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I'd guess the stronger spring and 11.1 were too much for a standard shell. You probably had a poor air seal so compensating with a heavier spring is not the way to go. Personally I would never use an 11.1 in a standard gearbox but I hate high rof builds anyway. 😉

I think i missed a trick when I bought my black ones, white shows off the RIFs much better. I suppose the pragmatic solution is to paint my RIFs white.

Bodged this up with an old pmag and some brackets. I get a really nice "floating gun" effect on my wall

Rough'ish, just waiting on lots of stuff to arrive but with Chinese holidays round the corner might be slow going. So a good time to work on new website and do some product design stuff that I've been meaning to get around to. Really want to stock some decent well priced qd gearbox shells but the age old problem is compatibility and availability. Trying hard though to work with existing suppliers to make a few adjustments.

For everyone, use WD40 as a cleaner. Use Silicone oil or GT85 for lubrication

I don't know why these have become a thing regardless, Li-Ion are crap for high current requirements. Odds on he overpaid at LWA and is trying to sell for paid price 👀

Chuck that in a cupboard ever so slightly damp and you'll cry... Of course if it was made of willow bast, you could get several millennia out of it, if looked after. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antrea_Net#:~:text=The Antrea Net is one,is dated to 8540 BCE.&text=The net was found by,his home farm Ämmä-Mattila.

Happy New year chaps and chappesses. Got back from the land of the little people so feeling a bit zoned out. Thought I'd have a look at my beloved Specna as it sounded awful last game day and wasn't feeding. Was hoping it was the tappet spring again but no: So that's Donald Ducked. The two spare boxes i have dont quite fit for different reasons, so off to Cage Airsoft it goes for dealing with it (wiring harness is fecked too). Looking forward to a skirmish day, but Spec Ops isn't open until Feb, so maybe South Herts or AWA. Hope everyone had a good break?

I would not use an Orion gearbox, but if that is what fits in your RIF...

Itching to get her zeroed in - might sneak down to my brother's whilst he and his missus are away and take advantage of their massive back garden LOL.

That's an old picture. She is now looking spot on.

Welcome back.

The Ultimate Gearbox is a Lonex rebrand, very nice part but no QD spring sadly. Orion probably best bet but quite high with the shipping from EU etc. Delta Armoury looks good enough and decent price.

I guess it’s a little too far gone to just tape it back together 🥲 all part of the fun of airsoft; something always needs replacing or repairing!

Just chiming in my experience with handling this gun: it doesn't taking modding very well. The plastic piston head will break if you put anything more than a m110 in it and the gearbox is a bit swiss cheese as it is concerningly easy to file down. The hop unit is also somewhat propietary as the bb tube is placed a bit closer to the gearbox compared to other aftermarket units which can create feeding and fps issues. Currently, i'm havng issues with getting a perun to work in it (because precock), likely due to the sensor positioning as the screw holes are slightly off spec, and you also have to file down a circular screw holder because it gets in the way. The piston is not resetting in the same position every time, leading to feeding issues, firing a BB once every 3/4 shots which is unuseable. All in all, it's good for the price and it performs well but only if you don't mess with the gearbox as it's really only rated for what it can already handle.

I think I got the equivalent of a day's skirmish out of it once you factor in the swapping around the other pews.

Spring, shimming and air seal were done at the same time as repairing it when the tappet spring went pop. So a case of too much at once. 😪 Indeed, once basic upgrades, then essential repairs are added up, there's a shiny new TM in there somewhere - but then it wouldn't be airsoft, and this is my first pew. So there is a bit of sentimental value there too. Thinking back, not much needed doing to the gun out of the box bar shimming, and air seal. Once operational again, I might try the OEM spring again and see just how much the shim and seal would have done on it's own.

This is why TM have always been so reliable, stock they don't aim to be the most powerful, nor the highest rate of fire, in return they virtually never self destruct, instead they just keep doing what their supposed to. There a lesson in there somewhere 😏

If you're thinking about using it at the new place - talk to Carlos first as I think bang bangs will be limited - at least at first.

