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[GeneralPrimevil]

I'm not sure if this should be in the "Homemades" section, because it is using what is prebuilt (case), but has homemade pieces (internals). I have a few ideas, but half of them use CO2 instead of retaining the pump handle. This whole post seems kind of newbish, but I was just wondering if anyone else had undertaken a job like this. If so, ten any and all iformation and advice is welcome. Or, for those of you who want to blow off smoke, I guess this may be the time to flame because this probably belonged in the "modification" section. On to the ideas.

1.) Completely homemade with CO2. I posted a valve on this site before. Using a small verson of that valve (2.25 inch total length) and some braided steel cable tubes, along with a new barrel/valve coupler, as in, the thing that connects the valve to the barrel turret, in order to alow higher pressure CO2. The CO2 adapter will be the one found on the site linked below. I would also have to re-engineer the trigger out of 1/4 inch steel plate in order to allow the new valve.

2.) Same as above, but instead of a CO2 adapter and stuff, the pump and tube from a Blastfire because the original pump (and valve) have no threads for tubes.

3.) Just throwing it all away, and selling the case. I would use the turrets on my NF then.

Number three seems to be the easiest solution.

<Links>

CO2 adapter:
http://shortyusa.com...x.html?RID=3923
Don't worry about the DEagle in the picture, it doesn't come with it

valve:
http://nerfhaven.com...?showtopic=2144

Flames welcome for my stupidity, or for requesting to be yelled at. I just really see no purpose for this either. It just gives me something to do for the summer.
Advice is welcome. Be it with this project or for future posts on this websites forum.

[Techno-Dann]

Interesting idea... I'm thinking about doing something similar, but with a super soaker pump, case, and trigger assembly. I'd build my own air tank and barrel. Unfortunatley, the screws in the super soaker are really soft metal, so I'm going to have to drill most of them out, and hold the thing together with duct tape.

[GeneralPrimevil]

Well I decided to just stick the barrel assembly on my NF. They fit pretty well, after i got out a few saws and knives. I'll post pics on this thread or a new one, along with a few guidelines, for anyone who asks.

Hmm...super soaker? I have an old XP55 and XXP175 that need something to do. I'm kinda interested in your project because one of them has two barrels and can be modified to use rubber bladders instead of tanks to hold pressure, once i get around to it. The other is useless without a pump, so iuf your idea uses something besides a pump, then i would definetly like to know if your idea uses CO2, compressed air, etc., and how it works out.

<EDIT> Is it just me, or does the pull valve in an XP55 look very similar to the oones used in SM? It may just be that they're both pull valves and that's why<EDIT>

Edited by GeneralPrimevil, 19 May 2004 - 01:50 PM.

[Techno-Dann]

Odd... I'm using an XXP 175 as well. Anyway, I'm planning on using the stock pump, and just put in my own airtank and single barrel. (I'd cut off the part that has the two barrels.) And maybe I'll add a stock as well.

Personally, I'd stay with solid air tanks, rather than rubber bladders. In my experience, there really is no good flexible rubber that can be made into an airtight air tank at home.

so... yeah. A fairly simple homemade, strapped to a super soaker handle and pump.

[Doom]

The rubber tubing was meant to keep every shot equally as powerful, that's why they use it in the PowerClip, Wildfire and such. If you want to buy some, mcmaster has a ton, the thicker the better, it's called latex rubber tubing. I've bought some before and used them in homemade water guns. You'll have to layer some bike tube over it to get it more powerful.

[GeneralPrimevil]

I was just planning on taking the bladder from my RF20 because that gun got toasted last time I used it. That would require having an open three-way splitter hooked up to the hose clamp end, the pump, and the valve. More than likley, though, this would be on the XP55 because I just set it up for shooting nerf darts about an hour ago. Unfortunately, I had to use what scrap of 1/2" PVC I had, which was only a few inches, so my barrel is definetly undersized. I had to use a Crayola barrel/breach thing in order to allow the dart to have more pressure built up behind it before it leaves the barrel. I plan on having a 2' copper barrel later in the summer when I have money, or maybe just next week. It is undetermined at this point for I live in Michigan and the weather is never reliable. Here's a pic of the modded XP55:
file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Administrator/My%20Documents/My%20Pictures/nerf%20009.jpg
In case you can't tell from the picture, which you probably can't from the angle at which it was taken, it uses a SM1500 pump. The picture may not work, if so, then just say so and I'll try it again. Sorry for the typos in the last post. I was tired. That's also why the picture is a bit blurry.