Rogerborg

They had them, but they've gone to the world's worst duct tape now because so many folk walked off site with the armbands. Area-66 were selling armbands but have stopped now because they've had a few walk-offs as well. I've still got gunk residue from the Biohazard tape on my tacticool beige base layer, thus the desire to find an alternative, ideally at less than £5 per arm per colour. I have of course lashed up some bands from red and blue electrical tape and spare stick-on velcro, but they're pretty gnarly even by my bodging standards, so I've got some 50mm coloured hook-n-loop tape on the way, which should go round each arm twice and give about 75mm / 3" of coverage. £6.35 for 1m each of red, blue and yellow is about as low as I could chisel the cost.

Sounds good. The stock hop unit looks like a decent enough rotary. Barrels come with varying amounts of oil inside them for shipping - they could have been on a boat for weeks, or on a shelf for months - so it's always worth giving them a clean out. Some aftermarket barrels (AOLS in particular) come very greasy. It's not a criticism, it's protecting your purchase, just give it a quick clean out and you're good to go.

For o-ring lubing? Looks fine, I use silicone grease or spray, whatever's closest to hand. For the gears and motor pinion themselves, I use, well, whatever's closest to hand out of lithium bearing grease or low fling chainsaw oil, but not silicone.

I've got very mild tinnitus and don't want it getting any worse from pyro, so have been looking at hearing protection, specifically electricool active protection that apparently limits noise without making voices inaudible. The big bulky over-ear tacticool stuff doesn't really seem like my jam, but I've spotted that there are now in-ear versions, specifically the Earmor M20. Decent review here: And £60 isn't outrageous compared to the lifetime consequences of taking a Mk5 near to an unprotected earball. https://www.ballisticdesigns.co.uk/shop/communications/m20-electronic-earplug/ But if they end up cutting out too much low level noise, I'm unlikely to wear them. Any personal experiences with these, or alternatives?

You can lube the o-ring just by putting some silicone up the nozzle, which you can do when cleaning the barrel - and that's the other thing I'd suggest on any new gun. Split the receiver (should just be one pin at the front), get some silicone (spray or liquid) into the nozzle, then clean the barrel from rear to front with a patch of clean paper towel on the cleaning/unjamming rod that I'd hope that it comes with, so that you're not pushing any shipping oil or gunk into the hop rubber. I use isopropyl alcohol on it, but you don't really need anything, just put the rod through with clean pieces of paper towel, slowly and rotating it, until it stops picking up any more gunk. Then give it an auto burst or two to blow any excess lube out the nozzle before reassembling. After that, what @RostokMcSpoons said, just feed it 0.28g BBs, get your hop dialled in, and enjoy it. Apologies if you already know, but for hop adjustments it can be handy to have a spotter standing off to the side, as they can observe the flight more objectively.

Ah, you found it. Best of luck, although I would caution that I've seen a comprehensively broken R28, it may not be the best example of AA's worksmanship.

I won't pretend to know how this one was weaponised. The bigly genius involved may have been sufficiently determined to unscrew one fast enough to turn it into an eyeball seeking missile. That's another thing about airsoft: there are plenty of mistakes that you'll only make once, but there's never a shortage of folk ready to make them.

It's a great question to ask, and much of airsoft development is the story of people who have been determined to try what's "not possible". However, on this one we're limited by physics. Air is mostly nitrogen, and (wizardry ahoy), nitrogen doesn't compress well compared to something spicy like propane. I believe that CO2 compresses even better, but I'm too scared to try it after seeing a mis-fitted CO2 bulb literally[*] rocket around a safe-zone. [*] In the literal sense of both literally, and rocket.

It's pre-pre-weekend o'clock, but I think I might have whipped that out to spice up a handbag fight over: 1) A trivial to obtain airgun firearm which might also be considered a verboten VCRA RIF by the Clapham Omnibus test. or 2) To illustrate the FA definition of an S57 “imitation firearm”. Me, I'd consider a Pulse Rifle to be an IF for the purposes of FA S19 (public possession, remember that bigly genius here who was intending to open-carry one on a bus because "Herp derp, is not real, innit."), but not as a RIF for VCRA S36/S38. For VCRA sales purposes, the risk is entirely up to the seller. Although it's increasingly surprising that any of them actually give a stuff about what they're selling or to whom, given the apparent complete disinterest from the tools of the State.

You'd think, but I've not found the magic words. I've seen the double sided stuff around, but it seems to appear as if by magic, I've not found anyone who can remember where they got it.

Joking aside though, why? Just why Coral? Sure, I bought a two toned plastic CYMA M4 off the buzz from my first day, but it cost £75, it was painted over, and the paint was off before my second day. Even if you just want it as a wall hangar, even if you can't persuade someone to sell you a RIF (more on that in a moment), why wouldn't you factor in getting it repainted. It's not even gangster to do so, because it's not an imitation of an actual make or model of modern firearm (whether existing or discontinued), so there's no VCRA offence committed by either sale or modification. I look at that horror and all I can think is "My God, someone please save it." Wait, was it... was it bought to troll people? Because if so, mission accomplished.