I saw this and thought of you 🥴 (that's my pic of the actual typewriter from the Kubrick exhibition in 2019)

Err, are you ok, Dan?

The hole punch was invented in 1886. The International Boxing Commission banned the move in 1887.

For those who like folk punky stuff I've been listening to a lot of Ferocious Dog recently. If that video floats your goat they are hoofing live as well.

That will catch on every bramble, briar, twig and branch out there whilst offering basically no real benefit to concealment for those who are not already capable of hiding in a high-vis should the need arise.

I may be missing something here, but this ghillie had better be giving Harry Potter level invisibility cloak for that money.

I have been listening to our original tape release so that I can work out some projections for a couple of songs that have not been in the setlist for a very long time.

Och, she lives round the corner from me.

I heard that there's a guy who may, or may not, operate from an airsoft shop in south Wales! Not sure of the quality of his work though! 🤣🤣

I wouldn't use anyone except those two, which is why they have such long waiting lists, which is why I wouldn't use them. It's a self-causing / self-solving problem. If it's for a specific gun it might be best to mention it, as any Sklyar can mess up an M4, but some techs specialise in messing up GBBR or HPA builds.

Never let them know your next move. 👀

Apparently next week it will be constant rane,hale,thundre,litnin and frizzing colde. Really bad spell of weather.

By the same logic, does that mean that if you s**t yourself, you've got skid "M-Ks"?

Damnit. Didn't put up a pic. 😂

Custom built MAS 36

Sound of Music on again. Don't know how many times I've watched it. Must be 16 going on 17.

An old Finnish joke about the Winter War: A large group of Russian soldiers in the border area in 1939 are moving down a road, when they hear a voice call from behind a small hill: "One Finnish soldier is better than ten Russians". The Russian commander quickly orders 10 of his best men over the hill where a gun-battle breaks out and continues for a few minutes, then silence. The voice once again calls out: "One Finn is better than one hundred Russians." Furious, the Russian commander sends his next best 100 troops over the hill and instantly a huge gun fight commences. After 10 minutes of battle, again silence. The calm Finnish voice calls out again: "One Finn is better than one thousand Russians!" The enraged Russian commander musters 1000 fighters and sends them to the other side of the hill. Rifle fire, machine guns, grenades, rockets and cannon fire ring out as a terrible battle is fought... Then silence. Eventually one badly wounded Russian fighter crawls back over the hill and with his dying words tells his commander, "Don't send any more men... it's a trap. There are two of them!"

Airsoft UK facebook group is starting a website with a forum because Zuck is gonna shut down the group but on their own site they can't get shut down and people can sell RIFs.. 😂

Running my British WW1 kit a few weeks ago up at Adrenalin Airsoft (Was visiting a friend, very far north for me usually) one of the best regular skirmish days I've had in a while! (Repping the First Battalion Boys WW1 team insignia, based on blackadder's fictional badges)

I spent some time today working on my Magpul/Ares Masada and was moaning commenting about some of the appalling design decisions, including the ambidextrous selectors; my son then asked why I have three Ares rifles if I hate them so much. The answer is simple: they make some unusual and beautiful RIFs. As Egon_247 noted, their gearboxes are wonderfully over engineered and as robust as a Russian warship.

Binfluencer (noun): Person who puts the right bin out on the right day, letting everyone else on the street know which bin to take out. Particularly useful over Christmas and New Year when no one knows what day it is.

Decided, for the first time, to try the January sales and it's doing my head in! Went to Boots, they don't sell boots.. Went to Currys, they don't sell curry.. Went to Selfridges, they don't sell fridges.. As for Virgin Megastore, what a let down that was!

Commiserations 😢, maybe next time you'll buy a tm😏

What sucks the most is that its one of the few disabilities that people will actually get angry at you for.