Wow that's pretty steep!!! OK. Maybe I'm baised because I am a chemist so I see this stuff all the time. Here are some suggestions for gurilla photo labs. Plastic bottles can be sturdy water bottles and measureing devices. Just Mark on the bottle the volume levels. that interest you the most. Buy a plastic measuring picture try to get one with mL and oz measurements on it. If it goes to 250 mL that will be fine. If it does not have mL measurements no problem. You may have to calculate them. Here is the conversion. 30 fluid oz. = 1 mL 1 Cup = 0.24Liters 1 teaspoon = 5mL You will probable need to buy a real thermometer. In stead of film clips you can use clothes pins attached to wire hangers. For weights on your film try using rebent paperclips with pennied taped to them. You will have to but the development cannisters though. For basins. Well any plastic container will do OR you can use a box lined with a sealed plastic bag. Print tongs can be any tongs with a rubber tip. Personally I used tweezers coated with modeling rubber! A stirring paddle! ( Just pick something plastic and able to give good agitation. ) Make sure you buy a surfactant or photo flo and some rubber gloves. When you want to remove the water from you film add photo flo to your final rinse then use two fingers to squegee your film. It's not perfect but it's pretty good. For me the biggest cost in making the darkroom was the chemicals. The plastic stuff was pretty cheap. Except for the development cannister and the spools. I hope this helpes. Hey anybody did I stear Crazypenguin wrong anywhere? Bsteph