Customer Reviews for RYOBI ONE+ 18V Cordless Corner Cat Finish Sander (Tool Only)

I usually don't give an excellent rating but the Ryobi 18 volt one deserves the 5 star. What I like is the sander, which equals in results of my corded much more expense random orbit sanders, frees me from the wall plug.

Great tool. Highly recommend.

Works great for my wood working crafts, only use Ryobi 18v and 40v tools.

Absolutely great product from ryobi for the quality and price you can't go wrong with this product.

I’ve owned this sander for less than a year. It was great. Speed and power was good. Seemed to get the job done. Hook it up to a shop vac and it is virtually dustless. Though I didn’t like the fact it seemed to give me hand cramps that others didn’t give me, I liked it. The like lasted until recently when the button failed. I’m not sure if they use a cheap plastic switch in it but if it’s not pressed right, it will turn off in the middle of sanding. It no longer has the slight resistance when pressed. It freely slides in. Luckily, Ryobi has a great warranty.

I purchased this as i liked the convenience of cordless. I used it mainly on 3 projects. A piano restore, a wine barrel and a small bathroom prior to painting. It stopped working then, so i opened it thinking I had clogged something. Discovered that the motor which has brass cog is sat upon by a plastic cog which then belt loops to another. When the motor gets warm it heats up th plastic which then melts. No parts available to replace it so now its all trash. Wont buy another

I like how it works. Just need to replace the battery and paper regularly when sanding 2x4s

I love the fact that this is compact powerful and gets into tight spaces.

Works well for what I needed it for. Great for sanding in very tight places.

well built, works perfectly!! Best orbital sander I have, because it is battery operated it makes it very convenient!

Full disclosure, I'm somewhat of a tool addict. I settled on Ryobi years ago because the value of what you get for what you pay is fairly high. Most tool guys will settle on a "Brand" of power tool and stick to it to avoid building a collection of chargers and batteries that don't interoperate. My brand is Ryobi for the 18/20V stuff and Milwaukee for the smaller 12V tools. So naturally when I needed a RO Sander for a toolbox restoration, I had two choices. I could get a more expensive Milwaukee 12V model or this product. I chose this product because I have more Ryobi Batteries. It performed admirably, and everything fit together as expected out of the box. I put a lot of hours on this sander in a very short amount of time, doing rough paint removal work from a well aged toolbox and it did everything I asked of it without issue. If I had to pin any complaints on it, after many hours of holding the darn thing I eventually couldn't find a comfortable place to grip it, but this is probably a commentary I could make of any Palm RO Sander, not specifically this model. For 40 bucks, it worked like a charm.

I’m doing a major rehab of a table/chair, I’ve had to use just about every sander I have, and I bought this one to help hit areas others could not. I have done both small jobs and large jobs with equal good results. I would suggest having at least a couple batteries.

Sanding is never the fun part of any project for me, so I have a few different sanders in my shop. The project I am doing right now so far has been all sanding, I am attempting to repair/restore an old chair/table. While my Ryobi cordless Orbital sander does the bulk of the work, there are places it just can’t reach. I owned a corded finish sander before, but love my Ryobi cordless tools, so decided to go this way. It performed it’s task very well, in fact just as nice as the corded one I have, the only problem is I am doing hours of sanding on this project and of course the sanders seem to go through batteries pretty fast. Thank goodness I own a lot of batteries and chargers. I would also suggest you buy some extra pieces of sand paper when you buy this, the paper it comes with did not hold up very well.

Ryobi has really come a long way, would never have recommended their tools a few years ago but the newest versions are very good and dependable, can't beat the price either

This is a nice sander to compliment the random orbit sander. Great for getting inti those corners that the orbit sander can’t reach. Does a great job sanding and super easy to use. The handle grip is comfort to use for extended sanding. Only negative is it does not have dust collection.

This is one of my best Sanders, love the fact that it’s not too hard to my projects I work with pine a lot so I need to be extra careful, I have use a 4wts battery and it last me hours, the way it fits in my hand it’s perfect. One of the best parts of this sander is how easy to change sand paper.

This is a very nice sander to have in your workshop. If you are in the ryobi platform this is the orbit sander to go with. Does a great job and holds up well. Not sure it could be used everyday in a professional setting but at the price point its great for the DIYer. I like it so much i have 2 that i use on a regular basis.

Very handy for the patch jobs before painting. Leaves a smooth flat surface, ready for painting.

So far it has worked well. I use the batteries from my previously purchased Ryobi cordless tools. The battery does not last as long as I like, but I figured that going into it. It is doing the job that I paid for it to do. Easy enough to use an 8 year old child do it.

Great little sander. Works really well. Used with my vacuum cleaner collecting the dust. Battery life is the only downside. Make sure you have long life batteries and a couple of chargers.

Helpful and time-saving for sure, but chews through batteries like nobody's business. I have 3 batteries, and maybe got about 30-40 minutes of sanding time before having to wait 4 hours while they charge. Annoying. Also, it's rough to get into corners. Have to hand- sand any details and corners.

Does a fine job. Is easy to hold and maneuver. I used it on multiple cutting boards that I made for Christmas gifts.

Affordable and powerful , dont break the bank ,just complete the job.

This sander does not come with battery or charger. And it’s slows do your project if you thought it did and you didn’t have ONE+ . The batteries and chargers cost 99.00 and up so think about a corded sander if you don’t want be stuck with this fancy, useful, sander for the great price of “34.99” but in actuality it 149.00 for it to work.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] My son gave this to me for a Christmas present and I love it, I have used it several times for small projects I nave been doing the last one was the table I made for our daughter from her grandfathers chess set.

Works great gets into corners and edges well

Very we’ll built. Works best with the 4.0 lithium batteries. Best part about it is not having to plug it in if you have a small to medium area to sand.

Sander was easy to use and handle first time ever using an electric sander.. Recent purchase no roblem with controls off/on switch Well worth the price and score given on sander. It excels performannce and prove.

I have had two of these. The first died after 1 month on the second use. it started to lose power and then smoke started to pour from it and it froze in place. I try to contact Ryobi about this as I needed to get this fixed so I could finish my project before the deadline. I got the standard answer and went to home depot as instructed. I was told I had to pay a $78 deposit for them to look at it and determine if it was covered under waranty. After this I started to say that it was unacceptable and a manager agreed and gave me a new one with no documentation. On to the new one now. I finished the project I was on and recently started a new one. Again the sander started to lose power and smells of burning. I again contact Ryobi for an explanation as to why this is an issue and get the same standard response as before. I am not going to deal with this anymore. Why do I need to pay someone to tell me the product has failed for the second time in less that a year after two small projects each. If Ryobi wants to talk to me they can but I will not be purchasing another Ryobi product with this customer service.

I purchased this item because my other sander broke, instead of purchasing the same one again I went with the Ryobi brand since I have almost all their tools. Light weight, love that it is cordless.