Air compressors are often loud, raucous machines – but they don’t have to be. [Eric Strebel] built a remarkably quiet compressor using parts salvaged from an old fridge. After several years of use, it ...

Compressed air is great to have around the shop. The trouble is, most affordable compressors are somewhere between “wake the dead” and “the reason Pete Townshend is deaf” on the decibel scale. But ...

davida1hiwaaynet (David), who took apart a refrigerator compressor manufactured in 2009, said that the 2009's were more efficient than those manufactured in the 1940s and 1950s, at the expense of ...