Hey, it's Luke with out of darts. Today I'm going to run you through how to build the Little Rocket.
We are really excited about this product; it's been a really fun design, and so far, the feedback
has been really great. Now, it's worth noting that if you like printed instructions, Tarik has
done a very wonderful PDF (that I am not showing very well on here on camera, so we will put that
up as a PDF on the screen). But you can find that in the description as well, and that's a much
easier way to follow. But many people do prefer a video and like listening to me talk longer,
so if you're one of those, then you're in the right place. So first a really quick overview
of the system there are eight different barrel types and we will be adding more in the future
there are four different body types and there are a variety of triggers and priming rods we have
three different priming options including the ring the uh t-pole and the paracord
you've got your base plate and then we've got three trigger options including the standard
actually technically four we've got the standard the push which has a curved thumb thumb press
the smash which is flat on top and then we've got the ring version which allows you to pull a
ring to activate the firing mechanism we offer two different springs high power and low power
your spring may look a little different than this because we're constantly evolving and ordering
different springs currently the high power is a cut spring that may change in the future as we
sell through them and get more and then you've got all the hardware that comes with it the
assembly is pretty much the same for all four variants there's a handheld version
a right side mount version.
a left side mount version and a bottom mount the bottom mount and the handheld have by far been
the most popular because if you mount the bottom you you end up with the button on the top of your
blaster as far as the barrels go we've got boomco we've got an inline triple short dart we've got a
triple or six shot if you use short darts shotgun style blast we've got a mega rival
standard elite short dart and an ultra so here we've got the proud papa variant and this is the
bottom version so the rail is on the bottom from the when you're looking at the trigger
uh as far as tools you're going to need either pliers or vice grips to install the small
pins you're going to need some lubricant such as super lube or another grease for o-rings and then
you're going to need either hex driver as we use in the in-house here or really all you need is
an allen key and that's an m 2.5 we sell these on the site for about 50 cents i think maybe 75 cents
but it's in any standard uh hex driver set that you would buy metric of course so to start off
we're going to take our body now it's worth noting that this tube is already inside your
blaster so if you don't see this tube inside you need to email us but hopefully that's not the case
it's also worth noting that inside the blaster here are four square nuts and these square knots
are what hold those four screws in so you want to make sure that's all there to begin with but we're
going to start from the beginning with our t-pole i've chosen to do a t-pole and you want to think
about your orientation so this is going to sit on the top of a blaster i want it to go like this
direction this is going to go on top of my chronos which has kind of a nice blue paint scheme so
you can kind of line this up to picture how it's going to sit in its final version
make sure you get it in an orientation that you like but you're going to go like that
we're going to put our spring in next we're going to take our plunger tube
inside is a square does not matter how this lines up you just have to get it in there
and connected it's worth noting here too i'm using my easy prime spring on this one
next you're going to take this center flange screw and you're going to screw it in
Now I have not built one in this method in a while because we have a sort of assembly line
set up where there's a nice one-piece flow for the entire assembly process,
so things have changed. It's a little different doing just a one-off. Next, you're going to take
your o-ring to put that on there, and you're going to take your lubricant, and you can use
a fair amount you can't, I don't think as far as I'm concerned, you probably can't put too much.
Correct me in the comments: Could I possibly put too much? It's a very tight air seal,
at least any tighter than it is now. It didn't improve anything.
So we've lubricated the plunger tube; next, we're just going to take this
and drop it in here. I generally kind of start at an angle just to avoid getting
any of that lubricant on anything. Now it's worth noting it's a good idea to
just kind of push it in and out a few times make sure you spread that lubricant around.
After we've done that, we've got four hex screws to put in, I like to install one,
kind of hold this down with my fingers because you are going to feel forced from the spring
there is some pre-compression on that spring, and then you're going to take your allen key or driver
and drive that in. Now you don't have to wrench on this too tightly it doesn't need
an insane amount of pressure since we do a lot of these here. You can see we've actually got
one labeled that's dedicated to literally the single purpose and it's got a little
slipper clutch on there so that you can avoid overtightening, so that's that clicking you're
hearing. But as far as doing it by hand just do it with the short end of your allen key in your hand
and just make them finger tight; there's no reason to wrench down on them any farther.
I'll get number four in here.
It's really awkward looking at a screen
and trying to put things in all right, and that's feeling good next, we've got our I'm going with
the thumb, so thumb is really meant to like be pushed down with a thumb whereas the smash
version is meant to be it's flat on the top, so it's meant to be hit with a palm, but we're going
to go ahead and put this in here so you'll next want to take this part, and your spring and you're
just going to notch this in here or get this to catch, and it should hold the spring just barely
and you're going to line that up with a small divot that is right there and then these two holes
here need to line up and i generally will take a pliers and start this to kind of get it in the
right spot and then you can use either vice grips or pliers to squeeze this together so just to show
you what i'm doing it's essentially just squeezing together now i would recommend that you take a
towel paper towel piece of paper cloth terry towel doesn't matter what and do that to actually avoid
scratching but just for illustrative purposes i'm going to go ahead and do it this way so you
can see the whole thing so there i've installed it but you can see like i probably did do a tiny bit
of scratching there so it's good to use a piece of cloth i just wanted you to be able to see it
next we're going to take this front o-ring and this is the barrel seal and you're just going
to shove this down in here and it's going to feel like it's not going to fit so just keep pushing it
i basically go around my fingernail all the way around and eventually it will just
pop in place and fit and i've never had one of these come out after i've done the install now i
also want to mention that you should not lubricate this o-ring there is plenty of compression
we use that as a little bit of a compression space both to get a good seal and to hold the
barrel in place if you added lubricant in there you're just increasing the likelihood of dirt
and grime building up and there's really no reason now that we've got everything together it's worth
checking that your blaster actually primes so make sure it does now that we know the blaster
fires and catches just fine it's time to put on our side mount you're just going to put your two
screws in push them all the way through hold those with your finger and set the other two hex nuts
the hex nuts should push in place they should have a little bit of tension there
if you have problems putting them in i find it's nice to just put it on a hard surface
like a piece of metal or something like that so you can just kind of push those in we didn't want
them to be so loose that when you remove the the side part that the whole thing falls out so those
hex nuts should stay put when they're in there and again i'm just going to take my wrench
normally you'd have a wrench but i'm going to use my little driver because it's faster
and there you go, the assembly is complete,
that blaster is done and ready to fire we can, of course, put a barrel on
and we are ready to go all of the other units assemble in a very similar fashion so
the instructions are somewhat the same
the only difference is being that the handheld version of course has no bottom
the different triggers all vary a little bit the only one that is unique that you may not have in
the base instruction here is the the ring and so the ring is meant to sit on a hand and be pulled
and the only thing that you change as far as the install is this part goes in like this and
then you've got a ring that will have a hex nut and a nut and a screw rather to drive in there
and this cord will feed through so that down the barrel you can pull this string and activate it
it'll make a little more sense when you put this together but right now since that's a
little less popular we'll cover that in detail on the sliding arm mount and arm mount which are
coming probably in about a month as we work out final production details and some sourcing hope
you enjoyed this look at the build guide. Let us know if we missed anything in the comments. We are
working really hard to listen to your feedback in the comments and try to improve the videos
and make things the best we possibly can in 2021. Until next time, I'm out of darts.