The X-Shot Stealth - my version
Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2011 11:54 pm
Okay, first off.
I know many of you have turned your back on this series of blasters. I completely understand. I know they're gimmicky and cannot not hold up to it's brothers on either side of the fence (Foam or Water). However, I'm all for the "fun" blaster as well as the power blasters.
Here, I tried to make the xShot Stealth a little more worthy.
You've all seen this neglected blaster.
~before
~inside and out.
After I made it go!
The outside:
The inside:
...wait a minute. What's that?
That's right! I've modded the stock nozzle into a CPVC couplered attachment.
The second barrel can shoot darts and/or water. Both barrels get high 70's, low 80' flat (foam darts). With the water nozzle, it only shoots 25' but it's a continuous pressurized stream now not just a 'squirt'.
The key points are that the small reservoir is also now a pressure chamber. It can still shoot water. And most interestingly, a 'couplered nozzle'. This tells me that making different nozzle attachments is possible.
In foam blasters this concept is known as a 'speedloader'. I've seen homemade nozzles here before but never as a 'couplered' attachment.
This is what the xShot Series should have been all along.
I know many of you have turned your back on this series of blasters. I completely understand. I know they're gimmicky and cannot not hold up to it's brothers on either side of the fence (Foam or Water). However, I'm all for the "fun" blaster as well as the power blasters.
Here, I tried to make the xShot Stealth a little more worthy.
You've all seen this neglected blaster.
~before
~inside and out.
After I made it go!
The outside:
The inside:
...wait a minute. What's that?
That's right! I've modded the stock nozzle into a CPVC couplered attachment.
The second barrel can shoot darts and/or water. Both barrels get high 70's, low 80' flat (foam darts). With the water nozzle, it only shoots 25' but it's a continuous pressurized stream now not just a 'squirt'.
The key points are that the small reservoir is also now a pressure chamber. It can still shoot water. And most interestingly, a 'couplered nozzle'. This tells me that making different nozzle attachments is possible.
In foam blasters this concept is known as a 'speedloader'. I've seen homemade nozzles here before but never as a 'couplered' attachment.
This is what the xShot Series should have been all along.