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The Reactor.
Open it up (you really only need to open the back part).
Now take out the barrel-thing. Lets look at the top part.
Take a pair of needle-nosed pliers and twist that orange piece out. This is the part which, powered by the spring, pushed the balls towards the front allowing them to shoot.
Now take some wire cutters and cut all the pegs which attach the vented part to the outer rim.
Punch it out, and then sand the remainders of the pegs off.
Now it’s time to get a Big Blast missile with the intention of destroying it. I’m sure copper pipe insulation would work to. Anyways, rip the fins off.
Now cut an inch of the end off, or about half of what you can see (the part with the hole in it, which conveniently slips over CPVC very well), and then cut the rest of it off. Cut a slit through the second part; it will go around the first length so it will fit snugly under the orange piece. However, it won’t fit all the way around, so rip open the rest of the missile.
Interestingly, it has this rubber piece at the front for weight. Anyways, the hollow part continues up, so cut another length and then cut it lengthwise to fit over the whole piece. I know all of this probably didn’t make any sense without pictures (I forgot
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Glue those pieces together, and then glue them into the orange ball-pusher piece.
Be sure to line all the seams with glue at the back.
Then replace the spring and orange piece you just finished.
Now flip it around and look at the back. Punch out the AR-like piece, and cut down the orange tube.
Now start sanding out the hole until it’s big enough for a CPVC coupler to fit. Somewhere along the way this (http://img98.imagesh...ture1428rz5.jpg ) piece will fall off, which in turn allows the rubber plunger head to fall off, but it can be super glued back on later. After it’s big enough, cut a 13†long CPVC barrel and put it through the front part. Attach the CPVC coupler to it at the end, and push the coupler about half way through the end black piece (the piece you drilled a hole for the coupler). This is to ensure it’s straight.
Now glue the coupler in, and carefully take out the barrel. After it’s dry, suplerglue the plunger head back on.
Then cut a very thin piece of the missile, and glue it on to the end of the coupler. This acts as padding when you fire the gun.
All that’s left to do is make the barrel the right length. Since you can’t make it any shorter while keeping it removable, I figured something else out. I found that 11†is the ideal barrel length, so mark it on the barrel, and drill at the mark.
Now squirt some hotglue through the hole, this will stop the dart from going any farther down the barrel.
Make sure that the glue on the outside of the barrel doesn’t protrude to far, it would make loading the dart barrel harder.
Finished internals.
Because the barrel is 13†long, some of it sticks out the front while it’s in, making it easily removable.
I also glued three dart holders on the side:
There you go! A Reactor which shoots balls and darts. Just slide the barrel through the foam piece at the front, and push it into the coupler. It would be hard to change to the dart barrel in the middle of combat, but atleast it’s possible. Range with balls are about 10-15’ without ball roll, and darts consistently clear 65’, some landing as high as 85’, mainly depending on the dart. The majority of mine landed at around 75’.
That’s going to be it for about a week, although I have another write-up pictured. I have a ton of school work and games, so uploading pics is kinda’ hard.
Questions, Comments?
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