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Well you make your own!
 

Well you make your own!
 

3.2-3.8 fv - I am running them off a 9v battery, the resistors are really small IIRC, I bought them off bright components for pennies really and yes running parallel. One 9v lasts around 6 hours or so. 

Well you make your own!
 

Well you make your own!
 

Well you make your own!
 

Well you make your own!
 

I can’t recall offhand but I did the calcs and the resistors are needed, I tried a few variations and blew lots of leds in the testing

Well you make your own!
 

Well you make your own!
 

Well you make your own!
 

After quite the hiatus, I stopped making excuses and got out there again to die for the Emperor at Area 66 yesterday, with my freshly painted and sanctified XR-5 doing lasgun duties.  Looks great, shoots like an under-hopped, under-powered, over-weight piece of junk that required wild bursts of fire to hit anything.  So, a pretty good facsimile then.
 
Fun was had in the heat, but it was strictly a walking day.  I binned off the costume and junk-gun at lunch and went out TAC-41 sniping in the afternoon with much more success.  The out-of-the-box-plus-a-spring performance of those things is great, but I'd make a rubbish sniper - far too much chuckling and "Git rekt, scrub!" from the bushes.
 
It was a decent day despite a big stag-do party being there, they were split up and generally played OK. Not enough marshals, but fortunately not much need for them.  One interesting thing they did was to tag guns with a cable-tie, but not trim it until walk-on for the first game, which is a commendable attempt to catch chrono-dodgers and make pre-game chrono a bit more meaningful.
 

Do I have multiple devices for cleaning barrels? Yes.
 
Do I regularly clean my barrels and service my guns? Oh look a squirrel!

Milsims are too serious for my taste. 
Too many walts and weekend warriors preening over their authenticity and immersion, while playing toy soldiers in the woods.
I play for fun, not to have orders barked at me by a guy who suddenly got a small amount of power. 

Played again at TAC House Spartan "The Stan" this sunday, we linked up with F Team Airsoft who drove up from portsmouth to Sheffield to give the site a try.
 
All in all a good day, we clocked in the fastest pushback time ever since the site re-opened at just over 9 minutes. we defended it for 23!
 
Decent selection of games as usual and they have just opened up an new staircase and we were the first ones to play across 3 floors, which is not great on the legs! Hit taking was good (it usually is here) and everyone seemed to play in the spirit of the game which always make the day better.
 
if you haven't been back to the Stan since it re-opened it is well worth a visit.
 
Simon
 

which o ring need changing? 
 
The one on the inside of the fill valve i find impossible to change, the one on the outside just get yourself a darts o ring installer, makes it an absolute doddle -you can find them on ebay for about £4

Played again at TAC House Spartan "The Stan" this sunday, we linked up with F Team Airsoft who drove up from portsmouth to Sheffield to give the site a try.
 
All in all a good day, we clocked in the fastest pushback time ever since the site re-opened at just over 9 minutes. we defended it for 23!
 
Decent selection of games as usual and they have just opened up an new staircase and we were the first ones to play across 3 floors, which is not great on the legs! Hit taking was good (it usually is here) and everyone seemed to play in the spirit of the game which always make the day better.
 
if you haven't been back to the Stan since it re-opened it is well worth a visit.
 
Simon
 

Played again at TAC House Spartan "The Stan" this sunday, we linked up with F Team Airsoft who drove up from portsmouth to Sheffield to give the site a try.
 
All in all a good day, we clocked in the fastest pushback time ever since the site re-opened at just over 9 minutes. we defended it for 23!
 
Decent selection of games as usual and they have just opened up an new staircase and we were the first ones to play across 3 floors, which is not great on the legs! Hit taking was good (it usually is here) and everyone seemed to play in the spirit of the game which always make the day better.
 
if you haven't been back to the Stan since it re-opened it is well worth a visit.
 
Simon
 

Played again at TAC House Spartan "The Stan" this sunday, we linked up with F Team Airsoft who drove up from portsmouth to Sheffield to give the site a try.
 
All in all a good day, we clocked in the fastest pushback time ever since the site re-opened at just over 9 minutes. we defended it for 23!
 
Decent selection of games as usual and they have just opened up an new staircase and we were the first ones to play across 3 floors, which is not great on the legs! Hit taking was good (it usually is here) and everyone seemed to play in the spirit of the game which always make the day better.
 
if you haven't been back to the Stan since it re-opened it is well worth a visit.
 
Simon
 

In a retail setting and Depending where you go I’d say £20-£40ph  + parts 😕

Hm. Myself never used such services (I'm too stubborn and too tight) but you could ask Skirmish CQB based in Kirbky-in-Ashfield. Unless I'm wrong they charge 35 pounds service fee plus parts if needed.

I'm not sure they always come back working TBH. I do my own teching and will work on mates guns for them and I've been handed a couple that had aparantly been to a pro and were awfull .

My local charges £40 for the box to be opened, any work inside said box carried out, a generalised service and reassemble/test. Parts are down to the person to provide, which is fair enough. Other services like hop up changing etc is £10 - £20. Most places tend to be per hour though, from my experience.
 
 

When I didn't know what I was doing, tech wise (I still don't know what I'm doing for everything else), I went to TheCageAirsoft for them to work on my MP5. To install a bunch of parts, including wiring a MOSFET, they charged me £80 labour. This was Jan 2023 so not sure if their prices have changed since. The lads there are great and have always tried to help me out if I had any questions about random stuff. Can't recommend them enough.

If you're looking for experiences, then it might be a good shout to check out the Recommend a Tech threads
 
Otherwise, I would say it depends on your gun, what you want from it, your budget and how long you wanna wait
The more experienced/popular techs will no doubt have the longest waiting times and higher cost per hour charge.

If it's for your ICS then Fire-support are the UK ICS specialists and tend to have all the little obscure parts for them
- their site says "Labour fee is calculated on a job to job basis, but a service is approximately 30-40."
I used them briefly when I bought my ICS Mp5 on release and had a motor issue. They were pretty quick, with fast/friendly comms and sorted the issue - no problems
 
People will have their go-to techs for things like HPA, GBBR, Tokyo Marui as those particular places will have a name for doing (hopefully) great work with them

You should look to get anything minor like general shimming, changing a hop, changing/upgrading a piston done whilst booked for a service to get better value for your money/time
Shimming and the mere installation of parts like that are generally included in that pricing, just not the actual cost of the parts supplied by the tech, (as you'd expect)

Most techs will allow you to provide parts yourself, but will not offer any guarentee on any parts they did not advise/supply

So Service+Parts+Return Postage is usually the general "quote".

-IF- they offer a flat charge for a Service, then average is usually between £30-50 - depending on what they deem is part of that service.
some have different versions with different prices like "basic service" or "full service"

If they don't offer a flat charge for a "Service", then yeah it's whatever their hourly rate is and how long it takes them