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Hi, been lurking for a while so thought I'd sign up. My 11 year old son has been Airsofting a few months and I bought him a AEG from my nephew who changed his mind after buying it and decided to get a GBBR instead. It's a Nuprol Delta Sopmod, which I know has many detractors, but it shoots really well and I enjoy fixing and upgrading stuff. I'll probably get him a second AEG and have one as a backup and something to tinker with. I also got him a Cyma CM030 Glock AEP for plinking a couple of years ago when he was too young to go skirmishing. I've been involved in all kinds of RC stuff for 35+ years including cars (used to race 1/8th scale buggys), heli's and FPV racing drones. I'm even thinking I could put some of my RC skills to good use helping my son with aerial drone reconnaissance or ground reconnaissance with an FPV setup on an RC car doubling up as a grenade delivery system 🙂 Will be seeing y'all around.

So the Modify barrel gave me an extra 25fps, sorted!

What’s the difference between a Chickpea and a Lentle I wouldn’t pay £50 for a Lentle on my chest

So as the title says I have decided to finally put out a review on the relatively new infinity system for PTW and will detail my experience from fitting to using it, this will be a long read so please grab your preferred beverage. My aim is to educate anyone thinking of buying one of my experience with the infinity and the niggles i encountered while fitting it and during its use. To begin I bought the unit through my local retailer High pressure airsoft to the tune of £1250 and they ordered it from RWA group for me when the units first came in stock, it arrived around 2 weeks later. Upon receipt I attempted to see if my unit was an updated one with the self learning feature properly installed but I couldn't get my hands on a t3 torx driver so i made the decision to wing it and see if it had it when I built it (fortunately it did have self learning installed so it didn't have to go back to the land of the rising sun). Dropping the infinity into my max2 donor ptw was a pretty simple task and i encountered no problems putting the gearbox into the lower. I elected to change the cylinder head from the infinity one with my original cylinder head so i could continue to use my wonderful hop setup consisting of a systema chamber, orga flat hop roller and a pdi 6.04 264mm barrel. Upon sliding in my cylinder and pulling the trigger i was met with a faint click though, so i opened the upper and found that the significantly larger sun gear on the infinity was interfering with a small portion of material on the inside of the upper, so a quick grinding sesh with the dremmel and we were in business. With the supplied m130 cylinder the gun was punching 0.28g bbs out at a tasty 310 fps 😅 A little too tasty, so i opened the cylinder set up and took a coil or two off the spring until the gun was achieving a consistent 280 fps on a 0.28g bb. This allows me plenty of room to account for any chrono inaccuracies and to generally not have to ever worry about chrono. I smashed 8 mags through it at hpas range and every shot was an absolute dream to fire, exceptionally fast response, comparable only to a hpa gun, surprisingly quiet, the gun hardly makes any noise minus the piston hitting the piston head. Full auto is a steady 800 rpm, same as a real m4a1, so not too speedy, just right. My first game with the infinity was at Humber airsoft club and it did not disappoint, range was unchanged from the full stroke legacy system, the improved trigger response and speed of follow up shots was definitely a game changer when it came to closer engagements where being the first to fire wins the engagement. over the course of the day i encountered only one feed jam due to a chopped bb inserting itself in a strange manner in the hop unit and the rest of the day was niggle free....right until i dumped all my remaining mags at the end of the day, when the infinity began failing to feed and then ground to a halt with its faint clicking again and the upper receiver was slightly pushed up, making it a proper c*nt to push the rear pin. Upon returning to my workshop i found that the piston was very very slightly warped at the back which was resulting in an odd pickup angle and the dsg wasn't having any of it and was failing to pick the piston up. To remedy this issue I installed a new Systema piston with the infinity rack with was in good serviceable condition and that fixed it completely. After fixing the piston i can gladly report I am now about 8 skirmish days and 1 milsim in and i have not had a single failure bar my magazines which I have sadly neglected on occasion 😅 The gun continues to impress me every time i pick it up and it's very rare I put it down. The technology inside the infinity to me represents a great leap into simplifying the gear train

Thank you for the welcome. It's great to hear how many people are spending quality time with their kids through airsoft. I haven't ventured into a game yet, but I will give it a go once we get another gun. I do fear I will present a large and slow target though! I enjoy the tinkering mainly and it's an opportunity to teach my son a bit. I've already started teaching him how to solder, which is essential if you are into any of a number of hobbies.

