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This is true 🤓

Yeah I can imagine it sounding pretty "clack clack".. when we really wanna "slap slap" 😎 Another solution would be that chunk of metal but then gluing a rubber O-ring onto the front of the cocking tube - that might be the best of both worlds solution tbh. Sorry this 'what am bestest gun' thread turned into a tech shenanigans trouble shoot real fast 😅

Honestly, I think a solid flat metal surface would eventually cause the bolt tube to start disintegrating where it usually does at the front - what might work is a few coils of AEG spring in there at the end.

Yes this is a fact I have actually remedied this on both the MP5A2 and MP5K, took the front sights off and stuffed a piece of high density EVA foam up the front of the tube protruding just up to the point that it cushions the impact when the bolt flies home. The result means it doesn't break, however the sound is not quite as good, as you don't get the impact of the metal doweling of the charging handle hitting the front of the tube walls full force. The action is still satisfying enough though.

Hehe, me too, i use one of those little sample honey jars

Ah, in all fairness I should have checked in with ak2m4 as I do like his shop and services, It's just that I have never seen an actual airsoft shop just sell the slim ones alone so did not dig very much, it's always the multi spec packs! Good on him though for actually selling something the community wants! - oh well in another 10 years I'll pick up a pack from him 😅

Strangely enough all 3 MP5s I have owned ended up with broken charging handles, cant figure out why for the life of me 🧐

To quote 'Burt Gummer' in Tremors 2: "I am completely out of ammo.... that's never happened to me before" Searching through my little tub of shims, I cannot find a single sliver (0.1mm).. and there has gotta be at least a hundred in there! I don't think I've had to stock up on these in a decade or so - checking the prices online and they have certainly gone up. I used to get them from ehobby for $2/3 a bag I think. The other annoying thing is they always sell them to you in all three thicknesses; I've got plenty of the thicker ones, just need the 0.1mm! Anyway searching on ebay, I found these: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/10-50X-M2-M40-Stainless-Steel-Ultra-Thin-Flat-Washer-Ultrathin-Shim-Plain-Gasket/114590536320?var=414806532531 With my callipers I measured both some shims and some gear posts from different brands. The posts are usually just sub 3mm and the overall width of the standard shims (not the wider spur gear ones) is about 6mm - so it's the M3x6x0.1 I ordered - pack of 50 for £2.27 from China - not bad tbh. Just thought if anyone else was facing the same issue.. stocking up on endless thick shims and out of slivers, this might be useful! Enjoy!

I assume you don't snipe or do much DMR stuff - it would diminish the effectiveness and enjoyability of those roles considerably.

Yeah the Mando is based 5 years after ROJ if i'm not mistaken. As @Druid799 says though it was defo a different Krayt dragon... the one Mando slayed was probably over 10 times the size of that one out in the sand dunes in new hope. Hah! whata ya know! I suppose ultimately we have one of our dinosaurs missing to thank for last night's episode then I remember channel flipping one weekend when I was a youngster back in the 90s, and coming across 'one of our dinosaurs is missing' - expecting something closer to Jurassic Park, I remember being pretty disappointed 😅

Didn't know whether to start a new thread or not - but this one seems fitting enough to start off the discussion on Mando Season 2. Just finished watching episode 1 - I thought it was pretty awesome! I've literally wondered all my life about what that giant dinosaur skeleton on the sand dunes in a new hope could be - life long question answered! Excited about the reveal at the end of the episode too!

