I saw this blaster sitting on the shelf at Target and new immediately what I wanted to do with it. We have indoor wars at family gatherings all the time and this is what I needed.1. To be able to use all kinds of darts.
2. Arrowstorms or Big Bad Bows are usually present so I wanted to able to fire arrows.
3. Something that is strong and accurate, but could still be used with the kids.
4. And for everyone else to be intimidated! :-)
Check, check, check and definitely check!
Easy to open.
The spring is strong and doesn't need changing.
The air seal is great. Again, no change needed.
The way the airflow is designed on this blaster is weird. Instead of the airflow being forced out of the front of the barrel, the barrel end is plugged. There are holes on the sides of the barrel/air restrictors so the air flows out of the sides and somehow still manages to get decent ranges while stock with the original missiles and darts provided. Changed that! Marker barrels are quickly becoming my favorite barrel material for what I like to do with the blasters. They are so easy and cheap. I used to use Rose art markers until I found new ones at the 99 cent store.
The tricky part was finding a barrel material for inner pump barrel. I knew I wanted to be able to shoot the old Nerf arrows/toysrus air zone arrows and be able to fire streamlines/suction cup and whistle darts, but I couldn't find any mods that did this. Yeah I basically wanted it all from one blaster. Even an e-mail to one of my favorite modders didn't help. So I made my way down to Ace Hardware and a really cool employee helped me go through all the materials they had. We found a 3/4" Outer Diameter aluminum tube that worked almost perfectly. The shell wasn't as thin as I would have liked because it didn't fit onto the existing barrel. I had to sand down the old barrel with my dremel to get the new aluminum barrel to fit. Although this aluminum works I plan on doing this mod a couple more times and dealing with the sanding of the inner barrel is more time consuming than I want. Any suggestions? Is there a thin walled 3/4" OD petg out there somewhere?
This was the result.
