I had to laugh because to fix a problem with my evaporative cooler I had to buy some plumbers tape. Plumbers tape is a very thin tape that gets wrapped around threaded pipes or screws and the tape helps keep a water tight seal around the threading. I picked some up for just under a dollar at Lowe’s along with a few other odds and ends and headed home.

I climbed up on my roof to secure the tape to the water valve floater’s stem so that the water would stop entering the floater and making it a sinker (thus flooding my swamp cooler and causing water to flow out of the overflow hole). I wrapped the threaded stem, secured the floater and climbed off the room and let the water fill up the swamp cooler again and waited for the overflow. No overflow took place and the problem was solved.

I then walked into the garage with the plumber’s tape and reached to put it on the hook where I would expect to put such a thing. That is where I found the last purchased plumbers tape that I had all along. Ha!

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