About a year ago, there was a bit of a craze here in Oz with converting the Super Soaker Shotblast to fire darts, and making it clip-fed. I completed it as a one-off project for my personal collection, but it never rated very high for myself personally. A month ago I needed the shotblast air tank for another project, so I decided rather than scrap all the effort I'd originally put in to the blaster, that I would replace the tank with one from a Titan....
Equipment:
Dremel/rotary tool
Hot glue gun
Basic tool kit
Materials:
SS Shotblast (obviously)
Titan Air tank
Spectre barrel
Raider Magwell
LSFG pistol grip
Fishing trace wire/thin wire
25mm conduit
20mm conduit
PETG
Ball/sports pump
Vinyl tubing
Epoxy Adhesive/goop
E-putty
E-tape
And this is the major downfall for this mod guide - lack of pictures. Admittedly, it's not a difficult modification, so the majority of people should be able to work out what to do from the few pics I do have.
Start by removing all the screws, and the two layers of skins. Once you've done this, remove the stock pump and all tubing. Next, you'll want to cut out a strip in the water tank large enough for the Titan tank to fit. The trick to this is when marking it out, ensure that the gap won't be seen when the skins are re-assembled. You will also want to cut out a very precise hole to fit the LSFG pistol grip:
photo credit to Unknown from OzNerf
Cut off the front of the Titan tank, and grind out the inside of the nozzle so that your 25mm conduit is a snug fit. Attach some vinyl tubing to the inlet on the air tank, and plug the pressure gauge outlet.
Take the LSFG pistol trip, and drill a hole through the top part of the trigger lever. Thread the wire through this hole - this will be the link between the trigger and air release rod. Push the wire through the hole you've cut for the grip, then attach the grip to the shell with hot glue/adhesive of choice.
With a bit of manipulation, install the Titan tank. Position the air tank as close to the front of the water tank as possible, and hot glue in to place. Tie the trigger link wire around the orange washer on the air release rod, and tension.
You'll need to dremel out this part so that there is enough room for the 25mm conduit to fit snugly. Again, pay particular attention to having the barrel square and centred.
photo credit to Unknown from OzNerf
Once this has been done, attach the skin to one side of the main water tank/shell. Position the Raider magwell on this skin, and mark out the clipwell. Cut this out, paying particular attention to sizing, and ensuring the magwell will sit square. Once happy, attach the magwell with hot glue. Insert a length of 25mm conduit through the front of the blaster in to the outlet of the air tank, then insert a clip through the magwell, and mark out an area to cut for the breech on the conduit. Essentially, you'll end up with something similar to this:
You may need to wrap the end of the conduit with some e-tape to form a good fit inside the outlet of the Titan tank. Once this is done, hot glue the conduit breech in place, leaving about half an inch protruding from the front of the blaster. Dremel out the shell where the original pump was housed so your replacement pump fits - you will also need to drill a hole through the front of this section for the pump handle to slide through. Connect the vinyl tubing, and glue the pump body in place:
All that is left to do now is to measure how much petg you'll need for a barrel. I opted to nest the front section of the petg inside some 20mm conduit, which I then nested inside a Spectre silencer. This adds a bit of cosmetic appeal and protects the barrel, but primarily adds to functionality in cycling the breech.
Pretty standard plugged Titan ranges, just slightly less than normal due to a shortened barrel -
Approx. 200ft flat using custom darts 2.4g in weight.
Cheers,
