At Sly we often receive questions from callers about the right way to change-out the filter bags on their dust collectors. While it’s a detailed process, learning how to change-out your envelope filter bags will save you both time and money otherwise spent replacing them earlier than necessary....

Changing a dust collector’s filter cartridges or baghouse’s filters too early adds unnecessary expense and takes up maintenance time that could be better spent on more urgent tasks. Changing a filter too late runs the risk of exposing workers in the facility to hazardous dust and the potential...

If you operate a pulse-jet dust collector system, you need to keep the filter bags clean. This requires a reliable source of compressed air to pulse-clean the bags. But how much compressed air do you need? This will depend on how many bags you are cleaning, their diameter and their length.