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[The lord of fish]

The nitefinder, cheap, durable, and easy to mod. This is why many have it as their sidearm. I realize the newer editions have glue that prevents easy modification.

We can do this by levels, lets start with level 1.

NF Level 1 modifications.

Materials needed:
a drill with large drill bit or a giant screw driver and a hammer.

Heres a stock NF, shoots a meager 25 feet, lets get a little bit more range. Start by opening up the blaster, don't forget the screw on the battery plate. there is no glue holding the shell together, if it doesnt come apart then you need to keep unscrewing.

the internals, start by unscrewing the plunger tube.

take the plunger rod out and drill through the barrel to the plunger tube. Alternatively you can take a large screw driver and whack the AR out, drilling is easier though.  You can re-assemble or keep going.

ranges with stefans are now 40 feet.

Level 2

materials needed
3 inches of prefered barrel material
superglue, goop, or epoxy. I do not recommend hotglue.
pipecutters

if you chose to keep going then you should grab your plunger tube again and cut at this line. Pipe cutters make this job much easier so I recommend buying a pair id you don't have one.

Should look like this, if your barrel material does not fit in the hole, then I would suggest gluing a CPVC coupler to the flat spot made.

Glue your barrel in

Unscrew the plunger head from the rod.

Put a beefier (cut down ace #2 spring is what I use) catch spring on the catch (this piece)

add a spring to the stock (I used a firefly spring)

assembled plunger rod

Now you can either assemble it and enjoy ranges of 60-68 ft or keep going


Level 3

Materials needed:
hot glue and gun
and a level 2 modded NF
pliers

See these wings? snip them off

Now see this ridge on the shell? hack it off on both sides so the plunger can go through.

Should now be able to do this, position where the plunger head reaches the end on the tube and glue it down.

assemble now and enjoy 70-80 ft ranges or keep going

[The lord of fish]

Level 4

Handcannon mode activate.

Materials needed:
1x NF
1x 1- 3/16ths OD rubber/neoprene washer (I got mine at ACE)
1x mcmaster [k26] spring
2x 1 inch OD steel washers
1x a medium sized screw (I don't really know I just happen to have tons of these screws)
1 foot piece of 3/8th square nylon bar (I got mine from mcmaster)
ACE #2 spring
Dremel
drill
file
A bolt and two nylon spacers
13" of 1 inch thinwall PVC

Cut the shell like this, there should be 1 cm of plastic between the rectangle slot and the top now. Has to be super laser precise or else LT stefan will rage quit. Just kidding, but it needs to be pretty level.

The plunger tube is easy, take 13" of 1 inch thin wall PVC

then take the PVC bushing and wrap some tape around it so its snug in the PVC.

lather on some epoxy

and let it cure.

once cure screw some small screws into it.
Take the Nylon bar and measure 4.5 inches down from one end make a mark. then dremel out a catch.

Now drill a hole in the end of the Nylon bar from where the catch is, I chose a 1/8th" bit and went down 1/2"
time for a washer sammich! layout your washers like so.

now screw them onto the rod

slide a spring on followed by the NF catch

cut down a ACE #2 spring to the length of the stock catch spring. Now put everything in save for the plunger tube and screw it together

slide the plunger tube on but super glue it to one side of the shell and clamp it together.

let cure for awhile.

Ranges are 130ft with a 1ft barrel and stefans.

[1aust]

I think you went a little overboard

[lionhawk]

http://nerfhaven.com...hl=finder rifle This mod looks like the mod done by kbarker.

Edited by lionhawk, 27 November 2010 - 09:38 AM.

[Niteshot]

Very nice. I like how you organized everything into levels.

[NerfGeek416]

http://nerfhaven.com...hl=finder rifle This mod looks like the mod done by kbarker.

This uses a nylon plunger rod, and looks to be sturdier.

Mad props Fishy
NF's have always been my favorite nerf gun, and I have quite a few to overhaul.

A couple of questions
Does this have enough power to work with a Hopper/RSCB?
Have you had any trouble with the catch? You appear to be using the stock catch, even if you replaced the spring.
How good is your seal?
Where can I get 1" thinwall?

[TxNerfer]

A couple of questions
Does this have enough power to work with a Hopper/RSCB?
Have you had any trouble with the catch? You appear to be using the stock catch, even if you replaced the spring.
How good is your seal?
Where can I get 1" thinwall?

I've made one of these before and yes, it does have enough power to work with a hopper/RSCB. The catch slightly wore after a while, probably due to me doing a bad job of cutting the catch. For the seal, I didn't have a good seal because I used the washer reccomended in his writeup. He said that he had much better with a 1-1/4" rubber washer, so I really can't answer that. As for 1" thinwall, I've found it at pretty much every hardware store I've gone to, but I just go to Lowe's for it.

[lionhawk]

http://nerfhaven.com...hl=finder rifle This mod looks like the mod done by kbarker.

This uses a nylon plunger rod, and looks to be sturdier.

Mad props Fishy
NF's have always been my favorite nerf gun, and I have quite a few to overhaul.

A couple of questions
Does this have enough power to work with a Hopper/RSCB?
Have you had any trouble with the catch? You appear to be using the stock catch, even if you replaced the spring.
How good is your seal?
Where can I get 1" thinwall?

Yes, but it seems a little too much like the other one. Fish, this mod is very nice though, and good job.

Edited by lionhawk, 27 November 2010 - 11:19 AM.

[Blue]

http://nerfhaven.com...hl=finder rifle This mod looks like the mod done by kbarker.

This uses a nylon plunger rod, and looks to be sturdier.

Mad props Fishy
NF's have always been my favorite nerf gun, and I have quite a few to overhaul.

A couple of questions
Does this have enough power to work with a Hopper/RSCB?
Have you had any trouble with the catch? You appear to be using the stock catch, even if you replaced the spring.
How good is your seal?
Where can I get 1" thinwall?

Yes, but it seems a little too much like the other one. Fish, this mod is very nice though, and good job.

Fish did originally do this mod on other sites and probably was not aware of Kbarkers. How long and what type of spring was used?

[lionhawk]

http://nerfhaven.com...hl=finder rifle This mod looks like the mod done by kbarker.

This uses a nylon plunger rod, and looks to be sturdier.

Mad props Fishy
NF's have always been my favorite nerf gun, and I have quite a few to overhaul.

A couple of questions
Does this have enough power to work with a Hopper/RSCB?
Have you had any trouble with the catch? You appear to be using the stock catch, even if you replaced the spring.
How good is your seal?
Where can I get 1" thinwall?

Yes, but it seems a little too much like the other one. Fish, this mod is very nice though, and good job.

Fish did originally do this mod on other sites and probably was not aware of Kbarkers. How long and what type of spring was used?

Yea, I edited my post so I didn't sound like an idiot.

[The lord of fish]

I'll try to answer as best as I can.

I buy 1" thinwall at ace hardware
I use a 10 shot RCSB on my NF rifles
The catch is incredibly strong and I have had no issues with catches, you can reinforce them if you want.
My seal vacuum loads, and it will stop the plunger rod from moving, a skirt seal would have been better, but I was being cheap.
I use one full length [k26]/+bow spring

I am well aware kbarker did this before me, take a look here. I'm not trying to say that I am the first to do this, just trying to put a slightly more modern twist.

Edited by The lord of fish, 28 November 2010 - 12:07 AM.