Rogerborg

Agreed, actually. We're not on a rehearsal, and it's not like it's going to lose much value even if it ends up as a garage queen.

I'm surprised retailers would even stock no-frills guns at that price, unless... well, unless they can't get anything else, or everybody else is scaling their prices as well. 😟

Or you can set up a stock alert at PatrolBase and wait and wait and... I'll mention that these will not fit MP5Ks - a few of us have had that bright idea, but couldn't figure out a way to make them work.

Thanks, guys, I could have got them both for £100.

For that money, I'd want Maxx Hoproom to show up personally and demonstrate the extra consistency, at an outdoor range, under whatever wind and weather conditions were prevalent at the time.

Based on the information that you've provided, I might offer £50 each. This isn't meant to sound harsh, just realistic. I'd have to assume that they're largely intact but non-functional examples of cheap plastic trash from some BBGunz vendor. Better images of the logos might help, and any information that you can turn up about what they are.

Sorry, nothing specific about that model, I won't touch Eyetalian because of the love-it-on-the-road, hate-it-in-the-workshop relationship that owners seem to have. (If you liked that video, check out the chap's channel which, unlike Eyetalian bikes or airsoft guns, is an exemplar of quality control.)

He's surprisingly nuanced and affecting in The Foreigner. Actual genuine acting, I preferred his quiet scenes to the contractually required action.

Shouldn't really run 0.12g, but [looks around shiftily] they can't all be market stall yellow, right? There really is. I ran it as tertiary on Sunday, and used it in a kill-house, hammer cocked in preference to rocking my Glock. Every point-blank hit with it was immensely satisfying even though most of them were trade-offs - which means the 6 shots isn't actually a problem. Less can be more.

Per my review, it's a point-blank trinket only. It's a wonder that it shoots at all when you consider that there's hard plastic interfacing with the brass cartridges front and rear, with no rubber seals, under very little pressure. I'm seeing 0.3 - 0.5J out of it with the stock barrel. Adding a hop isn't an attempt to make it skirmishable, it really is just out of interest to see if it can be bodged in. Chances are I'll go back to the original barrel, pre-load the barrel spring, and grease the heck out of all the mating surfaces since I won't have to worry about contaminating a hop bucking.

Well, rather to my surprise, that does actually appear to have an effect. Even at 6m garage ranges, there looks to be an upwards trajectory, although not hugely consistent. The BB nestles in the "hop" and needs some pressure to be pressed or blown through. Sure, the power is down to 0.2J, i.e. essentially spitball energies - there's just not enough puff or air seal there to make it viable. But the principle seems sound enough. Who'd have guessed?

Hmm, I seem to be seeing a lot[1] of folk reporting "Warhead crapped out, but Ben@KO-Technologies is very sympathetic." A bit like how Acetech were OK about replacing my Lighter-S, but now the replacement is in bits on my Workbench of Perpetual Prevarication awaiting complete resoldering. At Warhead prices I'd be hoping for better results than being a beta tester, no matter how good the support. But such is airsoft, and being at the bleeding edge[2] of the performance envelope. [1] Two? Three? [2] i.e. about a decade behind RC.

Rather illustrating my point there, chap. At the sites I've played which allow DMRs, the rules are either "1 shot per 2 seconds", or "1 in the air", which at DMR ranges effectively means a shot about every two seconds. You're baulking at limiting yourself to four times that fire rate. Sites are just kidding themselves about DMRs.

I'm going to be brutally honest, I reckon I can see where the parts should go, but is this relationship worth putting the work in? I mean, really, how much commitment are we both feeling here?

"Dear Diedre, I necked two bottles of crème de menthe at my sister's wedding, one thing led to another, and somehow I woke up as the support beam in an Uncle Bob and Cousin Ralph Eiffel Tower. Which one should I marry?" Sorry, chap, I can't find anything like an internal diagram for that. I'm vaguely aware that these things exist and shoot at a claimed 0.1J or so. I want to say... UHC UM-651? I'm coming up blank.

Wait, are you saying that my 12 year old car with a full(ish) service history and covers on the seats isn't worth more than a brand new one? Do one, mate, I know what I've spent, and I know what it's worth all day long.

Is the correct answer, and the one that should, all joking aside, be applied to "my Chinesium green laser is totally safe to shine in your eyes" claims.

I'll try this version out first. The barrel can just be held in place while firing, so trial and error tuning should be viable.

With 20-20 hindsight, this edge is too sharp, and will need ramped and redone. But otherwise I think the principle is sound, and by packing with slivers of electrical tape or similar on top I should be able to tune in some sort of hop effect.

But if you're choosing paintball over airsoft, are you really fighting to preserve anything worthwhile?

M3 x 3mm is the smallest grub screw that I have, and it looks to be just a little too long. Still, worse case I can just plug the hole so never say never.

Airsoft and RC disagree on Tamiya connector polarity, and as XT60 is mostly an RC thing I'd expect any converter to be RC wired. Yup. Oh, we covered that here, all you need to swap Tamiya terminals is a very small flat-blade screwdriver or some other way to squish the connector tabs in.

I don't think there's quite enough space for that, although ideally I'll want some sort of adjustment there. For now, I've just gone with s-hopping the AEG barrel. Can't find my RTV, but I did rustle up some Sugrutm. Potatocam pics follow. I'll see how this works out. I might want to take more material off the flat section and replace it with sugru to create more lovely rubbery integrity.

100% agree. Spring change: M150 / 100N / Rapax 2J, be prepared to cut a few links or maybe buy some Rapax spacers to fine tune. Feed it something over 0.4g, and enjoy. Headshots centre mass all day long.

Verrrrry site and style dependent. Indoors CQB, I can shoot as few as a few hundred in a day, generally 0.2g. Outdoors sniping maybe 100-200 0.43g+ sniper shots and 500-1000 secondary BBs in 0.25g or 0.28g (I run an MP5K). Outdoor with a carbine, 1000-2000 of 0.28g, usually towards the lower end, but I'm a believer in aimed shots rather than... "Support gunners" can get through a lot, lot more.