Christmas 1953, I got my first bike, and already had a flat tire on the rear wheel. I remember that I was hard to calm down. My neighbor helped me to removal and installation of the wheel and showed me the same, how to mend a hose. At that time I had it, also from neighboring, get a piece of old inner tube and it cut a patch and thus patched the hole. The patch was but on thick. So I later got my first repair box of Tip Top, which was made of metal. The content was comparable to the present, namely several of the Edges flattened patches of various sizes, vulcanising, rubber valve and place a piece of sandpaper sheet, similar to a grater, to roughen the tube. Then as now, is for me in the first place the quality and not the price. In a mature repair you have the best material available what about Tip Top in the market because we know that everything keeps permanently. For me, never came another brand in question,