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The SS 300 is a very old Soaker and people might not be able to imagine this Soaker.

As I am a lucky owner of a great working one, I made a video and put it on Youtube.

Hope you can imagine the power of this "fragile" Monster now!

Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS9cKpdGmJ0

What do you think about it ?

@ CA99 Do you like this music more ?

Wow, that's pretty powerful.

In my opinion, the music is getting worse and worse... Are you going to use Friday for the next video?

haha, this type of video is not compatible with this kind of video

Anyway, I would appreciate good music for my further videos, send me some links to YOUTUBE-videos, where I can listen to the music. I will then decide whether to choose it or not. But what I need are names and interprets. I do not know much musicians and for sure not all musics.

Therefore, help me out and show me lots of musics, which is very good, great to listen and which would be cool used in a Super-Soaker video!

I really like tetris remixes for some reason.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/399539
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/303537
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/297678
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/315916
http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/269767
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/513386

Wow, I thought only the CPS 2000 had that range as far as unmoded stock guns go. Great video, although I think your and my music tastes are a bit different. Personally I like Weird Al Yankovic, he's a comedian song writer. You’re lucky to have these guns; I was too young for most of them when they were out, now I just don't have the money to buy them. Sadly water warfare is more like my 2nd or 3rd hobby, most my funds go toward LEGO. I'm still probably the biggest water war enthusiast for miles though.

I really want an SS 300 now. Looks like it could be deadly in the hands of a veteran, someone who would know how to take care of it properly. I actually like the song.

The Super Soaker SS300 is a great, albeit fragile water blaster. The only other air pressure blaster that performs close to it would be the XP Pool Pumper Blaster, but both are almost impossible to find anymore. Though its power is great, the SS300 has so many points that just don't feel like they could handle too much force, though. One fall or accidental drop and that blaster could end up seriously damaged. Still, 1.5L pressurized water in the PCs... that's. just. AWESOME! and great stream performance to boot!

Nice vid, but I'm mixed when it comes to the accompanying music. When it comes to seeing water blasters being demoed, I, personally, like to hear the sounds the blaster actually makes. Music, for me, is best used during action/battle sequences as opposed to blaster tech demos.

How big is the stream on the pool blaster? The Isoaker review lacks ranges and output stats.
I have always wanted bigger AP guns. Maybe BBT will start making them, since they can't do CPS.

soakernerd wrote:How big is the stream on the pool blaster? The Isoaker review lacks ranges and output stats.
I have always wanted bigger AP guns. Maybe BBT will start making them, since they can't do CPS.

Pool blaster stream probably performs somewhere between a 4x to 6x stream. Memory tells me it was quite good, but not quite as thick as the SS300's stream. Pressurized capacity is also well above 1L, but also not quite as much as the SS300 can hold pressurized.

Haha, I'm just not a fan of mainstream pop/hip hop overall. The tetris remixes are pretty cool though.

If I had to sum up my taste in music with as few songs as possible, here it is. In particular, I look for stuff with artistic instrumental value.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZjfZKbOTR8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QZbMC3Z1rw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibd1-ooK5as
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDvKwSVuUGA

Anyway, the lack of more blasters like the SS 300 seems to have contributed to the idea that air pressure is inherently inferior to CPS. Its unfortunate because air pressure had so much potential that was never tapped into except for the SS/XP 300 and the Pool Pumper Blaster, the true predecessors to the modern APH.

CA99 wrote:Anyway, the lack of more blasters like the SS 300 seems to have contributed to the idea that air pressure is inherently inferior to CPS. Its unfortunate because air pressure had so much potential that was never tapped into except for the SS/XP 300 and the Pool Pumper Blaster, the true predecessors to the modern APH.

I agree with you, but as far as what has been released, CPS outperforms air pressure on almost all levels.

The only exception I can think, besides the 300, is that some air pressure blasters, like the Max D 6000, and dare I say SS 100 mk2 shoot further than the SC 500/600/WWF. However, those last 3 CPS guns I mentioned, still shoot about average range for air pressure blasters their size, and the "constant" pressure is a great advantage.

