Dart tooth

The dart tooth of a Stampede ECS.

A dart tooth (also known as a dart gate) is an internal component found in most clip system and breech-loaded blasters.

Details

A dart tooth is often used in tandem with a blaster's bolt. Its purpose is to make sure a dart (or other projectile) is properly seated in a bolt's chamber by engaging while the bolt closes, blocking any dart from entering too far up the blaster's barrel in order to be properly seated inside the chamber. Depending on the blaster's design, dart teeth are engaged while the blaster is being primed, and disengaged when the blaster's bolt has closed, in order to have enough clearance for the dart to be fired. Other designs may function differently: for example, the Buzz Bee Air Warriors Predator has a dart tooth that is always engaged, and only disengages when the trigger is pulled. The Clip Blaster 10 has a flat piece of plastic that acts as a dart tooth, flipping up when engaged and down when disengaged. Like the Predator, it is always engaged, and only disengages when the trigger is pulled.

Modification

As a dart tooth is vital to a blaster's functionality, they are almost never removed during modification, with some exceptions. Pusher breech modifications which relocate the chamber of the blaster to the rear of the barrel rather than inside the bolt, do not require the use of a dart tooth. If a blaster has a compression barrel a dart tooth is not needed since airflow is maintained throughout the barrel and the dart doesn't strictly need to be seated in the bolt.

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