30November 2021
there's an easy way to improve the performance of almost any Makita power tool take
this Milwaukee battery and clip it on that's impossible look at Milwaukee battery look at Makita power
tool they're not interchangeable we know that no brand is going to allow somebody else's
battery to go into their device and there's no way a Milwaukee one can fit into a Makita one
yeah but i think they should actually you know they've done that in mobile phones isn't it you've
got to now have the USB C should manufacturers be making batteries compatible between products
should be the first to do that put a comment below if you think that would be a sensible way
forward because i certainly do but i think i've actually solved a problem Gary okay so look there
you go there's my Milwaukee battery yeah that's clearly a Milwaukee battery yes yep and here's our
Makita tool and they've got it working together i think there's a little bit more to it do you want
to bring the camera in let's have a closer look okay well no look here's the Milwaukee battery
look they've even improved it even more even now has a USB charge port in the top as well even
though it's the A not the C but we'll let them off that one okay yeah it seems a little fatter than
normal though doesn't it seems a little taller uh okay that's just a slight confession here i
have been on a well-known online retailer that does next day free delivery and i found this
battery adapter i'll try to get it off no if i push the right buttons it might help there
we go that is the Milwaukee 2 Makita battery adapter right okay so it will take this 18-volt
battery and allow it to be connected to our impact driver just with that little bit of kit in between
yeah so we've just discovered this this is a new yeah new wizardry that we found so if you
are using one of these uh let us know your thoughts about it apparently you can't use it
to charge the batteries uh it doesn't work in reverse you have to remove it so i don't know if
you can charge a Milwaukee battery on a Makita charger okay so that'll be a great comment
to leave and if you want to leave a comment as well about how well Gordon detached it from
the product as well that would be a nice one to hear as well but i know when you're on online
retailer offers next day delivery often throws you something else that you might be interested
in when you're looking at these adapters a wild card yeah you were you were interested in that so
you might be interested in this gallery absolutely right there is another version that's the same
technology clips to a Milwaukee battery we just have two wires coming out the back okay should
we just have a little look at that then so it's an 18 volt well i can't believe that's 18
volts it's some sort of adapter venue contact there and it comes out with some wires
let me have a little feel of the weight i can tell you now with them in my engineering
judgment see this one here yeah it's soldered to this red one and this one here is soldered to this
black one i think and that's it technology yeah i think better that's what it could do and but on
the data sheet forward it says it's got short circuit and reverse polarity protection in there
okay um i think these originally if your planet went to robot wars or something like that and you
need some power for your robot that's what they're intended for but what did you use it for all
right so what i've done is managed to convert our favorite soldering iron the TS100 that moves i'll
just i'll power it up so are you ready for this so this is this is the one we just looked
at yeah so you've gone away and done a Blue Peter style connection here so that's going
to power a soldering iron yeah it's going to power our solder light so i'll just clip that
in there we've got power and then we've got our TS100 that we've used before you can see
it's already getting ready for action and we love design it heats up super quick watch this
and it's going to just start heating up there that yeah incredibly quick check out that review
i'm sure you'll leave it in the link in the description the TS 100 soldiering iron so that's
now running off my Milwaukee battery yeah it is and that's uh that's that's how we use it so
people you know you're doing a lot of uh led strip on site something he likes to call lead tape you
can get a battery soldering you can get a battery you get a gas soldering well you can and people
said Milwaukee do one we haven't got one yet but by a battery it's going to be heavy we like this
iron ideal for LED tape delicate we're getting in close you know when you've got those pads
close together okay so i think this is a great pricing give me a ballpark figure for this very
very lightweight adapter i've got how much was this roughly uh i think that was about 10 pounds
actually so i've actually made a battery soldering iron for a tenner yeah if you've already got one
that works on low voltage which we do on there um but you'll notice i've added some additional
stuff i've added a fuse uh because i say it said this had short protection if i take it apart do
you wanna do that yet so we will show you how we did this blue peter style hookup later on in the
presentation but let's first of all have a look what's inside one i think there'll be a lot in
here yeah and this is uh i'll just undo this how many screws yeah your favorite stubby screwdriver
here from the Wiha slimvario don't mention my height please there we go oh there's going
to be bits everywhere you got one screw to go here we go moment of truth on the desk
yeah so i can't actually see a lot of electronics in here so i can see some pads am
i right are you right i think you were right wow um yeah okay so there's no fuse there
is that no there's no fuse there and the the wires don't match the ident on the
circuit board you'll see that one says B plus going to the black and B minus got the
red however on this side they are right so the the red wire does make its way to the plus side
of the battery if i just check that you'll see oh yeah you can see yeah so it's just yeah it's
good they're actually correct but it's the circuit board that's wrong so your trusted manufacturer
there um but yes so i built this yeah well yeah with the bits that we had lying around i would
suggest you mackle that together should we take a look at the the uh i don't know Blue
Peter A Team style setup we've got down here so first up we need a donor appliance i've decided
to take the lead off our Makita fan because it has the same type of jack plug on the end positive in
the middle so i'm just going to uh cut the end off just in case Gary okay so he left us a little
bit there in case we need to use it as a donor in the future yes i'm just going to find out which
