Rogerborg

At this point, if it's in stock, and not a Nuprol, you should probably buy it first, then mention it later.

Thanks for the followup. I hope the mags fit and you get it back into action.

Sell it to me. Sell me your childrens.

My peasant mind can only think about peasant guns. Actually, where did we get the idea that this G&G has a mosfet? The basic CM16s don't, as far as I know, and then we get microswitch triggers which seem to come with their own set of... opportunities.

Well, you don't need a mosfet in any AEG. Even if you're running 11.1V and concerned about arcing, the cheapest mosfet will run you more than two new sets of trigger contacts. The X-ASR in my Specna is coming out, it's only causing me trouble with aftermarket motors.

It's disclosed during checkout. Agreed, it's deliberately deceptive, especially the shipping estimates. However, because they've given them, I'd have (literally) no hesitation in firing in with a PayPal dispute 10 microseconds after their estimate had expired, or if I didn't receive exactly what I'd ordered. Although at this point I'm just going straight to AliExpress because they have their own dispute / chargeback system that seems weighted towards buyers (at the moment).

They did, cycle lights shouldn't strobe at more than 4Hz. Source. That's actually a little fast, as frequencies as low as 3Hz can (rarely) trigger epilepsy. Source. Even as a born again lycropath, I agree that there are some obnoxious lights out there. I run an Cateye "800"[*] lumen retina-burner on my bicycle, but keep it on the least hurty flashing mode while on or near a road, turn it down, and/or cover it with a hand, as necessary. [*] Where we wander vaguely back to airsoft is that lumen claims are all over the place. What I will say is that it's actually uncomfortable shading towards painful to hold an unprotected hand in front of my "800" lumen bicycle light. If you're buying some 100,00,0000 lumen TrueVastWindFire flashlight and don't experience similar toastiness, then you can reset your beliefs about its intensity accordingly.

Er, how? I can't see that they have any UK presence, or any address that you could use for service. And thanks for the warning, but their site is quite obviously written in third best Chinglish, lacks any contact or (actual) company information, and they're quite open that they're shipping from China. You took a gamble and lost, it happens. Just instruct your payment processor to do a chargeback because it's non-functional, and get on with your life.

I do somewhat fear that Johnno has being mugged off to clear the site out. After Hammer 2 Operations got punted off of two (might even be three by now) sites, it's not paranoid if they are you to track get you. Given the distance, that it's just half days, that the site is going to take some time to develop fully, and that they've pulled a bit of a cad's trick and are clashing with Biohazard fortnights, I'll be giving it a miss for a bit. Hopefully I'll see you there on a full day when some sanity has returned.

Bookings now open for half days, with Sunday 19th already sold out. https://www.thedepotglasgow.com/tickets/ Enjoy, but I'll be giving it a miss until either the Spy-n-Snitch system system has gone, or there are no other options.

And a really bad way to find out is while running, or standing at the top of a staircase. Nope, and nope. This is where the Equality Act 2010 kicks in. It's not up to people with disabilities to avoid sites. Sites needs to make reasonable adjustments in order to ensure that they can provide their service to people with illnesses or disabilities. What's "reasonable" is highly subjective, but this one is a no brainer. There's no particular reason to use strobes (as opposed to steady lights), and nobody is going to be disadvantaged by disallowing them. You are absolutely right to ask them to prohibit them so that you can play there. How it went at the Depot is that they used to ask if anyone had photo sensitive epilepsy, and allowed or disallowed strobes for that day depending on the answer. However, they then switched to a straight blanket ban because people either might not know, or might hesitate to speak up because the selfish chuckleheads with strobes used to boo whenever anyone did. Any CQB site that's given it a moment's thought will come to the same conclusion.

Hmm, I can't see a way to change the currency now. I was wondering whether their Euro prices are the Sterling price + Polish VAT, or whether there's some other calculation at play. Looking at the headline price of (e.g.) £70.63 for a JG067, I reckon that's actually going to come out more like £105-£120 after shipping, VAT, duty, and whatever the courier adds on for the privilege of allowing you to pay the VAT and duty at the point of import. Given that it would be £111 delivered from PatrolBase within the UK, you'd really need to know the whole cost (and time) up front. I mean, if stocking wasn't an issue. But since it is, and you can't get it from PatrolBase, I honour the courage of those about to pay their money and spin the wheel.

In the sense that 9/11 was when "some people did some things".

I too would like to see this picture. It's OK, nobody's going to steal your prom dress idea.

If you've seen his ballistics thread, you needn't quality that to "initial statement".

