High-speed spin dryer -experiences?

cker

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I've seen several blurbs online about centrifugal clothes dryers. The front-runner for these seems to be Spin-X. The basic idea is they're like large versions of swimsuit dryers; you put in the clothes and the device spins really, really fast to throw the water out. Apparently then they're almost totally dry and can be tumble-dried in short time, or hung. End result is they're supposed to save energy and dryer time.

They're also $400 or so. I'm personally skeptical but interested. Anyone in here used one of these appliances? If so, do you have any opinion of it (for instance, whether I'd be stupid to buy one)?
 

feelingshorter

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I would rather just hang my clothes as its quick and easy. That spin thing looks to be quite small and your going to have to wait there while you spin your clothing in several loads. What about pants? Looks like 3-4 can fit in there.

"Capacity: 10 lbs. wet load"

What you save in electricity is taken back in time. I would still hang my clothing as drying it does damage the clothing.
 

SarcasticDwarf

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Originally posted by: feelingshorter
I would rather just hang my clothes as its quick and easy. That spin thing looks to be quite small and your going to have to wait there while you spin your clothing in several loads. What about pants? Looks like 3-4 can fit in there.

"Capacity: 10 lbs. wet load"

What you save in electricity is taken back in time. I would still hang my clothing as drying it does damage the clothing.

I agree. It would work if you don't mind doing laundry every day, but most of us like doing it once a week.
 

cker

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That's part of my concern. It sounds really good in principal, but I don't so much love doing laundry. But I like only having to do laundry once a week or so. I think I could do several loads, since they claim that a spin run takes something like 45 seconds.

Running my dryer REALLY heats up my place, so I like the idea of getting away from some of that. I'm just getting tingles in both my "cool gadget" and "hokey gimmick" sensors... ;)
 

everman

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Too expensive, takes too much extra time. However it would be nice if you absolutely needed an item or two dry as quickly as possible at any cost.
I'm sure you could build one for <$200 yourself. Use a helicopter engine if can afford it.
 

RelaxTheMind

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~$500 w/shipping... I guess it makes sense for people with swimming pools though... having to dry everyones crap before they have to go home...

then again it probably only holds like 2 towels