split tyre carcass

salsajake

Something has punctured my tyre carcass so the inner tube is just visible when fully inflated (a tiny bit but you know a piece of gravel or edge of tarmac could catch it and BANG!

Q.1 Would a piece of strong cardboard do as a temporary bit of protection (inside the tyre)
Q. 2 What type of superglue works best at sticking tyres together, or is that a futile exercise on a 100psi 25 section tyre (Continental GP 4 season)

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Wooliferkins

A tyre boot whether bought or home made is a get you home job. The commercial ones are thin plastic.

New tyre I'm afraid

salsajake

how do you make a tyre boot?! I was going to use some stiff cardboard and wrap it in sellotape to keep it dry. It has worked in the past, but that does appear to be exactly where the puncture was this morning (and I had to remove it because the slime wouldn't work with it there).

Wooliferkins

Friends have used old tubes, sheets of plastic, helicopter tape. anything waterproof and flexible that doesn't pinch your tyre

salsajake

my doubled up stiff bit of cardboard wrapped in sellotape should be Ok then. My mate swears you can repair smaller ones with superglue, but maybe not where the hole is right through. I can't see any glue surviving the stretching forces of 100PSI somehow!

gosport_commuter

Old toothpaste tube cut open makes a good emergency tyre boot, but again, is supposed to be a temporary fix!

froze

Superglue was useful for repairing small carcass cuts, but not large ones. However, at least here in America, Superglue type of products are not longer as good as they use to be due to people gluing body parts together! So I no longer use Superglue since they weakened it, instead I use either Gorilla Glue or Shoe Goo. I take a small tube of it with me and if I get a cut on a ride I dribble it into the cut from the outside of the tire with the tire inflated; then on the underside of the cut, (inside the tire), I put a boot patch on. In a pinch a simple candy bar wrapper will work fine for temp boot patch, some have been known to use a dollar bill...about all a dollar is good for these days!

Some things being used as a boot patch needs to be used with caution because if it's too thick like cardboard, toothpaste tube etc, can cut the tube, especially thinner road tubes.

Some tires have a rough surface on the underside, a tire boot used on a tire like that will be only a temp fix because after about a month or two it will fail to stick then puncture the tube. Keep in mind before applying a boot you need to roughen the surface like a tube, but this won't work on rough insides.