The Ultimate Nerf Vulcan Mod

Step 8 Fire Away!

Now that everything is set, switch the gun to automatic and have a blast! Literally.
You can check out the video of our gun in action here:

We are also giving away a 12-pack of mana to the first person to send us a video of getting this gun past the elusive 600RPM mark. Details are in the video. ****UPDATE***** Someone already won the contest. Thank you everyone for trying!

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.

Comments

[zeke34]

Ever thought of hooking it up to a power outlet? It'd only last for a few seconds but I'm sure you could get more that 500RPM out of it.

[ManaEnergyPotion]

Power outlets are AC, batteries are DC. Unfortunately, if we hooked it to a power outlet it would fry before it even got a shot off :-) Fun idea though. It would at least by arc-tastic

[facilitator476]

If you wired a rectifier (or is it inverter) before the gun it would convert the A/C current into D/C. Though the 120V might be just a little too much for the gun to handle.

[taowyman]

you rock!

[taowyman]

how do you mod the newer vulcan?

[prodo123]

Why don't you rip a motor from a vacuum and stick it on the gun?

[Brown89]

nah it would only spark once maybe twice thats about it but from what I learned once you let the smoke out it stops working I hate it when that happens there is a way if you would really want to take the time to convert ac to dc but that requires a bunch more circuit crap and I dunno where to find the diagrams for that but if someone does do it definitely tell me about it I gotta see that

[CShaffer212]

Use one of those brick-transformer-adapters to convert from AC to DC, and put a space around the motor to hold some dry ice, or at least a fan and a heat sink!

[light man313]

Hey ManaPotion
you guy should combined 2 vulcan blasters to create a double barrel machine gun
now that would be a sick mod!!

[mettaurlover]

That was the winner of their contest. Shut up and read the whole thing before posting stupid comments.

[prodo123]

I just had an idea. Attach SIX of those 500RPM guns and make a TRUE vulcan machine gun with 6 barrels!

[SteampunkManiac]

why you gotta be hatin' on light man313

[Matrix-technician]

All i can say is wow! Awsome ible. i painted mine up but i don't have the confidence to put more voltage to the motor.5 stars!

[Ponchobrown]

Hey wondering if you guys have seen the instructable to make a longer belt by connecting them that be cool to have a 500 round belt and be shooting for a full minute maybe make an ammo box for it lol

[burning_empire]

very simple and effective.... you take the last faux round on the end of the belt, and unscrew the 2 halves. Then do the same to another belt. Screw one end of the faux round to the opposite end 0f the second belt. you have to make sure you join the correct ends together so all the bullets face the right direction. The only problem is with multiple belts are very heavy so you need to support them using your arm. or else you'll put too much stress on the motor and it will jam. That is the first thing I did when I got home from the store after I bought my Vulcans......Wal-mart $32.99 great deal

[ip3wnWknexgun]

you have to do the same thing with any real mg you dont want any jam

[michael lively]

ah you beat me to it. I was going to say that.

[MafiaGerbil]

The poster mentions that his began to melt after shooting the video. Would this be corrected by swapping out the motor so it doesn't burnout, or is this due to the plastic chassis itself melting?

[ManaEnergyPotion]

So it turned out that the batteries overheated, the motor was actually fine. Granted, it didn't smell great, but the gun still works! It came back to life after we let it cool down for a while.

[voemaster]

at what rpm does it go with one battery pack? please reply

 

[Russian sniper]

it came back to life because off the mana energy potion!!!! :O :O :O :O :O
nice mod man xD

[Tyrfing]

great mod!! ill try this out (once radioshack is in stock of the freakin battery packs......)

[barkingspider]

i modded some belts and got a 7.62 bullet case it had gone to an m-60 and it works great

[werdnareztips]

To get it to go faster, you should buy another more powerful motor and put it in it. I haven't tried it yet, but i bet it would work.

[SuperCoPilot]

This should make Humans vs. Zombies a lot more intresting...

[chicks dig me]

ya it will! that games awesome, and a whole entire campus playing at the same time! amazing

[5chidori]

haha just wait for zombies to surround you in a corner then killem with a modded belt (50 darts)

[chicks dig me]

ya! i got 1 of theis just cuz i thought it wud be kinda cool and it wuz, kinda. this wud make it waaaaaaaay better!

[raimen]

entire campus? what'ya mean?

[chicks dig me]

theres a whole college campus that duz it

[raimen]

Nice! I gotta get into this kinda stuff *Epic Happy Face*

[chicks dig me]

kool

[burgleflickle]

this has to be taken further. It's just too awesome to stop here.

[itsachen]

Just wondering, has anybody won the >600RPM challenge yet?

[DrWeird117]

Jebus Chritsmas!!!

[themadtreky]

haven't torn mine apart, but from past experience. you reach a point where the motor simply won't spin any faster, regardless of the voltage. you may have to find another motor, that has a higher torque and or RPM rating. scientificsonline.com has a good selection of project motors. as for the gear striping, they're plastic... it's gonna happen over time regardless. I've had good results with casting new gears out of molds from the old ones in R/C cars. there are a few instructables on this. good luck and I'll send you pictures if i ever get around to mine.

[CrashMGD]

dude that is sick!! friend must have hated you after you were done