Rogerborg

If in doubt, re-do it. You'll only get better with practice. I'd stick with 60/40 or 63/37 tin/lead rosin flux cored solder. Brands can be a holy war, I use Stannol, but they've discontinued the 60/39/1 wire that I preferred, so sod em.

You could probably knock one up in your shed. Kydex is cheap, and really easy and forgiving to work with, just heat and form.

Yup, if you want to stay stealthy, any Mk23. If you want to sling more balls, then, sure, an AEG SMG is a good shout. It's a shame that the plastic Galaxy MP5K (G5K) is out of stock, as it's ideal as a cheap, light, auto-capable sidearm. But it is, so you'll likely have to look at: CYMA (heavier, but spicier) https://www.patrolbase.co.uk/cyma-cm-041k-smg-5k-submachine-gun Jing Gong (lighter but weedier) https://www.patrolbase.co.uk/jing-gong-jg-smg-5k If you don't mind slinging a secondary, any shortish, lightish AEG will do. I run a mix of Galaxy MP5K, a Jing Gong G36C with the stock taken off, or a CYMA M4 with the barrel cut down and the stock lopped right off (battery in a PEQ box). Whatever works, works. If you want something a little different, this is a genuine bargain price for a Double Eagle UMP 45: https://bbguns4less.co.uk/products/double-eagle-m89-ump-45-electric-airsoft-gun-in-black.html - you can ditch the stock, and bin off any rails that you don't need to bring the weight down.

Yup, best to ask here: https://airsoft-forums.uk/classifieds/category/18-parts-gear-wanted/

That's a good point, I'd definitely be budgeting for lipos and a decent charger.

The cheapest CYMA M5xx range has toytown plastic: they're good candidates for throwing in the bag as a backup or loaner, but I wouldn't spend money on them, unless it's to learn teching. £200 gets you into the Double Eagle M9xx range. Plastic too, but nicer than the CYMA, and with a rotary hop, quick change spring, and a decent fire control system. https://www.patrolbase.co.uk/airsoft-m4-ar15-m16-variant-assault-rifles?*brand=61 That said, even the cheapest Specna Arms FLEX units have all those features now as well. That's quite remarkable value for money, although they're less of a known quantity than the Double Eagles. https://www.patrolbase.co.uk/airsoft-m4-ar15-m16-variant-assault-rifles?*brand=302 If you want a metal body, you're probably looking at the Specna EDGE range, but then you're paying more for fewer features, and a metal body that doesn't feel (or work) any better than a decent plastic.

Presumably he's factoring in the absolute rinsing inflicted by EAGLE6 for throwing in the Titan and trigger. I also like that he's listed a sling swivel, but nothing about replacing any TM parts designed to run at 0.8J, or even what spring has ostensibly bumped it to 1.1J. The ANGY SHOUTING about not splitting this bargain bundle up is the perfect opener. That'll take some beating.

I apologise for your error.

Wall, thar's yar problem. Airsoft isn't actually magic, so you'll want to get at close to your site's energy unit as possible, and sort the hop. If a clean hop bucking can't lift 0.45g, then a sliver of rubber / tape / whatever thin thing you have to hand can add as much pressure as you need.

Thank you for following up, now we've all learned.

Oh, sorry, my mistake, I was thinking of the chap with the weird BB-stuck-in-hop issue. Yes, it's much easier with a springer - just mash your finger in the end of the barrel to see if there's good seal there. You should be able to shoot it, remove your finger, and hear a pop. If so, you're good. If not, something is leaking, and it's a question of working backwards to find where. Have you changed the stock spring? Stock seems to be around 1.8J, but some snipers come super-weak out of the box to be safe in all markets.

