Over the years, we've had both chest type and upright. Chest for efficiency, upright for convenience, and small footprint. I'll never forget when a neighbor friend across the alley behind us came over one hot summer day and borrowed my little air-compressor, took it home to air up the tires on his daughter's bicycle, then returned the compressor. A few days later, that family went on vacation. And a few days after they returned, the wife went out in the garage to get something from their chest type freezer and when she opened it, the stink was horrible. She went back in the house and called husband, a bank vice president. He came home, opened the freezer, slammed the lid, and ran out in the alley to puke.:laughing: That freezer was nearly full. Then he remembered . . . . when he borrowed my little air compressor, he unplugged the freezer to use that outlet for the air compressor. Then he returned the air compressor, but forgot to plug the freezer back in. They drug that freezer out of the garage into the yard. SHE took everything out of it, put it all in plastic bags and they hauled it off (fortunately they had a little pickup truck). They tried baking soda, vinegar, and I don't know what all, trying to clean that freezer out, left it open in the yard a couple of weeks, etc., finally gave up and had it hauled off.:laughing:
