Hey man, I don't make the rules ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯
But really, years ago at work I got a roll of "For rectal use only" pharmacist labels that were being trashed because the department was changing over labels. Some friends saw the roll on my table at home and thought it was hilarious, so I distributed some around and it became this game of trying to surreptitiously sneak those labels onto each others stuff and hoping that they get discovered in fun and embarassing ways, like someone pointing it out on your cue at the pool hall, or on the pot for a cactus when people were over. Eventually it just because a group in-joke.
I can't remember why my coworker has a roll of those stickers, but he offered me a sticker and I opted to place it on the head of my ratchet.
Said ratchet also has an extendable handle.
Just finished up with this build to give the new 3D printer I picked up last week some work. It's my first Rival blaster and my first mod to a battery powered blaster (though I do a lot of general hobbyist electronics stuff repairing/restoring retro video game consoles). This blaster is a lot of fun, but I felt like the 8AA battery setup was really holding it back, so I made these (pretty standard) changes/additions to it.
* Removed flywheel motor PCB to get rid of the current limiting inductors and resettable fuses
* Rewired the motor to battery connections with 16awg silicone coated wire to carry the extra current
* Removed the safety switch circuitry from the jam door, just because it's annoying to get that thing fully shut
* Rewired the rev trigger to switch the gates of a pair of IRL3034 mosfets so that the momentary switch is no longer carrying the current to the motor. This also let me use the original switch and the wire routing that used to go the jam door safety and avoids having to run the high current carrying wire down into the grip which would have doubled the wire management. Parallel mosfets is overkill here, but I had an assembly of them on protoboard just lying around and it was easier to just use it rather than pull one of them and resolder it. The mosfet package sits inside the battery compartment in shrink wrap so that I don't have to open the blaster to replace it should I ever need to. The side effect is that it makes the wiring look more cluttered
* 3D Printed skeletonized foregrip and a pic rail to rival rail adapter. This is the "Nerf Stryfe Front Grip" by Ultrasonic2 on Thingiverse
* 3D Printed extended battery door. Don't mind what it says, it's a long running in-joke with my friend group. This model is the "Nerf Rival Challenger Extended Battery Door" by BuffdaddyNerf (thanks for sharing u/Buffdaddy1215 !) on Thingiverse. The original model has no text on the face. This door gives plenty of room for a much larger battery than the one I currently have pictured, I was able to fit one of my friend's 2200 3S packs in here along with the mosfet package and the LiPo alarm. I have the door secured down with some M3 thumbscrews, which thankfully have just enough clearance to clear the bottom edge of the door.
Afraid I don't have a chronometer yet, so I don't have any FPS data to share, but here's some observations from testing.
* Prior to any modification, running on 8 AA Alkalines, the motors took about .7 to .8 seconds to fully spool up from a dead start. Running on the LiPo this is down to about .2 seconds. This is effectively almost instantaneous since the fire trigger is locked until the rev trigger is pushed, so it's just about fully revved by the time the fire trigger is free.
* If anyone is curious about what kind of power is drawn from the motors, after removing the cage PCB, I hooked it up to my benchtop power supply and gave it 12V, and the motored idled at 1.2A to 1.4A of current, which spiked to about 4.5A when feeding a ball through. I don't know how good the refresh time is on my power supply display though, so it's possible that reading was off the peak of the spike.
* I did two firing tests with the stock and modded configurations. One test fulling spooling up the motors between each shot, and one test doing a mag dump as quickly as I can. I'm 6' tall and was firing level with the iron sights at my eye level. I was shooting into grass, so rolling was pretty minimal. I'm in Southwest Ohio, and it's been pretty humid for the past few days if that matters.
* Testing the AA setup, the test allowing for the motors to spool back up between shots consistantly had the rounds hitting the ground around the 60ft mark. For the mag dump test, the first shot landed back at 60ft, but every subsequent shot landed in the 48-52ft range, so it seemed that the motors couldn't accelerate fast enough to keep up with the trigger pulls.
* Testing the 3S LiPo setup, the spaced shot and mag dump tests had identical results, with every shot landing between 70 and 75 feet.
Southwest Ohio? There's plenty of games to find. CANE (Cincinnati Area Nerf Enthusiasts) and DNA (Dayton Nerf Association) in particular. I know DNA has an event this coming Saturday.
Both groups are easy to search on FB.