obviously which wire goes to which pin on the plug so we'll try to identify the obviously the
positive and negative because we don't want to connect our iron in the wrong way around so
just strip off the ends okay can you bring your multimeter in for this is it yeah bring the fluke
in trusty fluke uh on a continuity setting here just see how it works um so i'm just going to
uh yeah one lead on the outer pin so the outer is negative and then oh there we go and then
just double check that's yeah it's always a way on it you know that one's right so you just
check the other ones right as well yeah it's got to be hasn't it yeah there you go so that's the
positive pin so remember the one with the printed line on is the positive pin okay what was that i
can't remember positive okay fine yeah so we're going to fit a fuse holder to this so to carry
a 20 millimetre fuse just in case someone should accidentally short out the the battery so i'm just
going to attach the fuse holder cut the red wire like that did we need that uh well we've got
it so i'm going to use it yep okay bit of the eFIXX branding on there just strip that strip
the wires back from the battery adapter need to be quite closely coupled here so i'm just going
to put on the first part of the fuse holder now here's a top tip never ever forget to put that
on right okay i suggest that's from experience yeah well if you're doing it again okay
so these are a little bit fiddly yeah there's like a little uh cord grip
at the end you just fold them over okay you're gonna bother soldering after this are
you gonna go with that no I will solder because just yeah so to make an adapter for a solder or an
iron we need a soldering iron yeah that's always the way i was soldering on the repair a solder
iron you need a solder iron so you always need two so just uh okay a little bit of solder on
that half and that's half the fuse holder done let's just uh put the second half on so
again remember to thread this and there's another bit to remember it's the spring
ah yeah okay yeah so it's not one contact same bezel again same idea yellow brass bezel all
the wires i'm just going to fold it over just to increase the surface area of that wire so again
put that in place long nose pliers in just put the little cord grip over it is fiddly isn't it
yeah i love love a bit of electronic assembly your wires and your screws
there we go soldering yeah okay so just assemble the fuse holder 20 millimetre
fuse holder in there and just push them together there we go that's pretty secure back out
with it again yeah a little bit of eFIXX branded heat shrink our friends at Pannelcom
gave us that unfortunately they only gave us it in one size so we're going to make it
fit this time around we're just going to do the negative connection here so we're
going to splice these two wires together okay look i'm married through joint i think i
did when i was in my apprenticeship yes trying to get them to work what you want is a nice in-line
soldered connection it doesn't bulge out too fast so nothing like this one then nothing like this
one though it's been a while there i didn't care yeah we didn't see much of that did
we okay so they're on i'll take you desperately at your heat gun on them yeah we'll
probably could have done with some smaller heat shrink possibly adhesive lined would have been
better we'll have to go back down to our friends Pennelcom at Hastings to get some going okay it
still looks good i don't know it's not quite the right stuff but it still looks good yep i'm going
to kind of pan over it quickly now that's it so yeah that's positive and then let me
guess you can check the other one as well yeah okay i'll bet this is a negative okay is
that negative it is yeah okay we're all ready to go so here's bringing our Milwaukee battery
it's fully charged so 18 volt battery battery oh said let's find out about that nicely and just
disconnect the solder iron from its mains adapter yeah just press the power power up and this iron i
mean this iron heats up incredibly quickly yeah if you haven't seen the review of that i recommend
you check out that TS 100 isn't it just check the voltage just because just because we can oh 20
volts i'm going to rebrand that batteries the M20 like with everything once you've gone through the
process i'm sure you can think of a better way of doing it and you probably have come up with one
haven't you yeah well now i'm realizing there's not actually much in this box i could probably
just bring the hand camera in here i've probably take the wires straight in so take these off
right and i think you could probably smuggle that fuse holder in underneath there all right
so look at a lot tidier job then yeah and then you've just got wires coming out and then you
don't have to take the cover off if you did short circuit the battery that are strange
conflicting things when it comes to the Milwaukee battery on the data sheet the battery
yeah it says it's got over current protection in it'll shut down if you're drawing too much current
right okay but on the same data sheet it also says don't short-circuit the terminals so if you've if
there's any Milwaukee battery experts out there who've dismantled one of these i don't really
want to because these aren't cheap um just fire a comment below if there is actually protection
in there and we could possibly emit that fuse okay it keeps community up to date obviously we've
now got you know we saw our sacrificial uh power unit here but you think you've come up with a
cunning plan for it yeah so that was the power adapter that went with this Makita fan so this 40
volt fan okay which runs on the 40 volt batteries only the 40 volt family is it or does it
do all of them no it only runs on the 40 volt battery so you've got to buy those yeah
or it runs on this adapter that's actually 15 volts right so i think you're not going to
be able to run it off i suspect we're going to run it on the Milwaukee battery i'll plug that in
there if this works plug it in the back of there so this was the mains adapter commanded after i've
now replaced the mains adapter with a Milwaukee battery with our adapter and our Blue Peter
style connection are you ready for the power up so we're now running um Makita fan on a
Milwaukee battery yeah so i bet they'll love that um that's the another Christmas card gone from
Makita and probably from Milwaukee as always we're interested in your comments and there
was loads of opportunity in this video to add your feedback and add your experiences in
there have you been using these adapters that allow you to cross pollinate the batteries from
the lovely Milwaukee range into the ones from Makita please leave those comments below and we'll
have great fun getting back to as many as we can