ShadowKing

Very nice job, I was doing one of these but yours looks so much nicer. I too would zip tie the blaster straight onto the rail during war, those connections are pretty bad at holding together.

I did not see any topic on this type of casting so I thought I would post one. The casting method is called "lost foam casting" , it consists of carving a object out of soft foam then burying it in fine sand then pouring molten aluminium over it. The foam is burned away and the metal takes the shape that the foam was.

Melting aluminum may seem hard to do but it really isn't, a simple air fuelled coal fire will get hot hot enough to melt aluminum.

The crucible can be made of any metal that has a much higher melting point then aluminum, for example stainless steel is a good option. The crucible can mad from a think stainless steel water bottle. a large pair of pliers will work as crucible tongs.

The forge can be made out of a old paint can that is lined with a plaster and sand mixture. Aluminum cans will melt in this kind of forge.

I have tried this method of aluminum casting and it worked out grate for me, I used a paint can forge with stainless steel water bottle crucible. I made a "rambone" style slingshot if anyone was wondering.

I think making nerf parts with this method of casting would be very effective and would produce extremely durable parts. I will be attempting to cast a plunger head that fits a skirt seal, a +bow handle as well as a rainbow handle and pump handle

To showcase how simple and easy this casting proses can be here are some videos of some people with very crude materials and tools successfully using this method



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE40ZvEHRyw

Now a example of someone making something a little more detailed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhII8q4apiA


Hopefully you find this method of casting as interesting as I did.



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Very nice, when you have fabricated the parts please post pictures and the differences between a regular plunger head and a metal plunger head.

I have done the crayola mod on a Berserker before and it turned out great. I call it Ultra Rainbow... Taste the Rainbow.


I used some Dollar Tree markers. All I had to do was take apart the marker and stick it into the tubes and it worked. I just got a bunch of crayola markers from one of my son's friends and I did the same thing with them to another Berserker and the performance was sad. At first I thought that the Berserker was bad but when I put the Dollar Tree marker tubes in it works great like it should. I also took a drill and drilled out the ridges on the inside of the crayola markers and it helped some but not much.

Does anyone have any ideas as to what I am doing wrong, or what else I need to do to make it work with the crayola markers?

If you could post some close up photos along with internals, we could help. Make sure to check that everything is epoxied or glued completely.

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LGN

Some internal and close up pictures would really help. Make sure that everything is epoxied or glued completely.

Very nice, Can't wait until they are released. Thank you for this information. If your sepeculations are correct, mattel will have made their first flywheel blaster.

I saw one yesterday, in walmart when picking up some food. My local walmart was doing inventory though so that could have helped.