Recent content by rjhoward

Well, the cooler stopped working again today about 3pm. It was a little windy, but I'm not sure that's a factor; there's just a high correlation. So I've replaced the pump, the fill valve, the float, and the pads. Anyone have an idea? Because I'm fresh out.

That was a pretty good guess, I think. But the question is, why? So, because I already tried everything else I decided to replace the fill valve. This was really pushing my limited abilities, mainly because the flexible copper line was too short to cut off and the old compression ring...

Here in the desert, a lot of people like myself use evaporative coolers. They are cheap to operate and fairly easy to repair. I have been doing my own servicing on my cooler for the last two years and it's been working beautifully. Until this season. For some reason, whenever we have high...