How do you clean your air filter

[HYPERSAWS]

Curious how everyone cleans there filters.
This was dipped in gas then blown out with air

 

[CLEARCUT]

Super Clean on HD2 and Max Flow, and mixed gas and air on Husky’s.

 

[ammoaddict]

I just blow them from the inside out.

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[beaglebriar]

Real filthy ones get a bath in Dawn with a toothbrush. Otherwise hit them lightly with air.

 

[Cat 525]

Soap and water. Brake cleaner also!

 

[P.M.P.]

What kind of air filters we talkin...Hey @tree monkey showem some pics of your air filters will yeah...

 

[ferris]

I just blow them from the inside out.

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Only this

 

[HYPERSAWS]

What kind of air filters we talkin...Hey @tree monkey showem some pics of your air filters will yeah...

@tree monkey doesn't get them very clean

 

[Deets066]

@tree monkey doesn't get them very clean

He still runs them old worn out filters too. Lol

 

[pro94lt]

90psi of compressed air. I think I’ve torn 2 in 10 years and blow them out every day

 

[dahmer]

Brake cleaner then air from inside out.

 

[Wood Doctor]

It never ceases to amaze me how much that a clogged air filter can rob the power of a two-cycle engine.

 

[pro94lt]

Brake cleaner then air from inside out.

I do that but for some reason it disintegrated a echo cs2511t filter. I guess it’s some sort of synthetic fiber.

 

[dahmer]

I do that but for some reason it disintegrated a echo cs2511t filter. I guess it’s some sort of synthetic fiber.

Never had that happen but there’s always a first time.

 

[Catman]

Toothbrush.

 

[~WBF]

My flock philosophy?

I am more of a tap and go kinda guy.
I hold it and tap it with bar wrench.
I leach my low pretty good so I have a little squirt prime bottle that I use in the morning after I tap out the filter. It works out and starts first half pull.
If it gets to the point I have to use mixed gas on the hill then it's time to take one filter back at night.
Then I would use powder laundry soap in the inside and run hot water through it and then fill the sink with as hot water as possible and let it soak. Drain it off when it cools and repeat in fresh hot laundry water. I may just leave it all night and cold rinse from the inside to start.

 

[Wilhelm]

What's an air filter, and why do they need cleaning?

I just rotate saws, take the one that at the time has the most power.
I occasionally ad one to my flock, that way I don't have to know anything about air filters, chains, bars, tune.

 

[deye223]

I just wash them out in strait gas

 

[Carhartt]

WD40 and air from inside out.

 

[CR888]

I find hitting them with copmressed air from inside out not that useful on round pleated HD2 style filters. Tap, air or Stihl shop vac, every once in a while I wash them even the older ones that don't say there washable....they r. But out in the field just tapping them on something hard like a wood round keeps you in the game.