Sometimes I feel like if there weren't a terms of service you'd somehow make a video where the entirety of some continent was destroyed by a nerf explosion you made for a video
All he would have to do is move the magazine well to the top of the blaster. The Owen already has a foregrip too, so don't need to add anything extra there.
The hobby's been doing that since the early 2000s. Only instead of janky hardware store builds, reminiscent to what Matt is making on this channel, most is 3D printed... Infact, that vast majority of blaster at large scale events are almost exclusively made by some guy with CaD software and a 3D printer.
I remember watching the first vid and thinking “this guy is getting to places”. Your growth has been insane Matt, and you fully deserve it! Very inspiring
Brilliant video, as usual. Well worth the wait. I really appreciate your clear and entertaining explanation of your process, even keeping in little mishaps without making them overly dramatic. Hope you had fun working on this project!
I love the Sten and the Sterling, and this is awesome! Also, yours is more similar to the Sterling given the curved magazine and pistol grip (still great)
That's cause our firing mechanisms are dramatically different than that of a firearm. Though bolt/bolt sleds are a thing depending on the feeding mechanism.
I'd love for you to investigate optimal barrel length, A longer barrel should in theory give more accuracy, and depending on how much air is being used to blast the dart could give extre velocity to it, but there would also be extra friction from the extra length? finding the shortest barrel that still gives good performance would make these builds just look a lot cooler and could make for a nice video
@@dogdog357 so that would lead to the pressure generated by the mechanism to be equal to atmospheric pressure, and so would put as much energy into the dart as possible, but that would require a really big barrel, and as the difference in volume gets smaller you would have significant diminishing returns, AND that's ignoring friction from the barrel, cutting the barrel in half would reduce the energy put into the dart by half (if the barrel starts at equal in volume to the air chamber), but would decrease the friction experienced by the dart significantly. A barrel of equal volume to the main air chamber would be the largest barrel worth testing as going beyond that would definitely reduce performance
@@DoubleDiamondBack2 rifling definitely does increase the accuracy more than just a longer barrel, but a longer barrel could still contribute to greater accuracy as a result of higher velocity, a reduction in the results of the turbulence of the launching mechanism or any remaining pressure when the dart leaves the barrel
I don't know if you have any interest in the firearms world, but your thought process on designing and building these blasters is solid. I was honestly waiting for a plug for Sonoran Desert Institute for gunsmithing. No, not a bad thing, just an engineering thought.
Awesome job! It does seem like it would be very easy to double feed the rounds if you forgot you already pumped it and theres a lot of wasted energy with a pusher that long too. I love how simple the mechanism is too, in theory, it would be very reliable for a very long time so long as it stays out of the weather lol. Can't wait for your next project though.
I love matt's blasters ngl. Its not pretty (actl it is but), it doesnt have any tactics, but it has smoothness and reliability. And thats what we need.... I got to try to make this one day.
Please put a spring to make the grip and all of the sliding mechanism biased forwards. It is pain full seeing you having to over shoot with the amount of power you push it with to finish sealing the barrel and the gun aiming down when ever you do that and almost flies out of your hand. If you added a spring or just a really strong band to bias the sliding mechanism forward it would be much more wieldable and way easier to keep your aim steady. By making it having elastic power you can let it go in the end and it will finish doing the loading your arm would be much less tiered my man.
If you put a small sorbuthane pad on your plunger, you won't need to fear it smacking forward as much. Pretty common mod on airsoft. You may already know about it. Also, if you had the tings of the "fork" mounted to the pushrod, you could have the pump grip move between them in a way that minimizes travel of the pushrod. Like the stops on a mill table.
Very cool! Something I'd like to see next time would be a trigger that isnt rotating around a pivot but instead moving horizontally. In my experience with real and knock off nerf guns, that can make the real ones feel a lot nicer
Its actually pump action. Semi-Automatic actions work the action well Semi-automatically which is to say without having to manually cycle. He could try to make a direct gas impingement or piston driven semi auto however that would take a lot of engineering because I doubt that thing generates enough pressure.
I've been wanting a nerf sideloader for sooo long. The only one i found so far was the nerf modulus ghost ops evader or smething like that but it is rare to find nowadays.
I love your design. Its so perfectly sculpted to and simple. For example your dart pusher was brilliant. Was this blaster the first one you drew on paper or did you go through lots of trial and error?
This rocks. Can I suggest that you make one that works like a deLisle carbine? It was a bolt action firearm with integral suppressor that was super quiet and fired .45 ACP rounds. Intended for commandoes and the like. It would be perfect for a nerf weapon!
imagine if the pump action not only primed the cylinder at the back and drew air into the space ahead of it... but actually pressurized (added to) that air from its own volume, made into a lil 2nd-stage pump
Nerf: *Makes popular children’s toy* Adult Nerf Enthusiasts: “MAKE IT FASTER.” Nerf: … Nerf Enthusiasts: *Make blasters that straddle the boundary between toy gun and less-lethal weapon*
I look away for 5 minutes and he's gone from making his own nerf guns to making his own extremely high quality nerf guns. If you keep evolving at this rate, you'll have a firearms company called "Yuan Armaments" or something like that before the end of 2025.
I love your videos. Although jet engines and boats and all of those diy's are pretty cool, keeping it so simple like this makes it feel like i could do it and more importantly you don't have to work yourself to death to get content out in a reasonable time. Healthy youtuber is the best kind of youtuber! Keep up the good work! ❤
I just realized you can just half-cock the gun to load multiple darts into the tube before shooting, which would probably block the airflow given the the way the feeding works lol
I like how stupidly simple you've kept your channel thumbnail and most of your videos over your time on youtube. You explain everything easy enough for anyone with basic knowledge about how physics and machines work to understand, and don't oversaturate every video with ear destroying music and overcomplicated art, while also keeping the content from turning into what I could only describe as "there is a video in my ads" like some people do. Love the content, keep it up. Edit: Fixed some bad grammar and wordplay on my part.
Great video man! Noob question, if one wanted to make a given blaster more powerful, lets say this one. Is spring power more important or the volume of air that is compressed?
