Makita battery holder (for long 9.6v batteries)

This is a thing I designed to hold 16 AWG wire against terminals of a Makita drill battery. I'm using these batteries for a project as they're cheap, have lots of capacity, I already have a charger for them, and they can drain at decent rates. However, I need them to be removable very easily. With this holder, you simply slide the battery into the holder and it will be pressed between the contacts. It also has a slot so you cannot put the battery in backward far enough for it to make contact with the wires.

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This is a thing I designed to hold 16 AWG wire against terminals of a Makita drill battery. I'm using these batteries for a project as they're cheap, have lots of capacity, I already have a charger for them, and they can drain at decent rates. However, I need them to be removable very easily. With this holder, you simply slide the battery into the holder and it will be pressed between the contacts. It also has a slot so you cannot put the battery in backward far enough for it to make contact with the wires.

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Putting wires in

To put wires into the printed part, just strip the end of the wire and twist it up. Then put it through the hole closest to the center of the part. then loop it up and put it through the other hole in the same side, over the little bump. Make sure you use stranded wire so that it can squish a little when you put the battery in.