Silly

Great work. 

Hey everyone, long time no see. NH feels like the perfect place to share this new project of mine:

 

 

 

 

 

This is going to be my attempt at making a "modernized" version of the ESLT mechanism. 

 

 

 

For those who (somehow) don't know about the ESLT, here's the most recent thread about the blaster: http://nerfhaven.com...6-instructions/

 

 

 

My "modernization" of the design aims to keep the same aesthetic and roots as the original, while improving on durability, printability, sourcing of parts, and bringing in a bunch of modern quality-of-life features. A lot of stuff has been learnt (collectively by the community) in the more than 10 years since the original ESLT.

 

Currently planned or implemented features/improvements:

• Updated more modern hardware standards that are easier to source from modern hobby shops (OutOfDarts, SilverFoxIndustries, etc)
• More durable printed parts
• Better printability
• Better air seal
• Ability to swap between Talon mag feeding or Hopper feeding
• Quick barrel swapping and better barrel retention
• More comfortable stock and grip
• More reliable catch mechanism
• Lighter trigger pull
• Improved pump grip, and several pump grip options to choose from (Picatinny rail, original style, modernized angled grip)
• Easier swapping between extension spring and latex/elastic setups (also possibly compatibility with "normal" compression springs such as [k25] or 788)
• Sturdier overall build quality
• Lighter
• Adjustable stock / length of pull
• etc etc etc

 

These changes should be relatively easy to pull off with modern techniques, while still keeping the original soul of the design, both aesthetically and mechanically. 

 

 

I don't plan to update this thread as often as I do on Reddit/YouTube/Discord, but expect an update every few months or so until the design is finished.

-Sillybutts

I told you this on your Reddit thread already, but we all appreciate you making this post. It clearly was difficult to write. I’ve wondered where Ryan ended up for years, it is very sad to hear this news. 

I am actually separately working on (brainstorming right now) a pump action 95 Crossbow, but it won't be this front-tube design. It will be a standard back-prime with priming bars internal (external if I can't make them fit) that go to a loop around the priming bar at the back. Still brainstorming though.

Front-primed 1995 Kenner Crossbow

 

Extra internals pics: https://imgur.com/a/PixWTVO

 

 

 

 

 

Imgur album here with more internal pictures: https://imgur.com/a/PixWTVO

 

This is a project I started concept art for in 2019, but never actually started work on until May of this year.

 

This blaster works via a front-primed plunger tube & plunger, with a bent barrel and sealed end that redirects air to shoot out of the stock 1995 Crossbow's barrel area. I used a widened Kronos catch with a 2nd catch spring, and a lever/linkage bar system to activate the catch. The linkage bar goes back to a polycarb trigger.

 

This blaster is getting ~150 fps out of an 8 inch CPVC barrel with 2/3 of a [k25].

 

If (when) I do this mod again, I will most likely use a Rainbow catch to use a [k26], perhaps a wider plunger tube, and probably integrate a brass breech onto the top (maybe with a 3d printed cover/casing/spacer?) instead of just a 1/2in PVC/CPVC coupler.

{Before note: Typing this out on an iPad so please forgive any mistakes}

Hello.

I have been studying CaptainSlug's Caliburn homemade, how nerf clip fed blasters work, and how we could make a clip fed nerf crossbow.
Several people will say "we dont need this" and "this isnt an improvement", and they may be right. However heres what I put to them: Imagine a 35 round drum in a 95 crossbow. I dont know about you, but I think that would be at the least cool, if not badass.

There is certainly more then a few problems with getting a clip onto this icon, so lets list them step by step.

1. priming and dart stop: The crossbow and all of the homemade internals ive seen are pull back and fire, not pull back, push fowards, then fire like current mag/clip fed nerf blasters. (Original Picture credit to Slug)
This is what I propose:



2. structural support: I was thinking we could use the stock barrel's leftover "scope" as structural support by sticking a long rod (heh) into it from the magazine mech, overnthe top of the blaster (as shown above by that big pink stick on the top of the blaster)

3. Acessing the mechanism to make repairs: there is no doubt that this idea would need an occasional fix. We could use screws if we wanted, or maybe we could use one screw then the whole thing comes off the crossbow. Advice needed on this.

4. Materials and production via a guide: I was thinking delrin, aluminum, or ploycarb for the case of the inner mechanism. However I dont have experience in deciding materials, so advice needed here too.

This whole project is in the design phase, not in the prototype phase yet. So any advice/input/help is thanked and will be looked into.

Total size:



Thanks!
-silly

Also, less spaces in your post please. Less space is a lot better for the eyes.

#StampedePure!

I would use rapidstrike for compact and power, hyperfire for lobbing a bucket of darts, and brute for idk because I don't have one.