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> they should use a strainer no smaller than 600 microns.
This would yield a very cloudy honey, at best. Not something I'd take to a club or county honey show, certainly not Apimondia's show.
For my very small-scale set-up, I have one of the double-stacked 5-gallon pail set-ups that have a lid fabricated into the bottom of the upper pail, which is perforated with large holes, or gone entirely. (I think Brushy Mountain sold these, but there are Youtube videos on a very similar set-up for filtering water, just cut a hole with a hole saw in both lid and pail bottom, and then attach them with a pair of flanges, a very short threaded pipe and a matching nut At the top of the upper bucket is a pasta strainer, inside a large mesh vegetable strainer. Between the two pails is one of 3 different common "paint strainer" type filters, first either 600 or 400, then 200 micron. One can dump 3/4s of a 60-lb (5 US gallon) pail into the upper pail, and walk away.
I do not know the size of the largest pollen grains in common plants, but this paper claims that the largest angiosperm pollen grains are "over 100 microns", not "over 200".
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2020.1191
Does anyone know of a common plant with a pollen grain size over 200 microns?
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