In case you’ve spent the past few years in a galaxy far, far away, the trend in the tool industry is toward a cordless job site. Banish all those pesky extension cords and hoses RIGHT NOW, dammit! While that idea has a lot of merit, the reality is that there are a LOT of tools in use that still rely on those pesky cords and hoses. I have a fair bit of money invested in several pneumatic nail guns, ranging from 23-ga. pinners to framing nailers, that still have a lot of life left in them. This means I’ll be schlepping a compressor around, at least some of the time, for the foreseeable future. On the bright side, the arrival of a Ridgid Quiet Compressor may mean that I won’t scare the neighbors three blocks over every time I fire that sucker up. Read More