Holy crap! The Great Stefan returns.This is just all kinds of awesome. I can't wait to see this unfold!
(my apologies to Baghead for going off topic)
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Posted by veginator on 21 January 2009 - 07:27 PM in General Nerf
Holy crap! The Great Stefan returns.This is just all kinds of awesome. I can't wait to see this unfold!
Posted by veginator on 29 January 2009 - 06:31 PM in General Nerf
Posted by veginator on 17 February 2010 - 10:52 AM in General Nerf
Posted by veginator on 18 February 2010 - 04:24 AM in General Nerf
Wouldn't that just fall into the the "clip" category?I agree, it would definitely be useful to add point values for rscb/hopper/inline clips, since they're used so often nowadays.
Posted by veginator on 22 March 2010 - 05:17 PM in Homemades
Posted by veginator on 03 June 2009 - 09:04 AM in Modifications
Posted by veginator on 03 June 2009 - 07:30 PM in Modifications
What do you mean mysterious? What does everyone do with a splitfire? Its not that hard if you think about it.I dig that paintjob, but no more 2k's?
A splitfire? Very mysterious.
Posted by veginator on 06 June 2009 - 01:47 PM in Modifications
I see your point Bob. All these blasters, except the shotguns, provide quite a bit of leverage to compress or extend a godly spring. Perhaps you could come up with a lever system for the PAS to compress three +bow springs.It doesn't look that way to me at all. Maybe you can supply more examples?
The +bow is pullback because it's an intentional homage to the crossbow.
The Ultimator, XXL Bazooka, Maximizer, MaxShot, and perhaps even the stronger versions of the PistolSplat are more powerful than a Crossbow. Certainly the ERTL Pump Shotgun, and possibly its Rapid-Fire sibling. None of those are pullback. What other powerful blasters are?
Posted by veginator on 19 July 2009 - 03:22 PM in General Nerf
can you whack it in with a powerful enough blow?
To sig or not to sig...that kind of blow is not something you'd intentionally give out to a blaster..
Aj
Posted by veginator on 31 May 2009 - 06:08 AM in Modifications
Posted by veginator on 04 June 2009 - 11:14 AM in Modifications
Posted by veginator on 06 June 2009 - 09:09 AM in Modifications
Well neither am I but it is easier to prime. Why do you think the most powerful nerf guns ,like the crossbow and plus bow, are pullback.I'm really not into this because im not a body builder and that doesn't look to pleasent to pull back
Posted by veginator on 02 April 2008 - 07:49 PM in Homemades
Posted by veginator on 23 March 2009 - 08:31 PM in General Nerf
Posted by veginator on 20 June 2008 - 08:46 AM in Modifications
Posted by veginator on 11 March 2009 - 08:42 PM in Modifications
Posted by veginator on 28 May 2009 - 11:37 AM in Modifications
It is also known as for thinwall or sch. 20 PVC.I'm in the process of doing this. I started it when I saw your post in the mod/pictures thread. I need some kind of substitute for the SDR PVC because they don't sell it up here. Any advice? This thing looks Effeminate. Great job.
Posted by veginator on 09 March 2018 - 08:30 PM in General Nerf
No more high powered blasters!?! Back in my day, my singled basspro shotgun had a stock spring, longshot spring, and a [k26]. If your blaster didn't draw blood at close range then it wasn't worth it. I get that hvz has become more popular so blasters couldn't be as powerful but god damn thats pretty lame.
Oh btw, when I say I can make anything I mean it. Being a senior mechanical engineering student doing research has its perks. What is something you guys would like to see?
Posted by veginator on 07 March 2018 - 11:51 PM in General Nerf
Hey, I'm an old nerf tard who got into modifying back in 2007 and eventually lost interest after a lets say an 'unsatisfying nerf war'. Well my younger brother has caught the bug and I've been looking to make a mini come back. What I'm asking today is what kinds of blasters are competitive, and what are the wars that are popular now? I want to do at least one more war/event before I have to become full adult and quit forever. Let me know whats a good blaster/mod combo. I have almost unlimited access to a machine shop, 3D printing lab, and EDM cutter... aka I can make anything. Show me what you got.
Posted by veginator on 10 March 2018 - 08:58 PM in General Nerf
I like the idea of a chain fed absolver but it doesn't really make a lot of sense with the all the high cap mags available now. I was talking to my brother and apparently whats keeping the power down on the ball shooters is the plunger size. Is this correct? I could solve that real quick on the lathe.
#humblebrag
Yeah bud. Want me to tell you all the ways I better than you?
Posted by veginator on 12 March 2018 - 06:46 PM in General Nerf
Woah woah woah engineer. Current SCAR methodology is just fishing line run through the pipe and anchored at either end. Try that first, then break out your fancy mill.
Fancy mill? Its just a vertical mill. Wouldn't be hard to put some barrel material in an indexing collet and start drilling some holes. I don't typically use the fancy cnc mill. Also, I always hated those fishing line and nail-on-a-stick methods for getting a rifled barrel.
A chain fed shotgun would be relatively easy in theory. Just replace the turret with a couple big sprockets like the vulcan has. Get me some dimensions and I can make a solidworks file simply enough.
