Board Thread:Questions and answers/@comment-27306930-20160207025205/@comment-27306930-20160215031819

Curiously, I got no responses to my post. Hmmm, I don't think I'm going to read too much into that. But one question. Was calling you guys "NerfHeads" going too far ??? ;-)

In any event, I disassembled my EXDAT and discovered that this piece is in fact part of the Air Restrictor system. It's hard to figure out exactly what this piece was doing, but somehow it held the AR open until the plunger hit bottom. And it appears to have provided the base for the dart post.

When it dislodged and fell out of the barrel, the AR was effectively closed, and the blaster essentially stopped shooting darts. Despite my respect for Hasbro's engineers and their masterful use of Air Restrictors in modern blasters, I was forced to remove the rest of the AR to get the EXDAT to function again.

So the bottom line is the EXDAT works great again. It's louder. Way louder. Arguably, I've lost a little accuracy. Darts seem to fly all over the place now. But hey, life is a series of trade-offs, isn't it ? So my love affair continues ...