To make reloading a bit easier, maybe you could try putting a torsion spring on the hinge that opens the breech. That way, when you unlock the breech, it simply opens up on its own. Just a suggestion though
what!!!!! P.S. you might use a cut up clothespin to make the lock as a button, some cutting by hand, and pieces of wood and you would have a button in no time.
Captain Xavier Spiffy adapter, Cap'n. Did you, by chance, try double-loading each chamber with half-darts? A few weeks back Make.Test.Battle. did a video where they used that trick quite successfully on an upgraded Hammershot, allowing it to fire each chamber twice before reloading. If you could get TWO shots per cylinder, this beast would be just that much cooler. On the subje t of other adapters: Could you make an absolver that can fire a stack of five or so Vortex disks per shot? You should be able to make shells from ABS or PVC with your Dremel and some glue easily enough, but I don't know how well they'd fire in groups... The performance might not justify the work involved. I never spent any real time with Vortex blasters, so I just don't know. Unrelated, but equally important: Thanks for the assist finding those parts, Cap'n. They are going to make possible a couple body mods for a cosplay load-out which I was starting to think were just a pipe dream. There will be a thank-you package in the mail around the second week of January. (I'd send it sooner, but some of what's going in said package won't be ready until after the Wife and I take our holiday trip.)
My first thought when you started talking about Beret was "Have you thought about pulling the dart pegs from a shell to see how it will shoot 10 half-darts in one burst to make an anti-beret specialty shell?" Might it work like a bird shot shell, smaller pellets that scatter more but don't go as far? If you make half-darts from different dart stock wouldn't they have different flight characteristics? Would elites scatter more than others? Do the games you go to allow homemade darts? The yellow cylinder foam ear plugs shoot pretty far in stock form and are about 1/3 dart length. They use a high density foam for mass/weight and tumble through the air for more scattering effect. They'r too expensive for use as ammo but serve as inspiration. If you made short slugs with the weight in the middle you should get similar aerodynamic properties. And 15 scattering pellets should be hard to dodge. I'm pretty sure the reason MTB's two shots per chamber trick worked was the 3D printed cylinder had too much 'barrel drag' for two half-darts to overcome. (That's likely not going to work with a stock cylinder.)
This...This is truly magnificent. Thank you. Speaking for the community you have made something that we thought we didn't need, but little did we know we do need it. Thank you.
Good one Cap. I Love this so much. I think the only improvement would be a rotating latch to close the "breech" like a bolt action rifle lock instead of the slide latch.
would you be able to get a few mega hammershot cylinder? a four round mega cylinder could be chambered, fired, and then a hammershell could be chambered.
I have a crazy idea but not sure if it would work. Simply it would be the smallest flywheel blaster. Being nothing by a flywheel cage, battery pack, and optional grip. Even better if the batteries fit in the grip. It wouldn’t be practical but silly at least
Have you considered an M203 underbarrel launcher? Spring loaded open and either an compressor (like Eir has) or possibly a springer that is primed as it is closed. Maybe it could shoot Sledgfire shells or a small rocket. Or both.
And on a side note, has anyone made a blaster with a system that lets you use Rival Magazines's springfed system in a breech? Totally do-able with an Apollo handle, just needs a bit of work to make a proper looking/working pump!
I wonder if anything can be done to make the darts spread more. The best I can think of is a lump of hot glue on the hammershot cylinder that pushes the nose of the dart out from the centre slightly.
A 6-10 round pump action drum magazine that uses the same hammershot cylinders. Might have to have more air tanks or pumps to maintain the increased rate of fire. You could change the latch to go the other way. Instead of the spring loaded part being on the front, put it on the back. You can then spring load the swinging arm. When you pull the lever, it'll spring open. You reload it and then push it closed.
Another great addition! Loving your work keep it up For an idea: you probably have already either thought or heard this before (sorry if so but I haven't heard it yet) but you should make an attachment for some of those stomp rocket toys some have a helicopter blades and some have a soft foam tip and some have a little glider side stage and some are gliders themselves. Wouldn't it be cool to launch a glider and tag some one out like that?
I’m not sure if you’ve done it yet but sticking the front portion of the sledgefire on that would give you a shell ejecting system for sledgefire shells and you’d probably get better range since it’s only three darts.
What's the volt? Consider using cordless tool batteries, 12V or 18V maybe. Cut up a cheap drill like a Ryobi and you'll have a perfect battery hold too.
Hmm, ideally you would want a button like a shotgun break. I'm having trouble finding a button latch that would fit the needs. How about a cupboard twist latch? One that would auto latch on close, but to open you just need to twist the handle. This would prevent the need to break focus down range to properly index the bolt lock. All while giving you a larger handle for both unlocking the chamber, and opening it.
