Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-26431461-20190527025325

Managed to pick up a broken RoughCut and broken SlingFire at my local thrift shop. I'm glad I found the RoughCut because I need the parts to fix my friend's other RoughCut, which has stripped gears (yeah I could have 3D printed it, but I don't have a 3D printer).

The RoughCut was not in good shape at all. The priming handle was stuck in the rear (strangely the plungers aren't primed, which is good, yet I'm questioning how that happened). All the screw ports were rusted and most of them were stripped. The shell has been yellowed and scratched. I opened it up and found a dead bug which probably suffocated in the grease (and its body was mangled probably because it was lying right next to the priming mechanism. Oof). Basically, it's seen better days, assuming it has lived through good days.

I was able to remove most of the screws, but one of them was stripped too much and couldn't be unscrewed, so I just drilled it out of the shell. I guess that kinda ruins any hope of using this shell for anything else, although it was only one screw port, and I'm not sure what I would use the shell for anyway (plus, as I said, the shell wasn't in good shape, although a nice paint job could do the trick).

Thankfully the gear was intact, especially since the screw I needed to destroy was right next to it.

Oh yeah and the RoughCut came with 2 Long Distance Darts, which weren't in good shape.

The SlingFire kind of works, but the lever starts to gum up when priming. I'm gonna need to look into that. 