Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-27306930-20161015033811

Well, it happened again. "Shredder" my tuned up CycloneShock had problems priming, and the handle started having issues returning to its forward position. Déjà vu anyone ??? I suspected I cracked a post on the plunger rod again. After forensic examination the damage is worse than originally suspected. Both posts. Toasted !

Time to grab a CS out of inventory and harvest some parts. But I got to thinking, what could I use to replace the crappy pot-metal reinforcement rod in the end of the plunger ? After pawing through my collection of random parts, the strongest thing I could find was an old Allen wrench. They're incredibly hard and extremely strong. So I hammered out the crappy metal rod from a brand new plunger, drilled out the hole with a 7/64th drill bit, cut an Allen wrench to the same length, then tapped it back into the plunger. Voilà ! As Oscar Goldman said, "Better, stronger, faster."

Put the whole thing back together and it's working better than ever. And if my intuition is right, I'm never gonna have this problem again.

Plus the good new. Allen wrench is 10¢. CycloneShock is down to $13 on Prime. And I got another spring, a plunger head, and an O-ring as a bonus from the sacrificial blaster.

Wasn't a bad day after all, was it 😉 