Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-29595756-20170704005316

I started working on my first Retalicon attempt today. I'm using my old Sonic Recon I got a while back because it was in really bad shape anyway. I opened it up and there was a family of dead spiders! Yuck! Not to mention lots of rust and cracked plastic bits from the priming slide. It really is true that transparent blasters are much weaker than opaque blasters because the shell was cracking with almost no effort (thankfully nothing important got cracked).

I had a spare set of Retaliator internals and really just a shell of a Recon so I decided to try out the famous Retalicon. It's not as hard as you might think getting the parts in and clearing the space for the internals was easy. The hard part is getting a way to have the spring in the right spot and being compressed. I managed to do this with an old Tek 6 plunger cut in half so that the plunger rod went through but the spring was stuck outside. The only problem with this is that all of the spring's power is being held by two little screws in the really weak plastic.

Performance wise it's not getting as great ranges as I wanted, only about 30 - 40 feet which is slightly less than a normal Recon. I'm not sure what I did wrong, maybe the spring is too weak, or there is a leak somewhere, or I didn't put enough lube. I'm not done yet and I hope to get at least 60 feet out of it otherwise it's not going to be effective in wars. It looks cool though!

 