Postage Stamps

Post by **Mick F** » 22 Apr 2007, 9:18am

As a kid, I read an Enid Blyton story about some children on bicycles, one had a puncture.

They mended it with a stamp!

Can it be done? Has anybody actually done it?

I know that in the old days, kids bikes had big, fat, low pressure tyres. Maybe it could be done THEN, but not now-a-days.

GeoffL · Post by **GeoffL** » 22 Apr 2007, 11:23am

If it was a small enough hole, I suspect any membrane that would seal the hole would do. Stamps of today don't seem porous, and the higher pressure might actually make the repair more effective:

Higher pressure would reduce relative movement between the tube, tyre, and stamp.
Tyre reaction against the higher pressure would hold the stamp more securely against the tube.

That said, I've never repaired a puncture with a stamp and I'm not particularly adept at repairing them with a proper repair kit at the roadside!

Geoff

reohn2 · Post by **reohn2** » 22 Apr 2007, 4:13pm

MickF
Would that have been a first class stamp or second?

jam05 · Post by **jam05** » 22 Apr 2007, 5:10pm

Are you sure it wasn't a rubber stamp?

thirdcrank · Post by **thirdcrank** » 22 Apr 2007, 6:53pm

MickF

We are not talking about building a spaceship - why not give it a go to see?

jb · Post by jb » 22 Apr 2007, 9:01pm

A postage stamp would not stretch with the tube as it expanded to fill the cavity

hubgearfreak · Post by **hubgearfreak** » 22 Apr 2007, 9:58pm

in our local countdown shop, puncture reapire kits are 49p, and they must contain at least one and a half patches :lol:

thirdcrank · Post by **thirdcrank** » 22 Apr 2007, 10:08pm

jb wrote:A postage stamp would not stretch with the tube as it expanded to fill the cavity

I thought the recent increases in the price of stamps were to allow for inflation. :oops:

(Sorry about that.)

jb · Post by jb » 22 Apr 2007, 10:29pm

this sort of humor needs to be stamped out

thirdcrank · Post by **thirdcrank** » 22 Apr 2007, 10:53pm

I suppose that's why Graham has put up some 'posting guidelines'

hubgearfreak · Post by **hubgearfreak** » 23 Apr 2007, 4:08pm

women are far too sensible for this inane humour...i guess you're all mail?

DaveP · Post by **DaveP** » 23 Apr 2007, 4:38pm

Lets get back on topic!
The inner tube, and the perforations...
:oops:

mrs doubtfire · Post by **mrs doubtfire** » 23 Apr 2007, 7:29pm

Women are too sensible.But we men are from Mars.This could turn into a Marathon.But we are all from the same Galaxy.

hamster · Post by **hamster** » 26 Apr 2007, 2:39pm

Don't you mean ride the same Galaxy...?

jam05 · Post by **jam05** » 26 Apr 2007, 6:36pm

Both a galaxy and mars would melt and wouldn't hold a puncture. Perhaps a gobstopper would work?

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