Posted by veginator on 13 March 2018 - 06:36 PM in General Nerf
I've wondered if sprockets are the best way, or if a proper pawl setup would be better and NERF et. al. doesn't do it because they're used to turrets and turrets work fine for stock blasters.
Either way, I was thinking 1" 200 PSI PVC would be a good shell size. 3 darts should fit no problem, 4 if you cram them in, mega/rivals could also fit if you wanted. OD is 1.315" for all varieties of 1" PVC, ID is +/- 1.16-1.189". PVC because it'd be cheap enough to build a belt out of: 10' of the stuff would make ~40 links in the chain for ~$5 (plus whatever filler you use to make the barrels). When I was considering it more seriously, I was going to make a jig to just duct tape the shells together into a belt. Seemed like a good combination of simple, reliable, and cheap.
Oh wow, I misunderstood what you were asking for. For some reason I got in my head that you wanted to chain feed a doomsayer. So what you are asking for is a chain fed shotgun in the literal sense. That's a bit different than what I had in my head. Let me think for a bit on that.
Again, rifling isn't really what matters here. Check out Slug's recent thread about the VF1 barrel alongside the SCAR. Both were identical unless the fit wasn't right in the SCAR, then performance was better on the SCAR. The whole idea of fishing line is an adjustable elastic barrel, not to impart spin. People like JSPB and others who do it for spin are correlating two things and assuming causation. In terms of fluid dyanmics, it makes no sense that spin would help a nerf dart, DOOM wrote a dissertation-style nerf document that modeled a dart and came to the same conclusion, and cited evidence that spin doesn't help. DOOM'd document is an excellent read if you're up for it, its on his website, go read it.
What Meaker is getting at is there is zero advantage to turning/milling a rifled barrel for nerf. Either 3D print Slug's VF1 and tune the diameter, or use a SCAR barrel.
I hope that you are either being flippant or are referring to the dimensions of some specific part, like a nerf dart or stock vulcan chain. The dimensions are dictated by the design that no one has come up with. Everyone and their little sister can CAD these days, that part is trivial. Spending the time to design, prototype, and revise is what they were asking of you, not simply drawing up someone else's work.
I'm not talking about using it for a dart. From the evidence slug has presented its obvious that this would not work on a dart. I'm talking about the rival rounds and making them more stable at a higher velocity. I only want to use a mill because I want to. I like to work with my hands, that's it.
Woah you have an engineering degree that obviously means you are a god of design and fabrication and make literally anything
I neither have a degree nor am I the god of fabrication. What I do have is a fairly well equipped machine shop and some advanced research equipment. I also have a little bit of fab experience with stuff like automotive intake manifolds, exhaust, and chassis bracing.
Posted by veginator on 11 March 2018 - 07:50 PM in General Nerf
That's adorable.
To be clear, rifled barrels when used on darts are not used to impart spin. Anyone who claims that spin is the what makes the dart more accurate has a pretty elementary understanding of what's going on. I'm sure you already knew this though, being an engineering undergrad and all. The only reason that it's useful to change the twist ratio (a la Scar) is that doing so also changes the elastic inner diameter of the muzzle device. As you might imagine, more turns = smaller effective diameter.
Rifling and hop-up would be much more beneficial on a projectile with uniform density, like a rival round. As you nay surmise with your spud gun experience, hop up can increase the range and rifling the accuracy. I have seen some work with hop-up, but haven't seen much with rifling. That would be an interesting place to start if you're looking for a project.
Yeah I know, I tend to brag too much when I've been drinking.
I can think of a few ways to put some rifling inside a barrel. What is the current preferred barrel material for the rival rounds? Initial idea would be to mill a sleeve of tight barrel material and then slide it inside an outer barrel. Trying to make it out of one piece and be uniform would require a much more complex machining operation which I really don't feel like dealing with.
Posted by veginator on 11 March 2018 - 12:00 PM in General Nerf
What about the 35 round drums? I know they weren't the greatest but they are certainly less unwieldy than a chain dangling down from the front.
Seeing as rifled barrels are becoming more common place on darts, I'm assuming similar tactics have been tried on the balls. What has been tried? From personal experience I know that, when fired fast enough from a barrel, golf balls will be unstable in flight unless you use a rifled barrel. Hell even a little back spin makes them much more stable at higher velocities.
Posted by veginator on 05 February 2010 - 10:48 PM in Nerf Wars
In short: no. The whole point of the date was to have it on or near spring break. Plus it's a couple months after rork's war.This is right around the same time as rork's war, WINCO. I'd prefer to go to both. Any chance of a change of date?
Posted by veginator on 05 February 2010 - 08:47 PM in Nerf Wars
Posted by veginator on 15 March 2010 - 02:34 PM in Nerf Wars
No one else was using it so thats what I called it. Also SENO has been traditionally held in GA or Alabama.WiNCNO is on May 15. Also, we need to work out some licensing over the title "SENO"...
Posted by veginator on 11 January 2009 - 07:22 PM in Modifications
Actually I have seen these and they are not low quality at all infact they are much thicker and stronger than petg.Gourmet... pencils.... WTF?!?!?!?
Otherwise interesting find, not quite as cheap though as most PETG, and is probably lacking in quality