Board Thread:General Nerf discussion/@comment-3362895-20160718210309/@comment-3362895-20160719002210

Testing update:

Diatron works. Sideways priming bar is an oddity. It's a bit noisome to load the ten discs of advertised capacity; you can really only load eight in a row, prime the blaster, and then stuff in the last two. So really it's 8+2. Five double shots, with no discernible way to split them (à la RoughCut).

Simon Swipe needs three AA batteries. It wasn't behaving properly, so I tested the existing cells and found two subpar. A-OK now; should be fun once I figure out basic navigation.

Expand-a-Blast was really built around micro darts, and as such will not fire Elites more than three or four feet. If I plug a length of CPVC into the unsprung barrel and load an Elite into the front, I'll get ten feet. But then when you unfold the foregrip and the barrel extends, there's another measure of dead space added. I think I can work at it to improve performance a little, but I can't be too optimistic. Air tank candidate?

Blast Fire will only fire the topmost of five dart chambers. Can't decide whether this is due to glitch or design. Then again, this too was built around micro darts. The chambers are too tight to accept CPVC pipe, so I may have to resort to brass.

Firefly seems not to like firing Elites, ACC's or FVJ's as they all stick out a little too far and catch on a support structure near the muzzle. It will fire Buzz Bee micro darts. I suspect all those AR's and dart posts in the cylinder could be removed to open up new possibilities. Or they may be a moot point if I just integrate as a Swarmfire stock anyway.

Stampede looks in even uglier shape than previously assessed. Will leave this until much later. This too may be a moot point if I decide to minimize - a step which I had previously considered extreme and even sacrilegious.

Longshot seems to work according to original (weak) specs.

White Retaliator fires harder than blue Retaliator. Hmmm... Without testing a whole bunch of whites versus blues, I couldn't say whether those superior XD claims are valid.