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#1 Ryan201821

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Posted 30 May 2007 - 04:59 PM

I haven't really done any unique projects lately so I decided to try something. I had a Sonic Blast Bazooka, an AT3k shell and some SM1500 internals. I decided I would try to put everything together. This is what I came up with.

The first thing I had to do was secure the SM1500 internals inside the AT3K case. I had a lot of problems with this because I had to do a lot of modification to the inside of the shell to accommodate the airtank. Another problem was the trigger. It was the hardest thing I had to do in this integration. The firing pin on the SM1500 tank was too short and needed to have a bend at the end for it to connect to the AT3K trigger. I ended up taking some random plastic from my parts bin and melting it with hot glue onto the end of the existing firing pin. After that I took an allen wrench and melted it to the other side of the plastic. It actually holds together very, very well. I have yet to have a problem with it. Here are some pictures of what I'm talking about.

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I also decided not to keep the stock pump on this gun. Instead I wanted to utilize my new external tank I just made for a couple of my other guns. It actually works amazingly good with a small, single shot airtank. As long as you don't keep the trigger pulled for a while, not much air gets out. The external tank keeps a constant pressure in the smaller tank and takes a lot of shots until it is empty so you won't need to ever pump up your gun in a battle. The airtank hooks directly to the external tank through some vinyl tubing. It also has a quick disconnect so you can use the tank on different guns.

The next problem I had was integrating the Sonic Black Bazooka. This was pretty hard but worked out pretty good in the end. The problems I faced was getting the internals of the gun inside AT3K shell and creating some type of a trigger to fire the Blast Bazooka. I ended up cutting out a pretty big hole in the top of the AT3K case to get the Blast Bazooka in there.

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After getting the inside of the gun big enough to accommodate the Blast Bazooka, I had to space it evenly so the barrel wouldn't be crooked and it wouldn't be rattling inside the AT3K case. I used some large FBR I had purchased for an earlier project that didn't work out. It worked perfect. I put 2 pieces at the beginning and the end of the case to "suspend" the Blast Bazooka in the AT3K case.

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All that was left to do was make the trigger for the Blast Bazooka. The way the Blast Bazooka's trigger mechanism works is that there is a small button that is located on the top of the airtank that needs to be pushed down in order to release the air stored up in the airtank. I used a simple push button that I bought from McMaster-Carr to use for the project.

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I then took a piece of an AT2K to use as the piece to push down onto the trigger of the Blast Bazooka. I took a little section of the pressure gauge thing on the Airtech 2000 and cut a small section of it. Then I filled it up with hot glue and screwed the button into the chunk of hot glue. It sounds confusing but quite simple. Should have taken some better pictures of it so you know what I mean. Here is a picture of the trigger.

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After that all I had to do was screw everything back together. Here are a bunch of pictures I took of the completed product.

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Questions? Comments? Feel free to post. I might add a paintjob to it later, but for now I'm glad I got the damn thing done.
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#2 n-strike

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Posted 30 May 2007 - 05:09 PM

That sir, is awesome. Paint it black.
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#3 Prometheus

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Posted 30 May 2007 - 05:34 PM

Pretty nifty. Clean integration/mod. Some people would have something that looked like it was straight from hell, but this is good looking. I think a black and olive colour scheme would be cool, but it's all what you prefer. Any info on ranges yet?
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#4 Ryan201821

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Posted 30 May 2007 - 05:44 PM

Pretty nifty. Clean integration/mod. Some people would have something that looked like it was straight from hell, but this is good looking. I think a black and olive colour scheme would be cool, but it's all what you prefer. Any info on ranges yet?


I think it's ugly, and definitely not my cleanest integration/modification, but I think it turned out the best I could have gotten it. The case has a lot of nicks and scratches which can be fixed with a paint job. I might also add a sheet of plastic to the front and the back of the gun to make it look a little cleaner.

Black and olive would look pretty cool, although that would be pretty similar to my Crossbow.

Ranges are as expected. The blast bazooka gets phenomenal ranges, depending on how much you want to pump it up. I also forgot to add that I plugged the pump on the Blast bazooka. I haven't measured but I'd say it gets close to, if not over 200'. The bottom gun gets about 120' to 130' flat.
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#5 Prometheus

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Posted 30 May 2007 - 05:54 PM

Talk about a beast. Shit, ranges that like, you should be putting a stock on it. Also, the with the paint job like the crossbow, you could have your own personal lineup of guns then. Kind of like how the military knows which trucks are theres, look for the dark olive green. But, whatever, it's a sweet-ass bitch.
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Posted 30 May 2007 - 05:56 PM

Nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There is gonna be some nerf pwnage in the near future.
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Posted 30 May 2007 - 07:05 PM

Thats tight.
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Posted 30 May 2007 - 07:25 PM

I would definitely recommend putting some kind of switchable valve inbetween your external tank and the sm1500 blast chamber. It will really help to conserve your tank volume and won't at all affect the performance of the gun.
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Posted 30 May 2007 - 07:39 PM

Is that 1" backer rod you have in there for supports? Very nice integration though.

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Posted 30 May 2007 - 07:41 PM

I only have one wordt o say. It begins with "b" and ends with "eastly". That's very cool. If that sonic bazooka truly goes 200+ft that would be insanely dangerous on the field. After you do official testing, could you tell us all?

Although you say it's not pretty, it's sure as hell alot more pretty than, well, all of my mods. I'm getting into "cleaner" mods and PJ's now. I used to only go for funcitonality. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but I digress.

Again, that is VERY sick.
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#11 Carrtoon

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Posted 30 May 2007 - 07:49 PM

Awesome Ryan. Good to see your mods again. Now stick dual 2k turrets on it! Kidding. Sweet mod.
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#12 Forsaken angel24

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Posted 30 May 2007 - 09:02 PM

It looks awesome but it also kinda looks awkward to pump.
Good job on turning excess parts into something cool.

Why am I seeing people sacrificing tools in their modifications?

Crazed Nerfing son:
"You there, Allen wrench. You shall serve a higher purpose than sitting around in my tool box, You shall be the connecting peice that brings the trigger to the Airtank!"

3 months later...

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"I know I have an allen wrench somewhere."

Maybe Groove could make a cool comic for that bit.
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#13 Ryan201821

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Posted 30 May 2007 - 09:04 PM

Is that 1" backer rod you have in there for supports? Very nice integration though.


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I would definitely recommend putting some kind of switchable valve inbetween your external tank and the sm1500 blast chamber. It will really help to conserve your tank volume and won't at all affect the performance of the gun.


I was wondering about that. How would I go about doing that? I don't have much experience with that kind of stuff. By the way, thanks for the idea of the external tank. I pretty much followed your write-up with a few different things I did myself.

After you do official testing, could you tell us all?


Sure, I'll try getting to that by the end of the week.
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Posted 02 June 2007 - 06:12 PM

very very nice job. btw where can i get and at3k?
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#15 Retiate

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Posted 02 June 2007 - 08:58 PM

Whoa, that's pretty crazy. I'd think twice about rushing anyone weilding that.
Nice job.

very very nice job. btw where can i get and at3k?


Carrtoon posted a link to where you can AT3Ks in the future, they aren't out yet. For now, you can't. They haven't really been in production recently, so the only place to get one would be off someone else (either here or Ebay).
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