Saturday, February 12, 2011

Constant Pressure System Water Blasters


When it comes to water blasters, we admit we tend to go on about CPS tech a lot, but we realise there are many of our readers (especially the younger ones) who have never had the joy of experiencing a true vintage Constant Pressure System Super Soaker first hand. "What makes them so good?" is a common question; while I'm not sure our readership really cares for the technical aspects of why, we thought we'd just show you what we mean in video form.

So, although these are two very different classes of water blaster, here we demonstrate the current 2011 Super Soaker Thunderstorm vs the vintage 1998 Super Soaker CPS 1000. It hopefully should speak for itself:)
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  1. AnonymousFebruary 12, 2011 at 6:35 PM

    CPS's use a rubber bladder, similar to a very thick water balloon to hold pressure. That's it. That's the highly technical secret to CPS technology.

    The Thunderstorm is actually more high-tech than the average CPS. It requires electronics; batteries, a motor, wiring, and sealing them along with what is normally sealed. The conventional CPS blaster has... a pump, trigger, 3 valves, water reservoir, and bladder. No electronics necessary.

    Your video demonstrates the irony of that very well. =)

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  2. AnonymousFebruary 12, 2011 at 11:03 PM

    wow,thats pretty sad, they really, REALLY dont make um like they used to,(I have a cps 4100 so I know, I got it 4 a dollar :))

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  3. AnonymousFebruary 13, 2011 at 3:22 AM

    the thunder storm is completely useless unless it can be modded to shoot darts

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 13, 2011 at 9:22 AM

    Perhaps if you transplanted some old CPS internals into one of the new Super Soakers, you could have the best of both. Except that you don't like modding, Pocket...

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  5. AnonymousFebruary 13, 2011 at 1:13 PM

    It's only possible to put CPS internals into another CPS gun.

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  6. AnonymousFebruary 15, 2011 at 2:46 PM

    omg!!!!! this is my only water gun, i had NO IDEA IT WAS NERF AND VINTAGE!!!! I LOVE IT!! AT SHORT RANGES ITS A SHOTGUn WHILE AT LONG ITS A MACHINE GUN!!!! IM SO HAPPY!!!

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  7. AnonymousFebruary 15, 2011 at 4:05 PM

    It's not really Nerf, The CPS 1000 came out when Super Soaker was still owned by Larami. Larami sold it to Hasbro.. then Hasbro put it under the Nerf banner.

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