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Ahhh - the art of ultra fine shimming & shit...

A very slightly extra nip of the screws when tightening

Fitting a slightly too snug pistol grip

(or motor cage on v3/AK)

& your ultra fine hairline shimming is no more

When people say they shimmed to 0.10mm or even 0.05mm

Oh fuck off, do you know just how fine that tolerance is ???

I probably shim to somewhere near 0.15mm

The issue is that airsoft dimensions are very vague

(like airsoft meters)

Shimming & shit has been discussed many times

But at least you had a chance to check & correct it

when you SS'd it

Skara
Skara
Only knocked off one tooth (pickup side), just to make sure I don't PME @30 RPS.

I won't be using 11.1s because I don't fancy buying a bag of 0.28s every Sunday, but shouldn't be having any issue now even when plugging bigger batteries in.

Adolf Hamster
Adolf Hamster
and this is why we test with tightened gearbox shells before final assembly

Skara
Skara
He did test but SHS HT + 13:1s don't care about shimming :D

anyway I lost 0.15/0.2J so had to replace the spring (still M90 but this one is shs and is a lot longer than the stock specna), now it's back at 0.85/0.9 but lost 1RPS in the process, not that I give too many fucks about it :D

Now, where did I leave my pdw.....

Shamal
Shamal
High @SkaraIs that an amoeba 013 in your profile pic?

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