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that spring/3 prong piece and the air restrictor are there for the exact purpose of making the gun safe to dry fire... removing any part of the assembly will yield plastic-plastic crashing goodness, but not removing any part will take the total possible power down. My solution is just not to dry fire the gun, especially since all the trigger parts are plastic and have a limited life anyway. If you want to dry fire it, I think the best solution would be to make some kind of overtravel stop in the plunger handle itself, and if that's not possible, put a rubber buffer on the end of the plunger. There's a part for the Tippmann model 98 paintball gun that would be perfect for that.
My nightfinder had such soft plastic for the plunger handle that I couldn't even use the stronger ACE spring, but I squeezed a TON of power out of the stock spring by removing all restrictions and epoxying the whole thing together. Using a brass barrel helps too (the size is 17/32" - 1 ft sections available at Ace for like $4) and that size of brass can just be jammed into the stock barrel assembly.
I'll post pics as soon as I get em on my compy... it turned out pretty cool, especially with my mod to the laser ^_^
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And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be
banana-shaped.
This new learning amazes me, Sir Bedevere. Explain again
how sheeps' bladders may be employed to prevent earthquakes.
Oh, certainly, sir.
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