Mike Melton warns tire technicians never to light vulcanizing cement on fire when patching tires. The heat destroys the cement's bonding agents, patches fail prematurely, and shops face fire hazards, health risks from toxic fumes, voided warranties, and lawsuits.
All you tire techs are doing this all wrong. So this is the vulcanizing cement that y' all use when you go to put a patch on, right? So a lot of you guys, I see you light this stuff on fire. Now look at it says danger. What is that danger for? For one, it's flammable, right? So whenever you light it on fire, it's not only going to cause a fire hazard inside the shop, it's going to be burning all the chemicals out. It's going to get all in your nose. You don't want to breathe that stuff in. All right? Two, this has got bonding agents in there. So when you light that stuff on fire, it takes all that stuff away, it burns all the bonding agents off. You cannot do that. And if you don't believe me, all you do is look up one of these companies. Don't matter who it is. Rima Extra Seal doesn't matter. They will tell you, do not light the vulcanizer cement on fire, right? Because you not only void the warranty, you can make. Make a patch not adhere, right? Because you're. You don't burn off all the bonding agents and you can sit there and cause the carcass to be bad, right? So look, so this is what these guys are doing. They're taking. Putting it on there, all right? They're taking a lighter and they're lighting this stuff on fire. Watch this. So you see all that? That's getting right there and they're breathing that stuff in. Do not let you guys do that. So make sure you guys who own these shops train your team, right? Do not let them use this. This is 100% a bad thing to do. Do not let you guys light that stuff on fire. You're not only putting the customer in danger, you're putting your team in danger. And also you're gonna cause yourself to get sued by doing that stuff. So don't do it.
