you nostalgia you lose

[Particle Man]

Originally Posted by RedRider2k2

I had this one. It worked AWESOME. It would shoot the same distance no matter how many times it was pumped. It had one problem though...It came with a big warning on it that you absolutely could not leave pressure in it without firing it. I brought it to the beach one day and forgot I had left pressure in it. A huge BANG came out of the inside of it and it never worked again...

That's because the trigger was just a pinch mechanism that pinched a piece of rubber tubing. I had the same one and it did the same thing - I took it apart, replaced the tubing, and all was well with the world.