"Mark Thorson" ha scritto nel messaggio > It's a slicer for something, and
certainly old,
> but for what?
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> http://cgi.ebay.com/_W0QQitemZ400032413691
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> If it's for pasta, the pasta would already have> to be cut into wide
> strips before using this to> cut it into narrow strips.

The feed area precludes that kind of answer. If you were feeding in
something already rolled and flat the feed would be flat like a pasta roller
is today. This takes a rounded thing that is malleable and turns it into
long, flattened narrow things. Linguine, perhaps, but I wouldn't bet on it.
Without seeing just how big the resulatant strip would be it's impossible to
reckon, but sf is right, it is more an extruder than a roller/cutter.
Unfortunately, the last blow up looks like the strips could be 1" thick!