Hmmm. What seal are you referring to? Something on the filter element itself? Like you can’t remove it from the housing once it’s installed or it’s trash after?
The manual says the suggested replacement interval should be several weeks in dry air situations and to check daily to determine change interval.
I can’t imagine there’s anything wrong with his air with what I’ve seen unless something is drastically wrong with his dryer.
What are your thoughts on THC causing the torch to drag, couldn’t that explain the trashed consumables?
Edit- this explained it well. I even commented on that. Lol. It was a while ago.