Nov 25, 2023. Gave this a full 5 stars because this machine rocks! Its not as pretty and fine as my Atlas but boy does this baby crank out clay for hours. I use 2 machines on my table now and only the Shule goes back and forth to my weekly class. I love it.One thing, it's thickest setting is about a 2 or 3 on the Atlas so you have to plan to that issue if you use the widest Atlas setting a lot. Still noisy but I put in my earbuds when I'm using this in my home studio.Tentative 4 stars for now. I bought the electric shule as a machine for my classroom since hand cranking is painful. The best thing about this machine-it doesn't need to be clamped to the table and it doesn't move around like I thought it would. It's loud, the rollers sound scratchy but in my 6 hour 1 day test the motor didn't heat up like my atlas and there were no black oil marks. I used only white for my test but I have 8 students in my classes so we will see how it holds up. I will update in a month with more details. The machine with the metallic motor is my atlas 180.