Difficulty of Part one out of 10: 3
PART ONE:
What you will need:
Hot-glue gun, Glue sticks
Needle Nose pliers
Nightfinder spring (optional)
Electrical tape
Sandpaper (optional)
1/2 inch PVC, and something to cut it with
Ok so take your sexy stock longshot as such... Ain't she a beaut!
Crack her open, and by crack I mean remove all the screws and use the claw on a hammer to pry off the charging handle, after that you should be left with something looking like this. Be careful to make sure all the screws are completely unscrewed, and relove the shell piece carefully or else all the internals could spill over and no one liked putting a blaster back together if they had no clue where the parts go, the first time I modified one it took me a hour to put it back together. But its all trial and error
From there your going to want to look simply in the back of the gun for literally all three locks. There all located in this picture, one in the trigger, one right behind the plunger tube and one on the plunger tube itself, the tall black piece that goes into the bolt lock. Heres the photo for reference:
These are what all the locks look like and what there function is, Each one of these can be thrown away after you take off the spring from the Jam Door lock. Keep that, you will need it.
After that take the spring from the Jam door lock and intertwine it with the catch spring so it looks like this, this will help later on then you add a nightfinder spring, or spring of your choice.
Now that those pesky locks are out of the way you can un-cock your longshot without dry firing it. From here remove the whole plunger tube system and uncrew the black cap on the back to get to the inside of the plunger tube, the air restrictor, and the plunger rod with spring. From here remove the plunger head by unscrewing it, Add a spring of your choice ( i used a nightfinder spring as it adds a significant range increase without making it too powerful). Then remove the O-ring on the plunger head and wrap one full rotation of electrical tape on it, throw the O-ring back on the plunger head, doing this makes the seal better making it more airtight, Then you want to remove the air restrictor, to do this look in the back of the plunger tube and you wil see this:
(The flash of the camera distorted the colors, its not actually red its black but now you can see it)
So from here take needle nose pliers and twist each of the three pegs, breaking them allows the air restrictor to be removed, once broken it should just fall out. Now that thats gone it should look like this:
From here your going to want to warm your hot glue gun up and cover up the hole on the side of the bolt as such, i used sandpaper after to make sure that the bolt still slid nicely through the tube.
Now finally your going to want to make sure you stock doesnt collapse anymore, i do this because i personally dont like the stock failing on me and collapsing but you could not do this and it wont affect the working of your gun. Anyway place the stock at the longest i can go out and mark up PVC the same size as the gap between the back of the longshot and the stock, after cut and hot glued in it should look like this.
Now your done with Part one, your internals should look like this when your done, Close it up and you have a nicely modified Longshot:
Part two will be up soon, expect it over the christmas break. I look forward to posting up part two and three, Also i have a question for you guys, Do you think it needs a integration? Hopefully you enjoyed the first part, Comments?, Questions?, Feedback?
