Id ask that sort of question to learn whether there are any considerations I wouldn’t offhandedly know about. We had an air compressor that DID NOT like being stored tilted. It would tolerate being tilted while moving, but would loudly complain for a few minutes after it started. I think we settled on a gasket being loose
Don’t compressor motors have a lubricant oil sump at the bottom and rely on being upright to work properly? It kind of sounds like you were running it dry, before the oil had a chance to get back where it was supposed to be.
Yeah, pretty much all of them are built that way, and if they get tilted you’re supposed to wait an hour at the absolute barest minimum, preferably 4-6, and ideally 24 hours, because the oil can work its way into the bits that actually compress and if you turn it on with barely compressable oil in the parts that are meant to compress gas it can just die
Id ask that sort of question to learn whether there are any considerations I wouldn’t offhandedly know about. We had an air compressor that DID NOT like being stored tilted. It would tolerate being tilted while moving, but would loudly complain for a few minutes after it started. I think we settled on a gasket being loose
Don’t compressor motors have a lubricant oil sump at the bottom and rely on being upright to work properly? It kind of sounds like you were running it dry, before the oil had a chance to get back where it was supposed to be.
Yeah, pretty much all of them are built that way, and if they get tilted you’re supposed to wait an hour at the absolute barest minimum, preferably 4-6, and ideally 24 hours, because the oil can work its way into the bits that actually compress and if you turn it on with barely compressable oil in the parts that are meant to compress gas it can just die
These sorts of things are why I ask open ended questions now. You could be right about the actual cause
He is. The general rule of thumb is that any device with a compressor should remain off for twice as long as it was tilted.