It's the Makita............."FLEET!!"....and a couple others
All righty, then..............back when I could actually work, all/ any of my rechargeable tools were the old Makita 9.6 "long handled" stuff, and a couple drills were the long handled 12V had the bulge at the bottom. But you cannot really buy batteries for them (nicad) anymore
Weeks ago I found at a thrift store, a kit with a 1/2" drill/ driver and 1/4" hex impact driver, bad batteries, and a few days later a 3/8 drill / driver, all three the same 14.4 Ni-metal hydride, bad batteries. And I found that almost nobody stocks the NiMH because I guess they were an interim stepping stone to LI-Ion I ended up buying (the red ones) egag import batteries for them, and they are a POOR deal!!
So then I found a pretty good buy on a Li-Ion 18V Makita 1/2" drill and 1/4 hex impact, and not long after, ended up buying a 3/8 sq drive impact wrench on Egag at a fair price.
Then I endeavored to convert the older tools to USE THESE Makita 18V Li-Ion batteries.
Photos did not appear in desired order. Here is one of the Egag battery bases, I have found 3 different ones, vary in price from about 6.00US to about 8.00 US
Below an idea of the different battery bases. One of them in particular wastes a lot of height, bulky
Below, the 3 14.4V Ni-MH tools, at top left is an Egag adapter for Ni-MH 18V from 18V Li-Ion, which I sawed a bit off the front to fit these 14.4 tools
The red is one of the egag poor batteries in the tool, and a dead one I sawed apart to experiment with mounting an adapter
Below is the start of converting the 14.4 --1/4 hex driver to Li-Ion. I made some saw cuts in the front of the old battery well, and will mount this new Egag battery base in there. It will become a native fit then, 18V Li-Ion vs original 14.4V
Below, 2 of the old long handle 9.6 tools. They are too difficult to convert and will not be used much, but I did want the functionality of the recip saw and the angle drill. Took an old battery, some wire, and one of the Egag bases, and now they will run on 18v
All righty, then..............back when I could actually work, all/ any of my rechargeable tools were the old Makita 9.6 "long handled" stuff, and a couple drills were the long handled 12V had the bulge at the bottom. But you cannot really buy batteries for them (nicad) anymore
Weeks ago I found at a thrift store, a kit with a 1/2" drill/ driver and 1/4" hex impact driver, bad batteries, and a few days later a 3/8 drill / driver, all three the same 14.4 Ni-metal hydride, bad batteries. And I found that almost nobody stocks the NiMH because I guess they were an interim stepping stone to LI-Ion I ended up buying (the red ones) egag import batteries for them, and they are a POOR deal!!
So then I found a pretty good buy on a Li-Ion 18V Makita 1/2" drill and 1/4 hex impact, and not long after, ended up buying a 3/8 sq drive impact wrench on Egag at a fair price.
Then I endeavored to convert the older tools to USE THESE Makita 18V Li-Ion batteries.
Photos did not appear in desired order. Here is one of the Egag battery bases, I have found 3 different ones, vary in price from about 6.00US to about 8.00 US
Below an idea of the different battery bases. One of them in particular wastes a lot of height, bulky
Below, the 3 14.4V Ni-MH tools, at top left is an Egag adapter for Ni-MH 18V from 18V Li-Ion, which I sawed a bit off the front to fit these 14.4 tools
The red is one of the egag poor batteries in the tool, and a dead one I sawed apart to experiment with mounting an adapter
Below is the start of converting the 14.4 --1/4 hex driver to Li-Ion. I made some saw cuts in the front of the old battery well, and will mount this new Egag battery base in there. It will become a native fit then, 18V Li-Ion vs original 14.4V
Below, 2 of the old long handle 9.6 tools. They are too difficult to convert and will not be used much, but I did want the functionality of the recip saw and the angle drill. Took an old battery, some wire, and one of the Egag bases, and now they will run on 18v