[Koko Ed]

When I was Field Supervisor in Boston we had a couple of hundred tubes Alex Cormier repaired when he was impromptu Field Supervisor at GTR West and almost every one of them were tossed out. Once the tubes get damaged they just aren't long for this world. They are very cheaply made and break easily. FIRST provided a tube repair kit (I think it was vinyl tape) to try to make tubes last but rarely did it really work. Once a tube got popped they were gonna leak no matter what.