Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-27306930-20161007045648

So guys, there's these things called "Drain Blasters". You pump them up, add an attachment to the front, put in against your clogged drain, and pull the trigger. Presumably the high pressure blast dislodges your hairball, or whatever nastiness is in your drain, and voilà, you're back in business.

Welllllll, there are more than a few Nerfheads out there that put 1 and 1 together and got 5. If you thought an XBZ with a plugged overpressure valve was intense, wait till you get your hands on one of these babies. This video stinks because it doesn't catch the incredible sound, or give you a sense of the speed. But holy cannoli !

I used a Rad Eagle, one of the toughest darts in my toolbox, for the first firing tests. Awesome ! Then I took this video of test #2. Spectacular ! I did one additional test. Total flop. Wait, what ?

Upon inspection, it blasted through the outer wall of the dart. Blew it apart. Total .. catastrophic .. failure. I don't pretend to know what the pressure gradient must have been, but I didn't pump up the Drain Blaster nearly as much as I could have. I figured twenty pumps was enough for initial testing.

So it's off to the skunk works to figure out an integration that can harness this incredible power. Mojo and I have our thinking caps on. Glass ceiling ? What glass ceiling ? 