Anyone see on the news (BBC in this case). The part where they showed a market stall selling ‘military’ items in Afghanistan, most shopping were Taliban fighters, hoping for Real Steel American parts, sadly they were Chinese clones…. Most I guess similar to what we use at the weekends 😂😂😂😂

Whilst there may not have been any verified reports of strobes causing epileptic fits, I'd rather not be the cause of the first

I love the idea of the infinity system, and may the Airsoft Gods bless you for adopting it early, but I reckon I'll wait for CYMA to clone the hell out of it.

I thought that some of the cheaper option's power claims would probably be suspect. I not really after strobe mode due not wanting to possibly cause epileptic fits In that case 3000 lumens is probably a bit OTT Thanks, I'll have a look at that

Valkyrie Olight PL2 is probably the answer lol

AAP01 hpa adapter. The plastic leaked like a shiv so it got a few coats of cerakote.

Email should be better because customers and businesses need a record of conversations and agreements.

Because in this day and age a lot of people don’t like confrontation, I’ve learnt this over the years in business that indeed you need to talk to people, but for some this is a difficult skill set. Information is everything, and if you are not certain you are right, or if you even know your rights regardless it makes it very hard to have the confidence to have a direct conversation ‘on the spot’. Mail has always allowed people the opportunity for a considered enquiry/answer.

It’s the JG version , bought it before all this Brexit bollocks kicked in and compared to today’s prices it was a steal. So glad I did at the time 👍

Hi All, It is a risky and very long shot, but why not. 2 years ago I've made a box with multiple game modes, sold couple of them. I've came up with the whole design and functionality and very smart 15y/o boy programmed it for me. Tried to learn programming myself and I know it is not difficult, but it is just not for me... I was paying for programming and ended up dropping everything... 2 years after I've decided to carry on with my dream and ideas So looking for someone in UK who would want to be a programmer/designer/partner in creating Airsoft/Paintball props We both would buy all parts separate and test them together Can't promisse any money at start, but we would share agreed percentage on the finished products Project examples: Bomb with remote controls for diffusing / detonating Balance box transportation Wireless automatization using Baofeng radios Death zone automated player register / timer And so on...

First thing I did after spraying (well, stripping) mine was to inadvertently tell a copper. However since he was playing airsoft at an airsoft site and I explained that I reckoned it was OK because I could demonstrate that it was for the purposes of playing airsoft (being at an airsoft site and all), we were cool. Just like this story.

How did it go? I am still processing the games or rather my interactions with the games so i will leave that out for now but as to kit.... The social aspect of sharing camp space was great, there was plenty of for all and chat and banter came easy. Carrying this lot was a pain but not unfeasable it was really only between trains and platforms. There was a (short lived plan to walk to the site from the train station but thankfuly i got a lift. sleep system - needs tweaking - the hammock and tarp went up really easily with the exception of needing extra loops for the hammocks to attach to. So that will be the long ones that i ordered in june and simply didn't appear so had to order alturnites, which are much shorter. nevermind there was spare rope. Now to make you all laugh, i fell out. i landed like a sack of spuds being rejected from the harvest. rolled all the way over and thud. I also need to plan a bit better when it comes to set up as i managed to have opening for sleeping bag on the opposite side to the opening of hammock. But over all slept well. Cooking - need to invest in a burner as i borrowed for the weekend. so the plan was to make a couple of high veg count super noodle numbers and supliment with breakfast bars, nuts and biltong and that was mostly the case for the Saturday. Sunday was only breakfast and biltong due to how the day played out. As a whole on the next weeekender there are likely thing that i will not pack and i think a larger backpack; to allow for more compartmentalised packing.

