"Red Green" wrote in message
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novel8 wrote in news:ac99d68b-f35e-4d47-b0f3-
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Don't know much about them, but have seen them in action on the home
improvement channels. In regard to the small ones like nailers and
drllls, do they need an air compressor? Just how does it get its
'power" if not from an compressor?

Learn about CFM/SCFM ratings. Compressors have output ratings and EACH air
tool has a requirement rating. Higher rated tools generally cannot be used
on lower rated compressors without some type of drawback from tool barely
running and/or compressor running too much (duty cycle) and damaging it.

I have found the ratings to be somewhat ................... false. You can
not go wrong by having a compressor that is rated for more than your tool.
When they are rated right on the line of the tool's requirements, it will
either not keep up, or run constantly, and with those new obnoxious oilless
compressors, your fillings will loosen up before the end of the day.

Steve