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#1 Sinfil

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Posted 27 July 2006 - 11:30 AM

First of all, I would like to say that this is just a regular, run-of-the-mills NiteFinder modification. I’ve modded well over 10 of them in the past year, and doing more has become a sort of chore instead of enjoyment. However, in light of an all-night war my friend is hosting tomorrow, I’ve decided to spiff up a pair of stock ones I had lying around.

Second of all, I would like to say that these are my friend’s guns, of whom I have reached an agreement with: since he is really terrible at modding, he buys guns and gives them to me, and I mod them how I see fit. After I’m done with them, I keep which ever ones I feel like and give the rest back. It suits me fine. Consequently, he is also the one having the war.

What I usually do with NFs is one of two things- stick a 4” barrel on it, keeping the shell relatively intact, or stick a reinforced 2” barrel on it, hacking away the shell so that it’s pocket sized. Sometimes I would put a breech on them, replace the springs, minor things like that. Since I am going to be playing in a night environment however, I wanted something different. I wanted the light to stay put, and, if I could, to increase the RoF.

So I began by taking apart the gun.

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Unscrewing the plunger and barrel assembly, I took out the pronged air restrictor and its spring.

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I’ve never done this before, but I wanted a sturdy gun after my last war, where I had opened up my bag to find all but one NF’s barrels completely ripped off or bent sideways. So, I took this piece

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And kept it. I threw away the original barrel, since I had no use for it now. Taking out my handy dandy knife, I carved away the rim so that CPVC could easily slip through it.

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See?

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Going back to the pointy piece, which you need, I sliced off the raised platform supporting the long pole, again with my knife.

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Make sure that the edges of the whole are completely flat. I did this with the tip of my knife, and then went over it with sand paper, to rough it up for when I attack the barrel.

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Now, here I don’t have a before-and-after picture, but you can get the gist. I took a drill bit (a small one), and drilled multiple holes through the plunger-stopping piece, until there wasn’t anything left to drill. For those unaware, this improves airflow.

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Taking the piece you sliced the top off of, you want to glue and tape it to the plunger assembly. Since I’m all out of electric tape, I made due with ½ a strip of duct tape. I applied the tape when the glue was still hot.

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For this particular mod, I used a 3” barrel. Why? I don’t know. I just felt like it. After you cut it, you want to sand one end down, which is what I am doing in the picture.

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See? All nice and smooth.

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Taking the un-sanded end, I hot glued that to the plunger assembly, making sure it was straight, and let it cool.

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Again, just because I felt like it, I also applied a nice dome of hot glue to the plunger head.

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After that, I was finished with the internals. After all the glue had cooled, I put the stuff back in the gun, and screwed it shut. I wasn’t done yet, however…

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See where that orange piece meets the barrel?

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Making sure the barrel is fairly straight, pump a lot of hot glue in there, and hold it how you want until it is completely hard and cool.

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Going back to one of my earliest concepts during my nerfing career, I decided to use what I call a “Stripper Clip”. This is by no means an actual stripper clip. Simply, in this instance, it is five 3” sections of ½” CPVC with couplers on one end, all glued together, and wrapped with duct tape. I found that this greatly improves RoF and reload time, since to load the clip, all you do is stick a dart in the back of each coupler, than stick it back on the gun.

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To finish it all off, I aligned the light sights as accurately as I could, and then glued them in place.

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There, that’s it! Like I said, not to ingenious or new at all, but hopefully when I’m stalking people at 1:00 AM tomorrow morning, it will provide some usefulness…

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#2 echo104b

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Posted 27 July 2006 - 11:50 AM

Not a bad mod at all! I think i've still got one unmodded NF around here somewhere. All the ones i did mod dont work the way i like them too, so i'll try this one out.n Hopefully, it makes the gun worth using in an actual fight.
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