Barrel Break Mods

The Nerf Barrel Break is a double-barreled blaster from the N-Strike series of blasters. Very distinctive in appearance, the Barrel Break resembles a double-barreled shotgun in its operation, with two darts loaded at a time, and a two stage trigger that allows the barrels to be fired either singly or both at once. To use the blaster, the barrel is pulled outward, and levered down on a hinge, which cocks the blaster and allows the darts to be loaded into the open breach.

A very solid performer, despite it's long reload time. The range on the blaster is about forty feet, and is very accurate (after adjusting for the side by side barrels). However, a few simple modifications to the Barrel Break can vastly improve its performance.

A moderately difficult Nerf gun to modify, as it requires some cutting and gluing of the internal parts, and care must be taken to note the positioning of the screws, as the blaster has several different sizes. For beginners, the basic performance modifications can be made without taking all of the internal parts out, however, which can make the whole process easier.
The most important modification with regards to performance is the removal of the air restrictors that are in place with any out of the box Nerf blaster. The two barrels can be removed with relative ease, and a careful cut will allow access to the restrictor pieces. Once the springs have been taken out, a large drill bit or a grinding tool can make short work of the small bits of plastic that restrict airflow just inside the barrel. Then of course, the barrel must be glued back together, preferably with an epoxy. The plunger tube assembly for the Barrel Break benefits from another dab of glue on a small hole that allows air to escape when firing, and a strip of Teflon tape around the plunger's O-ring will tighten the seal inside the plunger itself.

With these small modifications, the Barrel Break with have a range nearly double what the same blaster would have out of the box, without affecting it's originally superb accuracy. The other advantage to modding any blaster is the aesthetics of it. While disassembled, it becomes very easy to apply a custom paint scheme, or even reshape the plastic body of the blaster to fit the user's personal tastes.

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