Product review (5 stars): Worked like a charm!  (after recovering from our idiot maneuver)
We, as a precaution, bought two of these, and am overjoyed we did.  We fell prey to our own stupidity at one point.  We has one person on one side feeding the auger in and inserting more poles while the other was trying to suck the lint out and clearing the clogs of lint along the way.  I walked over to get another pole after detaching the drill.  My wife just cleaned the vacuum and asked me, "Should I turn it on?"  "Sure!" I said and grabbed a pole.  The vacuum sucked the the auger and three segments of pole in!  Crap!  So we assembled the other set and started feeding that in, getting 5 poles and the auger through and making quick work of the 20 years worth of lint.  (We were not wise...)  We were beginning to pull it out and, what do you know, the other pole has perfectly wrapped itself around the other one!  We were able to pull both out, continue our cleaning while basking in the shame of doing something immensely stupid and getting away with it.  In the end, it worked like a charm, needing 7 poles total to get the whole length done.  Phew!