Depends how far you're stripping it down. If it's all the way to components, then start with piston and cylinder. Seal the end with your hand or whatever squishy surface you have handy, and push the piston sharply forwards - a perfect airseal will stop it dead. If it's leaking around the piston ring(s), replace, grease, or stretch it/them. Then add cylinder head and repeat, and then the nozzle and repeat - and test the seal with nozzle forwards, not pushed back against the cylinder head. Finally, push the hop unit and barrel against the gearbox, finger on the end of the barrel, and check that you still have good seal, as shown here (actually, just start here and work backwards if you don't have a good seal). What I don't recommend is doing this with the gearbox intact, using the gears and motor, as you're begging to strip the cylinder. If you have a quick-change gearbox, you pull the spring and test with a long screwdriver or rod pushed in from the rear.

And Martin Lewis appears in AI deepfakes because he's trustworthy. That's not his problem to fix.

Do you know the make and model of the gnu or hop unit?

Yarp, that's a peculiar one, I'm fascinated to know more details. Always something new with airsoft.

De jure, it's a defence to the offence, not a licence to import. Although they do - de facto - choose to treat it as though it were. That's tucked away in the small print of a document (IIRC) relating to ferries from Ireland.

Hmm. Two things occur: 1. The bucking has got fouled with something slippery - silicone, or grease. I've even had it happen when I silicone lubed a magazine and the BBs transferred lube to the bucking more than I'd expected. 2. Not enough puff to push the BBs past the bucking. Weak spring, or knackered air seal?

The problematical definition would be air weapons but not firearms. It would be a perverse interpretation given the definitions in FA 1968 Section 1(3)(b) , and the "air weapon / other firearm" in S19. The only thing giving me slight pause - and given the particular loathing for gun-shaped toys North of the border - is the meaning of "air weapon" in Section 1(4)(a) of the Air Weapons Licensing (Scotland) Act 2015. "an air weapon which is not a firearm (within the meaning of section 57(1) of the 1968 Act)" That refers to the 1J lethal barrel limit. This legislation was written before the Policing and Crime Act 2017 and so couldn't have referenced the S57A exemption for airsoft guns. But PCA 2017 didn't amend the Scottish legislation to say "57(1) or 57A", and neither has Holyrood now that 57A exists. Can Westminster legislation amend Scottish Acts? Don't know! But if I were working for the Procurator Fiscal (presumably after having traded my soul to Satan for a bag of Tangfastics), I'd bang the table and say "Ah hah! That clearly shows that Westminster-and-or-Holyrood meant to draw a distinction between <=1J airsoft guns, which are neither firearms not air weapons, and >1J airsoft guns which are not firearms but which are lethal barrelled air weapons for the purposes of the Scottish Act. Hang him, your honour! Hang him, then send him to Barlinnie!" It would be a preposterous thing to claim, and I present it as such. There would be no reasonable prospect of conviction unless you misrepresented the law and/or manipulated the evidence, which is exactly what the Scottish Fiscal has form for doing with airsoft guns.

Just AEG it, bro.

That's a great point. However... Perhaps better to say that nobody has yet prohibited it. Hasn't been applied, yet. I really, really hope that we don't get a test case for this, particularly in Scotland.

And I'm not even joking. "POW POW POW". Age verification required to see if Florida Man called the hit or not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHOYdRu5n7Q (I assume this is a training reflex from calling "shots" from a dayglo mock-Glock, but it would be hilarious if he's a CQB airsofter)

Breaks the first rule of airsoft, I doubt the owner calls his hits either.

Ahoy and welcome back.

I'm baffled by why that would be. All that 57A says is: An “airsoft gun” is not to be regarded as a firearm for the purposes of this Act. Anything beyond that is inference and (absent case law) assumption, not explicit. 115% agreement.

Urgh, the typical mess. The finding is that they are readily convertible, and they are being actively converted and used for murder-death-kills, so I see no reason why possession would (or should) be lawful right now. My interpretation is that it's a Home Office policy to not prosecute over them yet. But the police - as a core Peelian principle - should operate on what the law says, independent of policy. You might not get prosecuted, but that doesn't mean that you won't get arrested and have your home turned upside down: the process is the punishment. So I'd agree with destroy-and-retain now, or go and talk to your local cop shop and see if they'll take it now and issue a receipt, given that you might be asked to prove your innocence later.