On May 5, 3:56*pm, Sonny wrote:
I've always understood, though I've never known for sure, there's some
sort of thick oil reservoir (or something), built in, and if turned to
the side for a long period, this reservoir oil will screw up,
somehow.

I don''t know that there isn't an issue with moving washers on their
sides, but the problem you are thinking about has to do with the oil
reservoir inside the sealed cooling system of a refrigerator. Washers
tend not to have those...