Fixing a puncture with superglue?

Got a puncture on the rear wheel today due to a nail that's still
there.

As I know where the hole is can I just pull out the nail and fill the
hole with glue? - I'm only really thinking of doing it this way as the
tyre will be replaced in a couple of months anyway and I don't want
the expense of a 'proper' repair.

cheers

oh - Fazer 600 if it makes a difference!

 

You'll need something small to bung up the hole. Try using your head.

 

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Buzby

 

Use sellotape to cover it up, make sure you use the brand name one as the
cheap ones arent waterproof.

 

Roger wrote

Spent all your money on private health insurance have you?

A twat is a twat, whatever he rides.

 

Ooh, that's a bastard.

Don't you listen to all the doomsayers that have had their richboy
know-nothing two penn'orths. They don't know what it's like running a
bike on a shoestring, they throw cash gaily as you like at "getting a
man in" all the fucking time.

What you want to do is pull the nail out, cut the head off it, get a
goodly squirt of superglue on the nail and slide it back in the hole.
The air is only escaping up the sides of the nail, right? So stop up
the gap with superglue and you're laughing.

If it still leaks, you might need to use a screw with a bigger shaft
diameter, missus - and Araldite fills screw threads a treat.

Let us know how it works, eh?

 

Pip wrote in

You sure? You'd probably have to run a bike on a shoestring if all your
money goes on rent boys.

Of course, my bike only ever gets the best maintenance money can buy.

 

Why? I've had a plug in my 020 for the last several thousand miles after
picking up a nail.

 

#Spanners for nothing and your sheep for free ...

 

ogden wrote

020? Several thousand miles? I doubt your tyres can be described as
heavily stressed.

 

ogden says...

Because many places will refuse to plug a bike tyre, especialy a Z
rated. Not all, obviously, but many.

 

Several thousand miles from a "sports touring" compound tyre is unusual?

What am I meant to be doing? Attacking it with a belt-sander?
Blowtorch? Cheesegrater?

 

Angle grinder.

 

You won't be wanting to get on any aircraft ever again then. Or in an
Elise - it's chassis is glued togther.

 

A lot of soldiers in Vietnam did.

 

And people think it's a coincidence that it happens to bond skin!

 

I think a ukrm poster repaired his damaged todger with supergule. After
either making a post about it (life's too short to google) or chatting
about it in IRC. All, natch, IIRC.

 

says...

*Waves*, that was me

I was very pissed at the time and whilst 'putting the boys back in the
barracks' after using the loo, I caught my todger on a paperclip that
was there to stop my broken fly-zip from falling down. It was bleeding
like mad and making a bit of a mess of whatever I put round it to stem
the bleeding, so I needed to do something in a hurry. As I couldn't
drive to the hospital due to being in a drunken stupor, I superglued the
inch long gash in my nob together, until I could get a taxi to A+E to
have it stitched up properly.

I had Ginge superglue a split in my head back together again once too,
after walking into a door at Pixiefest. Again I was pissed out of my
head. Daft **** only went and stuck his finger to my forehead whilst
doing it.

 

Thank you. Very constructive - there was me asking a genuine question,
freely admitting lack of knowledge in this area only to get abuse.
Very mature.

 

It's not that I don't want to get it fixed properly; I'm not a
cheapskate and no, do not trust my life to superglue!

Obviously I should have been clearer - with no air in the tyre I
cannot get the bike anywhere to be fixed! So need a temporary solution
- I'm sure riding 20 miles to my nearest bike dealer with a completely
flat back tyre is the most dangerous thing of all - I did notice the
bike being some what hard to control as I limped home the other day
after picking up the nail.