I have a harbor freight little oil filled compressor. I tried using it
today after a very cold night. It made a few trouble noises and stopped. I
reset the overload switch and tried again. Same result. Tried again, this
time it tripped the breaker. I reset the breaker (apparently not having the
brains I was born with...) and tried again. This time it made it and ran
normally.

This probably isn't a good thing to do to the compressor, and won't work at
all next month when it is even colder..

What do people do about this?