Originally Posted by
dscheidt
If I've done something like repair a two inch tear, I will leave it inflated overnight.
Out of curiosity how do you repair a 2" tear?
I used to put the tube in a rim and tire and inflate overnite but repair fails were so rare I stopped. It also requires
a tire very easily R&R with no wrestling with tire tools so as to avoid a pinch cut. Most of my repairs now are just put back*
in the same wheel/bike after repair and inflated then checked the next day. I do have about a dozen repaired tubes in
the garage waiting for use when a tube valve does fail. I have no upper limit on # of patches on a tube but generally
by the time 4-5-6 patches are reached you get a valve failure or a hole next to the mold line that won't hold air when
patched.
* ie most of my flats are discovered in the garage and not on a ride, been lucky for several years now that way.