NOTE: If you are very tall, (I am 5’9 and had no problems,) if purchasing one of these you will need to place a shelf or something like that on top of the counter you place it on as otherwise you would be bending down too low in a non-ergonomic position to crank it and it would be awkward to turn it very quickly. Or some type of rolling worktable that has a much taller height than a regular counter might work, but if tall, especially those 6’4 or taller types know a light tiered shelf unit would work on top of a counter. Or if you buy one and own a pinball machine the grip like feet on it will secure it to the glass without the need for the clamp and making pasta as well as other activities of course on top of a pinball machine are great for tall men, as in 6’4 or above. And how adorable if you are a super tall married man for the man to make pasta on top of a pinball machine for the woman he is married to! The Marcato Atlas machines also have grip feet that make it decorative for the tall men that own pinball machines to make pasta both especially decoratively and comfortably.It multi tasks the pinball machine better thereby helping to prevent functional fixedness type thinking. There are various pinball machine conventions, the largest one in the United States is held annually in Chicago. If folks from Marcato demonstrate and sell their extruders and pasta rollers to make pasta at pinball machine conventions, using the pinball machines as a counter, many more men will get into making homemade pasta to the delight of their wives. The best demonstration to be done by an attractive married couple, the husband makes the pasta, while the wife sits on the pinball machine very classily, and watches.So fantastic, even the first night I got mine I made delicious homemade rigatoni, so incredible. It had been many years since I ate rigatoni. I have been making my own homemade pasta now for a few years. The only other pasta I eat is Annie’s Organic Macaroni and Cheese. Even when I go out to a restaurant I bring my own soup in a quart mason jar (I have them give me half the soup from the mason jar and then will let them keep the jar with the rest of that homemade soup for one of them at the restaurant to enjoy, or several there can taste it type of thing.) I am very particular about my meals and eat almost all organic, low fat and vegetarian. I am picky about my appearance, love my Playboy Playmate style body, I even airbrush my makeup on using my Tru airbrush machine and Tru makeup.My Marcato extruder is especially appreciated by me because I am a vegetarian and so many Italian meals are so easy to convert the recipe into vegetarian even if it was not before, and the taste is the same. I make my pasta dough without any eggs. I just use a 50-50 ratio of 100% whole wheat to organic unbleached flour, a very small pinch of salt and just a small, (less than ½ a teaspoon usually,) of olive oil. I like to make my dough especially with my Gourmia Pasta Amazing, and then I place my finished rigatonis etc., in front of the fan to dry quickly. If you do not have a Gourmia Pasta Amazing a small fan with a clip so that it can be placed low in front of the pasta will also work. I lightly flour one of my non-stick baking mats and extrude my pasta there before placing it on plates to dry before boiling. If the dough starts drying too much because it sets I just spritz it with my plant watering spritzer and squeeze it so the water is absorbed before I place it in the hopper of my extruder.I boil my pasta using my Aroma Professional that has a pasta strainer lid and pasta boiling and simmer settings.I agree with Amazon contributor Steve K. in his article where he explains the attachments could have more options for placing. Holes on either side for the clamp would be great, but I agree that it is not really a major issue. I have a spinning type cart table I can move around in my small kitchen that folds open when I need it to so I have room to both make my pasta and my homemade sauce and boil it. I clamp both my Marcatos to that. I have a Marcato Atlas where I make my lasagna and some other of my pastas. Note: This extruder machine cannot make those (lasagna, linguini types.) It is specifically an extruder style machine, for making rigatoni and bucatini, things like that.The improvement to me is that the look of it could be better, the same design, with two holes for the clamp, but with the quality of the metal Marcato Atlas Pasta Rollers. These are mostly plastic, though they still look cute. That is why I only gave it three stars.I found out the the top hole labeled fast is great to put the crank in at the very end of the extrusion process as it gets the last bit of rigatoni out of the die.-Julie Sands