Originally Posted by
Reynolds
As a recycler -or some would say cheapskate - I hate tossing still good tubes. I've used tubes with 10 + patches on them, so I applied 100's of patches, some of them at the seams. No problem at all.
You're not alone, I do the same thing, I keep patching till the tube is no good usually due to valve stem failure, on a rare occasion either a puncture into a patch, or one on the back of the valve stem, and seams don't matter.