What appears to be a regular old Rayven...



But is not actually that regular



Blowing into the end of this PVC inline clip feeds darts into the flywheels





Youtube Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8jwYPV9x7Q

My new Longshot with panther integration.



The Panther has a hopper with a homemade wye.



Dart door on the end, design courtesy of cheesypiza001.



Standard Angel breech



Looks really cool.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpl3lo5nVhc

The Black Panther - A bad joke involving the name of the Panther

PVC couplered with a replaced pump.



Sweet polycarb plates to cover the stock pump hole



It looks great in my opinion



Youtube video

I'm not sure if this counts as a mod or a home-made, so I'm going to post it here for now.

I'm calling it the sinkfinder, due to the fact that it is a nitefinder with a sink drain plunger tube and a bathtub plug plunger head.



Uses a magnetic holster



The plunger head gets a near perfect seal, though I did have to cut it down a bit



Hits 90-100' with an 8.5" cpvc barrel



koree's writeup for the holster

Youtube Video

Deploy with nitefinder plunger tube.



Picture of the catch.

The finished Fireskorpion: A Firefly shell with a Scorpion Bow plunger tube.



The internals:



Closeup of the catch:



Rear loading action!



Supa cool LEDs also.



Youtube Overview

Finally modded something new:

It's a wrist mounted blaster that remains useable when using another blaster.



How it fits on the arm:



Close up of the trigger system:



And a video outlining the Effeminateness of the blaster:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nNaMchXvKQ

Finished modding and painting my super Nitefinder:



Supa nice gap filling for the minimization:



Money Shot!



Youtube Video

Remeber the Black Panther? Well, get ready to meet its older brother.





Youtube Video

Don't question his life decisions!

I painted the nitestrike from a while back



Money shot!



Youtube video

A new Arm Cannon! This one only uses one tank though, and has a turret.





Rear loads through these slots.



Super comfy.



Youtube Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vWOAFkKSrk

I painted the Niteploy that I posted quite a while ago.



I also angel breeched it.



It shoots about 60 feet.



Youtube video

Super amazing Longshot



Epoxy reinforcements on boltsled:



Streamline accepting breech:



Money shot!

My Yoshi themed raider:



Supa sexy



Youtube video

Put a 1.5 inch sink drain in a Recon, replaced the catch, angel breeched it and added a normal plunger.



Looks almost stock with the faux barrel:





Primed:

My rear loading, cpvc barrelled firefly.







It shoots between 50 and 60 feet.

Youtube video

My Quadshot with 10" cpvc barrels and MIG reinforcements:





I attached a Longstrike stock with pvc and cpvc, and added ammo holders on the side closest to me



Youtube video

Awesome Jolts!

Sporting a three dart rscb, hits 40s with a decent rof



Glued the ar into 1/2"pvc to act as a stopper.



Youtube video

Jolt integrated into a recon stock; modding a stock gun!



Fits right on to any n-strike stock attachment.



The pvc bars make it super sturdy.

Youtube video

Nitemav with pretty sweet pj in my opinion.



My new secondary for neighborhood wars.



Youtube video

Longstrike with Nitefinder plunger tube





Money shot!



Youtube video

August:
[url=http://nerfhaven.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=24294&st=0] 26th [AB] S.W.A.E.[/url]

I'm kind of getting back into Nerf, and I would be interested in contributing to a collaborative YouTube channel every now and again. I feel like the community would benefit from some explanations of how blasters work and the like.

Alright guys, I need some ideas on how the channel should work. I thought I might either have a community password so people could upload their own videos, but I didn't want people spamming the channel with bad-quality stuff. On the other hand, I could have a group of "channel leaders" (3-4 nerfers who like editing and are good at it) that could edit together clips that people post on a separate topic. This way, I have some help editing videos and we can keep the videos frequent. Any other suggestions?

Well, I would have no problems contributing my videos or just editing war footage that people send to me. I probably won't be that active, but I think I could manage posting a video once a month to the channel.

