So with a few successful extractions behind him, swim is thinking he really enjoys working with clear liquid and from a sep funnel as opposed to gallon wine jugs and pipettes.
Filtering the bark after the acid soaks seems to be kinda tricky sometimes. Current train of thought involves running it through a kitchen strainer a couple times, then a stainless steel screen that is like pipe screen mesh a couple times, put in fridge and let settle, decant, then paper filters. Swim likes to finish with buchner filter because it sucks everything out of the bark.
It would be nice to be able to run at least 750ml through before having to change out filter paper.
The question of perilite....would it make an adequate filter aid? Would you put it into funnel? Or mix it with your soup? And finally, would its porosity be a problem in terms of holding on to the filtrate?
Everything i say is fictional, I just wanna be cool and fit in.