It was getting close to 24 hours at the time I threw in more acid. Unfortunately, I did it before seeing the replies, it cleared up, but yielded the mysterious brown goo. Perhaps I was over eager to call my pulls crystal clear before proceeding. If so, whoops.

I will let this one continue to sit, but I'm thinking this is likely to be one for the learning curve. I have enough cactus flour to do a bunch of runs, so I'll take my press apart and try again some time this week.

I have no intention of giving up! And, no insult taken. It's very much like my other hobby, I failed over and over with certain species while others in the community had thriving examples of them. Learned quickly to use it as motivation. Kept trying and eventually had my own. Luckily with this tek, the iterations are much, much faster!