Rogerborg

It's an observation, not an argument. The practice is that if a monopoly provider can bill you the "cost" for a service, they can - and will - name any "cost" that they want. For example, the £70 fee to switch a vehicle registration mark, which is a take-it-or-leave-it fee for a few keystrokes.

Yes. At the risk of banging a broken drum, UKARA is just a central register of site memberships. You can be a member of many sites at once, with multiple such memberships registered with UKARA. Don't sweat it, just start playing and see if you enjoy it.

Then what incentive is there for them to limit costs? "My department is over-staffed and much of what we do is pointless busywork," said no bureaucrat, ever.

Ahoy and welcome to the Dad Corner of airsoft. God know where the kids are, probably doing too-loud TokTiks on the InstaBooks. And all airsoft toys are a waste of money, but that doesn't mean they can't be fun.

Yes, mine (classic) is just as consistent as out of the box. I may have dialled the hop up a click, but it's still lifting 0.43g just fine.

The part of his soul that he's poured into it, apparently. Noob error, he bet on green.

Fine as long as it's on properly private land, with the owner's express permission, and nothing goes wrong. Even if it does, if Alice shoots out Bob's eye though negligence, then there's a direct claim between those parties, and it's Alice's problem if she has no liability cover in place. However, random members of the public can wander on, and someone who's lost the ability to earn money is going to go after the deepest pockets they can find, whether it's Alice's, whoever formed the contract with the landowner, or the landowner themselves. Note that whether you're getting paid or not isn't relevant. Vowles vs Evans and the Welsh Rugby Union established that even an unpaid volunteer referee can be liable if they fail in their duty of care.

Airsoft is patient zero for "You get what you pay for". I mean, you can't buy one of those cheap Ravens if you want a good brand, you have to splash out on a Vorsk for the extra manufacturing quality.

Yo bro private message him, this is supes awks for the rest of us.

I mean, unless you've got a Deans-to-Mini-Tamiya connector in the mix. I'd pull the motor out of the grip, plug it in and see if it spins freely out in the open. You've still got the G&G motor, right? So you could try that as well. A cheap multimeter will take much of the guesswork out of the process, they're pretty much indispensable for any electrical work.

Ahoy and welcome back. Area-66 is my regular site, and POW is decent as well. The old Depo was ace, I still haven't tried the new site yet as even recent reports suggest it's still too dark and full of bottlenecks. Have you played there? Biohazard in Stevenston / Ardeer is a good shout too if you're out west, they make really good use of the available space with some clever build-work and well run games.

Surprisingly, I didn't get any jams, and it's a proper titeboi that BBs will only just barely roll down without assistance. Seems that even "Vorsk" Nuprol can source round BBs.

That is one thing I've noticed about my classic TAC-41, it's at about 9.6 hopping 0.43g at 2.2J. It's common to drop another £5 or so on a "chub nub", but you'd get the same effect by removing those shims, or shimming on top of the nub. Not a huge deal to address either way as the hop is sitting right on top of the gun.

Somewhat redundantly. If there's no negligence, there's little prospect of a claim succeeding. The waiver doesn't do that, the informed acceptance of specific unavoidable risks does. These are two different things. The usual waffle about unconditionally absolving the site of any liability is just wasted words. I'd rather they used that space be more specific about risks, and who is responsible for mitigating them, phrased as "We will" and "You will". Passive voice introduces ambiguity. For example: Before entering the safe zone, you will remove the magazine from all your guns including pistols, fire shots into the ground until they are clear, and present them for inspection if asked. If this sounds unnecessarily pedantic, it's because it doesn't matter, until it really matters, and suddenly what's plain as a pikestaff to the plaintiff's lawyer is utter balderdash to the defendant's. For an example of getting it wrong, one of my locals says "If you show up in trainers or unacceptable footwear, you will not be permitted to play." Daft thing to say, as it creates a duty of care on the site that didn't previously exist. 🤦‍♂️

Section 65 of the Consumer Right Act 2015,.

It is annoyingly easy to blow your load out of them prematurely, I've shamed myself by emptying my balls on the ground in public a few times. On the other hand, you're getting 48 round (with an option for 110 round) sniper mags, and you'll quickly figure out how to handle them. Not a deal breaker for me.

I'll be that guy again, and ask: if you feel strongly that UKAPU isn't doing what you want, what's stopping you from volunteering to join it, and changing that?

I mean...

<not-sure-if-serious-or-dry-firing-in-the-safe-zone.png> Apologies if I did have a pop at you, and I understand that we can all experience a trigger oopsie. I had a bit of a sense of humour failure after catching a spent stray while walking right in the middle of the safe zone. It's why I wear shooting glasses all day on site now, because...

When they say "silver", do they mean the colour, or the element? 🤔

Pretty good day at Area-66, with some well thought out games. Helpful, friendly marshalling, but too friendly, with far too much tolerance for non-hit-takers, over-shooters, and my new bête noire, dry firing in the (not so) safe zone. Bloody airsofters, we need to ban them all to make airsoft great for airsofters. 😠

I'm also hovering over the X button on that one.

Tough one. The refund won't cover the fees you paid, and it'll have to be delivered to them, so you don't want any hiccups at the Taiwan end either. And I believe that if you've opened a "wrong item" dispute with PayPal then they'll also make the unreasonable demand that you send the "free gift" back, at your expense, before they'll refund you. If that's the case, and you do go that route, then it would definitely be wrong - although no more unscrupulous than what SWIT did - to send them a box of grit and feathers, labelled "XM16E1". I'd just bear in mind that you only get one chance with PayPal, so taking the $60 and cursing their ancestors might be the least bad option.

I'll be running Vorsk 0.28g in a 6.00m barrel on Sunday, I'll let you know how long before I get a solid plastic cored barrel.