Charging handle remedy?

[Troopacoola[TK]]

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

 

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

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.

 

 

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

 

 

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!

 

 

 

 

Thoughts?

 

Marc

Edited November 10, 2016 by CTID

[Pyrates[TK]]

Beautiful work mate - love it!

 

 

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[Troopacoola[TK]]

Beautiful work mate - love it!

 

 

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Thanks bud!

 

Marc

[T K[501st]]

Wow! Hopefully that will work. My DD charging handle could use something like this. 

[fuumantroop[TK]]

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

[T-Jay[TK]]

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

[Troopacoola[TK]]

That is a very nice idea, Marc. Thank you for sharing this here 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

[humperdingle]

I reckon a neodymium magnet or two might work well.

[themaninthesuitcase[Admin]]

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

[Troopacoola[TK]]

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

[Troopacoola[TK]]

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

[zv288bot[TK]]

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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[themaninthesuitcase[Admin]]

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.

[Troopacoola[TK]]

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?

 

Marc

[themaninthesuitcase[Admin]]

That's the badger.