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[Slagr]

I had some old ping pong ball shooting guns from back in the day and noticed that they had great potential for nerf. So, I built a mini dart adapter insert ot of CPVC and film canisters that luckily fit snuggly in the original barrel.



Next I sanded down the back handle so that the reverse plunger could slide easily through it and added a few rubber band chains to it. I then made a simple clothes pin trigger and glued it in place on the handle. I added the metal eraser-holder thing to the spot on the plunger tube where the trigger slides and melted it into the plastic to reduce wear.



Simply pull the handle back,



and pull the trigger to release the plunger tube.



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The rate of fire is quite good, as long as the darts fit loosely enough to slide back into the barrel as the plunger is pulled back. Otherwise, a ramrod is required. I have no real ranges because it is soaking wet outside due to melting snow, but it punches holes in cereal boxes from twenty feet consistently.

My darts and an original ping pong ball.

[Airsoftguy777]

That is awesome. It seems as if its a reverse plunger, am i correct? And your darts are very...intresting I might have to try the ones where you left foam at the top.

[Slagr]

Airsoftguy777, on Feb 25 2010, 09:02 PM, said:

That is awesome. It seems as if its a reverse plunger, am i correct? And your darts are very...intresting I might have to try the ones where you left foam at the top.

It is a reverse plunger, and I'd only recommend the copper darts if you're into slightly more painful nerfing. They're pretty heavy and they get pretty fast, but they are topped by foam at least.

[Airsoftguy777]

Slagr, on Feb 25 2010, 07:07 PM, said:

Airsoftguy777, on Feb 25 2010, 09:02 PM, said:

That is awesome. It seems as if its a reverse plunger, am i correct? And your darts are very...intresting I might have to try the ones where you left foam at the top.

It is a reverse plunger, and I'd only recommend the copper darts if you're into slightly more painful nerfing. They're pretty heavy and they get pretty fast, but they are topped by foam at least.

I dont think they would hurt more than typical stefans. And how old is that? I didnt know they knew about reverse plungers "Back in the day" since nerf just recently started using them.

[Slagr]

Airsoftguy777, on Feb 25 2010, 09:10 PM, said:

I dont think they would hurt more than typical stefans. And how old is that? I didnt know they knew about reverse plungers "Back in the day" since nerf just recently started using them.

Somewhere around 2003-2005 I think. I'd imagine reverse plungers were in use prior to Nerf's adoption of them.

Edited by Slagr, 25 February 2010 - 10:14 PM.

[Samzilla]

I believe that is a burp gun which is actually goes pretty far back...

[compound]

Samzilla, on Feb 25 2010, 08:42 PM, said:

I believe that is a burp gun which is actually goes pretty far back...

Yes. My friend has one and I was actually planing on making it dart compatible. The really do have alot of potential.

[Samzilla]

Though they're actually quite fun in stock form...part of me cringes and par of me admire the ingenuity.

[billyblue888]

This is very nice and I am going to try making my stefans like that.

[Slagr]

Samzilla, on Feb 26 2010, 02:32 PM, said:

Though they're actually quite fun in stock form...part of me cringes and par of me admire the ingenuity.

The reason I made the dart barrel removable was to retain stock ability. It can still fire ping pong balls; it just can't use the back handle.