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Is there an actual qualification for this?
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Airsoft repairs, servicing, tech etc.
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Adolf Hamster
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not heard of anything remotely like a formal qualification for teching.
it's pretty much a rep based thing.
tbh i just go for doing it myself, i like tinkering and learning about this sort of thing, plus it saves a fortune on getting mods done.
it's pretty much a rep based thing.
tbh i just go for doing it myself, i like tinkering and learning about this sort of thing, plus it saves a fortune on getting mods done.
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Seth_Erebor
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Ha!
I'm sure someone could put together a course and exam.
Get a number that you can then check on against a database... where have I heard this before?
I'm sure someone could put together a course and exam.
Get a number that you can then check on against a database... where have I heard this before?
Manufacturers can and do run tech servicing courses.
But with airsoft primarily being Far East manufactured with multiple importers there may not be the business (and potential techs willing to pay) to make it fully viable
The primary paintball manufacturers & brands have proper representation in the U.K. and Europe, with manufacturer & main dealer tech support at major events, training courses run at events, and in their factories.
I have a factory qualified Eclipse tech in my team and if the dates had worked for me then I would also be an Eclipse tech paid for by another team mate (The price of the training included a free gun, so he would have paid and I hand him the gun)
If a random person came up with a course as opposed to a manufacturer then the question would be their qualification to hand out qualifications
But with airsoft primarily being Far East manufactured with multiple importers there may not be the business (and potential techs willing to pay) to make it fully viable
The primary paintball manufacturers & brands have proper representation in the U.K. and Europe, with manufacturer & main dealer tech support at major events, training courses run at events, and in their factories.
I have a factory qualified Eclipse tech in my team and if the dates had worked for me then I would also be an Eclipse tech paid for by another team mate (The price of the training included a free gun, so he would have paid and I hand him the gun)
If a random person came up with a course as opposed to a manufacturer then the question would be their qualification to hand out qualifications
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Modifying, servicing, and fixing fast cars and bikes are my thing. Not sure how that would transfer into fixing airsoft guns.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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Same business as me.
It transfers pretty well. Take one apart and you’ll realise how bloody simple they really are when you compare them to cars/bikes.
TFD / Task Force Delta .... not airsofters, but we have run airsoft events
Word 2007??????????
Corel Draw surely
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No, not re-enactments
I don’t think the cartels & Somali pirates really muscled info the drugs & arms trades in Afghanistan , or that Maggie let the Argentinians have the Falklands thus requiring a British Invasion via a beach assault 30 years later for the newly discovered oil fields.
We run scenarios, so themed games.
We aren’t immersed in re-enactment
There is a back story for the origin of TFDs name & use of Takhur Ghar as our first event with one of our founder members experiences in Afghanistan and contact with the US, but we say no more (for a few reasons including that I would now make mistakes in the telling)
If you can deal with a bike you can deal with an airsoft gearbox. The skills are different but it's the same deal. Put it back together the way you took it to bits.
Some of the components are small, Some are spring loaded. Different gearboxes even of the same version can be wildly different to put together. Some will be far more difficult than others just for how the springs sit in the box.
If you really want to play and don't want to mess up a gun then AK2M4 sell a complete V2 gearbox for £45. It's a decent gearbox, and you can use it as a spare engine to tinker with.
https://www.ak2m4.co.uk/internal-parts/gearboxes-complete/ec-complete-gearbox-qd-v2-rear
Once you've opened a gearbox and played about you will have more idea about what is involved. It's not difficult, but it can be tedious. Learning what things should feel like is the hardest part as there are no set tolerances, and you can't just look in a book and get gap and torque settings.
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I saw that ASPUK are running tech tuition sessions, you tell them what you want to learn and they teach you (think it was £20 or £30 per hour but don't quote me on that).
They're a fantastic shop with a great reputation, based in Sheffield.
They're a fantastic shop with a great reputation, based in Sheffield.
ASG offer “factory” training, and any of their products shouldn’t have warranty work carried out by anyone other than someone trained by them.
To be honest, you couldn’t make an “Airsoft Tech” qualifications because there are so many variants of everything.
Perhaps you could make a V2 course, V3 course, HPA course, Gas Pistol course etc, but to do it all in one would take ages and no customer would be willing to pay the extra £4/hour labour rate to allow companies to send there techs to do this.
To be honest, you couldn’t make an “Airsoft Tech” qualifications because there are so many variants of everything.
Perhaps you could make a V2 course, V3 course, HPA course, Gas Pistol course etc, but to do it all in one would take ages and no customer would be willing to pay the extra £4/hour labour rate to allow companies to send there techs to do this.
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