I've not upgraded since 2016 I believe - I still run a pre-overclocked Gigabyte windforce 980Ti with an i7 6700k - 16gb of ddr4 and a Samsung nvme m.2. While my current monitor is a 27" 144hz 1080p Iiyama; I would like to make a little return to gaming after around a years hiatus, maybe with a 1440p monitor and possibly one of these new 30 series RTX cards everyone is talking about - apparently the performance with the current Battlefield games at 1440p with the 3080 is pretty damn good.. even quite playable at 4k. Because I skipped two core generations of GPUs (the 1080/ti and then the RTX 20 series), I imagine the jump in performance between the 980Ti and 3080 would be significant. Would love to go back and play BF4 at 1440p maxed out with a constant fps at a minimum of 144, tearing free - though maybe that's still wishful thinking?. Even so, with Gsync and Freesync I don't think the constant fps above the 144hz mark is actually necessary. Funnily enough my brother is helping my 11 year old nephew build his first PC, I offered to donate some pieces I have lying around, in the form of my old GTX590 which was a beast of a card when it came out; it was 2 GPU chips on one card, effectively making it an onboard SLI solution for two GTX580s. But After doing a bit of research it turns out, this top of the line card which I bought for 6 or 7 hundred quid back in 2010/2011 wont be able to compete with a mid/bottom of the line 1660 contemporary card in the game 'fortnight' which is what he wants it for. Also, apparently SLI has gone the way of the dodo, so If you did want to run this card on a modern game, it would not be as a 590 but a single 580 GPU. To top it off, Nvidia stopped supporting it in 2018 for driver updates so it may only be a matter of time until the card doesn't even switch on in a modern windows 10 machine - feels kinda sad really.

Added to EU and UK lists. @Wizeguy @Tommikka

It seems the online shop component of their business is https://www.mpa-airsoft.co.uk/ so i'll add that to the UK list 👍

As @AlphaBear and @Musica said, the Mandolorian was pretty awesome - great blend of nostalgia and something new in the SW universe. My core complaint is the episode runtime in the first season being rather short, resulting in a few episodes feeling a bit rushed - I'm hoping following the success of the first season they will assign a budget and production capacity that would allow season 2 episodes to be a bit longer, fleshed out and therefore have the ability to more effectively character build. Rumor has has it we may see certain clone wars characters who have never been seen in live action before appear in the second season - cant wait to see if this is the case, apparently Temuera Morrison has been cast, potentially to play more than one character. 😁

I thought you were pulling my leg to begin with - looked like a clothes and fashion shop from the front page. But if you search 'Airsoft' they have quite a few things. Though i sort of get the impression that this is probably a market place site like Aliexpress.. not a direct shop-front itself?

I like your big lego Boba Fett dude

No you were right, they are definitely Italy based, but their amazon store seems to get a lot of US customers.. funny thing is a number of the poor reviews seem to be to do with purchases on boots - wrong sizes being sent, high return charges, that kinda thing. Either way, shouldn't be as much of an issue for us - have added them on 👍 https://www.amazon.com/sp?_encoding=UTF8&asin=&isAmazonFulfilled=&isCBA=&marketplaceID=ATVPDKIKX0DER&orderID=&seller=A14JNY308Z0IC7&tab=&vasStoreID=

Okay, will add them on, reviews seem a bit mixed tbh.. seems like they are pretty bad with returns (mind, a lot of those cases seem to be US based amazon customers)

Indeed they do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt6u1ewmHYg&t=46s

So interestingly enough this one by EAIMING (good job on the name of your company) appears to have a 4 cell batt - so likely 4.8v out the gate. Mind, I've not looked at any reviews for it yet. https://airsoft.tiger111hk.com/p30345/EAIMING-1200rds-Electric-Magazine-for-G36-AEG/product_info.html

Agreed, jumping from 3.6v to almost double might be too much. NimH cells are 1.2v meaning you are running on 3 cells, you could probably find something with 4 cells (4.8v) which is size compatible from either ebay or one of the various battery shops. Another option would be to purchase a single 1.2v cell with tabs and solder it into your existing battery if you are setup for that kind of thing.

Perhaps a TM high cap is the way to go, the only one i've owned was pretty good, but it wasn't for the G36... Regarding the feeding speed of the electric drum mag, what kind of battery does it use, and might it be possible to feed it with something at a slightly higher voltage. That might pick the feed speed up a bit for you while also applying slightly more pressure on the BB stream allowing the BBs to get into the hop unit more reliably.