Retreading & Tyre Repair Plant Supplies - Patches, Tools

What this work involves

A retreading or casing repair plant does not buy the way a workshop does. It buys one thing repeatedly, in quantity, and it cares about consistency between boxes far more than about what is on the shelf today.

That is the part of our business the company started in. The CT and BP patch ranges exist in the spread of numbers they do precisely because repair shops need a size for every injury, not a compromise size for most of them.

Air Flow products for this work

CT Radial Tyre Repair Patches (CT Patch)
The full CT range, square and rectangular, CT No.33 to CT No.82, in trade cartons printed with the size.
17 item codes
Bias Ply Tyre Repair Patches (BP Patch)
BP No.3 to No.8, retail boxes of 10 with the size on the box face.
8 item codes
Tubeless Tyre Puncture Repair Vulcanizing Strip
4 inch pure rubber vulcanizing strips, 36 to a box.
Item code AF-12A
Mushroom Patch 6 mm & 9 mm - Tyre Puncture Plug
Mushroom plug patches in 6, 9 and 12 mm stems.
2 item codes
Cycle Tube Patch - Round and Oval
Tube patches in five shapes, for the tube side of the bench.
Item code AF-TP1
Tyre Patch Stitcher Roller Tool
1 inch knurled steel stitcher on a turned wooden handle.
2 item codes
Wire Brush 100 mm - Twisted Knot Wheel
Twisted knot wire wheels, single and double, for buffing back to clean rubber.
2 item codes
Wood Cutter
4 inch wooden wheel cutter with steel points, for roughing and cutting rubber surfaces.
Item code AF-057
Air Blow Gun
For clearing buffing dust before a patch goes on. 1/4 inch inlet.
Item code AF-061
Tyre Marking Yellow Chalk
Tapered chalk sticks for ringing punctures and damage points so they are found again.
Item code AF-018
Valve Core Pin - Tyre Valve Stem Core
Cores by the hundred, for revalving casings as they pass through.
Item code AF-037
Tubeless Tyre Valve TR-412, TR-414 & PVR-70
Snap-in valves in TR-412, TR-414, PVR-70 and TS 1532.
12 item codes

How they are used

The casing is inspected and the injury marked - a yellow chalk ring on the tread or sidewall is still the fastest way to make sure it is found again on the bench.

The injury is prepared and skived, then the inner liner around it is buffed back with a wire brush or a cutter wheel to a clean, evenly roughened surface. The dust is blown off with an air blow gun.

A patch of the right number and shape is laid in, aligned to the bead on a radial, and rolled down with a stitcher from the centre outwards so no air is trapped and no edge is left proud. Vulcanizing strips are used where a strip repair suits the injury better than a patch.

Who this is for

Retreading plants, dedicated casing repair shops, fleet workshops running their own repair line, and the rubber and tyre chemical distributors who supply them.

This is also the page for buyers comparing consumables on price per box across a year rather than per piece.

Choosing between them

Buy by number and shape together. In the CT series, CT No.33, 35, 37, 45, 55 and 82 are square patches and CT No.40, 42, 44, 46, 50, 52 and 56 are rectangular. A rectangular patch suits an injury that runs along the casing; a square one suits a round injury.

BP patches are boxed in tens with the size printed on the box face, which is what makes them findable on a busy rack.

We publish the numbers and shapes we make and not a millimetre dimension against each number. If you need exact dimensions before committing to a size across a year's consumption, ask us and we will measure them for you.

Browse the full range

The products above come from these parts of the catalogue - each one holds the rest of the range for that job.

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Buying for a business?

We manufacture these ourselves in Hansi and supply dealers, distributors and workshops directly. Tell us the trade you are in and we will quote against the quantities you actually buy.

Wholesale enquiry

Retreading and tyre repair plants