Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-26431461-20170720215427

This is an unnecessarily complicated guide on how to make a Roughcut masterkey using a Retaliator/Recon barrel. Pictures are numbered for their respective steps.

1. Get a Roughcut. and open it up.

 2. Gut it. The good news is that the Roughcut internals all come out in one piece, other than the tactical rail lock and sling hooks. WARNING: Roughcut guts very greasy.

3. Remove the trigger spring. You don't need it.

4. Put the two empty shells together. I suggest clamping or taping them together.

5. Cut off these parts using hacksaw or bandsaw or any other existing form of saw (difficulty varies and is based on what saw you use).

6. Get Retaliator barrel and open it up. Watch out for pieces under spring pressure.

6. Gut it (you don't need to, I just chose to in case the drill destroys anything important).

7. Put the two empty shells together. Again, I suggest taping or clamping.

8. Line up the lifeless Roughcut corpse and the lifeless barrel corpse in the exact way it is meant to look like. The picture doesn't have the cut off parts because the Roughcut in the pic isn't actually the one I used. I'm just using them for proof of concept.

9. Here's the tricky part. You can use a pencil or Sharpie (preferable choice if painting because it gets covered. I guess you can also use rubbing alcohol to remove it after you're done) to mark the parts you want to have a hole drilled in. Make sure both marks are aligned exactly.

10. mark some circles on the top of the rails where the holes are meant to be. These aren't exactly where I wanted them. Use your own judgement.

11. Drill the holes. i suggest putting a piece of tape on the rail while drilling so you have an exact template for the other rail. Again, not the actual placement of the holes (Remember kids, drills are dangerous so be careful. Safety third).

12. Find 3 pairs of nuts and screws roughly the same diameter of the hole.

13. Do this. Make sure they are tightened.

14. Put back the guts. Put back the internals of the Roughcut first with the bolts hanging on, and then put on the barrel.

<p style="font-weight:normal;">15. You're done. If you did it right it should look like mine (probably even better than mine).

<p style="font-weight:normal;">NOTE: This will only fit a Stryfe. If you want it to fit on other blasters, I suggest making the Roughcut a bit more foreward or cutting off a bit more plastic. <ac_metadata title="HOW 2 MASTERKEY"> </ac_metadata>