The Magpul Nerf Gun - Page 1

Posted: 5/12/2010 4:04:30 AM EDT

Well not really. I was checking out thinkgeek this morning and one of their new items is a nerf gun that transforms from small into large and I immediately thought of the Magpul folding Glock 18 thing from a few years back. The toys are soooo much color these days.

http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/warfare/da10/

Posted: 5/12/2010 4:16:26 AM EDT

[#1]

Quoted:
The toys are soooo much color these days.

If firing a belt-fed, tripod mounted Nerf gun doesn't bring a smile to your face, you are dead to me

Posted: 5/12/2010 4:21:38 AM EDT

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We just had a discussion in the office about how we need to get a few of the Vulcans and mount them to the tops of the cube walls.

Posted: 5/12/2010 4:27:11 AM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:

Quoted:
The toys are soooo much color these days.

If firing a belt-fed, tripod mounted Nerf gun doesn't bring a smile to your face, you are dead to me
http://www.ohgizmo.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/Nerf%20N-Strike%20Vulcan%20%28Custom%29.jpg

I "tried" finding one of those during Christmas '08 to get one of those for my nephew, and apparently that was one of the top 3 hot toys for that season. I ended up googling the toy and found youtube vids of people (adults) who were "mod'ing" those things, and to be honest, they were pretty fucking cool. I'll hold out till Nerf produces whatever type of gun that was, Al Pacino used in the movie Heat!

Posted: 5/12/2010 6:20:00 AM EDT

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Quoted:

Quoted:
The toys are soooo much color these days.

If firing a belt-fed, tripod mounted Nerf gun doesn't bring a smile to your face, you are dead to me
http://www.ohgizmo.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/Nerf%20N-Strike%20Vulcan%20%28Custom%29.jpg

I always participate in Nerf battles with my nephews when I'm at their house, so my sister bought me my own gun for battle. This is the one ^ she bought me. Sent those boys running for cover when I fired it up.

Posted: 5/12/2010 6:23:15 AM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:

Quoted:
The toys are soooo much color these days.

If firing a belt-fed, tripod mounted Nerf gun doesn't bring a smile to your face, you are dead to me
http://www.ohgizmo.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/Nerf%20N-Strike%20Vulcan%20%28Custom%29.jpg

I "tried" finding one of those during Christmas '08 to get one of those for my nephew, and apparently that was one of the top 3 hot toys for that season. I ended up googling the toy and found youtube vids of people (adults) who were "mod'ing" those things, and to be honest, they were pretty fucking cool. I'll hold out till Nerf produces whatever type of gun that was, Al Pacino used in the movie Heat!

You mean modified like this:

I need to buy one of these for my sons.

Posted: 5/12/2010 6:29:01 AM EDT

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When I read the thread's title I was expecting a Nerf ACR with a proprietary cardboard barrel, 8.5lb unloaded weight and $150 MSRP.

Posted: 5/12/2010 6:34:50 AM EDT

[#7]

I don't care how old you are, nerf will always be cool.

Posted: 5/12/2010 6:39:16 AM EDT

[#8]

I'll probably add that to my collection.

Posted: 5/12/2010 6:57:42 AM EDT

[#9]

Only legal way to shoot civilians!!!!! NERF OR NOTHING!!! lol

Posted: 5/12/2010 8:28:30 AM EDT

[#10]

Posted: 5/28/2010 12:18:35 PM EDT

[#11]

LOL. We bought two of the beltfeds since my nephews always outgunned my daughter and her friend. My daughter said she wants hers painted to look like Daddy's real guns.

Seems like me and my brother in law use them more than the kids, LOL.

As for a Nerf ACR, hang onto your hats, there is one on it's way that looks like a cross between the ACR and SCAR. They are even releasing a Sage gun type grenade launcher. I am glad Nerf/Hasbro has not gone all Libtard on us and still offers gun toys even though they are colored all kinds of weird.

Posted: 5/28/2010 12:25:13 PM EDT

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Now if Nerf will only build a Gatling gun or minigun with a 500 round belt......

Posted: 5/28/2010 4:55:20 PM EDT

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Now if Nerf will only build a Gatling gun or minigun with a 500 round belt......

I've modded a few of my belts to be 100 rounds... so it's probably doable. It would just be very very long.

Posted: 5/28/2010 4:57:44 PM EDT

[#14]

The belt-feds are amazingly awesome. My nephews and I have a Nerf battle every year for Christmas. Most fun you can have with family :)

Posted: 5/28/2010 5:18:54 PM EDT

[#15]

http://www.manapotions.com/Chaingun.html

How To

Crank up a Nerf dart blaster to 500 rounds per
minute and add a round counter

We made a NERF chaingun fire about as fast as a 7.62mm
M60 Machine gun. That's around 500 rounds per minute (RPM). We did
two major modifications, increasing the voltage to the firing motor,
and adding a round counter and a paint job.

As soon as Eli and I (Aaron) saw the NERF chaingun pop
up on tech blogs, we couldn't wait to hack it. We bought 2 for the
office as soon as they were available, and as long as we throw the Mana
Energy Potion tag on the video, buying guns is totally tax deductible!
Cool, huh?

