On Mon, 7 Dec 2015 08:57:48 -0800 (PST), WWS TEXAS
wrote:

The "patch-plug" is the ideal tire repair as it combines the best elements of the
patch and plug worlds; the patch keeps the plug from shifting out of place, and
the plug helps the patch to stay secure to the tire.

I never knew they make such a thing. Sounds like a good idea though.
A local tire shop will patch a tire for $10 or less, so I just let them
do it. Getting tires off and on rims is not easy without a "tire
machine" and I still would not be able to balance them....

I will fix bicycle tires, those small tires on garden tractors and
wheelbarrows though. Most of the time I just put a tube in them. Those
small tires seem to always leak around the rims no matter how well they
are mounted. Tubes solve that, and those small tubes are not very
costly.