Reasons not to ignore sharpening filters

[P5man 0]

[JR Boucicaut 3805]

Holy hell.

Witten should know better than that!

[P5man 0]

Witten can only be blamed for 6 months of that. the rest is someone elses

[JR Boucicaut 3805]

Sounds like someone needs to be designated filter bitch.

[aarondevera 0]

that thing is gonna develop a life of its own one day. lol

our Blackstone Stealths have a decent filter system, but if the tubes aren't properly cleared, sometimes they start smoking... never a good sign.

[DarkStar50 679]

Somebody's lazy.

[Chadd 916]

I saw the topic and I was expecting smoke and fire. Nice collection though.

[P5man 0]

haha sorry to disappoint. With the filters like that the machine still ran fine.

[booyaagrandma 4]

I see you're from Valencia,is that from Ice Station ?

[lb33knight 0]

I've let mine get like that a few times. And as stated before it's just do to laziness. Since I opt to clean mine out I tend to keep putting it off and eventually it builds up so much it looks like a coat of fur. Those filters can be quite heavy when they are saturated in shavings.

[DEATHTRON 19]

Time to go roll that baby around in the parking lot. The part I always hated about the filter is that I was never warned about it...and my clothing isnt all black ever...until after changing it out.

Zach

[duch 0]

Right then. A cleaning and change of a filter may be in order.

[Gummer12 134]

How do you clean your filters...and how often do you change them?

We use an air compressor and blow it clean. Dirty as shit, but it works. And I don't think in my 7 years we've ever put a brand new one in.

[pantherfan 0]

Just out of interest, how much do they cost?

(The filter I mean)

[chadangle 0]

oh wow! .. thats messy. its very surprising that it still worked top notch with such a filter. i used to get that dust stuff all over me, not a good scene.

[JR Boucicaut 3805]

They're like what, $120 each? There's that guy out of Ypsilanti who sells 2 for $130.

I've never let it get that bad - if I'm having a lazy moment, I'm at least vacuuming/rolling it over in the machine onto the dust tray and then vacuuming the dust tray clean.

I usually am on a 2-3 filter rotation - pull it out, vacuum and blow out with an air compressor. Swap them out every 3 wks or so for a clean one.

[G.M. 0]

I'm sure your bosses are thrilled to see that you're throwing them and the shop under the bus.

Next time just clean it and keep your cell phone in your pocket.

[joshy207 15]

The machine itself will still run on a dirty filter, but instead of the filter absorbing all that skate dust, it's your lungs that soak it up.

[aarondevera 0]

... and that's when we start hacking up grey snot and get that gritty taste in our mouths.

[JR Boucicaut 3805]

Picking out black boogers is fun.

[aarondevera 0]

and surprisingly satisfying.

... not to eat, just to remove.

[joshy207 15]

...and then in 40 years, you can have a party when the doctor tells you that you have black lung!