Actually bro there are a lot of experianced people who don't use the coffee filter and have no problem. Some kits don't even supply it. What Ipson meant to say is there are some stupid people like himself who are unable to do it without useing the coffee filter. Now, having gotten that off my chest. a lot of people have done it with the coffee filter and had no problem with infection. I learned, like most people who took lab in highschool about steril feilds and airborn bacteria. dumping fina into an unsteril coffee filter and leaving it sitting in the open air is about as unsanitary as you can get. I would like to see a poll of everyone who got an abcess from home made fina and find out if they used a coffee filter. I have done it with one syringe filter and had no problem but next time just order an extra. Either way you choose next time, you learned somthing this time. My only other advice would be that the whole purpose of this board is to learn. Get ideas from everyone and make your own decisions. The only advice I would not consider is that from someone who tells you to disregard everyone but him. espically if that person has been posting here a whole 4 days and knows few if any of the people here. enjoy your cycle and get big.