Sweet! that's quite magnificent. As for ideas, how about a clip system, similar to the mag strike, only it takes hammershot cylinders, and you manually push down the clip after each shot while the pump reloads? similar in concept I guess, but even less loading! Might not be that easy to make though...
do you know anyone around you who knows how to weld? I think if you had a flat piece of metal where that ball was it would be much easier to push forward.... also you could have them make it whatever size you wanted.
fookin neat mate, its like the Lightning Blitz from my childhood actually grew up and became something useful after being bullied for being a loser for all those years!
Hmmm, i figured using the fulcrum of the lever would be enough to easily snap them apart since the force of the shot would be going forward while the action of reloading would be going to the side, using the lever and require less force. Maybe if you continued the bars forward beyond the barrel for an inch or two as a sort of reloading handle would let you have more force on the fulcrum for pulling apart but still letting you use strong enough magnets that it stays together for the shot. That way your hand will already be in front of the barrel to push the clip out too.
On your bolt have you tried welding a piece of metal the length that you want they have this welding puddy that welds metal together that I think you should try.
Do you think you could make it even smaller, like a M203 Grenade Launcher? It would be really cool if you could mount it onto a NStrike weapon or any Nerf gun with Tac Rails.
I have an idea for an attachment. So if you have a cycloneshock cylinder or maybe a rotofury cylinder, you could use some pvc pipe placed inside each place in the cylinder, with the same inner diameter as rival rounds. Then place 5 or so balls in each tube and place the cylinder on a spindle of some kind mounted just below the mazooka so that one tube seals with the mazooka at at time. Then after each shot, manually rotate the cylinder to get the next tube ready to fire. 6 shot rival shotgun revolver with 5+ rounds per shot. Lovely. If the back of each tube is exposed you could rear load balls as you go so you never run out of ammo loaded
Adapter idea: so I just took apart a magstrike for the air bladder because it's impossible to find Titans, or an XBZ, but anyways I got an idea for u. Could u possibly make an adapter that uses a clip like the magstrike or a boomco blaster. That way u could use it as a machine gun as well
Crazy idea, taper an attachment outward and widen it to take lawbringer cylinders, perhaps? If nothing else you can always shove a 3d printed 8 shot hammershot round in the rig you have I had a similar notion with the cylinder for the mega cycloneshot
There is a really good latch for this too tired right now but I'll try to draw it uptomorrow if i cant find a version of it basicly its 2 pins and a spring loaded T lever. PS magnets as many have mentioned would work as well but may be inconsistent to open. PPS love the attachment wish I had the setup to play around with this stuff and the time.
+flamecastello magmets will not work. Any magnet that is strong enough to withstand the pressure would be hard to force open. It needs to be a mechanical lock.
Mmm good point, well kid is off to school so I guess time to do a little crappy drawing and see if I can search out the latch/clasp I was talking about.
Captain X, i have 2 ideas for you. #1) a while back you made a rotating sledgefire shell revolver... thing for a drain blaster barricade. why not make something like that for this? and #2) Are you insane enough to try using cyclone shock cylinders to make a mega shotgun and make a breech for that?
*M320 is H&K's grenade launcher. The M203 is an older type of under-slung 'nade launcher. The M230 is the chain gun on the AH-64 Apache. I know what y'all are going to say... "NERD!!!" Now you don't have to.
Since you may have to re-drill the holes on the side anyway, you could use a longer barrel, and cut a hole in the bottom for your finger to punch the cylinder out. This would also give you space for an orange tip.
Try creating a smart-AR you can shove in the barrel so you don't have to reload it after each shot. Alternatively, you could hook it up to a pneumatic sidearm so you don't have to pump either one.
Dub it "The Hamcannon", been working on a break action drop cylinder hammershot and funny enough last night I decided to make it sideways break action, this helps with trying to attempt to get it completed
Id love to see you build an x-strike Sledgefire if you havent already. the internals are stupidly strong, and ive had a c836 and the stock spring in it with no issues. i need to get a second one so i can conduct science with a 30kg+ sledgefire instead of my 24ish one.
What about a attachment that uses Legend Fire shells (9 rounds with about the same size ), to plug up the hole you could put some thing like epoxy in the middle of the central hole so it STILL WORKS in the blaster
What if next you made some sort of clip fed hammershot cylinder loading attachment that either manually ratchets through or if you can automatically ratchets through. Something like in fallout 4 with the 3 round missile clip? And then maybe go a step further and make the clip removable with extra clips??!?!?!?!?!???! Someone of your talents and expertise should be able to make this work with enough research?? This thing in my mind would turn out absolutely sick!!!
A simple pump would work if you cut a piece of pvc tubing so that it opens the breech essentially on the backward pump your shell would drop on the forward a new shell would drop in run the mag as a vertical magazine with a wood block and thermaband assistance similar to how theslingshotchannel do their repeater stuff
