Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-30049823-20190909012121

So I picked up a Persuader that had a short hammer pull and weak mushy firing, and it was obvious what the problem was before opening it up.

The metal pin that all the force pivots against is embedded in a column protruding inward from the silly brittle clear-plastic window, and you could see by looking in the window that the column had "split/broken" and the metal pin had come out.

Opening it up, I could further see that rather than the other end of that metal pin being embedded into the outer shell, there was a crappy piece of orange plastic with two holes in the middle (for the hammer-pivot metal pin and trigger-pivot metal pin, respectively) and the outer ends of it INDIRECTLY attached to the outer shell.

This was either designed for manufacturing convenience or aesthetics, because it sure wasn't designed for durability or longevity!

Of course the orange piece was CRACKED from the force of the hammer-pivot metal pin coming loose on the other side and twisting out of position.

So I tried to salvage it first by dousing the hammer-pivot metal pin with super glue and shoving it all the way into the broken transparent column, to get as much strength as possible from the bits of the column that HADN'T broken away. Then I super-glued the crack in the orange piece that spans the metal pins and the pegs in the far-side outer shell.

Reassembled the thing, and TADA! it fires again. Not sure how long it'll last in that condition, though...

(I suppose I should've taken some pictures while it was apart, but here's what it looks like through the window now)

 