Edit: Also, I think that having only a core group of people with full access to the channel would be for the best.

I had a few ideas like"NIC Official" or "Nerf Tube" (super original lol) but if anyone can come up with a better name, feel free to comment it.

What about the Nerf Internet Community Channel, or NICC for short. Seems like that would sum up what the channel is trying to achieve.

I haven't had anything to upload lately I want to upload things, but there's nothing to show nor update, sooooo...
I'm interested to see where this goes. With multiple people putting up videos, the only concern I have is upload overload. Don't become Machinima or other popular channels that upload 5-10 videos a day. It's really annoying.

I don't see that many videos going up weekly. Only one or two would be posted every week, with a priority on quality.

Even if we pulled together most of the A list builders around here, there's no way in heaven we'd get that many uploads in a day, or in a week for that matter. Correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems more like it would be a once-per-week overview of the activities of builders at that point in time with a few extra goodies tossed in. Personally, I can only put in one, maybe two uploads per month with my schedule. This would be a nice way to keep people interested, and see new channels from Nerfers they otherwise wouldn't know about.

I am also a Youtube Nerfer. I would have no problem lending in some footage so long as credit was given. In this way both the conglomerate channel and my personal channel can grow from this. Even loaning war footage I would be OK with so long as the contributor got credit for it.

This is pretty much what I think the channel will be used for. I believe that it is important for both the community and individuals involved to grow through this channel, so appropriate credit and linkage will be given in each video. I look forward to seeing your content on the channel.

Don't worry Bobo, we will only be doing one 10-20 minute episode eachweek depending on the topic. I also would love your help as a runner of the site if you can.

I don't see a reason to put such a large time on the videos, but there is really no reason to put any constraints on the creativity of the excellent nerving community. No more than a couple videos would go up each week though, to make sure that nobody's content is buried by new videos.

Started making silicone tips for my darts a while ago, finally got around to posting them here.





These two polyethylene boards have 200 molds total, so I can make a lot of identical dart heads quickly.

What OMW could do to really make some cash is to make replacement normal plunger tubes. If that's not the case, hopefully the plunger tube happens to have the same inner diameter as a readily accessible dimension of PVC.

On the plus side, these new tanks will be a lot easier to fit into tight spaces for integrations. I know that the old tank wasn't that difficult to work with, but this will allow for a cheap air tank that will fit in almost any blaster.
Don't get me wrong, I am not thrilled by this new change. I am simply showing the community that even a change as seemingly bad as this can still have some benefits.

So I was hoping to warm up to modding again by working on a Panther, thinking it would be an easy quick primary. I went to target and picked up what I thought was a Panther re-shell; the Airmag extreme thing.

Much to my dismay, it had not only a smaller tank...



...but it seems they added ANOTHER OPRV!

Actually, I think that that OPRV is the only one in this version, because I can't seem to locate one on the pump shaft.

Friction measurements are one thing we seriously lack. The problem in Nerf is actually worse than you might imagine. The friction force is a function of the coefficient of friction and the normal force. Neither is known. Roughly, what we do know is that tighter barrels will have higher normal force and that some materials have less friction than others.

I recall discussing some ways to estimate the friction force with Split a while back. He used the bulk modulus to estimate the normal force. I suggested something more complicated that probably would not be much more accurate than his approach. I should look more closely into this.

Spud gunners use a simulator called GGDT which allows you to specify the total friction pressure, which I call the pressure of friction. This is basically the total friction force divided by the surface area. It represents how high the pressure needs to rise for the projectile to move and In GGDT, static and dynamic friction are equal, which is not realistic or necessary, so I don't make this simplification. I stole this notation for my own work.

If you can blow a dart down a barrel, you can be sure that the static pressure of friction is lower than the maximum pressure your lungs can generate, which seems to be about 0.9 to 1.4 psi for men.

