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(for various reasons I needed to join a mismatched pair of 18v drill and battery, annoyed at how much fun it was)
I did this with a gi-fucking-normous Ridgid "X2" my dad got me when I was in college. It was originally niCAD, though it is actually compatible with their current batteries. However, I had cobbled together a collection of electrically compatible low-end stuff from Stanley-B&D that just needed a couple of kisses from a dremel to fit each other. Everything but that one drill is either B&D, Porter Cable, or Bostitch (not the nailguns that use dewalt batteries, rather some drill/drivers from when they were the brand SBD tried to pawn off on Walmart as better Black and Decker but won't cannibalize PC sales).
The old Ridgid is too heavy to have as my main drill, but it works fine. I keep a countersink bit in it and it's nice to have around. These B&D batteries have some basic overcharge and over-discharge circuits in them and shouldn't mind which device they're plugged into. The DeWalts are the ones that rely on more sophisticated circuitry in the tools to manage batteries, so they're the ones you generally want to avoid playing with.