I saw an 18V cordless drill body for $6.99 with no battery can i wire it for li ion?

[Werner]

There was a thread here were someone wired old lithium batteries from an MacBook in the old batterycase. He used it with a bunch of tools.

Something else to use salvaged cells in - powertool packs!

I’ve been wanting to do this for ages and I’m extremely pleased by how well it turned out. I have a whole bunch of B&D 18V powertools (drill, sander, saw, strimmer, hedge trimmer, hand vacuum) and although I think the tools are great, I’ve never been very happy with the batteries. The don’t hold their charge very well, weigh a lot, take ages to charge and don’t last very long, especially in the strimmer and hand vacuum. As they all use the same battery, I figured that converting some of them …