Originally Posted by
cudak888
It's not kind to make a judgement call on this stuff when it keeps people moving in other societies that work vastly differently than your own. There's no "monstrosity" in the method when it's reliable and repeatable.
Granted, I share your curiosity as to how it doesn't bond the two sides together.
-Kurt
Kurt, apparently, my post has you all scuffed up.
Consider, however, that you may have entirely missed the tongue-in-cheek humor intended for and directed at THIS audience.
At the same time, the need to scuff, scuff, scuff before applying the patch, is apparently a lesson some here really need (see other thread about how people hate patching tubes).
Learning that it is almost impossible to over-scuff is why my patches never fail. If you can see ANY of the original surface, you have not yet scuffed enough (also true for almost all bonding operations).