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Yarp, same post, 4 years ago. I've run and told teacher.

Sorry to hear.  I hope you left appropriate feedback

Bought an ares Thompson a few days ago from on here and sadly it’s nowhere near what was described. I’ve spent the past 2 days trying to salvage my £285 investment but it’s not going to happen.    It will be sold as parts/boneyard, included is:   A (from what I can tell) steel upper/lower receiver that’s been artificially weathered by the previous owner.   The Thompson gearbox which works alright now it’s been opened and had the metal shavings removed. 😬   The ares hop chamber with no inner barrel or hop rubber as both was damaged when I received the replica.    The motor cage screw has been stripped for the pistol grip screw by the previous owner and has a tiny bit of thread left that does lock on but it’s not great.    The gearbox itself, as mentioned above is now okay however the previous owner superglued the fire/safe selector axis in place with the screw. I had to drill the screw out to get the gearbox out to fix the issues it had. As it was drilled out, the axis bar is no longer in a useable condition and the selector switch only just bites onto it via the grub screw however the safety/fire does still work if you manually twist the axis bar.    The electric blowback has been disabled poorly by the previous owner and will take some work to get up and running again, possibly modification to a new piston.   When I purchased the replica, most of the screws were missing. I’ve added a few of the important ones but worth mentioning.  There is also 7 (If I remember correctly) high cap Thompson mags that will be going with the “replica”.   The outer barrel assembly, wood pistol grip & stock will not be included however I may be able to provide the faux wood from the Cyma I purchased to replace the ares.   Obviously I won’t be able to get back the £285 I got burned for but I would like to recover something at least, but I’m not really sure what it would be worth as a boneyard bundle. I will upload images of said items as soon as possible. Any help is massively appreciated!