But what do you carry in your fourth hand? Actually, never mind the tacticool stuff, are those double sided velcro armbands I see? If so, where did you get them?

Nice one, great to hear that you got it sorted. We get all sniffy about mini-Tamiya, but it does work just fine, and can be fitted with just crimping rather than soldering. Deans and XT-60 are so much more chonky with more contact area that once you've gone that way, you won't want to go back, is all.

I guess most guns still come with mini-Tamaya because most batteries still come with mini-Tamiya, and most batteries still come with mini-Tamiya because... well, you see where this is going. Specna Arms (and I believe a few others) are now shipping their guns wired to with Deans, along with with a Deans to mini-Tamiya adaptor. Hopefully this will become more common.

My DuckDuckFoo doesn't turn it up, I'd guess it maybe refers to pushing the ink tube of a biro over the pin to squish the tabs. I tried that out of interest, and none of the pens I have to hand have any component that's suitably sized to do so. It's not needed anyway, you just need to push something flat down either side to squish the tabs: they're not going to spring back sufficiently to hold the pin in place. [UPDATE] Oh, it turns out that I've been testing this with full sized Tamiya rather than mini-Tamiya. If the pins are smaller in mini-Tamiya then a biro ink tube might be big enough to slide over them, although I doubt it. This shows how long it's been since I've even seen a Tamiya connector near the top of the leccy bits bucket, let alone used one.

The amazing part is that it didn't spontaneously combust. I'd fully expect to have to use an acid etch primer on whatever random monkey-metal any airsoft toy has been made from.

For mini-Tamiya connectors, yes. Standard/RC mini-Tamiya is positive/red to the square connector, negative/black to the round: Whereas airsoft mini-Tamiya is wired negative/black to square, and positive/red to round: Don't cross the streams wires! The best way to rewire mini-Tamiya is to cut it off, throw it as far away as you can and solder on Deans (or XT60 or XT30) on both ends. If you want to retain the mini-Tamiya and swap the wires over (on the charger connector!), you can extract them by pushing a small flat bladed screwdriver down each side of the connector, squishing in the tabs that hold it in place, then withdrawing the wire and pin. Bend the tabs back out slightly before re-insertion. I've just tested that theory myself, it's easy enough to do, no "biro hacks" or special tools required.

Perhaps because airsofters are absolute mugs for "u get wut u pai 4". When you rarely get more, but you can very easily get less. Another airsoft habit is conflating age vs "use" (being carried and maybe shooting a half a mag per day) vs actual use in terms of rounds through it. Then we love to fisherman-tale our estimates of range, accuracy, and shots fired. I reckon I've probably shot somewhere in the region of 40 to 80 mags (~1200-2400 rounds) though my sub-£60 Army Armament R17. That's over several years of CQB use and an occasional mag in woodland plus some garage plinking, and even that may be an over-estimate based on how much I'm remembering waggling it around versus it actually going off in my hand. I shouldn't be surprised that it's been trouble free, with its stock mag or WEs, and always run on ASG Ultrair, but that may actually be pretty good going for an airsoft GBB.

It's very unlikely that it will ever be an issue for them, even though "for export" is not a defence. My real problem is that they either don't know, or don't care, what the law is. It's not a secret and it takes literally seconds to look up. And if they know and don't care, then it looks like they're thumbing their nose at it. I just hope they don't have any disgruntled customers out there who are aware, given that it only takes a few minutes to make a report to Crimestoppers, and that some forces have a rager for anything they can record as a Firearms offence. Recall the poor chap in Stirling who got an ARV response, arrest and prosecution because he posted images of his airsoft gun, in an airsoft Facebook group.

It's 2021, you don't have to pretend any more. Nobody will judge you for proudly declaring that you love P90s. I will judge you.

I understand it peaks about now thanks to Wintervalmass. And as above , this is exactly when I wouldn't want to risk trying a new, unknown courier. Although even if DHL just lose or scrap half the shipments out of hand... is that worse than UPS? I wonder if that's specifically from the Orient, or if they're not wanting to touch EU to UK either. Hopefully Taiwan Gun are being honest in the declarations. We've seen examples of Border Farce getting their handbags in a twist over mis-declared RIFs, which is something that we've got no control over.

That's the baffling bit, it's not like it's difficult to do that yourself. And viewed holistically, every owner with a working gun who takes up Luke's time with a strip-and-lube stops him fixing someone else's VFC.

Qualified good news, they could set up a trebuchet at Zeebrugge and it would still be a better bet than UPS. I'm minded to still not risk it though until they're charging VAT and duty at source so that we can see and pay the whole cost up front, and not risk it languishing in Customs while the biggest mob in town decides what protection money they want paying. With Wintervalmass coming up, this might become more of a consideration, rather than less.

Nah, that'll deflect breath upwards into the goggl- ohhhh, right.