Harbor Freight is a great place to look for a budget air compressor for your garage or small workshop, but the range of options they offer is a bit bewildering. Outside of a clearance Bauer model ...

We earn commissions from purchases you make using links in our articles. Learn more. Whether it's for painting, dusting, inflating, or air tools, sometimes there's no substitute for an air compressor.

Since the mid-1600s, humans have been playing with the idea of compressing air and putting it to work. By the late 1800s, air compressors began appearing in the mining and ship building industries.