Reddit reviews 100ml Syringe + 80cm handy plastic tubing by Aketek

Problem 1. It might just be easiest to remove the radiator to drain it.

Problem 2. Use this bracket to mount your pump/res to your radiator. If you flip your rad and mount the pump/res as low as possible (similar to where it is now) it won't block the ports with this mount.

Question 1. This doesn't help you, but some radiators like the Alphacool Nexxxos XT45 360mm come with a port on the bottom of the radiator. I have no idea why their website shows no port in the picture, but mine has one. Their photo of the UT60 has one.

Question 2. Draining a top radiator is no easier. The problem with radiators is in order for the fluid to drain, it needs to make a huge u-turn. Water enters one port, and can't exit the other port unless is travels to the bottom, flows to the other side of the bottom, then flows back up to the top. In my experience, disconnecting tubing from a top mounted radiator requires a lot of paper towels.

Question 3. For difficult to drain sections of my loop, I use one of these 100ml syringes with plastic tubing. I poke the tube into the hole (teehee) and suck the fluid out with the syringe.

I use this syringe, but I only always inject half of it.

I'll add a couple things -

Look at the Samigon reels - they have much bigger "ears" (where you slide the film into the reel) and are way easier to load - see if the Patterson has the same size.

I use a syringe with tubing to get developer syrup out of the bottle and into the graduate - makes it easy to be accurate with no spilled drops. That was one of those "Wish I'd thought of this a decade ago..." (I cut the tubing down to like 3" though).

NO on the squeegie...

Funnel, stirrer, can opener ("churchkey") - get those at the grocery store. And look for some kind of basin or tub - you'll need to put ice water or hot water in it to get your dev. to the right temp. Usually it can also be used to store all your developing odds and ends, tank, thermometer, etc. Like, a Rubbermaid tub, a foot square and 8" deep, something along those lines.

I like having a 1 liter, a 300ml and a small (like 100ml) graduate, though the 1L I use more for prints. I have a couple random plastic measuring cups for holding chems, just grocery store items.

YOU FORGOT: PrintFile film sleeves; a good pair of scissors; white cotton gloves; a can of dust-off compressed air spray, all for when you sleeve the negs. A Binder or notebook for notes on developing, recipes, tests, etc. Developing times from the internet or instructions are only a starting point, the best thing about DIY is learning what film and dev combos work for you, and what times and dilutions deliver negs you like and are a breeze to scan or print. "Expose for the shadows, develop for the highlights" is all wasted if you just use the same time for every situation.

Is it strictly necessary to utilize a noodle press to achieve your desired end result? I've done TG noodles before, but simply sealed the farce in bags and pressed it flat before slicing into noodles by hand after cooking. The end result is a flat noodle, akin to fettuccine, and works well in my experience.

An alternative that I've played with when doing agar gels for a different dish is to use a syringe, such as this, to extrude a single noodle at a time into your water bath, if following the same technique as Dufresne.

Without knowing the parameters of your design assessment, I cannot state for certain, but I suspect that a syringe of the above sort could easily serve as a foundation onto which you could attach your own extruding die using a food-safe epoxy.