FAQ
Last updated on 2008-01-21
At Super Soaker Central, we get asked a lot of questions. Some many times over. Here, we keep a big list of 'em. We even list our top 30 most frequently asked questions on their own page.
General
- Are you affiliated with Hasbro or Buzz Bee Toys?
- Can a backpack gun use water straight from a river?
- Can a water balloon explode midair?
- Can I buy a homemade water gun? Does Super Soaker Central sell homemade water guns?
- Can pool water hurt CPS bladders?
- Can someone "snipe" someone with a water gun?
- Can the CPS 4100 be filled using a quick-fill device?
- Can the grip of a water gun cause chafing?
- Can the tank of a Flash Flood cave in with an AquaPak?
- Can you attach the 100oz AquaPack to where a 50oz goes?
- Can you make a water gun shoot X feet or have a velocity of X feet per second?
- Do the new refill caps fit the old soakers?
- Do walkie-talkies get damaged when wet?
- Does the Monster's quick-fill device work with old soakers?
- Has anyone been hit by a 100x blast?
- How accurate are Super Soakers?
- How can I clean my gun?
- How can I keep a water gun in good condition?
- How can I refill away from a hose?
- How can I remove discoloration?
- How can I tell the difference between the marks?
- How do I change my username?
- How do I make a shield?
- How do I make body armor?
- How do I submit content?
- How long can a pressure chamber stay pressurized?
- How long does this gun take to powerize?
- How much does this gun cost?
- How safe are water guns?
- How should I pronounce the names of the water guns?
- How should I transport water balloons?
- Is a soaker better with a backpack or without a backpack?
- Is the CPS 2000 legend true?
- Is the Splashzooka only a Super-Charger?
- Is this soaker still available?
- May I use a few of your images or articles on my site?
- Was this gun rereleased?
- What does "the pumps get hard" mean? How do I know when the pressure chamber is full?
- What extra gear other than a gun should I bring to battle?
- What is a water gun?
- What is the best soaker for river rafting?
- What is the best soaker to target pests?
- What is the best way to fill a water balloon?
- What is the difference between the CPS 1500 and CPS 1700?
- What is the difference between tracked and non-tracked pumps?
- What is the optimal nozzle size for my water gun?
- What is the rarest soaker?
- What is the relationship between soakers and Nerf?
- What range does a piston gun really get?
- What soakers can fit in someone's pockets?
- When do the new guns come out? What are the new guns?
- Where can I buy a quick-fill device (QFD)?
- Where can I buy discontinued guns?
- Where can I buy replacement parts?
- Where can I buy water guns?
- Where can I get customer support or contact Hasbro or Buzz Bee Toys?
- Where can I talk to other water warriors around the world?
- Where is the pressure chamber?
- Where is the Super Soaker or Water Warriors website?
- Which gun is the best? Which gun shoots the farthest? Which gun is the best for this year? Which gun should I choose?
- Which statistic is the most important during a battle?
- Why do they make such weak water guns? Where are the big guns?
- Why is there a hole in the reservoir cap?
- Why water warfare?
- Would adding dyes to the water damage a soaker?
Homemades
- Can a homemade beat a CPS 2000?
- Can I build an onboard reservoir instead of a backpack?
- Can I buy a homemade water gun? Does Super Soaker Central sell homemade water guns?
- Do homemades hold their own? How well do homemades work in battle?
- Has anyone built a hose-powered homemade?
- How big is too big for a pressure chamber?
- How can I build a backpack reservoir?
- How can I build a concealable gun?
- How can I build a gun that is supposed to be used like a turret in a car?
- How can I build a homemade Stream Machine, piston water gun, or river gun?
- How can I build a homemade water gun?
- How can I build a hose powered, gatling-style water gun on a tripod?
- How can I build a small homemade?
- How can I build a stationary, tripod gun?
- How can I build a triggered water gun?
- How can I drill straight holes in end caps?
