Don't buy the Ryobi 18V rotary tool and Foot Pedal. This tool review may change your mind. I Did.

A quick review of the Ryobi quick change HP rotary tool with foot pedal. I cover some likes and dislikes and offer some advise on small upgrades.

[BillO]

I just purchased the Harbor Freight Chicago Electric pendant rotary tool. It cost me $30 with coupon. I have used others but let me tell you as a wood carver. This thing is awesome.
The foot pedal while cheaply made, works great, the motor is plenty powerful. The handpiece is better than I expected
Best of all, It is 100% compatible with Foredom hand pieces. You can use a Foredom brand or Chinese knock offs. They fit fine.
I use a Dremel 4300 with flex shaft too for wood carving. The HF one is quickly becoming my favorite.
Not sure why I would pay more.
Did I mention how much I dislike the crapy Ryobi brand anything but especially their batteries.
Never had any luck with Ryobi lasting more than a few months without issues.

[shastastan]

Thanks for the video. I didn't buy the kit, but I've been thinking about the foot pedal. Thanks to your video, I won't be buying the pedal since it does not turn the tool off. To me this is an incredible safety issue. If Ryobi fixes this problem, I will buy the pedal

[andrewavellino]

Did you ever find out if Dremel cut off wheels work on the Ryobi mandrel? I feel like the Dremel ez quick change collet wobbles too much, the Ryobi one looks to be more secure

[MrMetalpunx]

Ryobi is the green lantern dremel is batman colors, are we assembling a power tool justice league?

[Graceradiolife]

Very helpful! Thank you!🙏🏻 God bless you!

[nathanwebster]

The bar on the other hand lithium 8-volt rotary tool cordless I've used for 2 years no issues whatsoever

[TheRoadDawg]

Maybe get a $19 phone stand so you can stop fumbling around. Just some constructive criticism my friend, no I’ll intent, it’s just a bit frustrating trying to watch you struggle.

[JimzAuto]

LOTS OF ERRORS IN YOUR PRESENTATION. 1) Running the tool WITHOUT pedal attached- min setting ALSO RUNS THE TOOL WHEN POWER SWITCH IS ‘ON’ and knob is at min setting. 2) Spinning output with foot-pedal connected is a SAFETY FEATURE- unit is ‘armed’ and pressing the pedal WILL RUN THE UNIT AT PEDAL INPUT SPEED. Hope y’all find these comments helpful.

[PetaJ-up]

Just saying, you are complaining because a proprietry tool can't be used with another proprietry tool from a different manufacturer.
Seems you already had the answer to your dilemma by just buying the dremel quick lock tool and you can put whatever dremel bit on to your heart's content, even though you are not going to use the other cut off wheel anyway. That makes sense.

[steven_vogt]

Some useful information buried in needless repetition:( no way this needed to be 22 minutes long. Also, please get a stand for your phone - hand held filming is a huge bummer.

[nathanwebster]

And by the way the one that put the stuff for harbor freight I bought four of them tools myself the first one the whole entire shaft broke the second one the motor started smoking so I took them all four back they're junk

[JerryTregaskis]

Too much fumbling around with tool changes not worth watching!