So, anyone who's ever opened up the Wii blaster has probably noticed that the internals very close to ye olde NF, but the restrictor requires drilling to remove and everything is a bit smaller. Well I would have none of that. Pardon my dust, this is my first writeup, and I'm doing it about a month after I did the mod.
Okay, step one is to take the business half of the gun out and open it up (only 4 screws! Hell yeah!). Oh, and open up your Nite Finder (you know you have a spare lying around).
This is what it will look like when you're done, but you've got some cutting/dremeling to do. Not pictured is the removal of the two little tabs on the NF air chamber where the screws hold it in. Also, take the peg and AR out of the NF (if you don't know how, this forum and its search function are your friends).
So, the NF spring will not fit where the current spring does; it will completely compress before the catch... catches. So, you cut a space here big enough for the spring, but not big enough for the NF air chamber move back (it fits perfectly there as is).
I'll take this opportunity to talk about the catch spring: it doesn't like you. I don't thing the stock one will do the job. I believe that I have the NF spring here, but I spent about half of my modding time looking for little springs on the floor. It might also be a LS frontgun spring. If a NF spring doesn't want to cooperate, and you don't have any other springs to try, you can do what I did here and cut the little tab at the top to give the NF catch spring some room, but be warned: you will have to play Twister with the thing every time you try to put it together if you do.
Now on the other half of the shell, you'll have to shave/sand this screw well down a bit. Otherwise, the barrel won't fit. Don't think you can get away with taking the whole damn thing out; there are only 4 screws that hold this thing together, and these components fit quite snugly. So be careful not to ruin the well too badly.
Now, we're using the original plunger, 'cause the catch is in a different place on the NF. That's okay, the head is the same diameter. Throw the second O ring on there, and replace the spring with the NF spring (there's a screw right on the front of the head, can't miss it).
Now here's how your putting the barrel and air chamber in there. If you feel like there might be air loss from that little gap, you can try hot gluing it, but I wanted to be able to open this thing again. Also, things fit so tightly in there that I doubt there is any such leak. Note that the tip of the barrel has the point on the bottom: remember that you have to clip this back into the rest of the gun. This barrel is still a little big, and it will take some getting used to to insert and remove this thing into the body, but it's possible as long as the slope is in this direction.
And there you have it. I haven't busted out a tape measure, but it fires like an NF sans AR. You can still use the Wiimote if you've got the game. Thanks for listenin', children!
[Note: I rotated all of those pics, but P-Bucket doesn't seem to be doing it. Hopefully it will correct itself. If not... well I tried.]
Edited by Gas Mask Guy, 24 January 2009 - 04:19 PM.