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

Rick Onanian

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

A Muzi

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

Marcus Coles

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

S o r n i

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.

G.T.

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

ZeeExSixAre

> & 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

David Reuteler

S o r n i <sorni@bite-me.san.rr.com> 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.
--
david reuteler
reuteler@visi.com

Michael J. Klein

On 29 Apr 2004 00:48:01 GMT, David Reuteler <reuteler@visi.com> wrote:

> S o r n i <sorni@bite-me.san.rr.com> 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
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David Reuteler

Michael J. Klein <usenet@mousepotato.com> 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.
--
david reuteler
reuteler@visi.com

Michael J. Klein

On 30 Apr 2004 00:39:25 GMT, David Reuteler <reuteler@visi.com> wrote:

>Michael J. Klein <usenet@mousepotato.com> 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