Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-30049823-20190629025547/@comment-30049823-20190629031427

Another #tacticheap thrift store find that seemed to be jammed-up, and the thumb safety didn't really want to move and I didn't want to break it, so I opened 'er up.

The only "gotchas" to worry about when reassembling are the 2-way-sprung spinny orange ratchet tooth in front of the trigger, and the interlocking sliding doors on the underside of the slide.

The orange thing under the back side of the white mainspring backstop is the release that the trigger slides back and pushes upwards; it's snapped together with its small spring inside, so that won't come apart unless you take further measures to disassemble that in particular.

When you rack the slide, it pulls the BIG outer orange cylinder backwards about an inch, and then the light-orange bits grab the inner cylinder that has the curved ball reservoir attached, and brings that along for the ride for the next inch. This lets a ball into the breech. (See "half-cocked")

The next half-inch of slide pull locks the plunger in place, lets the ratchet spin counterclockwise again, which allows you to return the slide to the forward position and jam the ball into the chamber.

The curved ball reservoir is rather clever and unique; there's an internal rotary-sprung "toilet lid" that swings down into it and pushes the balls back out. (It's not a fully-closed tube, there's a slot in the middle of the inside edge along its entire length)

In spite of there being a screw missing from mine, there was nothing wrong with it; I was just being too timid with the thumb safety. Just shove that sucker UPWARDS with all your might to snap it into firing position. The down position, rather unintuitively, is the SAFE position, and locks the trigger. >8-P