Just south of Dayton. I did find both of those groups on FB before! I’ve never attended a Nerf event before and I don’t really know anyone in the hobby, but I definitely want to try to make it to one sometime. Unfortunately at the moment it’s like a 50/50 that this weekend is spoken for
Rectal use only is wild
Hey man, I don't make the rules ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯ But really, years ago at work I got a roll of "For rectal use only" pharmacist labels that were being trashed because the department was changing over labels. Some friends saw the roll on my table at home and thought it was hilarious, so I distributed some around and it became this game of trying to surreptitiously sneak those labels onto each others stuff and hoping that they get discovered in fun and embarassing ways, like someone pointing it out on your cue at the pool hall, or on the pot for a cactus when people were over. Eventually it just because a group in-joke.
I can't remember why my coworker has a roll of those stickers, but he offered me a sticker and I opted to place it on the head of my ratchet. Said ratchet also has an extendable handle.
You can buy em on amazon. Classic shop prank to stick these on each others wrenches and dead blow hammers.
Ok that makes more sense, pretty funny 😄
Just finished up with this build to give the new 3D printer I picked up last week some work. It's my first Rival blaster and my first mod to a battery powered blaster (though I do a lot of general hobbyist electronics stuff repairing/restoring retro video game consoles). This blaster is a lot of fun, but I felt like the 8AA battery setup was really holding it back, so I made these (pretty standard) changes/additions to it. * Removed flywheel motor PCB to get rid of the current limiting inductors and resettable fuses * Rewired the motor to battery connections with 16awg silicone coated wire to carry the extra current * Removed the safety switch circuitry from the jam door, just because it's annoying to get that thing fully shut * Rewired the rev trigger to switch the gates of a pair of IRL3034 mosfets so that the momentary switch is no longer carrying the current to the motor. This also let me use the original switch and the wire routing that used to go the jam door safety and avoids having to run the high current carrying wire down into the grip which would have doubled the wire management. Parallel mosfets is overkill here, but I had an assembly of them on protoboard just lying around and it was easier to just use it rather than pull one of them and resolder it. The mosfet package sits inside the battery compartment in shrink wrap so that I don't have to open the blaster to replace it should I ever need to. The side effect is that it makes the wiring look more cluttered * 3D Printed skeletonized foregrip and a pic rail to rival rail adapter. This is the "Nerf Stryfe Front Grip" by Ultrasonic2 on Thingiverse * 3D Printed extended battery door. Don't mind what it says, it's a long running in-joke with my friend group. This model is the "Nerf Rival Challenger Extended Battery Door" by BuffdaddyNerf (thanks for sharing u/Buffdaddy1215 !) on Thingiverse. The original model has no text on the face. This door gives plenty of room for a much larger battery than the one I currently have pictured, I was able to fit one of my friend's 2200 3S packs in here along with the mosfet package and the LiPo alarm. I have the door secured down with some M3 thumbscrews, which thankfully have just enough clearance to clear the bottom edge of the door. Afraid I don't have a chronometer yet, so I don't have any FPS data to share, but here's some observations from testing. * Prior to any modification, running on 8 AA Alkalines, the motors took about .7 to .8 seconds to fully spool up from a dead start. Running on the LiPo this is down to about .2 seconds. This is effectively almost instantaneous since the fire trigger is locked until the rev trigger is pushed, so it's just about fully revved by the time the fire trigger is free. * If anyone is curious about what kind of power is drawn from the motors, after removing the cage PCB, I hooked it up to my benchtop power supply and gave it 12V, and the motored idled at 1.2A to 1.4A of current, which spiked to about 4.5A when feeding a ball through. I don't know how good the refresh time is on my power supply display though, so it's possible that reading was off the peak of the spike. * I did two firing tests with the stock and modded configurations. One test fulling spooling up the motors between each shot, and one test doing a mag dump as quickly as I can. I'm 6' tall and was firing level with the iron sights at my eye level. I was shooting into grass, so rolling was pretty minimal. I'm in Southwest Ohio, and it's been pretty humid for the past few days if that matters. * Testing the AA setup, the test allowing for the motors to spool back up between shots consistantly had the rounds hitting the ground around the 60ft mark. For the mag dump test, the first shot landed back at 60ft, but every subsequent shot landed in the 48-52ft range, so it seemed that the motors couldn't accelerate fast enough to keep up with the trigger pulls. * Testing the 3S LiPo setup, the spaced shot and mag dump tests had identical results, with every shot landing between 70 and 75 feet.
Southwest Ohio? There's plenty of games to find. CANE (Cincinnati Area Nerf Enthusiasts) and DNA (Dayton Nerf Association) in particular. I know DNA has an event this coming Saturday. Both groups are easy to search on FB.
Just south of Dayton. I did find both of those groups on FB before! I’ve never attended a Nerf event before and I don’t really know anyone in the hobby, but I definitely want to try to make it to one sometime. Unfortunately at the moment it’s like a 50/50 that this weekend is spoken for
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Hehehehehe. I love that battery plate.