Re: How do you clean your air filters?

Posted by G Taylor....what does an overhaul cost vs an airfilter? on May 09, 2003 at 07:24:43 from (64.10.143.179):

In Reply to: How do you clean your air filters? posted by Tom on May 08, 2003 at 19:01:51:

A cleaned airfilter is never as good as a new airfilter.
DO NOT as I've seen many times, blow from the dirty side to the clean side. The dolt I approached said, "But it must be working dust is flying out of it".
Shaking the dust out without distorting the filter case and shop vacuuming the dirt out with a soft brush end is less damaging than a hard pointed nozzle.
Compressed air works if the nozzle trip isn't pressed into the fabric and disturbs the filter fibres mechanically or with a intense local jet of air. More rupture risk however.
Unless the equipment has a primary paper filter and a secondary paper filter afterwards. don't use compressed air. The chances of opening a gap and letting dirt through is too great. And NEVER clean the secondary filter. Just replace it.

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