COMPRESSOR FIRE!!!!!!

[Lester Perry]

Yes that's right my compressor caught on fire. I was painting a couple nights ago and my wife said something smelled like it was burning. So I unplugged the compressor and quit painting. Yesterday I took it apart. I cleaned and oiled all moving parts that I could see. I used contact cleaner and air to clean it. Any way I luckily left the cover off, plugged it in and turned it on. It ran for about a minute all seemed well. No burning odors. Then all of a sudden it was on fire. I tried to blow it out but even though some say I am full of hot air not enough hot air to blow it out. I drug it out of my shed where I was working on it (not in the house luckily) into the rain where it was extinguished by the rain. The only thing I can figure is some contact cleaner was still in it and something sparked. Needless to say I now have a new compressor.