Hi,
First, I've tried searching the forum, and the internet as a whole, and I can't seem to find much on this small, trivial, but extremely frustrating part of the process....
I'm sure this is eye-roll easy for most, but I'm on my first learning batch of removing gold foils from trimmed fingers. The HCl + aquarium bubbler worked as advertised. I then removed the finger boards and filtered the solution through 3x Coffee Filters. Once the filter had drained, I rinsed thoroughly with distilled water. Again, everything ran as advertised.
My problem, though, is how do I remove the foils stuck to the filter in an efficient, non-tool-throwing-frustrated way from the filter? I tried spraying and all that did was help the filter fall apart and make a mess plus putting the foils back into a bunch of water.
About the best I can think of is just letting the filter air dry and trying to brush collect the foils.
If anyone has a better plan, I'd really, really like to hear it.
Thanks
First, I've tried searching the forum, and the internet as a whole, and I can't seem to find much on this small, trivial, but extremely frustrating part of the process....
I'm sure this is eye-roll easy for most, but I'm on my first learning batch of removing gold foils from trimmed fingers. The HCl + aquarium bubbler worked as advertised. I then removed the finger boards and filtered the solution through 3x Coffee Filters. Once the filter had drained, I rinsed thoroughly with distilled water. Again, everything ran as advertised.
My problem, though, is how do I remove the foils stuck to the filter in an efficient, non-tool-throwing-frustrated way from the filter? I tried spraying and all that did was help the filter fall apart and make a mess plus putting the foils back into a bunch of water.
About the best I can think of is just letting the filter air dry and trying to brush collect the foils.
If anyone has a better plan, I'd really, really like to hear it.
Thanks