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Air Filter

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Rick:
Well...uh...errr...I must admit that I, too, have used gas on a couple of occassions.  I have attended a couple of two day events and forgot an extra filter.  Unfortunately, the first day was dusty enough to make the filter questionable for the second day.  I used a small amount of gas in a plastic bowl to clean the filter and then rinsed as normal in hot soapy water then hot clean water.  The thought was it was better to take a calculated risk with the gas cleaning than lunch the motor.

However, I agree that this is an unsafe practice as a general rule, so don't make a practice of using gas except in extreme situations.

Rick

KXcam22:
Uni filters have been great.  I think most of the dual element filters nowdays are pretty good.  The biggest relevation for me has been the advent of aerosol spray-on filter oil.  Sooo much easier than the pour on type I used for decades (Im old).  Right now Im using a uni filter, PJ1 spray on, and yes I wash my filters in cheap gas.

gowen:
Gasoline is the way to clean. Never had a problem. I also use UNI and also use their spray oil. Good stuff.

mikesmith:
You guys scare me.

kawdude:
Growing up my dad had a woodburner in the shed.  One of the two barrel things and we would put gas in one of those pressurized oil cans and help the fire out.  A couple times of doing this told us that gas was a tad to reactive to fire so we move to diesel.  This was still pretty darn scary but was much milder.  Eventually we just shot waste oil in the fire and the worked great until we melted the stack.  A quart of oil did wonders for a fire.

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