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[capncarl]

I was scrolling through ezine Woodworkers Journal today and found this!
It's an adapter that allows you to use later date LI batteries on your 18 v Nicad tools. That's wonderful! Great idea!

But... A number of years ago I was poised to put a device like this on the market. My offerings would have various brands of tools with different brands of a batteries. I.e., you could use the cheaper ryobi batteries on dewalt, Milwaukee, etc. I was in contact with an individual that already had hand made adapters for sale on eBay, but lost contact for some unexplained reason. I later found out that he had been contacted by one of the major tool co's, threatening him with a lawsuit to remove his adapter from sale. I took this as a hint and stopped work on my adapter.

I start work on my new adapter soon.

You really have to try hard to like them. Sneaky #%#%%*^ s.

Opps, photo upload failed.

capncarl

[capncarl]

Photo of the Dewalt battery adapter they are offering soon. Similar to mine except mine did not have a full size battery for the connection adapter. That's way too much stuff hanging off the bottom of a drill. My adapter was built for a Ryobi battery to Dewalt tool but the intentions were to provide adapters to allow most popular batteries to other popular tools.

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[atgcpaul]

You really have to try hard to like them. Sneaky #%#%%*^ s.

Who's "them"? Dewalt?

How could they prevent the eBay reseller from selling the adapters? Maybe they already had a patent on it but hadn't released a product yet?

In any case, I hope these are reasonably priced and that they come out with something for Makita. It's a good idea.