Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-3362895-20151227044830/@comment-27306930-20151228182239

Funny you should ask. I repaired all but one CS-35 drum. And that was my fault. Note to self: Don't pull the spring all the way out of the mech, it won't go back.

One had a bent axle. How that happened I'll never know, but I straightened and lubed it and it's fine. One was completely covered with sharpie by some young man who thought it looked "cooler" to have Tron symbols all over it. The shell of that one went in the garbage. Let's just say we agree to disagree about what it means to be "cool" ;-)

The others all had bent pusher rods. When kids store their darts in the drum, the plastic pusher deforms over time and becomes severely curved, then it binds at the point where the drum meets the clip. The last 6 or 7 darts don't want to come out, and in general the whole thing performs poorly.

You just disassemble, pull out the pusher and clamp it to the edge of a table. Use a hair dryer on High to soften the pusher and straighten it. Doesn't have to be perfect. Let it hang there till it cools. I also put some additional weight on it and let gravity do the work. Throw a blob of white lithium grease on the axel. Reassemble. Good as new.

Let me see if I can capture a video.