Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-27306930-20170806043029/@comment-24743922-20170808003600

OHOHO! GUESS, AS A MECHANICAL TECHNICIAN, IT'S MY TIME TO SHINE!

Well, it's more because the materials can be reused from other mods and it is easier to work with brass tubing when it is about trimming the barrel to fit a custom flywheel cage.

A quick search told me that brass flywheel blasters have better accuracy, but at expense of range. This is why it is only done on heavily modded blasters- with RC drone motors and stuff, you know? Where there is so much power you need to downgrade the blaster to keep it reliable.

Think of it as a car muffler. It does make the engine less efficient, but when the engine has a high power displacement, it makes no difference- or makes the engine more reliable.