If you have a sweater or a piece of clothing you have to hand wash, it can take forever to dry. Try putting it into your salad spinner, and it will remove a lot of excess water, and dry faster.
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It's very unlikely to produce enough G force to remove a significant amount of water. Hand spinning simply can't produce the centrifugal (centripetal) forces necessary to press the fabric outward to squeeze out the water. A salad spinner works for lettuce because the lettuce doesn't absorb the water. Unfortunately, fabics absorb and lock in water. A regualr washer spins at about 700 rpm while centrifugal extractor may go several thousand rpms.
Simply hand wringing will get out enough water so that a salad spinner won't extract a drop more. Or if you don't want to damge the fabric by wringing, putting it on a sweater rack and let gravity do its work will be more efficient. Or better yet, do what I do: Gently squeeze out any water and then aim a fan at it. That not only dries it faster but also freshens it by circulating air around it.
I think it's highly unlikely that 1) a sweater would fit into a salad spinner and 2) that it would produce enough force to spin water out of something as heavy as a sweater.
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