Product review (4 stars): Great for small jobs; a couple failings (hopeless fill hose & vague instructions), but I'm overall pleased with its performance
We bought this little washer for our machine shop, to wash the shop rags and aprons, and I also bring my dirty gardening gloves from home and wash those in this machine, too....basically things that are so dirty I don't care to put them through my regular washer at home.  For those jobs, it's perfect, gets the items clean enough for their purpose with a single 6 min wash cycle, followed by a 2 min spin with the water spraying during the first min of the spin cycle, then back to the washing tub for a 6 min rinse, then the final spin/spray for 3 mins before hanging to dry.  The spin bin is amazing, very powerful, and, as others have said, the clothes come out dry enough to need only about an hour hanging on the line to dry the rest of the way.  The washer's agitator is also good, although the constant "agitate for a very short time, stop, reverse directions, agitate again for a short time, stop, reverse directions and repeat" seems like alot of stopping and starting that I doubt does anything more as far as cleaning the clothes than simply allowing the agitator to run steadily in one direction.  All that starting and stopping seems to me to be something that will wear out the motor much more quickly.  Time will tell.  I see no difference between the "Normal" wash cycle and the "Soft" wash cycle except that there may be a few seconds less time before it stops and reverses directions.....even MORE stopping and starting, so, after initially trying the Soft cycle to see what it was all about (hoping it would agitate in only one direction and not start, stop, reverse, repeat), I've never used it again.  The drain pump is powerful, and while I have the hose draining into a floor drain, it seems as though the pump would be powerful enough to pump upward to drain into a sink.  As others have also said, the fill hose is ridiculously hopeless.  It fills the wash tub pretty quickly, but there's no way to attach it to any American faucet I've ever seen.  Hubby attached a piece of garden hose to one end so it would fit onto the faucet, but when the hose fills with water, the weight of that pc of garden hose pulls the very light weight fill hose out of the fill hole on the other end so I have to hold it while it fills.  The drain hose, made from the same light weight plastic but quite a bit bigger in diameter, was too short to reach the floor drain, so he also extended that, and because it lays on the floor, there's no problem there.  The directions also leave alot to be desired, very sketchy to start with and the English translation doesn't help that at all.  (Just for example, they start out numbering the step-by-step instructions, then suddenly change to lettering them and seem to miss some rather important details in between....all pretty vague no matter what format is used.)  You get a very general idea and then have to kind of figure things out on your own as you go along (like how much water to use.  The instructions indicate there are fill lines inside the wash tub, but there isn't, and the ability to use the spin cycle as a rinse and spin was also not at all clear.)  I'm not sure what purpose the lint filter inside the washer tub serves.  It doesn't EVER have any lint in it, and I know there's lint coming off at least some of the rags, so I'm not sure if it's supposed to have some kind of pc inside the hollow plastic filter attached to the side of the tub or if it's just as hopeless as the fill hose is.  So far, it seems that way, but because the directions are so vague, maybe I'm missing something and that's why it doesn't catch any lint.  We put a mesh screen over the floor drain to try to catch as much escaping lint as possible so as not to plug things up.  Because I'm washing very dirty items, the bottom of the white washer tub gets quite dirty, and it's a bit difficult to wipe out and get the bottom of the tub really clean between cycles, after the water drains out.  With time and effort, it can be done although not that easily.  If I was going to use this more often and for larger loads, I'd get a larger capacity washer, probably one of the newer 11 lb capacities vs the 8.8 lb capacity of this model.  But, for my purposes, the size is okay.  All in all, I'm pleased with this dandy little machine.  It's not automatic by any means and takes some time and effort, but it can be used anywhere you have a regular electrical outlet and a drain within reach.  While I really like being able to fill it with the faucet (will like it even better once we get the fill hose situation figured out), if you don't have a faucet within easy reach, you can fill it with a bucket.  A bit more hassle and I don't know if you'd get the "rinse and spin" you get when using the faucet and hose, but it'll work.  I bought some Zote low suds laundry soap flakes to use for detergent.  You have to dissolve them in hot water before use and agitate the water-filled washer tub for about a minute to mix well before adding clothes, but I wanted something low suds and the soap flakes were by far the least expensive.  I also add just under 1/4 cup of Arm and Hammer Super Washing Soda Detergent Booster for extra cleaning power with such dirty items.  Both seem to work well and create virtually no suds.  Bottom line:  If I was going to use it on a regular basis, like if it was my main washer for home laundry, I'd seriously consider spending another $140 dollars to get the FULLY AUTOMATIC mini washer that's available; all the benefits of this type of manual machine.....small size, portable, with no special electrical or plumbing needed......but without the hassle of moving the clothes back and forth from the washer to the spinner, back to the washer and then to the spinner.  I understand they're completely automatic, just like a regular sized washer but with the benefits of the mini models.  Still, though, for the $109 and free shipping I paid for this little machine, I'm quite satisfied with it so far (have only run about 8 to 10 loads through it) and even happier that I don't have to wash those dirty shop items and gardening gloves in my home machine anymore!