That's very interesting. I guess it's not that surprising that most BBs perform about the same, as from what I've seen with my testing they tend to have similar size ranges/variation & as they mentioned in the video many brands are probably made in the same factory anyway! It would also be interesting to see how various BBs perform after being fully loaded into midcap mags (especially ones with particularly strong springs like the EPM1s) as some BBs are much softer than others and could end up being deformed & suffer reduced performance as a result. The results for the Ares BBs are a little surprising as the ones I got were unimpressive, with the bag I got containing a bunch of badly deformed BBs (and the ones that looked ok didn't seem all that special either). Although the ones I looked at were the 0.25g version & it wouldn't surprise me if some weights are just more consistent/better made than others for whatever reason, as I've seen with other brands. It's also possible that I just got some from a bad batch but then I would've thought that any that were so visibly dodgy as the ones I found would've been picked up by QC, especially with them being visible through the packaging... It's a shame they didn't test any BioSphere BBs as those are the closest to perfect BBs I've found so far in terms of size & roundness, but every one I broke apart had an air bubble; it would be interesting to see how much of an effect that has on their performance. I'll definitely have to take a look at the 6mm Ammo BBs though, those sound very promising.

Welcome Gonz Yeah I got into airsoft for something to share with my son when he was 14. He's 16 now and has two GBBRs, an AEG and a couple of pistols as well as several outfits. Sure is lots of fun for all the family 😄

Op i will say the same thing I say to every noobie that joins and asks this question. Don't spray it in-front of a cop and don't be a cunt with it after you spray it. Follow those simple rules and not one person or site in the UK is going to give a shit. Not even a part shit. Nay even a nugget of a shit.

My son is interested but reluctant to start as he tends to go the whole hog into all his hobbies and he know it would cost him plenty lol. His main hobby is astrophotography and he has spent thousands on kit. Even nasa has asked to borrow it lol. My targets are 30 to 50mtrs his targets are 30 to 50 light years! It's a shame but next best thing is my grandson. I've got him and his mate hooked and we have played a few games together now🙂

"Can't promisse any money at start, but we would share agreed percentage on the finished products" I really think you need to rework your business plan before you take someone on board to make stuff for you. If I was a candidate, that kind of phrase would make me run away faster than a speeding bullet. IMO, it's either you pay them upfront for their work or it's nothing. Because, as you said, it's risky and you've not shown that there is market potential for these kinds of products. So if you do happen to take on some talented person on an agreed percentage, and the business flops, that talented individual has worked hard and wasted much of his time for diddly squat. After all, it is your dream, not theirs. For most airsoft/robotics projects, python should be adequate and there are a lot of free learning resources out there.

As an OG systema user, I was and still am very interested in the Infinity. That said, i think the price they are providing it for and the requirement to gut your old and probably quite functional PTW, is criminal. I am glad to hear you are having a mostly hassle free experience from it. Everyone else I have spoken to so far, is not singing its praises. Not that it surprises me. Out of the box my PTW failed after 4-5 mags and had to have its motor worked on by Tackleberry. It also irks me that is designed that you have to use that stupid grip faux motor insert. My 2008 PTW has the same hop ad you and an Orga magnus wide barrel. It too reaches out for miles. On an 11.1 it fires as fast as my finger can pull but i do want to try a working Infinity to see if the difference is that noticeable to warrant the buying of a new one. My plan is to let the Alpha testers sort out the issues and look to buy a PTW challenge kit once they release the infinity with a matching body. ( Thank you for your service ) Then I will have two working PTWs

Horses for courses - part of the purpose of proper tactical lights is to dazzle your target hence they go into the 1000's of lumens. Navigation lighting is usually more subtle so you can see where you're going without (completely) giving away your position. So if you want to see where you're going but not crisp up vegetation or strip paint at 100m then get something in the 200-600 range. If you want to be "that guy" then go big or go home. Preferably with a strobe.

If they're aware of it. A dark, cluttered CQB environment with pieces of hard plastic whizzing around is a poor place to find out. The Depot used to ask if anyone was epileptic and allow or prohibit use on a day to day bases. Then they just blanket banned them, and I'd wonder if it's because someone learned the hard way. Yes, the parts listing player's duties of care to each other and to the site make sense, and I'd always encourage people to let sites know about any relevant medical conditions. The parts that attempt to waive and disclaim sites' duties of care or liabilities towards players are very, very silly indeed though, and I do wish they'd stop mucking around with that nonsense.

