Well, cookingshark, I make a lot of homemade pasta and always use room temp water. Never used warm. I make all sorts of pasta, including spinach, etc. I've had an Atlas pasta machine for years and love it. It's a real champ. However, I'm entertaining the notion of getting an electric motor to retrofit it. The arthritis and carpal tunnel in my right hand make turning the crank a bit difficult and painful. I can get the motor. Just haven't put it at the top of my priority list.
Before I got my machine I did it all by hand. The pasta turned out fine, but it took a lot longer.
I used to rest a broom handle across the backs of two chairs to use as a drying rack, but Buck built me a nice wooden one that has enough "arms" to dry several pounds of pasta. Yeah!
Have fun making your pasta. There's nothing better than homemade noodles in a pot of rich homemade chicken soup.