I have a picture for you. I want to see if you can spot the difference:
Figure it out yet? Here's a hint:
Now look back. I'm guessing you get the idea.
Yes, I indeed enlarged the barrel on the Arctic Shock. One of my biggest complaints of the otherwise awesome Arctic Shock, was its puny main shot. It had great shot time, but you would have better luck with a straw and your mouth full of water
so I decided to enlarge it.If you look at the internal pics posted in another thread, the orange piece that holds the barrel looks to be solid. That's actually not true; it's simply a cap that comes off. Inside it, you'll find it to be almost syringe like. Also, there IS a screen inside the small barrel; it's just so deep inside that you don't see it.
Because of this, you can actually enlarge the barrel without any major surgery. You will need:
- Drill
- A drillbit set with sizes between 1/16's and 1/8.
- Ruler
That's it. Yes, no screwdriving required!
Now, here's how you do it. To start, plug in a 1/16's drillbit, and have it so that way the bit only extends from it by 1.5cm.
Drill in until you reach the head of the driver.
From here, take out said bit, and, from the solid end, push it in gently until you reach a solid surface; that's would be the screen.
Measure.
I estimate the distance to be about 4.2cm inside the barrel. I suggest to be safe and to check this on every gun you drill. When you set up your drillbit, make it so that about 3.9cm - 4.0cm of the drillbit extrudes from the tip of the driver. This way, you won't accidentally overdrill (and damage or destroy the ever-so-important screen!). Drill, and make sure the hole is clear.
For drillbit sizes, I recommend anything from 1/16ths to 1/8ths. Any larger and you can destroy the barrel. Any smaller and you'll be drilling nothing.
Danger: If you drill too deep, you will destroy the screen, and ruin the gun's shot coherency!
Danger: Do not use a bit larger than 1/8's! If you do, you could ruin the barrel!
I drilled the maximum recommended size, and I found it to be more than acceptable. For the sacrifice of shot duration, you get a much larger shot, at close to or exactly the same range! I found that at the maximum, I had about a three second shot duration, compared to the stock's fifteen seconds so obviously it's up to personal preference.
The fully drilled 1/8th barrel is close to CPS 1000/1200 size! (To match the size, you would have to drill it to the size of the lower orange cap's size. This will require additional surgery that won't be covered in this tutorial (but can be done if you can somehow remove the orange volume regulatory cap). Pick a size between the two extremes and you should see an improvement. Also, the larger, the less coherent the stream, but I found it within reasonable norms.There's a tutorial floating around this site that covers expanding the capacity of the gun; this may be a perfect modification that you can add to that, as a one-two gun improvement. Suddenly, your little Arctic Blast becomes very, very dangerous indeed.
Have fun!
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