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[Samz146]

I'm new to nerf guns and am trying learn a bit more about different systems and mods.
I understand that nerf guns use use plungers to compress air and propel the dart but I don't see how they work with clips. Can someone explain?

[owmyquach]

I'm new to nerf guns and am trying learn a bit more about different systems and mods.
I understand that nerf guns use use plungers to compress air and propel the dart but I don't see how they work with clips. Can someone explain?

Watch Youtube videos, take off the jam door from one of your blasters and see how it works. Really simple stuff, but I'll explain now just in case if this post gets a warning. The clips (actually magazines) push darts up with a spring. When you prime the blaster, you it compresses a spring and the plunger tube/plunger (depending on whether it's a direct or reverse plunger system), and it locks in place with a catch. When you push the cocking handle forward (I'm explaining in context of a Recon, Longstrike, Longshot, most Nerf blasters, etc etc) a dart goes into the breech, and a little door on the barrel(?) pushes it into the plunger and then flips back or down when the bolt sled that holds the plunger system pushes it. When you pull the trigger it releases the catch, which releases the spring, which in turn pushes the plunger forward and air travels through, into the breech and pushes the dart out. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, I'm in class right now.

[Meaker VI]

Not that owmyquach has it wrong, but here's a picture:



This is the Longshot with the charging handle pulled back. When you push the charging handle forward, it pushes the bolt/plunger tube (one piece) forward. The dart tooth should be up and holds the dart back, so that the bolt passes over the dart, loading it. When the charging handle is all the way forward, the bolt/plunger tube is also all the way forward, and the dart tooth moves down out of the way, reading the blaster for firing. In the case of the LS, and most stock NERF-brand clip-system blasters, the "bolt" actually functions as the barrel, and the piece labeled "barrel" in the picture is just for show.

There are other methods as well; an Angel breech doesn't use a dart tooth, and instead has a piece of tubing (brass) with a slot cut out of it that the darts are forced into by the clip/mag, and another piece of brass that slides over the first to seal the dart in the barrel. Another method of breech (that I don't believe has a name) that doesn't involve a dart tooth involves a push rod similar in size to the barrel on the LS that pushes a dart from the clip into a barrel - I think someone has done an LS mod that way as well.

[Samz146]

Hmm this brass breech sounds interesting.
From what I've seen and looked up it looks simpler than the stock systems.
However, does the dart stay in place?
Like is it fired in the same location as it was at the top of the clip?


(Not trying to waste my posts XP)
@CaliforniaPants
\/ Umm I'm sorry?

Edited by Samz146, 19 September 2012 - 11:30 PM.

[CaliforniaPants]

leave now

[Zorns Lemma]

From what I've seen and looked up it looks simpler than the stock systems.

The brass breech described involves 2 extra coaxial tubes than stock breeches which means the trajectory of this topic is far above you.

I suggest you actually purchase a blaster and open it up and mess with it before coming back to this issue.