What I'm getting at is, it's not the air pressure blasters can't perform at such a high level, it's that they usually don't. More importantly, I am extremely curious as to why the SS 300 performs so well. What makes it shoot so far? Is the stream quality different from other air pressure blasters? I want to know more.

Well, may I can help you here a little bit:

To start with, the SS 300 is a quite SIMPLE GUN. The way from the PCs to the nozzle is JUST straight. THe water can accelerate till the nozzle comes, it also uses a ball valve, which also contributes a laminar stream.

Next thing is that the gun has a PC volume of incredible 1.5 l of pressurized water. Speaking of such a big volume means that, although the output is quite high ( more than 500 ml durign the first second of firing),the pressure holds about 1 second till it drops off rapidly, therefore we really get a punch of water out of the gun with maximum pressure, which is able to fly 50 feet + .

Furthermore the nozzl-size is rated very well and likely calculated. A bigger nozzle would let the pressure drop off to fast, a smaller noozle would mean that the stream is not thick enough to fly through the air 50 feet + .

And last but not least is the fact that THIS GUN DOES NOT HAVE A PRESSURE VALVE INSTALLED. This means, theoretically, you can create tremendous pressure, as long as you have the power to pump it up further. The pressure in the PCs is for sure 5 bar, or even more. But since the pump moves so much water / stroke you will lack the power to pump up further, also you can FEEL when the gun is filled totally, without being damaged. It is very fragile and since it is designed so simple, you might think it is not able to control this power.

But we can thrust Larami here, the gun really holds its maximum pressure without problems. The pump goes smooth and moves 80 ml of water each pump into the PCs. Average pressurize-time is less than 30 seconds.

--->But only as long as you use it as the manual says AND AS LONG AS You do not fall with this gun. To my mind there is nothing to break but the stupid trigger and it's area. The plastic is hard and will break immediately if forced sideway.

And really, I do not want to talk about the trigger-mechanism which is the fragilest part of all

Besides this it is a crazy gun without a PR-valve, what means the pressure can be increased without an end, but there is no guarantee how much it can handle, this says the gun may even explode if used not carefully(handling more than 80-100 PSI!)! -->quite dangerous for a toy for small children if you ask me^^

In short, a MONSTER gun with incredible power, water volume and range. Unbeatable and great without any problems when used with MUCH MUCH care

So does anyone know of anyone with an XP 300? They seem even more rare than the classic 300. I imagine they are pretty much the same gun.

The XP 300 practically doesn't exist. If one was found, it would probably be worth several hundred dollars - possibly even thousands. No known pictures of it exist, except for one unclear photo. It is just an SS 300 with a different color scheme though. Some think it's more durable than the SS 300.

martianshark wrote:The XP 300 practically doesn't exist.

This statement might be more true than you think. I looked at Chris Reid's collection and I do not see a single XP 300. As far as I know, Chris has every single Super Soaker ever.

http://www.wcnews.com/chrisreid/supersoakers_2010_1.jpg

look by his left knee. Is that the XP 300?

I doubt he owns an XP 300. Nobody does - or at least no one that knows how valuable it is.

soakernerd wrote:look by his left knee. Is that the XP 300?

By his left knee is a slightly differently styled version of a Power Soaker Backpack. If you look, the yellow hose is connected to the blaster on the ground in front of the box his right hand is on. Looks like there's an "X" on the reservoir part so it may have been renamed as well. Of course, if anyone has an XP300, he'd be the one.

I have not seen any detailled pictures of the XP 300, also Isoaker.com does not provide a good image...

Speaking of the SS 300, it may not be thousands of dollars worth but it is a very seldome Soaker and for sure worth more than 200 Dollars, or what do you think ?

Never seen a SS 300 till now, so till I was able to grab mine up Very seldome soaker...powerful and fragile too

XP 300...May I get to find one on day but for this I would have to know its real looking...

Didn't member XP270 have an XP 300? I seem to remember an old post where he said that he had one. I don't think he logs in anymore though.

I know there's a picture of one on the back of iSoaker's XP 150 box. Here's the page. Click on the picture of the back of the box. Edit: Wow, I just noticed the troubleshooting chart on the back. I still remember the one on my old Monster X box. That shows how much Larami cared about their blasters; Hasbro wouldn't dream of doing that!