Product review (5 stars): The Yarn Adventure
I bought this appliance to spin-dry hand-washed items; in particular, my hand-knits and hand-dyed/hand-painted yarn. I have an HE washer which gives me little control over the cycles (like spin-dry alone (>:-P) ), but it does have a powerful spin-cycle. As a test, I put some machine-washed cotton under-garments, which I usually air-dry, into this unit to see how much more water it would remove: more than expected!! I am allergic to wool, and am envious of the lovely hand-painted merino yarn available. I bought this mostly to spin out my own hand-painted yarns in cotton, alpaca and silk. My cotton hand-knit articles have also benefitted from a much shorter drying time. It is larger than I would have preferred, but I wanted the power that the smaller unit did not offer.

I am well pleased, except for the brevity of the single-paged photocopied 'manual'. I visited their website and found no instructional information whatsoever; not even a brief PDF manual. I went to You-Tube and watched several video reviews before I was able to decide whether to cut and remove the zip-tie at the bottom of the unit. It was supposed to strap the motor to a heavy metal bar to stabilize it for shipping, but mine arrived loose, which seems to be a circumstance shared by others. Once snipped, the zip-tie pulled free without great resistance. My complaint is solely about the lack of information in both the printed insert and online. Oh, and the styrofoam got everywhere: inside, outside, inside and outside, and spun out with the water. But it shipped without damage.

The device works well, and the motor did not seem to get hot after I allowed a large DK-weight cotton shawl (Cascade Ultra Pima, ~375 grams)  to spin dry for 20 minutes or so. After its first blocking on a foam mat with wires and pins, it seemed to be dry after 14 hours or so, but I left it for another day to be entirely certain. It dried much more quickly than a recent 50/50 cotton/modal shawl did. I am hopeful that my own hand-painted cotton yarn will be both fun and fast-drying (before and after knitting)! That's my next adventure in yarn (the knitted-on cabled border of my current shawl is going so slooowly).

BTW, the 'manual' says not to use this appliance to spin-dry stuffed animals. Perhaps because it they fall apart the stuffing will ruin the device? I don't know why you couldn't use a fine-mesh bag for a poly-fill-fiber stuffed toy, include two other articles to balance the load, and spin away.  Because I knit toys too; and they get the dirtiest of all.