Ms 200 air cleaner help

[clearance]

I have been sawing down dead pine trees, they are hell on filters, come down from a tree and my filter is stuffed. Its dry here, I am using the felt filter, I have the mesh one I used in the rainy place but figure is does not keep out as much crap as the felt one. Is this true, and will this fine pine dust kill my saw if it gets through? What do ya'll suggest? Thank you, Jim

 

[PES+]

The fine pine dust can cause damage by gumming up the case and starving bearings. I would not use the winter screen to avoid cleaning the flock filter.

I have a dealer here that still sells the winter filters to the local guys and tells them it breathes better and have quite a few wreck lower ends because of the fines on pine and hemlocks.

I'll post a pic of one I got in a couple of months ago when I get a chance.

Keep your air as clean as absolutely possible particularly with high out put smaller saws like the 200T

 

[Lakeside53]

Yes, stay with the fleece filters (what you call felt). Winter filters under those conditions will definitely accelerate engine wear (particularly the piston. Carry some spares, and try stretching a piece of pantyhose over the filter (make a "bag" and twist tie the end); just pull off to clean a lot of the crud.

The dry crud cleans out easily. Blow off the excess, squirt with 4:1 diluted purple cleaner to lossen the spit-back mix and resins, wait 5 minutes, wash off and blow out.


When you say "stuffed", do you mean the saw is lacking in performance or they just look bad? Often these are two different things with loose dry materiall.

 

[Highclimber OR]

I have always ran the Felt filters as long as they have had em. I just tap it out every time I gas it. When the filter looks like it has had it, I just pop on a new one. This works for me no matter how dry it gets, and the Stihl keeps on cutting.

 

[SawTroll]

Maybe exchanging the MS200 for a 339xp will solve the problem.....

Btw, Husky has both winter and summer type mesh filters, doesn't Stihl???

 

[troutfisher]

I have a ms200t that I use for carving. That thing sucks a lot of sawdust and dirt into the breather. When I take the plastic cover off to get to the filter, a small pile of sawdust and chips will fall out. Every day. Poor design I think.

 

[Lakeside53]

Btw, Husky has both winter and summer type mesh filters, doesn't Stihl???

Stihl doesn't call them "winter/summer".

The mesh filters are often used in the summer, BUT very fine dead wood powder can be a problem. They seem to work fine in wet wood.

 

[SawTroll]

Stihl doesn't call them "winter/summer".

The mesh filters are often used in the summer, BUT very fine dead wood powder can be a problem. They seem to work fine in wet wood.

I found only one mesh filter in the 361 IPL, when I just looked, Husky usually have two options.........

My 361 has the mesh filter, but I don't think it matters, as my wood mostly is "green". It is very easy to clean, but it goes into the dish-washer a few times per year......

 

[clearance]

Thank you all for helping. By stuffed I mean build up between the cover and the filter. I will try out the pantyhose thing, I always bang the filter on something but that can't get all the crud out. A have a couple of them, I leave them in a sink full of hot water and dish soap overnight then rinse them of, let them dry and change them out. Sawtroll, I am a Husky guy, everything else is Husky, but the 200/020 really is the winner in the trees. Credit where credit is due.

 

[SawTroll]

.... Sawtroll, I am a Husky guy, everything else is Husky, but the 200/020 really is the winner in the trees. Credit where credit is due.

The Husky 339xp is new on the US market (not here), maybe you will want to try it....:greenchainsaw:

Btw, I haven't, as I can't find an excuse for anything smaller than the 353.......

 

[clearance]

The Husky 339xp is new on the US market (not here), maybe you will want to try it....:greenchainsaw:

Btw, I haven't, as I can't find an excuse for anything smaller than the 353.......

But can you one hand a 353 all day? The 335 has a very bad rep from everyone I know, p.o.s. I have been told, so, I ain't going there. Maybe one day when I have an extra $600 laying around.

 

[rahtreelimbs]

Maybe exchanging the MS200 for a 339xp will solve the problem.....

Btw, Husky has both winter and summer type mesh filters, doesn't Stihl???

What because of a little filter maintenence???


There's foolishness for ya!!!


Husky makes great saws.............the 334/335/338/339 series isn't one of them.................total POS!!!


See how aggrivating it is trying to start a saw or have saw trouble when you are 60 ft. aloft................it isn't fun!!!


The MS200T is the king of the hill for top-handle arborist saws...............proven over time!!!

 

[SawTroll]

But can you one hand a 353 all day? The 335 has a very bad rep from everyone I know, p.o.s. I have been told, so, I ain't going there. Maybe one day when I have an extra $600 laying around.

Nope, I think you said MS200, but maybe you really meant 200T?

See how aggrivating it is trying to start a saw or have saw trouble when you are 60 ft. aloft................it isn't fun!!!

He said MS200, not 200T........

...but by now, I guess 200T was what he meant,

 

[Lakeside53]

I found only one mesh filter in the 361 IPL, when I just looked, Husky usually have two options.........

My 361 has the mesh filter, but I don't think it matters, as my wood mostly is "green". It is very easy to clean, but it goes into the dish-washer a few times per year......

There are two.. The mesh and fleece - the later says it's is for CDN. USA, AUS and NZ.. Sorry..


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