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@Scilly.Suffolk
Making butyl tubes thinner, to try and compete with latex on the scales, give you the worst of both worlds and for the life of me can't understand why they're made.
Butyl is not as flexible as latex, so more likely to be pierced by a foreign object, when latex will stretch around it: making butyl thinner makes it even more likely to burst.
The only drawback of latex is that it will lose pressure faster than butyl, so for your daily ride butyl is the hassle-free choice.