Parallax

So it's a pump, a PVC air tank (yeah, that's a brilliant idea), a ball valve for a "trigger", and a coupler for a barrel assembly.

Uncomfortable, unsafe, ugly, expensive, and unoriginal.


And honestly, I'm all for people building things, putting plans into action, making write-ups, etc. but when someone comes out with something blatantly dangerous and then advocates other people do what they've done then I think that's when the community needs to come down hard on them.

I know the two common counter points to this too. First, you're going to say that with proper construction you will probably be pretty safe using this thing. This is most likely true if you're a decent builder, but you have to realize that you're putting this on a forum where hot glue, duct tape, and nails abound as construction materials. Some little kid somewhere is going to look at this write-up, get the brilliant idea to make one of these with a bunch of unrated PVC he found in his backyard, not use proper solvent welds and then pump it up too high and blow his fucking face off. This is not the kid of design that Nerfhaven needs to proliferate on the internet.

Second, you're going to say that the likelihood of one these blowing is pretty small, lots of people make similar things and you never hear about anyone dying. Well, similar to the above scenario there are just too many factors that could cause the PVC to weaken and eventually fail. Sunlight (UV rays) cause PVC to degrade, temperature fluctuations makes PVC brittle, shock (running, pumping, dropping) increases the chance of the PVC failing drastically more so than in intended applications. If you look at the typical war all of these factors are hugely present: it's usually outside in the summer or winter with lots of running and jumping around. So not only is this thing unsafe out of the box, it's only going to become more and more dangerous the more you use it.

If this was the platform of a water gun, instead, it'd be a great design but you're using the wrong materials for the application and the design really isn't innovative at all to begin with.

Try again.

This is an awesome blaster boot, great job.

Lots of great innovation and explanation!

That is the process pretty much exactly. I hope it succeeds too!

So I'm still slightly confused and please enlighten me if this information has been presented already.

Why do you need nearly $600 to make nerf ammo?


Are you trying to 'arm' the NIC with oversized ammo or are you trying to turn a profit? I'm having a hard time seeing how each one of these would cost approximately the $4.00 in materials that you're selling them for.

Apologies for being dense - but how does this work?

I understand the basic principles of a back pressure tank but this design baffles me.

I'd love some clarity. Thanks.