Non evasive for a spring guide? Do you not have to open the gearbox for a spring guide?
Tm Ngrs - to Upgrade or Not?
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AlphaBear
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Nope. It’s in the buffer tube. Unscrew it. Take the old one out. Put a new one in. Voila.
A NGRS gearbox is not like a conventional V2 gearbox.
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My input, I run it one of 2 ways normally:
- Stock with deans + barrel/hop rubber upgrade
- "Upper half build" + fet - so piston+head, nozzle, spring guide and spring, bearings, mosfet and barrel+hop. I keep the gears the same until they go bang.
I normally take one built rifle with me, plus a stock version so i know that if the upgraded one shits the bed, I can always go with one I know works (touch wood) and have no more drama's.
- Stock with deans + barrel/hop rubber upgrade
- "Upper half build" + fet - so piston+head, nozzle, spring guide and spring, bearings, mosfet and barrel+hop. I keep the gears the same until they go bang.
I normally take one built rifle with me, plus a stock version so i know that if the upgraded one shits the bed, I can always go with one I know works (touch wood) and have no more drama's.
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@alphabear Grammar Nazi here....its INVASIVE not evasive....thank you 
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Slightly off topic (but what’s new this AFUK !?@alphabear Grammar Nazi here....its INVASIVE not evasive....thank you
) was the guy who proofread Hitlers speeches the first Grammar NAZI ? ?To be honest until I bought a decent soldering iron to do my own I always got them from Fleabay just made sure it was from an electrical hobby seller . Yea 100mm is a bit too short , I always go at least 150 if not 200 my self better to have too much than not enough you can always just tuck the spare out of the way . ?
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Ordered some from a RC guy on eBay. may only be 100mm but good enough for a practice run. May just order the connectors and wire separately and do the whole lot from scratch. Is 16AWG wire correct?Slightly off topic (but what’s new this AFUK !?
To be honest until I bought a decent soldering iron to do my own I always got them from Fleabay just made sure it was from an electrical hobby seller . Yea 100mm is a bit too short , I always go at least 150 if not 200 my self better to have too much than not enough you can always just tuck the spare out of the way . ?
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Technically haven’t a scooby (am a total Neanderthal over shit like that)but it’s the size I’ve always used with no problems ?
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It's actually pretty simple to wire them up. Don't forget heat shrink, you don't want to accidentally short circuit the battery. 16AWG is what I use. Not all wire of a given gauge can be considered equal though.
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Good enough for me then!
Heat shrink sorted, soldering iron and accessories sorted and connectors ordered. Bit of pissing about first off to get my hand in (cheers YouTube and memories from my design tech class from 30 years ago!) then I'll go for it.
It’s really interesting reading everyone’s comments and opinions over the (IMO) controversial topic of upgrading the NGRS. I fall into the category of “shamelessly upgrade and dump a metric ton of magic pict dust in it, then off you go” category! Has it worked? ??! Was it worth it??? But I really enjoy it, it hasn’t (touch wood) piled in on me yet after 4 years or so and turns heads on game days with range, snappiness and accuracy. So I guess I’d say I’m happy with it. And I’d recommend the bells and whistle option. That said, they’re good out of the box and it’s probably as much of a fashion thing to upgrade them as it is a function thing. Annoyingly when I got mine, they hadn’t released the MK18 version, so I had to build it out of the SOPMOD version. Which in all honesty I also enjoyed putting together. and had(at the time) a pretty rare looking rif/NGRS. I must add, I at no stage did any of the tech work myself! Had I, it would be a very different story and I’m sure I would have another bag of parts in a box, recommending keeping it totally stock instead of a NGRS MK18 sprayed and in a nice case!??
! Was it worth it??? But I really enjoy it, it hasn’t (touch wood) piled in on me yet after 4 years or so and turns heads on game days with range, snappiness and accuracy. So I guess I’d say I’m happy with it. And I’d recommend the bells and whistle option. That said, they’re good out of the box and it’s probably as much of a fashion thing to upgrade them as it is a function thing. Annoyingly when I got mine, they hadn’t released the MK18 version, so I had to build it out of the SOPMOD version. Which in all honesty I also enjoyed putting together. and had(at the time) a pretty rare looking rif/NGRS. I must add, I at no stage did any of the tech work myself! Had I, it would be a very different story and I’m sure I would have another bag of parts in a box, recommending keeping it totally stock instead of a NGRS MK18 sprayed and in a nice case!??
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Yeah happy days! I had to do it after I used my TM SCAR stock for a couple of days gaming. Shoots perfectly.
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