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[FoamMaster]

So, the Disk Shot is a decent gun stock, and it has a lot of space and potential, making it a great gun overall from the start. I have been watching Z4's mod for a long time and gathering information and materials you may know. I've finally gotten everything I need and finished the mod, so I decided to share it with the NIC. P.S: All credit goes to Z4 for the idea, I just performed it a little differently, but added a few extra aspects.

Well, enough with the intro, let's get to work!

Materials needed:

O Epoxy (or other strong bonding material)
O Hot glue plus Hot glue gun
O At2k turret
O A foot or so of 1/2 inch CPVC
O CPVC coupler
O A pen you don't need
O A LSFG spring
O A NF o-ring
O Craft Foam
O Screwdriver
O Dremel/power drill w/ grinding bit
O Hobby knife
O Barrel Spacer (I got mine from Ryan mcnumbers)
O Sandpaper (low grit) and/or file
O FBR or foam from stock darts
O Disk Shot (obviously)


Instructions:

1) Open up your Disk Shot:



2) Now, remove the AR's (You probably don't need a pic for this). Take your craft foam and cut it out to fit the plunger head, with a hole in the center so that you can still unscrew the head. Also put the LSFG or other small spring inside of the stock DS spring. Finally, put on the NF o-ring. That's the end of the plunger head. Pics:





3) Put that all back inside the plunger tube. Then, cut off the coupler until it's about 1/4 inch away from the stopper. Dremel out the inside of the short end until it fits over the lip of the front AR piece.



4) After that, dremel down the plastic supports on each side of the shell that are in front of the coupler until it fits well. When you're done, the coupler should fit nicely. If you wish, close up the gun now, and you're finished! However, this part isn't the "Elite" section, that's a bit harder.





Part 2 or "elite" is next...

Edited by FoamMaster, 29 August 2010 - 09:51 AM.

[FoamMaster]

Here's part 2:

5) Replace the barrels on your 2k turret. If the stock barrels are solvent welded, dip the turret in boiling water, then you will be able to pry off the barrels. I used CPVC and Ryan Mcnumbers's spacers (you will have to either dremel the turret or sand down the end of the CPVC for it to fit). I found that epoxying or hot-gluing the spacer on can help, and obviously epoxy the barrels' ends onto the barrel stubs. Let cure/dry for a while.

6) Take your pen and pull out all of the crap inside. Throw that away, then wrap E-tape around the end of it until a 1 inch length of CPVC can fit onto it snugly, hammer it on if needed.



7) Stick that into the coupler on the end of your barrel as far as you want, the tighter the better. Cut it off at the end so that it is flush with the edge of the gun's barrel. Then, sand down the bottom end of the CPVC (Where my finger is pointing in the second picture) Until the Turret's axis can sit there without being tilted.





8) After that, use your hobby knife to cut out a hole right below the barrel's hole in order to let the turret fit inside. Then cut off the two circles pictured (under the hole you just cut, where my knife is) so that the turret isn't slanted, make them level with the rest of the gun.



9) Then, put in your turret's air input onto the pen, and use epoxy and/or hot glue in order to bond them. Make sure that the turret's axis is below the air input, where you cut the hole. Surround those pieces with either FBR or broken dart blanks, in order to stop them from moving around, as well as providing some silencing.





10) Replace all the internals, screw it back up, then you're done!

Completed:



Fully loaded w/taggers:



I really like this gun, it's not too heavy, and gets high 40's, low 50's with taggers. Since I normally play indoors, this is a great side arm capacity, distance, weight, and RoF wise. It is very durable, you would have to throw it on the ground purposefully and with a lot of effort in order to break it.
Continued on my next post...

Edited by FoamMaster, 28 August 2010 - 10:56 PM.

[Blue]

You have to use something with a much smaller OD than CPVC if you want the turret to be straight. I would suggest doing Tantumbull's airflow mod, it works great and is really easy.

[Ner Commando]

I did this same exact thing with my diskshot. Nice job!

[FoamMaster]

Part 3: Clean integration

I haven't really said anything on the boards for a long time, so I decided it was time to contribute a bit to the NIC (even though this is a simple mod)

Well, I like this weapon a lot considering my low modding experience level, but I noticed that I can't always hit opponents from longer distances, even indoors. I don't have a 2k to integrate in, so I decided to use the SSPB, and it worked suprisingly well. (and sorry if the pics are blurry, sometimes my camera screws up.)

Step 1: Unscrew your SSPB.




Step 2: Cut off the barrel with your dremel as close as possible to the tank, then sand off the rest with your file. EDIT: While you are doing this, keep the blaster pumped a bit so that crud doesn't get into the tank. (Thanks to Bob for this)



Step 3: Cut off some CPVC, about 2.5 inches works good. Then scuff the tank and CPVC with sandpaper so that the epoxy adheres better (Thanks to Gengar003 for this advice). Let that cure like this overnight.



Step 4: Smother hot glue between the barrel and the pump to keep it stable, but don't get any glue in the little ovular hole nearest the tank. I forgot to take a picture of this, but you should be fine.

Step 5: This is the most time consuming part. Take your dremel/file, and sand down the parts marked in the below picture of the ammo holder section of your disc shot and Pocket Blaster. You want to be careful not to mess with the screw holes, because those can be left intact while the blaster can still fit in. Do the same to the other side. This can take about an hour, so be patient (once again) The pictures should show about how far you want to sand.





Step 6: If you did the sanding correctly, the blaster should cleanly fit in, with the non glued hole fitting cleanly over one of the screws. Once you've made sure that the Disc shot closes easily over the pocket blaster, put a dab of hot glue on the previously non glued oval mentioned several times. Though it is already sturdy, this keeps it in place better in case you sanded too much.

Without glue:


With glue:


Step 7: Don’t forget to sand off the bottom of the ammo holder!



Step 8: Make sure everything is in place, and your done! Some pics:

Unscrewed:


Completed and with barrel break ammo rail:


Ranges for the main gun are still the same, high 40's to low 50's with taggers.
The SSPB's ranges are typical, 60 to 70 feet depending on the pumps.

Questions? Comments?

Edited by FoamMaster, 29 August 2010 - 09:47 AM.