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Author Topic: How to get rid of that "Light & Flimsy" feel of your ACTLabs lightguns?  (Read 1510 times)

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Simple solution to that flimsy, feather-light shell of your ACTLabs guns.

Simply fill in the handle area with this expanding Foam called "Great Stuff"





The foam is non-conductive, adds a little weight and keeps the gun from "Creaking" when you squeeze it in the heat of the moment shooting foo's.

Open up the gun and squirt a LITTLE AMOUNT of the expanding foam inside the GRIP AREA ONLY, then close her back up, after an hour or less, the cavity should be filled.

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Re: How to get rid of that "Light & Flimsy" feel of your ACTLabs lightguns?
« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2006, 02:30:16 pm »
Isn't that stuff very light itself?

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Re: How to get rid of that "Light & Flimsy" feel of your ACTLabs lightguns?
« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2006, 02:34:15 pm »
You'd think playdoh (or something non smelly. I hate the smell of that stuff) in saran wrap stuffed in the hollow parts would add better weight to the gun.
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Re: How to get rid of that "Light & Flimsy" feel of your ACTLabs lightguns?
« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2006, 03:03:11 pm »
Playdoh, Roll of Quarters, Quick Dry Cement, they would all work to some effect, but the Great Stuff will give just a bit more weight and get rid of that "Hollow" feeling.

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Re: How to get rid of that "Light & Flimsy" feel of your ACTLabs lightguns?
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2006, 03:05:48 pm »
Why does everyone want their gun to be heavy?!?  I think it's great how light it is -- helps with fatigue during long zombie killing sprees.

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Re: How to get rid of that "Light & Flimsy" feel of your ACTLabs lightguns?
« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2006, 03:27:42 pm »
Good point, but my main point is it fills that creaky/hollow cavity in the grip, and it adds just a little weight overall.

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Re: How to get rid of that "Light & Flimsy" feel of your ACTLabs lightguns?
« Reply #6 on: October 03, 2006, 11:26:23 am »
what about hot glue?  i hate the stuff, but sounds like a good application.