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Charging handle remedy?


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Ok, so I know many e11s suffer during troops, especially the charging handle breaking off.

 

I have been pondering this issue for a while now and seeing as I have just begun another Doopy's build, which is for my son as a Christmas present,I thought I would take the opportunity to see if I could find a solution.

 

First off was to drill out a small hole in the base and then begin to make a slot in the rear part of the bolt

 

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Next was to thread an elastic band through a small brass tube rivet, crimp the rivet, apply a little ca glue and then trim the excess band

 

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Once dry the band and rivet were glued into the hole in the handle

 

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The next job was to attach another tube rivet on the underside of rear bolt section, and feed the handle assembley through the bolt and rivet.

 

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Once done I then crimped the second rivet and trimmed the excess band. which left me with this.

 

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As you can see, this gives the handle the ability to move about a little, and return to its original position, which hopefully means that if it gets a knock, or when holstered it won't snap off!

 

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Thoughts?

 

Marc

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Nice! I got tired of mine breaking off. My solution wascto wrap it up in a nice soft, fuzzy twin sizdd blanket. Have not had the issue since

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That is a very nice idea, Marc. Thank you for sharing this here :duim: Guess this will help a lot of people with their trooping-blasters...

Thanks Tino. I'm not sure what other methods others use, but I thought I'd offer up this method.

 

Marc

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Very tidy! I just used a bit of brass wire, seems to have done the job but time will tell.

I tried using a spring initially, but it just stretched an wouldn't return to its original position

 

Marc

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Has anyone any advice on adding cheap and easy lights and sound to a blaster? I know many have ripped apart toy blasters for this, and I'm no good with coding etc. But, is there a simple circuit board which you can put a micro sd card in which will play a sound when you pull the trigger? I can manage to hook up the electronics/ make a trigger switch etc, but that's as far as my skills go

Help would be very much appreciated as it would be amazing to be able to give my son a blaster with lights and sound

Regards

 

Marc

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Hey Mark, electronics123.com has simple sound boards that may work and the prices are reasonable. The one I bought fit into a double A battery holder to give you a size reference.

 

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Adafruit do a simple board that will do that called the Audio FX board.  They used to do one with built in amp too but looks like they killed that one  :(

 

It comes in a 2MB or 1MB built in storage and uses specially named files to work so is very simple.

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Adafruit do a simple board that will do that called the Audio FX board. They used to do one with built in amp too but looks like they killed that one :(

 

It comes in a 2MB or 1MB built in storage and uses specially named files to work so is very simple.

This one?

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Marc

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