OT - Ramen noodle machines by a couple of french guys

Botch

This will be of interest to anyone here into mechanical tinkering, or really into ramen. 
"Alex", the french cooking dude, is a guy I've been following for awhile. He reminds me of me, when I was his age. Every few months he falls into a new foodie rabbit hole, as I have into Ramen these last few months. He purchased a cast-iron noodle machine from the chinese version of Amazoid, which arrived mostly busted-up but very inexpensive. In the video below he assembles it, and gets it working; in the 2nd video (I think all four will play in order on EweTube), he makes some improvements, third he sends it off to a talented machinist ("This Old Tony", prolly my next EweTube rabbit-hole) and it works better, and the last video he makes some more improvements himself, and is finally happy with his final contraption. 
He must eat a LOT of ramen noodles.
While I've been tinkering with ramen the last couple months, I've only made the noodles from scratch once; the dough is very stiff, and I worry about my Kitchenaid rollers (Alex broke his). Would probably not be worth my buying/modding this cast-iron noodle maker, but who knows? He Who Dies with the Most Toys, Dies. The noodles do include a strong alkali (katsui in Japan (which I can't find) or sodium carbonate (which I "made" by baking sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) in an oven. Kneading of the stiff dough was done in a plastic bag, on the floor, with your feet (clean socks recommended). My KitchenAid groaned a bit...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEObYihnJRA&feature=emb_logo

nolaegghead

Buying 5 for a dollar ramen is way too easy.  Plus those seasoning packs are not great.  (Ok, I know it's not the same...)