Bosch to Porter Cable Battery Adapter by corski67

Last crawled date: 4 years ago

This design will allow you to use a (cheaper) 18 volt Bosch Lithium Ion battery pack with your Porter Cable cordless power tool.
I have two Porter Cable power tools, a drill and an impact driver. When the original 18 volt NiCad battery packs fizzled out, I decided to look for Lithium batteries to replace them. The Porter Cable batteries are ridiculously expensive compared to the Bosch batteries. I could get two Bosch 18V Lithium 1.5 amp hour batteries for less ($60 delivered) than the cost of just one Porter Cable ($80). I ordered up two Bosch batteries, thinking I would simply adapt the cells into the original PC battery pack housing. When I looked at the interface differences between the two battery types, it seemed like a good little design/build project for CAD and 3D printing. The adapter was designed in Autodesk 123D Design. I'm going to work on redesigning in Fusion 360 when I have time. STL files area available for download.