Emily VelascoI think it's time to try printing this now very complicated battery case for my drill
Ugh. I don't want to listen to the printer for the rest of the day and night
I should have just committed to making it out of plywood like @ducksauz and I talked about. That would take me a couple hours and would be fun
Aurora - MIGRATING@MLE_online Very nice build, the fit is great with the drill!
But I have to wonder, why do this? Maybe I missed some previous posts, but I would guess the price of the case + cells + electronics probably surpasses the cost of an OEM battery. And you get significantly less waterproofing and durability with a printed part.
With the way I throw my drills around I could never use something this fragile, but maybe that's just me.
@spots1000 Because they don't make the batteries for my drill anymore!
All told though, I've spent $6 or $7 on this though.
@spots1000 Also, the original case was not waterproof at all because it had a shitload of vent holes in it. And I'm going to be printing a rubber skirt for it to give it some more durability
@MLE_online Oh wow, must be really old school then. I've never seen a tool battery that wasn't fully weatherized.
I wish I had got into rubber printing, so many cool applications!
@spots1000 It was a nicad pack. I guess the venting was for heat or gases? Not sure.
But even a modern, supposedly sealed pack I got out of the ewaste was all full of water, so I wouldn't trust waterproofing for much more than light splashes