hi I'm Andrew
and this is Blaster breakdown today the
Dart Zone Max Tomcat this is a fantastic
Blaster out of the box firing short
darts using an innovative 50 round drum
that's great performance to start with
can we make it a bit better? today I'll
show you a few simple mods that I've
done including safety delete, addition of
a scar, barrel replacement, spring
replacement, as well as some
accessorizing I've done to make it my
own before we start though if you
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have a look inside
okay so here's the Tomcat with all the
attachments removed I pulled the screws
out and as usual replaced them with these
hex head or socket cap screws so these
are M2.6 10 millimeter in length
now
pulling apart
the shell
there's a few pieces under here
that slot in
the safety so these pieces hold the
drum in place they might jump out so
I'll just put them aside
you can see that the
mechanism
is really solid, really substantial
through here and in fact runs on a rail
that's screwed into the right side of
the shell
so that accounts for a lot of the
solidness of the blaster itself there's
not much twist back and forth compared
to something like the Nexus Pro or the
Max Striker that's great to see but
otherwise you can see how the pusher
and the plunger tube are connected
and the catch here
is held at the back
and then of course the trigger releases
the catch like so so this piece here
accounts for the slam fire
when the plunger is back the trigger
won't actually lift the latch because
it's angled the wrong way but when the
plunger is all the way forward if you're
holding the trigger there that will tilt
this white piece and
hit the release I'm not going to mess
around with any of that
the only lock removal I'm going to do is
to remove the safety and I'll do my
usual thing where I just cut the ends
off and glue
into the holes so it looks nice and
flush but doesn't get in the way of
anything the main thing I'm going to
experiment with is the barrel so you can
see this is
quite loose in here there's no real seal
into the breech piece and the spring so
this is
quite a substantial size spring now
barrel first to get this out we can lift
this front
piece
and then the barrel slides out
and
13.2 millimeters inner diameter and just
on 16 millimeters outer diameter so
that's not a really tight seal on the
darts and in fact if we
there's a
Diamond Dart slips through
Worker gen 3
shakes through
Adventure Force pro dart
just slides through so that's not a
great air seal as it is not to mention
that it's just sitting loose in the
now this piece I'm being careful with
this spring-loaded part is the bit that
presses the dart to the inner ring so if
we're down to only one layer of darts in
the drum this piece will ensure that the
dart is pressed to the inner ring to
align with the pusher and here is our
breech piece so we've got a ring
that seals the pusher
and
there you can see that's not very
tight at all so the first thing I'll do
is see how the stock barrel goes with
better seal in place I've got a piece of
aluminium and this one has 12.9
millimeter so a much tighter seal on the
darts
so that's what I'll try after this but
the first thing stock barrel, stock
spring
with an improved seal
ok so I'll put up the chronograph
results here as you can see 173 fps
average is kind of in line with the
usual stock performance so it's possible
that adjusting the seal at the breach
here didn't make too much of a
difference overall next thing I want to
try is a different spring so I should be
able just to
lift up this catch assembly see that
sits in a catch spring
there
and
this is quite a substantial spring as
you could imagine
150 millimeters in length
we've got a just under 20 mm inner
diameter
and just under
24 mm outer diameter so that'll give us
a wire gauge of 1.8 to 1.9 mm
diameter of the wire
and I've got a length of k25 here so
that's
very similar
it'll fit in the rest with a little bit
of encouragement so I'll cut a length of
this to the same 150 millimeters and
we'll see how this goes in place of the
stock spring and here we are so same
length
that slots in there nicely
now I've got about 20 millimeters of
pre-compression in there at the moment
so
it's not sitting exactly flat
but I should be able to get this all
closed up
yep okay and let's get some numbers
okay that was interesting here the
chronograph results now with the k25
spring and the stock barrel as you can
see there's a much wider spread of fps
from down to 141 up to 172 with an
average of 157 so the k25 spring is
giving significantly lower performance
than the stock one the prime is
correspondingly easier so easier to use
but that spread of fps isn't really what
I'm looking for
right the next thing I'm going to do
I'll leave the k25 in place and I'll try
the title bore barrel
fixed in here okay the first thing I've
noticed is this tighter bore aluminium
barrel fits really neatly and quite
firmly inside this breech piece in fact
there's a really good seal there so I
won't even bother with Teflon tape or
duct tape but that does mean
a slightly
tighter fit at the front
as well in fact yeah that just
ground away a bit of that plastic on the
inside
that should fit nicely now
okay that's quite firm in the front
there it's firm there
that's definitely not moving
at all
okay so tighter bore barrel k25
let's get some numbers
Okay so we've got some good numbers from
that combination so much tighter spread
176 to 186 was the range so that's fewer
than 10 fps which is good average
182.8 is the best we've had yet the
prime is still nice and neat but I think
the consistency of the tighter bore barrel
is really starting to show now the final
combination I'm going to try is popping
the stock spring back in and we'll see
how we go with that
so again
carefully
pop this out
