Midak Blaster UPGRADED?!?!

[PREDATOR]

I was able to detach the black part of the Midak blaster & upgrade its ammo holder





Rest of images can be found at my brickshelf-
www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=301363
(PLEASE WAIT UNTIL FOLDER IS PUBLIC)

Any more questions post them in about the Midak Blaster.



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PREDATOR

[Madaraki]

So ammo hold is increased..a lot. My only concern with the functionality is that the carrier would have to be curving down towards the barrel end constantly, otherwise after the first shot, the balls would roll back and the thing wouldn't fire. That in mind, have you thought of perhaps making the carrier straight, and finding a way to run a hand-adjusted bar through the back to keep the ammo pressed to the front?

[PREDATOR]

I'll have a go
i'll post pictures once im finished thanks for the advice

[LORD INTERNET DOT COM]

Did someone say holy grail?

[PREDATOR]

blastcage said:

Did someone say holy grail?

Holy grail!?

[Ninja Lewa]

Put a long plus rod onthe hand and a gear on it,so that whenever you shoot, all you have to do is push the plus rod in.

[carbunicle]

Plus-rod? Do you mean what everyone else in the LEGO universe call an axle? Is the gear meant to function as a bushing?

[Nate]

very nice, but wouldn't you also lose a lot of force in the shots because there is no spring?

[carbunicle]

I think the spring merely feeds the ammo into the trigger/launcher. The force is gathered in the tight fit between the ammo and the fingers at the end of the barrel

[balashivo]

cool!
could you post some pictures with a brighter exposure?

[LORD INTERNET DOT COM]

I think the newbie needs to learn to work the brightness function on his monitor.

[balashivo]

I figured that out everythings up to 100 %

[Nate]

wasn't he pretty active on old mod?

anyway. nice the idea, but doesn't it lose the force/distance because of no spring?

o wait i already said that.....

[◄Toa Nuva Tom►]

two words: in sane ly cool.
wait, uh.....
yep, totally amazing. 'nd im still workin on a way to upgrade the cordak blaster

[Rekky]

Oh, that's awesome. I wish they had equipped Lewa with that.

[Mega ToaX]

Did you already trash the spring? If not, tape/glue the spring to the matoran hand, and make sure th e hand doesn't move.

[Imatron]

carbunicle said:

Plus-rod? Do you mean what everyone else in the LEGO universe call an axle? Is the gear meant to function as a bushing?

I might have worsened theplus rod/axle thing, I tend to call axles plus rods myself. My prototype cannon (obsoleted completely by the midak -_-) had a bar that was pulled in further by a little claw to advance the zamor rounds as I pumped the cannon to fire a shot. I never worked out all the kinks and it's since gotten some of it's components scatterered around the house. And yes, I believe the spring in the midak does give the rund an extra kick when fired but it has decent force even without that boost.

Awesome work Pred, I hope to see more MoCs using the opened Midak.