Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-27306930-20190101063039/@comment-27306930-20190102044404

Shredder is a CycloneShock that I adapted for Elite darts with a Worker barrel reducer kit, an O-ring upgrade, and a 9Kg spring. I also added some hardened steel to reinforce the "T" on the back of the plunger rod, which was actually a piece of an old Allen wrench. There's a thread around here somewhere all about it.

It's really tough on darts. I believe "abusive" is the right word. It regularly peels the tail end of Elite darts like an onion. If the bias of the foam is wrong, it takes giant wedges of foam out of the back end. Bottom line, it wrecks darts. It's also incredibly loud. It hurts my ears. I love it.

So I've used this blaster as a standard to measure dart toughness. If darts like the black RadEagles can survive 3 or 4 shots in Shredder, it gets a five star rating. By contrast, a genuine Nerf Elite can only survive one shot - the last half inch is reduced to oatmeal. Literally, just bits of foam loosely held together.

I guess Shredder is the definition of "tough love".