motormonkey

I read on here that almost all the Dewalt power tools that used the 18v NiCad batteries can be made to accept and use a LiIon battery, such as the DC9180 battery. I'm guessing that the normal way to do this is to replace the battery socket on the tool with one that has the additional tab cutout to accept the LiIon battery. If so, you could get the same result by simply cutting the needed slot in the existing battery socket on the tool. So if I cut the required slot in the battery socket on a DW9116 charger, so that a DC9180 LiIon battery would fit in the charger, would it properly charge the battery?