As for ideal barrel length, I'll make a thread detailing two simplified theories I developed, how to measure this experimentally, and how to estimate this via a computer simulator. My simplified theories give very approximate equations which can be useful to get a rough estimate of the actual ideal barrel length and understand the basic factors involved in ideal barrel length.

What if one were to put a dart into a barrel, and then place a light wooden dowel into the barrel behind the dart. Then, continually add mass in small increments to the dowel until the dart starts to move. At that point, the mass of the weighted dowel would approximately equal the Ffs of the dart in the barrel. Assuming that earth's gravity is 9.81m/s/s [down] at all locations, converting this mass to force in Newtons would be fairly simple.

I have no idea how many variables would need to be accounted for in order to solve for barrel length, but it seems logical to say that the best barrel length would be found where the acceleration of the dart equals zero. This would correlate with the maximum muzzle velocity of the dart. If there was a way to track the position of the dart inside of the barrel, it would be easy enough to make a function from that data, find the second derivative of that function and solve for y=0.

I'm not entirely sure if any of this is exactly practical, or if it is the best way to solve this problem. I would love to hear what you think about the subject, and hopefully the community will eventually find a use for the fruits of this labor.

I would say that coefficients of friction for various brands of FBR on various brands of CPVC would be a good idea, but there is probably far too much inconsistency for useable data to be accumulated. Perhaps some common match ups could be outlined if a universal barrel length formula is ever created.

Looks great, can you put the raw file into the channel dropbox?

Edit, just to avoid reposting the video

Thanks! I'll put it in the dropbox as soon as I get the link.

Nice nine, that looks awesome. Could you try and put it in the Dropbox?

Glad you like it. Where can I find this magic dropbox exactly?

The title card looks clean, good work.

Thanks, that means a lot.

Okay everyone, I have been put in charge of making the introductory video for the channel. If you want to be a part of the face of the channel, leave a response in the thread. It doesn't have to be anything special or well edited, just something like this will do:



Leave a response, and I will do my best to cut you into the video. Also leave your channel url if you want to be linked in the video description.

Thanks for being a part of this awesome community, and I look forward to seeing this channel come to life.

I took some time today to make a title card for the channel. If everyone likes the way it looks, we can use it to introduce all of the videos.



Let me know what you think of the design, as well as any improvements that I should make to the intro.

I will be having one of my bi-weekly wars soon, and i guess i can get some war footage of that. we get around 60 people every other week in a large building that simulates an urban environment.
along with some footage of modifications or nerf builds (i specifically have my howler in mind as it has yet to be painted and finished.)

Great! I look forward to seeing both the footage and the blaster.

Nice. Paintbush seems a little out of place but that probably says more about how I spend my time modding than it does about the quality of the title card.

I'm open to changing it if anyone can think of something that would fit the theme better.

If Nerf used flywheels in the design, hopefully they redesigned the flywheels somehow, like giving them a larger OD or better balance. It would be kind of lame if this used the exact same motors, flywheels and batteries as a Stryfe.
Also, am I the only one who is really curious about the darts pictured? Something tells me that the black tips are a more dense rubber, and might be designed to maximize range in high powered blasters.

Well, well, well. Looks like I won't be able to claim originality for my power pills. I wanted to do the exact same thing to my recon, but I never got around to it. Nice job, this is rather well made. I would have used a skirt seal, but 70 feet with a bad seal is excellent. As long as it feeds reliably, you've beaten the retaliatior's range, so good job.

Thanks! I also would have liked to use a skirt seal, but I can't seem to find them or any decent sealing material anywhere. All I have is a huge box of o-rings.

I did make a direct plungered Longstrike a long time ago using a nitefinder plunger tube. Here's a link to the original writeup:

The Nitestrike

Feel free to PM me any questions.

Regards,
nine

I would go with trying psyks method.

If you had looked at the date that I posted that writeup, you would have noticed that I did this way before the elite line even came out.
Ergo, I created this mod long before psyk could have even thought about it.