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#326843 Chainblazer Construction
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on 14 February 2013 - 06:23 PM
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General Nerf
Thanks!
#326839 Chainblazer Construction
Posted by
on 14 February 2013 - 05:49 PM
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General Nerf
Anybody opened up a chainblazer recently? I just bought one and found that the little upper spring:
http://s1296.beta.ph...468692621216178
Is not attached to the front part of the chamber:
http://s1296.beta.ph...468692621216178
And it doesn't look like there's an obvious place to attach it. Anybody know where this thing is supposed to go? In the Internals Directory, it looks like there might be a hole its supposed to go through, but it's hard to see and there's no hole in the one I got:
http://i380.photobuc...erinternals.jpg
http://s1296.beta.ph...468692621216178
Is not attached to the front part of the chamber:
http://s1296.beta.ph...468692621216178
And it doesn't look like there's an obvious place to attach it. Anybody know where this thing is supposed to go? In the Internals Directory, it looks like there might be a hole its supposed to go through, but it's hard to see and there's no hole in the one I got:
http://i380.photobuc...erinternals.jpg
#325157 Arrowstorm Verification Assistance
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on 08 January 2013 - 08:17 PM
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General Nerf
Sorry about the pics, but I'm caught in a technology catch-22; my computer OS is too old to upload pics for photosharing websites and the mobile versions on my new ipad are too new to register with the websites. If I can get ahold of my girlfriend's computer, I'll give it another go - at least for the sake of your collection, Split.
#325107 Arrowstorm Verification Assistance
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on 06 January 2013 - 07:49 PM
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Yes Blue, that's it exactly...I just want to make sure I got what I paid for, since I've been waiting to get this gun NIB for a long time. To answer a couple of your other questions, though, the barrels do have little ridges inside them and it did come packed properly - there is a piece of folded & cut cardboard that holds the blaster in the middle of the box and the sticker sheet and 'other Hasbro products' booklet is in there too.
Thanks to you all for the help - sorry, but my camera is not uploading properly, so I will try to post pics tomorrow, though the more I look at this gun the more I believe it is new. The stress lines just don't seem to be where stress would occur from use and it really does look very smooth and unscratched.
Thanks to you all for the help - sorry, but my camera is not uploading properly, so I will try to post pics tomorrow, though the more I look at this gun the more I believe it is new. The stress lines just don't seem to be where stress would occur from use and it really does look very smooth and unscratched.
#325099 Arrowstorm Verification Assistance
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on 06 January 2013 - 03:05 PM
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General Nerf
Well, this is not what I intended my first post to be about, but I need some help sooner than later, so if any of you have a Nerf (not Air Zone) Arrowstorm I would appreciate your knowledge. I found somebody selling this item and couldn't pass it up, but since it is so unusual and I haven't seen one in 15 years I opened it to at least make sure I hadn't just bought a box of sawdust. Two things make me skeptical and two things make me confident...
Confident: 1) There don't seem to be scratches along the main slide, indicating the handle was never pulled back.
2) I started to notice fingerprints (that I was leaving) and realized that there weren't any prior ones.
Skeptical: 1) This is the main one - the fletches on the arrows are the speckled type and I thought the Arrowstorm came with the solid black.
2) There are long stress marks in the plastic in certain places, which I guess I wouldn't expect in a blaster that'd never been fired.
I could believe that the old nerf plastic is such that it might just move and stress itself over time, but I'm more concerned that it was used and the arrows are a replacement. Do any of you know for certain if arrowstorms ever came with the speckled arrows?
Confident: 1) There don't seem to be scratches along the main slide, indicating the handle was never pulled back.
2) I started to notice fingerprints (that I was leaving) and realized that there weren't any prior ones.
Skeptical: 1) This is the main one - the fletches on the arrows are the speckled type and I thought the Arrowstorm came with the solid black.
2) There are long stress marks in the plastic in certain places, which I guess I wouldn't expect in a blaster that'd never been fired.
I could believe that the old nerf plastic is such that it might just move and stress itself over time, but I'm more concerned that it was used and the arrows are a replacement. Do any of you know for certain if arrowstorms ever came with the speckled arrows?
