Greetings forum Once I transport my refrigerator for an hour and a half lying down then leave it upright for 4 hours and it works ok. A technician told me that it was wrong, but I don't know why, does anyone know?

It is NOT ideal to carry a lying refrigerator, because you can leave some internal spring of the motor compressor and leave it for at least 4 hours and then start up to lower the oil to the lucky motor compressor

It is so that the oil separates from the refrigerant gas, if you do not give it rest the capillary is clogged and the cold is over, with 4 hours is enough.

you should lie on the side where the thinner tube is the high one that does not allow the oil to circulate if you lay it down the side of the thicker low tube the oil will rise through the miso in any way you should let it rest 4 to 5 hours lucky

Fabric Technology I go to the idea (mentioned by Rubensiño), that once the discharge side or tube of smaller diameter is identified, it is on that side where you can lie down, since internally there is a steely lamella that functions as a check valve, this to contain the high pressure of the gas when the piston pushes the gas into that high pipe, so that the oil will NEVER walk through said pipe. However, this applies perfectly in the case that the intake or discharge side or larger diameter tube is opposite to the discharge side, but ....... What if the discharge tube or smaller diameter and vacuum or larger diameter tube are on the same side? The issue of a spring coming out, (chialvia mentions it) of its support for the carcass is also an issue to be reviewed, I don't know if there will be more modern engines that already have a secure hold that they don't get out of some internal bolt , of the three or four you have. I have not yet investigated the case well, at any given time and as a precaution it could be inclined by reloading the upper part on a surface, that is to say that the refrigerator is not fully lying down, will I explain? Founded and explanatory answers are required, the doubt of fabrizio is clear and forceful.

I will tell you, my friend, the compressor of the refrigerators, the coil is supported by three pins where they carry springs without pressurized nuts as the manufacturer recommends not putting them to bed. it does not work just by opening the compressor and that is no longer guaranteed because if you just lay it down and lift it you can do it it is not advisable to move and sometimes the compressor stays if oil because everything went to the pipe and the compressor coil It works without oil, it burns more or less, that's luck and don't do it

Because the oil from the crankcase migrates to the evaporator and it happens that it stays there and when you reconnect your refrigerator, it will block you or replace the compressor losing it

brother the best option is that you use the means you have to move the refrigerator as indicated by the manufacturer as you intend to do it and as colleagues tell you all procedures are valid but you would be jeopardizing the compressor motor .... there is a lot of risk ... it is simple to transport the refrigerator correctly and period ... I hope to be clear and objective