"THE" patch kit for decades now.
Hard to write a review on such a well-known classic. So I'll just add to the admittedly meager instructions.
1) find the puncture in your tube, usually by inflating and either feeling for escaping air, or listening, or dunking under water (the tube - not you).
2) examine the inside of the tire to be sure whatever punctured your tube isn't still there. Remove anything pointy sticking through the tire.
3) scuff the tube in an area around the puncture slightly larger than the patch you'll be using with the included abrasive square (or a spare piece of sandpaper). This is to get rid of the molding release stuff and any talcum on the surface of the tube.
4) apply a thin layer of cement around the puncture, again, slightly larger than the patch you'll be using
5) Wait - but you don't have to wait too long, just until the cement is no longer shiny. Once the cement is dry and dull you can...
6) Peel the foil backing off the patch and apply.
7) Push down quite FIRMLY all over the patch - I use the rounded end of my pump with the tube lying on a hard flat surface. This is important. It's called stitching and failure to do this step results in patch separation.
8) Optional: remove the clear plastic backing film. If you try to pull it from the outside edges, you're likely to pull up the feathered edges of the patch. Not good. Fortunately, although Rema doesn't document it very well, if at all, the film has an almost invisible slit in the middle. Stretch the patch very slightly and you should see that slit. Peel from the center of the slit toward the outside edge of the patch. Or leave the plastic film on - it doesn't seem to hurt anything.
9) Install, inflate and ride. I've never had one fail, and, like I said, I've been using these for decades.
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