Urrrggghhh...
Trying my hand at some really contorted design work; a 3DP adapter to put my Kobalt packs on a Makita SawzAll I bought at the thrift a while back.
Am I doing the smart, easy thing, and making it by slapping an existing adapter from ThingiVerse onto a simple block that I can screw into place?
Of course not.
I'm starting all over from scratch, and making it so the new adapter nests inside the existing slides of the Makita, because my calipers say it will fit with at least 2mm of meat on all dimensions to hold it together.
mnem
you may all now point and jeer at the cwazy ol' dwagon...
Far from that, dwagon!
It is a very neat solution to a problem!
I have something similar to ponder with a battery pack for a Yaesu FT411 handheld ham radio.
I opened the existing pack, removed the old, dead NiCads, & temporarily "bodged in" two 9v alkaline batteries in parallel to check that the radio (ex Hamfest) works.
This is functional, but clunky, & it looks like it was chewed by a crocodile, from my battle to open the quite securely glued thing.
A nice 3DP case that I could fit a "shop bought" battery holder into would be sweet.
Not having the requisite printer, I will have to go with "bodge", or buy some "after-market" packs off eBay.(still a lot cheaper than a 3D printer).
That said, once you have the printer, you can do things the way
you want, & fast, without the aggravation of waiting for it to appear in the mail.