Isbjorn

I saw somebody's video of their dual minimized Rapidstrikes and thought "Wow that looks cool".

That was like a year ago. I have now gotten around to actually doing the mod.

To modify your Rapidstrike into a relatively smaller, slightly more powerful Rapidstrike pistol thingy, you will need the following.

Required
-One (1) Rapidstrike Nerf Elite Blaster
-One (1) 8x AA holder (can get at radio shack for 2 bucks or so)
-Two (2) Alligator clips (or short lengths of wiring, paperclips could work in a pinch)
-A few (several) hot glue sticks
-Eight (8) AA batteries (0.75$ for 2 AAs, 1.5$ for a C, halves battery cost, doublish power)

Optional
-Something to cover areas exposed by cutting up the Rapidstrike (I used thin plastic from an old planner I had)

Tools
-Hacksaw
-Hot glue gun
-Screwdriver

Optional tools
-Drill
-File

Begin by removing your battery holder and cutting your Rapidstrike up. I cut mine so that plenty of screws still held it together.

Get rid of all those unnecessary stocks and locks and barrels.
(okay I didn't actually take out the lock because I wanted this to be doable by anyone, and I'm lazy)

Take your battery pack and check which sides are negative and positive (female is negative, male is positive. On blaster, the right is negative, left is positive)


Now for a way to hold those batteries!
Take the front section of your blaster, which you just chopped off, and take out the screws

Next pull the orange part off the blue (there are little blue catches, use a screw driver to push them about, then pull, should pop apart)

Cut off those little catch thingies. They get in the way.


Cut the stripy part away from the big part. We want the big part.


Cut the big part so it's flat, pretty much cut it like I did.


Now use your hot glue gun to glue this piece to the side of your blaster as shown (may be clearer in later pictures, refer to those)


Slap your batteries in there.


This next part is optional but makes a fugly blaster slightly less so.

Get some plastic or something and cut it to fit the holes there now are in your blaster.


Then glue them in place. Please don't get glue in the mechanical or electrical bits.


If you're fancy, drill some holes in the side of the remaining battery housing.


Then fit your alligator clips through there, clip them onto the terminals, remember which one each one is clipped on to.
Cover up that ugly hole in the front of your blaster with some stuff.


Glue your wiring in place if you're lazy. If you wanna make it look nice you can figure it out.
Clip it to the corresponding terminals on your battery pack.


Use some more stuff and some glue to secure your battery pack. DO NOT GLUE IT IN. That would just be silly.
Instead, make it a nice snug fit. The screw we didn't cut out in front will keep it from sliding forward, and you should be able to slide it out the back with a reasonable amount of force.


Yay. It's done. Any number of further cosmetic mods can be done, and there are a million ways to power your blaster, but this was the most material efficient one I could come up with.
Pew pew


Comparison to original sizish


Hope this helped some of you (especially those on a tool and money budget) to make a nice compact automatic blaster w/ minimal effort. We didn't even have to open the blaster up!
Happy modding!

This is my first nerf gun mod (and my first post) so forgive any mistakes I make (quite a few) but I documented it fully in case anyone is insane enough to try it.

This is mainly a post to outline what NOT to do so people don't make the same mistakes I did

once again I have no idea why anyone would want to do this as the nerf Rapid Fire cs-18 is out and is way more powerful and reliable

So here we go

Step 1: find your old barricade. Here is mine. It is stock.


Step 2: Take out the screws


More steps:

Remove the turret


Cut out a well for the magazine (yellow piece in upper left hand corner was cut out)


Cut off the rotator thingy for the turret (turret advancer or something)


Take out the manual dart pusher mechanism (some screws must be removed to do this)


Put a push button switch in behind the trigger, also take out the jam door at this point


(okay this wasn't my FIRST mod, I removed the locks from my stampede, but that's it. And I guess I "minimized" both my nitefinder and stampede)


Draw a square where you gonna put your motor


Cut out said square (I used a drill and file and wire cutters)


The next few things ended up not being in the final product so I'll keep them brief



The gear tooth mechanism ended up not working (It can be done but you have to reduce the speed i.e modify the gear ratio
which is difficult with very limited space inside the blaster, and I was tired of dealing with it)


Gear tooth mechanism used original puller back spring


Got everything wired up to a 9v (it's actually a 12v motor)


In short, this wasn't very reliable.


Sooooo I took it all apart and moved the motor back to better suit my purpose
(this requires some measuring and stuff to figure out how far the pusher needs to go etc.)


Replaced the mechanism with a more reliable one using some more lego parts (had to cut apart a few studs etc.), a bit of tin, some scrap metal from a binder I took apart, and hot glue.
At this point I also cut out an indentation in the top so the parts could make a full rotation


Added a guide for the dart pusher (when put together it will keep it from popping up)


Put it back together, covered the big hole with packaging plastic and hot glue, and filed the stock attachment point inside until I could fit a 9v in there snugly.


Used some fat electrical tape to make a guide for the magazine.


Finally hot glued the wires in place so no connections would break. The battery can still be removed and replaced. Also make sure to cut a little hole where the wires go into the push button switch, and to make room in your cut for the motor for the wires running in over the top.


Probably do this outside instead of on your desk in your room.


As previously stated, not the most reliable blaster in the world (I need to up the voltage to 12v for it to not have the awkward "Ugh I can't push the first dart" issue, and I have neither a 12v batter nor trustfires)
http://vid1055.photo...en/MVI_0153.mp4

Thank you guys for bothering to read my post, I had a good time modding the blaster, and learned a decent amount, hope I shared some of it with you!