Nova Phantom Duckslide kits

[Super Nova]

Haven’t got mine yet but my enthusiasm for their products is dropping quickly.

[Chuck E Ducky]

Can you take pictures of the bore for the barrel looking from the back side out. I’m curious why a round head don’t have the clearance.

[Chuck E Ducky]

I wonder if you can just machine out the back side to fit round heads and make a Delrin sleeve that’s captured behind the slide itself. You could make different sizes for different barrels. Spin them up on a Lathe easily. If it rode on Delrin it would be much smoother and you could match the barrel to your build.

[Murph]

Mine showed up. There are some very rough cuts, large burrs and surface defects. I may have to find an airsmith to clean it up before anodizing. Wasn’t expecting master craftsmanship but this is still not something I am happy with.

[XEMON]

Probably gonna want the V1 back, mill it and sell it back ...

[Riot]

Problems aside…. Looks pretty dope.

[$L!mBo]

definitely a "Damage Control/trying to cover our butts" lame excuse

[latches109]

Nova: "All nova slides are built to looser tolerances to smooth out the pump stroke and accommodate any variance in the size of the parts used underneath."

lol what a joke - good way to hide incompetence. I thought these guys would learn a lesson after the nova valve. Appears they do not care much about quality, as their track record shows. I dove my NX1 off the lot and lost $100 in value instantly

[latches109]

seriously? show me the PO

[$L!mBo]

chatter wasnt bad at all when i slotted 4 kits a couple years ago. but you could stick a dowel in there while you cut.

[superman]

When you do, make sure you put something between the back the back of the slide to spread them apart. It gets sketchy if you don't. just a heads up.

[$L!mBo]

diy is always the best option with projects like this.
and yea, no plans to fix the overbore.
"it would be too expensive"

[superman]

I was more referring to trying to track down the v1 owners to send the v2’s.

[Magageddon]

Another thing I noticed on mine was the lack of finish work inside the slide where the barrel goes. The holes on the top of the site rail and the threaded holes holding the bottom pump portion of the slide together all have small burrs protruding into the slide ID. So if someone gets their slide and tries to fit a larger diameter barrel inside, be careful, it'll scratch the hell out of your barrel without sanding those burrs off first.

I'm fine with mill marks on parts, but burrs on a marketed drop in ready part isn't cool.

My confidence in them fixing the issues is low, I'm gonna try doing fixing the feed tube fitment issues myself on my mill and gonna try making a slip fit delrin sleeve for the slide to not be a chattery nightmare

The only plus side is the nova guys are receptive to the problems and I did reach out about my off center brass insert and they said they'd be sending me a replacement asap.

If I'm not mistaken the V2 will pretty much be the same thing as the V1, but with a wider cut out to accept cci feed tubes, supposedly no plans to make the ID hole smaller to eliminate the need of getting a custom spacer to take out the excessive pump slop on the kit.

[Magageddon]

superman, If I'm not mistaken they have no plans on changing the barrel ID to fit a phantom barrel. I think V2 is still gonna be the same, but with a larger cut out for all stock phantom feeds.