User blog:Greenduck/A Common problem of nerf blaster five years old and older

When a muzzle fed nerf blaster, or IX or EX, reaches around five years old the dart may pop out of the barrel. It can prove vary, vary anoying. This happend with my Hyperfire, dated 2005, and my two Nite Finders, both dated 2004. It didn't completely pop out of the muzzle, mind you, but out enough for the gun to lose almost all its air pressure, making the dart fly a whopping two feet. I considered replacing them because it was so bad, I couldn't fight with them! But instead I desited to try fixing it. I removed the air restricters to one my Nite Finders, so I was familar with the internals. Then I found a small disk with three fork like spikes on it behind where the air restricters would have been. Behind that was a small spring. I figured that over time, this spring will become lose and will push the spikes from the disk through the holes in the air restricters, intern pushing the dart out of the barrel. It not only fixed the problem, but it also increased the air pressure!

I also was abel to do this to my Hyperfire, it was easy because it was also a muzzle loader and had a similar firing system.

I hope this will help you make your older Nerf blaster act like new again!

-Strategist Greenduck's The Nerfgunsmith