Cleaning air filters

[Mortimer Firewood]

Best investment i ever made was a good compressor clean filters bars rads blowing tyres up spraying makes maintenance on two stroke gear much easier so it actually gets done.

[Buzzsurgeon]

soak over night in very hot water + dishwasher tab!! Works with scummy flasks too!!

[Big 'Ammer]

Doesn't anyone rinse them out with 2 stroke mix anymore?

[Robert_S]

Doesn't anyone rinse them out with 2 stroke mix anymore?

 

Guilty and have done for years

[Big 'Ammer]

If the OP has a 281, it would probably tell you to clean the filter like that in the manual.

 

.....it does in my 262 handbook.

[Robert_S]

I always done it with my 266 in the woods years ago as well as using old engine oil as bar oil

 

Ah the good old days

[Stubby]

When the air line and the detergent and the carb cleanmer and all fail I just buy a new one .

[arbogrunt]

me too stubby...it ain't gonna break the piggy bank!

[MattyF]

Air line or two stroke rinse and tap if on site, but not on customers lawn.

[openspaceman]

Air line or two stroke rinse and tap if on site, but not on customers lawn.

 

I don't use a saw any more but I too used to rinse and tap in petroil mix. It was specifically deprecated in the saw manual but it worked.

 

After 1976 when we had burned pine to clear up the tech branch at Alice Holt recommended adding some oil used by scrambles motor bikes to the filter (we also tied a sock from a stocking over the filter) because the char was so fine and abrasive on the saw internals, the oil helped hold the particles. I saw little difference twixt this and the oil in the mixture being left when the petrol evaporated but I stand to be corrected.