Do you have access to an air hammer?
If not use a lage hammer3 to 4 lb. and a punch to tap (hammer, pound etc,,,) on the base of the filter in the direction you need to remove it.


There is enough good in the worst of us and enough bad in the best of us that it does not behoove any of us to criticize the rest of us.
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Be yourself. If you are ever lost, It will be much easier to find yourself if you know who you are!