Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-3362895-20170709105825/@comment-27306930-20170710232904

Don't mean to butt in, but at some point during the production of the yellow Nite Finder EX-3 they started thermobonding the plunger tube. The early ones, prior to ≈2006, were all held together with simple pressure fittings. The thermobonded EX-3s can be boiled and pulled apart with little or no damage to the plunger tube assembly.

However, at some point around ≈2012 they started solvent welding the plunger assembly. Those variants cannot be boiled apart. The solvent essentially welds the barrel, AR, and plunger into one solid component. Those have to be sawed apart and reassembled using hot glue or epoxy weld.

At this point I think it's a crap shoot, especially with the yellow N-Strike edition. You may get a thermobonded variant, or you might get a solvent welded version. The older variants are invariably pressure fitted, which is excellent for modding.

Hope that helps.