Parkside To Makita Adapter

[Onoff]

Been making these for a mate who has Parkside tools and batteries but wants to power the odd Fakita tool. A couple of types off of Thingiverse. One that allows swapping between Makita or Parkside batteries, then a second quite clever one that replaces the Makita battery connection plate in the tool so you can only ever use Parkside batteries:

 

The "permanent" one. A real easy print.

 

Pre removing the supports:

 

 

It's designed to go into a real Makita. In effect it's the top of a Makita battery with Parkside battery fitment. No need either for complicated battery tabs, it just uses ordinary 1/4" male spade crimps. Here fitted to a Fakita 4" chainsaw, you can see it's a tad too wide to close the two halves of the case up:

 

 

On my mate's 10/12" Fakita chainsaw, a different make to mine), it's even worse:

 

 

Fixed it now, just reduced the width in CAD.

Edited March 16, 2023 by Onoff