RROS18-0 18V ONE+ Cordless Random Orbit Sander (Bare Tool)

Super happy with my purchase. I'm a Ryobi man I've alot in my tool collection and this sander is a perfect addition. Great to use fits nice in the had good power and generally can't find fault in this product.

I like to sand before decorating / painting walls and have either done this by hand or with a small mouse sander in the past.This sander however is just so efficient, you can cover a lot of area very fast with only one pass and get the finish you desire. Wish that I had this years ago as I would have saved many hours sanding. Being battery powered it's really easy to maneuver and there's no power cable to worry about connected to extension leads etc.I hooked this up to a shop vacuum and the dust is minimal.You need a decent battery, the 5ah battery gets around 40 minutes of run time.Great value for money and a great tool for your collection!

Excellent piece of kit, works well.

I've had may different sanders, but this is way different than I expected. The key element here is that the sander has it’s own vacuum built in and the sand paper has holes in it to suck the dust away. I don’t think I’ve ever had a sander work so well before until I got this one.I do like Ryobi products and already had the batteries so I this worked out quite well for me. It’s easy to use and handle but it’s also very fast and sanding with little effort.The air filter works quite well but I’ve had a few cases where it’s fallen off or even blown off by the vacuum. This is the only reason why I dropped it to 4 stars as they could have come up with a better way to keep it in place but apart from that one negative, I could not be more pleased with it.Overall, a great buy and would recommend it to anyone.

Ryobi is a fully accept seen by many as a low end tool maker and, I will concede that some time ago this was the case. However, over the last five or six years they have very noticeably pushed the brand upwards in quality and of course price. I guess that's a basic marketing strategy with battery tools. Once you have a base of users then they are by and large trapped by the battery format. Some years ago when I started my house renovation I bought a bunch of Ryobi stuff because it was relatively cheap and the batteries not bonkers priced. I figured that a few years use and I'd 'upgrade' as they failed.Well, seven ball-busting years later I'm still using the said same drill/drivers and of the three battery power packs I bought initially two are still going strong despite having been near beaten to death and charge literally hundreds of times. I am utterly amazed at how good they have been and because of that have instead of replacing Ryobi instead I have bought more. Much more. And they have become better and better.Which brings me to this palm sized sander which, is absolutely excellent. Really. The plastic despite being having a colour chosen by a blind man is properly high quality with a solid robust feel to it. I suspect it might be PA6 which is a fibre reinforced plastic used by better quality brands.Speaking of which Ryobi is owned by Tecktronic Industries of Hong Kong. Who also own AEG and Milwaukee tools as well. Now, you are not telling me that in their factory they are making three entirely different sets of power tool electro-mechanicals. I've used just about every major brand out there as an engineer and I'm pretty sure that the main difference between my Ryobi and Milwaukee is the colour of the plastic case...Anyway, bottom line is that I honestly think that Ryobi is a genuine alternative to the likes of DeWalt, Milwaukee and Bosch (pro - the DIY range is junk). Not quite up there with Makita but not that far off.Now in use this sander is superb. When comparing it to a mains powered version - I have three others from different manufacturers - this is just as good but has the benefit of no cord. It has loads of power and easily sanded for test purposes a bit of white kiln dried oak I had lying about in my workshop.Noise is lower than my mains powered sanders which is a nice bonus but, most of all the dust collection is better. Properly good for an add on bag type. Of course using a vacuum is even better and the location of the air outlet on this makes fitting and using a vac easy.Overall a superb cordless sander and highly recommended if you are a user of the Ryobi One+ batteries. And a quick reminder that this is a bare tool so factor in another fifty or sixty quid if you don't have any.

I bought my Ryobi DA Sander March 21 and it has just given up the ghost today (20-8-23) with a smoked motor. I've done alot with this tool over the last couple of years from fibreglass works on my boat, work tops, sanding timber and aluminium all of which has performed very well and achieved a good finish. A plus is you can also connect a Henry hoover nozzle with the connector piece and extraction works extremely well. For 70 odd pounds you can't go wrong, but I wouldn't say it's trade rated for day in day out use. Perfect for jobs around the house and other bits but probably wouldn't survive a building site very long.

I’ve just got into the ryobi one+ system this Christmas through a percussion drill and this was the 2nd product added to the impending collectionIt is a fantastic orbital sander which gets a fantastic finish on the first project I’ve worked with it ( a wooden pallet planter).Likes:- ease of use, such as sticking the sand paper down onto the Velcro, attaching battery and getting a great finish- feels very sturdy- did a surprisingly excellent job at collecting the dust in the bag- looks professionalDislikes:- battery life was only 15 minutes on the 1.5ah battery but I understand I should invest in a larger capacity battery so not really a product faultOverall I would recommend this to anybody in the ryobi ecosystem or looking to get into it

Ryobi is a quality make and this, while not, cheap does a good job. Will be cheaper for you if you have another Ryobi item with a similar battery