- How can I increase range without increasing the pressure?
- How can I make a CPS homemade?
- How can I make a homemade pull valve?
- How can I make a homemade quick-fill device?
- How can I make a pressure gauge?
- How can I make a pump?
- How can I make a rotary nozzle selector?
- How can I reinforce a pump?
- How can I solvent weld or PVC cement?
- How do I make a pressurized backpack gun?
- How does a ball valve work?
- How does a pump work?
- How does the nozzle size affect range?
- How hard is it to build a homemade water gun?
- How is the 2L homemade filled?
- How should I glue my PVC cannon together?
- What can I use for a trigger valve?
- What is a water mine/bomb/nuke? How do I make one?
- What kind of homemade would be very cheap, good for a beginner, and easy to build?
- Which design performs better, one which each chamber connected at the top or not?
- Will hot glue work as well as epoxy?
- Would filling the space of the casing outside of a CPS bladder with pressurized air give the gun extra power?
Materials
- Can I use regular party balloons to make a CPS bladder?
- Does anyone use ABS pipe for homemades?
- How can I solvent weld or PVC cement?
- How much does PVC cost?
- How much pressure can latex rubber tubing take?
- How should I glue my PVC cannon together?
- What is cellular-core pipe? What is the difference between schedule 40 and schedule 80 pipe?
- What is the difference between brass and plastic ball valves?
- What is the difference between swing check valves and spring check valves?
- Where can I buy a schrader valve?
- Where can I buy check valves?
- Where can I buy PVC and PVC parts?
- Where can I find CPS/elastic/latex rubber tubing?
- Would bicycle inner tube work well for a CPS bladder?
Water Balloon Launchers
- Are water balloon launchers practical?
- Do water balloon launchers have recoil?
- How can I build a water balloon launcher?
- How can I build a battle-practical launcher?
- How can I build an automatic, semi-automatic, multi-shot, or rapid-fire water balloon launcher?
- How can I pressurize a launcher quickly?
- How could I build a snow-ball launcher?
- How do pneumatic launchers work?
- How effective are water balloon sling-shots?
- How fast do water balloons leave the balloon of a launcher?
- How safe are water balloon launchers during battle?
- How should I transport water balloons?
- How small can a water balloon launcher be?
- Whar is the difference between an over-under design and a linear one in launchers?
- What are some practical applications of pneumatic launchers other than in water fights?
- What is the best launcher for sniping?
- What is the best way to fill a water balloon?
- What is the optimal barrel length for my launcher?
- Would a combustion-powered water balloon launcher work?
- Would a solenoid valve work with a water balloon launcher?
- Would a spring-powered water balloon launcher work well?
Air Pressure Homemade
- Can I substitute a schrader valve for the pump on the APH?
- Can the APH be built with the chamber inline with the nozzle?
- How can I achieve a certain pressure in a certain number of pumps in an APH?
- How does the water get into the chambers of the APH?
- How much does an APH cost?
- How much does an APH weigh?
- Should my gun have four pressure chambers and ball valves between each chamber so that I can control how much water can be used a once?
- What is the backpack needed for in the APH article?
- What is the maximum number of pumps an APH can take?
Modifications
- Can a paintball gun be modified into a water gun?
- Can I modify a Super Soaker into a Nerf gun?
- Can this gun be attached and used on a bipod?
- Could I drill holes in the front of the Vaporizer to get extra nozzles?
- Does enlarging the vent hole of a spherical CPS gun's bladder casing do anything?
- Has anyone added an aiming device to a soaker?
- How can I add a nozzle selector?
- How can I add a pressure gauge to my stock blaster?
- How can I add straps?
- How can I build a shoulder rest for a gun?
- How can I change an air pressure gun to CPS?
- How can I do a shotgun mod or nozzle drilling?
- How can I get to the bladder of a CPS blaster?
- How can I improve the capacity of my small gun?
- How can I improve the performance of a diaphram CPS gun?
