Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-38565009-20200515154725/@comment-30049823-20200515171123

SpyBoxOnline wrote: What is padding the plunger? That generally just means "glue a little felt cushion to the head of the plunger".

The AR slows the plunger down with backpressure when you dry-fire it. But if you upgrade the spring and REMOVE the AR, when you dry-fire it the plunger SLAMS into the base of the plunger tube at the end with massive force, and BREAKS SH1T. (maybe not right away, but eventually).

The padding/cushion just softens the blow.