Bosch to Porter Cable Battery Adapter

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