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Erm, erm, Only £40 folks...

Arrived today! Very impressive, 5 days from Spain! For a €20 belt I'm thoroughly impressed. Made very well, and will more than stand up to the rigours of Airsofting (not that I move with much pace anyway! 😁) I've got a game tomorrow, so we'll see how it gets on. Got an evening of molle threading ahead of me now!

All my tanakas.

Heya gents. A tech friend is working on my Ares SOC-AR. Thought I would pop up some info of the internals as well as photos because of how little there is about these rifles in terms of upgrading. Reasons for upgrading was because A) I dont trust Ares QC, B) Looking for longevity, C) Bring the Rate of Fire down as it is over cycling then the ETU auto corrects, D) Accuracy is god awful because the stock Ares Hop unit is just the worst. First of all, three of the six screws holding out outer barrel in place were rounded out from the Factory. More Ares QC! The gearbox unplugs from the Trigger/Selector Sub Assembly which makes things easier. The stock motor is a standard balanced motor, ferrite magnets. A bit disappointing considering the price, but not unsurprising from Ares. Ares ETU, Three big power MOSFETS, Top one is for AB. Decently powerful Microcontroller brain. Back of the ETU, Capacitor and Cycle-Detection Hall-Effect sensor. Gearbox looks similar to the Ares Tavor and PDR-C box. Tech reckons the motor is angled like that to accommodate the sling swivel sockets. He also makes an observation that the molds for the body castings must have cost an absolute fortune considering how intricate it is. This is all one casting, pockets, voids etc. Likely an eight part mold. It's just a shame that Ares made it out of the cheapest pig slag metal. But costs had to come down somewhere. Stock gearbox, Air seal was... Ok which is good for Ares, however the piston was damaged, premature engagement has pushed the rack up into the piston body. Note the fracture. Ares gears arent noted to be the best, so decided to change them out for some G&G's. However needed to install a new magnet into the new sector gear for the ETU to work correctly. With a bit of force... The Sector and spur gear were mounted on stainless bushings with the Bevel being on a bearing, these were all switched out for Hardened steel bushings for longevity. Along with a SHS all steel racked piston. Which was then swiss cheesed. First permanent mod was to the gearbox wall near the pinion motor. A small chunk had to be chopped away as the new gears were slightly wider in diameter then the stock ones. Bushings and gears went in as well. Next step is to run the new motor SHS Neo 16TPA motor in a little bit before installation and putting the gearbox back together. Other parts to install are a MaxxModel Air Nozzle, MaxxModel Hop unit, new 420mm Prommy barrel, Maple Leaf Bucking with Ohm nub.

But I thought with the Titan you can recalibrate the selector switch because it's optical? Why wouldn't you do that before advertising it? It's a two minute job 😕

But it DOES come with 30p as per the picture

It's missing a nut 😂

Oh I dont regret buying it. I managed to get it for much cheaper then what they go for in the UK ( I paid 320 quid brand new). It did work ok when I got it, just not very accurate, only knew about the piston issue once it was opened, I always plan to upgrade my rifles before purchasing anyway. When the goal is to get one of every AEG bullpup, I dont mind so much. Ares QC is usually really bad on their air seal components, M4 style rotary hop unit and poor design of the gearbox shells (See the L1A1 fiasco) However at least Ares push the boat out and bring us designs that no other manufacturer will touch, so there is that at least!

Made a little dropper panel so I can move my admin pouch down, makes the front of my chest rig a little cleaner. 2” Velcro at the top, three rows of PALs at the bottom. Also a couple of very hi-viz muzzle covers.

Airsoft plantation are doing private hire for July.... Afuk private game? It's also back open in august to normal bookings. Cant wait

Wow!. Holy Moly...Wait! How much? For a clone? Surely not!😂

On nights tomorrow so I'm staying up late. Productive night, game booked for the 18th at Matlock Combat Games!! Excited!! Taped up with partial effort, just to hide the two tone really but I quite enjoyed it and I'm relatively pleased with the result!!

my girlfriend, up the wall! 😭

Remember a while ago on here I mentioned being PM'd by a Chinese manufacturer. Well, turns out they wanted to send me (and presumably anyone else who responded to him) a free plate carrier. Took him up on it, thinking "yeah right, that'll never turn up" Bugger me though, it arrived today! 😂 It's a Big Foot branded carrier. GTPC is the model. It's not half bad actually. Needs a set of phony plates to stiffen it up, but the quality isn't bad at all. The cummerbund has 3 elastic mag pouches on each side so you can carry lots. And the quick release mechanism on the sides is easy to use and quick to take on and off. Lesson to be learned: Always take up the offers for freebies 😂

Yeah, I'm still waiting for an AA-P01 posted early June. I don't mind waiting as long as it arrives

I may have inadvertently taken the money from the sale of my scorpion and turned it into a hicapa. damm the elite shooting centre and it's shiny things

Developing an integrated backup iron sight (IBIS) for the zenitco Perst-4 device: First print (still WIP):