Rubber pasta in dollar store patch kit; and missing rim tape



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Rick Onanian

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I have a couple patch kits from a dollar store, and they
include something that looks very much like macaroni, but is
made of rubber (probably thick latex). There's two in each
kit, they're exactly the color, shape (except not bent into
an elbow), diameter (inside and out), and length of the
uncooked macaroni in a box of Kraft macaroni & cheese. What
are these? For spreading cement without using dirty fingers?

In partly unrelated news, where did I put that fscking roll
of Velox rim tape? I had it sitting around to install on my
rear rim during the next time I removed the tire...I better
check the desk drawer...
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Rick Onanian
 
Rick Onanian wrote:

> I have a couple patch kits from a dollar store, and they
> include something that looks very much like macaroni, but
> is made of rubber (probably thick latex). There's two in
> each kit, they're exactly the color, shape (except not
> bent into an elbow), diameter (inside and out), and length
> of the uncooked macaroni in a box of Kraft macaroni &
> cheese. What are these? For spreading cement without using
> dirty fingers?

That is a replacement valve rubber for a Woods valve. :
http://www.yellowjersey.org/nuvalve.html

Air can go in under that tube but can't escape back.

--
Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org Open every day since 1
April, 1971
 
Rick Onanian wrote:
> I have a couple patch kits from a dollar store, and they
> include something that looks very much like macaroni, but
> is made of rubber (probably thick latex). There's two in
> each kit, they're exactly the color, shape (except not
> bent into an elbow), diameter (inside and out), and length
> of the uncooked macaroni in a box of Kraft macaroni &
> cheese. What are these? For spreading cement without using
> dirty fingers?
>
> In partly unrelated news, where did I put that fscking
> roll of Velox rim tape? I had it sitting around to install
> on my rear rim during the next time I removed the tire...I
> better check the desk drawer...
> --
> Rick Onanian

It's replacement valve rubber for old "Dunlop" type inner
tube valves.

The best way to find the rim tape is to buy more.

Marcus
 
Rick Onanian wrote:
> In partly unrelated news, where did I put that fscking
> roll of Velox rim tape? I had it sitting around to install
> on my rear rim during the next time I removed the tire...I
> better check the desk drawer...

It's in the garage behind the 36-year-old Pachinko machine
you've been storing for absolutely no good reason.

Bill "HTH" S.
 
Rick Onanian wrote:
> I have a couple patch kits from a dollar store, and they
> include something that looks very much like macaroni, but
> is made of rubber (probably thick latex). There's two in
> each kit, they're exactly the color, shape (except not
> bent into an elbow), diameter (inside and out), and length
> of the uncooked macaroni in a box of Kraft macaroni &
> cheese. What are these? For spreading cement without using
> dirty fingers?
>

This was answered in r.b.t. just a couple of weeks ago.

Greg
 
> & cheese. What are these? For spreading cement without
> using dirty fingers?

Emergency food for while you're out... gnawing on it
releases critical potassium and complex carbohydrates to
encourage smooth muscle function and fuel.

Oh, and, they offer it in a low-carb form too...

What's with all these "low-carb beers?!?!"

--
Phil, Squid-in-Training
 
S o r n i <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's in the garage behind the 36-year-old Pachinko machine
> you've been storing for absolutely no good reason.

mmmmm, pachinko. any reason is a good reason. i wonder how
high quality those little balls are as ball bearings. i was
so drunk the last day i was in japan i stuffed a pocketful
of those balls into my bag and forgot about them until
airport security.

think i still have 'em, too.

wish i had the big guns pinball game, tho.
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david reuteler [email protected]
 
On 29 Apr 2004 00:48:01 GMT, David Reuteler <[email protected]> wrote:

> S o r n i <[email protected]> wrote:
>> It's in the garage behind the 36-year-old Pachinko
>> machine you've been storing for absolutely no good
>> reason.
>
>mmmmm, pachinko. any reason is a good reason. i wonder how
>high quality those little balls are as ball bearings. i was
>so drunk the last day i was in japan i stuffed a pocketful
>of those balls into my bag and forgot about them until
>airport security.
>
>think i still have 'em, too.
>
>wish i had the big guns pinball game, tho.

were you the dude in Naritaka who asked me if i was "an
australian or something?" lol

Michael J. Klein Dasi Jen, Taoyuan Hsien, Taiwan, ROC Please
replace mousepotato with asiancastings
 
Michael J. Klein <[email protected]> wrote:
> were you the dude in Naritaka who asked me if i was "an
> australian or something?" lol

nahh, i was already drunk ... if i was looking to get drunk
then i might be asking around for an australian.

say, gotta love those vending machine beers. some of 'em are
damn huge! .. and the vending machine lasses were great the
next morning.

here's the requisite bad photo of me in hiroshima.

http://www.visi.com/~reuteler/images/japan.jpg

the date on that photo is late july, 1995. i was
coincidentally in hiroshima for the 50th anniversary of the
dropping of the bomb. at the time i was in grad school for
computational physics. i am also, of course, an american.

man.. was.. that.. a.. trip..

OT pachinko. if they were grade 25 ball bearings they'd
probably be a good source. oh, well.
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david reuteler [email protected]
 
On 30 Apr 2004 00:39:25 GMT, David Reuteler <[email protected]> wrote:

>Michael J. Klein <[email protected]> wrote:
>> were you the dude in Naritaka who asked me if i was "an
>> australian or something?" lol
>
>nahh, i was already drunk ... if i was looking to get drunk
>then i might be asking around for an australian.

glad you know the drill actually. i went bowling with an
Aussie in Taipei back in 2000, and be bought tinnies on each
frame. We bowled 5 games!

>say, gotta love those vending machine beers. some of 'em
>are damn huge! .. and the vending machine lasses were great
>the next morning.

lol I never went _there_.

>here's the requisite bad photo of me in hiroshima.
>
>http://www.visi.com/~reuteler/images/japan.jpg
>
>the date on that photo is late july, 1995. i was
>coincidentally in hiroshima for the 50th anniversary of the
>dropping of the bomb. at the time i was in grad school for
>computational physics. i am also, of course, an american.
>
>man.. was.. that.. a.. trip..

I would imagine! Anyone give you a hard time?

Michael J. Klein Dasi Jen, Taoyuan Hsien, Taiwan, ROC Please
replace mousepotato with asiancastings
 
Michael J. Klein <[email protected]> wrote:
> glad you know the drill actually. i went bowling with an
> Aussie in Taipei back in 2000, and be bought tinnies on
> each frame. We bowled 5 games!

forewarned since birth. my mother is uk/australian (not to
say she drinks, she doesn't) but i grew up going to
australia every 2 or 3 years. i'd like to try bike touring
down there at some point. the great ocean road or something
that wouldn't leave me dead in the outback for instance.

>>.. and the vending machine lasses were great the next
>>morning.
> lol I never went _there_.

whoa .. that came out way wrong. i meant lassie, as in

http://www.thevirtualbar.com/cgi-bin/dspdrink?RecNo=7018

> I would imagine! Anyone give you a hard time?

no, of course not, it's still japan. lucky for me (in this
respect) my mom's family has an interesting history with the
japanese in world war 2 and that personal history got me out
of most uncomfortable situations. got me out of *THE*
question in particuliar.
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david reuteler [email protected]
 

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