Azrael0987

Been a while since ive put any brain power towards Nerf and got itchy with an idea a few days ago. I worked through a few of the shortcomings of my previous design until I had a solid enough thing in my head to spill onto paper and this is where im at so far. Its evolved into a full function blaster with loading and an improved trigger and tank seal mechanism. The seal is placed outside the tank with a spring to control the max pressure as an OPRV, maximum pressure would depend on how strong said spring is. Spring loaded check valves for the rear tank seal and inside the pump head to maximise pump efficiency.

Expected operation as follows:
(1) Pump 2-3 times until seal cracks
(2) Pull front trigger and actuate breech
(3) Pull rear trigger to fire

Overall I think it is an improvement in function and aesthetics, as well as safety with a proper way to regulate pressures now. The new seal allows use of an ordinary trigger that should provide consistent valve openings (unlike 1.0's ball valve).

I'm currently working on a design in my head for a relatively small but decently powerful air blaster. I'd like to use an expanded hornet tank, and integrate that into the overall blaster design itself.



In the design shown in the picture (it was done at school with no access to shmee's writeup so that's why the Tee and tank part is a little off) the air input from the pump would go directly into the tank itself, and not through the rear air input of the hornet tank. Would that cause the tank to not seal properly? Backpressure tanks use the first pump to push the piston forward and begin to fill the tank. So before I start on this design I want to make sure it's not flawed to begin with. I did start thinking up this design after seeing Venom's venomaxx, so maybe he can shed some insight on the matter.

Any help or answers would be appreciated.

When I first got the new suction darts I started testing their accuracy. They are significantly more accurate than the standard elite darts, and I was very happy about that. I was thinking I wouldn't have to mod all my clips to accept stefans for my longshot. But after further testing, I have noticed and tested some more to make sure, that the darts have a higher rate of misfire. The suction tips sometimes flare out like washer sandwich seals, and cause a squelch sound in the barrel and either plop out or don't come out at all. And i'd say that 2-3 darts out of my 18 dart clips have that issue, and another 4-5 are less accurate than the others; curving off path some (although not nearly as much as normal elites). So I decided to weight some of them to see how much better they could get. This is what I came up with:



Basically making a full length slug, but melting into rubber instead of foam, and using a 3/8 inch felt pad. I also superglue the felt on rather than hot glueing them. It holds better to the rubber than hot glue. I use a single copper bb, and the misfire rate and inaccuracy rate have both decreased a fair amount. I made a clip full and ran them through a few times, so roughly 100 shots, and am very happy with it. They are lighter than a typical slug, but are just about perfect for higher powered clip fed mods. The tail wiggles a little in the air some of the time, but shoot straight other than that.

Being lighter than slugs, and fully felt covered, I would think that they would be easily war legal. I wanted to see what all you fine people thought of it.

I just got a titan tank and had a question. In some mod tutorials for titans or using titan tanks that use the stock pump, they say to pump it 20-25 times. Well I got mine and the pump's over pressure valve kicks in at 7-8 pumps. Did they all plug there pumps? As far as I know the titan is very over powered as is. I was wondering of I needed to plug it or not. I looked at a few more mod tutorials and didn't hear any mention of it, but if they didn't why are they pumping it so much?

I'm not entirely sure where this is supposed to go. There may be a better category for this, so please forgive me. I just purchased a kobalt pneumatic die-grinder at lowes. I know not everyone has an air compressor, but some/many will. I already did. It was much cheaper which is why I bought it instead of a dremel/rotary tool, and I am very impressed with it. It has an amazing amount of torque and cuts just as well as my dad's expensive as hell work dremel. And since its pneumatic there's no motor to burn out over time. I don't know if anyone else would like this option but so far I am deeming it a good investment.

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