Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-27306930-20160504192955

For a while I've been wondering what's been chewing up my Nerf darts. I finally narrowed it down, and it's this bad boy that's doing the damage. This is my Cyclone with the 7Kg spring and reduced barrels. I think all that air pressure at the back of the cylinder is blowing apart my darts.

There are two distinct types of damage occurring. Wedges of foam are getting sliced off the tail end of the darts. Most times I can't even find the missing piece. But it looks like there's a bias in the foam, because the pieces are cleanly ripped off and usually wedge shaped.

The second type of damage is more interesting. The darts are delaminating, peeling like an onion in rings from the core to the outside wall of the dart. I will attempt to get a clear pic later. I'd be interested if anyone else is having this problem.

So far I've been able to use a little Plumbers Goop to repair most darts. But now I have a new side project - figure out how to better protect the darts in that Cyclone (frowny emoticon here). 