- How can I modify my stock gun to use a ball valve/do a trigger valve replacement?
- How can I perform a spring mod?
- How can I remove the bipod of a Monster XL?
- How do I paint my guns?
- How do I turn a Super Soaker into a flamethrower?
- How far should I go down for nozzle drilling?
- I drilled my nozzle out and the output increased but the range decreased. What happened?
- Is this modification permanant?
- What are modifications?
- What diameter would maximize laminar flow during nozzle drilling?
- What does removing the pressure relief valve do?
- What is reinforcement?
- What modifications can I do for this soaker?
- Will removing the screens or straws improve range or do anything? What do the screens and straws do?
- Would removing the pressure gauge on my soaker improve its performance?
Colossus
- Can I use balloons for a Collossus?
- How can I perform a Collosus modification?
- How many layers should I put on in a Collusus?
- How shoud I slip the bike tubes on in a Collosus?
- What does Collosus do?
- Would doing a Collusus on a Splashzooka improve range?
K-mod
- Can I use inner tubes on the K-mod?
- How many balloons should I use for a K-mod?
- I did a K-mod and can't shoot my gun or the gun broke. What should I do?
- What does a K-mod do?
- What is the maximum number of pumps I can do with K-mod of this many balloons??
- When K-modding, how can I close the case over the bladder?
- Which guns can be K-modded?
- Would a K-modded soaker hurt someone?
- Would a light K-mod without removing the relief valve improve range?
Pressure Relief Valve Disabling
- Can I remove the relief valve in diaphram CPS guns?
- Can the relief valve be made to open at a higher pressure?
- How do you check valve freeze? Where is the pressure relief valve? Where should I cut while removing the pressure relief valve?
- Is it called the check valve or pressure-release valve or pressure-relief valve?
XPS
- Can I XPS a pressurized reservoir gun?
- Do the internals need to be reinforced with an XPS mod?
- How effective is the XPS mod?
- What guns can I do the XPS mod to?
Physics
- Can a water gun explode?
- Can CO2 be used to pressurize a gun?
- Can electrolysis power a water gun?
- How bad in dropoff in air pressure water guns?
- How can I achieve a certain pressure in a certain number of pumps in an APH?
- How can I increase range without increasing the pressure?
- How do pneumatic launchers work?
- How do water guns work?
- How does a ball valve work?
- How does a pump work?
- How does the nozzle size affect range?
- How well would baking soda and vinegar power a water gun?
- How well would Diet Coke and Mentos power a water gun?
- In a gun with multiple pressure chambers, when does each one kick in?
- What are the straws in the nozzle for?
- What is CPS technology?
- What is negative pressure?
- What is the maximum range CPS could achieve?
- What is the pressure inside my gun?
- Which has higher pressures: air pressure or CPS?
- Would filling the space of the casing outside of a CPS bladder with pressurized air give the gun extra power?
Tactics
- Are soakfests unskilled by nature?
- Are tree houses effective?
- Are trenches or bunkers effective?
- Can a commander be a heavy gunner?
- Can a portable base be built?
- Can a water fight be fought with only water balloons?
- Do homemades hold their own? How well do homemades work in battle?
- How can I plan and start a water fight?
- How can I recruit people for a water war?
- How can I setup a trap?
- How can I transport troops and equipment?
- How do I build a base?
- How does a team win a water war?
- How important is teamwork on a team?
- How should I deal with prisoners or captives?
- I am outnumbered. How can I win?
- Should everyone use equally powerful guns in a water war?
- Should I use forts or bases? How can I defend a base?
- What game types are out there?
- What is the best hill defense?
- What is the best way to defend a base?
- What is the largest war you have participated in? How large do water wars get?
- What is the most effective tactic?
- What rules do people have for refilling?
- What rules should I use? What type of game should I play?
- What should I do for training?
- What should I wear to a war? Is camo good?
- Where should I fight water battles?
- Which statistic is the most important during a battle?
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