How to Choose an Air Compressor

Air compressors are used for a wide range of jobs around your home, garage or shop. When choosing the right air compressor for your needs, there are a few key questions to consider: How will the compressor be used? How much available space do you have? Is portability critical? Mike Finnegan, host of Finnegan’s Garage and Roadkill, walks through the key factors to consider when choosing an air compressor and discusses the difference between psi, cfm and scfm air compressor ratings.

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[pcofranc]

Good points. Been using compressors for 30 years and started before youtube and had to learn all this stuff the hard way.

[zukahasarrived]

Great advice, makes sense, easy to follow, and please keep "coaching" us, you're great at it. THANK YOU!

[robertclymer]

Very Important info here folks. I did not know all these particulars when I sent compressor shopping. Bought a small 6 gallon Craftsman to do light garage/hotrod work. Hooked up my die grinder with a cut off wheel and it didn't run for 30 seconds. I had to wait until tank pressure built back up. What a pain in the butt. Looking for a much better one now arming myself with the right knowledge. Thanks for sharing brother. Cheers from Motown/Dearborn.

[nitroseth]

Great info but man, nobody wants to listen to that music when being taught something.

[bmxadict]

I gotta say this commercial was done very very well just a bit of promoting with lots of useful information is great

[cardo]

Very helpful and well-done vid. Thanks for posting it 👍🏽

[Rick-robf]

I noticed in one of your latest videos you had to ditch that compressor when you got a media blast cabinet. At least now you have the type of compressor that men use. LOL! You did provide some good accessory info in this vid. Thanks for that.

[pdiz]

Can confirm, I bought the 29 gallon Harbor Freight special and regret not going larger. I am currently using it to sandblast car parts (suspension), and the compressor runs constantly and can't keep up. Using 80 PSI in the line, 150 at the tank, guessing I need at least a 60 gallon.

[amadgamer]

hey iam a noob when it comes to compressors, can u recommend me couple moudles witch r small and compact for cleaning and dusting of Computers ? and what does it need in order to work beside a wall outlet ? Great vid Btw thanks a lot

[LostinmyAmazingness]

Great video. Very helpful. I agree the background music noise could go. But still very helpful.

[Void-gnzm]

Just got my Campell Hausfeld VT6271. Perfect size and portability for my home. Time to sell the old Husky 30 gallon with a measley 1.7 HP!

[dnnstep]

Great video sir.. What can you advice me to get if I will be painting bike frames? Thank you

[WV]

good point about the hose and scfm tools. TU

[zumezoom]

thank goodness i just found your upload.... I want to spray paint my car and plan to hand sand, will a 6L oil-less air compressor be enough for the job?

[filthybronco]

i just want to paint some wheels. Paint and clear coat. What do you recommend?

[jesse]

thanks for the video, I’m confused .... but how do you make sure that the tools we already have (or want to buy more tools) that they are/will be “SCFM” ?? I went to CH’s website and looked at their “air tools” and never saw SCFM listed in their specs sheet for the tools ... so where can we buy SCFM tools - i wanna replace the only 2 tools that i have with SCFM tools. Do we google SCFM tools and it will list the brands that carry/make them ? I’d like to buy all matching brand air tools. Sorry, but YES i am a noob. Please help me understand.

[samuelsingh]

Those information is really good
I dont know much so i buy a 100psi 3 gallon compressor thinking I can use it for small minor paint job as I spray but it turned out the tank is too small I am sending you this message all the way from South America Guyana

[techstuff]

Hello
Does air compressor work by pulling the surrounding air in and I plug it in with 120v socket or do I need to do a full install by routing hoses to the outside of the garage etc? Basically how do i install a air compressor? Thank you

[bigron]

I would like to also add that belt driven compressors are generally more quiet then direct drive ones.

[dh-inqr]

Is there an advantage to higher horsepower? I have a working 5hp compressor motor from an old rusted tank so will it improve performance if I swap out the 1.5hp motor on a newer compressor with the higher hp motor? Great video.