Just realized my swamp cooler was leaking from the supply line the whole time

I spent like 3 hours last August checking the pan and the float valve on my MasterCool cooler on the west side of ABQ. Turned out the little brass compression nut on the 1/2 inch copper supply line had worked itself loose after a windy night. Tightened it with a crescent wrench and no more drip on my ceiling drywall. Has anyone else had those nuts vibrate loose over time?

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the_charlie15h ago

Not sure I'd blame the wind for that lol. I've had the exact same thing happen on a couple different coolers over the years and it's almost always just time and vibration from the unit running. Probably the nut was never torqued down tight enough from the factory or whoever put it in. A crescent wrench fix in 30 seconds seems like less of a crisis than some folks make it out to be. Not gonna lie, I'd call that a minor inconvenience not a full on disaster, your drywall took a drip but it's not like the whole ceiling caved in. People act like a loose compression nut is the end of the world when it's really just a quick tighten and you're done.

aaronf4013h ago

Not the end of the world" - man, you're way calmer than me, I'd be freaking out over that water spot.