Yes you could use a coffee filter, but I'd be more concerned about that 'stuff' 
accumulating on those trodes to a point whereby you can "...knock a little bit 
of the stuff off...".
 
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> Subject: CS>filtering CS
> To: [email protected]
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> Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 21:37:42 +0000
> 
> After making my CS I sometimes knock a little bit of the stuff off that 
> builds up on the trodes. It falls into the CS and kid of just clumps in 
> little balls. Can I use a coffee filter to strain these little bits out or 
> will that degrade the product in anyway? I am talking about a paper coffee 
> filter. 
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