Everyone I know who has a pasta machine has this same pasta machine. Damp pasta dough sometimes sticks to the rollers and gets stuck under the casing pieces (not shown), and dries, and then catches more pasta dough and drags it in under the casing pieces. You have to open it up every few years and get that crap out.
Which is a pain. Not only is the thing difficult to take apart, but it is made from very sharp stamped metal which will cut you and have you cursing Italians, if you are the sort of person who likes to do that sort of thing.
Once you have those casings off (revealing the smaller, outer dowels, shown above) you will find them very difficult to put back on.
Why bother?
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so a rant is great. but are you suggesting no pasta machine???? how rustic.
Hrm apparently I was not altogether clear. All I am advocating is the taking off of those casing pieces. They are in no way structural.
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