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A great idea, the big brands will resist it as much as they can. I would suspect they would even embed a chip or two in components so that they don't play well with other brands. It will of course work, because the ISO standard will make sure it does, but it will work within limits.
Many years ago when video cameras were quite new, there was a multitude of batteries even within a brand one battery would not fit another camera. Some enterprising person came out with a set of adaptor plates, I bought a set one time while in Singapore, gave me much more versatility.
The same thing should happen with cordless tools. A mate and I often work together but we have different brands of tools, which is great in one way, we never get our tools mixed up, but it's an absolute pain, in that we can't share batteries, and or chargers. Both our tool sets are fairly new so we don't have any dead bits yet with which to make our own conversions, but come the day, look out Makita and Milwaukee.
Many years ago when video cameras were quite new, there was a multitude of batteries even within a brand one battery would not fit another camera. Some enterprising person came out with a set of adaptor plates, I bought a set one time while in Singapore, gave me much more versatility.
The same thing should happen with cordless tools. A mate and I often work together but we have different brands of tools, which is great in one way, we never get our tools mixed up, but it's an absolute pain, in that we can't share batteries, and or chargers. Both our tool sets are fairly new so we don't have any dead bits yet with which to make our own conversions, but come the day, look out Makita and Milwaukee.