| Finally! Better pics for the original Blastfire mod, and pics
and info on the PVC mod! I finally got around to modding my
other Blastfire last night, and here are the results.

Remove the screws from the green slide ONLY at this time. Once
you've done so, take the TOP half of the green slide off. Leave
the bottom half on, like I've done in the picture. You'll see
why in a minute.

Take the screws off the rest of the gun and lift the top of it
off. See that metal bar sticking up from the green slide in this
picture and the last one? That bar causes one of the most
significant problems people have had modding this gun. The bar
holds the orange thing in place, and the orange thing has a
spring attached to it that is very hard to put back in place.
More on this later. If you need a large, 1024x768 version of
this pic to see how everything goes together, click here
(opens in a new window).

A closer pic. On close inspection, you can see part of the
spring pressed against the upper part of the black plastic on
the right side of the orange thing at the top. For a large pic,
click here
(opens in a new window).

If you grab the orange thing and pull it up off the bar, this
spring pops out. The short end of the spring goes inside
the orange thing, in a depression that's made for it. The
circular part in the middle goes over the metal bar, and the
long part loops over and presses against the top of the gun's
casing.

Here I've put the orange thing back on, and the short end of the
spring is in place. The coil is around the metal bar, too, but I
haven't put the long end in place yet.

Here I'm placing the long end of the spring against the upper
wall of the casing. After you do that, everything should work
OK. This spring seems to cause the most problems anyone has in
Blastfire modding.

Now, it's in place.

Now for the classic mod. Take the pump out of its tube. See the
hole in the front? Plug it up with hot glue.

Now for PVC...cut off the barrels right where they get small.
You should be left with stubs like this. I used the saw on my
Swiss Army Knife because it worked OK and it was small enough to
cut the barrels while they were in the gun. I wouldn't recommend
taking them out of it.

Now use a knife to cut the air restrictors out, like on the
powerclip. The top one has been removed, while the bottom one
hasn't.

Cut your five PVC barrels from 1/2" sch40 PVC. They should
fit very nicely over the stubs of the barrels that were left.
But, that screw place/thing whatever you call it is disrupting
the barrels and making them crooked. You have to saw it off near
the base so it doesn't interfere with the barrels.

Looks good! Now, you just need to glue them on! I used epoxy. I
recommend glueing them while they're in the gun, to get them
straight, but that might cause the barrels to be glued to the
gun's casing, as well. This shouldn't matter--just put some glue
on the end and the inside of the barrels and push them on the
stubs as far as they'll go.
Congratulations, you've just PVC modded a Blastfire and
created a great sidearm that fires five mega stefans semi-auto!
Spoon says he gets very nice range using micros, so darts
without much weight may work well. Try this gun out--I love it!
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