" wearing down and leaking.
I chose the Hutchinson kit because I wanted a reliable seal that added some structural integrity to the tire. Not sure I got anything of any value at all from this kit. I avoided the "bacon strip" (strip of raw rubber that is poked through the hole to seal because I didn't feel it would be reliable. Was this wrong?:
How do other folks fix small cuts and tears that sealant doesn't fully seal?
1) Instructions are so inadequate as to be unsafe, IMHO. For example, no mention of the the fact that cyanoacrylate glue fumes affect your eyes, nor any safety notices about the cyanoacrylate glue itself.
2) No mention of how to remove cyanoacrylate from fingers (acetone is pretty much the best solvent)
3) Easy to get glue on said fingers
4) The patches come with foil (on one side) and clear film (other side) protectors. No mention in instructions about removing this packaging. Pretty obvious, but its hard to get a foothold (fingerhold) to get those things off.
5) The patches come with one side all blue, and the other side with a black dot with blue surround. Anyone know which side goes towards the tire? Wasn't in the instructions.
6) Instructions say to apply glue and then wait 15 seconds, then to apply the patch. How much glue (just wet, thin layer, thick layer)?
7) Instructions say to hold patch on for a minute. Firs of all, how? Too easy to glue yourself to tire. Next, glue had not set even after the allotted time.
8) From testing, I can tell you that neither side (blue or blue/black) sticks well after being applied. Both patches leaked after I reinstalled and pumped up the tire. A complete fail.
9) One leak was a small cut. The patch did not appear to have sufficient strength (or maybe it was just that it wasn't adhering at all) and so the cut appears as a little zit or bump on the tire. Avoiding this was why I bought the kit! I wanted to add some structural integrity to the tire so that it wouldn't have a "zit" to avoid the "zit" wearing down and leaking.
I chose the Hutchinson kit because I wanted a reliable seal that added some structural integrity to the tire. Not sure I got anything of any value at all from this kit. I avoided the "bacon strip" (strip of raw rubber that is poked through the hole to seal because I didn't feel it would be reliable. Was this wrong?:
How do other folks fix small cuts and tears that sealant doesn't fully seal?