there's my catch spring so putting this
back together
that rests in there and
that sits inside these two bits so
there
okay
let's do this up and
get some more numbers
and here are the numbers we got so this
combination of spring and barrel had a
really good as you can see no shots
under 180 one outlier at the end over
190 which was great the average of 183.4
is the highest we've tried yet however
it's less than 10 fps higher than the
original loose barrel so it kind of
seems that the stock performance is not
too far off optimal for this length of
barrel now I would be interested to see how
a longer barrel goes a longer tighter
bore barrel but I'm not interested
enough to actually do it myself I don't
need my Tomcat to perform at 200 or 250
fps I'm quite happy with it just like
this so I'm just going to pop these bits
back in place
so I'll just chop my safety switch up
and glue the ends in and then we'll
close this up and I'll show you some of
the things I've done to accessorize this
blaster
okay so this is all back together now I
want to talk about the front muzzle
piece now that slots in just a friction
fit like so and I actually like the look
of how it complements the front of the
blaster now this bit that attaches is 19
millimeters outer diameter which is the
same as Nerf brand faux barrel but it's
also the same diameter of any of the
Worker scars so the molded plastic
adjustable stringed or the printed
stringed versions so any of these will
just friction fit in place
will be an effective way of improving
your accuracy with a bit of rifling now
you could just stick them in the front
and be done with it but the muzzle piece
comes apart there's just four screws and
inside we've got this piece that pops
out nothing actually fixing that in
place so what you can do is
with a bit of tape around you could
fix any other scar barrel that you
wanted in place there and that would
slot in just the same and complete the
look so I've tried the printed one
previously I think I'm actually going to
replace with the adjustable one so I can
dial the twist up and down if I need to
now I want it to
extend the same distance out so
I want some tape
just around here
that's nice and tight, nice and firm
there we are, that's great can just access the inside to
change my twist okay a few other things
the foregrip vertical grip is fine feels
a little bit cheap I've swapped this one
out with this solid nylon piece I quite
like how the look complements the main
grip and trigger area so this one can
just sit on the picatinny as per usual
however because it is quite a bit longer
I had to cut away
some of this rear edge
as it was bumping against this front
piece here originally I had the screw in this
first part of the picatinny with nothing
in front I actually pulled free under
use so now I make sure the screw sits
inside this first secured slot
that's
nice and firm
so now I've got a bit of
clearance here when all the way back and
I can demonstrate the seal now stick my
finger in
you could hear that held the seal
quite well
so that's good the stock again the stock is
cool it's adjustable
shorter and longer
it's got picatinny on the back I find it
does feel a bit light and a bit cheap
and there is a bit of wobble
but because we have a standard attachment
point I can use this Worker piece
much more solid
adjustable spot for a sling point to be
attached still a little bit of a give
but this I find a lot more
solid
than the original the other thing is
the sights again they look alright
they're not adjustable at all and it's a
really large aperture so it kind of
takes a bit to work out what you're
aiming at to line things up to go with
the look of the stock and the foregrip
I've got these adjustable nylon sights
they're fold down flip up they feel a
lot more solid when I put them in place
I think it complements the look nicely
so there we are
we've got adjustable flip up
sights adjustable scar is in place there
we know we've got an excellent air seal
now through the barrel a solid foregrip
that feels really nice in the hand and a
much more solid stock sling mount point
and this length is adjustable I do also
like to put some fabric grip tape around the
handle this plastic is textured but it's
still plastic so with sweaty hands it'll
get a bit slippery over time there's
some adhesive here left over from when I
previously used that so I'll pop some of
that on a bit later as well I've got the
same grip tape at the front but otherwise this
is my Tomcat though many are like it this
one's mine and I think we're ready to
take it outside and do some target
practice
okay here I am 50 feet from the target
as usual I've got some Max darts loaded
up I've got my red dot sight zeroed in
so let's see how we go
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that's
probably enough as we can see
they're excellent accuracy at this range
I'm really happy with how this one's
performing let's have a look now at some
gameplay footage from a recent Brisbane
Area Nerf Group event when I recorded
this I was still using the original
barrel and the scar was twisted to
bring me down under 150 fps cap for that
event but as you'll see it served me
very well on the day
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as you can see reloading the drum while
on the field is quite straightforward
either between rounds or even during
lulls in play I kept a small dump pouch
of spare darts on my waist and could top
this up from darts on the ground
whenever I had the chance
the inner ring is very easy to load from
behind but the outer ring still feels a
bit weird having to bend the darts in a
little bit
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so that's the Dart Zone Max Tomcat a lot
of fun to use on the day and I hope that
you find my mod guide useful
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