It’s good to think of the implications According to the epilepsy society 1% of people have epilepsy, and 3% of them have photo sensitive epilepsy. Within that 0.03% of people (or 5% of children/young people) - 0.05% of youngsters But non sufferers could be disorientated or unwell (Bearing in mind of course that the intent of strobes in a game is to disorient others) There might be no effect at all on a photosensitive epileptic depending on the strobe frequency/pattern https://epilepsysociety.org.uk/about-epilepsy/epileptic-seizures/seizure-triggers/photosensitive-epilepsy We’ve used strobes as players at some events - underground / indoor / night games etc and also used ‘strobing’ pyro (the scientists may disagree with the simplification that it’s effectively a flash bang that sets of a series of pulses rather than one bright bang) As players we’ve only used them with organisers permission - either in the event rules or confirmed it’s OK Ideally a photosensitive epileptic will identify themselves to organisers - (have you ever read the disclaimer forms that you sign or the ticket booking small print?) An organiser would allow / disallow on the basis of what they know of the site, and of the players. The greater risk is possibly players running into walls or tripping due to disorientation For brightness our eyes have the natural protection of blinking, and even with lasers as long as they are UK / CE legal there should be no or negligible risk of blinding someone in game play unless you hold them down and prise their eyes open ((We’ve used strobes mainly as dropping a torch in a corridor etc to distract people’s attention or make it hard for them to see whether they can get through it - then shooting them while they stand confused)

Many manufacturer will exaggerate the output of their products, but to be honest anything 300-600 lumens with a tightly focused beam is usually more than adequate, & if you want to exploit a possible tactical advantage, look for something with a switchable strobe mode.

Surely retinal burning comes at the higher lumens? I spend a lot of time mountain biking in the dark and judging by the impact of when mates look round and forget their head torch is on, anything over 1000 should do that nicely. But more is probably better in this case.

Ahoy and welcome. Yup, you're on the sensible track (well, as sensible as playing with toy guns can be). I would recommend full face for CQB and Dye i4/i5 are a solid choice: you don't want to take a big hairy bloke's load point blank in your mouth. Whaaat? This is my straight face.

Well after a year and a half away from the sport, looks like I'll soon be able to jump back in. Any tips for making sure my kit is still in working order by the time I'm able to play (probably Jan 2022)? I've been charging batterys and firing off a mag or two for the AEGs and then just kept the GBB mags up with some gas.

Dont need to go "full face mask" unless you want to get some fans/ventilation on the go to stop it fogging up like the car on the sex scene on Titanic. I went glasses (with a combo of "cat crap" anti fog paste, yes its a real thing) and a mouth guard similar to this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07RDK983J/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&th=1

That's an astonishing question and statement. Phoning interrupts people and stops them doing what they were doing, i.e. helping other customers. Answering emails can be done in a block, more efficiently, while you're ready to deal with them. Then you're rewarding your highest cost, most demanding customers. Why not reward the ones who are helping you out instead?

As a site policy though, it's a poor choice to ignore it. And there was a positive infestation of HPAs and GBBR at my local last week, many of which failed chrono even after doing their speedyboi magic. Site response: "Oh just run your gun[*] as a DMR then." [*] Section 5 firearm!

Just to update I got my plate carrier setup from Poland delivery by UPS and I was thinking about long delays and extra charges. Only took over a week and no extra charges on 269 order,I already paid VAT from the shop though.

An extremely convincing argument, a heavy defence of the seller that isnt remotely suspicious even with the lack of evidence beyond "looks legit to me bruv" and loyal devotion to spreading the word. On the other hand we have the guy who has a long history on this board of buying both legit real optics and chinese clones, but that doesnt mean anything.....

tbf, joule creep generally doesn't apply to aeg's, at least in the same sense it's applied to the likes of gbb's, hpa's or bolty's with heavy pistons. that said, i've heard the term applied to meaning the difference between X fps on X weight compared to X fps on Y weight, which isn't the same thing. although i do get the sentiment that a site insisting on the old 0.2g chrono probably hasn't bothered learning the situations when that's not such a good idea.

