NightFinder Mod - Lethal Injection

Hello fellow Nerfers and Servulus (He's not just a Nerfer owns a Vulcan) and phuonguyen. today I will be writing a mod I did a couple days ago after I had "broken" (What you tell parents so they don't think your purposely breaking it) my NightFinder. The barrel had broken after a failed AR Removal then after opening up the gun, I saw it was a bigger problem then I first thought, the plunger tube had cracked where the AR was.

First I grabbed some piping I had found around the house(don't know what kind it is) and cut it down to size. Then I began to think of how I wanted the barrel to look so I thought "Injections hurt and needles are cool". I put a shitload of epoxy (2-part, 3 day cure) On the plunger tube and and the top and then the barrel.




So I began my Mod Mission.




On to the plunger rod, I doubled o-ringed and lubed it up. (still have yet to add e-tape, what doe sit even do? if it creates a seal, what re the or-rings for?)

But i think the most important mod I did to the plunger tube was adding a small steel washer to the hole where the AR used to be in the plunger tube 'top bit'. This, IMO, allowed from a more acute stream of air.


So the I tested my "Lethal Injection" without a spring on the catch or the pull-back. This worked extremely well (How can it fail) so I tried a Tek 10 spring and it wouldn't catch so I added and average size pen spring and it caught every time.Now i wanted some spring that was more beefy so my Dad and I went out to get a c-836 (Stafford, Bunnings, They are very bad at stocktaking), but to no avail. Eventually my Dad went to Carseldine and got me one.



I immediately opened her up and chucked it in and began firing. Anyone notice I did not have to cut any coils off. I loaded a streamline and it didnt even leave the barrel. =/. So I got up the courage and shot myself in the face, and I found my problem. the piping I had found had too large and ID for the dart, so I got thinking, the NightFinder barrel was a perfect fit for the dart. i cut some of and tried shoving it into my barrel...........but it was too big. I grabbed my file and started shaving it down until it fit perfectly and not air could escape out the sides. I shot it (Streamline) Parallel/Flat to the ground and the dart went upwards, It Went Upwards!!! (30cm away from the ceiling).



I then went to my mates house and we had some fun with it and I said a small bottle on his table and thought "Hmmm, that would cool on my gun, as it could be the liquid for the injection". and I soon saw My gun was too big for that bottle, so I went about minimising it. I cut off a fair amount of the gun narrowly missing the plunger tube. I asked my dad if we had any epoxy putty or the likes and he said "Yes". I got of this weird putty (Small dabs of yellows on the inside of a white body, covered in a layer of brown/Very hard to mix). And filled in the gaps, but I ran out so I now need to fill in some more and make it smoother.




Now all I need to do is attach that bottle.

All comments & critiscism welcome and apreciated. Also any recommendations.

Ranges
PTG | ATG
26.5m | 33m
26.5m | 33.5m
24m | 35.5m
27.5m | 32.5m
25m | 34m
24.5m | 33m

Average | Average
25.5m | 33.5m

Its kinda hard to understand what you have done. Is it just a barrel replacement or have you made a homemade plunger tube?

@ShootEmUp
I have done a barrel replacement but since it worked I have then also modified the gun and now it's a beast, so I decided to do a writeup.

Cutting the barrel on an angle decreases the range and there is no point having the 2 extra coils on the spring as they only make it harder to prime and give no real advantage to the blaster.
Thirdly, why is this in its own thread? Its nothing more than a modded NF.

Every other mod write-up I've seen had its own thread. So why can't mine?

Because we've all seen it before, and its not rocket science to do a barrel replacement.

- Jacob.

It's not just a barrel replacement, its how to fix your NF after its broken, and make it better. And you haven't seen anything exactly like this before have you?

Yes, unfortunately we have. Apart from the slanted barrel its standard stuff. By no means is your nitefinder crap, but it just doesn't need an entire thread to explain what you've done (or if you think you do then people don't care enough). In future just post in the pictures thread. This one needs to be locked however, no one is actually complementing/ giving constructive criticism

All it needs is a paintjob then any local 3yr old will wet their pants.
Nice mod and nice ranges but what's the accuracy with a stefan.