Pasta Machines For Home Use....Anyone With Recommendations?

I have an Italian Model - hand crank.
Make my dough in my bread machine.
The Plus is that you can make many flavored Pastas.
The Minus is that it is a fairly involved Process.

I have an Atlas/Marcato. Works fine.

I think all the machines are very similar - the patent must have expired ages ago and everyone copied the design.

ETA: The power adapter, aka motor, cost about $100 for my model. I don't have one of those.

I've used mine to make extremely thin crust pizza that turned out awesome. Roll the pizza dough into sheets and then merge them together to make the pizza size and shape.

As an aside, I saw a show about a restaurant up north that specialized in a particular noodle dish.

To increase efficiency, the guy mounted one pasta machine on top of another, so that it would flatten the dough into a sheet on top, and then pass through to the one below to cut into noodles. The whole contraption was powered by a motor and chain the guy rigged up on the side.

It would be fun to have one of these to make a boatload of ravioli:

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Making pasta is not as great as you think it will be.

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I don't use mine much, either. Maybe twice a year.