Board Thread:Rumor discussion/@comment-43635041-20190827013857/@comment-27306930-20190918030017

Pedroh1999 wrote: Pretty sure you haven't noticed, but those darts are made out of strytofoam.

Elliott, tell us about how bad strytofoam would go when paired to high crush cages. I was wondering why the surface looked so weird. It's just molded styrofoam. Good catch Pedro 👍 You da man !

Ooof, styrofoam going through a high crush cage would just wreck the dart. Styrofoam has limited elasticity. At best, it would deform the shaft beyond the point of being usable again. The foam would get extruded between the flywheels and bulge out the sides. At worst, it would just turn it into a foam cheez doodle.

The other problem is heat. High crush and high RPM creates a lot of heat. Fortunately, Nerf polyurethane foam does not melt. That's why "dart burn" doesn't actually singe the shaft of Nerf darts. It just scrapes the surface and creates a lot of blue dust.

But styrofoam (aka Polystyrene Foam) melts at 464°F. Shooting them through a high crush cage might create a plastic goo that would foul the flywheels, or even better, shoot tiny strands of melted styrene out the barrel. Not sure for sure, but what a mess !

I'm guessing these styrofoam darts were meant for springers, not flywheel blasters like the so-called Ultra. Either that, or the Ultra shoots so slowly that temperature is not a problem. That's a bad sign.

In my opinion, I'm not sure the picture of the Ultra One is related to the picture of the styrofoam darts. They just don't go together. If I'm wrong please bookmark this thread and conveniently throw it back in my face at a later date 😉