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Mold on my filter
    #22362742 - 10/11/15 11:03 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

So after decades of dealing with contamination I have a breakthrough but I'm super pissed about it. I never thought to look at my filter from all sorts of different angles and behold the mold.




So wtf is to be done about it? Only thing I can think of is I got fubar one night and splashed agar on that slot, I honestly don't know nor does it matter at this point.

What matters is what if anything I can do to save my filter?

Hit it with IPA? Bleach? Stungun? I really don't want to have to buy a new filter but I obviously will and build a new box if there's no saving it.

Ideas anyone?


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Re: Mold on my filter [Re: Ghatti]
    #22362779 - 10/11/15 11:11 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Defiantly go out and get a new filter . would be the best idea . don't leave any ideas of doubt, using bleach etc, might not get all of the mold out


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Re: Mold on my filter [Re: ThatShroomer7]
    #22363044 - 10/11/15 12:18 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

I'd love to just run out to Walmart and what h one right up but yeah, money and such.


I feel like there's probably a pretty decent way to ensure everything is dead just don't know what would be more efficient without further destroying the filter material


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Re: Mold on my filter [Re: Ghatti]
    #22364699 - 10/11/15 06:08 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Really though what should I do? Buying a new filter is the last step so I might as well try some stuff that may or may not work as if it doesn't I'll just have to buy a new one anyhow.


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Re: Mold on my filter [Re: Ghatti]
    #22364723 - 10/11/15 06:12 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

WTF!!!  thats on ur HEPA?!?

how often do u run it?  the humidity has got to be high in that room or something?

i have many many grain kernels trapped in my frame, but no problems.


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Re: Mold on my filter [Re: blindingleaf]
    #22364834 - 10/11/15 06:33 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Put it in the oven at 170 for a while hope glue doesn't melt


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Re: Mold on my filter [Re: bodhisatta]
    #22366062 - 10/11/15 10:44 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

It's just on that spot pictured. Very low humidity too. Only thing I can think of is somehow lc or agar or other nutritious liquid got spilled on it but ionno how.


I hit it with iso a few times and let it dry, rinse and repeat but I really wanna take some bleach at it but I fear for the filter material.


I run the thing plenty. This has to be what's been giving me shit since I usually have my donor ages on that side.

I would have never seen it if I wasn't so damn clumsy and dropped something causing me to bend down at a fucked up angle. It's totally invisible from straight ahead because of the grill


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Re: Mold on my filter [Re: Ghatti]
    #22367602 - 10/12/15 11:00 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Nuke it. Find some gamma radiation


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Re: Mold on my filter [Re: blindingleaf]
    #22367624 - 10/12/15 11:06 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

blindingleaf said:
WTF!!!  thats on ur HEPA?!?

how often do u run it?  the humidity has got to be high in that room or something?

i have many many grain kernels trapped in my frame, but no problems.





I figured a really high RH must be it too...

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Re: Mold on my filter [Re: newrook]
    #22367626 - 10/12/15 11:07 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

No one is going to confuse him with a TC :lol:


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Re: Mold on my filter [Re: bodhisatta]
    #22367645 - 10/12/15 11:12 AM (8 years, 3 months ago)

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No one is going to confuse him with a TC :lol:




You have more faith in people than me then, lol.

I was more offended because it felt like a slap in the face to anyone who is a TC. :shrug:


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Re: Mold on my filter [Re: newrook]
    #22369347 - 10/12/15 05:04 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

I hear most tc's like to be slapped in the face with stuff.


Anywho do you think bleach would degrade the filter to the point of failure? I've hit it with 70% IPA several times. Maybe if I took a hairdryer as close as I could get it it might be hot enough to kill something.


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Re: Mold on my filter [Re: Ghatti]
    #22369482 - 10/12/15 05:31 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

i love being slapped in the face with air from a clean HEPA :crazy:

maybe test the bleach but using a Q tip dipped in the solution and rubbing a small part of the filter in the corner and seeing what happens after a night or so?

silicone over the mold and suffocate it?


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Re: Mold on my filter [Re: Ghatti]
    #22369501 - 10/12/15 05:35 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Whats the back side look like?

Wonder if it came in through from the other side.

Would be nice if you could UV treat it.


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Re: Mold on my filter [Re: DrCrumbs]
    #22369515 - 10/12/15 05:37 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

nah, it got started up front unless his humidity is high.

UV might work too.  i'd still silicone that bitch after though.


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Re: Mold on my filter [Re: blindingleaf]
    #22369547 - 10/12/15 05:43 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Do you think its just on the outer surface, I mean even if it started there. I'd be a little scared that its embedded. I do like encapsulating it.

Whatever you do, I'd run it for a while after. Then stick an agar plate in front of it for a while and see what grows.

Can ya run it through the dishwasher, with some bleach?
(I used to clean plates etc, with bleach in the DW before sterilization)

But yeah pretty shit fucked, there is some underlying problem that should be addressed.


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Re: Mold on my filter [Re: DrCrumbs]
    #22369610 - 10/12/15 05:57 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

yea, it could spread for sure.

u dont wanna get the filter wet though.  it looks like the mini pleat kind.

maybe move ur grill forward too 1/4".  looks like its touching the filter almost, so anything landing could collect and build up.  maybe if u spilled LC, it wasn't able to dry up fast enough with hood off??


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Re: Mold on my filter [Re: blindingleaf]
    #22369665 - 10/12/15 06:08 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

I'd try a UV light but you'd have to take the screen off for all the UV light to hit it
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Re: Mold on my filter [Re: 99.99]
    #22369878 - 10/12/15 06:42 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Bleach on the filter? Might work, might not. Think about it this way. You need to buy a new filter as of now. Hitting it with bleach may fix that.


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Re: Mold on my filter [Re: tahoe]
    #22370406 - 10/12/15 08:21 PM (8 years, 3 months ago)

Yeah the grill is built on so no dice there. I really think it was lc, its the only thing that makes sense why its localized.

I feel safe with iso so imma hit it several times over the next few days, letting it dry very well. Maybe some h2o2 would be more filter friendly than jumping straight to bleach?

Dunno what the backside of it looks like and would rather not "pop" my box until I go to replace the filter.


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