Marcato Atlas Drive Motor, Made in Italy, Powers Pasta Machines and Attachments, Silver

You will never go back to hand cranking your pasta once you start using this! Made my pasta so much faster and easier. Love having 2 hands to handle the dough while processing it through the pasta maker. Worth every penny.

This thing makes pasta and it's easy to do. My kitchen counter doesn't hold the pasta machine due to the setbacks under the counter that defeat the clamp. I am not Vishnu with 8 arms so I can't hold the machine, crank it, feed the pasta and guide it out. No clamp needed for the machine with the motor and it works smoothly, easily transferring from roll out to one of the cutting options. A recent national review said this and the matching pasta machine were not Rolls Royce models but were like a Camry - works every time and gets the job done reliably. I agree.

Making pasta just got alot easier with this motor attached. I will note that it's a bit noisy but you forget about that when your dining on fresh, homemade, goose egg pasta!

I can't say if it works or not. It did not fit on my old 150 so I bought a conversion kit. The conversion kit didn't fit on my older 150. So I bought a new "wellness" 150. Guess what, the motor fits on the cutting rollers but not in the smooth rollers. For some reason, the holes in the cutting rollers and the smooth rollers are different diameters on the "wellness" machine. Great engineering Marcato! So I returned everything and will use the hand crank on my old machine.

I purchased the motor because I do not have an overhang on my counter so there is no reasonable way to attach the clamp.The motor solves that problem because although a clamp is still recommended it really isn't necessary when using the motor. I found that to be the case. The motor is easy to mount and unmount, easy to clean, and looks sharp when the fingerprints are wiped off. Having the motor available is like having a third hand.I would recommend this motor.One more thing. A piece of plastic came with the motor. I have been unable to find any reference to it. It looks as if it may be a hand held scraper but that is just a guess. It does have the Marcato logo molded onto it. If anyone knows what it is please let me know via a comment.

My aunt recently asked me to buy her a atlas pasta maker (she lives in Asia, and for some reason atlas branded stuff is more expansive there)Anyway, when I received the package, I opened it up to do a quick inspection, and the retail packaging (not shipping, shipping box was well padded) I noticed the axel has actually peirced the box (O.O)I also plugged it in to test it, I noticed the motor sounded similar to a cordless drill (I was expecting a high rpm motor with a gearbox, not a low rpm high torque motor)The design is weird, in my belief, it looks better on an atlas 150/180 upside down, and if you look form a distance, it looks like the whole things going to tilt overThe cord is a universal cord similar to the cords on sony power bricks (male uc to female 2 pin), so if the cord somehow breaks, finding another one is going to bea peice of cakeThe design for attaching onto the atlas 150/180 isn't exactly the best, it's simply 2 pins that you put on and turn.As for the material, it's cheap plastic you'd expect to find on a toy, heck even Legos have higher quality plasticIt's secure enough for now (if my aunt complains, it was HER choice)The 3 position switch is nice, there's a "pulse" (short press or hold), and a on (stays on) (thirds the off)

I bought the Atlas pasta roller when I lived in Italy. My landlady showed me the difference between store-bought and fresh pasta, plus all the variations. In Italy everything is 220 volts, and I bought the 220v motor. Moving back to the States meant I couldn't use the 220v motor and had to hand-crank the pasta roller, which is a pain. The 120v motor is strong, but not too quiet. I don't care, I just want great pasta without the work of hand-rolling. I haven't bought pasta in 15 years, the roller and motors are indestructible. A good companion is "The Silver Spoon" cookbook, over 1000 pages, in print only in Italian for 50 years and now in English, about $32. Buon mangiare.

I got the original Marcato Atlas 150 at a yard sale for $10 many years ago. Love it for the pasta, hated it for the difficulty handling it. You basically need a second person cranking it. This motor is that second person. Now I love it all the way.I was debating with myself for a while if I should get this motor or the KitchenAid attachments. Then I saw those attachments in action at a friend's house and ... problem is they only come in stainless steel, which is no match for the anodized aluminum rollers in an original Marcato. End of story.