Any spinners out there?

I was wondering if there are any spinners out there and, if so, do you use a drum carder to process your wool? I have a Louet drum carder and have some questions about it. It seems to really build up a lot of wool on the smaller, front drum and when you try to feed your wool through again for a second carding, you lose half of your just carded wool on that front drum. I was wondering if this is normal. I clean off the front drum and will feed that back through, but don't dare to feed wool through a second time because I am going to lose it again. Should I just let the front drum fill up to its maximum capacity and not worry about it? Maybe then it wouldn't take so much of my wool, but it seems like such a waste of wool because when it gets really thick on that front drum, you have to cut it off and then you can't use it. Any advice would be most helpful. Thank you.

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