Cranking it Up

The first modification was to increase the voltage to
the motor. More voltage with available amperage means a faster spinning
motor. Faster motor means more rounds down range, or into Eli's face, as
the case may be.

The Nerf Vulcan EBF-25 starts with a requirement for 6
D-Cell batteries. That's an expensive number of big cells. I thought
they were all wired in series to yield about 9 volts, but I later
found out that they were wired with two parallel groups of 3 in series.
That means the Nerf gun runs at about 4.5 volts. (Update: Thanks to
Nick, I checked the original pack with a multimeter and, sure enough, it
is 9v. 6 D-Cells in series it is. Thanks Nick!)

We ordered these cheap battery packs off of Amazon . I thought that
two 9.6v battery packs would get us a lot more out of the gun without
melting it.

Things you need for this step:

1 x Nerf
Vulcan EBF-25 ($50)

2 x 9.6v battery packs

2 x 9.6v battery pack connectors (RadioShack)

2 x Alligator clips

3 x Wire nuts

1 x Ballpoint pen

1 x Chopstick

1 x Mana Energy Potion

1 x A hint of stupidity

To connect the battery packs to the gun, we actually
had to make a little tool. The power terminals are too deep inside the
gun to clip on the alligator clips, so I took apart a ball point pen,
slit up the side, put a compressed alligator clip in it with the lead
hanging out the slit. I put the alligator clip on the battery terminal
and then pushed a tie-wrap (or chopstick) through the back of the pen,
slipping the alligator clip out and hooking it on to the power
terminals. it worked like a charm.

Hook the battery packs together like in the photo. *WARNING:
If you hook this up wrong, you could dead short the battery packs
together which could make them explode or do other scary/injurious
things.* Hook the negative power terminal from the gun to the
black lead on pack A, hook the red lead from pack A to the black lead on
pack B, and then hook the red lead from pack B to the positive power
terminal on the Nerf gun. Voila. It's done. Now separate the alligator
clips with a piece of cardboard to keep them from shorting. Stuff
everything back into the gun and close the door. Now you have a 500
round per minute cube warfare weapon of mass destruction.

5 darts in the air simultaneously! And yes,
that's a Donkey Kong machine we got off Craigslist

Adding a Round Counter

The second major mod was an LED round counter like the
one in Aliens or on pretty much every FPS gun out there, as well as a
cool paint job.

1 x LED
counter from QKit ($18)

1 x Lever/Roller microswitch

1 x LED

3 x Momentary pushbutton switches

1 x 12v miniature battery

1 x Coil of wire

1 x Various paints

It took me about a half hour to solder together the
counter from QKit. A big part of that time was trying to figure out
which resistors were which, so make sure you have a guide before you
start. Instead of using the microswitches from QKit, I soldered leads
from their locations on the circuit board to pushbutton switches mounted
on the gun. The three switches are Set, Program, and Reset. The LED
comes on when you run out of ammo, which was accomplished by just
hooking it to the "out" pin on the counter.

We took the top of the ammo box off and used it to
house the counter. Jon Dremeled the spot for the LED counter out. We
Dremeled part of the chain-gripping assembly to mount the roller
switch. This way the links would hit the switch each time the belt
advanced. The leads from that switch go to the counter through holes
Dremeled in the top of the chain guide.

Thanks to his experience painting figurines, Jon did
an awesome job of painting the gun to look like it was a well-used gun
from the future. This was accomplished with a base matte black primer
coat, and then metallic silver paints mixed with various levels of black
to give variety to the metal pieces. Then Jon went in and put metallic
silver on black parts that would show wear, like behind the charging
bolt or near buttons. He said it wasn't that hard, but I was pretty
impressed.

The third mod has been done a million times before,
but it's worth mentioning. We just clipped two of the 25 round belts
together to make a 50 round belt. You can see me wearing this stylish
bandolier in parts of the video, and then we actually used the 50 round
belt in the drive-by shooting. As a side note, strangers got into the
elevator with us when we were videotaping and it was very awkward.
Bandolier? Not so stylish.

Shooting Your Coworker

I definitely enjoyed this hack WAY too much.

The total cost on this hack was about $79

Disclaimers:

1) We're not affiliated with Nerf, Radio Shack, QKits,
Dremel, or anything else you saw us use to build this. Mana Energy
Potion is the exception, because that's who we are.

2) There's a very real danger to doing this mod.
Dead-shorting battery packs like these can cause them to explode and
injure you. Nerf even has a "Do not modify this dart blaster" warning on
the gun itself. That's where we used the Dremel to cut out the panel
for the LED counter.

3) You will probably ruin your Nerf dart blaster. We
could smell the motor burning when we fired it with 4x the voltage.
Eventually, the motor coil will probably melt. Also, the gears will
probably strip out.

4) Don't paint over your orange tip. That's illegal
as far as we know. Fortunately, the orange tip is separate, so you can
paint your gun and then attach the orange tip.

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