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Works as advertised for the first two thirds of the roll, but then the pressure is not enough to hold the roll while you tear a towel off. If you place a finger on either the roll or the pressure plate, it still works perfectly, but if you don't, you'll have the same problem as you thought you were correcting: it won't tear off cleanly and you'll end up with more towels than you wanted. At the beginning of the roll, when this device is working as it's supposed to, there is still a caveat. You must align the perforation just beyond the pressure plate, no more than an inch in order to tear off the towel with one hand; otherwise you will only sometimes get a single towel. I've tried numerous devices to get the desired result and this one comes the closest to actually working. The ratchet-driven system tightens up as it gets closer to the end of the roll, which theoretically would solve the problem, but it gets too tight and you can't pull the towels out without using both hands. This one doesn't tighten the roll, but the pressure plate doesn't get tighter, which is the problem. I don't think there is an ideal solution to this perplexing problem.