mightyjebus

I was at Overlord on Sunday. Bought a couple of real Surefire M600's for £55 a pop. Also got a RS MP5 torch handguard for £35 quid and found what might be a bit of gold unicorn pooh in the shape of a MP5K handguard with a Magnalite attached. The mount was made by a company 20 miles from Hereford and the torch had some issue Duracells inside. I've never seen a picture of one and it's either probably a trials piece or a one off custom job for a job. I'll post a picture when the forum lets me. Now with a picture.

get an error 200 trying to upload photos and when I click on any of the links to the forum I get an error. tried logging in and out but still a problem. Anyone else having issues?

The retail price in Japan is going to be £129 for the G19 and the P320. I wonder if we will see the first £200 TM pistols when they get to the UK retailers.

probably not very exciting for most folks but managed to find 6 brand new MAG 100 round midcaps for the TM Sig. These are like unicorn pooh nowadays and found them on Evike USA which involved the usual UPS/Customs/general fuckery to get them delivered.

wires have come off the motor at a guess

well that G19 is going to be mental if the kick on the g17 is anything to go by. Oh and hasn't that 320 been in development for about 5 years? Not complaining, just amazed at TM's development times sometimes.

At a stage where I'm happy to share the progress on this. China Lake 40mm grenade launcher. It will be a 3+1 40mm pump action grenade launcher. Externals are pretty much done and just waiting on some parts to make progress on the internals. All 3D printed in a mixture of ABS, PLA and Wood filament. There are a couple of parts that I'm going to CNC in metal (looking at you pump arms) but the 3D printed ones will be good enough for testing.

yes, the rear of the upper receiver can crack due to the bolt hammering it over time. Get a sling mount to reinforce the area. https://www.skirmshop.co.uk/mp7-sling-swivel-end-for-tm-mp7a1.html The mags can leak eventually and I've had to rebuild 8 so far by removing the bottom and sealing with silicon. If you go for a MP7 style silencer try before you buy as I've had issues with some silencers smashing the BB's because of alignment.

It's probably fine to be honest. Clean the inner barrel and stick a battery on it and it will probably work fine. If the spring has been compressed for all that time then it might have lost a bit of FPS but only one way to check. TM stuff is normally pretty good with age, even the rubbers on the hop and piston. Only thing to be a bit wary of is that the pot metal used in a lot of airsoft AEG's don't age well and can become brittle. On the AK this will be the parts on the gearbox for the fire selector. Thankfully you can buy replacements if it decided to fall apart.

I tested the Strike EMP today and was getting 220 FPS with a .25. range was a good 40-45 meters which was surprising. For the mini glock I have normal mag and 2 extended mags and all 3 mags mag dump without problem. Mine is the early VFC version that came inside a bible without any indication it was a VFC. The P365 is meh to be honest and even though it CO2 it really needs a hop. It's on my list of things to figure out.

stupid small pistols being so much fun to use, making me buy so many.

Not enough Sig 55X rifles in this thread. Top - TM Sig 552 with Hurricane metal body and a Titan inside Middle - TM Sig 553+ Bottom - GHK 552 with 3 round burst.

looks like the promised TM price increases have been announced in Japan. An MWS will cost £105 more from June. I'd imagine UK retailers will add another 50% on top of that so expect an MWS to cost around £150more when bought new.

Thought this might be interesting to people using the NGRS AK74's from TM. If you snap the pot metal stock catch, you are pretty much buggered as spares are unicorn pooh. Thankfully FCW have made a steel replacement so grab one while you can. https://www.octagonairsoft.com/product-page/fcw-steel-lock-button-for-tm-ak-next-generation-ebb-series

I don't think it matters too much which battery, just that it has enough juice for it to turn over the AEG. Titans are normally pretty good but I've seen a few go wrong in the past. Most 7.4v LIPO's usually show around 8v fully charged so not much difference.

soooo.... 7.7v was probably enough for the NGRS to play up, It's not so much the voltage but more the current that the battery can supply. Fixing the semi-auto-back to semi issue can be solved 2 ways. 1. fit a high torque motor and this will stop it happening around 90% of the time. 2. fit a leviathan Mosfet and it will go away for good. Sounds like the ambi gears are worn and allowing them to slip and get out of alignment. I can't remember if there is a screw holding the 2 parts together but if so a bit of thread lock will stop the screw working loose and allowing enough room for the selectors to slip. The gear teeth are pot metal so will wear eventually so maybe trying to source a replacement might be a good idea as it could take a while to find one.

it's pot metal, either snap it off with a pair. of pliers or use a dremel

It's very good. The new Mosfet makes it very snappy. Shooting around 260 on a 0.25 but the TM hop makes up for that. The quest now is to find some Mag 100 round midcaps as I don't want to use hicaps and the 40 rounder lowcap is just too low.

I couldn't resist.

Wrong stock, pistol grip and magnifier but it's a work in progress of the new Royal Marine MCX in 300 Blackout. Based on a VFC.

just use any lower and fill the trades in with JB weld.

Scottie will be spinning in his grave. The velocity and Mass will be applied inside or outside the barrel depending on where the BB reaches maximum acceleration. A cylinder/hop/barrel combo can only supply X amount of energy and it doesn't matter how long the inner barrel is after a point as it will add nothing extra as you can't have something for nothing. There is a chance of a BB starting to deaccelerate inside an inner barrel due to the BB reaching maximum velocity inside the inner barrel (think of a AEG with a leaky O ring on a cylinder head). You have probably all seen an AEG that fires BB's about 10 meters due to some air leak or weak spring problem. This AEG's BB's would have started to deaccelerate well inside the inner barrel due to the velocity being low but the mass the same. I've tried to steer clear of the Magnus effect as this is another force relative to velocity but would have a big impact on range. This hop, or rotational force, would add something to the overall momentum force at point of impact.

it depends on where the BB reaches maximum acceleration. If it's inside the barrel then the energy measured at the muzzle will be the maximum joules it can achieve. A heavier BB could still be accelerating as it leaves the muzzle and doesn't reach maximum velocity until xx distance (double that of a 0.2g BB). Another way to think of it is the BB has had the energy applied but it takes time (in our case distance) before the full effect takes place. Think of a rocket taking off, it doesn't go from zero to maximum right away, it slowly creeps forward and accelerates every meter it climbs until it's at full velocity. The rocket power is the same at 0 feet as it is at 1000 feet but the rocket is travelling at 2 different speeds at those 2 distances. (ignore the fact that the rocket is fighting gravity and we will be fine with this analogy). I suspect that part of the reason for heavier BB's to travel further is that they are accelerating for longer so don't start to slow down as quickly as a lighter weight BB which reaches maximum acceleration quicker over a shorter distance, reducing the overall flight time compared to a heavier BB. Friction will affect the heavier BB more and gravity will also have some effect but it doesn't seem to be linear when comparing 0.2 and 0.4g BB's One way to test this would be to line up a couple of chrono's and shoot some heavier weight BB's through them to see at what distance the BB peaks in joules.