The only sure-fire way to eliminate damage to your delicate filter media giving you a longer-lasting, damage free and most of all, the expected outcome from your Dust Extractor.
Last year, Bill presented an article on cleaning dust extractor filters by using compressed air – resulting in what may appear to be a thorough and deep clean, leaving you with an almost brand new looking filter – albeit also a clean that has left the filter media riddled with damage unseen to the naked eye.
Looks can be very deceiving at times;when it comes to filter media and the overall cleanliness of your filters, these deceiving looks can also result in extra (and what should be unnecessary) labour required to make up for the efficiency and quality lost in the outcome of the dust extraction, when using a damaged filter.
It would be likened to vacuuming your house with a full vacuum bag or a blocked hose resulting in loss of suction and thus running the foot over and over the same area numerous times and still not getting a full, deep clean.
What would be the overall point? Unless used as some sort of punishment then best to ensure the filters are in tip-top shape and both clean as well as undamaged.
One of the greatest innovations in dust extraction technology these days is inbuilt rotary self-cleaning mechanism filter. If your machine does not already encompass this, then it would certainly not be a waste of time to further explore the benefits after reading this.
A long way to say – it self-cleans and it does so with such efficiency and high quality, the need to replace a filter due to damage or simply no longer standing up to a high enough cleanliness standard is drastically reduced, if anything it almost eliminated. Almost. We haven’t quite come that far yet!
Haydn is pictured using a Satellite 480 grinder and Supa Separator, complemented by the DustMaster-2660 which is actually simultaneously cleaning its filters as it extracts – maintaining a constant and consistent level of extraction throughout the whole job.
We posted a video which highlights the sound of the DM-2660 cleaning after the Galaxy grinder and the dust extraction component were turned off.
We left the filter to self-clean for about 10-20 seconds after to ensure it had a thorough clean out prior to simply unclipping the collection bucket and disposing of the dust and other particles! Makes for much easier work and no stress about any quality loss.
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