3D-Printed Makita Adapters

Designing and printing your own Makita adapters is the most flexible and professional approach because you can tailor the adapters exactly to your needs.

Fortunately, there are a few editable open-source designs that you can use for a start.

Overview

Obviously, you design and 3D-print the plastic parts only. For the electrical parts, you typically use pre-made contact plates:

The contact plates are then integrated into your 3D-printed adapter. This is how affordable 3rd party adapters work, too:

While this is the most common design concept, it is not necessarily the best. Here are other options:

Spade Terminals

If you have no access to contact plates, or prefer a quick-and-dirty approach, you can use other contacts as well. For example, you can use ubiquous spade terminals in your 3D design.

Repurposing Contact Plate

Incorporating a default contact plate seems convenient at first but can dominate your 3D design. Repurposing a contact plate can be a much better approach: pull out the two electrical contacts, and insert them directly into your 3D printed design.

This also enables you to make changes to the contact plate design, i.e. to add a digital interface plug.

Design Approaches

There are four popular 3D-design approaches for custom Makita adapters:

• Interlock:
  Two parts that can be plugged together and secured by screws. When plugged together, they lock in a contact plate.
  

• Snap Design:
  One part only. The contact plate is “snapped” into it. This is easier to design and print, and has no vertical gap in the housing.

  This is before assembly:

  

  And this is the result with “snapped-in” contact plate:

  

• Integrated:
  By pausing the slicer at some layer, inserting the contact plate, and then continuing the print you can embed the contact plate safely and permanently into your adapter.

• All-in-One:
  Insert the metal parts directly into your 3D design. This is the most straight-forward approach and gives you the most design flexibility. It is the only option that allows you to add digital interface plugs should you need them.

  • Repurpose Contact Plate:
    The metal contact stripes in a default contact plate can be pulled out. Simply re-insert them into your 3D print.

    

  • Spade Terminal (or alike):
    Use ubiquous spade terminal and insert these into your adapter.

    

Ready-to-Use 3D Design Files

Friendly users have shared their print files (including design files) so you don’t have to do the work.

Print their files as-is, or use them as a start in your own CAD software:

• Adapter with Separate Contact Plate:
  Awesome professional design for a complete adapter that uses an external contact plate and secures it in “interlock” mode.

  Comes with different extension housings. Highly recommended.

• Adapter with Built-In Contacts:
  This design integrates the electrical contacts so you do not need a separate contact plate.

  Yet now you will need suitable conductive material (metal strips) and a way to insert them into the 3D print.

• Contact Plate Only:
  The electrical contact plate only. Download requires free registration. Purchasing ready-made contact plates is probably a much easier way.

  This download provides you will all the dimensions, and you may want to use this model as a placeholder in your own designs so you can later insert a ready-made contact plate.

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