Anybody experience these? I love my makita drill and driver, but my wife loves the ridgid reciprocating saw. But the ridgid is expensive when it comes to batteries! I'd love to use my makita batteries in the ridgid, and I have an old dewalt impact that would be nice to use.
thoughts?
I'm not sure where you're getting that ridgid is more expensive than makita since they have about the same prices for batteries.
This is a thing? I have an adapter to use the new dewalt 20v max batteries in the old dewalt tools but never heard of inter-brand adapty bits
Here's a link to a mention in a different thread
There's a video with links from me a couple posts down
Can you imagine how much of a scandal this would be if the batteries were actually interchangeable? 
Grizz said:I'm not sure where you're getting that ridgid is more expensive than makita since they have about the same prices for batteries.
Sorry, yeah, I didn't word that right. The ridgid is actually a bit cheaper, but once you factor in batteries it becomes a lot more expensive. I already have fresh makita batteries so I wouldn't have to buy more batteries if I could use them on the ridgid.
dxman92 said:Can you imagine how much of a scandal this would be if the batteries were actually interchangeable?
I know! They are all the same on the inside, 18650 lion cells anyway.
In reply to joey48442 :
Nah the solution to that is to figure out what else you need/want around the house and buy the kit that has it and some batteries. I bought a 40v chainsaw because it made more sense to get that, a 4ah battery and another charger for 199 than it did to buy a 4ah battery on its own for 140.
My 18v stuff I have like 6 4ah batteries, two 9ah and a couple of 1.5ah because Ryobi makes assloads of stuff that's useful to have around.
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