@M6GXH This is an airsoft forum. You will need one for air rifles. Whilst an airsoft gun is a BB gun, not all BB guns (firing metal ammo) are airsoft. Topic locked.

before cutting anything, are you running thrust bearings on both the piston and the spring guide? if so you can lose the one in the piston (replace it with a washer) and that'll drop you a few fps. you do want at least one thrust bearing though, and having it on the spring guide saves piston mass.

Several test prints later, and a few changes were made. The screw hole has been enlarged for the bolt to pass clean through the base, and halfway into the shell. This makes it flush inside the assembly and actually serves as a pin between all 4 parts. I have also decreased the outer sides of the Inner parts by .02" all around (.5mm), as it would require a pneumatic press to actually get the two inner halves into the shell. Just the cm or so I shoved them together to test the fitment took a hammer to remove. So far I have 2 of the latest bases done, a possible "production" print of the shell done (I have three options to print it: First, I can do it with the top horizontal, and support material as a wedge. This is what I did for the shell I have printed. It worked, but did have some errors along the base and had to be sanded flat. Testing with the inner parts after theyre done will determine if this is a problem. Its also the longest print - at 80% speed it takes a whopping 14 hours: Second is to print it with no supports at the bottom, leaving the top as a slant. This has the plus of ensuring a flat base, but gives a layered top: Third is to print on its side. This is the fastest method at only 8 hours and change at 100% (approx 12 hours at 80%), but does use the most material and cost the most. To be fair its about 3 Euros per shell vs the 2.70 Euros or so if printed in either vertical orientation, so not exactly an important difference. Cleaning all that support material out is gonna be a PITA though, and itll leave the face-down side a different texture due to my textured print bed. ), and I am working on printing the two inner halves now. Heres what it looks like mostly assembled, still missing the two inner halves:

Just ordered a TDC kit from Airtac. Hopefully that will arrive and I can get it fitted before I goto Leicester Gaol later this month. As we all know the hop is a ball bag to adjust with a stock and rail attached!

Cheers that's excellent advice, thanks very much.. and for the link. I actually have started looking at gear. I think I'm settled on the Lowa Zephyr GTX boots... but face, head and eye protection is going to need a looot more research it seems, there seem to be so many combos all the way to the HALO looking, but apparently the best performing Dye style full face protection.

TM 1911

Not doing too badly so far on my list of, well, full disclosure these items wernt on a list....thats how they are still at home.... Sleep mask - if i get more than 4 each night i am doing better normal Train book! Have one for the longer journey back but not for now.... Still doing better than my brother, who forgot his guns and had to go back for them.....

Just gave mine its once a year deep clean.

They should have shot him in the face.. With Real bullets.. but hey ho..

Summary of 0.25g results, sorted by average variation/roundness: Brand Avg. weight | # 5.94mm+ | # 5.93mm+ | avg. variation | # varying > 0.02mm | Notes BioSphere 0.2455g | 16 | 20 | 0.0015mm | 0 | Air bubbles found in all Nuprol 0.2505g | 3 | 13 | 0.011mm | 2 | Geoffs 0.25g | 1 | 16 | 0.0135mm | 1 | G&G 0.25g | 12 | 19 | 0.015mm | 0 | Air bubbles found in some ASG Open Blaster 0.253g | 1 | 10 | 0.016mm | 3 | Xtreme Precision 0.2515g | 3 | 19 | 0.0165mm | 1 | Air bubbles found in some, soft/easy to deform Ares Amoeba 0.2525g | 11 | 18 | 0.0165mm | 3 | Found a bunch of fucked up BBs in the pack that could potentially cause damage None of the BBs tested are perfect, but Geoffs and (surprisingly) Nuprol seem to be the better choices in 0.25g, followed by ASG Open Blasters. The Ares Amoeba BBs are easily the worst purely due to the shockingly bad & potentially damaging defects I found, although their consistency otherwise isn't too impressive either.

Soooo a long while (3 or 4 years ago) back I managed to get a 2nd l85 cheap.... so I did a thing 😁😁😁 (had it finished 3 years now, mixed ICS and 3d printed parts etc)