Lucian

I'll be there. If anyone wants a spare bed to crash on within 10 minutes of the venue tomorrow night, get in touch!

More food for thought - it'd be really cool to start seeing people re-grip their blasters with drill handles. That way you wouldn't need fancy battery connectors and you could hot swap batteries just as quickly as you can change a mag.

Hey, long time no see! Welcome back friend! This is awesome work!

I'd encourage you to reconsider that priming mechanism - it looks like you'd be putting a lot of torque into the delrin rails as you prime? 

I'd recommend looking at how people have been priming Tornado Bows! 

In terms of aesthetics, probably this thing:

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Are you able to pump that thing while only holding the pump handle and pistol grip, or would that rip the tank away from the Nitefinder remnants? I think it looks great, it's a totally utilitarian blaster and I can see beauty in that! 

So as of late, I've been plagued with the issue of all of the hex nuts coming loose. I have a few ideas about making the experience of dealing with this easier. I'm thinking that you could use any of the following techniques - 

1) Fully embed one hex nut per threaded rod. See: http://solidutopia.c...-captive-parts/

2) Use a captured hex nut recession for one of the threaded rod's fasteners 

3) Threaded insert for one of the rod's fasteners??? I'd just be worried about the 3D printed part stripping and the insert eventually having nothing to bite into.

There's more reading on all this available at: https://www.fictiv.c...d-printed-parts

The hard part about any of this is that you need a way to keep the threaded rod from rotating during assembly. It's not the easiest thing to do, I'm considering adding a set screw or two where possible to help lock the rod in place. 

By securing one nut per rod, you gain the bonus of not needing two wrenches. If you can keep the threaded rod from rotating when you tighten the blaster up, you'd be able to disassemble & reassemble everything with just a Leatherman - to me that's a big added value.

What do you all think?