Eveready
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After polluting @phatphuck 's thread with my AC issue which is somewhat similar to his, I have decided to do the right thing and post my own. My AC leaked down after last season and I hadn't bothered to look at it until it started warming up around here. This year Spring has been longer than usual in NC, a couple of weeks. Usually it takes about a half day to switch from freezing your ass off to burning hot.
When I started to look at the AC it turned out that the high side valve cap had broken off in the fitting leaving a little dome of pastic that I thought was going to be difficult to remove . I rounded up some tools and got after it this afternoon. It took about 10 seconds to insert the end of a knife blade into the plastic and back the plug out . I have new plugs on order. Once those arrive I will look into charging the system. What I think happened is that the plug was too tight on the schrader causing it to slowly leak down . The good news is I was able to get a little hiss out of it after clearing the fitting of broken plastic so the system may just take a charge instead of needing to start over. Will document what I end up doing as I do NOT want to face a NC Summer without AC.
When I started to look at the AC it turned out that the high side valve cap had broken off in the fitting leaving a little dome of pastic that I thought was going to be difficult to remove . I rounded up some tools and got after it this afternoon. It took about 10 seconds to insert the end of a knife blade into the plastic and back the plug out . I have new plugs on order. Once those arrive I will look into charging the system. What I think happened is that the plug was too tight on the schrader causing it to slowly leak down . The good news is I was able to get a little hiss out of it after clearing the fitting of broken plastic so the system may just take a charge instead of needing to start over. Will document what I end up doing as I do NOT want to face a NC Summer without AC.
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