Should be fine in a CM.128. I run my CM.123 off of 1200mAh 7.4V stick lipo brutally shoehorned in and with a Deans connector replacing the standard contacts, but that was more just for the fun of it. A drop in replacement makes sense and I found even a tiny 7.4V lipo gave a far snappier trigger response than the stock NiMH. I'd stick to 7.4V for a very specific reason. CYMAs come with higher powered springs as stock, and the cheapest way for a seller to get them down to UK power levels is just to lop some (or actually a lot) of coils off. My CM.516 came shooting bang on 1J, but the spring had been cut down so much that it was barely long enough to return the piston fully. Not a problem with 7.4V, it shoots quite nicely. But when I dropped in an meaty 11.1V 2600mAh highish-C battery, I got significant overspin on semi, double-shooting on most trigger pulls. Unless you're sure that yours already has a full length M100 or heavier spring in it, I'd go with 7.4V. Capacity and even C rating won't matter that much with a stock CYMA, as the draw from the motor will be the limiting factor rather than supply from the battery.

You can. Opinions vary on whether you should, to maximise longevity Given the low cost of lipos now, it's not something that I'm fussed about. My B6 wants them at 3.7V per cell for storage, for what that's worth. Bah, even 16mm x 20mm is a no-go for my purposes, 16mm x 16mm is about as big as I can go.

It's not the length so as the girth as the actress said to the bishop. Wiring can take up quite a bit of space in the buffer, so you're either looking at trying to stuff the battery and wiring in side by side, or coil the wiring down into the buffer (remembering that it has to be long enough to reach the end) and ram the battery down on top. All that said, I'ma go and do some experiments now, as those 16-18mm x 20mm 11.1Vs might actually go into my MP5K or down a buffer tube.

Is that an assumption, or do you know of any shipments on the way? Anything coming in will have to get past the literal highway robbers on the M25 first, and given how fast everything is selling out, it'll still be a case of buying whatever's available before someone else does.

The Xebusmass rush will be over, at least, although point taken that we might be back into another mass bout of Netflix binging self-isolated by then.

That's my suspicion too, but I never saw a single word from the chap himself or anyone else that would suggest it was true. I can't see that ScotPlod identified anyone who was being "menaced" or mentioned a complainant - their victim seemed absolutely baffled as to why he'd been selected out of everybody posting in that group.

Nice find. Chap wants £12 for postage, and it seems those were 0.3J / 180fps even from new on green gas, so I've demurred.

Give the absolute state of Customs and Border Farce at the moment, if they're still not allowing us to pay VAT at source then I reckon I'll wait until after Wintervalmass, and to let braver souls make the attempt.

It would be fine, although please be aware that it's plastic bodied. A nice plastic, but that money gets you into the metal bodied EDGE range. Oh... but they're out of stock. Hmm, I see what you mean. Out of stock, out of stock, out of stock, all the way down. And I don't really rate the X-ASR mosftet in the CORE/EDGE range. It's there just for trigger contact protection, and is fine with the stock motors, but gets sketchy if you fit a higher draw aftermarket motor. Given that, there's no particular reason to buy the higher priced CORE guns over the cheaper SA-C06 / SA-C08, as they're all plastic, and have the same decent rotary hop and QC spring system. Or if you want compact and a mosfet, the SA-C12 will do the same job as the C25 for less. The good news is that looking at what PatrolBase actually have in stock today in terms of M4 AEGs under £200, I would say that any of them will be fine, except I'd avoid the Nuprols like the plague, and Evolution Airsoft are still an unknown quantity. Lancer Tacticals went through a ropey phase, but so did Specna, and they both seem OK at the moment. I wouldn't over-think it, because at the moment if you snooze, you lose - the Double Eagles appear to be totally out of stock now.

I'd be astonished if they prosecuted for it, if they have any Firearms Act charges to bring to bear. The amount of ignorance on display even at the prosecutorial level is staggering. Remember the chap in Falkirk who got swooped on in public by armed response, uniform, undercover, and the copper chopper, for posting a video of a RIF in a Facebook airsoft group full of such videos. Having realised what a monumental foul up ScotPlod had made by clearly thinking they were dealing with a real firearm, the Fiscal did a volte-face and quickly changed the charges to a Section 127 "menacing" communication, while trying to stitch him up by removing the airsoft context from it. This is why I'm very circumspect about posting images of myself with a RIF. The State patently knows next to nothing about either airsoft or its own laws, and we can't expect anything like rational, reasonable behaviour from it.