Bought a $90 sleeping pad that leaked air for 6 months before I checked the valve cap

I was out near Lake Tahoe last month and woke up on the ground for the third time this year. My buddy Rob asked why I didn't just tighten the valve cap. I told him I always checked it, but he walked over and gave it a quarter turn and it sealed tight. Turns out the rubber gasket inside was loose from the factory and I had been blaming the pad itself for months. Has anyone else had a fix this simple on their gear?

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margaretrivera29d ago

Honestly, tighten the damn valve is like the gear equivalent of turning it off and on again. Ngl, @loganburns, your buddy's camp stove story is basically the same energy but with more gas bills. I spent half a summer blaming my tent's zipper on bad design before I realized I was just pulling it at a weird angle. Sometimes you gotta get humbled by a quarter turn to appreciate the little things.

loganburns1mo ago

My buddy Dave had a similar thing happen with his camp stove. He spent three whole trips thinking it was just a dud that couldn't simmer right. Turned out the little plastic piece under the fuel knob was cracked just a hair and letting too much gas through. He bought a whole new stove before his wife found a replacement part online for four bucks and fixed it in ten minutes. Still bugs him when we bring it up around the fire. Sometimes the dumbest little thing is the problem and you just don't think to look there.